Formula Drift hit Sin City for the first time during its fifth season of running the professional drift series in the USA.
Practice and top16 unseeded qualifying took place Friday night from 6pm to 1am. Top16 seeded drivers joined those who qualified to fill the field of 32 cars Saturday night. The tandem battles were intense; some of the best runs we have seen all season included the number1 seed being upset by the number16 seed!
Five Corolla AE86 cars, including the 20V 100shot nitrous ASPEC car driven by Japanese top gun Toshiki Yoshioka, joined the field and did very well. In the end Yoshioka took down several top seeded drivers- Verdier (WRX), Millen (Solstice), Hubinette (Viper), and Yoshihara (GTO)- to take home the top trophy.
Practice and top16 unseeded qualifying took place Friday night from 6pm to 1am. Top16 seeded drivers joined those who qualified to fill the field of 32 cars Saturday night. The tandem battles were intense; some of the best runs we have seen all season included the number1 seed being upset by the number16 seed!
Five Corolla AE86 cars, including the 20V 100shot nitrous ASPEC car driven by Japanese top gun Toshiki Yoshioka, joined the field and did very well. In the end Yoshioka took down several top seeded drivers- Verdier (WRX), Millen (Solstice), Hubinette (Viper), and Yoshihara (GTO)- to take home the top trophy.
The NST powered AE86 of Tommy Suell, a resident of Las Vegas and senior member of Vegas Drift did very well in his first time out with his entirely new setup. Tommy made some very clean runs and barely missed top16 by falling less than 1mph short of the required 85mph entry speed requirement. Tommy plans to participate in Seattle for the next round of Formula Drift and plans to make some serious smoke. Look for the NST/Allegiant sponsored blue AE86 in Seattle's FD Round5, August 2008!
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