Bilstein released short video to recap Michael Essa’s championship 2013 season in Formula D, it’s a little neat to see his point of view during this season and winning the championship as a privateer. Despite how events went down at Irwindale and how the championship was won, winnings winning in the history books and no opinion will change that so lets enjoy this video.
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Michael Essa’s Formula D Championship Race
Michael Essa is the 2013 Formula Drift Champion
So Forsberg was knocked out by Daigo Saito in some unexplainable way in the Great 8. As Essa Qualified 1st and was gifted Top 16 points due to FD rulings and much controversy, Chris needed to finish in 1st or 2nd to take the championship. As he was just knocked out by Saito, Essa now the 2013 FD Champion.
Charles Ng Looks Likely To Return To Formula D in 2014
Back in June Charles Ng reached out to Wrecked Magainze to talk about his recent podium at a CDC event in China and hint at a possible return to professional drifting.
About a month later rumors that he had purchased the LS7 powered Pontiac Solstice that Gardella Racing was selling that had previously been driven by Ryan Tuerck. Merit was given to these claims this past Friday when Charles brought the car out to a Sonoma Drift event to get some seat time in the Solstice. Charles did comment on an article about this showing saying that the Pontiac was purchased as a drift demo car for his new shop that he has opened stateside (I believe it’s Elite Performance located in Burlingame, CA). He said the car was fun and ran strong but was not a winning or competitive car by current FD standards.
Following these turn of events and comments from Charles Ng it now appears that Charles has reached out to Wrecked Magazine again to unveil some build photos for his new drift car, an LS3 powered Infiniti G37.
So it looks like Charles is poised for a 2014 FD return after taking a hiatus in 2011 to focus on his WTCC career with BMW.
Photos via Wrecked Magazine
MotorTrend Returns With a 3rd World’s Greatest Drag Race
I personally am a little giddy about the winner, but I won’t spoil it, it’s always a little fun to watch close to 2 million dollars rocket down an air strip.