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2009 in Review
December 31, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
2009 will be remembered as the year the Northwest burst onto the national drift scene with Evergreen Drift drivers taking home ProAm podium results from Vegas to Irwindale.
Lets take stock of what the Evergreen Drift crew has accomplished for 2009.
Evergreen Drift Championship
The Evergreen Drift Season Championship was won by Peter Funatake. This four round championship pitted all the best Northwest drivers against each other. Peter steadily improved throughout the season starting with a top 16 finish in Round 1, a top 8 finish in Round 2, 3rd place for Round 3, and 1st place for Round 4. This was the right combination to win the championship by 23 points.
In all 59 drivers participated in the Evergreen Drift Championship and their full results can be seen here. These drivers have improved their skills and are the future stars of drifting as they work their way through the ranks.
Las Vegas ProAm
A couple of Evergreen Drift drivers infiltrated the Vegas Drift ProAm. Roland Gallagher qualified 2nd and finished 3rd while Andrew Coomes qualified 3rd and took 4th. Both drivers earned invites to the ProAm Nationals.
Evergreen Drift ProAm
Next it was Evergreen Drift’s turn while we hosted our first ever ProAm competition.
Cyrus Martinez came up from SoCal and beat us but Victor Moore took second and Ian Fournier placed third in front of a packed Formula Drift crowd. All three secured invites to the ProAm Nationals and Trent Stromkins earned the fourth invite.
In all 14 drivers competed in the first Evergreen Drift ProAm. Many of them will return in 2010 for the expanded Evergreen Drift ProAm Championship Series at Evergreen Speedway.
Formula Drift ProAm National Championship
Finally, six Evergreen Drift drivers invaded ProAm Nationals at Toyota Speedway in Irwindale, CA. When the smoke cleared Ian Forunier had became the ProAm National Champion and earned his Formula Drift professional license along with Nikolay Konstantinov, Victor Moore, and Rolland Gallager.
Life beyond competition -
When not busy competing we had plenty of fun at the open drift events with crazy multi-car tandem and lots of other hoonage.
Check out the Evergreen Drift Vimeo Channel for the best of this seasons action on film. Here are a couple of choice videos that showcase us just having fun.
As the national drift media gathered for the Formula Drift Seattle round several folks took notice and gave props for the high quality builds and “Northwest Style”. Sites like MotorMavens.com and Speedhunters praised Northwest drift machines in several articles. Five northwest cars were nominated for Speedhunters “Street Drift Car of the Year” award. By chance I picked up a copy of the Turkish tuner mag “TR Tuning” at the Istanbul airport and they loved Earl’s Truckasaurus FC so much they ran the same photo twice for their FD Seattle article!
The true power of Evergreen Drift is the dedicated people that come together to make the events happen. Like any other grassroots organization we are one big family and there is nothing we’d rather be doing than hanging out at the track participating in the sport we love.
A big thanks to all the officials, volunteers, media, drivers, and fans that are Evergreen Drift.
Of course we have to thank our sponsors that have supported us and contributed to such great results.
Thanks to everyone for a killer season. With all the things in the works plus the talent of the Northwest drift community look out for Evergreen Drift in the 2010 season.
All you Evergreen Drift drivers better get working on your winter upgrades so everyone will be locked and loaded come May. You have 5 months so get busy!
All aboard the tandem train for 2010. . .
A Premier Drifting Championship based in the Pacific Northwest, Evergreen Drift is the only series that you'll see locals and pros tackle Evergreen Speedway's 5/8ths course. 
