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RiceBoyTv Covers Las Vegas Formula D

Formula D 2008 Las Vegas Motor Speedway by riceboytv.com - written by Justin Kaehler, Shot & Edited by Will Roegge. The RiceBoys are getting better at putting together event coverage, don’t miss the RedBull Solstice meets tire wall at 4:55.

TMF Opposition Demo @ Elko, MN

A Video clip of Drift Day 22 with some additional footage from the TMF Opposition Demo which took place in Elko, MN on July 5th, 2008. Brought to you by Driftline Productions.

Nopi Drift Series is Canceled

The Wrecked Magazine blog has reported that the Nopi Drift series is no more. Read NOPI Drift is no more!. I am a bit sad to see another American drifting series fall apart, as it offered a forum for up and coming drivers to build the skills and sponsorship packages needed to compete at a […]

OverDrift: Stage 3

Chris Forsberg and Daijiro Yoshihara team up in what is possibly the closest tandem battle ever captured on film. I remember standing on the Grid at Irwindale watching this on unfold and wishing that I had a video camera with me. Fortunately the SpeedHunters did have a video camera, and now we can enjoy it over and over.

Formula D Top Ten After Las Vegas

After McNamara, Gittin, and Grunewald all failed to join the Top 16 at the Las Vegas round, the points spread in the Top 10 spots is starting to widen a bit. Fortunately for our fallen heroes, newcomers Yoshioka, Kondo, and Orido managed to snatch a significant amount of Championship points and prevent any significant movement […]

Yoshioka Takes Las Vegas at the Helm of a Corolla

Not a newcomer to the top of the Podium in Las Vegas, as he won the D1GP Las Vegas event in July of 2006, but a first time winner in Formula D, Toshiki Yoshioka and his Toyota Corolla won the inaugural Formula Drift Las Vegas event.

The AE86, the one from the cartoon, the one that inspires countless parking-lot cone circles, the one that gives a first taste of drifting to aspiring amateurs, has finally stepped onto the top rung here in the United States. Of course it was followed in quick succession by a Dodge Viper and Pontiac GTO with Bald Eagle endangering displacements and Exxon Valdez fuel tanks, but a new hope is born.

Maybe this will be the warning shot across the bow that gets everyone to realize that drifting is not all about outrageous cars and million-dollar builds. Or just maybe, What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas?

1st - Toshiki Yoshioka
2nd - Daijiro Yoshihara
3rd - Samuel Hubinette
4th - Michihiro Takatori

Finals:

• D. Yoshihara vs T. Yoshioka
• S. Hubinette vs M. Takatori

Final 4:

• S. Hubinette vs T. Yoshioka
• D. Yoshihara vs M. Takatori

Top 8:

• M. Takatori vs T. Brakiohapa
• S. Hubinette vs M. Orido
• D. Yoshihara vs R. Nishida
• R. Millen vs T. Yoshioka

Top 16:

• T. Foust vs R. Nishida
• D. Yoshihara vs C. Forsberg
• M. Takatori vs C. Wan
• J. Russakoff vs T. Brakiohapa
• S. Hubinette vs R. Tureck
• M. Orido vs Y. Kondo
• R. Millen vs K. Gushi
• T. Yoshioka vs S. Verdier

Qualifying:

1. Tanner Foust
2. Samuel Hubinette
3. Rhys Millen
4. Michihiro Takatori
5. John Russakoff
6. Toshiki Yoshioka
7. Manabu Orido
8. Daijiro Yoshihara
9. Chris Forsberg
10. Y. Kondo
11. Stephan Verdier
12. Tony Brakiohapa
13. Calvin Wan
14. Ken Gushi
15. Ryan Tureck
16. Robbie Nishida