Aurimas Bakchis Partners with Drifz for 2016 Formula Drift Season

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Aurimas Bakchis Partners with Drifz for 2016 Formula Drift Season

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Ontario, CA – Bakchis Motorsports is excited to announce a new partnership with Drifz for the 2016 Formula Drift season. Drifz offers multiple wheel styles and sizes and Aurimas ‘Odi’ Bakchis will be driving the Ark Performance Feal Suspension Falken Tires Hyundai Genesis on Drifz 308B Spec-R wheels.

Drifz has been working with Bakchis to produce a custom race ready wheel that is machined from billet forged 6061 aluminum alloy. Bakchis will debut these superlight one-piece wheels at Formula Drift in Long Beach, CA on April 8-9th. He will be running 18×9” wheels on the front and 18×10” wheels on the rear of the car.

Bakchis is looking forward to showcasing the style and performance of the Drifz wheels throughout the season. He stated “I’m very impressed by the resources Drifz has to make a one-of-a-kind billet custom race wheel from concept to reality. And it’s been a pleasure to work with a wheel company that is open to the specific needs of my drift car and then makes it happen.”

Bakchis to Drive Ark Performance Hyundai Genesis on Falken Tires for 2016

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(Ontario, CA) – Aurimas “Odi” Bakchis has announced his racing platform for the 2016 drifting season. He will be exclusively driving the Ark Performance Hyundai Genesis in the Formula Drift championship series. Bakchis placed second overall in the 2015 Formula Drift world championship by piloting both the Ark Performance Hyundai Genesis and the Feal Suspension Nissan 240SX, and will be focusing solely on driving the Genesis in 2016.

Bakchis has also announced a partnership with Falken Tires for the 2016 season. Bakchis indicated that he is “excited about the opportunity to represent one of the most iconic drifting brands this season – Falken Tire. Falken has proven to be a successful tire with multiple championships and I am looking forward to demonstrating what I can add to their roster. I am confident in this next step in my drifting career and am eager to see what 2016 has in store.”

The Ark Performance Hyundai Genesis proved successful by earning two second-place finishes for Bakchis in 2015. The Genesis will be powered by an LS7 engine built by CBM Motorsports with a Vortech supercharger. Bakchis will continue to use Feal Suspension 441 coilovers that he has customized for the tracks of the Formula Drift circuit.


With the freshly prepared Ark Performance Hyundai Genesis on Falken tires and Feal Suspension coilovers, 2016 promises to be exciting for Bakchis and his team. The 2016 season kicks off on April 8-9, 2016 in Long Beach, California.

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Top 32 Play-by-Play: Formula Drift Rd 7 Irwindale Speedway By DrivingLine

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Irwindale Speedway has become hallowed ground for the sport of drifting. Home to the first professional competition in the US back in 2003, the track has hosted the season finale for Formula Drift for all 12 seasons to date. Unfortunately, the land that the track currently leases was sold a few years back, and this may be the last year before the track is demolished in favor of a shopping mall. While talk of demolition has been occurring almost annually since the sale was made in 2012, the permit changes necessary to move forward with the demolition finally happened earlier this year and have essentially paved the way for this season to be the final season of motorsports at the House of Drift.

For 2015, Formula Drift altered the layout slightly to encourage a longer wall-ride on the ‘inner bank’. Drivers start near the exit of burn 2 in the traditional oval track layout, heading counter clockwise around the ½-mile bank, initiating into drift just before turn 3 in the traditional layout. Continuing around the big bank, drivers come off the bank at the exit of turn 4 and transition in front of the main grand stands for a clip on the traditional start/finish line facing the crowd. From there, the drivers transition again and continue the course through the inner 3/8-mile bank again in the counter clockwise orientation. Historically, drivers only drifted around half of the inner bank before sliding through the infield, but this season’s layout extends the course through the entirety of the inner bank along the wall then sliding through a decreasing radius turn into the infield in the same portion of the track, with one final inner clip before the finish line. This layout was enough of a change to force the drivers to re-learn what the judges were asking for, particularly after the switch-back across the traditional start/finish line.

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Top 32 Play-by-Play: Formula Drift Rd 5 Evergreen Speedway By DrivingLine

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Evergreen Speedway sits around 45 minutes Northeast of Seattle in the city of Monroe, and is home to the annual Washington State fair. In years past, Evergreen has awarded the first Formula Drift career podium or event win to more drivers than any other event, continued last season by Dean Kearney earning his first career podium.

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