Speed Hunters Event>> Formula Drift Seattle: Quailfying & Practice

Just got back to the hotel after spending the day at Evergreen Speedway shooting Formula Drift Seattle. It's absolutely refreshing to be up here in the cool and green Pacific Northwest after getting accustomed to the hot and dry events we have back in California.
Well then, let's jump right into some of the action from today-

Give it up for Ross Petty and the Garage Boso/Falken S15. He was on top following his scorching 79.3 point run, but had to settle for second after one driver earned a slightly higher score...

Because only 30 cars were able to qualify, tomorrow's Top 32 has been shortened to a Top 30. Should be exciting.

Here's the complete results list from Formula Drift-

1	R. Tuerck		44		80.3
2	R. Petty		808		79.3
3	S. Hubinette		77		77.7
4	J. Pawlak		13		77.3
5	D. Yoshihara		9		74.6
6	T. McQuarrie		17		74.6
7	C. Forsberg		64		73
8	T. Foust		1		73
9	V. Gittin		25		71.4
10	D. McNamara		8		70.8
11	T. Aono		86		70.8
12	T. Brakohiapa		18		69
13	E. O’Sullivan		35		68.1
14	K. Gushi		5		67.9
15	S. Verdier		12		67.4
16	R. Nishida		31		67.1
17	J. Maeng		51		66.8
18	M. Takatori		23		63.6
19	R. Millen		6		63.5
20	K. Yamanaka		7		59.4
21	K. Mohan		99		58.7
22	Y. Kondo		52		57.4
23	M. Essa		101		55.6
24	A. Pfeiffer		88		53.5
25	T. Suell		777		50.9
26	C. Wan		3		50.6
27	R. Ewerth		27		43
28	R. Miki		26		42
29	J. LeJeune		333		34
30	P. Mordaunt		90		20

Stay tuned for more from FD Seattle!

-Mike Garrett

Motormavens Coverage Formula Drift Seattle

On the Friday practice day before the main event, I got this photo of Calvin and Ross tandeming together. I think both S15s look cool as they drift together; these are definitely the best looking cars under the Falken awning in my opinion. (I bet some people will get pissed that I said that, but whatever… get some better wheels, then let’s talk.)

This was the scene late Friday night, when all the drift teams and media outlets were back at their hotels, getting showered up, eating dinner, and having drinks in the lobby of the Comfort Inn in Bothell WA.

Ross Petty and the Garage Boso crew blasted reggae dub music to keep them up all night as they performed surgery, doing a heart transplant on Ross’s S15 Silvia at the Falken rig while everyone else slept in the comfort of their hotel rooms. Ross blew his SR motor during practice that day, so Ross’s Garage Boso business partner, Frank Siharath had to drive in to Seattle with Jonathon Bradford from Falken to pick up an SR20DET motor that they found through Lawrence at Intec Racing.

Garage Boso is not a big dollar, corporate backed drift team, even though they park underneath the Falken rig and produce professional results. In order to gather enough money to buy the replacement SR engine for Ross’s S15, the guys from Falken, ASD, and Garage Boso all pitched in whatever personal money they had on them so Frank and JBrad could buy the engine that night and Ross could run on Saturday.

Frank and JBrad didn’t even get back to the track until around 1:00AM, where they found Ross and the rest of the Boso crew waiting, with the blown SR already out. Frank worked on swapping in the cams from the old engine, while the guys worked on bolting the turbo and accessories on the new SR so they could finish the job. Working through the night, they finally got the new engine fired up around 7:00 AM.

Due to time constraints, Ross was only able to do one 4th gear pass during the practice session, with Frank and his laptop sitting shotgun, trying to “ghetto-tune” Ross’s Apex’i Power FC computer on the fly before Ross had to line up for tandem competition. Now that’s hard work and dedication. Much respect to Ross, Frank, JBrad, and the Garage Boso crew for making it happen. Hopefully they read this.