Coming into the final event of the Formula Drift season no much less than 7 drivers had a opportunity at winning the championship. Vaughn Gittin Jr., the 2010 champion, was the odds-on favorite, getting into the last with a dimension factors lead gained from back-to-back wins earlier in the season, but other drivers like veteran Rhys Millen, last years champion Daijiro Yoshihara, rookie Daigo Saito and Gittin's fellow Mustang driver Justin Pawlak had been all in the hunt.
It was a packed residence at Irwindale Speedway in Southern California to watch the finale for the 1st time in the event's historical past all tickets had been sold out in advance of the competition even began.
The drivers put on really a show for the capability crowd, and Vaughn Gittin Jr. made items exciting by finding knocked out early in the competition. That left the door open for Rhys Millen and Daigo Saito to consider the overall points lead. While Millen managed to make the semi finals, it was Saito who took full benefit, beating out every single driver he faced in heads-up competition in his 1,200 horsepower Lexus SC430. The first spot finish not only gave him the most coveted win in the Formula Drift schedule, but the general championship as effectively in his first season. This maybe helps make him the most extremely rated drifter in the globe, getting presently won the Formula Drift Asia championship as nicely as a D1 championship.
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