2017 Formula Drift Canada Recap [Gallery]
After a long, six-week break, Round 5 of the 2017 Formula Drift Pro Championship Series took us north across the border to Montreal, Canada. Contact was made — with the wall and other cars — more so than usual at Autodrome St. Eustache, which made for a dramatic show. Here Fredric Aasbo won his 10th career event, becoming the winningest driver in the Series' history, moving up from third to second place in the Championship standings, just 34 points behind leader James Deane.
Claiming the No. 2 spot on the podium that night was Kristaps Bluss, who was blessed with a bye run into the Final Battle after Vaughn Gittin Jr.'s oil pump belt blew off in the previous round. Coincidentally, Gittin Jr. had damaged his car during his bye run in the Great 8, which came as a result of Ken Gushi being unable to repair his car after his bye run in the Top 16, which was awarded to him after Ryan Tuerck hit the wall, causing him to crash as well.
And those weren't even half the cars that fell victim to the track that night!
Read all about it in our comprehensive Top 32 Play-by-Play.
(Photos: Jag Imaging)
Formula D Pro Championship Standings:
- James Deane - 368 pts
- Fredric Aasbo - 334 pts
- Kristaps Bluss - 293 pts
- Michael Essa - 259 pts
- Ryan Tuerck - 247 pts
- Vaughn Gittin Jr. - 245 pts
- Dean Kearney - 239 pts
- Odi Bakchis - 229 pts
- Matt Coffman - 209 pts
- Daijiro Yoshihara - 192 pts
- Matt Field - 176 pts
- Piotr Wiecek - 174 pts
- Alex Heilbrunn - 174 pts
- Chris Forsberg - 173 pts
- Alec Hohnadell - 173 pts
- Nate Hamilton - 156 pts
- Chelsea DeNofa - 148 pts
- Justin Pawlak - 147 pts
- Ken Gushi - 142 pts
- Jeff Jones - 138 pts
- Jhonnattan Castro - 124 pts
- Robbie Nishida - 120 pts
- Juha Rintanen - 107 pts
- Kyle Mohan - 104 pts
- Pat Goodin - 90 pts
- Cameron Moore - 88 pts
- Dan Burkett - 74 pts
- Marc Landreville - 51 pts
- Taylor Hull - 36 pts
- Georgy Chivchyan - 18 pts
The Series picks right back up in just a few short weeks at Monroe, Washington's Evergreen Speedway for Round 6, August 4-5.
