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Ride-Along In Car With Blackvue This Weekend At Long Beach

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Watch Formula Drift Live Free with BlackVue Over the Cloud – Anywhere in the World

Formula Drift Championship Starter in Long Beach

As many of you know, BlackVue is the presenting sponsor and official dashcam of Formula Drift Championship. The first event in this year’s series will be held at Long Beach GP Course, April 8-9.

Enjoy Live feeds with BlackVue Over the Cloud

But don’t worry if you’re unable to attend! You can still watch your favorite drivers LIVE thanks to BLACKVUE OVER THE CLOUD’s Live View feature. Follow the event from the BlackVue dashcams installed inside of the cars and around the track!

To do so, download the BlackVue C app for Android (HERE) or iOS (HERE). It’s completely free, and you don’t need to be a BlackVue dashcam owner to participate. All you need to do is register an account and you’re good to go! For a detailed tutorial on how to access Live View from the App, check out our video here: 

You can check the detailed schedule for the Formula Drift Long Beach event here on the Formula Drift website.

See you on the Long Beach track!

BONUS: April 8 to 10: Unlimited Live View Weekend for Everyone!

For the whole event weekend, from Friday to Sunday (PST), Live View will be accessible without limitation of time to all BlackVue Over the Cloud users. Enjoy Live View to your heart’s content!
Note: if your account does not show the additional Live View time during that period, log out and log in again to your BlackVue Over the Cloud account.

Disclaimer: this is a brand new endeavor for BlackVue Over the Cloud, and it will ultimately benefit all users as we learn from this experiment. We are doing our utmost to deliver you the smoothest experience. However, should the service reach overcapacity due to a sudden large influx of users, we cannot guarantee 100% stability. In advance, we thank you for your understanding.

Jeff Jones Racing team for Formula Drift

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Big news out of The Jeff Jones Racing team for Formula Drift USA:   Jeff Jones has a new title sponsor for the 2016 FD season, doc energizing drink.  doc is an energizing soda with a powerful pepper taste that’s crafted for renegades and enjoyed by all.  If you want to grab a doc and go rouge you can stop by and say what’s up to the team in Long beach, CA this weekend.  Jeff Jones Racing has also teamed up with a few new sponsors, ACT, CPR Engines, and Sticker City who laid down the beautiful wrap.   JJR also wants to thank our long-time supporting sponsors who will be returning for the 2016 season, Traklite Wheels, Garret Turbos, BC, CP, drift knuckles, and Sinister Designs.  Finally, JJR racing has launched a brand new website, Drifthacks.com, along with a grand opening of the Jeff Jones Racing drift modification shop in Sun Valley, CA.  If all that was not enough, the team has also launched a Drift 101 video series with new videos every month

Formula DRIFT Announces Partnership with Network A to Launch First Digital and Mobile Channel Dedicated Exclusively to Drifting

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Long Beach, Calif. – April 6, 2016 – Formula DRIFT presented by BlackVue has announced a partnership with Network A (www.networka.com), the leading global action-sports channel, to launch the first digital and mobile channel dedicated exclusively to drifting. The Formula DRIFT channel will feature livestreams of all of the North American events as well as select events from Japan and around the world. It will also offer a full line-up of highlights, interviews, classics, and original programming featuring the greatest drift drivers and cars. The livestreams, video-on-demand, syndication, and social-platform video distribution will all be powered by the Sportsrocket media platform.

“We are very excited to join forces with Network A on this new initiative for fans of Formula DRIFT,” said vice president and co-founder of Formula DRIFT, Ryan Sage. “The partnership will usher in a new era of access and programming innovation for our sport.”

“We are thrilled to partner with Formula Drift to bring exclusive access to the most entertaining series in motorsports, said Brian Bedol, CEO of Sportsrocket, the parent company of Network A. “Network A audiences have asked us for more drift programming, and this was an opportunity to step up in a big way. Our Sportsrocket sports media platform allows us to provide big-league level services to emerging organizations like Formula DRIFT.”

The channel will officially launch later this spring, but will provide a preview through www.formulad.com and www.NetworkA.com for the launch of the 2016 season from the Streets of Long Beach, April 8 and 9.

For more information visit: www.formulad.com, www.NetworkA.com , and www.Sportsrocket.com . Find Formula DRIFT on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Tune into Formula DRIFT on CBS Sports and check your local listings for airtimes.

Formula DRIFT Announces Blackvue Bonus Prize Money

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Long Beach, Calif. – April 5, 2016 – Formula DRIFT presented by BlackVue has announced that it will offer $25,000 additional dollars in prize money to the any driver that wins three specific events. Those events will be Long Beach, Evergreen Speedway and Wall Speedway.

“The new Blackvue relationship has allowed us to invest further in developing the series and this additional prize purse is one of the many things that people will see this year,” said Jim Liaw, President and Co-Founder of Formula DRIFT. “Blackvue will also be giving cameras to each podium winner this year.” Formula DRIFT Round 1, Long Beach kick-offs this weekend, April 8-9. The sell-out event showcases the world’s best drifters competing on the wall-to-wall course of the Long Beach Grand Prix street track. All festivities are open to the public and each day will also be broadcast live at www.formulad.com/live.

Tickets are now available for Round 1: Streets of Long Beach on April 8-9, including reserved seating, 2-day ticket packages, and VIP tickets. Tickets can be purchased through www.formuladrift.com, Ticketmaster outlets, and the Long Beach Convention Center box office.

For more information visit: www.formuladrift.com and find Formula DRIFT on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Tune into Formula DRIFT on CBS Sports and check your local listings for airtimes.