EVENT DETAILS
Date: Friday, June 23, 2023
Location: Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ
Event: Formula DRIFT Link ECU PROSPEC Championship Round 2
RESULTS FROM FD PROSPEC ROUND 2
- Cole Richards (USA) – Richards Racing / Koruworks Scion FRS
- Dmitriy Brutskiy – DriftHQ E46 BMW
- Andy Hateley (USA) – Hateley Motorsports Habanero E46 BMW
NOTES
- All FD PROSPEC cars are required to use GT Radial tires and Link ECU engine management
- After winning his first Formula DRIFT PROSPEC Round in his Rookie year, 19 year-old Richards was too young to enjoy his celebratory champagne on the podium
- Qualifying 13th, Richards defeated double PROSPEC Champion Brutskiy in a very close Final that went “One More Time” after a collision on the first run was attributed to mistakes by both drivers. Richards eventually won on sheer determination after their fourth run
- The win moves Richards to third in the 2023 PROSPEC standings and the leading Rookie
- Second placed Brutskiy kickstarted his 2023 Championship bid. He arrived in Englishtown in 21st position and leaves in fifth
- After finishing third overall in the 2022 PROSPEC Championship, Hateley was languishing in 17th following the opening round, but his third place New Jersey result has catapulted him to ninth
- A well-deserved fourth place went to Faruk Kugay (Turkey) driving the ENEOS Oil / Pedal Commander Nissan S14. He’s enjoying a return to Formula DRIFT competition after a hiatus from the PRO Championship following the 2020 season. Using PROSPEC to rebuild his program, Kugay now sits seventh in the title race after two solid rounds
- Rudy Hansen (USA), winner of the Opening Round in his Track Tires / Mast Motor / J&A Racing Oil Nissan 240SX S13, was knocked out of the Top 8 heats by Kugay. Hansen placed seventh on the night, retaining his PROSPEC Championship lead from Ben Hobson (USA) by a narrow six-point margin
- Fifteen year-old sensation Jayden Martorana (Canada), who qualified second in his Empire Auto C6 Corvette, was eliminated from the Top 16 heats by Kugay. He dropped from sixth to tenth overall
ROUND 2 FD PROSPEC TOP 16 DRIVER POINTS
| POSITION | DRIVER | POINTS |
| 1 | Cole Richards | 100 |
| 2 | Dmitriy Brutskiy | 89 |
| 3 | Andy Hateley | 76 |
| 4 | Faruk Kugay | 64 |
| 5 | Ben Hobson | 51 |
| 6 | Nate Chen | 48 |
| 7 | Rudy Hansen | 48 |
| 8 | Cody Buchanan | 48 |
| 9 | Jayden Martorana | 34 |
| 10 | Zach Farrar | 32 |
| 11 | Erick Medici | 32 |
| 12 | Alex Jagger | 32 |
| 13 | Joshua Love | 32 |
| 14 | Jack Davis | 32 |
| 15 | Derek Madison | 32 |
| 16 | Blake Olsen | 29 |
FD PROSPEC TOP 16 CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS
| POSITION | DRIVER | POINTS |
| 1 | Rudy Hansen | 148 |
| 2 | Ben Hobson | 142 |
| 3 | Cole Richards | 116 |
| 4 | Alex Jagger | 108 |
| 5 | Dmitriy Brutskiy | 105 |
| 6 | Nate Chen | 98 |
| 7 | Faruk Kugay | 96 |
| 8 | Jack Davis | 96 |
| 9 | Andy Hateley | 92 |
| 10 | Jayden Martorana | 83 |
| 11 | Cody Buchanan | 80 |
| 12 | Derek Madison | 64 |
| 13 | Austin Matta | 64 |
| 14 | Connor O’Sullivan | 64 |
| 15 | Blake Olsen | 58 |
| 16 | Zach Farrar | 48 |
FORMULA DRIFT NEW JERSEY RECAP
Competition results from the Formula DRIFT PRO Championship Round 4: TYPE S The Gauntlet presented by AutoZone will be available tomorrow. A recap of all the action from FD NJ with event images will be available on Monday