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Dai Yoshihara to be one of the guest judges at this years Formula D Singapore ( 06.24.2010 )

As the 2010 Formula Drift season in the U.S. starts this April, Formula Drift Singapore will soon after kick off the Asian Drifting Series. The Singapore event will be held on April 24th and the Singapore Formula Drift Series has announced Dai Yoshihara to be one of three judges for the total of four events to be held in 2010.

Dai Yoshihara wins again at Formula D Round 3: The Gauntlet ( 06.24.2010 )

Dai’s found his mojo again. In a second consecutive victory for the 2010 Formula DRIFT season, Dai Yoshihara fight for the top podium step with team mate and current points leader Van Gitten Jr. Watch the epic final finale here as Dai’s nearly two decade old Nissan S13 on KW competition coilovers makes its decisive winning run.

Dai Yoshihara takes the win at Formula D Round 2 ( 06.23.2010 )

Team KW driver Dai Yoshihara takes his first Formula D win for the 2010 season at Round 2 in Altlanta. Read the race report courtesy of Falken tire drift team.

FXMD NSX: The evolution of a record holder ( 06.10.2010 )

FXMD, originally Factor X initially debuted its Acura NSX time attack car in 2006 at the Redline Time Attack series. Originally a stock bodied, turbocharged silver nsx, the car was piloted by pro driver Billy Johnson to a class victory on its innaugural track outing.

Dai Yoshihara enters the 2010 Formula D season in a restyled Nissan 240SX (S13) ( 04.24.2010 )

With the trials and tribulations from the 2009 Formula D season resulting in far greater desires, Dai along with the great team at Falken Tire looked towards the 2010 season opener of Formula D hosted at the streets of Long Beach as a starving lion gazes at its prey from a distance.

Team KW 2010 ( 04.16.2010 )

KW Suspensions has always been passionate about motorsports. Here in the US, few other venues allow us to better stay in touch with the fans, enthusiasts and the cars themselves as professional drifting. The 2010 Formula Drift season just started in May and we’re proud to introduce the teams, drivers and cars that KW continues to work with. Many faces are familiar, while new drivers and rides are also part of Team KW.

Formula Drift launches its 2010 season with an open house tech inspection at Universal Technical Institute ( 04.01.2010 )

Another season of American Pro drifting with Formula Drift is soon about to start. As with any racing series, a pre-season tech inspection is necessary. For the 2010 season, Formula Drift and Universal Technical Institute (UTI) joined teams to opend the doors to drifters, students and the public alike for a up close and personal look at many of this season’s drift machines.

Moto IQ examines America’s Tire/Falken Drift Team and Dai Yoshihara’s updated V8 powered Nissan S13 ( 03.31.2010 )

With the 2010 Formula D season opener at the Long Beach Grand Prix looming ever closer, Dai Yoshihara and the Falken Drift Team put the finishing touches onto his newly updated Nissan 240SX (S13) powered by a GM LSX crate motor and rolling on KW competition coilovers.

Robbie Nishisda marches into the 2010 Formula Drift seasaon with the Hankook/Dynamic Autosports Nissan GT-R ( 03.21.2010 )

Robbie Nishida, who has been drifting professionally since 1998, starts another year with Hankook and Dynamic Autosports drift team. After collecting enough points for a overall standing of 8th place in the 2009 Formula Drift season, Nishida returns as driver of Hankook/ Dynamic Autosports’ new Nissan GT-R for the 2010 Formula Drift series. Some of his career highlights include placing first at a Battle Magazine single drift event at Nikko Circuit and finishing sixth in a Battle Magazine Championship Drift round, also he has completed several Formula Drift events in the Top 8, with a few podium finishes. Robbie’s trademark has become his clean, crowd arousing drifts.While not driving sideways, helives and manages the Car Care Center in Tokyo, Japan.