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Formula Drift Insider - Episod 1

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Formula D USA are approaching the season ending. Here are Formula Drift insider bring you the highlight of each round.

Falken Drift Team USA off season testing for FD 2011.

2011 Falken Formula Drift Test from Falken Tire on Vimeo . Big budget, awesome car, awesome crew and awesome driver. Watch out for Falken Drift Team in Formula Drift 2011 season

Formula Drift Qatar 2011

Qatar was the latest location to held a Formula Drift event. It was part of Formula Drift expansion program to the rest of the world. Some of Formula Drift USA drifter such as Tanner Foust, Fredric Aasbo, Daijiro Yoshihara, Tony Brakohiapa and Michael Essa make the trip to Qatar and was join up by some of South East Asian finest such as Tengku Djan Ley and Kiki Sak Nana. It was Tanner Foust last outing in Formula Drift and he bow out in style. He took the win over Tengku Djan Ley after a nail biting battle. Having driving the most underpowered vehicle in the event with just under 400bhp on tap, Tengku Djan Ley proved that he had what it take to compete with top drifter in the world. However, second placing was a good finish for Djan. Fredric Aasbo took the last spot of the podium. Below are the highlight videos: Part 1 Watch live video from driftstream on Justin.tv Part 2 Watch live video from driftstream on Justin.tv

Tanner Foust leaving Formula Drift 2011

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After seven wonderful year of competing in Formula Drift, the two time Formula Drift champion and one of the most recognized face in Formula Drift, Tanner Foust will leave Formula Drift for 2011 season to focus on rallycross and television commitments. He will continue as one of the host of the second season Top Gear USA and participating in numerous Rallycross event in USA and Europe. Sadly, the famed Nascar V8 powered Rockstar Energy Scion TC will be temporary retired from any form of drifting competition. He will be driving Rockstar Energy Drink Ford Fiesta in Rallycross events. Source Tanner Foust website

Formula Drift Malaysia 2010

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Event : Formula Drift Malaysia 2010 Date : 18-19 December 2010 Location : Dataran Merderka Kuala Lumpur: Formula Drift Malaysia 2010 is the final stop of Formula Drift Asian tour. Previous round was held in Thailand and Singapore. Formula Drift Malaysia 2010 took place in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, Dataran Merdeka. The city view added the color to event and created a great motorsport carnival weekend. Defending champion Tengku Djan Ley was leading the scoring board period to this event. A debut appearance for 2008 D1gp champion Daigo Saito whom will be driving Hong Kong Team Type R Toyota Aristo.

Formula Drift Malaysia 2010 - Girls

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Event : Formula Drift Malaysia 2010 Date : 18-19 December 2010 Location : Dataran Merderka This post is dedicated to those Girls and models in the event. More update on later post. Picture Gallery

Formula Drift Singapore 2010 - Part 3 (Race day & Qualifying)

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Race day. Total of 32 driver will be battle it out for the Winner title of Formula Drift Singapore 2010. Tengku Djan Ley, winner of the last year Formula Drift Singapore 2009, manage to get into final and setup a all bridgestone Final. He up against his bridgestone teammate Tan Tat Wei and manage to hold on and win the title again. Next stop for Formula Drift Asia will be at Thailand. Below link is the full result Full Result Below are some picture of the event.

Formula Drift Singapore 2010 - Part 2 (Machines)

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Part 2 - show cars and drift machine. Enjoy.

Formula Drift Singapore 2010 - Part 1 (Girls)

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Formula Drift Singapore is back and this time was held at F1 race track, F1 pit building in Marina Bay Singapore. First part, we will be looking at the girls in the event.

Formula Drift Malaysia 09 - Part 4 (Race Day)

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Race day and a cloudy day. The event is pack with crowd, girls, cars and photographer. All is well organized but the sound system is a bit poor. I barely heard what the commentator is talking. Djan again show everyone why he is the best in the region. He won after a hard battle with Kiki. Unlucky mad mike manage only to finish in third. He is one of favorite to win the event. Federal's Mervyn Nakamura did well and finish 4th. Full result can be view at the below link Full Result

Formula Drift Malaysia 09 - Part 3 (Qualifying Day)

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Qualifying day was spoil by the rain. The event is pack with crowd and all grandstand ticket sold out even on qualifying day. The top qualifier was Djan's with 88.7 follow closely by Hanizam 81.2 and Ryuji Miki 78.2. Full result can be view at the below link: Qualifying result . Below are some picture i took during the raining Qualifying session. Just before it rain.

Formula Drift Malaysia 09 - Part 2 (Cars)

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There are about 50+ cars took part in this round. One of the largest ever. Here are some race machine and show cars of the event. First up, mad mike's 4 rotor Mazda RX7 FD3S. Love the 4 rotor roars. Such a music to the ear.....

Formula Drift Malaysia 09 - Part 1 (Girls)

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First ever Formula Drift held in MAEPS (Mardi) and one of the biggest drift event in the regions. Here are Part 1 which featuring all the model/girl of the event. Some are familiar face in modeling industry. Enjoy!!

Formula Drift Singapore 2009

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This is my first outing as a amateur photographer. This event was held at Singapore exhibition center nearby changi area. I had yet to own a DSLR. Therefore, i had to borrow my friend Sony A200 + minolta 70-210 f4 for this event. Overall, my picture quality was bad but i had learned a lot from this event. Below are the sample picture that i took that day.