Formula Drift in Orlando was just as expected - hot, rainy, and lots of action. It was round 3 of 2015 Formula D PRO championship as well as the first round of PRO2. Formula D took place in Orlando Speedworld Oval track, which is 20 minutes east from Orlando. Event was packed on saturday, some spectators had to wait more than an hour in a traffic lane to get in.
Leigh Nash of Holinger Engineering and Troy Burnside from Motul talk us through Holinger's new SG 6-speed sequential gearbox kit for the very popular Toyota 86 / Subaru BRZ / Scion FR-S models. The kit features ZERO installation modifications. This gearbox can be used on the street as this video shows but is primarily designed for racing applications.
Formula Drift 2014 round 6 at Texas Motor Speedway.
Day Yoshihara drifting the Flog - Team Falken / MotoIQ built Subaru BRZ
Onboard video of practice session against Marc Landreville and Top32 runs against Joon Maeng
Formula Drift in Texas speedway marked Round 6 of Formula D Pro series and Round 3 of PRO 2 series. Following tradition here is breakdown of how the Scion FRS and Subaru BRZ teams performed.
Round 5 of Formula D review is here! Our camera master Kristian Jaeger went to the race and brought us some beautiful footage. Read on the full story how the race was for our BRZ and FRS drivers and enjoy eye candy pics!
Drifting video of Fredric Aasbo sliding his Toyota GT86 at Gatebil Rudskogen 2014 in slo-mo.
video by MovieBird Norway with "russian arm" crane camera. Fredric Aasbo got 2nd place in Powerslide Competition.
Underground Garage
The original video youtube title is a bit misleading, we've seen Toshiki Yoshioka drift quite a lot of corners at last year's Pikes Peak when it was raining. This year Ken Gushi goes to Pikes Peak straight after Formula Drift at Wall Speedway. The Gush pulls the e-brake at some turns and has some fun like it's his second nature, but quickly gets back in grip mode as it is dry and tires need to be saved for the whole climb and drifting is not the fastest way up. Enjoy the video with Scion Racing FR-S and Ken Gushi race up Pikes Peak from his POV helmet cam. Ken finished the course in 10:30.188 hitting the podium in 3rd place out of 18 entries in the Time Attack 1 Class!
Formula Drift round 4 also known as The Gauntlet took place at the Wall Stadium Speedway in New Jersey last weekend. It is one of the best tracks to watch an event where the drivers start riding the banked wall and make almost two laps around the speedway. The race was completely sold out! In our previous coverage from Homestead-Miami Speedway we spoke about how hot this season is for the Subaru BRZ and Scion FR-S drivers and how unfortunate this season actually had been for the either high or low budget FT86 teams.
It's that wonderful time of the year. Nurburgring is packed. It's 24 hour race time! The day all the teams have been waiting for and preparing and qualifying with their cars for the past season. From big manufacturer sponsored racecar teams to private individuals. We've been following the various Toyota teams for the past years who participate this year too with 86, GT86 and LF-A. But this year another team is joining - All on Horst! The project name of this team as they are just about ready to race. Horst is the name of their Subaru BRZ that has been prepared by this private low budget team.
The round 3 of Formula D PRO championship took place on 30th and 31st of May in South Florida for the first time at the Homestead-Miami Speedway infield track. While the FT86 cars are not the easiest to work on and develop a drift platform, the hype around the world is still huge and for the love of it we see more and more of these cars converted into true race cars. In this event a record number of the FT-86 platform participants took part - six Scion FR-S drivers and one Subaru BRZ. But it didn't go smooth.