Formula Drift Round One: Streets of Long Beach

Formula Drift Round One: Streets of Long Beach

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April 5th, 2014 – Formula Drift: Round 1 – “Streets of Long Beach”

Dennis Mertzanis made his re-entry back into the professional drift series, Formula Drift – with his revamped Hyundai Genesis Coupe.

1,000 horsepower is generated from a built CBM engine, with a Vortech Supercharger. This beast sits on Konig Milligrams, wrapped in Kenda Tires, and they spin furiously in every gear.

Mertzanis totes that the practice round was good. Having a solid car, ehem, beast of a racecar for Formula Drift will prove some adjusting, but as the session continued his runs improved.

During the event, the Genesis Coupe made a transition into a wall, which sent the bumper flying off of the car, but this wasn’t a show-stopper.

Dennis qualified 24th in 2 runs with an equal scoring of 70. In the Top 32, Dennis was alluded by Chelsea DeNofa after an engine stall / restart episode.

Shortly after, DeNofa broke an axle and called it quits. Mertzanis had some repairs of his own to make, which with some quick help – got him back on to the blacktop.

Dennis Mertzanis ended up making it into the Top 16, and will move on to Round 2 Atlanta.

You can follow news about Dennis Mertzanis’ 2014 season right here on the Konig Blog as well as visiting Dennis’ Blog over at Wrecked Magazine.

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2013 Nitto Tires United States Touring Car Championship

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The start of the 2013 Nitto Tires United States Touring Car Championship (USTCC) has started heating up some of the best tracks around! This season promises to be one of the best seasons in USTCC history with some awesome tracks and extreme levels of competition. Race # 2 will be at the longest race track in all of North America; Utah’s Miller Motorsports Park . The USTCC teams will putting their cars through some terrific terrain on the 4.5 mile road course with a breath taking 3500 foot straightaway towards turn one.

There are lots of new cars and lots of new teams for 2013. Some of the existing teams will be expanding their efforts with added drivers and cars. The GoGoGear.com team will be running three cars at most races while they will field four cars at selected events with the addition of their new E90 BMW chassis to their existing BMW M3 and the always popular Hyundai Genesis Coupe.

We will be bringing you up to date information following the race in only a few short weeks! Best of luck to all of the competitors. Check out the Gogogear Hyundai Genesis Coupe driven by Ali Arsham #33.