2024 Formula Drift season

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The 2024 Formula Drift season (officially titled and stylized as the Formula DRIFT PRO Championship) is the twenty-first season of the Formula D series. The season began on April 13 at Long Beach and will conclude on October 19 at Irwindale Speedway after eight events.

Entries

Team	No.	Car	Tires	Driver	Round(s)
ASM	8	BMW M3 E46	GT Radial	Robert Thorne	All
Asphalt Anarchy	82	Chevrolet Corvette C6	Kenda	Taylor Hull	All
Beechum Racing	999	BMW M3 E46	Nexen	Trenton Beechum	All
Cash Racing	16	Cadillac XLR	Kenda	Jonathan Hurst	All
Diego Higa racing team	169	Toyota GT86	GT Radial	Diego Higa	All
Drift Cave Motorsports	777	Chevrolet Corvette C6	GT Radial	Matt Field	All
DRIFTING DEPARTMENT 17	117	Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano	Nexen	Federico Sceriffo	All
Extreme SimRacing	357	Chevrolet Corvette C7 Z06	GT Radial	João Barion	All
Feal Suspension Race Team	707	Nissan Silvia "S14.9"	GT Radial	Simen Olsen	All
	723	Nissan Silvia S15	GT Radial	Aurimas Bakchis	All
Forsberg Racing	64	Nissan Z	GT Radial	Chris Forsberg	All
Garagistic	171	BMW 1 Series E82	Vitour	Rome Charpentier	All
Get Nuts Lab.	808	Nissan Silvia S15	Vitour	Forrest Wang	All
Hateley Motorsports	98	BMW M3 E46	Kumho	Andy Hateley  R	All
Jeff Jones Racing	818	Nissan 370Z	Kumho	Jeff Jones	All
Jerry Yang Racing	123	Toyota GT86	GT Radial	Kazuya Taguchi	All
	168	Toyota GT86	GT Radial	Hiroya Minowa  R	All
Jhonnattan Castro Racing	17	Toyota GR86	Kenda	Jhonnattan Castro	All
Kyle Mohan Racing	99	Mazda RX-8	Vitour	Kyle Mohan	All
LZMFG	5	BMW M3 E36	Nitto	Adam LZ	?
MspeK Performance	527	Nissan Silvia "S14.9"	Vitour	Daniel Stuke	All
Noback Racing Co.	54	BMW M3 E46	Kenda	Nick Noback	All
Papadakis Racing	151	Toyota GR Supra	Nitto	Fredric Aasbø	All
	411	Toyota GR Corolla	Nitto	Ryan Tuerck	All
Power Racing	919	Nissan Silvia S15	Nexen	Mike Power	All
RAD Industries	34	Toyota Supra A80	GT Radial	Dan Burkett	All
Robbins Race Co.	35	Nissan 350Z	Kenda	Alec Robbins	All
RTR Vehicles' Drift Team	25	Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD	Nitto	Vaughn Gittin, Jr.	?
	130	Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD	Nitto	James Deane	All
	213	Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD	Nitto	Ben Hobson  R	All
Ryan Litteral Racing	909	Nissan Silvia S15	Kenda	Ryan Litteral	All
Shanahan 79	79	BMW M3 E36	Vitour	Conor Shanahan  R	1, 3–8
Sorensen Motorsports	513	BMW M3 E92	Nitto	Branden Sorensen	All
Team Hansen Drifting	119	Nissan 240SX S13	GT Radial	Rudy Hansen  R	All
Team Infamous	27	Nissan Silvia S14	Kenda	Derek Madison	All
Team Karnage	43	Dodge Viper ZB II	Kumho	Dean Kearney	All
Team Never Settle	85	BMW M3 E46	Vitour	Dmitriy Brutskiy	All
Three's Racing	21	Toyota GR86	Kenda	Ken Gushi	All
Whip Racing	129	BMW M3 E46	GT Radial	Dylan Hughes	All

R Eligible for Rookie of the Year

Driver changes

• 2023 PRO champion Chelsea DeNofa retired from the series, announcing his intention ahead of the final round in 2023. His seat at RTR Motorsports was taken by 2023 PROSPEC champion Ben Hobson.
• 2023 PROSPEC runner-up Andy Hateley made his Formula Drift PRO debut.
• Hiroya Minowa joined Jerry Yang Racing with support from GT Radial Tires. At the start of the season, he was just 14 years old.
• After 2 seasons driving for RTR Motorsports, Adam LZ entered his own team running a single BMW E36. LZMFG only competed part-time in their debut FD season in order to run a full DMEC programme for 2024.
• Two-time PROSPEC champion Dmitriy Brutskiy moved up to the PRO series.
• Rudy Hansen moved up from the PROSPEC series, where he finished third in 2023.
• 2022 PROSPEC runner-up Derek Madison moved up to the PRO series.
• 2023 Drift Masters European Champion Conor Shanahan joined the series alongside defending his DMEC title. He will miss the second round at Road Atlanta due to a calendar clash with DMEC.
• Travis Reeder elected not to compete in the 2024 season.

Other changes

• GT Radial, winners of the Tire Cup in 2023, renewed their partnership with the series for a further three years.
• Kumho entered the series as an official tire sponsor for 2024 and beyond.

Schedule

Round	Title	Circuit	Location	Date	Winner	Car
1	Streets of Long Beach	Streets of Long Beach	Long Beach, California	April 13	James Deane	Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD
2	Road to the Championship	Road Atlanta	Braselton, Georgia	May 11
3	Scorched	Orlando Speed World	Orlando, Florida	June 1
4	The Gauntlet	Englishtown Raceway Park	Englishtown, New Jersey	June 22
5	Crossroads	World Wide Technology Raceway	St. Louis, Missouri	July 20
6	Throwdown	Evergreen Speedway	Monroe, Washington	August 10
7	Elevated	Utah Motorsports Campus	Grantsville, Utah	August 30
8	Title Fight	Irwindale Speedway	Irwindale, California	October 19
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Championship standings

Pre-event qualifying was eliminated starting in 2024, so that all results across the weekend are determined by tandem drifting and not by solo runs.

The 24 highest classified drivers in the previous event are guaranteed a starting position at the next event and are seeded with the same results, so that the previous event winner is awarded the number 1 seed (equivalent to the top qualifier in previous seasons).

The remaining 8 seeding positions (25th through 32nd) are contested by up to 24 other drivers, including those who finished 25th or below in the previous round. Seeding within this group is determined by a Seeding Bracket, a knockout-style tandem drift competition of similar format to the main event, with the first-place finisher being awarded the 25th starting position in the main event. All drivers score championship points; those eliminated during the Seeding Bracket are classified 33rd through 48th and receive 14 points.

In the main event, drivers proceed through a series of competition heats, with those eliminated in the first round (Top 32) receiving 28 points and classifying 17th through 32nd, the second round (Top 16) receiving 42 points and classifying 9th through 16th, the third round (Great 8) receiving 56 points and classifying 5th through 8th, and the fourth round (Final Four) classifying 3rd and 4th, both receiving 70 points. In the Final, the runner-up receives 84 points and the winner 100 points. Final classification within each round is then determined by highest seeding position; for example, of the two drivers eliminated in the Final Four, the driver who was seeded higher entering the event is awarded 3rd position and the final place on the podium.

In the event of a tie on points, the driver who classified higher in the most recent round will be awarded the higher position.

For Round 1 at Long Beach, the final classification of the 2023 championship was used, with non-returning drivers Chelsea DeNofa (1st) and Kristaps Blušs (24th) skipped and the ranking reapplied so that Taylor Hull (25th) and Alec Robbins (26th) were seeded 23rd and 24th respectively, and guaranteed starting positions.

Competition stage

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th–8th	9th–16th	17th–32nd	33rd–48th
Points	100	84	70	70	56	42	28	14

Pro Championship standings

Pos Driver LBH ATL ORL ENG WWT EVS UTA IRW Pts 1 James Deane 1 100 2 Simen Olsen 2 84 3 Aurimas Bakchis 3 70 4 Ken Gushi 4 70 5 Fredric Aasbø 5 56 6 Rome Charpentier 6 56 7 Nick Noback 7 56 8 Hiroya Minowa  R  8 56 9 Matt Field 9 42 10 Ryan Tuerck 10 42 11 Chris Forsberg 11 42 12 Kazuya Taguchi 12 42 13 Jonathan Hurst 13 42 14 Branden Sorensen 14 42 15 Robert Thorne 15 42 16 Trenton Beechum 16 42 17 Dylan Hughes 17 28 18 Jhonnattan Castro 18 28 19 Dean Kearney 19 28 20 Forrest Wang 20 28 21 Daniel Stuke 21 28 22 Taylor Hull 22 28 23 Alec Robbins 23 28 24 Adam LZ 24 28 25 Conor Shanahan  R  25 28 26 Dan Burkett 26 28 27 Federico Sceriffo 27 28 28 Rudy Hansen  R  28 28 29 Diego Higa 29 28 30 Jeff Jones 30 28 31 João Barion 31 14 32 Mike Power 32 14 33 Kyle Mohan 33 14 34 Andy Hateley  R  34 14 35 Ben Hobson  R  35 14 36 Derek Madison 36 14 37 Dmitriy Brutskiy 37 14

In-line notation  RY  Rookie of the Year  R  Rookie

Auto Cup standings

Auto Cup points are awarded each round to the two drivers with the highest classified finish for each manufacturer. To be eligible, both the chassis and engine must have been constructed by that manufacturer.

General Motors earned contributions from Chevrolet and Cadillac.

Pos	Manufacturer	LBH	ATL	ORL	ENG	WWT	EVS	UTA	IRW	Pts
1	Toyota	4								126
		5
2	Ford	1								114
		35
3	General Motors	9								84
		13
4	BMW	6								70
		37
5	Nissan	11								42
6	Dodge	19								28
7	Ferrari	27								28
8	Mazda	33								14

Tire Cup standings

Tire Cup points are awarded each round to the two drivers with the highest classified finish for each tire manufacturer.

Pos	Tire	LBH	ATL	ORL	ENG	WWT	EVS	UTA	IRW	Pts
1	Nitto	1								156
		5
2	GT Radial	2								154
		3
3	Kenda	4								126
		7
4	Vitour	6								84
		20
5	Nexen	16								70
		27
6	Kumho	19								56
		30