There is no place like home, as we come back to the world famous “House of Drift” Irwindale Speedway to end the 2018 Pro2 session. Unlike the Pro drivers having 8 rounds throughout the year, Pro2 drivers only have 4 rounds. There is no room for error and anything can happen. Only the top 8 overall drivers will have the chance to get their Pro license for next year.
It all came down to this: Formula Drift’s season finale at the infamous House of Drift, the round where a champion is crowned and the action is at its highest extreme.
For team SR by Toyota, it’s our last round of competition representing the SR by Toyota brand, and all three drivers—Fredric Aasbo (Papadakis Racing/Nexen SR by Toyota tC), Ken Gushi (GReddy Racing/Nexen SR by Toyota 86) and Ryan Tuerck (O’Reilly/Gumout/Hankook SR by Toyota 86)—were prepared to go the entire distance for the win or go out fighting.
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I loved Irwindale as a whole but I struggled with it as a photographer.
This being my first time to this event and possibly last time at this event, it was hard for me to adapt to the media’s limitations.
For this event we only had two spots where you were able to shoot completely open with no fence or a hole in the fence, just a wide open spot.
Normally I do media at PARC or Evergreen speedway and there is nothing in the way to shoot the cars and really not that many limitations even at FD Seattle. Continue reading
1 Forrest Wang #808
2 Daijiro Yoshihara #9
3 Ryan Tuerck #62
4 Dan Savage #314
5 Robbie Nishida #31
6 Chris Forsberg #64
7 Tyler McQuarrie #17
8 Aurimas Odi Bakchis #723
9 Conrad Grunewald #77
10 Fredric Aasbo #151
11 Pat Goodin #46
12 Ken Gushi #21
13 Kyle Mohan #99
14 Matt Field #777
15 Dean Kearney #43
16 Mike Essa #1
17 Kenneth Moen #22
18 Alec Hohnadell #118
19 Justin Pawlak #13
20 Ryan Kado #64
21 Joon Maeng #51
22 Vaughn Gittin Jr #25
23 Marc Landreville #11
24 Dave Briggs #24
25 Jeff Jones #29
26 Mats Baribeau #30
27 Geoff Stoneback #569
28 Darren McNamara #8
29 Daigo Saito #430
30 Takta Aono #86
31 Nate Hamilton #144
32 Matt Coffman #959