EVENT DETAILS
Date: Saturday, June 11, 2022
Location: Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ
Event: Formula DRIFT PRO Championship Round 4: Type S The Gauntlet presented by AutoZone and Link ECU PROSPEC Championship Round
RESULTS FROM FD PRO ROUND 4
- Travis Reeder (USA) – Travis Reeder Motorsports / GT Radial BMW M3
- Rome Charpentier (USA) – Garagistic / Federal Tires / imaginegarage E36 BMW
- Chelsea DeNofa (USA) – Pennzoil / BC Racing Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD
RESULTS FROM FD PROSPEC ROUND 2
- Dmitriy Brutskiy – DriftHQ / Link ECU / ISC Suspension / Enkei Wheels BMW M3 with Royal Purple
- Robert Thorne (USA) – ASMotorsport / Kats Coin BMW M3
- Tommy Lemaire (Canada) – Mspek TLO Nissan S14.5
PRO NOTES
- Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown is the first dedicated drift arena in the USA. The fast figure-8 layout produced both incredibly close battles and a degree of carnage throughout the thrilling competition heats
- The weather was warm and dry
- Both FD PRO Finalists had never been in a FD PRO Final or stood on the podium. Both drive BMW M3s with Chevrolet LS V8 engines
- Winner Reeder has been an FD PRO driver for four years. He qualified 29th and the win moved him up one place to seventh in the Championship
- Reeder had two One More Time battles on his way to the Final and was delighted to have beaten the highly-rated DeNofa in the Top 4 heats
- Second-place Charpentier qualified 14th and the result has catapulted him from 16th to ninth in the title race
- Finishing third, DeNofa has risen from seventh to fifth in the 2022 Championship
- Finishing fourth, Matt Field (USA) has moved to the FD PRO Championship points lead with his Drift Cave / Falken Tire C6 Corvette
- Field has a narrow four-point lead over former points leader and defending Champion, Fredric Aasbo (Norway) driving the Rockstar Energy Toyota GR Supra. Aasbo was knocked out of the Top 8 by DeNofa
- Top Rookie Daniel Stuke (USA) qualified tenth in the Stuke Racing / MspeK Performance Nissan S14.9. He finished 11th and is tenth in the overall standings
- After the Round 4, Toyota leads the 2022 Formula DRIFT PRO Auto Cup and Falken narrowly heads the Tire Cup
- PROSPEC competition was split across two days, with the Top 32 heats taking place on Friday evening and the Top 16 to the Final completed on Saturday morning
- Perfect weather accompanied both PROSPEC competition sessions
- All PROSPEC teams must use Link ECU engine management as well as GT Radial tires supplied and fitted by TireStacks.com
- Throdle, FCP Euro and Royal Purple contingency programs are available for PROSEPC competitors who meet the defined criteria
- Brutskiy returned to his 2020/21 Championship-winning form, qualifying second and taking the Round 2 win. After a disappointing Round 1, he’s pulled himself up to fourth in the 2022 Link ECU PROSPEC Championship standings and has his sights on a third title
- Top Rookie Thorne has successfully converted his GT racing experience to Formula DRIFT. He qualified fifth and finished second in only his second FD event. Not only was this his first FD podium, remarkably he’s now leading the title race
- Third-place Lemaire qualified first but battled mechanical problems throughout the competition heats. It began with broken suspension sustained during warm-up, which possibly contributed to a power steering failure before the Top 8. However, he persevered and sits seventh in the Championship table
- Andy Hateley (USA) was the championship points leader after the opening round but engine problems with his Hateley Motorsports BMW E46 meant he finished 14th and has dropped to third in the table
ROUND 4 FD PRO TOP 16 DRIVER POINTS
| POSITION | DRIVER | POINTS |
| 1 | Travis Reeder | 100 |
| 2 | Rome Charpentier | 91 |
| 3 | Chelsea DeNofa | 83 |
| 4 | Matt Field | 80 |
| 5 | Ryan Tuerck | 67 |
| 6 | Justin Pawlak | 67 |
| 7 | Ken Gushi | 67 |
| 8 | Fredric Aasbo | 67 |
| 9 | Dylan Hughes | 53 |
| 10 | Aurimas Bakchis | 52 |
| 11 | Daniel Stuke | 52 |
| 12 | Branden Sorensen | 52 |
| 13 | Kazuya Taguchi | 52 |
| 14 | Wataru Masuyama | 52 |
| 15 | Chris Forsberg | 52 |
| 16 | Ryan Litteral | 52 |
2022 FD PRO TOP 16 CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS
| POSITION | DRIVER | POINTS |
| 1 | Matt Field | 335 |
| 2 | Fredric Aasbo | 331 |
| 3 | Chris Forsberg | 301 |
| 4 | Ryan Tuerck | 289 |
| 5 | Chelsea DeNofa | 275 |
| 6 | Dylan Hughes | 255 |
| 7 | Travis Reeder | 255 |
| 8 | Aurimas Bakchis | 247 |
| 9 | Rome Charpentier | 228 |
| 10 | Daniel Stuke | 206 |
| 11 | Branden Sorensen | 206 |
| 12 | Justin Pawlak | 189 |
| 13 | Dan Burkett | 189 |
| 14 | Michael Essa | 174 |
| 15 | Wataru Masuyama | 174 |
| 16 | Taylor Hull | 174 |
2022 AUTO CUP TOP FIVE STANDINGS
| Toyota | 620 |
| Chevrolet | 509 |
| Ford | 464 |
| Nissan | 423 |
| BMW | 174 |
2022 TIRE CUP STANDINGS
| Falken Tire | 662 |
| Nitto Tire | 653 |
| GT Radial | 588 |
| Federal Tire | 419 |
| Nexen Tire | 414 |
ROUND 2 FD PROSPEC TOP 16 DRIVER POINTS
| POSITION | DRIVER | POINTS |
| 1 | Dmitriy Brutskiy | 102 |
| 2 | Robert Thorne | 91 |
| 3 | Tommy Lemaire | 83 |
| 4 | Alex Jagger | 81 |
| 5 | Ben Hobson | 67 |
| 6 | Austin Matta | 67 |
| 7 | Kasey Kohl | 67 |
| 8 | Cory Talaska | 67 |
| 9 | Brian Wadman | 52 |
| 10 | Derek Madison | 52 |
| 11 | Kelsey Rowlings | 52 |
| 12 | Rudy Hansen | 52 |
| 13 | Steve Misko | 52 |
| 14 | Andy Hateley | 52 |
| 15 | Evan Bogovich | 52 |
| 16 | Amanda Sorensen | 52 |
FD PROSPEC TOP 16 CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS
| POSITION | DRIVER | POINTS |
| 1 | Robert Thorne | 171 |
| 2 | Ben Hobson | 158 |
| 3 | Andy Hateley | 155 |
| 4 | Dmitriy Brutskiy | 154 |
| 5 | Alex Jagger | 148 |
| 6 | Evan Bogovich | 132 |
| 7 | Tommy Lemaire | 119 |
| 8 | Derek Madison | 119 |
| 9 | Kasey Kohl | 119 |
| 10 | Brian Wadman | 104 |
| 11 | Steve Misko | 104 |
| 12 | Austin Matta | 102 |
| 13 | Nate Chen | 102 |
| 14 | Cory Talaska | 102 |
| 15 | Matthew Bystrak | 102 |
| 16 | Rich Whiteman | 89 |
FORMULA DRIFT NEW JERSEY RECAP
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
