2018 FORMULA DRIFT UPDATE! RTR, NEW RULES, NEWS AND RAMBLING ABOUT THE SEASON
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- I ramble about the 2018 Formula Drift season, news, rulebook, and other emotional drifting stuff! A LOT OF STUFF.
THESE ARE MY BELIEFS, MANY OF THIS MAY NOT BE TRUE! LOL
Have a question or comment? Let us know below!
It's always nice to hear insight from someone who is actually involved and knows the facts! Drifting is growing super fast and Im also pumped on being stoked about how companies are starting to see the value in drifting and wanting to get involved ... finally lol
Trevor!! My man
Formula D > formula one IMO
Like Hankook😂
Welcome to Chelsea DeNofa's Kitchen Confessionals!
Maximum Driftcast hahahahahaha
Yoooo do a cribs episode! That kitchen looks beautiful, I like the backsplash behind the stove
haha, it would be a 30 second video. I live in a one bedroom 900sqft house
As long as the livestream quality improves, I’m good 👍🏼
True shit right here!!!!
I drilled 4 small holes in the bottom of my visor when I raced to keep my glasses from fogging up while it was down. It helped out alot.
GOOD IDEA!
Starting to sound like Vaughn Pumped on being stoked.
Jason Kuykendall Right 😂
Hahahah it’s like the only way to explain it for this particular group of people who know lol
It goes both ways. Stoked is a feel man, not just a word! hHaha
The fans who complain about bad calls or boo a call don’t understand the Motorsport side of things completely. I think it is a great thing that Ryan has done the past two seasons with giving insight as to how the judges and teams may see something which causes a decision to sway a certain way.
I agree homie. You do a birds eye view tho.
miss the bmw but joining the rtr team couldnt have happened to a better dude, grats man on another season with them! the mustang is growing on me.
Chelsea you're such a rad dude, fave FD driver. Good luck for 2018 !
Best thing about FD is open pits, hope that never changes.
This was a cool video, thanks for sharing about the wing, I've been watching old seasons of fd and often wondered how and when you decided to run it (and now that I know i feel really dumb for not picking up on that). I feel like you get a lot of fd hate because of smaller event organizers griping about the push for power. When you first find drifting and you're watching these guys with 1000 hp purpose built race cars you can get a skewed perception that it's what's required. when I was first trying to learn about everything your channel was the first one that really made me realize power wasn't necessary when your learning and doing it for fun/lower levels of competition (grassroots stuff). Your page has been one of the most helpful tbh.
Yea man! GOOD POINT
I’m super stoked to see litteral back especially with a better program and better car!! Happy for you too bro hope you have a FUN and KILLER year !! yewwwww
Stay Sideways That 350z looks super dope, I think Ryan is about to blow up. This could be Chelsea's year in Pro1
Can't wait to see you ripping in the rtr mustang banging doors with Vaughn. I appreciate the update for the fd season, and love hearing all the ins and outs of fd that otherwise wouldn't be ad accessible
Checking in from STL. Super stoked on FD coming to my home town driving on my home track. Cant wait to see you, hopefully I see you walking around!
So basically they’re just saying rob chairslayer can’t ever compete?
Kristian Larsen exactly what I was thinking
Theres other people all over the world too that have this issue.
I mean it almost feels like a direct jab, but maybe that’s just me. They pretty much described every device he uses in his car.
It's not a jab, I'd bet the farm that if he were good enough to compete in pro 1 they would let him. It's to prohibit some of the more technologically advanced teams from making the cars drive themselves for the driver
Travis 3 yeah I get the whole bigger picture of why they did it, tricky clutch cheat codes, driver assists and expensive/overkill setups. But it’s almost like discrimination to handicapped people, if not then put a note in there saying “adaptive controls for physically impaired may be permitted upon review”
I’m glad you’re happy you kinda made us worry about wanting to be apart of FD before you joined RTR! RTR is a great spot for you keep up the smiles! We’re rooting for you this season!
Good luck and stay happy don’t let this sport turn you cynical again!
I love your Dissecting Drifting series so I hope to see more of that in the coming year.
You know when you've been around Vaughan too long when you start saying stoked and pumped more the normal lol, thanks for all the info man, can't wait to watch you tear it up this year!
I have always been a stoked on being pumped dude. He also has picked up a lot of my slang haha.
Drifting in the couple years I have been following it/going to events have drastically grown. It's outrageous. The first time I went to OSW, there was maybe 15-20 drivers and only 5-6 Class A drivers. The latest event I went to at OSW, there had to be at least 75 drivers and 20-25 class A drivers. It's so awesome to see drifting grow and being a part of the community.
hell yea man. I used to go to OSW back in 2004!
thanks for the info its nice to see you guys keeping fans in thr loop. i know that my 4 year goal is to build something that i can learn to slide around so it cool to keep things like rules in mind.
Oh shit a long Denofa video! Break out the popcorn! Still bummed you're not competing in a BMW, but it's good to see you so happy and with so much less stress. Here's to more three-wheeling in 2018!
Chelsea I absolutely love your content my man, easily my favorite channel and driver.
Super stoked for you Chelsea with the RTR Team and how much you mastered the mustang!! I believe you and Vaughn are tied now since you beat him in Seattle loll But I think Formula Drift should have the last round be freestyle a round with the top 10 podium drivers kind of like Mad Mikes Drift Shifters That would be EPIC!!!! Glad to see BIG ANG FORREST WANG making a come back aswell!!!! His S13 was sick!!!!
I still have 1 up on him!
When the student beats the master!! Loll I know you're stoked Fanga Dan joined the RTR team aswell!!
*Dude... Can't wait! Your excitement is contagious. Good luck this season.*
Love to see one tire company sponsor each series, one type of tire with small number of sizes available.
Federico Sceriffo is definitely joining FD this year
Yep, Chelsea should watch the Maximum Driftcast episode a week ago. Such a cool dude.
will check it out!
Hopefully ill be attending St Louis. Itll be my first one! And i hope to see/meet you. Love your knowledge and openness about the sport.
Maaaaan I love to hear your point of view. Football has more things going on than all the sports combined hehe. In a negative way. I’m pumped for how open/helpful everyone is with drifting. I almost see a lot of people being scared to come and ask questions at events about cars thinking it’s super secret. I love the brotherhood of it.
the best part about this sport is watching my favorite drivers run doors on eachother in top 32. Then go talk with them and get their autograph right after. Then watch them run some more doors. The access to "the stars" is unlike any other sport.
You know you are right when you have 4400 views, 421 likes, and ZERO dislikes!
Keep it up Chealsea, you are a reference, you are the true exemple that it's possible!!
Best regards from Portugal!
And every car commercial I see now has a car drifting in it .. deff major progress
lots of great insight here. it's been wild watching drifting grow so fast. i kind of miss the days when a SR20 with a GT28 and new 15" all seasons was a BALLER car.
So sick having 2 tire company s and not having to haul them around is so sick. I just hope you r able to keep posting on the tub when your on the road with RTR
I am trying too. Gotta get some budget together to have tanner come to the events.
The perfect team for the perfect driver bro. Yall are gonna win this year. You're the one i cheer on when i watch FD
I am very disappointed to hear FD won't be returning to Canada (Montreal, QC) in 2018, I almost wish that they would have changed to Shannonville Speedway in Ontario as the customs issues much more far and few between in this province, specifically the Gananoque and Niagara crossings. I race dirt ovals and know many racers from the states who travel frequently this way to race in the circuits. There are loop holes and such to get away with winnings crossing the border, although criminal issues as you stated for some teams wouldn't change.
Guess it just means I am definitely now going to have to get a passport and drive at GridLife this year since it's such a big trip for Canadians to make it to a large american drift event now, even if not a pro competition. Just my 2c. Your shit is rad.
CLIFF agreed, really wish they went to Shannon
As much as I would love them to run Shannonville I don't think they would get the croud they need. It's not close enough to a major city. I have a hard enough time getting friends in Toronto out to events that only cost $10-15 to watch and have almost constant action for the entire day simply because they think it's too far.
The problems are more with bringing the cars and inventory of parts across. You have to pay to get it all handled.
I'm really excited for you this year! I just started watch fd last year and your aggressive driving style really caught my attention. I later found your RUclips channel, and it was cool to see you are a chill dude. Can't wait to see where you go with all this👍
I think the clutch rule might be to stop people using automatic clutches in handbrakes because that is basically an advantage. But it sucks because Rob Chairslayer Parsons and other people like him can't ever get to FD :/
Rasmus Laakso I'm pretty sure that rule will be changed to driver operated clutch instead of foot operated clutch. There's a lot of handicap drivers out there that absolutely could drive fd.
East Bay Angler Hope so. Because they can shred just like us "normal" people with hand controls, Rob is a good example 😂
I’m sure exceptions to the rule can be made as well
He’ll just tell “CHANDLER!!” to race for him
Very good video Chelsea 👊😁, I could tell you are very passionate when you were talking about this, one take too 🤙
Northsyde Productions nope, you missed the transition lol
lol was cooking supper at the same time in some parts, but yeh still a rad informational video
Such a good video for insight and just raw information 👍🏼👍🏼 thank you for putting stuff like this out
Man i can't to see you guy's come back to STL!!!!!! I rode along with you for the STL autoshow this year and ive been hooked since (thinking about rebuilding the drag car into a drift car lol) and when i heard you guy's were coming back I jumped up and yelled hell yea in front of my students thankfully they are college automotive students lol. But I cant wait to see you guys tearing it up out here and I'm pertty sure i've converted my students in to hardcore DeNofa fans now lol. Keep up the wicked work man and good luck this season.
Thanks man! See you at gateway.
sucks to hear about Pat not running this year.. but thanks for laying it out like that dude. it's nice to get some answers
Thanks so much for this video Chelsea. Awesome stuff. This is what spectators of the sport need.
Looking forward to the future of drifting thanks for the positive insight Chelsea 🤙🏼🔥
Nice video about the details about the rulebook. I figured the rule about contrasting with the tire/tire sticker was bound to happen.
that psych that you have Chelsea, it's contagious, thanks
Hey man, it's great to see you do stuff indoors again, I'm really hoping for your post event analysis to be a more regular thing during competition.
If I wasn't agreeing with you, I'd call your last couple of minutes kinda salty... FD certainly had to evolve from a lesser status of motorsport event to where it was at for the last 2 years, just the same it will need to further develop to adjust to today's requirements. To me, there are three main chapters to US drift competition:
1. The Tony Angelo days of self identified idiots throwing together something, basically an Initial D parking lot crew
2. International competition saw you guys shredding it and decided to get in on the action with smalltime sponsors.
3. Tuerck'd was over, people asked themselves "Are we still Grassroots? because my car costs as much as a GT3 car and a wall rub equals 10k in damages".
The next step is uncertain but it needs a clear mindset to follow. No more fucking around!
Yea for sure man. Its not salty, its all about pushing people to a positive future. I think that there is room for drifting and people of all types. Dipshit rippers, and professional motorsports people... I feel like I am both.
Hey Chelsea, thanks for answering!
There is basically zero chance you'll read this but being a dipshit ripper with a "seat time" car (used to be called "missile cars", thank god that's not a thing anymore) and/or something fancier in the garage pushing 400 wheel with coil overs is totally affordable now.
As you said, 10 years ago you'd been the man with something we'd call a moderate tune on a stock engine today, not to speak of aero or fender kits that actually fit. For some weird reason I enjoy the Hoonigan's #shitcar so much, they made it shitty by design. Like the equivalent of a "used jeans era" pants that kinda looks good now by brutal contrast (Oh God what am I saying).
One of the many reasons I love fd, is because it's obtainable by anyone unlike many other motorsports these days with 2nd and 3rd generation "born in" race car drivers
Obtainable if you have the funds. Not everyone is loaded
More affordable and obtainable than most motorsports, but you still have to be pretty good on money to get far
Can't wait for the season to start my dude is gonna take the championship if you drive like you did at the end of last year and try to keep the car on track and on the line. Keep up the good work man see you in LB
So the next video is going to be about prepping for the season? Got me all hyped and what not.
Awesome to hear you are doing great Chelsea! Best of luck to you!
The passion you show is what inspires drivers!!! ive joined my first comp season in the last 12 months with no comp experience and managed to finish off 10 place in pro class (super proud of that) ive since joined our local committee for drifting and am hoping to help grow our comp scene here in Perth AUS. :). PS you probably wont see this but hoping you might have some pointers on things that would help entice drivers to comp. im hoping to make a video series on getting into drifting and then working something from there. map respect to you!! love what you doing and what you stand for.
I dont want to entice people to compete. I just want people to enjoy drifting. If they are competitive that will follow.
Chelsea DeNofa thanks for the replying 😁. I read what i wrote again and think i worded it wrong. More so people come to me wanting to compete and are super keen to do it but just dont enter a comp event.
Would love to see you make a video on mustang and all the specs and stuf made on the car !!!!!!
And of course big fan
The tire providing thing sounds like the pit stops at baja. Its good to see all these new regulations making the sport wayyyyy more official
💙💙🙏🏼🙏🏼
yeah, air jacks are expensive. thanks for bringing that up Chelsea, now I want to put air jacks on my eventual mg midget toy build.
I wouldn't be so bummed about loosing the Canada round if we still had FDC but that's gone too
52 tires in a weekend?! Geez. That's nuts. Crazy where fd is now. I'm glad they are applying these restrictions so your average Joe has a chance to drive in fd.
21:08 Dropping that knowledge on em
When talking about better tyre regulation I remembered Stav-tech's post about British drift championship's problems (quote from his FB page):
"Well, a certain team, who happened to have a pretty amazing amount of forward momentum (ie grip), esp' as they supposedly ran the same tyres last year, were actually using 285+ wide tyres specially made from the factory to say 265 on the sidewalls!"
Also I remember the season, when Achiles came to drifting. There were people in Europe selling their sponsor tyres and buying Achiles, because of how much better they were that season.
Hopefully they will find a way to keep tyres sensible, because tyres not lasting 2 runs (for example Zestino tyres on Andrius Vasiliauskas cars) is just ridiculous.
Agreee!!!!
no more handibrake and hydro E decoupling throw outs. yayyyyy. now we'll see the men separated from the boys.
A lot of the new rules sound like they're trying to keep a level playing field so it doesn't turn into a "pay to play" situation where only the team with a huge budget even stands a chance. Which is awesome cause it was really starting to look like fd was starting to forget about the little guys.
cant wait to see you drift at osw this season
This is so bad ass!! Make more videos about fd rules
Just before the STL announcement I was hoping for FD STL!!! I'm so excited.
Great video, I wonder about the “everything in the frame rails” rule. Been following Matt Field’s vette build and they’ve got the oil tank inside the fender. I wonder if that will be passed because it’s behind strut towers? I mean it’s protected but still in a crash zone. I’m sure they would’ve cleared it up before doing it but it just made me think about that.
Yea, I am not sure.
pretty sure MF was saying the in discussion with kevin well as he mentions the main frame rails of the body are on the outer sill, thats why he could get away with a flat plate for the wheel intrusion bars into the foot wells rather than another bar from the front leg of the cage. so im guessing that as they are on the outside of the car this puts the oil tank and fuel tank inside the line of the rails
This was a pretty sweet video, thanks
That dude with the Ferrari was on maximum drift cast if youre interested
You're the best, Chelsea!
some awesome info and points in this vid , but id like to hear your PERSONAL opinion on the FD 3rd place rules. thats my biggest hate of FD as deciding who takes a podium place based on a run they did before in possibly different conditions ( rain qualifying dry battles etc ) is total crap. it robs the fans of a battle , it robs the drivers of seeing who was actually better when it came to it , the only way to decide who gets to stand on the podium and take championship points is to line up 2 drivers and let them run. ok some people will argue its to make qualifying more relevant and have an impact on the championship. But if thats the case just award points for the top 3 qualifying drivers. That way everyone pushes harder and you don't have to undermine the battle system comp drifting was founded on.
I like the 3rd place battle, they should bring it back. BUT, historically its always been a crappy battle. STILL I SAY RUN IT
lets hope they listen to the fans and drivers and bring it back in 2019 :)
Sick info learned alot legit brotha man
Nice vid... You forgot you also had to glue all those tires :) While we prepped them :(
GLUE ALL OF THE TIRES.... DONT FORGET I HAD TO MACHINE ALL OF THE GLUE OFF TOO! LOL
I like where this channel is going.
You're my favorite human being.
I feel as if there hasn't been a whole lot of hype for this year, though it's like 50 days away. Not much media coverage, the drivers that I do follow I don't see much about it, or like other drivers have either lost/dropped sponsor's or don't appear to have a solid program anymore. A handful have either left or have joined force's to make it easier for their budget, I don't know of anyone besides Matt Field who has actually built a new chassis for this year (Only because he made a video series on it) . I just don't know what's going on haha, I suppose we'll see soon. Great Video, Amazing points and topics. ❤
The wave is coming! Usually it’s 20 days before LB. so middle of march it’ll start ripping
Absolutely love this type of video!
I think the negativity might come from the way how Aaron/Lone Star Drift sees it and tells thousands of people his opinion that everything is there about the money and just a great driver cant just jump into FD without tons of money. The thing is, every sport at the top level is shit tons of money, but as it is top - it represents the greatest and most professional of any sport. And to be the best, you always spend huge amount of time and money to learn, invent and find advantage that can make you the best!.. Huh, i believe its time for another beer :)
Yea, I started from nothing in racing. Never borrowed a penny, always hustled. I made it to FD and to where I am at today. From hustling every minute I was awake lol. So you can, but its hard.
Thats nice! :) And thats what I think Aaron gets/tells everybody wrong. Better be happy and proud that so many drifters have found a way to afford program for FD(or any other top series) by working their asses off, not just cry that everything is expensive and everybody driving FD is rich son of a b*tch..
I, for example, have heard some negativity to HGK/Kristaps Bluss and their e92 - that their build cost tons of money, they are millionares with unlimited seat time and so on. But the thing is, they make money by building great and sick cars and their car represents their work, is as as a freakin dope ad. If they drove shitty missile car, why would anybody pay them to build anything?.. Plus, on FD they have a team of..3.. :D
more of this please
Alternate "stoked" and "hyped"!
Thanks Chelsea for the amazing video it's extremely interesting. Does FD have copies of the rules that are available to the public as I'd like to learn more about the behind the scenes in FD
I think they are available if you google it.
New season update coming? Always look forward to insight and what's new from you
Cant wait to see what you can do as you become more used to the new setup. I hope to make it out to an east coast event this season. Do you have any plans to attend gridlife in atlanta this year or any other events aside from FD? Would be cool to keep fans updated on events you are attending throughout the year across the country.
gridlife ATL for sure. Ill post my schedule monthly. Good idea!
perfect! sounds good
Going to Jersey in June. First time SICK!
Sucks you guys aren't coming back to Canada this year but I totally get why. I might try to plan a trip to NJ even if it's not my favorite track...
It’s my favorite so you should go!
I personally dont think that banning wings on those tracks was a step in the right direction just because I think that there can be some solid development that can be put into the aerodynamic side of drifting. What I think would work better is force the wings themselves to be placed farther forward and smaller in width so they cant make contact with the wall at all. With that said, the rule made with the intent of safety so I really can't complain.
I agree with this. My e46 wing was on sliders to go in and out for different tracks and aero... Sadly many others aren't.
Hey Chelsea great vid thanks for all the updates. About the foot operated clutch I seen a lot of comments about Rob and your response about launch control, also think it's toward how Rob hydro also operates his clutch and keeping able drivers away from getting a mechanical advantage over a possible driver error.
Also have a question, you said the giveaway is to help fund future plans and projects any chance gridlife Midwest is in those plans?
We are working on it man! We shall see.
I would love to see something separate from FD that is more game than competition based. I like how the dudes at lone star drift did the whole ping pong drift thing, would love to see it at a pro level.
Yea for sure man. I am all about this.
Bring back dissecting drifting
Excellent video and was well explained
Awsome video totaly agree with everything you say.
It would be sweet and video on how tl set up a drift car as in suspension and how different setups effect the car.
Really tough because of everything that is different between cars and drivers setup.
Can't wait to see you shred the mustang
if i was a tire manufacturer , drifting would be like the power-ball to me.
I think they should put a limit on tire size and more technical courses like in D1 gp make it a little more interesting then some banks
They do limit tire size to the weight of the car in Pro 1. We have some slower technical courses too. Long Beach and Wall speedway.
I agree, drifting is growing so fast and I think it's going to grow more, at an even faster rate in the future. Look at the RUclips channels related to drifting like Adam lz, tj hunt, Haggard, you, ricer Miata to an extent. Whether or not they are primarily about drifting or a mix of other things, all of them combined is a huge market that is predominantly filled with (if I had to guess) early teen all the way up to middle aged adults. All of whom are interested in cars and probably drifting as well, and with the popularity of online entertainment businesses should want to enter this market. I'm almost 21 years old and I can't remember the last time I watched TV, I only watch RUclips for entertainment and when you have that sort of hold, especially on a younger market you have a much higher chance of developing brand loyalty or developing buzz about a product or company. I never really knew what companies like BC, or enjuku (to name a couple) were until I started getting into watching drifting on RUclips and honestly if I were to need parts on a build or whatever those are the places I would go first, and that is precisely the reason why these companies should continue to invest or begin investing in getting into drifting..... Damn... I could write an essay on this for my marketing class.
Please write the essay and send it to the companies lol
MotionAutoTv hahaha I'm sure I'd get generic responses and maybe a couple would actually ready some of it lol but hey you never know! I think it's one of those things that as long as it stays popular it won't be too long until companies see they can make some money off of it
Haha sick man! Thanks for. your insight!
First off Just got my shirt!!! Hell yeah stoked.
Secondly what are your thoughts on overall funding of FD. why are we not seeing the Nascar and f1 style live video?? I'm really surprised we haven't seen a company or network step up in this area.
Another part of the $ aspect is prize money. Why are we not seeing higher payouts for winning individual events as well as the overall points win. Compared to other sports FD is not compensating the winners in a way that major investors like I mentioned above are willing to partner with, sponsor events or series. We are seeing this in some small facets like black magic, blackview etc. but honestly that's still small time.
I know I'm going down the internet hate path of selling out but honestly this is a professional sports and should be managed like one.
Thanks man
The live stream is getting better. Not totally up to par, but steps in the right direction. We are on Fox Sports as well.
Its managed well, but still new. I agree, payouts should be better, BUT FD does keep our costs low on entries, AND give us a place to build our own budgets. A lot of other series have extremely high entry fees and almost 0 payout.
hey bro, any ideas on if you will travel for drifting in the future, would you ever come to new zealand
It may be in the plans mate! With X FORCE and Our new NZ RTR Buddies, it may be a thing.
Suggest to fd to come to the Utah motorsport campus it’s in grantsville 20 minutes from slc international airport, very sick road course.
your comment aged REALLY well haha
@@tristan7122 I did the same thing when Adam got sponsored by RTR.
@Chelseadenofa
I believe that manual release of clutch rules is so that FD drivers can't run a clutch damper aka clutch release valve (similar to drag racing) for traction.
You can run them, just have to be foot operated. I ALWAYS ran clutch flow control valves in my cars to keep the drivetrain together.
Chelsea DeNofa oh ok. My fault. Good to known the clarification. Keep making these video. Stay rowdy.
Stoked that you're stoked
Get it!
wow what a dig at Rob "chair slayer" Parsons is that rule about having a manual foot clutch just for FD or pro 1 and 2 also?
Its more for mechanical launch and hand clutches, not disabled.