Drivers

Roland Gallagher 2009 Season Video by AW Films

AW Films kicks out another quality cut featuring Roland and his 2009 season exploits.

Roland had a busy ‘09 traveling from Vegas to Willows to Irwindale.

His competition accomplishments included:

• 5th in the Evergreen Drift Championship
• 3rd at the Vegas Drift ProAm
• 4th at the Evergreen Drift ProAm
• Failed to qualify due to a busted chassis but earned a Formula Drift Pro License at Nationals

Enjoy Abbitt’s ode to Roland shredding all last season.

With plenty of raw talent and a high dosages of style Roland is set to kill it in 2010.

Look for him at FD pro events and Evergreen Drift events throughout the year.

AJC Drift on ze Dyno

Another day, another Evergreen Drift ProAm driver pre season dyno video.

This time it is Andrew Coomes of AJC Drift with an SR20DET.

354 horsepowers and 315 torque. Not bad for just having recovered from snapping a rocker in testing 4 days prior!

Preseason test sessions and dyno tuning. Looks like Andrew and team will be ready to hit the track at the first event!

The first Evergreen Drift Open Drift is 4/11 and it ’s the only Open Drift prior to the kickoff ProAm comp on 5/7. Will you be ready? The full Evergreen season schedule can be found here.

Check www.ajcdrift.com to keep up on the team’s activities.

Evergreen Drift drivers on Wealth TV

Browsing the Formula Drift Blog I noticed this post:

“Last season during Round 4: All In Wealth TV came to film an episode of their show focused on Formula DRIFT. The episode airs this Sunday March 7 at 7PM (EST). It will periodically air on their network, but be sure to check your local listings – More info HERE.”

The video in question -

This Wealth on Wheels episode was filmed at the ‘09 FD Vegas round and it features an excellent layman’s overview of drifting and equal parts ProAm and Pro coverage.

Evergreen Drift drivers Roland Gallagher and Andrew Coomes made the trek down to the ProAm and took 3rd and 4th respectively earning invites to the ProAm Nationals (full story here).

The crazy thing is they show up in the Wealth on Wheels TV episode!

Check:

• Roland font and center on the YouTube preview for the video
• 2:07 - ProAm Drivers Meeting. Spot the locals.
• 3:05 - Roland gives us the lowdown on his engine and drops the knowledge like a pro.
• 5:31 - Andrew battles Johnny Kanavis in the finals.

ProAm drivers take note. You never know who is watching or what opportunities will pop up.

[Source] Formula Drift Blog and Wealth TV

Primo’s ProAm Whip on the Dyno

Mr. Primo’s killer S14 was sadly absent in the ‘09 season as it was all apart for a long term major update.

The car got a complete overhaul with updated FD spec cage and a 2JZ swap during the down time. Primo is wrapping up the finishing touches and will be ready for Evergreen Drift ProAm competition.

Check out the dyno video.

All you slackers better wrap the winter rebuilds up! Spring is in the air and the season is right around the corner.

Ian Fournier on North Sound Racing Tonight!

2009 ProAm National Champion Ian Fourier will be on the North Sound Racing radio show.

The show will air live Monday 2/8/10 from 7pm to 9pm PST

Tune in to hear Ian talk about his experiences advancing through the ranks at Evergreen Drift and Formula Drift ProAm plus his plans for the 2010 season now that he is a licensed professional Formula Drift driver.

Western Washington folks can tune into AM 1380 or listen live on the web from anywhere.

North Sound Racing show page

Ian’s profile can be viewed on the Drift Safari team site.

If you missed the live broadcast the show will be up  on the North Sound Archives pages on demand a few days after the airing.

R:P - Victor Moore 2010 Driver Profile -

Ladies and Gents, a man who needs no introduction…

Direction | Production | Color

Earl Smith

| Cameras |

Darren McArdel
Justin Shreeve
Ross Fairfield
Earl Smith

Special Thanks to:

Prospective sponsors, please feel free to contact:

Victor@KPRace.com

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Wrecked ProAm Issue

Wrecked Magazine recently released the latest edition of their online magazine. This issue spotlights the 18 drivers that came up through the ProAm ranks in ‘09 to earn their Formula Drift pro license.

Check out the profiles on Ian, Victor, Nikolay, and Roland and learn their plans for the 2010 season and get to know the rest of the new FD Pros from around the nation.

Ian even made the cover. What a superstar!

Give the cover photo a click to read the magazine.

2009 in Review

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.

Read more

BIO > Mark Couts on Motor Mavens

Our friends at Motor Mavens have a great Bio on long time Evergreen Drift driver Mark Couts.

In the past Mark has had the usual assortment of S chassis cars but now is rolling a E36 BMW.

We look forward to seeing this beautiful car mix it up in tandem mayhem come next season.

Click over to Motor Mavens to read the full bio -

Motor Mavens Mark Couts Bio

Speedhunters SDCOTY Award - Vote Northwest!

The good folks over at Speedhunters are gathering votes for their end of the year awards.

Looking at the “STREET DRIFT CAR OF THE YEAR” category list of nominees I found a couple of Northwest familiar faces.

The ethos of the Street Drift Car of The Year is “cars which carry a torch for true drift style and true drift culture. These machines should still be street legal(ish) in spirit and have oodles of visual presence.”

As of this moment Nikolay has a ton of votes and Ian and Earl have a few.

Hop on over to the Speedhunters thread to see the rest of the contestants and put in your vote in the comments section.

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