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Hankook Driver Conrad Grunewald Wins at Formula Drift Round 4: The Gauntlet

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WAYNE, N.J., June, 20, 2011 – Hankook driver Conrad Grunewald placed first in the fourth round of the 2011 Formula Drift season this past weekend at Wall Speedway in New Jersey.

The sold out event with over 8000 spectators in attendance saw Grunewald qualify high in the top 5 in his Hankook Chevy Camaro, eventually battling Ryan Tuerck in the Gardella Racing Camaro in the top four.  The top four Camaro vs. Camaro match-up ended with Tuerck hitting the wall and Grunewald and the Hankook Chevy Camaro advancing to the finals.

The final battle pitted Grunewald in his Camaro against Formula Drift points leader Justin Pawlak in his Ford Mustang for an American muscle car clash.  The race was tight, but Grunewald and the Hankook Chevy Camaro were able to edge out Pawlak, landing Grunewald a first place podium finish.

“I’m really happy for the team,” stated Grunewald. “This speedway requires a lot of tire smoke and vehicle control.  My Hankook Ventus R-S3’s provided the edge I needed to win this weekend.”

Hankook’s Ventus R-S3 is an Extreme Performance Summer tire developed for serious sports car, sports coupe and performance sedan enthusiasts looking for race tire-like traction on the street or for use in autocross, drifting or track events.  Grunewald’s win puts him in sixth place with 272 points in the overall Formula Drift standings.

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2011 Formula DRIFT Round 4: The Gauntlet Results; Conrad Grunewald Wins at Wall Speedway

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Long Beach, Calif. – June 18, 2011 – Formula DRIFT returned to Wall Speedway for Round 4: The Gauntlet. The capacity event was action packed with Conrad Grunewald in the Hankook Tire Chevy Camaro taking the victory. This marked Grunewald’s first victory in Formula DRIFT history and second podium since 2005.

Round 4: The Gauntlet at Wall Speedway was another exciting event where the combination of the banking on the track and the competitive nature of the drivers pushed them to the limits. As a result a few of the vehicles were damaged in competition in dramatic fashion keeping them from advancing to the later rounds. The fans witnessed a true showing of world class drifting.

“Despite the brief storm that caused chaos after qualifying on Friday, the Formula DRIFT community pulled together to help one another to put on another great event,” said Jim Liaw, president and co-founder of Formula DRIFT. “Fans came out to fill the capacity of the venue on Saturday to showcase the ever growing sport this season.”

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2011 Formula Drift: Round 1 – Qualifying Gallery:Part 1

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First off we would like to congratulate Conrad Gruenwald on his Qualifying run scoring a 93!!  Above is a shot from that run.

It’s the start of the Formula Drift 2011 season and there’s many a change already.  Tanner Foust is not running this season as he is out perusing his rally career and filming Top Gear USA.  Last year’s champion Vaughn Gittin Jr. did not qualify for the first round and is now out for tomorrow’s competition. This followed by Samuel Hubinette (who is a prior champion as well) having major pressure problems and not being able to run the car as it is going to need a full tear down or replacement motor to get it up and running for round 2. We wish all 3 of these drivers a good 2nd round and know they can still push it to get into high placement in the series.  Can Vaughn or Sam retake another championship?  What do you think?

 Also we would like to say congrats to the rookies who moved into Top 32 for today’s competition. We wish them all luck, and knowing a couple personally we have an eye on them. As I have always said “SUPPORT GRASSROOTS!!”

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2009 Formula Drift: R1-SOLB – Round Of 32

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2nd Update: This has been cancelled and will not be a rerun, Casper wasn’t able to run and was allowed the bypass via not running to save time.  Justin will move on to Top 16

Update: Casper Canul and Justin Pawlak will run a 2nd run.  Apparently both broke from the tap and JTP was supposed to do a bye run.  That didn’t happen, so they will both get to go at it for their 2nd run.  This will happen at the begining of the Top 16 to determine a winner.

Daijiro Yoshihara Vs. Jeff Jones
Dai leads, and comes out with Jeff giving chase and mirroring his entry. Dai able to pull away a bit and maintain a gap through the sweeper.  Good run from both
Jeff leads, and comes in with a sick entry on the wall past the tire wall.  Entry into the tranisiton is again close and Dai spins!  Jeff Jones moves on!  A privateer from the grassroots scene.

Taka Aono Vs. Pat Mordaunt
Taka leads, and come out sideways.  Pat is close behind and both stay in drift through the course.  Slight correction at end by Taka.
Pat leads, and comes out with a very nice angle.  Taka is close and mirrors Pat with a slightly shalower angle.  Pat spins and comes to a halt at the end.  Taka moves on

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