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Issue #02.1, March 2006

Hello everyone and welcome to the second edition of the Need For Speed Formula Drift Newsletter. Our goal is to provide a monthly newsletter with the most updated happenings in the NFSFD world. Items like general news, car builds, pictures, updated championship points, contingency announcement, rumors and/or anything else of importance or relevance to NFSFD. This newsletter will be created internally within the NFSFD office, however content from drivers, teams, managers, sponsors can be sent to Ryan@formulad.com for submission into the newsletter.


TICKETS ON SALE TODAY!!!


Here is this week's line-up of Formula D affiliated events: (all events are open to the general public)

• Wednesday, March 29th
  Dromo One Go-Kart Drift Competition and Destroy Yourself Day
  Come kart against your favorite FD driver!
  Location: Dromo One
  Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
  Address: 1431 N. Main St Orange CA 92867
  Phone: 714.744.4779
  
  Thursday, March 30th
  Formula D Official Pre pre-party @ Glam OC
  Come meet and greet your favorite Formula D drivers and Umbrella Girls!!!
  Location: JC Fandango Time: 9:00pm - 2:00am
  Address: 1086 N. State College Blvd Anaheim, CA 92806
  
  Saturday, April 1, 2006
  Official Formula D Pre-Party
  Featuring the Drift Alliance DVD Release and Screening
  V20 Nightclub
  562.216.2060
  81 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA
  Come party with the Formula D Drivers and Models!
  
  Sunday, April 2, 2006
  Official Formula D After-Party
  Hush Nightclub 562.495.3473
  217 Pine Ave, Long Beach, CA

Come one, come all!

As we reported last month, Rockstar Energy Drink will be supporting a two car effort in this year's NFSFD Championship. The second driver will be "Big Smoke" Ben Schwartz. Ben, along with Dai Yoshihara will be piloting Rockstar/Nitto branded vehicles.
005 NFSFD Champion Rhys Millen will debut a brand new Pontiac for the 2006 season. The car will be built directly by GM. Vehicle and specs to be released shortly. Rhys will be piloting his current GTO for the first event in Long Beach however.
Team Kaaz recently announced that for the 2006 season they will be title sponsored by Hankook Tire. The team will consist of three drivers. Barry Wong, Bryan Norris and female Japanese driver Hiromi Kajikuma who is yet to be licensed.
Team Jasper Performance has signed Conrad Grunewald and Quoc Ly as their official drivers for the 2006 NFSFD Championship. Conrad will drive the famous Jasper Supra. Quoc will be driving a S13.
Team RSR has signed Tyler McQuarrie to drive a newly built Honda S2000.


Rockstar Energy Drink has announced that they will be come a major sponsor of the 2006 Need For Speed Formula Drift Championship. Along with their support of Dai Yoshihara and Ben Schwartz, they now become the first energy drink to sponsor NFSFD at this level.
EA Games will announce shortly the title of the new game that will be promoted at this year NFSFD Championship series. We hear that drifting will possibly play a big role in the game and that the technology that will be featured in the game will be better that any other automotive game they have produced.
Formula Drift has signed an agreement with Live Sockets to create and distribute the 2005 NFSFD DVD series. The DVD series will showcase all of the 2005 G4 TV broadcasts as well as never before seen footage. Keep on www.formulad.com for more info.
Auto Meter has joined as a partner of the Formula D Contingency Program for 2006; providing teams and drivers with the power of information and cash! For information on how to qualify, please visitwww.autometer.com.


Presale tickets may be purchased at the Long Beach Arena Box Office all week or online at www.formulad.com/tickets.php
Formula D Event Schedule
Streets of Long Beach
April 2, 2006

9:00am - 3:00pm Ticketing and Will Call Hours (LB Arena)
10:00am - 6:00pm Doors open to the public
11:05am - 1:20pm Qualifying Round
1:30pm - 2:30pm Autograph Sessions at FD Tent
1:30pm - 3:00pm Formula D Performances at Show Stage
3:00pm - 3:05pm National Anthem
3:05pm - 3:20pm Top 16 & Judge Introduction
3:25pm - 3:55pm Round 1 | Top 16
4:00pm - 4:20pm Round 2 | Great 8
4:30pm - 4:40pm Semi-Final Round | Final 4
4:50pm - 4:55pm Concession Round (for 3rd place)
4:55pm - 5:00pm Final Round
5:00pm - 5:15pm Trophy Ceremony and Closing
5:00pm - 5:30pm Formula D Car Show Awards at Show Stage

The following Drivers are confirmed to compete at Round 1-Streets of Long Beach:

1 Rhys Millen
2 Samuel Hubinette
3 Ken Gushi
4 Vaughn Gittin Jr.
5 Daijiro Yoshihara
6 Chris Forsberg
7 Taka Aono
8 Calvin Wan
9 Michael Peters
10 Tyler McQuarrie
11 Siego Yamamoto
12 Tanner Foust
13 Kenji Yamanaka
14 Conrad Grunewald
15 Yukinobu Okubo
16 Casper Canul
17 Robbie Nishida
18 Hiro Sumida
19 Ben Schwartz
20 Hubert Young
21 Tony Angelo
22 Stephan Papadakis
23 Chris Kregorian
24 Ryan Hampton
25 Tony Schultz
26 Derrick Rogers
27 Matt Vassallo
28 Rob Fleming
29 Ross Petty
30 Brian Norris
31 Lance Kirianoff
32 Hiro Fujita
33 Ryan Tuerck
34 Quoc Ly
35 Stephan Verdier
36 William Bill Sherman
37 Hiromi Kajikuma
38 Wesley Hamachi
39 Bryan Rogers
40 Harjani Martin
41 Henry Shelly
42 Kyle Mohan
43 Erik Jacobs
44 Barry Wong
45 Benson Hsu
46 Todd Ho
47 Yoshie Shumaya
48 Nathan Brasz
49 Kazu Hayashida
50 Tsukasa Gushi
51 Rich Rutherford
52 Ernie Fixmer
53 Al Lagura
54 Tony Brakohiapa
55 Rod Millen
56 Shiro Deura

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how much are tickets?....im actually gonna go canyons on sunday with touge ***** heh

 
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Presale tickets may be purchased at the Long Beach Arena Box Office all week or online at www.formulad.com/tickets.php

Parking:

There Is Plenty Of Parking Available the cost is $8.00 .
Parking Lots Open 90 Minutes Prior To Face-Off.

 
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ahhhh~!!!! i wanna go!!!!

i have an accounting midterm on monday :::::;:SADFACE:::::

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