Kelsey Rowlings recounts FDATL!

FORMULA DRIFT PRO 2 ATLANTA, GA 2019 – ROUND 2

Kelsey’s drifting for April 2019

After a power steering pump failure led to a bad crash in the first round of Formula Drift Pro 2 competition, my team and I were crunched for time with only a week to repair the car for round two at Road Atlanta. We were determined to make it happen, and with the help of our friend Billy Mitchell at Sanford Paint and Body, we were able to get the car on a frame machine as early as possible.

The damage had pushed the strut tower in, but we were able to get it back to “close enough,” to align and compete with. We knew the car was not going to be perfect, it just needed to work. We were able to get our vinyl quickly reprinted by Socal Sign Craft, and our good friend Tahir at Guardian Wraps made himself available to re-wrap the damaged parts of the car on short notice. Including some sleepless nights for repairs by my crew chief, it was a true group effort, which ultimately gave us time to take a couple of laps on the skid pad of OSW right before we left for Atlanta, to make sure our newest power steering pump and changes in the system were working.

While the power steering pump seemed to be working, I was noticing some resistance and notching in the steering. We discovered that the tweak in the firewall had slightly changed the angle of our power steering shaft. We already didn’t have a lot of room with our steering shaft passing between runners of our exhaust manifold, and the damage was just enough to cause a problem. We spent some time sanding down the steering shaft, which appeared to help, and we continued on to Atlanta.

Our first practice session was pretty decent considering we only had time for 2 laps. They weren’t laps up to my standard, but I knew they were laps I could build upon in the next session. When the next session came around, I started noticing the resistance in my steering again. I radioed to the team and we figured that the amount of heat in the engine bay was causing everything to expand and rub again. When we were testing, we never ran the car long enough to let it experience the same levels of heat.

With qualifying quickly approaching, we decided to pull out of the line a little early to address the steering shaft. We borrowed a file from another team and tried to hand file the parts that appeared to be rubbing based on the score marks on the steering shaft, and just turning the wheel side to side in the air. We hoped that the additional filing of the steering shaft and allowing it to cool before qualifying would help our problem.

My goal for the first qualifying lap was to take somewhat of a safe lap to get a score and make sure the steering was feeling better. While it definitely wasn’t my best, it gave us a score of 62 and it was something to build off of the next run. Unfortunately, not long after my first qualifying lap, the skies opened up and it started to pour.

We were forced to take a break due to the heavy rain and lightning, but we were able to continue once the storm lightened up. The only difference was that we now had a wet track and completely different driving conditions from practice, and it showed. My 62 managed to keep us on the board up until our second qualifying lap. I knew I could improve on it and get a safer score to keep me in the competition for the top 16 battles the next day.

I took my sight lap and quickly discovered that the track was like ice all the way through the entry and first outer zone. The car was able to find a bit of grip through the horseshoe, before losing it again on the way back down and up the hill to the start line. Being from Florida and pretty confident in the rain, I felt good about my lap all the way up until I tried to throw my car into the first turn.

Because of the wet conditions, I knew I didn’t want to flick the steering wheel too hard. I tried a small flick, went to grab my handbrake, and suddenly realized there was no pressure. My car simply bobbled with my little flick because my rear wheels didn’t lock up. I desperately yanked on the hand brake a coupled more times to build pressure and then threw it sideways heading towards the first inner clip. I was pretty sure I was past the final initiation cone, which would result in a zero, but I was determined to put down a good rain lap.

I made my way around the up the hill and into the keyhole. I clutch kicked where I found grip and rode the slide down the hill and transitioned into the final turn up the hill. It was a solid wet lap, besides the entry. My suspicions were confirmed and I was given an incomplete run due to my entry. I was disappointed in the hand brake failure, but proud of the lap otherwise. Our win in Atlanta was being able to show up with a fixed car that was able to make it around the track. We now have some issues to sort out before St. Louis, but I know that we can make some magic happen now that we have a little more time to spend on the details. On to St. Louis!

All the best to each of you!
Kelsey (aka Drift Chick) and Dan Rowlings

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Kelsey is running Konig Hypergrams in 17×9 et 25mm front and 18×9.5 et 25mm rear. The Konig Hypergram is Flow Formed.

Behind The Wheel Podcast: – EP11- Travis Reeder

Travis Reeder, Formula Drift Pro driver, 2018 Formula Drift Pro2 Champion, and FD Pro Rookie have a lot of buzz around him and his team. That is mainly due to Travis and Napoleon Motorsports building the first PRO ELECTRIC drift car. However, in the first two events of the season they have not been able to run the car and had to go to their backup car, Travis’s 240sx from Pro2. There has been a ton of controversy around the EL1 Camaro. Should the car be allowed to run, is it safe, too boring for a sport like drifting are only a few of the shots thrown at them.

Travis joins us on the podcast to talk about how the car works, drifts, how he linked up with Napoleon Motorsports and so much more!

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CONTENT CHEAT MENU:
0:20 Intro
1:50 How’d you link up with Napoleon?
4:50 How much seat time do you have so far?
5:50 The difference drifting an electric drift car
8:20 Difference between Pro and Pro2
11:18 Can you tune the throttle?
13:30 How comparable is electric power to horsepower
15:40 How much power does the EL1 make?
17:07 Any doubts?
18:40 How do other FD drivers feel?
20:20 What really happened at FDLB, why were you not allowed to run the EL1?
24:00 Making sure the car is allowed at every other track
28:00 Why didn’t you use it at FD Orlando
33:20 Preparing for new tracks
35:00 Adjusting this car vs a conventional drift car at the track.
38:20 Wheels are like an electric car quick change?
41:12 Difference driving w/ guys like Tuerck & Gitten Jr.
43:55 Driving Blind
47:25 Drifting Pro Tip (for chase runs)
48:50 New view for Livestream
49:58 2019 goals
51:38 Is the lack of noise a disadvantage while driving?
54:00 Do you think EVs will become more popular in drifting?
55:15 Outro / Contact info!

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Behind The Wheel Podcast: FD Edition – FDORL 2019

Formula Drift Orlando brought some heat to OSW and the PRO2 drivers finally were able to join the party! Multiple qualifying runs seemed to be on the doorstep of perfection and the field, including pro2, seemed to step up their game! Adam LZ brought new excitement to the event and we saw quick repairs and builds make it to the oval after suffering massive crashes. Join us as Scott (Konig Wheels, Marketing Director) and Joey Redmond (Wreck’d Magazine) dissect and breakdown FDORL!

Check out this FD edition of our podcast as we go into Joey Redmond’s TOP 10 THINGS LEARNED points from Formula Drift Long Beach! Make sure to share your thoughts with us!

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Formula DRIFT – Orlando 2019 – Qualifying LIVE!
Formula DRIFT – Orlando 2019 – Pro 2 Qualifying LIVE!

See you after FD Atlanta!

 

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4:35 | Ryan Tuerk Made it
7:22 | Jhonnathan Castro dominates OSW
11:15 | Adam LZ – Hold off the verdict
25:28 | Chelsea DeNofa’s chase and speed were mind-blowing!
26:13 | Trenton Beechum runs a perfect Pro 2 weekend
28:22 | I wanted just a little more from Goodin on home turf
36:10 | Vaughn’s team works a miracle
39:50 | James Deane’s woes continue
43:00 | Perfect qualifying session – first ever in series history?
55:13 | Odi Bakchis looks unstoppable


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Kelsey Rowlings season begins! Recap of FDORL ’19!!!

FORMULA DRIFT PRO 2 ORLANDO,FL 2019 – ROUND 1

Kelsey’s drifting for April 2019

April was an exceptionally busy month as it included a round trip from Florida to California to have the car wrapped in its new incredible livery and to attend the Voodoo Ride Bash. During the bash the new livery was revealed as was our new title sponsor, Voodoo Ride. Voodoo Ride develops extraordinary car cleaning products that work and we are proud to be working with Voodoo Ride. Be sure the check them out.

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After all the activity it was very quickly time for the 2019 season of Formula Drift Pro2 to begin. Here, Kelsey summarizes the event:

2019 Formula Drift Pro 2 Round One – Orlando

Team Drift Chick was feeling very confident going into the 2019 Formula Drift Pro 2 season. Round one would be hosted by our home track, Orlando Speedworld, so we were in comfortable territory. Unfortunately, our confidence was short lived.

Due to some power steering pump issues plaguing us since we built the car, we have been making small changes to our system in hopes of alleviating the issues. We thought we had found a solution in a new brand of pump, but our excitement only lasted a few months when it also failed. We decided to give that brand of pump another try since it had lasted the longest without issues so far, and we couldn’t rule out the possibility of leftover metal bits from other pumps causing its failure. Because of this, we decided to replace everything in the system to brand new parts so we could rule that out as a possible culprit for the failure.

I drove 60 laps on that pump at the Import Alliance Atlanta demo issues with no power steering issues. We were relieved and hopeful it would hold up. We traveled out to California for the wrapping and reveal of our new 2019 livery, as well as to announce our new title partner, Voodoo Ride. At their Voodoo Ride bash event, I noticed my power steering stiffening at points and my heart sunk. We found metal “specks” in the power steering fluid reservoir, and I immediately knew we were back to where we started with only a couple weeks before round one in Orlando.

Kelsey Rowlings 2

At this point, we constructed a plan for preventative maintenance. We would always have three pumps in circulation; One was on the car, while we had one with us as a spare, and another being rebuilt or as a second spare. Knowing that two of these pumps lasted at least 60 laps before failing, I was confident we could use this system, and start with a fresh pump for each competition, to get through the season so we can find a more permanent solution in the off-season when there is more time.

We installed a brand new pump and planned to test the Saturday just before Thursday qualifying. In our first bit of bad luck, I was stepped on by a horse Friday and sustained a lot of injuries around my heel and ankle, leaving me unable to walk, let alone drive a drift car. Everything on the car, besides the power steering pump, was the same as usual, so I didn’t think that missing testing would really hurt us since we have had longer life out of these pumps than any before. I was very familiar with the track and I felt ready.

Kelsey Rowlings FD Orlando

This is where things went very wrong for us. Being comfortable with the track, I decided to go all in for the first lap of practice. I put the car on a very high line around the bank of the first turn. Everything was feeling great until half to three-quarters of the way around the bank. My power steering cut out and tried to rip the wheel from my hands. I tried to save it, but I was already so close to the wall that there was little I could do to avoid a collision.

The damage was fairly extensive. All of the suspension on the driver’s side was broken, and the front strut tower was pushed in. The car would need a frame machine to be repaired safely, and qualifying was that evening.

Because of the time crunch, and because the wreck happened in our first “open practice” session and not our first “official practice” session, we decided we had a better chance of getting back on track if we switched to a different car instead of fixing the wrecked car for this round.

Our SR22 powered S14 demo car was sitting at home with the valve cover off and no cams, in the middle of a repair from its most recent double rocker arm failure on cylinder three. However, we knew it would be faster to get it running than it would find a body shop willing to take us in last minute. Crew Chief Dan and Tom drove the 45 minutes home to get the SR car running, while Daniel M. stayed behind to get new suspension parts on the Ford-powered FD car to get it at least rolling again.

The SR car arrived at the track at the same time I returned with some last minute decals cut by Tahir of Guardian Wraps (We have a brand new wrap planned for the demo car, but due to unfortunate circumstances it continues to be put on hold). We unloaded the car during our second practice session, but it was running very rough. With the help of Andrew DiMartino from Haltech, we got to work trying to set the timing and diagnose any issues. As time went on, we were moving from one possibility to another as to why the car wouldn’t run right. We checked and swapped spark plugs, checked grounds, checked fuel injectors, and we even checked compression. It came down to our second qualifying run and last chance to qualify. I hadn’t driven a full lap all day, but I decided that even if the engine was hurt if I thought I could get around that track, I would make it take one lap.

After calling for a competition time out to get out there at the last possible second, I pull up to the track in the demo car, sporting the brand new Voodoo Ride decals. As I’m doing so, the engine drops a cylinder. I’m devastated. I pull into the burn out box hoping for a miracle and to at least show in front of our fans. I do a few donuts but the engine continues to sound worse and worse.

At this point, I did not think the car would make it around the bank safely and it would just be a risk to the car, and myself, if I were to try. I signaled to the officials that I was calling it quits and exited the track.

Although we were unable to make a qualifying lap, I know that the team and I did everything we could to rally after such an unexpected and untimely failure. Fortunately, the support system and web of fans have been overwhelming, and they led us to Billy Mitchell, of Sanford Paint and Body. He had us on a frame machine Monday evening after business hours and stayed late to help us pull everything out in one night.

While we don’t have time to address our power steering issue before the next round, we do have some new ideas and adjustments to make on our current system. We have parts on the way and plan to make the changes as soon as we return home. In the meantime, if we experience another power steering pump failure at Road Atlanta, we are hoping our power steering preventative maintenance plan be more successful since the walls are further away and harder to hit there! We stay in good spirits and are looking for redemption in Atlanta!

As always, we will continue to get out there to compete hard and to constantly learn and improve.

All the best to each of you!
Kelsey (aka Drift Chick) and Dan Rowlings

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Kelsey is running Konig Hypergrams in 17×9 et 25mm front and 18×9.5 et 25mm rear. The Konig Hypergram is Flow Formed.

Alec Robbins recaps FDORL ’19!!!

Formula Drift 2019 Season is rocking and rolling! With FDORL being the opening round for PRO2, Alec Robbins recaps his experience at FDORL!

There were a lot of nerves going into our first round of Formula Drift Pro2 in Orlando, FL. We had made a lot of updates over the offseason and with time constraints and bad weather we weren’t able to test our new set up. Luckily we have some great new partners on the team, like Sandbeck Race Development, who had the car on the dyno for the first time just a week before the event. With a full, fresh engine build (upgrading our stock rods and pistons to a set of Manley platinum series pistons and pro series rods) SRD had everything on the engine compartment built and tuned perfectly… We ended up 100+hp over last season. Other changes included adding a Whiteline swaybar setup to the car after running no swaybars in past seasons, as well as some other geometry changes.

Having not driven the car since the final round at Irwindale Speedway in October, I was anxious to get behind the wheel. After our first run, the nerves faded and the car felt amazing. With 40 drivers registered for the round, we knew that we would be limited on practice time, luckily no major adjustments were needed aside from tire pressures. We were able to get 4 practice runs in before qualifying, which isn’t nearly as much as I would have liked after not driving for 6 months, but the car was feeling better than ever and I had a good amount of confidence going into qualifying.

Our first qualifying run we decided to go for a more conservative, safe run and landed an 83/100 which set us up to be in 9th place. By the time we were up for our 2nd run, our 83 had us sitting in 15th place and on the verge of not making top 16. I knew we needed to throw down a solid run. Not wanting to leave anything on the table I initiated slightly higher than I had in previous runs and got into the wall. Staying committed I held it wide open, tapped the wall again before pulling away from it enough to maintain angle. I kept it high on the bank and still wide open dropping down to the first and second inner clips getting them perfectly. When we tapped the wall, it was hard enough to crack the left rear wheel causing it to go flat. Going into the last outer zone, I overshot it just a little bit before pulling the car back on line and finishing the run off with a big angle right on the outside zone. I could tell everyone in the stands was pumped, clapping and getting thumbs up as I pulled off track. The wall taps however impacted my score pretty heavily and we scored an 80 on our second run.. leaving us 17th out of 40 drivers and sitting just outside of making it into the competition. It was a huge bummer. However, going into the next round we know that we have a killer car. My confidence in my driving and in the car has never been higher and are super excited to tear up one of our favorite tracks at Road Atlanta for round 2 next week!

Huge thank you to all of my sponsors, friends, and family for getting us to the point we are at today. I couldn’t dream of a better group of people to be a part of this with us. Thank You!

Make sure to follow Alec Robbins on Instagram at @alecrobbinsracing for more!

Alec is running Konig Hypergrams in 18×9.5 et 25 on the front and rear in RED OPAL. The Konig Hypergram is Flow Formed.

Behind The Wheel Podcast: FD Edition – FDLB 2019

Welcome back DRIFT FANS! The 2019 Formula Drift season has kicked off and it was everything we hoped it would be. There were new drivers, exciting battles, some controversial issues and crashes that may leave a couple of teams out of the next event in Orlando.

Check out this FD edition of our podcast as we go into Joey Redmond’s TOP 10 THINGS LEARNED points from Formula Drift Long Beach! Make sure to share your thoughts with us!

If you like what we’re doing here, please subscribe! We’re on iTunes and Google Play! Additionally, every full episode is uploaded right here to our YouTube Channel!

See you after FD Orlando!

 

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…. (details/cheat sheet below! – Audio )

0:18 | Intro
2:09 | Jeff Jones is the best driver you aren’t paying attention to
5:28 | Chelsea DeNofa vs. Chris Forsberg was Tandem of the day
9:40 | Travis Reeder overcomes tough team weekend with great performance!
19:37 | Podium marks a season for positive tire diversity
22:52 | Forrest Wang strikes 6th podium but still evades a victory
25:18 | What happened to James Deane?
30:47 | Matt Field sees 99
33:00 | Odi Bakchis wants that championship!
37:08 | Can Ryan Tuerck return for Orlando?
42:16 | Frederic Aasbo finds success with old school setup
50:46 | Outro / Contact info


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FARUK KUGAY – FD PRO DRIVER – BEHIND THE WHEEL PODCAST – EP10!

Formula Drift Pro driver, Faruk Kugay joins Scott (Konig, Marketing Director) on the Behind The Wheel podcast and tells us what’s to come in the 2019 season, his journey in the Europe Drifting scene, Sonoma Drift Winter jam, advice to the grassroots drifters some advice on what to do when building a program and so much more!

We’re going to be releasing the YouTube video versions in multiple parts from now on. We will continue to release another part every day until we come to the conclusion!

The full audio version is live on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher right now!

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Behind The Wheel Podcast: – EP10- Faruk Kugay

Faruk Kugay, Formula Drift Pro drive, came on the podcast to give some major announcements. One of them, (not hard to figure out) is that he has now partnered up with Konig. But the second announcement will shock most of his fans!

This is a really great episode of the podcast and Faruk is a lot of fun to listen to. Scott and Faruk go through the ins and outs of having a professional program, his personal evolution in drifting and what it takes to run a program. Faruk is super down to earth and reveals so many things about himself, how he funds his program working 4 jobs (bet you won’t guess what they are), his most frustrating issues with his program and how he plans to move forward.

If you’re not a Faruk Kugay drift fan, you will be by the end!

By the way, PODCAST listeners will get the scoop on his major announcements before the YouTube viewers. We will be releasing the podcast on our YouTube channel in 5 parts starting today at 5 pm. We will be releasing another part of this podcast every day until the conclusion.

We will update this page below! Part 3 is the Konig announcement and Part 4 is Faruk’s major announcement. That will be live on Monday at 8 am EST (on YouTube).

Thanks for all of your support and listening!

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CONTENT CHEAT MENU:
0:19 | Longest 10 Question Quick-fire ever (but its so good)!
15:05 | We bet you never knew this about Faruk!
22:15 | Introducing Faruk Kugay!
23:20 | Sonoma Drift and Winter Jam
26:04 | Faruk x Konig! We-are-family!! The story of how we met.
33:01 | Move to Turkey and Drifting in Europe!
36:57 | When and Where did you get into Drifting?!
37:53 | First exposure to drifting!
39:58 | Bombshell and Faruk’s plan for 2019…Plus what REALLY happened at Irwindale
48:20 | Faruk’s goals! How can we move the program forward?!
53:32 | Motegi Racing Super Drift. SEMA Ignited. GRIDLIFE.
55:03 | Putting together a drift program! The trials and tribulation!
1:03:17 | Advice from Faruk and what to take away from his experience in the drift scene
1:08:35 | Outro

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KEVIN LAWRENCE – FD PRO DRIVER – BEHIND THE WHEEL PODCAST – EP9!

We’re back with episode 9 of the Konig Behind The Wheel Podcast and it’s a good one! With the Formula Drift season only a few months away we took a bit of time to get with Formula Drift Pro Driver and Enjuku Racing’s very own, Kevin Lawrence! Kevin has been one of our sponsored drivers for about 4 years now and it’s an absolute honor being able to be on his program through so much of his professional growth.

Kevin talks about his Pro 1 Formula Drift debut and why he had to run the event last minute in their backup Skyline R32, development of his RB32, what its like running a program behind the scenes and so much more!

We’re starting something new with this episode. We’re going to be releasing the YouTube video versions in multiple parts from now on. We will continue to release another part every day until we come to the conclusion!

The full audio version is live on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher right now!

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Behind The Wheel Podcast: – EP09- Kevin Lawrence

Formula Drift PRO driver, Kevin Lawrence has been a Konig sponsored driver for 4 years now. In that time Kevin and the Enjuku Racing team have become like family to us. We asked Kevin if he wanted to come on the podcast and he was down!

In this first part of his podcast (Part 1 of 5) Kevin talks about how he got into drifting, his love for AE86s, making his Formula Drift Pro debut at FD Long Beach (#FDLB), what caused them to have to make that debut last minute with Enjuku Racing’s Demo / back up vehicle ( R32 Skyline ) and of course we kick things off with a 10 question quickfire!

We will be releasing another part of this podcast everyday until conclusion. We will update this page below!

Thanks for all of your support and listening!

And please, if you like the podcast and what we’ve been doing here, please subscribe! We’re on iTunes, Google Play and we always put the full video interviews on our YouTube Channel (we’d love if you subscribe there as well)! Thank you for listening!

As always you can use our timeline cheatsheet (below) to jump around in the podcast and hear what you like the most.

 

CONTENT CHEAT MENU:
0:20 | 10 Question Quick-fire
2:44 | Introducing Kevin Lawrence
3:50 | Our Relationship + Enjuku
4:20 | K Law or Hatchy? (AE86)
6:14 | How did you get into drifting and become involved with Enjuku?
8:45 | What was your journey to pro?
10:20 | AE86 -> S-chassis?
11:06 | Not enough credit is given to running a program
12:04 | FD Pro Debut and it was not ideal!
15:57 | What are you doing to prep for 2019?
18:40 | Hours during the season
20:42 | This is not like golf; do it for the LOVE!
22:38 | Drifting in person…Live Stream doesn’t do justice
23:58 | Going into 2019; RB again. 370 next
24:07 | Purist RHD to 370z (LHD)
27:00 | RB to 370?
29:04 | “RB32”! What is it? Dry sump; The answer to issues
30:24 | What does someone need for an RB30 – powered “s”?
32:04 | Improvements to driving/program?
34:35 | Car got way faster each round!
36:40 | Any tracks you’re looking forward to revisiting?
37:47 | Differences in drifting here vs. abroad
40:57 | Trips as mental breaks?
47:36 | FD Doesn’t get enough credit
51:50 | Struggling mentally while competing.
1:03:09 | Advice for rookie’s this year?
1:05:30 | No spares!
1:10:00 | Enjuku is a class act; you are super reliable
1:11:20 | We out!!! Outro

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