Pro Drifter Ken Gushi starts off the second season in the newly refreshed GReddy Performance X Scion Racing Drift FR-S with a solid Great 8 finish (out of 53 registered drivers) in the 2013 Formula Drift Pro Championship season opener (62pts)...
*For a play by play report see MotoIQ's detailed event coverage (here)
Or to see the full stream see: http://new.livestream.com/FormulaDrift/LongBeach/videos/16284945
Or to see the full stream see: http://new.livestream.com/FormulaDrift/LongBeach/videos/16284945
With a new Formula D knock-out qualifying process, Ken only got in one qualifying lap. So the 73.4pt run was good enough to lock in a top 16 spot, of 14th position.
That matched up Ken with Kyle Mohan (19th) in his RX-8 for the Top32 round. Ken had two clean runs and moved on to the Main Event and the Top 16 round. In the Top 16, Ken defeated number 3 qualifier, Mike Essa in his new BMW M3.
That set-up a Great 8 match up with Vaughn Gitten in his Ford Mustang, who went on to finish the event in 2nd place. All in all, not a bad start for the team. The next round is just around the corner, May 10-11 at Road Atlanta and the GReddy Team already have some more upgrades on the way! Congratulations to: 1st Dai Yoshihara, 2nd Jr. Gitten, 3rd Chris Forsberg
It was also a great event off the track as well, we had special Guest Kei Miura of the famous TRA Kyoto (Rocket Bunny). So in the GReddy vendor booth we had a Limited Edition GReddy X Rocket Bunny T-Shirt as well as another new GReddy "Blue Outline" Logo Tshirt. (We still have some T-shirts left and they can be purchased from our official online store, www.ShopGReddy.com...)
Also in the GReddy booth was Ken Gushi's personal FR-S with a GReddy Tuner Turbo Kit and Ken was signing new Scion Racing Hero card with Shin Tanaka Paper Shapers version of the GReddy Performance X Scion Racing Drift FR-S.
Ken Gushi and the GReddy Performance X Scion Racing Drift FR-S
with technical partners:
Hankook Tire | Ray's Engineering | KW Suspension | TRUST | DTA | Alpinestars | Takata
with technical partners:
Hankook Tire | Ray's Engineering | KW Suspension | TRUST | DTA | Alpinestars | Takata
