Formula Drift Seattle Qualifying Video

Formula Drift’s Round Five has officially kicked off at Seattle’s Evergreen Raceway. Ryan Tuerck rode the banks of the bullring with greater speed and angle than the rest of the field to put him in the number one qualifying spot. Other big news surrounded the protest of Tanner Foust’s tC that was broken by our boys at Wrecked Magazine. Hit the jump to see the complete list of qualifying results with video! And we’ll be back with more from tomorrow’s main event at Evergreen including more video coverage.

1. Ryan Tuerck 80.3
2. Ross Petty 79.3
3. Sam Hubinette 77.7
4. Justin Pawlak 77.3
5. Daijiro Yoshihara 74.6
6. Tyler McQuarrie 74.6
7. Chris Forsberg 73
8. Tanner Foust 73
9. Vaughn Gittin Jr. 71.4
10. Darren McNamara 70.8
11. Taka Aono 70.8
12. Tony Brakohiapa 69
13. Eric O’Sullivan 68.1
14. Ken Gushi 67.9
15. Stephan Verdier 67.4
16. Robbie Nishida 67.1
17. Joon Maeng 66.8
18. Michihiro Takatori 63.6
19. Rhys Millen 63.5
20. Kenji Yaminaka 59.4
21. Kyle Mohan 58.7
22. Yasuomi Kondo 57.4
23. Michael Essa 55.6
24. Alex Pfeiffer 53.5
25. Tommy Suell 50.9
26. Calvin Wan 50.6
27. Ron Ewerth 43
28. Ryuji Miki 42
29. Jodin LeJeune 34
30. Patrick Mordaunt 20

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I first met Vaughn Gittin Jr. in a non-descript Maryland strip mall parking ...

I first met Vaughn Gittin Jr. in a non-descript Maryland strip mall parking lot on a Wednesday night in September of 2001. He was hanging out at the kickoff party for the old Super Street Tour. He was introduced to me as a “drifter” but I was nonplussed. Keep in mind, at this point I had already been to Japan and witnessed Taniguchi manji the OG HKS S15 at Bihoku Highland. I was already a JDM drift fan boy with no time for a wannabe. Fast forward to last Saturday night and I see JR at a party. He is no longer the fresh-faced kid I remember. Now he walks with a swagger that can only come after running the high bank of Irwindale harder than the world’s best drifters. In this picture he’s riding the wall on the 100 mph first turn at the Red Bull event in his 2008 car, “Betsy”. On this day he would later tag the wall too hard retiring the car. But that’s his style – go big or… you know the rest. This year, poppa JR’s gotta a brand new bag. Hit the jump to see the video. As an added bonus check out the verbal smackdown he lays on Samuel Hubinette at the 1:57 mark.

The best thing about JR is that he’s not a classically trained product of any motorsports academy or a transplant from another form of racing looking to ride the drift wave onto better ride. He’s a pure drifter and his full-throttle driving style suits his 2010 Mustang perfectly. What I like best about JR is no matter how big his skills have taken him he still maintains that same enthusiasm he had in a parking lot in Maryland some eight years back.

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