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Formula Drift

Post anything related to Formula Drift or drifting in general

What is Formula Drift?

Formula D is the premier United States drifting series. Formula Drift, Inc. was co-founded by Jim Liaw and Ryan Sage in 2003

How is a drifting competition judged?

Judging is done via a 3 personal judging panel. There are two parts to each competition. First is the single car qualifying runs. Then it is the two car head-to-head battles.

The criteria for judging are as follows:

I. LINE

The drift line is defined as the ideal path a vehicle must take on course and is marked by inner clipping points and outer clipping zones. The exact line of each track will be dictated by the judges at each track

II. ANGLE
The maximum drift angle at which a driver can maintain and control his/her vehicle throughout the marked course.

III. STYLE

Style is probably the most subjective part of the drivers' runs. Style is just what it sounds like: The drivers' overall ability to take the specific judging criteria and display it is the most personal and individual way. That is the essence of style. Aggressive flicks, closeness to walls, extreme angle, degree of difficulty, fluidity and extreme proximity to the lead vehicle (in case of head-to-head competitions) would be examples of how personal driving style can be showcased. Judges may also use logged drivers speed as a reference or assistance in judging, but speed of drivers is typically used for entertainment purposes, such as those purposes served through TV, live and live stream.

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What are your guys' thoughts on this? ~ 1000hp C8 Corvette Pro Drift Car by Matt Field

Personally, I like Matt and what he does ( besides being an RTR wrecking crew ) and I'm excited to see if he takes it all the way to competition level in 2026. Corvette the world!

1,000 HP naturally aspirated, revving to 9,000 is absolutely wild. Adding in the 8 to 1 header? This might just be the craziest sounding FD car.

The only concern I see right off the bat, is you better have a beefy rear crash structure to protect that transmission.

10 Comments
2024/11/09
10:55 UTC

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When can I purchase tickets for the upcoming 2025 season?

Sorry if this is a dumb question as I’ve never been to FD.

My fiancé and I are getting married this next spring and want to travel to a FD event for our honeymoon, neither of us have been and I’d love to have an awesome experience that we can remember.

The new season has been posted and I’m curious if anyone knows roughly when tickets are available for purchase? I’d like for us to have the full experience including some ride alongs with our favorites, but I want to do it early so we have the opportunity.

Thank you in advance!

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2024/11/08
21:19 UTC

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For sale: 4 LZBMX Adam LZ pins from 2017 - $25 plus shipping or pickup in New Jersey

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2024/11/08
20:14 UTC

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Luke Fink goes on to Formula D in 2025

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2024/11/06
00:58 UTC

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What track would you like to see replace irwindale as the finale?

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2024/11/05
11:48 UTC

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FD 2025 PROSPEC provisional driver entries:

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2024/11/05
01:15 UTC

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FD 2025 PRO provisional driver entries:

37 Comments
2024/11/05
01:15 UTC

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FD 2025 provisional schedule:

1 Comment
2024/11/05
01:14 UTC

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Early planning

I’m starting to plan my trip to LongBeach since they came out with the schedule. My boy will be 2 years by the time the even is here and was wondering if I’ll have to pay for him? Will I be able to take a stroller for him? Can I take snacks and other stuff for him?

This will be my first time with a baby and honestly I’ve never payed attention if I ever saw strollers or not?

13 Comments
2024/11/03
05:36 UTC

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When does the 2025 schedule drop?

I live near OSW so wondering when the event will be

4 Comments
2024/11/02
13:05 UTC

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Is that love in the air? Or just tire smoke?

I noticed that Connor Shanahan and Amanda Sorensen have grown a bit close and I love to see it! I'm just speculating that they may be dating! Popping up in each other's vids even at drift masters and on the socials! They're bout the same age, they have the same interests, both are from extremely supportive families of what they do, both are amazing drivers, both do social media. Kinda hoping my speculation is true! They are a great match imo!

4 Comments
2024/10/30
07:15 UTC

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Formula Drift VS. Drift Masters with Adam LZ

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2024/10/28
23:45 UTC

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2024 Season Wrap-Up: The FD Pro Class Tells How The Really Feel ...

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2024/10/23
01:51 UTC

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Drift Fails, Crashes & Epic Mistakes Compilation Crazy Drift Moments

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2024/10/22
10:02 UTC

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Anyone selling tickets?

looking for tickets for formula drift long beach ca for april 2025

5 Comments
2024/10/21
18:29 UTC

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Irwindale double booked seats

Did anyone else have this issue today for the main event. I spent pretty much all of top 32 trying to get this issue settled and their solution was to just move us to much less desirable seats as they were sold out. And when the group of other impacted parties brought up we missed half the event we were met with hostile employs like we were the issue. I get mistakes happen but apparently this was widespread throughout the event. They gave us our refunds bit at first they were like what do you want to do. Get a refund and go home or get the new seats and no refund. We had to argue to get both the refund and stay. The staff was completely unprofessional

3 Comments
2024/10/20
07:38 UTC

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Irwindale NOT for 2025???

Apparently in the Podium Celebrations, Jarod announced that he got a peek at the 2025 Roster and Irwindale hasn’t been scheduled. HOWEVER, this doesn’t mean Irwindale isn’t scheduled for 2025. The final touches and contracts for (perhaps) not just Irwindale but maybe other tracks aren’t confirmed yet, but that did ignite a question (at least in my head, maybe yours too), will Irwindale REALLY be here next year? And if not, what will take its place???

18 Comments
2024/10/20
07:04 UTC

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Just watched the live stream of Irwindale and I'm hooked.

The interviews after the final are so wholesome.

Didn't expect an edit during the Livestream

0 Comments
2024/10/20
04:50 UTC

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Amazing freeze

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2024/10/20
03:30 UTC

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Denofa on Tuerck's team?

Did anyone notice Denofa was on Tuerck's team today? Saw him day 1 at the rockstar/toyota tent at the end of night. And then saw him today with a headset wearing Tuerck team shirt?

Is it just for today? Has he been there all season and I'm just noticing it?

2 Comments
2024/10/20
02:55 UTC

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FD should have a pre show livestream for the drivers parade and all of the other stuff before the drifting starts.

We're almost an hour into the stream and the drifting hasn't even begun yet. It'd be nice of them to split the streams into a pre show and then the actual comp.

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2024/10/20
02:18 UTC

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Your now official 2024 champion:

9 Comments
2024/10/19
21:37 UTC

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Are we supposed to keep pretending Laurette is the best for the job?

Before the inevitable "its hard job, can you do it?!" No, I cannot, I don't claim to and it is not my job or career.

Laurette is okay, but like once a year seems like they need to call in a sub reporter due to her being booked for something else. I think one year was her wedding?

Compared to Becky in DriftMasters, there really is no comparison, Becky is so good. Laurette always seems stressed, frazzled, and one second away from a word fumble.

We just deal because she is "our reporter", but then when these subs come they are drastically better for the one day they fill in that is really is hard not to notice.

Like today, idk who this new girl is, but she probably knows nothing about drifting and seems way more comfortable in interviews and on camera that the person who has been our reporter for near 10 years?

8 Comments
2024/10/19
21:05 UTC

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Looking for one ticket for today

0 Comments
2024/10/19
18:59 UTC

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Should ticket sale posts be allowed on this sub?

Over the past few weeks more and more ticket sale posts have appeared on this sub Reddit. A decent majority of these posts have been reported by the community. So as a community do we want to allow ticket sale posts going forward?

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5 Comments
2024/10/19
15:50 UTC

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Simen Olsen to part ways with odi bakchis/FEAL suspension at the end of the season.

Sad to see imo. He was great in that s chassis.

6 Comments
2024/10/19
10:52 UTC

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Tickets for sale

I have 6 trackside and 6 general admission tickets for sale for October 18-19

3 Comments
2024/10/18
04:56 UTC

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