Formula D Round 5 Throwdown Pt.1

After attending Formula D for the first time in 2011 at Evergreen Speedway, Richard and I said to ourselves “We gotta get media access next year!”. We camped out our shooting locations around the track and planned our attack. Our Formula D photo coverage will be in two parts due to the number of images we captured during the event. Formula Drift is such a great event as a photographer and a spectator. The pits are open to drift fans where one can see what the teams are doing and get up close with the drivers and their cars. As a photographer, we were up close and personal to cars trackside as they came at us sideways at 70 mph. At the end of the night, Rich and I had a fair amount of asphalt and debris showering over us. There were many a rear bumpers, front bumpers, and sometimes hoods on the track as some cars kissed the walls in more ways than one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rob Primo won the Pro-Am

 

 

 

Some flying bumper action from Toshiki Yoshioka of Team RS-R

 

 

 

Rhys Millen lighting it up in his 2013 Hyundai Genesis Coupe

 

 

 

 

 

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Monster Energy/Falken Tire’s Vaughn Gittin Jr.

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GPP Scion Racing’s Ken Gushi

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Falken Tire’s Daijiro Yoshihara

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That’s one way to cool the engine!

Daigo Saito gets close to the wall with Conrad Grunewald applying pressure

 

 

 

It was great to see a Scion FRS drifting around courtesy of Ken Gushi

 

 

 

Formula D Round 5: Throwdown winner Vaughn Gittin Jr.

 

 

 

Deal With It’s Matt Powers

 

Reckless Drifting’s Matt Field

 

Team Need for Speed/Papadakis Racing’s Fredric Aasbo

 

WW Racing’s Walker Wilkerson

 

Achilles Tires Bridges Racing’s Daigo Saito

 

Jeremy Lowe and his Enjuku Racing Mazda RX-7

 

JCR/City Tire’s Jhonnattan Castro

 

Team Retaks Ryan Tuerck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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