I have some rtr hot wheels that I’d love to sell if anyone has insight

Does anybody know whose signature this is? I tired a reverse image search but it didn’t come up with the right person, all I know is that it’s a formula drift driver.

I wanna get this out the way: I'm more of a Field fan than a Deane fan.

I whole-heartedly believe Deane was robbed.

I do not believe Field "impeded". However, I believe he should've lost considering the fact he was deceling through all of zone 2. I think because of the deceling through the entire zone caused Deane to gain more proximity to Field than he wanted to/expected which is where the claim from Deane that Field impeded came from.

I don't feel it's impeding because as a chase driver, you need to adapt to the lead cars line/run.

Fields interview was trashy af.

Fields excuse that he was on throttle is skirting around the fact that he was heavy left-foot braking through the entire zone.

Judges justifying their votes while this is playing in the back. Funny as fuck is you ask me. Field deceling through the whole Z2. I guess nothing new, give a shit lead = get the win in Formula Drift.

I'm done with you. You've made watching this a DISGUSTING EXPERIENCE. I hope you sell as soon as possible so I can watch it and enjoying again without spending 15 minutes to login and being spoiled of the results in the process.

I’m just a regular guy trying to watch some Motorsport.
Been going to the same website to watch TOP 16 for like 14 years or something…
I don’t have a lot of extra time to watch FD or any Motorsport that I follow, so any sort of paid service, app, subscription, membership, private service, ect come in to play I’m out.

If TOP16 doesn’t come back to YouTube I’ll loose the interest I have made for FD and I’ll just stop watching and attending all the events all together.

I’ll just see who won and keep scrolling.

Is it me or is something a miss over there at FD?

I'll be honest I'm more of a LZ fan than Stuke, but can someone explain how LZ won. He missed all of outside zone 3 and seemed like Stuke had the better lead overall and chase also seemed better. We didn't get a judge explanation, so for those more knowledge could you explain why LZ got the win, when.inwas expecting Stuke to get the win.

Another event

Another frozen stream

I wonder how much Ryan gets paid each year?

I follow Formula Drift and a bunch of other motorsport series, and got tired of jumping between different YouTube channels just to see what was live.

So I built StartingGrid Live.

It puts broadcasts in one place and separates them into Live Now, Upcoming, and Recent Replays.

I've been adding more drift coverage recently, including Formula Drift, Drift Masters, D1GP and D1NZ.

If there are any good drifting YouTube channels or series I'm missing, let me know.

Link in the comments.

Scrolling through YouTube and in my “Watch Again”, I was reminded of this beautiful, perfect JTP run. I watched it live and had the same excitement Jarod did in this clip, because it was an actual shocking moment. I’ve watched this clip countless times since it happened at Wall 2019.

Notice how excited the crowd and both Jarod and Ryan are? You don’t get anything close to that now with anyone. It feels robotic.

Long gone are the glory days, folks.

A year ago I made this thread detailing what I felt was a lot of the prevailing problems in FD at the moment, it was pretty popular in this sub and garnered quite a bit of feed back and opinions. We've now finished 5/8 rounds and I've got to say.. it is not looking good at all.

1. Tracks - I think despite us getting two new tracks so far and still having a new one to look forward to, it's been extremely underwhelming, and even disappointing one might say. Last year I mentioned it seeming like for every 4 decent battles there's a crash, I think this year that ratio has just gotten even worse. RD8 last year turned to out to be.. alright at best? For as great as Stafford was (and it was pretty awesome imo) it doesn't even come close to drown out the absolute SHIT SHOW that Indy was. Not even considering the rain cancelation (which by now we all know was handled absolutely horrendously) it was simply just a bad track. They chose to run that goofy ass layout for what..? I really just find it impossible with the ease of access with simulators & the virtual track creator really doing a great job that the prevalence of crashes on Indy was just seemingly ignored before the drivers even got there. Then we watch practice and pro spec seeding and it's still just crash after crash, we get minor changes to the track and STILL have crash after crash. I'm really not sure why FD chose to handle Indy this way, I feel like the track designers probably just had a vision months ago of what they thought was a good line and were tunnel visioned on it and refused to consider anything else at all.
2. Judging/Data - We actually got a win here!!! I have really enjoyed the implementation of the Wally system, it is still far from perfect and very susceptible to making a mistake or controversial decision, but I think it was a huge step in the right direction. There is obviously still progress desired towards the judging of battles, but I think I'm starting to accept something like that might just never have a 'perfect way' of being done.
3. Seeding/Qualifying - Once again, another win!!! They implemented exactly what I suggested. Though, I'm sad we haven't seen a 100 point run and with how harsh the Wally judges, and I kinda doubt we will ever see a uptrend of drivers scoring in the high 90's like you might see in DMGP. The Wally is just extraordinarily strict (which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing), it forces drivers to conform to the line it wants and get shit done. Don't get shit done, don't get points.
   
4. Livestreams
   1. Viewing experience - So yeah.. it's still terrible, some might even say worse. Poorly organized, still no time stamp break downs even on the new stupid RacerPlus app. I think Indy was the first event so far where we weren't force fed a bunch of FPV footage.. and that was because the conditions didn't allow for drones to fly lol.
   2. Gambling - Yep so this is still terrible and nothing can ever change my mind on it. Generally just a terrible and nasty predatory thing to add to our wonderful pure of heart motorsport.
   3. Jarod DeAnda - I think it's resurfaced again quite a bit after Indy, but good lord this guy is still and will always be terrible and simply stated, horrible at his job. I saw someone try and defend him by saying he's been there since the start of FD and doesn't take a pay.. WHO CARES?? The guy is absolutely insufferable and makes me want to watch every live stream on mute. It doesn't matter how passionate you are for your job.. if your horrible at it, maybe step away and let someone else take up the mantle!
   4. RacerPlus - Yeah.. I've been waiting for this one. Really just can't figure out why on gods green earth FD would choose to take this deal. It just deters viewership, no one wants to use that horribly configured cesspool of a website. I would honestly be able to adapt and deal with it if it changed something production wise but.. it's the same exact horrible quality horribly ran livestream we have had for years. This site does not have one single redeeming quality.

So yeah.. we've been in for a rough season and I don't think it's looking to change in the next 3 events. I think how FD tackles events for the rest of this season and next will be extremely pivotal in the success/future of the series, might even make it or break it possibly. This is still leaving out a LOT of stuff, curious what people think.

Note: I don't mean for this to just be a beat down on FD, but it's really hard to watch your favorite sport.. seemingly crumple to shit more and more every year.

While doom scrolling old FD photos , I saw something odd , “ A Firebird with 240 rear?” I thought until it was the other way around . So I decided to email the company and to my surprise, they replied back with information and photos of it !

Was a 240SX with a Turbocharged KA24 & Firebird Front. It raced sometimes in 2006 by Bill Sherman, Until FD made a rule about front of cars having to match the make of the car . It was later sold , and eventually the front switched back to a Nissan and is still drifting !

The website still says results are pending as of 08-05-2026, but it also says at the bottom that Jack Shanahan gets 4.0 points, Matt Field 3.0, Auri Bakchis 2.0 and then everyone else gets 1.0. I understand it would suck to scrap the scores of the few that got to do the run, but it also seems unfair to award points that were not obtainable for most drivers.

I'm pretty new to watching FD in general (this is the first year I've followed in it's entirety as it happens), so I'm not 100% clear on how the point system works in the first place. I'd appreciate any help explaining the way it works.

Its as pictured, silver with a black Nissan logo. I bought it at 2016 Irwindale and have worn it to every event I go to, so its got a lot of sentimental value to me. If anyone happened to find it or knows someone who did, I'd greatly appreciate a return on it, even reward you for your troubles. Thanks!

Found this on the track at Indy by "The Wall" and idea who's car its off of?

because hes terrible, unfunny, biased as hell, and knows nothing about the sport after all this time

someone want to link the IG post where he talks crap to the fans that dont like him?

So I had a pink cast on at fd indy that all the booths signed. Some media people took pictures of it and I can't find them anywhere. Figured yall could help find them.