2024 Formula Drift season

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The 2024 Formula Drift season (officially titled and stylized as the Formula DRIFT PRO Championship) is the twenty-first season of the Formula D series. The season began on April 13 at Long Beach and will conclude on October 19 at Irwindale Speedway after eight events.

Entries

Team	No.	Car	Tires	Driver	Round(s)
ASM	8	BMW M3 E46	GT Radial	Robert Thorne	All
Asphalt Anarchy	82	Chevrolet Corvette C6	Kenda	Taylor Hull	All
Beechum Racing	999	BMW M3 E46	Nexen	Trenton Beechum	All
Cash Racing	16	Cadillac XLR	Kenda	Jonathan Hurst	All
Diego Higa racing team	169	Toyota GT86	GT Radial	Diego Higa	All
Drift Cave Motorsports	777	Chevrolet Corvette C6	GT Radial	Matt Field	All
DRIFTING DEPARTMENT 17	117	Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano	Nexen	Federico Sceriffo	All
Extreme SimRacing	357	Chevrolet Corvette C7 Z06	GT Radial	João Barion	All
Feal Suspension Race Team	707	Nissan Silvia "S14.9"	GT Radial	Simen Olsen	All
	723	Nissan Silvia S15	GT Radial	Aurimas Bakchis	All
Forsberg Racing	64	Nissan Z	GT Radial	Chris Forsberg	All
Garagistic	171	BMW 1 Series E82	Vitour	Rome Charpentier	All
Get Nuts Lab.	808	Nissan Silvia S15	Vitour	Forrest Wang	All
Hateley Motorsports	98	BMW M3 E46	Kumho	Andy Hateley  R	All
Jeff Jones Racing	818	Nissan 370Z	Kumho	Jeff Jones	All
Jerry Yang Racing	123	Toyota GT86	GT Radial	Kazuya Taguchi	All
	168	Toyota GT86	GT Radial	Hiroya Minowa  R	All
Jhonnattan Castro Racing	17	Toyota GR86	Kenda	Jhonnattan Castro	All
Kyle Mohan Racing	99	Mazda RX-8	Vitour	Kyle Mohan	All
LZMFG	5	BMW M3 E36	Nitto	Adam LZ	?
MspeK Performance	527	Nissan Silvia "S14.9"	Vitour	Daniel Stuke	All
Noback Racing Co.	54	BMW M3 E46	Kenda	Nick Noback	All
Papadakis Racing	151	Toyota GR Supra	Nitto	Fredric Aasbø	All
	411	Toyota GR Corolla	Nitto	Ryan Tuerck	All
Power Racing	919	Nissan Silvia S15	Nexen	Mike Power	All
RAD Industries	34	Toyota Supra A80	GT Radial	Dan Burkett	All
Robbins Race Co.	35	Nissan 350Z	Kenda	Alec Robbins	All
RTR Vehicles' Drift Team	25	Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD	Nitto	Vaughn Gittin, Jr.	?
	130	Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD	Nitto	James Deane	All
	213	Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD	Nitto	Ben Hobson  R	All
Ryan Litteral Racing	909	Nissan Silvia S15	Kenda	Ryan Litteral	All
Shanahan 79	79	BMW M3 E36	Vitour	Conor Shanahan  R	1, 3–8
Sorensen Motorsports	513	BMW M3 E92	Nitto	Branden Sorensen	All
Team Hansen Drifting	119	Nissan 240SX S13	GT Radial	Rudy Hansen  R	All
Team Infamous	27	Nissan Silvia S14	Kenda	Derek Madison	All
Team Karnage	43	Dodge Viper ZB II	Kumho	Dean Kearney	All
Team Never Settle	85	BMW M3 E46	Vitour	Dmitriy Brutskiy	All
Three's Racing	21	Toyota GR86	Kenda	Ken Gushi	All
Whip Racing	129	BMW M3 E46	GT Radial	Dylan Hughes	All

R Eligible for Rookie of the Year

Driver changes

• 2023 PRO champion Chelsea DeNofa retired from the series, announcing his intention ahead of the final round in 2023. His seat at RTR Motorsports was taken by 2023 PROSPEC champion Ben Hobson.
• 2023 PROSPEC runner-up Andy Hateley made his Formula Drift PRO debut.
• Hiroya Minowa joined Jerry Yang Racing with support from GT Radial Tires. At the start of the season, he was just 14 years old.
• After 2 seasons driving for RTR Motorsports, Adam LZ entered his own team running a single BMW E36. LZMFG only competed part-time in their debut FD season in order to run a full DMEC programme for 2024.
• Two-time PROSPEC champion Dmitriy Brutskiy moved up to the PRO series.
• Rudy Hansen moved up from the PROSPEC series, where he finished third in 2023.
• 2022 PROSPEC runner-up Derek Madison moved up to the PRO series.
• 2023 Drift Masters European Champion Conor Shanahan joined the series alongside defending his DMEC title. He will miss the second round at Road Atlanta due to a calendar clash with DMEC.
• Travis Reeder elected not to compete in the 2024 season.

Other changes

• GT Radial, winners of the Tire Cup in 2023, renewed their partnership with the series for a further three years.
• Kumho entered the series as an official tire sponsor for 2024 and beyond.

Schedule

Round	Title	Circuit	Location	Date	Winner	Car
1	Streets of Long Beach	Streets of Long Beach	Long Beach, California	April 13	James Deane	Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD
2	Road to the Championship	Road Atlanta	Braselton, Georgia	May 11	Fredric Aasbø	Toyota GR Supra
3	Scorched	Orlando Speed World	Orlando, Florida	June 1
4	The Gauntlet	Englishtown Raceway Park	Englishtown, New Jersey	June 22
5	Crossroads	World Wide Technology Raceway	St. Louis, Missouri	July 20
6	Throwdown	Evergreen Speedway	Monroe, Washington	August 10
7	Elevated	Utah Motorsports Campus	Grantsville, Utah	August 30
8	Title Fight	Irwindale Speedway	Irwindale, California	October 19
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Championship standings

Pre-event qualifying was eliminated starting in 2024, so that all results across the weekend are determined by tandem drifting and not by solo runs.

The 24 highest classified drivers in the previous event are guaranteed a starting position at the next event and are seeded with the same results, so that the previous event winner is awarded the number 1 seed (equivalent to the top qualifier in previous seasons).

The remaining 8 seeding positions (25th through 32nd) are contested by up to 24 other drivers, including those who finished 25th or below in the previous round. Seeding within this group is determined by a Seeding Bracket, a knockout-style tandem drift competition of similar format to the main event, with the first-place finisher being awarded the 25th starting position in the main event. All drivers score championship points; those eliminated during the Seeding Bracket are classified 33rd through 48th and receive 14 points.

In the main event, drivers proceed through a series of competition heats, with those eliminated in the first round (Top 32) receiving 28 points and classifying 17th through 32nd, the second round (Top 16) receiving 42 points and classifying 9th through 16th, the third round (Great 8) receiving 56 points and classifying 5th through 8th, and the fourth round (Final Four) classifying 3rd and 4th, both receiving 70 points. In the Final, the runner-up receives 84 points and the winner 100 points. Final classification within each round is then determined by highest seeding position; for example, of the two drivers eliminated in the Final Four, the driver who was seeded higher entering the event is awarded 3rd position and the final place on the podium.

In the event of a tie on points, the driver who classified higher in the most recent round will be awarded the higher position.

For Round 1 at Long Beach, the final classification of the 2023 championship was used, with non-returning drivers Chelsea DeNofa (1st) and Kristaps Blušs (24th) skipped and the ranking reapplied so that Taylor Hull (25th) and Alec Robbins (26th) were seeded 23rd and 24th respectively, and guaranteed starting positions.

Competition stage

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th–8th	9th–16th	17th–32nd	33rd–48th
Points	100	84	70	70	56	42	28	14

Pro Championship standings

Pos Driver LBH ATL ORL ENG WWT EVS UTA IRW Pts 1 James Deane 1 3 2 254 2 Simen Olsen 2 2 9 210 3 Aurimas Bakchis 3 4 5 196 4 Fredric Aasbø 5 1 17 184 5 Branden Sorensen 14 12 3 154 6 Hiroya Minowa  R  8 18 4 154 7 Matt Field 9 6 6 154 8 Nick Noback 7 17 7 140 9 Rome Charpentier 6 5 18 140 10 Ken Gushi 4 9 20 140 11 Conor Shanahan  R  25   1 128 12 Chris Forsberg 11 10 10 126 13 Adam LZ 24 25 8 112 14 Dylan Hughes 17 13 11 112 15 Ryan Tuerck 10 19 12 112 16 Trenton Beechum 16 22 13 112 17 Dan Burkett 26 8 19 112 18 Kazuya Taguchi 12 11 21 112 19 Taylor Hull 22 24 14 98 20 Diego Higa 29 26 16 98 21 Jhonnattan Castro 18 14 22 98 22 Alec Robbins 23 15 23 98 23 Jeff Jones 30 16 24 98 24 Jonathan Hurst 13 20 25 98 25 Robert Thorne 15 21 26 98 26 Daniel Stuke 21 23 27 84 17 Forrest Wang 20 7   84 28 Ryan Litteral   30   70 29 Dmitriy Brutskiy 37 29 28 70 30 Rudy Hansen  R  28 36 31 70 31 Andy Hateley 34 32 29 56 32 Derek Madison 36 34 30 56 33 Federico Sceriffo 27 35 34 56 34 Kyle Mohan 33 28 36 56 35 João Barion 31 27 32 42 36 Ben Hobson  R  35 33 33 42 37 Mike Power 32   35 28 38 Vaughn Gittin, Jr.   31   28 39 Dean Kearney 19     28

In-line notation  RY  Rookie of the Year  R  Rookie

Auto Cup standings

Auto Cup points are awarded each round to the two drivers with the highest classified finish for each manufacturer. To be eligible, both the chassis and engine must have been constructed by that manufacturer.

General Motors earned contributions from Chevrolet and Cadillac.

Pos	Manufacturer	LBH	ATL	ORL	ENG	WWT	EVS	UTA	IRW	Pts
1	Toyota	4	1							268
		5	9
2	Ford	1	3							212
		35	31
3	General Motors	9	6							188
		13	20
4	BMW	6	5							154
		37	29
5	Nissan	11	10							84
6	Ferrari	27	35							42
7	Mazda	33	28							42
8	Dodge	19								28

Tire Cup standings

Tire Cup points are awarded each round to the two drivers with the highest classified finish for each tire manufacturer.

Pos	Tire	LBH	ATL	ORL	ENG	WWT	EVS	UTA	IRW	Pts
1	Nitto	1	1							326
		5	3
2	GT Radial	2	2							308
		3	4
3	Kenda	4	9							210
		7	14
4	Vitour	6	5							196
		20	7
5	Kumho	19	16							112
		30	32
6	Nexen	16	22							112
		27	35