1st- Brian Wilkerson (S13 Nissan 240sx)
2nd- John Wagner (S13 Nissan 240sx)
3rd- Nate Brasz (S13 Nissan 240sx)
4th- Dan Savage (S14 Nissan 240sx)
Other licenses issued:
Stewart Leask (S14 Nissan 240sx) Dennis Mertzanis (S14 Nissan 240sx)
James Robinson (Honda Element)
Matt Waldin (S13 Nissan 240sx)
Ali Aljibouri (Pontiac Solstice)
Ron Ewerth (Nissan 240sx)
One of the longest standing and one of my favorite grassroots organizations here in America for Drifters is no more as of today. Great leadership from Alex Bahena and former Formula D driver John Yim lead the company to great events around the midwest/Texas area. John Yim cited taking care of his family has become a bigger priority and just being busy with work makes them unable to perform the tasks and long hours required to throw events.Hopefully someone will grab the reigns of this great production and run with it for the local Texas guys. Daily Drifter practice events from 2003-2008! John Yim informed us they will most likely continue doing demo’s and helping with Formula D Pro Am in the future but practice events have had the brakes put on for the time being.
While we were all prancing around Mexico some hungry Am’s were out killing it for the chance to hit the big dance that is Formula D. Many familiar NOPI face’s made it including many other north east locals to the venue. We packed this event with more than 500+ photos thanks to Dan Jenkins. Check out the gallery by
clicking here
Slide America just cut it’s DVD price by 50% on it’s online store! The movie that travels to 19 cities in 30 days documenting Drifting wants to help you score a copy before the summer is over. We currently have partnered with Slide America on Wrecked v2.0 coming soon as well so stay tuned for some nice bonuses!
We have a six minute video from the Formula D Laughlin Am event up now. Extended coverage from our Issue 2 story on the Laughlin Am with more crashes we found buried in the archives! Catch some great drifting from drivers in attendance like:
Tyler Cox
Daniel Willie
Forest Wang
Colin Frost
Ameen Rizvi
Tracy Shayhorn
Quoc Ly
Charles Litterst
Patrick Mordaunt
Ryan Clemens
Justin Pawlak
Dan Pina
We have at least two new crash features for you and a great slow motion of one displayed in the magazine. Don’t miss it. Also, a bonus feature included is the 12×12 at 12am In N’ Out Challenge between Chris Orsini (Drift Brothers) and Brady Stribling (Wrecked Magazine Photographer)!
Wrecked Magazine has returned with Issue 2. We made it all about the Am guys. John Yim sits down to chat about making the transition from the grassroots Drifting scene into the pro Formula D scene. We wrote about Pro Am hopefully Jerry Farabee who was unable to secure his FD license and smashed up his Nissan 240sx. We then covered the Formula D Pro Am and introduced you to the 20 new licensed drivers of Formula D for 2008. We also kept you up to date with a review of SEMA 2007 and a visit to Ziptied All Star Bash 2.
These thoughts don’t reflect anyone at Wrecked Magazine. Our prayers go out to Nick and John’s family and we hope everything can come back full swing to normalcy. This post was put up by jalopnik which we deem a reliable source for information. It appears Nick Hogan will not be at the Formula D Pro Am this weekend and perhaps his 08 driving season is in question.
”The strange panties-dropping saga of Nick Hogan continues. We’ve just learned the son of Hulk was arrested today in Clearwater, Florida on “felony charges of reckless driving involving serious bodily injury.” Clearwater police claim the crash the young Hogan (also known as Bollea) was involved in back in late August that left his passenger, John Graziano, critically injured was caused by — wait for it — street racing. Yup, Hogan was supposedly racing a silver Dodge Viper when he lost control of his yellow 1998 Toyota Supra. The urine-colored car then struck a curb and spun 180 degrees across two lanes of traffic, slamming rear-end first into a palm tree. We’ll keep you up-to-date on what happens next, as well as how many panties drop at the mere mention of Hogan’s super Supra. In case you’ve forgotten what the Supra looked like post-crash, we’ve re-included our gallery below. You know, for purposes of posterity.”
Go check out our podcast on Itunes keyword: wrecked magazine for video or you can catch this one on our myspace at myspace.com/driftingmagazine in our videos. The event was wild and the track is very very unforgiving. Just Drift and Ziptied hosted a great event and we look forward to more action today (starts in like 3 hours) so keep posted for Sunday videos and updates! Who will survive the Zip Tied All Star Bash II weekend? Not many…
Forest Wang took home the gold today in the Top Drift Round 5 Finals. Just for driving like a gangster all day we figured Forest deserved some love on the blog.
