Formula Drift Atlanta | Day 2 Round 2 – Road to the Championship Photography by Frank Leon, Emil Garcia, & Oliver Ledesma Release by John Pangilinan Formula DRIFT returned to Road Atlanta for Round 2: Road to the Championship. Justin Pawlak takes the victory in the Falken Tire Mustang increasing his point lead in the Pro Championship Points Standings. Round 2: Road to the Championship brought the Formula DRIFT Pro Championship back to the Series birthplace nine years ago. Fans came in droves seeing an increase in attendance at Road Atlanta. This marks another consecutive season of growth. “It’s very satisfying that Road...

Formula Drift Atlanta | Day 1 Round 2 – Road to the Championship Photography by Emil Garcia As most racing events go, each track in a series offers new challenges and new opportunities. After an exciting Round 1 at Long Beach, Formula Drift continued their series into Atlanta. Road Atlanta has been on the FD schedule close to a decade and proves to be one of my top three tracks for FD. Day 1 starts with practice, shake downs, and some tuning. The guys fought it out to see who takes the Top 32 into competition day and the qualifying round becomes a battlefield. Some of our hometown drivers did not make the cut this round, surprising...

Formula Drift 2011 This 2011 season of Formula Drift has been to me the most exciting to date. Becoming a media sponsor for the series was extremely exciting for us here at State of Stance, as we have watched this series grow from its roots to a full-fledged professional racing sanction. Ryan Sage and Jim Liaw along with their team have dedicated numerous amounts of time and effort to make sure that each season is even better than the last. Founded in 2003 as a sister company to Slipstream Global Marketing, the same partnership that brought D1 Grand Prix to the United States, Formula Drift Holdings has kept our automotive passion alive by...

Words and photos by Emil Garcia State of Stance was on location at Road Atlanta for the 2011 Petit Le Mans. The Race was filled many nail biting moments, bringing out a total 10 full course cautions. It was early in the race that Butch Leitzinger put the #43 Dyson Racing Lola B09/86 Mazda into the wall, effectively forcing them out of the race.    The day continued with multiple accidents forcing two other cars (#64 Jet Alliance Lotus Evora & #1 Audi Sport R18) out of the race, and mechanical problems shortening the day of eight other cars. The race came down to the wire in the GT Class, Giancarlo Fisichella took the race win, but...