The 2010 Formula D season (officially titled Formula Drift Pro Championship) was the seventh season for the Formula D

Formula D

Formula DRIFT or Formula D is the premier United States drifting series. Formula Drift, Inc. was co-founded by Jim Liaw and Ryan Sage in 2003 as a sister company to Slipstream Global Marketing, the same partnership that brought D1 Grand Prix to the United States. The new entity would solely own,...

 series. The series began on April 10 on the streets of Long Beach

Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...

 and concluded on October 9 at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale after seven events.

With two victories at Long Beach and Infineon Raceway

Infineon Raceway

Infineon Raceway, formerly Sears Point Raceway, is a road course and drag strip located on the landform known as Sears Point in the southern Sonoma Mountains near Sonoma, California, USA. The course is a complex series of twists and turns that go up and down the hills...

, Vaughn Gittin

Vaughn Gittin

Vaughn Donald Gittin, Jr. , commonly known as JR, is an American self-taught professional drifter from Annapolis, Maryland who currently competes in the Formula D series in his 2011 Falken Tire Ford Racing Mustang. When he's not competing, Vaughn performs drifting demonstrations for Ford in his...

 took his first Formula D title by 63.5 points, taking the first non-Nissan championship since 2006. Tanner Foust

Tanner Foust

Tanner Foust is a professional racing driver, stunt driver, and television host. He competes in rally, drift, ice racing, time attack and rallycross with multiple podium placements and national championships. He is a co-host on the American version of the motoring television series, Top...

's Scion tC

Scion tC

The Scion tC is an automobile manufactured and sold by Scion, a division of Toyota. Introduced in the United States in June 2004 and Canada in 2010. The name tC does not fit in with its stablemates the xA, xB, and xD, because the name XC designation has already been used by Volvo for its lineup of...

 finished second in the championship, having taken victories at Evergreen Speedway

Evergreen Speedway

Evergreen Speedway is an automobile racetrack located within the confines of the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, Washington. The stadium can accommodate up to 7500 spectators in the covered grandstand and an additional 7500 in the uncovered modular grandstands...

 and Irwindale, but Gittin's consistent finishing gave him the advantage over Foust. Ryan Tuerck finished third in the championship, despite not winning any of the seven events to be held. Daijiro Yoshihara

Daijiro Yoshihara

Daijiro Yoshihara is one of the world's best drifters in the motor sports of Drifting. With 10 years of competition under his belt, Dai has always been a thrill seeker and it was only natural for him to get into drifting...

 finished fourth after taking successive victories at Road Atlanta

Road Atlanta

Road Atlanta is a 2.54-mile road course located just north of Braselton, Georgia, USA. The facility is utilized for a wide variety of events, including professional and amateur sports car and motorcycle races, racing and driving schools, corporate programs and testing for motorsports teams...

 and Wall Township Speedway

Wall Township Speedway

Wall Township Speedway is a race track in Wall Township, New Jersey. The track opened to the public in the spring of 1950 and has operated for at least a part of every year since. The track was an early home to racing stars Ray Evernham and Martin Truex, Jr. Also, it hosted NASCAR Strictly Stock...

. Darren McNamara completed the top five in the championship, while Tyler McQuarrie took the other event win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada near Las Vegas, is a complex of multiple tracks for automobile racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.-History:...

.

Schedule

Round	Event	Location	Date	Winner	Car
1	Streets of Long Beach	Long Beach Long Beach, California Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257... , California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...	April 10	Vaughn Gittin Vaughn Gittin Vaughn Donald Gittin, Jr. , commonly known as JR, is an American self-taught professional drifter from Annapolis, Maryland who currently competes in the Formula D series in his 2011 Falken Tire Ford Racing Mustang. When he's not competing, Vaughn performs drifting demonstrations for Ford in his...	Ford Mustang
2	Road Atlanta Road Atlanta Road Atlanta is a 2.54-mile road course located just north of Braselton, Georgia, USA. The facility is utilized for a wide variety of events, including professional and amateur sports car and motorcycle races, racing and driving schools, corporate programs and testing for motorsports teams...	Braselton Braselton, Georgia Braselton is a town in Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall, and Jackson Counties in the U.S. state of Georgia, about 40 miles northeast of Atlanta. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 7,511.... , Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...	May 8	Daijiro Yoshihara Daijiro Yoshihara Daijiro Yoshihara is one of the world's best drifters in the motor sports of Drifting. With 10 years of competition under his belt, Dai has always been a thrill seeker and it was only natural for him to get into drifting...	Nissan 240SX Nissan 240SX The 240SX is a two-door compact car that was introduced to the North American market by Nissan in 1988 for the following model year. It replaced the outgoing 200SX model. Most of the 240SX were equipped with the 2.4-liter inline 4 engine . The KA24E being single over-head cam and KA24DE being dual...
3	Wall Township Speedway Wall Township Speedway Wall Township Speedway is a race track in Wall Township, New Jersey. The track opened to the public in the spring of 1950 and has operated for at least a part of every year since. The track was an early home to racing stars Ray Evernham and Martin Truex, Jr. Also, it hosted NASCAR Strictly Stock...	Wall Township Wall Township, New Jersey Wall Township is a township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 26,164.Wall Township was formally incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 7, 1851... , New Jersey New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...	June 5	Daijiro Yoshihara Daijiro Yoshihara Daijiro Yoshihara is one of the world's best drifters in the motor sports of Drifting. With 10 years of competition under his belt, Dai has always been a thrill seeker and it was only natural for him to get into drifting...	Nissan 240SX Nissan 240SX The 240SX is a two-door compact car that was introduced to the North American market by Nissan in 1988 for the following model year. It replaced the outgoing 200SX model. Most of the 240SX were equipped with the 2.4-liter inline 4 engine . The KA24E being single over-head cam and KA24DE being dual...
4	Evergreen Speedway Evergreen Speedway Evergreen Speedway is an automobile racetrack located within the confines of the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, Washington. The stadium can accommodate up to 7500 spectators in the covered grandstand and an additional 7500 in the uncovered modular grandstands...	Monroe Monroe, Washington Monroe is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. The population as of 17,304 at the 2010 census.-History:The history of Monroe is intertwined with that of the Great Northern Railway which pushed over the Cascade Range at Stevens Pass and worked its way down the Skykomish River... , Washington	July 10	Tanner Foust Tanner Foust Tanner Foust is a professional racing driver, stunt driver, and television host. He competes in rally, drift, ice racing, time attack and rallycross with multiple podium placements and national championships. He is a co-host on the American version of the motoring television series, Top...	Scion tC Scion tC The Scion tC is an automobile manufactured and sold by Scion, a division of Toyota. Introduced in the United States in June 2004 and Canada in 2010. The name tC does not fit in with its stablemates the xA, xB, and xD, because the name XC designation has already been used by Volvo for its lineup of...
5	Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada near Las Vegas, is a complex of multiple tracks for automobile racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.-History:...	Las Vegas Las Vegas metropolitan area The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ... , Nevada Nevada Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...	August 21	Tyler McQuarrie	Nissan 350Z Nissan 350Z The Nissan 350Z is a two seat sports car that was manufactured by Nissan from 2002 to 2009 and marks the fifth generation of Nissan's Z-car line. The 350Z entered production in late 2002 and was sold and marketed as a 2003 model. The first year there was only a coupe, as the roadster did not debut...
6	Infineon Raceway Infineon Raceway Infineon Raceway, formerly Sears Point Raceway, is a road course and drag strip located on the landform known as Sears Point in the southern Sonoma Mountains near Sonoma, California, USA. The course is a complex series of twists and turns that go up and down the hills...	Sonoma Sonoma, California Sonoma is a historically significant city in Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, California, USA, surrounding its historic town plaza, a remnant of the town's Mexican colonial past. It was the capital of the short-lived California Republic... , California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...	September 11	Vaughn Gittin Vaughn Gittin Vaughn Donald Gittin, Jr. , commonly known as JR, is an American self-taught professional drifter from Annapolis, Maryland who currently competes in the Formula D series in his 2011 Falken Tire Ford Racing Mustang. When he's not competing, Vaughn performs drifting demonstrations for Ford in his...	Ford Mustang
7	Toyota Speedway	Irwindale Irwindale, California Irwindale is a city in the San Gabriel Valley, in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 1,422 at the 2010 census, down from 1,446 at the 2000 census.... , California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...	October 9	Tanner Foust Tanner Foust Tanner Foust is a professional racing driver, stunt driver, and television host. He competes in rally, drift, ice racing, time attack and rallycross with multiple podium placements and national championships. He is a co-host on the American version of the motoring television series, Top...	Scion tC Scion tC The Scion tC is an automobile manufactured and sold by Scion, a division of Toyota. Introduced in the United States in June 2004 and Canada in 2010. The name tC does not fit in with its stablemates the xA, xB, and xD, because the name XC designation has already been used by Volvo for its lineup of...

Championship standings

Pos	Driver	LBH	ATL Road Atlanta Road Atlanta is a 2.54-mile road course located just north of Braselton, Georgia, USA. The facility is utilized for a wide variety of events, including professional and amateur sports car and motorcycle races, racing and driving schools, corporate programs and testing for motorsports teams...	WTS Wall Township Speedway Wall Township Speedway is a race track in Wall Township, New Jersey. The track opened to the public in the spring of 1950 and has operated for at least a part of every year since. The track was an early home to racing stars Ray Evernham and Martin Truex, Jr. Also, it hosted NASCAR Strictly Stock...	EVS Evergreen Speedway Evergreen Speedway is an automobile racetrack located within the confines of the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, Washington. The stadium can accommodate up to 7500 spectators in the covered grandstand and an additional 7500 in the uncovered modular grandstands...	LVS Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada near Las Vegas, is a complex of multiple tracks for automobile racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.-History:...	SON Infineon Raceway Infineon Raceway, formerly Sears Point Raceway, is a road course and drag strip located on the landform known as Sears Point in the southern Sonoma Mountains near Sonoma, California, USA. The course is a complex series of twists and turns that go up and down the hills...	IRW	Points
1	Vaughn Gittin Vaughn Gittin Vaughn Donald Gittin, Jr. , commonly known as JR, is an American self-taught professional drifter from Annapolis, Maryland who currently competes in the Formula D series in his 2011 Falken Tire Ford Racing Mustang. When he's not competing, Vaughn performs drifting demonstrations for Ford in his...	108	91	92	66	82	101	92	632
2	Tanner Foust Tanner Foust Tanner Foust is a professional racing driver, stunt driver, and television host. He competes in rally, drift, ice racing, time attack and rallycross with multiple podium placements and national championships. He is a co-host on the American version of the motoring television series, Top...	82	66	80	103	55	78.5	104	568.5
3	Ryan Tuerck	65	71	73	96	56	94	60	515
4	Daijiro Yoshihara Daijiro Yoshihara Daijiro Yoshihara is one of the world's best drifters in the motor sports of Drifting. With 10 years of competition under his belt, Dai has always been a thrill seeker and it was only natural for him to get into drifting...	56	106	108	56	91	65	32	514
5	Darren McNamara Darren McNamara Darren 'D-Mac' McNamara is a professional drift driver from Cork, Ireland.Darren first competed in the Irish Prodrift series and the British D1 Great Britain series , winning the Prodrift title in 2006. He drove a Toyota AE86 with a Nissan SR20 engine.In 2007 he was invited to compete in the...	60	63	79	84	56	54.5	81	477.5
6	Chris Forsberg Chris Forsberg Chris Forsberg , is an American self-taught drifting driver from Doylestown, Pennsylvania who currently competes in the Formula Drift series in his Nissan 370Z for NOS Energy Drink and Hankook Tires.- History :...	56	81	64	65	30	79	64	439
7	Rhys Millen Rhys Millen Rhys Millen , nephew of IMSA GTS driver Steve Millen, son of Rod and elder brother of Ryan, is one of the world's top competitors in drifting. Prior to that he was a top rally driver in the US, and became the first works backed driver from a car manufacturer with GM in 2004 after narrowly losing to...	100	58	24.5	55	54.25	61.25	64	417
8	Tyler McQuarrie	34	24.5	56	57	104	66	55	396.5
9	Michihiro Takatori	54.25	24.25	63	71	27	56	78.5	374
10	Samuel Hübinette Samuel Hubinette Samuel Hübinette, aka The Crazy Swede , is a Swedish professional race car driver and Hollywood stunt driver. He started working as a test driver for Volvo Cars...	64	56	55	56	73	26	27	357
11	Justin Pawlak	26	54.5	67	64	56	25	62	354.5
12	Conrad Grunewald	24.5	69	24.5	26	69	26	56	295
13	Fredric Aasbø	72			62	24.5	65	56	279.5
14	Joon Woo-Maeng	24.25	56	0	55	55	55	26	271.25
15	Ken Gushi Ken Gushi is one of Japan's top competitors in the sport of drifting. Born in Okinawa, Japan, but raised in Los Angeles, he was taught by his father Tsukasa Gushi at the age of 13 with a Toyota AE86. Ken has become the youngest competitor in both the D1 Grand Prix of Japan and the Formula Drift Championships...	25	61.5	55	62	0	24.5	24.5	252.5
16	Matt Powers	24.25	24.5	24.5	24.5	24.5	54.25	61.5	238
17	Charles Ng Charles Ng (racing driver) Charles Ka-Ki Ng is a professional racing driver from Hong Kong. He currently resides in Rowland Heights, California.-Career:...	24.25	25	56	61.25	62	0	0	228.5
18	Kyle Mohan	24.5	25	25	24.25	64	32	25	219.75
19	Ross Petty	24.5	54.5	58	24.5	24.5	27	0	213
20	Stephan Verdier	54.5	24.25	57	24.25	0	26	24.5	210.5
21	Mike Whiddett	0	24.25	24.5	24.5	56	24.25	56	209.5
22	Ryuji Miki Ryuji Miki is a racing and drifting driver from Tottori Prefecture, Japan. Miki was the D1 Grand Prix champion driving the Top Secret Silvia S15. Miki also competed in the Net'z Cup, a one make series for the Toyota Altezza between 2005 and its final season in 2006 and is nicknamed Doki-Doki kun due to his...	56	25	24.25	0	25	54.5	24.25	209
23	Tony Brakohiapa	54.5	0	24.5	0	69.25	54.5	0	202.75
24	James Deane	61.5				24.5	61.5	54.5	202
25	Patrick Mordaunt	62	55	0	24.5	24.25	25	0	190.75
26	Dean Kearney	24.25	24.5	55	24.25	0	54.25	0	182.25
27	Alex Pfeiffer	25	0		24.25	61.5	27	24.25	162
28	Forrest Wang	54.5	24.25	54.5	24.25	0			157.5
29	Taka Aono Taka Aono Taka Aono is a Japanese drift driver currently competing in the American Formula D series in his Toyota Corolla AE86 Trueno....	25	24.5	0	28	24.25	24.5	24.5	150.75
30	Michael Essa	0	73	24.25	24.5	24.25		0	146
31	Robbie Nishida	0	56	24.25	24.5	0	0	24.5	129.25
32	Nikolay Konstantinov				54.5	24.25	24.25	24.25	127.25
33	Matt Field	0				24.5	24.25	54.25	103
34	Dennis Mertzanis	24.25	24.25	24.25	0	0	24.25	0	97
35	Matt Waldin		24.25	24.5				25	73.75
36	Eric O’Sullivan	0	0	0	24.25	24.5	0	24.25	73
	Bill Sherman	0	0	24.25			24.5	24.25	73
38	Brian Wilkerson		0	24.25	24.25	24.25		0	72.75
39	Ian Fournier	0			0	0		61.25	61.25
40	Jeff Jones	0	0	0	0	24.5	24.25	0	48.75
	Cyrus Martinez	0	24.25	24.5	0	0	0	0	48.75
	Cody Parkhouse	0	24.25		24.5	0		0	48.75
	Doug Van Den Brink		24.5	24.25				0	48.75
44	Jeff Abbott Jeff Abbott (racing driver) Jeff Abbott is a professional athlete in the motorsport of drifting. Jeff is currently a privateer campaining in Formula Drift with a 1999 Mazda Miata.-Biography:...	24.25				24.25			48.5
	Jodin LeJeune	24.25	0	0		0	0	24.25	48.5
46	Yasuomi Kondo							24.5	24.5
	John Russakoff	24.5						0	24.5
48	Andrew Comrie-Picard Andrew Comrie-Picard Andrew Comrie-Picard is an X Games athlete, professional race car driver, stunt driver, automotive journalist, and TV personality. He left a career as a New York City entertainment lawyer to pursue his passion for racing...	0	0	24.25	0	0		0	24.25
Pos	Driver	LBH	ATL Road Atlanta Road Atlanta is a 2.54-mile road course located just north of Braselton, Georgia, USA. The facility is utilized for a wide variety of events, including professional and amateur sports car and motorcycle races, racing and driving schools, corporate programs and testing for motorsports teams...	WTS Wall Township Speedway Wall Township Speedway is a race track in Wall Township, New Jersey. The track opened to the public in the spring of 1950 and has operated for at least a part of every year since. The track was an early home to racing stars Ray Evernham and Martin Truex, Jr. Also, it hosted NASCAR Strictly Stock...	EVS Evergreen Speedway Evergreen Speedway is an automobile racetrack located within the confines of the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, Washington. The stadium can accommodate up to 7500 spectators in the covered grandstand and an additional 7500 in the uncovered modular grandstands...	LVS Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada near Las Vegas, is a complex of multiple tracks for automobile racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.-History:...	SON Infineon Raceway Infineon Raceway, formerly Sears Point Raceway, is a road course and drag strip located on the landform known as Sears Point in the southern Sonoma Mountains near Sonoma, California, USA. The course is a complex series of twists and turns that go up and down the hills...	IRW	Points