Formula DRIFT kicks-off the sixth professional championship season in style on the infamous Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Street Course. All the exciting sideways action begins on April 10-11. Tickets for the season opener are on-sale now.

Tickets can be purchased online via the Formula DRIFT website or in person at the Long Beach Arena / Long Beach Convention Center. The Long Beach Arena is open for ticket sales and general phone inquires Monday – Friday 10AM – 6PM & Saturday from 12PM – 4PM. Save on the ticket service charges by purchasing your tickets in person.

Reserved Seating Tickets are also available. Reserve your seat all day and don’t miss out on any of the Formula DRIFT excitement and action!

A VIP Tickets Package is also available. The VIP ticket packages include:

1 – access to VIP Hospitality Suite (private cash bar, live feed TV screens, elevated & covered viewing structure)
1 – reserved seating ticket in grandstand 16 for Saturday, April 11th
1 – general admission ticket for Friday, April 10th
1 – Saturday lunch with water & iced tea

"Shaun and NuFormz is an integral part of this small Formula Drift family.
Personally, I have known Shaun for a long time, since the days we crossed paths at
McMullen Argus Publishing (now Source Interlink) when he was writing for various
magazine and I was selling advertising.  He has always been a hard charger and this
is just another obstacle he will overcome.  Everyone here at the FD office wishes
him nothing but the best while he recuperates."
- Jim Liaw, "President and co-founder of Formula DRIFT"



NuFormz Racing Owner
Shaun Carlson on the
Mend after Health Scare 

Shaun Carlson, owner of Team Mopar® Formula Drift star Samuel Hubinette’
s Mopar Drift Dodge Challenger, is recuperating nicely at home after
suffering a series of three heart attacks over the last month. The
attacks have been diagnosed as Brugada Syndrome, a genetic disease
characterized by an abnormality in the heart’s electrical system that
can cause potentially fatal arrhythmias.

Carlson, owner and team manager of NuFormz Racing in Ontario, Calif.,
and a former Team Mopar NHRA Pro Stock driver for Don Schumacher Racing,
had just returned home after working at his shop on Feb. 1 when he
suffered a ventricular tachycardia episode. He was shocked back to life
two times during his ordeal. Following a battery of tests, Carlson
received an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) to monitor his
heart rhythms and deliver shocks if dangerous rhythms occur.

Carlson was discharged from the hospital nearly two weeks ago. He has
since paid a few visits to his NuFormz Racing shop, but has been placed
on restricted duty, which means absolutely no work or stress. On his ICD
device, Carlson joked, "It’s in a cool titanium case. I now have a
Social Security number and a serial number! It’s like my own 24-hour
paramedic. I don’t have a problem with the plumbing side of my heart,
but with the electrical side. Everything inside me is fine, but I
inherited a gene that leads to this disease.

"I still have some championships to win with Sam and with Mopar. There’s
a reason why I’ve survived three heart attacks. Going forward, I plan to
work to bring awareness to everybody out there about Brugada. It’s been
a life-changing experience and I’m going to make the best out of it. It’
s good to be smellin’ the roses right now."

Hubinette and the Mopar NuFormz team will make their 2009 debut April
10–11 in the Formula Drift season-opening event on the Streets of Long
Beach, Calif. For more information on the Formula Drift Series, visit
http://www.formuladrift.com.

Thank you Derek for taking all the pictures!

So the guys from the Attic (Buena Park), Jimmy and Derek came by the Formula Drift office the other day to stop by because they were here in Downtown Long Beach.  I took them on a tour around the office on what goes behind in the scenes in here, too bad they didn’t tell me earlier I would have gone to lunch with them..next time Korean BBQ for sure!!! I would like to add that “Attic is the OFFICIAL Formula Drift Street Wear Store”!

By the way Attic carries all of your STREET WEAR needs from Crooks & Castle’s, The Hundreds, Rogue Status, Mosley Tribes, Creative Recreation, IM-KING, Nike (for your SB heads)…and much more!  Swing by and check it out!  And if you haven’t been to or shopped at the Attic before you should definitely check it out, their located in Buena Park right across from Knott’s Berry Farm, you can’t miss it!!  Also sign up for their VIP MAILING LIST Text Attic to 69302 (Text message rates apply) for all the latest news on new arrival’s and HUGE sales!!

Lastly I want to mention keep your date open on March 28, 2009 because we will be having a Formula Drift x Attic Meet at their store.  I’ll post up more information as we get closer!  But yeah its going to be crazy a little teaser of what’s to come in Long Beach in April!

Check out their blog also on www.attic2zoo.com/wordpress

– Ceso

So Jimmy and I dropped by Formula Drift’s office the other day to say hi.

We were in the neighborhood so we thought we’d bug Ceso.

Meet Jim, the president of FD.

Ryan’s the head of marketing.  He was in a meeting so I didn’t want to disturb him.

Ceso is our main point of contact at FD since he’s at the store all the time.  He works for Ryan in marketing.

Casidi and Andy run the operations team and handle all of the logistics.

Either Jimmy’s trying to figure out where to place Attic’s booth at their Long Beach event, or he’s trying to imagine what it’d be like to drift his car on the track.  Most likely both.

It must be nice having a little smoking patio with a view.

Downtown Long Beach.

Formula Drift’s first event is in Long Beach in one month.

I’m not going to lie.  I’m pretty excited.

-Pesci