Stack Performance at Formula Drift

Formula Drift Long Beach – Round 1

April 12th, 2010

On February 10th we had a stock Dodge Challenger 2010 sitting on the drive way to ES Motorsports shop in Riverside California.

At that time we did not have much time to get ready to start building a whole new Drift/Race car. So we had to find a engine builder, carbon fiber supplier, wheel sponsor and many other partners to make this happen.

With a lot of hard work from Team SHR-Dodge/BFG, ES Motorsports, Stack Performance, AIT Carbon and all the others that stepped up to the plate and believed in me. We ALL made this happen in a period of two months.

With only a few hours of testing at Adams Motorsport park two day days before the event, we qualified 8th and finished 6th over all in the championship chase. That is something we are very proud of. Now we know what we need to start to work on to make the Challenger even faster to keep up with the smaller and lighter cars out there on the FD field.

The car was so much faster right out of the box then I expected. The cool thing with the Dodge Challenger is that it feels so much smaller when you drive it. And with the performance upgrade from the BFGoodrich KDW 335s in the rear it really helped me with the forward and sideways grip we needed. When you get out on a track surrounded with cement walls you really need to have trust in your “only contact” with the ground and that is the tires.

Now we will re group and start to prep for next weekends Long Beach GP demo. It will be ACP, Pheiffer and myself for the team drift. ACP did great in the Viper he just need some more seat time and he will be golden. So the GP will be good for him because you get a lot of driving during that weekend.