LIVE: Formula DRIFT Round 2 – Road Atlanta

This weekend sees the 2015 Formula DRIFT championship hit up Road Atlanta and, soon after the drama of Round 1 on The Streets of Extended Beach, we’re hunting forward to tuning into the live stream and keeping an eye on the action.

Verify the timetable under to make positive you tune in at the proper time (all instances are GMT):

Friday, May 8, 2015 - Practice & Qualifying
15:30 – 16:00 - International Time Attack 2 – Track
11:15 – 12:00 - Trans Fast 5 Qualifying – Track
17:15 – 17:45 - Worldwide Time Attack 3 – Track
18:00 – 18:30 - International Time Attack 4 – Track
19:30 – 20:15 - Trans Practice / Qualifying – Track
20:00 – 21:00 - FD: Autograph Signing Session – TBA
21:30 – :30 - FD: Open Practice – Track
:30 – 03:00 - FD: Qualifying – Track

Saturday, Might 9, 2015 - Principal Occasion
13:00 – 13:30 - International Time Attack 1 – Track
13:45 – 14:15 - Global Time Attack 2 – Track
14:30 - 115:40 – Trans – Foametix Muscle Auto Challenge (TA2) – Track
15:55 – 16:25 - Global Time Attack 3 – Track
16:40 – 17:50 - Trans – Foametix Trans 25 (TA & TA3 A&I) – Track
19:30 – 21:00 - FD: Open Practice – Top 32 – Track
21:00 – 23:00 - Major Competition: Round of 32 – Track
23:00 – 00:30 - HALF TIME BREAK
00:30 - NATIONAL ANTHEM / OPENING CEREMONIES – Track
01:00 - Primary Competition: Round of 16 to Finals – Track
03:00 – 03:30 - TROPHY CEREMONY & CLOSING

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Written by Ali Posted on May 8, 2015. Filed below Drift News, Featured. You can follow any responses to this entry by way of the RSS 2.. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

LIVE: Formula DRIFT Round 2 – Road Atlanta

Live: Formula DRIFT Round 2 – Road Atlanta

This weekend sees the 2015 Formula DRIFT championship hit up Road Atlanta and, after the drama of Round 1 on The Streets of Long Beach, we’re looking forward to tuning into the live stream and keeping an eye on the action.

Check the timetable below to make sure you tune in at the right time (all times are GMT):

Friday, May 8, 2015 - Practice & Qualifying
15:30 – 16:00 - Global Time Attack 2 – Track
11:15 – 12:00 - Trans Fast 5 Qualifying – Track
17:15 – 17:45 - Global Time Attack 3 – Track
18:00 – 18:30 - Global Time Attack 4 – Track
19:30 – 20:15 - Trans Practice / Qualifying – Track
20:00 – 21:00 - FD: Autograph Signing Session – TBA
21:30 – 0:30 - FD: Open Practice – Track
0:30 – 03:00 - FD: Qualifying – Track

Saturday, May 9, 2015 - Main Event
13:00 – 13:30 - Global Time Attack 1 – Track
13:45 – 14:15 - Global Time Attack 2 – Track
14:30 - 115:40 – Trans – Foametix Muscle Car Challenge (TA2) – Track
15:55 – 16:25 - Global Time Attack 3 – Track
16:40 – 17:50 - Trans – Foametix Trans 100 (TA & TA3 A&I) – Track
19:30 – 21:00 - FD: Open Practice – Top 32 – Track
21:00 – 23:00 - MAIN COMPETITION: Round of 32 – Track
23:00 – 00:30 - HALF TIME BREAK
00:30 - NATIONAL ANTHEM / OPENING CEREMONIES – Track
01:00 - MAIN COMPETITION: Round of 16 to Finals – Track
03:00 – 03:30 - TROPHY CEREMONY & CLOSING

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Written by Ali Posted on May 8, 2015. Filed under Drift News, Featured. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Live: Formula DRIFT Round 2 – Road Atlanta

Live: Formula DRIFT Round two – Road Atlanta

This weekend sees the 2015 Formula DRIFT championship hit up Road Atlanta and, after the drama of Round 1 on The Streets of Long Beach, we’re looking forward to tuning into the live stream and keeping an eye on the action.

Check the timetable below to make sure you tune in at the right time (all times are GMT):

Friday, May 8, 2015 - Practice & Qualifying
15:30 – 16:00 - Global Time Attack 2 – Track
11:15 – 12:00 - Trans Fast 5 Qualifying – Track
17:15 – 17:45 - Global Time Attack 3 – Track
18:00 – 18:30 - Global Time Attack 4 – Track
19:30 – 20:15 - Trans Practice / Qualifying – Track
20:00 – 21:00 - FD: Autograph Signing Session – TBA
21:30 – 0:30 - FD: Open Practice – Track
0:30 – 03:00 - FD: Qualifying – Track

Saturday, May 9, 2015 - Main Event
13:00 – 13:30 - Global Time Attack 1 – Track
13:45 – 14:15 - Global Time Attack 2 – Track
14:30 - 115:40 – Trans – Foametix Muscle Car Challenge (TA2) – Track
15:55 – 16:25 - Global Time Attack 3 – Track
16:40 – 17:50 - Trans – Foametix Trans 100 (TA & TA3 A&I) – Track
19:30 – 21:00 - FD: Open Practice – Top 32 – Track
21:00 – 23:00 - MAIN COMPETITION: Round of 32 – Track
23:00 – 00:30 - HALF TIME BREAK
00:30 - NATIONAL ANTHEM / OPENING CEREMONIES – Track
01:00 - MAIN COMPETITION: Round of 16 to Finals – Track
03:00 – 03:30 - TROPHY CEREMONY & CLOSING

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Written by Ali Posted on May 8, 2015. Filed under Drift News, Featured. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Live: Formula DRIFT Round two – Road Atlanta

Drift Allstars Rd1: London town!

Yes we may have been a tiny bit sun blinded by the great climate, and the event may not have gone 25% smoothly, but there’s no taking something away from these 3 things about this occasion!
Number 1: The awesome place. Actually in the shadow of the Olympic arena’s, and across the road from an great purchasing centre (with some nice bars and perhaps far more importantly a killer milkshake stand)

Number 2: The track itself. It was ridiculous. An really narrow uphill curved run up, cresting with a jump and entirely blind entry into a track that begins with a huge wall, then combines 6 outdoors clipping zones and some of the most significant bumps on the planet.. It was Actually difficult!

Quantity 3: The great drivers, and the even far more great cars!. There seemed to be a comparable energy struggle to Formula D going on, with twin turbo’d LS engined BMWs and BMW powered Nissans alongside the slightly far more typical, but nonetheless extremely potent 2JZ powered automobiles.

By the end of the occasion there have been more than a handful of automobiles not very in complete functioning order, and our personal DW86 was amongst them.

 

 

 

We’d struggled with the ride height and hitting the floor via 90% of the course, so the unthinkable was accomplished, and we raised it up! This improved the handling, and I was finally beginning to push somewhere towards the right line I’d been missing for complete rest of the day, when the rear axle decided it didn’t want to be a part of the car any a lot more.
An original Nascar steel drop bracket had snapped as we initiated over 1 of the serious bumps. It was the end of our driving weekend as the component is under so significantly tension it just wasn’t worth the danger of welding it and potentially having the axle leave the car and hit the crowd.
But with a primo viewing spot on best of the Drif2rks trailer, we were much more than happy to stay and watch everybody else out on track, and our suspicions of this becoming an eventful very first round have been appropriate. It was fantastic to watch!

  

Following some spectacular runs, mechanical failures and fires, the competitors ended a little abruptly, as the turbo’d LS BMW E46 discarded it is pistons all over the track as it crossed the line in it’s final run of the top 4 so the final couldn’t happen, and the guy that was supposed to be running for 3rd against Dan Chapman had also crashed his automobile as well seriously to recover. I’ve never ever seen something like that come about in competition, but this is following all motorsport, and as we know quite much something can happen.

Qualification Outcomes:

Q1: Piotr Wiecek
Q2: Dawid Karkosik
Q3: Janis Eglite

Finishing positions:

1.Piotr Wiecek Poland Budmat Auto
2.Janis Eglite Latvia Zeetex Tire
3.Dan Chapman UK CMR Altenzo Tires

What a excellent season opener for Drift Allstars,  we truly hope they can return to this venue next year. We look forward to being a element of it.

Phil

Pictures by Rich Starkey.

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Drift Allstars Rd1: London town!