NAVIGATION
Achilles Radial posted a contest on Facebook yesterday to ‘inspire’ the livery for there 2013 Formula D SC430 driven by 2012 champion Daigo Saito. Looks like we will see some more of his skills soon…
It looks like some big news yesterday and today for Tangelo Racing. Yesterday Tony announced the purchase of a new permanent home for Tangelo Racing that includes 7 bays and 4 lifts. And the even bigger news was that today he announced that he will be building a Scion FR-S for the 2013 season. Another thing that makes his FR-S special is that it is a salvage from Hurricane Sandy. He also hashtagged it saying 800hp so let’s wait and see what he has in store for this puppy. So far this is the 3rd official announcement of a driver to be using a BRZ/FR-S in the 2013 season. It’s also good to note that after his less than stellar return year to FD that it looks like Scion Racing is keeping him on board.
After placing 2nd overall in the 2011 Evergreen series and earning his Formula D license and spending 2012 lining up his sponsors Chris Jeanneret has announced he will be competing in the 2013 in an S14 with a title sponsor of STR Wheels. Other sponsors include Falken Tire, CNC Autosports, RyWire, Advanced Induction, TEIN, SPL Parts, Weddle Industries, Wiseco Pistons/K1 Rods, NissanParts.cc, Factory83, Diversity Law and Mark II Collision Center. You can follow Chris on his Facebook page over at http://www.facebook.com/chrisjeanneret
Rhys Millen had a slow start to the 2012 season but with experience, aggression and consistency in his corner mounted a late season comeback to take 3rd place in the overall points game. In addition Rhys also drove his same Formula D Hyundai Genesis to set a Pikes Peak hill climb record. However in what may have been some of the biggest Motorsports news this season was when Hyundai announced that they were pulling out from North America Motorsports leaving Rhys without a 2013 title sponsor for Formula D and Rally. After this news Rhys did put his 2 Rallycross cars up for sale, but not his FD Genesis. Now I’ve been doing my best to keep up with Rhys and see if there is any news on his 2013 season but all that has been said is the Grandfather of drift still feels he has some fight in him, which the 2012 season shows. Now Hyundai has announced they will return to Pikes Peak but no mention of Formula D at all. I personally thought that an OEM would reach out and try to pick up Rhys being such a big name and successful driver and with the new BRZ and Viper coming out I thought we may see one of them picking him up but no news in the least. The only thing I can think of is to see Red Bull making a larger push into FD and handling Rhys’ title sponsorship. The only sure thing is that in about 3 months we will see Rhys drifting one way or another.