EVENT DETAILS
Date: Friday, May 26, 2023
Location: Orlando Speed World, Orlando, FL
Event: Formula DRIFT PRO Championship Round 3: TYPE S Scorched presented by AutoZone

RESULTS FROM FD PRO QUALIFYING
1.   Ryan Tuerck (USA) – Rain-X / Nitto Tire / Rockstar Energy GR Corolla
2.   Chelsea DeNofa (USA) – Pennzoil / BC Racing Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD
3.   Kazuya Taguchi (Japan) – Upgarage / ISR Performance / GT Radial / Jerry Yang Racing Toyota 86

NOTES

• Formula DRIFT creates a figure-8 layout on the banked oval at Orlando Speed World. The track has been revised slightly for 2023, with Outside Zone 1 lengthened and Outside Zone 2 shortened slightly to improve the flow of the course
• Intermittent drizzle stayed away during the cool, breezy K&N PRO Qualifying session. Commencing at sunset and continuing into the evening, all PRO teams are required to use Type S undercar lighting
• The 2023 scoring procedure requires all three judges to assess line, angle and style, allotting up to 90 points each, with an additional 10 points awarded for the “X factor.” The points awarded are an average of all three judges’ scores
• The judges for FD ATL are Ryan Lanteigne (Canada), Brian Eggert (USA) and Robbie Nishida (Japan), with Chris Uhl (USA) taking the role of Driver’s Steward this weekend
• Top qualifier Tuerck scored 94.6 points thanks in part to a high X factor. Currently sitting 11th in the 2023 FD PRO Championship, despite also qualifying first at the opening Long Beach round, FD Orlando could initiate the launch of the GR Corolla driver’s title chase
• Second place DeNofa narrowly missed the top spot with a 94-point run. Another consistent title chaser, he currently sits 10th overall
• With a score of 93.6 points, Taguchi missed out on the top spot by a single point, highlighting the close competition between the top drivers. In fact, 18 drivers scored within ten points of Tuerck
• Championship leader Matt Field (USA), placed a rather disappointing 16th in the Borla Performance / GT Radial Corvette, scoring 87 points
• Reigning Champion Fredric Aasbo (Norway) scored 91.6 points in the Rockstar Energy Toyota GR Supra and qualified fifth
• Leading Rookie qualifier was Diego Higa (Brazil). He placed 27th overall after scoring 84 points on his second run in KQF in his Toyota GT86
• Knockout Qualifying Format (KQF) sees the top 24 drivers automatically qualify, with the remainder required to run a second time, including anybody who failed to complete their first run. And with 35 drivers again competing for 32 competition places, three would be eliminated from KQF
• After their second runs, the eliminated drivers were Joao Barion (Brazil), Kyle Mohan (USA) and Ola Jaeger (Norway)

FD PRO ROUND 3 TOP 16 QUALIFYING

POSITION	NAME	POINTS
1	Ryan Tuerck	3
2	Chelsea DeNofa	2
3	Kazuya Taguchi	1
4	Ryan Litteral
5	Fredric Aasbo
6	Travis Reeder
7	Aurimas Bakchis
8	Dylan Hughes
9	Alec Robbins
10	James Deane
11	Dan Stuke
12	Jonathan Hurst
13	Mike Power
14	Forrest Wang
15	Chris Forsberg
16	Matt Field

 
BRACKET FOR ROUND 3 PRO COMPETITION HEATS 

FORMULA DRIFT ORLANDO RECAP

Competition results from Formula DRIFT PRO Championship Round 3: TYPE S Scorched presented by AutoZone will be available on Saturday. A recap of all the action from FD ORL with event images will be available on Monday