Formula Drift Long Beach 2011

The Formula Drift series kicked off its 8th season this weekend in Long Beach, California. The threat of rain did not detour the crowds from gathering at the famous "Streets of Long Beach" course. The street circuit did not disappoint in providing some of the best drifting action in the world.

The NOS Energy Drink Drift Team debuted it's new Nissan 370Z drift car, receiving rave reviews from competitors and fans alike. Not only did the car look great, the team had it handling perfectly right out of the box. Forsberg defeated Michael Essa and Conrad Grunwell in the tandem rounds of 32 and 16 on his way to the Top 8 tandem battle against 2010 rookie of the year Fredrick Aasbo.

Aasbo was very quick all weekend and would be a strong challenger. With both Aasbo and CFR on Hankook Tires, the two competitors laid down a heavy smokescreen but when it cleared, Forsberg was declared the winner and moved onto the Final 4.

Matt Powers was in the midst of the best event of his career as he was paired with Forsberg for the Final 4 battle. Powers and Forsberg both ran impressive runs causing the judges to call for a "One More Time." Both drivers laid down a second set of excellent runs, but this time the judges decided in favor of Powers sending Forsberg to the consolidation round with drift veteran Dai Yoshihara. The consolidation round was intense as both drivers sought the last podium spot. Yoshihara and Forsberg made contact as they traversed the narrow track. In the end, Yoshihara took the win placing Forsberg in 4th for the event.

The CFR crew was immediately successful with their newly built Nissan 370Z and new tire manufacture Hankook Tire, a change that could throw most teams off of their game. Forsberg was enthused on how well the new 370Z handled and was very pleased with the grip Hankook tires provided. Chris Forsberg and the CFR crew will head to Formula Drift Round 2 at Road Atlanta with confidence where Forsberg has 1 win and 2 podiums.

Triple Header Weekend!

Busy busy weekend! First we started with getting the missile over to Apex’i USA to get the Power FC tuned… That’s right! Kevin installed a Power FC onto the KA, he is a wiring genius. We were having some overboosting issues, but we got them sorted out and Kevin finished up with 275whp. The setup it capable of much more, but since the engine is still stock internals, we do not want to push it.

Here’s the car as we got up to Irwindale for their first drift night with the Adam’s Motorsports Park crew. It has been a long time since Irwindale held a grassroots drift event so we wanted to go up and support!

The event brought out 98 cars total! The track also said that they turned away 38 cars putting the total of drivers that showed up to 135, but there would not be enough run time for that many. They are already working on what they need to do to ensure enough run time for that many drivers. Overall the event was a great success, NOS Energy Drink was out as well to support the Adam’s crew and Toyota Speedway. I was able to take our southern California manager Jean for a ride a long in the missile. It was his first ride in a drift car!

It drifts!

    
Daijiro came out as well as well to check out the drifting. He says he will have his personal car up and running soon!

  On Saturday we went back out to Toyota Speedway to support the Kids Against Cancer fundraiser. They had all types of racing going on all night, from Legends to Late Models… They filled the main grandstand and gave everyone a great show to watch while raising money for a great benefit. We took our team rig out and set it up and displayed the car in the vendor area.

We took the NOS Energy Drink 350Z out for a quick demo right before the big race! We hit the track and drifted the infield and the big banks until the tires popped! The crowd was super excited as they were up out of their seats clapping and cheering! It was a great feeling to be able to drift the entire track and show another new crowd what drifting was all about.

Lined up with the Legends cars…

 Waiting to go…

My favorite car of the night!

  Popped the tire and debeaded it off the rim! No damage to the car though…

 After the Saturday night racing was done… we packed up the truck and headed over to K&N Filters for their annual car show. They placed us front and center of their big meet and had a great display with the help of Jean and his crew who were giving out NOS Energy Drink to everyone that came by. We took the car out for all the fans to come by and check it out as well.

  We met with many fans throughout the day as well…

 We had a great time seeing everyone over at K&N and want to thank them and Toyota Speedway for having us out to their events this past weekend.

More From E3! The Start of the Competition!

"What's in this?" 

"Oh nothing more than High Performance Energy, Enhanced Mental Focus, and a NOSome Loaded Cherry Flavor"

More pics after the jump.

NOS Launches Loaded Cherry at E3

New NOS Flavor?  Check.  New Games To See?  Check.  A Chris Forsberg NOS 370z to give away in a Need For Speed race while passing out over 25,000 cans to the who's who in video games?  Check and check.

Crazy thing is the girl above wasn't with us, but her outfit matched our new can perfectly!  More after the jump.

Break.com Video Shoot at Irwindale

Yesterday we had the chance to go out to Irwindale Speedway to film with the Bro Show. The Bro Show is a series of webisodes that is hosted by Break.com. It was a ton of fun, and I got to showcase drifting to a few new fans, and hopefully thousands more to follow when the video gets released on their website!

Click Here to see some pics from the guys over at Wrecked Magazine that came out to shoot a little behind the scenes…

 

Formula D - Long Beach

Well the Formula D season has officially begun.  It kicked off the weekend of April 9 in Long Beach, CA and NOS was there to hold it down!

Congrats to Formula D for the largest attendance ever!!!  15,000 people saw some awesome drifting action and got to enjoy the day.  Whenever I'm out in Cali, surrounded by palm trees I always kinda wonder why I live on the dreary east coast. 

Check out the pics and see for yourself...

Thunderdrift: Nor-Cal Formula Drift ProAm Round 1

  Sunday Feb. 7th of 2010 was the season opener of the newly established Nor Cal Formula Drift ProAm Series: Thunderdrift.  The event had a strong turnout consisting of Nor Cal's finest ProAm drivers and seriously impressive drift cars.  Thunderhill's turns 13-10 (counter-course direction) provided the drivers with a configuration that demanded a high speed initiation and a tricky transition over a blind crest.

 During the morning practice runs the drivers gained confidence on the course and qualifying provided a great show.  Top qualifiers Ryan Kado and Jared Thompson displayed consistent runs that were full of smoke and angle.  By the end of the day it was Julian Jacobs taking the win.

 The drivers and spectators at the event enjoyed Nos Energy Drink's involvement to the fullest.  The winners of the event soaked each other down with bottles of Nos at the podium awards ceremony.  Come out on April 13th to watch Nor Cal's finest drift drivers battle it out in Round 2 of the Formula Drift ProAm Series: Thunderdrift.

for more info check out www.thunderdrift.com

Chris Forsberg is the 2009 Formula D Champion!

I just got back from Irwindale, where a couple of us were lucky enough to get out there for the final Formula D event of the year.  I know NOStradamus will have much better pictures and probably some video too...but for now, I just wanted to share the good news!  CONGRATS CHRIS!!  You really earned it!

NOS at Nascar Fanfest

This past Thursday Nos was at the Nascar Fanfest at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana.  Unfortunately, Kyle Busch wasn't able to attend due to the fact that he was really ill (to the point where even on race day he wasn't feeling that good and they had to switch drivers). However, Halloween came early and the fans didn't leave empty handed as we passed out tons of goodies in Nos bags including: Kyle Busch shirts, hats, decals, lanyards, sport bottles, license plates and koozies. A lucky selected few got to leave with Kyle Busch standees and mini hoods. Click on the jump to check out some pics.

Chris Forsberg video at Adams Motorsports Park in Riverside

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Check out this video of Chris Forsberg and other racers drifting at Adams Motorsports Park last week. They're having a tandem drifting competition tonight and the winner gets $1,000 (that's right a thousand). Ernie, where you at?