2016 Formula D season

2016 Formula D
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The 2016 Formula D season is the thirteenth season of the Formula D Pro Championship series and third season of the Pro2 series. The Pro Championship series began on April 8 at Long Beach and ended on October 8 at Irwindale Speedway with Chris Forsberg winning his third Pro Championship.^[1] The Pro2 series began on May 5 at Road Atlanta and ended on October 1 at Wild Horse Motorsports Park with Marc Landreville winning the series.^[2]

Schedule and results

Round		Title	Venue	Location	Date	Winner	Car
Pro	Pro2	Title	Venue	Location	Date	Winner	Car
1		Streets of Long Beach	Streets of Long Beach	Long Beach, CA	April 8 – 9	Chelsea Denofa^[3]	BMW E46
	1		Road Atlanta	Braselton, GA	May 5 – 6	Jeff Jones^[4]	Nissan S14
2		Road to the Championship	Road Atlanta	Braselton, GA	May 6 – 7	Vaughn Gittin^[5]	Ford Mustang
	2		Orlando Speed World	Orlando, FL	June 3 – 4	Marc Landreville^[6]	Nissan S14
3		Uncharted Territory	Orlando Speed World	Orlando, FL	June 3 – 4	Fredric Aasbo^[7]	Scion tC
4		The Gauntlet	Wall Township Speedway	Wall Township, NJ	June 17 – 18	Vaughn Gittin^[8]	Ford Mustang
5		True North	Autodrome Saint-Eustache	St.Eustache, QC, Canada	July 15 – 16	Fredric Aasbo^[9]	Scion tC
6		Throwdown	Evergreen Speedway	Monroe, WA	August 5 – 6	Aurimas Bakchis^[10]	Hyundai Genesis
	3		Texas Motor Speedway	Fort Worth, TX	September 8 – 9	Marc Landreville^[11]	Nissan S14
7		Showdown	Texas Motor Speedway	Fort Worth, TX	September 9 – 10	Matt Field^[12]	Nissan S14
	4		Wild Horse Motorsports Park	Chandler, AZ	September 31 – October 1	Marc Landreville^[2]	Nissan S14
8		Title Fight	Irwindale Speedway	Irwindale, CA	October 7 – 8	Matt Field^[1]	Nissan S14

Calendar changes & notes

The Super Drift Challenge took place on April 15 & 16 at the Streets of Long Beach course, with Matt Field beating Michael Essa in the final round.^[13]

Entries

Pro championship

Tire	Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Round(s)
Achilles	Drift Ebisu with Achilles	Toyota Mark II	100	Andrew Gray	2–7
	Sogun Motorsports Achilles	Infiniti G37	84	Charles Ng	All
	Bridges Racing	Dodge Viper	43	Dean Kearney	All
	Logic Aside	Nissan S14	53	Faruk Kugay	All
	JR Motorsports	Nissan S15	200	Juha Rintanen	All
	Team Fast Kenny	BMW E46	22	Kenneth Moen	1–3, 6, 8
	HGK Motorsports	BMW E46	80	Kristaps Bluss	1–4, 6–8
	Essa Autosport	BMW E46	101	Michael Essa	All
		Infiniti G37	31	Robbie Nishida	1, 3–8
Falken	Bakchis Motorsports	Hyundai Genesis	723	Aurimas Bakchis	All
	Cameron Moore Drift	Lexus SC300	333	Cameron Moore	All
	DAI.	Subaru BRZ	9	Daijiro Yoshihara	All
	Pawlak Racing	Ford Mustang	13	Justin Pawlak	All
	Coffman Racing	Nissan S13	959	Matt Coffman	All
	Driftcave Motorsports	Nissan S14	777	Matt Field	All
	Pat Goodin Racing	Nissan S13	46	Pat Goodin	All
	Drift Paddock	Nissan 350Z	90	Pat Mordaunt	1–4, 6–8
	Tyler McQuarrie Racing	Chevrolet Camaro	17	Tyler McQuarrie	All
GT Radial		BMW E46	88	Chelsea DeNofa	All
GT Radial	Kyle Mohan Racing	Mazda MX-5	99	Kyle Mohan	All
Hankook	NOS Energy Drink Drift Team	Nissan 370Z	64	Chris Forsberg	All
	Get Nuts Lab	Nissan S15	808	Forrest Wang	All
	Chris Forsberg Racing	Nissan 370Z	15	Geoff Stoneback	All
	Gumout, Nameless Performance, Hankook Tires, SRby Toyota FRS	Scion FR-S	411	Ryan Tuerck	All
	Get Nuts Lab	Nissan S14	988	Shengjun Zhang	1
Nexen	Hohnadell Racing	Nissan S14	118	Alec Hohnadell	All
	Papadakis Racing	Scion tC	1	Fredric Aasbo	All
	Jeff Jones Racing	Nissan S14	818	Jeff Jones	1–4, 6–8
	Jhonnattan Castro Racing	Scion FR-S	717	Jhonnattan Castro	All
	GReddy Racing - Nexen Tire - SR by Toyota 86 Team	Toyota 86	21	Ken Gushi	All
	Rockstar Energy Drink Nexen Tire VW Passat	Volkswagen Passat	34	Tanner Foust	2, 6–7
Nitto	Team RTS	BMW E46	949	Alex Heilbrunn	1–4, 6–8
	Red Bull, Nitto Tire, Mazda	Mazda MX-5	123	Mike Whiddett	All
	Mustang RTR Drift Team	Ford Mustang	25	Vaughn Gittin	All

Pro 2

Tire	Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Round(s)
Achilles	Aaron Day Racing	Nissan S14	124	Aaron Day	1, 3–4
	Meeks Drift	Nissan S14	316	Austin Meeks	All
	Stratton Racing	Chevrolet Corvette	33	Dirk Stratton	All
	Red Baron Racing	BMW E30	418	Donovan Brockway	All
	D’VANZ Motorsports	Ford Mustang	19	Doug Van Den Brink	1–2, 4
	Ethan Hunter Drift	Nissan S14	37	Ethan Hunter	1, 3–4
	Drift Chick	Nissan S14	42	Kelsey Rowlings	1, 3–4
		BMW E36	3	Luis Lizardi	1–2, 4
	Marc Landreville Racing	Nissan S14	11	Marc Landreville	All
	Matt Madrigali Racing	Nissan S13	415	Matt Madrigali	All
		Toyota Mark II	54	Ng Sheng Nian	All
Falken	Andrew Lewis Racing	Nissan S13	36	Andrew Lewis	All
	JMR Josh McGuire Racing	Nissan S14	63	Josh McGuire	All
	Team Enjuku	Nissan S14	352	Kevin Lawrence	All
	Team Enjuku	Nissan S13	144	Nate Hamilton	All
	Asphalt Anarchy	Nissan S14	82	Taylor Hull	All
	Beechum Racing	Ford Mustang	999	Trenton Beechum	All
GT Radial	Ryan Litteral Racing	Nissan S14	909	Ryan Litteral	All
Hankook	MVK Racing	Nissan S13	18	Matt VanKirk	3–4
Nexen	RAD Industries	Toyota Supra	134	Dan Burkett	All
Nexen	Jeff Jones Racing	Nissan S14	818	Jeff Jones	All
Nitto	IAS Performance	Nissan S14	142	Randall Waters	3–4

Results and standings

Pro championship

Standings

Pos	Driver	LBH	ATL	ORL	WTS	ASE	EVS	TEX	IRW	Points
1	Chris Forsberg	32.00	68.00	68.00	84.00	83.00	84.00	84.00	36.00	539.00
2	Fredric Aasbø	80.00	22.00	104.00	52.00	104.00	52.00	53.00	35.00	502.00
3	Vaughn Gittin	48.00	107.00	39.00	104.00	67.00	39.00	39.00	19.00	462.00
4	Aurimas Bakchis	64.00	52.00	37.00	38.00	68.00	106.00	52.00	35.00	452.00
5	Matt Field	48.00	21.00	36.00	51.00	35.00	51.00	103.00	104.00	449.00
6	Daijiro Yoshihara	16.00	84.00	20.00	39.00	52.00	35.00	36.00	87.00	369.00
7	Ken Gushi	64.00	18.00	51.00	67.00	34.00	68.00	36.00	19.00	357.00
8	Forrest Wang	48.00	35.00	19.00	34.00	55.00	35.00	51.00	53.00	330.00
9	Ryan Tuerck	48.00	19.00	38.00	36.00	54.00	19.00	38.00	70.00	322.00
10	Tyler McQuarrie	32.00	51.00	67.00	19.00	0.00	53.00	36.00	52.00	310.00
11	Alec Hohnadell	16.00	66.00	34.00	19.00	36.00	34.00	66.00	18.00	289.00
12	Kristaps Blušs	32.00	18.00	82.00	35.00	X	19.00	66.00	34.00	286.00
13	Justin Pawlak	16.00	20.00	35.00	35.00	37.00	18.00	35.00	52.00	248.00
14	Michael Essa	32.00	51.00	20.00	51.00	18.00	20.00	34.00	20.00	246.00
15	Dean Kearney	32.00	19.00	18.00	50.00	34.00	50.00	18.00	18.00	239.00
16	Matt Coffman	16.00	18.00	18.00	18.00	51.00	68.00	19.00	19.00	227.00
17	Chelsea DeNofa	100.00	19.00	3.00	21.00	36.00	18.00	18.00	1.00	216.00
18	Geoff Stoneback	16.00	35.00	18.00	18.00	34.00	18.00	35.00	35.00	209.00
19	Mike Whiddett	32.00	35.00	18.00	0.00	18.00	19.00	51.00	34.00	207.00
20	Juha Rintanen	16.00	34.00	34.00	18.00	18.00	18.00	18.00	50.00	206.00
21	Patrick Mordaunt	16.00	34.00	51.00	18.00	X	0.00	18.00	66.00	203.00
22	Alex Heilbrunn	16.00	18.00	18.00	67.00	X	18.00	18.00	35.00	190.00
22	Jhonnattan Castro	16.00	18.00	50.00	18.00	18.00	34.00	18.00	18.00	190.00
24	Faruk Kugay	16.00	34.00	18.00	34.00	18.00	18.00	18.00	18.00	174.00
25	Charles Ng	32.00	1.00	19.00	18.00	18.00	18.00	19.00	35.00	160.00
26	Patrick Goodin	16.00	18.00	18.00	18.00	35.00	18.00	18.00	18.00	159.00
26	Kyle Mohan	16.00	18.00	34.00	18.00	19.00	18.00	18.00	18.00	159.00
28	Cameron Moore	16.00	18.00	18.00	18.00	34.00	18.00	18.00	18.00	158.00
29	Kenneth Moen	16.00	34.00	51.00	X	X	35.00	X	18.00	154.00
30	Robbie Nishida	16.00	X	18.00	36.00	18.00	34.00	1.00	18.00	141.00
31	Jeff Jones	32.00	35.00	18.00	18.00	X	18.00	19.00	1.00	140.00
32	Tanner Foust	X	52.00	X	X	X	51.00	18.00	X	121.00
33	Andrew Gray	X	18.00	18.00	18.00	19.00	18.00	18.00	X	109.00
34	Shengjun Zhang	16.00	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	16.00
Pos	Driver	LBH	ATL	ORL	WTS	ASE	EVS	TEX	IRW	Points

Notes:

X — Did not attend event

Manufacturer Cup

Pos	Manufacturer	Points
1	Scion	933.00
2	Nissan	748.00
3	Ford	710.00
4	BMW	461.00
5	Mazda	366.00
6	Chevrolet	310.00
7	Infiniti	262.00
8	Dodge	239.00
9	Lexus	158.00

Tire Cup

Pos	Brand	Points
1	Falken	1096.00
2	Nexen	969.00
3	Hankook	940.00
4	Nitto	752.00
5	Achillies	706.00
6	GT Radial	374.00

Pro 2

Standings

Pos	Driver	ATL	ORL	TEX	PHX	Points
1	Marc Landreville	86.00	106.00	104.00	106.00	402.00
2	Jeff Jones	104.00	83.00	43.00	42.00	272.00
3	Andrew Lewis	43.00	62.00	65.00	22.00	192.00
4	Dirk Stratton	22.00	43.00	63.00	63.00	191.00
5	Dan Burkett	63.00	42.00	1.00	62.00	168.00
6	Ryan Litteral	65.00	23.00	23.00	43.00	154.00
7	Nate Hamilton	1.00	23.00	26.00	84.00	134.00
8	Matt Madrigali	22.00	62.00	22.00	25.00	131.00
8	Taylor Hull	42.00	23.00	43.00	23.00	131.00
10	Trenton Beechum	23.00	22.00	83.00	0.00	128.00
11	Kevin Lawrence	22.00	45.00	22.00	22.00	111.00
12	Austin Meeks	22.00	44.00	42.00	0.00	108.00
13	Josh McGuire	23.00	22.00	22.00	22.00	89.00
14	Randall Waters	X	X	42.00	43.00	85.00
15	Donovan Brockway	1.00	22.00	22.00	22.00	67.00
16	Ng Sheng Nian	22.00	22.00	22.00	0.00	66.00
17	Aaron Day	22.00	X	1.00	22.00	45.00
18	Ethan Hunter	42.00	X	1.00	0.00	43.00
18	Doug Van Den Brink	43.00	0.00	X	0.00	43.00
20	Matt VanKirk	X	X	0.00	23.00	23.00
	Kelsey Rowlings	1.00	X	22.00	0.00	23.00
	Luis Lizardi	1.00	22.00	X	0.00	23.00
Pos	Driver	ATL	ORL	TEX	PHX	Points

Notes:

X — Did not attend event

References

1 2 "The O'Reilly Auto Parts "Title Fight" Sponsored By Gumout At The Formula DRIFT Championship Presented By BlackVue Dash Cameras Round 8 Results". formulad.com. October 9, 2016. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
1 2 "Formula DRIFT Pro2 Round 4 at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park and Pro2 Championship Results". formulad.com. October 2, 2016. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
↑ "Formula DRIFT 2016 Round 1: Streets of Long Beach Results". formulad.com. April 10, 2016. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
↑ "Formula DRIFT Round 1 of the Pro 2 Championship Results". formulad.com. May 6, 2016. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
↑ "Formula DRIFT Round 2: Advance Auto Parts Road to the Championship Results". formulad.com. May 7, 2016. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
↑ "Formula DRIFT Pro 2 Round 2 Championship Results at Orlando Speed World". formulad.com. June 3, 2016. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
↑ "Formula DRIFT Round 3: Uncharted Territory Results". formulad.com. June 4, 2016. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
↑ "Formula DRIFT Round 4: The Gauntlet Results". formulad.com. June 18, 2016. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
↑ "Formula DRIFT Round 5: True North Results". formulad.com. July 16, 2016. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
↑ "Formula DRIFT Round 6: Throwdown Results". formulad.com. August 6, 2016. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
↑ "Formula DRIFT Pro 2 Round 3 Championship Results at Texas Motor Speedway". formulad.com. September 9, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
↑ "Formula DRIFT Round 7: Showdown Results". formulad.com. September 11, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
↑ "Motegi Racing Super Drift Challenge Results". formulad.com. April 17, 2016. Retrieved June 25, 2016.

External links

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Formula D seasons

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