Contact: Brian Phillips
Tel. 704-577-3560 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Email: support@streetwisedrift.com

July 29th 2010

STREET-WISE DRIFT CONCLUDES ITS 2010 FORMULA D PRO AM EVENT SERIES

Street-Wise Drift has completed its Formula Drift Pro Am series for 2010.
Congratulations to Pro AM Driver Kiely Mackey for winning the SWD Pro AM Points Championship and earning an FD Pro Championship License for 2011. We are stoked to see Kiely moving into the professional ranks and look forward to watching his progress drifting with the pros next year.

SWD also has awarded its top Pro AM drivers from the 2010 Season with invitations to the Formula Drift Pro AM Finals in Irwindale, CA. This is where they will battle it out with the nation’s best pro am drivers for a shot at a 2011 Formula Drift Pro Championship license.

Invitation Winners:
Patrick Goodin
Zoltan Hajdu
Brad Heyl
Hayden Horton

Pro AM wrap up:
Street-Wise Drift ran 5 FD Pro AM events in 2010 along side its growing East Coast amateur event series. The Pro AM drivers stepped up their game early in the year during the March and April Pro AM rounds held at the famed Charlotte Motor Speedway road course.
SWD’s new blood Pro AM talent then continued to round 3 at Road Atlanta for a top 16 battle in front of thousands of fans in conjunction with Round 2 of the Formula Drift Championship Series. With only 2 more events to go, SWD’s Field of Pro AM drivers would soon face back to back competition events on Z MAX Dragway’s perfect surfaces, 85+ MPH entry’s speeds and technical sweepers that challenged not only the drivers but their cars as well. Its was a great season and we look forward to doing it again next year.

About SWD
Street-Wise Drift: www.streetwisedrift.com
SWD is based in Charlotte, NC and is run by Brian and Todd Phillips. SWD’s Leaders have over 20 years combined experience in grassroots motorsports. SWD runs both Amateur and Pro AM drifting events at challenging track locations in the SE and has built a strong presence in the region’s motorsports market since its start in early 2009.
SWD’s Focus is to provide opportunities for drivers and teams to develop and grow in the sport.
SWD also hosts local drift clinics, practice days, time attack competitions, gymkhana competitions, and Demos.

Series Rules and regulations questions: Contact Brian Phillips @ 704-577-3560 or support@streetwisedrift.com

Few pictures from Spcom this past weekend. Our booth featured the following cars: Chris Forsberg’s NOS Energy Nissan 350Z, Ross Petty’s Garage Boso Nissan S15, and Kyle Mohan’s Nexen Mazda RX-8. Thanks for everyone who came by the booth and definitely NOS Energy Drink for handing out massive amounts of product. For everyone else that weren’t able to come to Spocom, come to Round 5 “After Dark” at Las Vegas Motor Speedway to see these cars in action!

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Come visit the Formula DRIFT booth at Spocom this weekend. We’ll be featuring the following cars at our booth: Chris Forsberg’s NOS Energy Nissan 350Z, Ross Petty’s Garage Boso Nissan S15, and Kyle Mohan’s Nexen Mazda RX-8.

SpoCom Super Show Long Beach, CA
Long Beach Convention Center
300 Ocean Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90802

Sunday, July 18th, 2010
11:00am-6:00pm

Final results are:
1st – Kyle Pollard
2nd – Nik Jimenez
3rd – Kohei Nakamura
4th – Peter Funatake

Kyle had only driven in one drift event in over 2 years prior this ProAm round and had never slid the 5/8ths bank. He was driving a borrowed car that just had ITBs installed and the ECU tuned a couple days before the event (this means he was risking mechanical issues with untested upgrades for those not up on the jargon). Even with 176HP at the wheels from a Honda S2000 engine swap the Corolla was still underpowered for the mega sized FD pro course but Kyle quickly figured out how to make it work and drifted to the top of the podium! Outstanding.

For full event results