Qualifying results Formula Drift Pro Championship in Seattle 06.08.2022: EVENT DETAILS Date: Friday, August 5, 2022 Location: Evergreen Speedway, Monroe, WA Event: Formula DRIFT PRO Championship Round 6: Throwdown RESULTS FROM FD PRO QUALIFYING

EVENT DETAILS


Date: Friday, August 5, 2022
Location: Evergreen Speedway, Monroe, WA
Event: Formula DRIFT PRO Championship Round 6: Throwdown
 


RESULTS FROM FD PRO QUALIFYING



1.    Kazuya Taguchi (Japan) – ISR UpGarage / GT Radial Scion FRS
2.    Chelsea DeNofa (USA) – Pennzoil / BC Racing Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD
3.    Chris Forsberg (USA) – NOS Energy Drink Nissan Z on GT Radials
 




NOTES



•    The weather was a pleasant mid-70s with a light breeze to clear the tire smoke


•    After the perfect weekend in St Louis, Taguchi again qualified first with a score of 93 points


•    Five drivers scored 90 points, with DeNofa placing second and Forsberg third once the scores were broken down into style, angle and line




•    2022 FD PRO Championship points leader Matt Field (USA) was fourth in the Drift Cave / Falken Tire C6 Corvette and everybody is wondering when he’ll finally get his first win of the season 


•    Most of the top seeds qualified well, but as in St Louis, Aurimas Bakchis (Lithuania) again experienced problems on his first run in the Falken Tire / Feal Suspension Nissan S15 and had to fight through the Knockout Qualifying Format (KQF), which sees the bottom eight drivers run a second time


•    Thirty six drivers attempted to qualify for the Top 32 competition heats, which meant four would be eliminated in KQF. Those included leading Rookie Daniel Stuke (USA), Darren Kelly (New Zealand), Ola Jaeger (Norway) and Trenton Beechum (USA) who all scored insufficient points to continue


•    Top Rookie was Nick Noback (USA) who scored 83 points in the KoruWorks E46 BMW, placing him 24th overall
 




ROUND 6 TOP 16 FD PRO QUALIFYING

POSITION    NAME    POINTS

1    Kazuya Taguchi    3
2    Chelsea DeNofa    2


3    Chris Forsberg    1
4    Matt Field     
5    Dylan Hughes     
6    Michael Essa     
7    Wataru Masuyama     
8    Ken Gushi     
9    Fredric Aasbo     
10    Ryan Tuerck     
11    Taylor Hull     
12    Joao Barion     
13    Justin Pawlak     
14    Jeff Jones     
15    Travis Reeder     
16    Yves Meyer     
 


BRACKET FOR ROUND 6 FD PRO COMPETITION HEATS
 
 


FORMULA DRIFT SEATTLE RECAP


Competition results from the FD PRO Championships will be available tomorrow evening. A recap of all the action from FD SEA with event images will be available on Monday
 



NEXT ROUND


Utah Motorsports Campus in Grantsville, UT will host the Formula DRIFT PRO Championship Round 7: Type S Elevated presented by Autozone and the Final Round of the Link ECU PROSPEC Championship on September 15-17. Please visit www.formulad.com for the competition schedule, ticket information, driver profiles, special content, and the event livestream
 





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