EVENT DETAILS
Date: Friday, June 10, 2022
Location: Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ
Event: Formula DRIFT PRO Championship Round 4: Type S The Gauntlet presented by AutoZone
RESULTS FROM FD PRO QUALIFYING
- Chelsea DeNofa (USA) – Pennzoil / BC Racing Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD
- Michael Essa (USA) – FCP Euro / Liqui Moly / GT Radial BMW M3
- Dylan Hughes (USA) – DHR / Royal Purple / Falken Tire BMW
NOTES
- The Englishtown track features a purpose-built drift arena and tiered grandstand seating to provide spectators with an excellent view of all the action
- The weather was perfect; sunny and warm
- The K&N Qualifying session for the FD PRO Championship was again extremely close. Seven drivers scored more than 90 points and 18 were within ten points of the leader
- The top three drivers all scored 94 points. In the event of a tie, the drivers are separated by their score for style. If the style points are the same, then it goes to the score for angle, and finally line
- Top qualifier DeNofa took the #1 position by a single style point over second-place Essa
- 2013 FD PRO Champion Essa had the same style score as third-placed Hughes, but got the nod thanks to two extra points for drift angle
- Defending Champion and 2022 FD PRO points leader, Fredric Aasbo (Norway) scored 88 points in his Rockstar Energy Toyota GR Supra and placed eighth
- The top Rookie was Nick Noback (USA) who scored a spectacular 93 points in his KoruWorks E46 BMW and placed fourth overall
- Thirty-six drivers attempted to qualify for the Top 32 competition heats, which meant four would be eliminated in the Knockout Qualifying Format (KQF), which sees the bottom eight drivers run a second time.
- After KQF, Josh Reynolds (USA) and Kyle Mohan (USA) were eliminated after technical issues, while Jhonnattan Castro (Domincan Republic) and Josh Love (USA) failed to score sufficient points to continue
ROUND 4 TOP 16 FD PRO QUALIFYING
| POSITION | NAME | POINTS |
| 1 | Chelsea DeNofa | 3 |
| 2 | Michael Essa | 2 |
| 3 | Dylan Hughes | 1 |
| 4 | Nick Noback | |
| 5 | Ryan Tuerck | |
| 6 | Justin Pawlak | |
| 7 | Ken Gushi | |
| 8 | Fredric Aasbo | |
| 9 | Aurimas Bakchis | |
| 10 | Daniel Stuke | |
| 11 | Adam LZ | |
| 12 | Branden Sorensen | |
| 13 | Kazuya Taguchi | |
| 14 | Rome Charpentier | |
| 15 | Matt Field | |
| 16 | Yves Meyer |
BRACKET FOR ROUND 4 FD PRO COMPETITION HEATS
FORMULA DRIFT NEW JERSEY RECAP
Competition results from the Formula DRIFT PRO Championship Round 4: Type S The Gauntlet presented by AutoZone and the FD Link ECU PROSPEC Championship Round 2 will be available on Saturday. A recap of all the action from FD NJ with event images will be available on Monday
NEXT ROUND
World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, IL will host the Formula DRIFT PRO Championship Round 5: Crossroads on July 14-16 as well as the Round 3 of the Formula DRIFT Link ECU PROSPEC Championship. Please visit formulad.com for the competition schedule, ticket information, driver profiles, special content, and the event livestream
