Watch what it's like to ride shotgun in a Formula Drift race car with CNBC contributor Danny Korecki.
Founded in 2003, it's the top-tier drifting series in the U.S. If you haven't heard of it, drifting is not quite like anything else you can see at the speedway. In fact, it's perhaps the last form of hot-rodding left in motorsports. Drivers modify their cars, creating 800 to 1,000-horsepower monsters that slide sideways across the track at high speed, screeching out a cacophony of engine noise and tire smoke.
For those of you who don't know the rules, Formula Drift has a unique scoring system compared to many other motorsports. The Formula Drift field first must qualify to participate in the Top 32 competition. The drivers get two solo runs to put down a qualifying score. The score is rated by three Formula Drift judges and is based on three main criteria: line, angle and style of the drift. Drivers receive a score ranging from an incomplete run to 100 points.
For the Long Beach round of competition, Field ended up qualifying number one with a 99-point run. And with an expanded team and his refined Corvette, Field told me that he's ready for the new season. "The level of competition increases drastically each year," Essa said."Most people unfamiliar with competitive drifting think the cars are set up very loose to slide easily, but we're actually trying to make the cars as fast as possible while in drift to win the battles."
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