To make one of the best days of the week even better we brought you guys a giveaway in collaboration with Falken Tires. All you have to do is answer a history question and give us your shirt size and you could be a winner.

Prize Question:

1. What driver or drivers running Falken Tires took podium at Sonoma in 2005? Enter the two drivers and your shirt size in the order comments for a chance to win.

HINT: The answer is available on our site with a little research. The gallery from this event is available at Wrecked Magazine somewhere.

Just follow the link into our store where you can fill out your prize information and shirt size for a chance to win. Over 20 prizes are ready to be shipped out for people able to guess the correct drivers.

Fill out your prize information: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=77&products_id=336

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Wrecked Magazine over the last night added something to the top navigation bar that we want to present to you on the blog officially. We have brought the store back in full force with tons of drifting goodies. You can find 1:24 metal diecast cars from Rhys Millen’s Pontiac GTO, Vaughn Gittin Jr.’s Ford Mustang, and Calvin Wan’s Infiniti G35. With almost 100 drifting related items at our launch you have plenty of reasons to whip out your credit card for us. Slide America is $9.99!


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Now before I say anything about this Mustang I took it with the knowledge I would get tons of flack from the community since the 2010 Ford Mustang isn't exactly a model of "drifting" but it even exceeded my personal expectations and then some.

We picked the car up in Los Angeles and headed out to Las Vegas, Nevada for Formula Drift Las Vegas and embark on our road trip. Hopping in the car before I even left Los Angeles the car was miles apart from the older body style Mustang's. Sitting in the interior they have lost that cheap feel and have some quality seats and interior. Here is the view from the driver's seat below. I even love the vintage gauge cluster.



For road trips like ours the car has some helpful additions under the armrest. Along with a second D/C power outlet the car has a line in and USB dock. The line in can be used for an iPod to play through the car stereo and the USB plug can charge your Blackberry/iPhone on the go. You can also sync your music with the Microsoft SYNC system the Mustang has but we went old school with an AUX cable and our iPod.



The car has on tap power from it's 4.6L V8 engine which produces a whooping 315hp. To really get the car moving you have to drive it in a pretty aggressive fashion I found but the car just screams it's way through the gears and loves every minute of it. 5th gear is almost pointless it is beyond an overdrive gear. If you buy one with intentions to drift or just have some everyday hoonage a gear swap is something I would recommend fixing the problem fairly easy.



We quickly rolled into Baker, California and had to stop at the World's Largest Thermometer. The grabber blue paint drew some on lookers and attention as the Baker Thermometer posted a 107 degree temp. for our trip through the dessert.



Even with the 110+ heat and some harder than average driving the car's temp. gauges did not budge. The car is built Ford tough (haha, I couldn't help it!) and is just so well balanced for a big machine. We arrived in Nevada before we could even blink.



We then caught up with Formula D driver Vaughn Gittin Jr. who pilots a 2010 Ford Mustang professionally and he gave us some tips about the car and really had some fun in our grabber blue Mustang. Vaughn keyed us into a little trick to put the car in to what could only be described as "drift mode." You disconnect one of the wheel speed sensors tucked behind the right side of the wheel. Once the cable is disconnected the car will show a check engine light and the ABS light (warning: this will disconnect ABS) but it allows the car to go sliding like crazy.



While under the supervision of Vaughn Gittin at Las Vegas Motor Speedway we let the car loose and had some fun! In fact, we had so much fun sliding the car around we forgot to take pictures or video. Nothing too fancy went down due to my lack of skill but the car drifted easier than any OEM car I have ever drifted. I've owned a 350z, G35, and G37 which just slide out on demand. The Mustang was on par with the 350z for anyone who has driven the car but with mounds more torque at the pedal. We have a video coming out we made on the car so more with Vaughn Gittin Jr. later!



We brought the car out to Red Rock Canyon which is just 20 miles outside of Las Vegas. We took a 13 mile scenic drive around the park to check out Nevada's gorgeous side and see how the Mustang would handle in these hills. For as heavy and old the suspension setup under my steering wheel the car didn't handle that bad. While it's no sports cars like movements the car can take the road more aggressively than I had first imagined.



After enjoying Formula D Las Vegas we took a long way home to really enjoy the 2010 Ford Mustang and meet our 1,000 mile mark for our road trip. We drove down 95 to Laughlin, Nevada which got some more gambling out of our system and headed into Arizona. We grabbed I-40 West and finished off the wild wild west in our all American machine.

The one thing that really took me away after driving is the love people have for the Mustang. Mind you to me I am driving a stock 2010 Ford Mustang GT around and people are honking, giving the thumbs up, and any other Mustang owner would pass us with a nice rev. Insane I tell you, the love America has with it's all American muscle car is something I never expected to that degree.



Total Summary:
Total Miles: 1,123 miles
Gas Total: $193.52
Gas Stops: 6
Overall Fun Factor: 8
Daily Driver Factor: 7.6
Drift Machine Potential: 9.4
Trunk Space: 8.7
Road Trip Machine: 8.3

Check out the gallery from our trip:
http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=118

One of the best Formula Drift events to date happened again back to back with Road Atlanta and you can follow all the competition runs inside this great gallery. Falken Tires drivers Darren McNamara, Vaughn Gittin Jr., and Tyler McQuarrie took home the whole podium in that order. What a huge night for Falken Tires who has been dedicated to the American Drifting scene for quite some time! Joon Maeng took down the 1st place driver in points Ryan Tuerck in the round of 32 and Ken Gushi drove his way to 4th place all in the same day, insane!

Check out the gallery: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=110

Almost 700 photos from the insane main event at Formula D Atlanta. Chris Forsberg in his Nissan 350z drove his way to a victory with Darren McNamara just on his heels with a second place finish. Many drivers battled it out with the best tandem action I have witnessed to date in Formula Drift history. Atlanta is always a bar that is set for the rest of the season so good things should be coming soon!

Check out the gallery: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=99

2009 Pre Season Sit Down: Daijiro Yoshihara

We take a seat with Falken Tires x Discount Tire's new driver Daijiro
Yoshihara. His fresh Lexus IS350 includes a monstrous V8 and a crazy
rear mount radiator system. Daijiro talks to us about the pressure of
being the highest ranked driver on a new team and what he thinks about
all his new teammates. Daijiro Yoshihara even tells us a few secrets
about what is cooking in his new Lexus.






Chris Forsberg HIN 2009 Interview with Wrecked Magazine

Chris Forsberg sits down with us between his demos at Hot Import Nights
Anaheim to talk to about the changes they made to his car for the 2009
season. He touches on some topics focusing on items like doing well off
the bat this season while these other drivers are in a new car learning
curve and depending on his old reliable to get the job done in 09.






2009 Season Preview: Kyle Mohan and his Mazda Rx-8

We head to Kyle Mohan Racing to check out the progress of his brand new
Mazda Rx-8. The 2 rotor powered Mazda is nearing completion while Kyle
takes a minute to tell us about his new motor/transmission setup, how
he is preparing for the 2009 season, and most importantly how the new
car is ready to dominate Formula D in 2009.

In celebration of  our newest site sponsor Falken Tires and the Formula Drift Ditch Day at MT High we are giving away this Falken snowboard. Find out how to win below:

Step 1: You have to write us a quick note on the most fun/best experiance you ever had at a Formula D event. If somehow you have never been to an event you can write it about a snowboarding experience and if you haven't done either make up something good and submit.

Step 2:You have until 11:35pm on Monday March 9th, 2009 to submit your entry.

Step 3: You can submit your answer to wreckedmagazine@gmail.com or sent us a message on one of our social networking sites.

Step 4: Just remember, a single 21 year old college girl is picking the winner so ummm, hopefully that helps you win.

Live in Los Angeles and want to snowboard, check this out: http://www.formulad.com/blog/?p=933

While checking referral logs on our server tonight I came across a blog that had linked one of our Hyundai Genesis videos and two days ago they posted this rendering calling it a "Redbull Time Attack Project." Now I consider myself a little smarter than the average bear and I got to thinking why would Rhys Millen produce and build another time attack car for Redbull......because that makes zero sense.

What Rhys Millen would be building a Redbull Hyundai for could only be Formula Drift. Here are my few arguments for why this is reality.

A- His current car he released at SEMA 2008 show looked just liked this with a different paint scheme. This leads me to believe this render was based off a photograh of his real time attack car that they super imposed the graphics on to show off to sponsors and such.
B- That would explain the Bridgestone Tires on the vehice as well since we announced at the end of last season they would not be returning to Formula D in 2009. It's just a photo of the time attack car with new art work laid over it.

C- I think the listing on this Blogspot post is just either someone wanted to post the information but incorrectly list the item assuming no one would be the wiser or they are just some Hyundai fanboy who totally snagged something awesome and didn't realize it.

Either way odds are this is Rhys Millen's 2009 Formula D project or a rendering of something very close in our opinion. Rumors have been circling for a long time that this will be the reality of Rhys Millen's future and we have to say it just makes sense. He seemingly has built some STRONG ties with them which can be seen especially in the video we just posted of him at Road Atlanta shooting the Hyundai Super Bowl Commercial.



Link: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/blog/2009/01/23/rhys-millens-hyundai-genesis-formula-d-2009-machine/