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2024 Formula Drift season

The 2024 Formula Drift season (officially titled and stylized as the Formula DRIFT PRO Championship) is the twenty-first season of the Formula D series. The season began on April 13 at Long Beach and concluded on October 19 at Irwindale Speedway after eight events.

This is the last Formula Drift season to feature the final event at Irwindale Speedway, after the track's announced permanent closure on October 29, 2024.[1] The season finale at Irwindale had been held since Formula D's inception in 2004.[2]

James Deane won the Drivers' Championship with four round wins, becoming the first and only four-time Formula D Champion.[3][4][5]

Entries

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Team No. Car Tires Driver Round(s)
ASM 8 BMW M3 E46 GT Radial   Robert Thorne[6] All
Asphalt Anarchy 82 Chevrolet Corvette C6 Kenda   Taylor Hull[7] All
Beechum Racing 999 BMW M3 E46 Nexen   Trenton Beechum[8] All
Cash Racing 16 Cadillac XLR Kenda   Jonathan Hurst[9] All
Diego Higa racing team 169 Toyota GT86 GT Radial   Diego Higa[10] All
Drift Cave Motorsports 777 Chevrolet Corvette C6 GT Radial   Matt Field[11] All
DRIFTING DEPARTMENT 17 117 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano Nexen   Federico Sceriffo[12] All
Extreme SimRacing 357 Chevrolet Corvette C7 Z06 GT Radial   João Barion[13] All
Feal Suspension Race Team 707 Nissan Silvia "S14.9" GT Radial   Simen Olsen[14] All
723 Nissan Silvia S15 GT Radial   Aurimas Bakchis[15] All
Forsberg Racing 64 Nissan Z GT Radial   Chris Forsberg[16] All
Garagistic 171 BMW 1 Series E82 Vitour   Rome Charpentier[17] All
Get Nuts Lab. 808 Nissan Silvia S15 Vitour   Forrest Wang[18] All
Hateley Motorsports 98 BMW M3 E46 Kumho   Andy Hateley[19]  R  All
Jeff Jones Racing 818 Nissan 370Z Kumho   Jeff Jones[20] All
Jerry Yang Racing 123 Toyota GT86 GT Radial   Kazuya Taguchi[21] All
168 Toyota GT86 GT Radial   Hiroya Minowa[22]  R  All
Jhonnattan Castro Racing 17 Toyota GR86 Kenda   Jhonnattan Castro[23] All
Kyle Mohan Racing 99 Mazda RX-8 Vitour   Kyle Mohan[24] All
LZMFG 5 BMW M3 E36 Nitto   Adam LZ[25] ?
MspeK Performance 527 Nissan Silvia "S14.9" Vitour   Daniel Stuke[26] All
Noback Racing Co. 54 BMW M3 E46 Kenda   Nick Noback[27] All
Papadakis Racing 151 Toyota GR Supra Nitto   Fredric Aasbø[28] All
411 Toyota GR Corolla Nitto   Ryan Tuerck[29] All
Power Racing 919 Nissan Silvia S15 Nexen   Mike Power[30] All
RAD Industries 34 Toyota Supra A80 GT Radial   Dan Burkett[31] All
Robbins Race Co. 35 Nissan 350Z Kenda   Alec Robbins[32] All
RTR Vehicles' Drift Team 25 Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD Nitto   Vaughn Gittin, Jr.[33] ?
130 Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD Nitto   James Deane[34] All
213 Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD Nitto   Ben Hobson[35]  R  All
Ryan Litteral Racing 909 Nissan Silvia S15 Kenda   Ryan Litteral[36] All
Shanahan 79 79 BMW M3 E36 Vitour   Conor Shanahan[37]  R  1, 3–8
Sorensen Motorsports 513 BMW M3 E92 Nitto   Branden Sorensen[38] All
Team Hansen Drifting 119 Nissan 240SX S13 GT Radial   Rudy Hansen[39]  R  All
Team Infamous 27 Nissan Silvia S14 Kenda   Derek Madison[40] All
Team Karnage 43 Dodge Viper ZB II Kumho   Dean Kearney[41] All
Team Never Settle 85 BMW M3 E46 Vitour     Dmitriy Brutskiy[42] All
Three's Racing 21 Toyota GR86 Kenda   Ken Gushi[43] All
Whip Racing 129 BMW M3 E46 GT Radial   Dylan Hughes[44] All
R Eligible for Rookie of the Year

Driver changes

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  • 2023 PRO champion Chelsea DeNofa retired from the series, announcing his intention ahead of the final round in 2023. His seat at RTR Motorsports was taken by 2023 PROSPEC champion Ben Hobson.[45]
  • 2023 PROSPEC runner-up Andy Hateley made his Formula Drift PRO debut.[46]
  • Hiroya Minowa joined Jerry Yang Racing with support from GT Radial Tires. At the start of the season, he was just 14 years old.[47]
  • After 2 seasons driving for RTR Motorsports, Adam LZ entered his own team running a single BMW E36. LZMFG only competed part-time in their debut FD season in order to run a full DMEC programme for 2024.
  • Two-time PROSPEC champion Dmitriy Brutskiy moved up to the PRO series.
  • Rudy Hansen moved up from the PROSPEC series, where he finished third in 2023.
  • 2022 PROSPEC runner-up Derek Madison moved up to the PRO series.
  • 2023 Drift Masters European Champion Conor Shanahan joined the series alongside defending his DMEC title. He will miss the second round at Road Atlanta due to a calendar clash with DMEC.[48]
  • Travis Reeder elected not to compete in the 2024 season.

Other changes

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  • GT Radial, winners of the Tire Cup in 2023, renewed their partnership with the series for a further three years.[47]
  • Kumho entered the series as an official tire sponsor for 2024 and beyond.[46]

Schedule

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Round Title Circuit Location Date Winner Car
1 Streets of Long Beach Streets of Long Beach Long Beach, California April 13   James Deane Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD
2 Road to the Championship Road Atlanta Braselton, Georgia May 11   Fredric Aasbø Toyota GR Supra
3 Scorched Orlando Speed World Orlando, Florida June 1   Conor Shanahan BMW M3 E36
4 The Gauntlet Englishtown Raceway Park Englishtown, New Jersey June 22   James Deane Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD
5 Crossroads World Wide Technology Raceway St. Louis, Missouri July 20   James Deane Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD
6 Throwdown Evergreen Speedway Monroe, Washington August 10   Ryan Tuerck Toyota GR Corolla
7 Elevated Utah Motorsports Campus Grantsville, Utah August 30   Aurimas Bakchis Nissan Silvia S15
8 Title Fight Irwindale Speedway Irwindale, California October 19   James Deane Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD
Sources:[49]

Championship standings

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Pre-event qualifying was eliminated starting in 2024, so that all results across the weekend are determined by tandem drifting and not by solo runs.

The 24 highest classified drivers in the previous event are guaranteed a starting position at the next event and are seeded with the same results, so that the previous event winner is awarded the number 1 seed (equivalent to the top qualifier in previous seasons).

The remaining 8 seeding positions (25th through 32nd) are contested by up to 24 other drivers, including those who finished 25th or below in the previous round. Seeding within this group is determined by a Seeding Bracket, a knockout-style tandem drift competition of similar format to the main event, with the first-place finisher being awarded the 25th starting position in the main event.[50][51] All drivers score championship points; those eliminated during the Seeding Bracket are classified 33rd through 48th and receive 14 points.

In the main event, drivers proceed through a series of competition heats, with those eliminated in the first round (Top 32) receiving 28 points and classifying 17th through 32nd, the second round (Top 16) receiving 42 points and classifying 9th through 16th, the third round (Great 8) receiving 56 points and classifying 5th through 8th, and the fourth round (Final Four) classifying 3rd and 4th, both receiving 70 points. In the Final, the runner-up receives 84 points and the winner 100 points. Final classification within each round is then determined by highest seeding position; for example, of the two drivers eliminated in the Final Four, the driver who was seeded higher entering the event is awarded 3rd position and the final place on the podium.

In the event of a tie on points, the driver who classified higher in the most recent round will be awarded the higher position.[52]

For Round 1 at Long Beach, the final classification of the 2023 championship was used, with non-returning drivers Chelsea DeNofa (1st) and Kristaps Blušs (24th) skipped and the ranking reapplied so that Taylor Hull (25th) and Alec Robbins (26th) were seeded 23rd and 24th respectively, and guaranteed starting positions.

Competition stage

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Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th–8th 9th–16th 17th–32nd 33rd–48th
Points 100 84 70 70 56 42 28 14

Pro Championship standings

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Pos Driver LBH ATL ORL ENG WWT EVS UTA IRW Pts
1   James Deane 1 3 2 1 1 9 4 1 666
2   Aurimas Bakchis 3 4 5 2 5 5 1 3 562
3   Fredric Aasbø 5 1 17 7 3 10 2 2 520
4   Hiroya Minowa  RY  8 18 4 11 2 2 10 11 448
5   Adam LZ 24 25 8 3 6 3 11 8 406
6   Ryan Tuerck 10 19 12 13 13 1 9 7 394
7   Matt Field 9 6 6 12 4 11 13 12 392
8   Conor Shanahan  R  25   1 9 8 12 14 4 380
9   Dylan Hughes 17 13 11 4 7 17 7 6 378
10   Branden Sorensen 14 12 3 10 12 13 15 13 364
11   Simen Olsen 2 2 9 18 16 22 23 24 364
12   Jeff Jones 30 16 24 15 17 4 5 5 350
13   Chris Forsberg 11 10 10 5 9 18 8 10 350
14   Ken Gushi 4 9 20 8 11 20 21 15 336
15   Jonathan Hurst 13 20 25 16 15 14 6 9 322
16   Trenton Beechum 16 22 13 19 19 6 3 17 322
17   Rome Charpentier 6 5 18 14 14 21 22 23 308
18   Kazuya Taguchi 12 11 21 23 23 7 12 18 294
19   Jhonnattan Castro 18 14 22 24 24 8 17 14 280
20   Taylor Hull 22 24 14 6 10 19 20 22 280
21   Nick Noback 7 17 7 17 18 23 24 25 280
22   Dan Burkett 26 8 19 22 22 15 18 20 266
23   Alec Robbins 23 15 23 25 34 16 19 21 238
24   Daniel Stuke 21 23 27 32 26 29 30 30 224
25   Diego Higa 29 26 16 21 21 25 28 35 224
26   Robert Thorne 15 21 26 36 28 27 34 26 210
27   Ryan Litteral   30 15 20 20 24 25 33 196
28   Federico Sceriffo 27 35 34 28 36 31 32[a] 16 182
29   Andy Hateley 34 32 29 27 35 35 16 19 182
30   Kyle Mohan 33 28 36 31 32 30 31 28 182
31   Rudy Hansen  R  28 36 31 34 33 33 27 31 168
32     Dmitriy Brutskiy 37 29 28 26 25 34 33 32[b] 168
33   Derek Madison 36 34 30 33 29 28 29 36 168
34   Forrest Wang 20 7       32[c]   27 126
35   Ben Hobson  R  35 33 33 35 30 WD 26 34 126
36   Mike Power 32   35 30 27 26     112
37   João Barion 31 27 32 29 31       98
38   Vaughn Gittin, Jr.   31           29 56
39   Dean Kearney 19               28
In-line notation
 RY  Rookie of the Year
 R  Rookie

Auto Cup standings

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Auto Cup points are awarded each round to the two drivers with the highest classified finish for each manufacturer. To be eligible, both the chassis and engine must have been constructed by that manufacturer.

General Motors initially earned contributions from Chevrolet and Cadillac, but Cadillac were granted their own classification during the season and the points were adjusted.

Pos Manufacturer LBH ATL ORL ENG WWT EVS UTA IRW Pts
1   Toyota 4 1 12 7 3 1 2 872
5 9 16 8 11 8 9
2   Ford 1 3 2 1 1 9 4 692
35 31 33 33 30 WD 26
3   General Motors 9 6 6 6 4 11 13 602
22 24 14 12 10 19 20
4   Nissan 11 10 10 5 9 18 8 490
  30 15 20 20 24 25
5   BMW 6 5 18 14 14 21 22 434
37 29 28 26 25 34 33
6   Cadillac 13 20 25 16 15 14 6 280
             
7   Mazda 33 28 36 31 32 30 31 154
             
8   Ferrari 27 35 34 28 36 31 32 140
             
9   Dodge 19             28
             

Tire Cup standings

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Tire Cup points are awarded each round to the two drivers with the highest classified finish for each tire manufacturer.

Pos Tire LBH ATL ORL ENG WWT EVS UTA IRW Pts
1 Nitto 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1102
5 3 3 7 3 9 4
2 GT Radial 2 2 4 2 2 2 1 1038
3 4 5 4 4 5 7
3 Kenda 4 9 7 6 10 8 6 686
7 14 14 8 11 14 17
4 Vitour 6 5 1 9 8 12 14 646
20 7 18 14 14 21 22
6 Kumho 19 16 24 15 17 4 5 462
30 32 29 27 35 35 16
5 Nexen 16 22 13 19 19 6 3 448
27 35 34 28 27 26 32

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Only 31 drivers qualified for the main event at Utah. Sceriffo was the highest-qualified driver eliminated during the Seeding 16, earning 32nd place but 14 points.
  2. ^ Only 31 drivers qualified for the main event at Irwindale. Brutskiy was the highest-qualified driver eliminated during the Seeding 16, earning 32nd place but 14 points.
  3. ^ Forrest Wang received a bye run in the Seeding 16 at Seattle, but hit the wall and was unable to complete the run. He still advanced into the main event but only received 14 points instead of 28.

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