Comp Coupe wins Inaugural Formula Drift at Road Atlanta!

[Daniel Cragin/DC Performance Inc]

Congratulations to Comp Coupe owner Marco Radosavljevic and Sweden’s Samuel Hubinettes. This is an incredible accomplishment as the team only came together 3 weeks ago in a parking lot.

Drifting is the newest motorsports craze, and competitors are judged on car control and cornering speed rather than lap times. Angle of attack and style are more important than raw speed, and Hubinette had the perfect combination Sunday.

The preparation of the vehicle was a collaboration between: DC Performance, New Formz, and Mopar Performance.

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[scottgf]

Congrats!
I went to Irwindale Speedway a while back to watch the drifting...Its kinda cool....sort of like WWF meets IMSA.
The jury is still out if this has legs.........
Ps I wish I had the tire consession
Cheers,

 

[ohiodoc]

any more pics dan of Marco's car from Atlanta?

 

[Daniel Cragin/DC Performance Inc]

We will post more pictures as soon as they are available!
Marco's car is a performer and has placed 1st in it's two VRL races as well. It will also be competing in the Silver State Challenge and hopefully Speedvision World Challenge later this year.

 

[ViperRay]

I'm not a big fan of drifting (yet) but it's good to see some good ole American muscle win in a "sport" owned by the ricers.

 

[MannyC]

Any video?

 

[MannyC]

Any video?

 

[Craig 201 MPH]

this idea is beyond stupid

 

[Daniel Cragin/DC Performance Inc]

At first I agreed with the beyond stupid analogy. The car even has hydraulic parking brakes for each rear wheel! But after seeing the skill it takes to drive one of these events, I must admit that it is an exciting exhibition!

 

[Craig 201 MPH]

No doubt it takes massive skill. The drivers are great but this "investment" is just so far beyond dumb! DC is waving a car in front of kids whose mom's had to drop them off to go see this stuff. THEY HAVE NO $$!!!

Yes I am aware of the intangible benefits such as building brand loyalty and desire but why not just field a couple SRT-4's in the Speed touring car championship with a full out factory effort in world challenge with a Comp Coupe?

Or hell why not spend all the time and effort building a street coupe so that chevy doesn't steal all the track rats away with a fixed roof 500 h.p. vette.

There should be some extra cash flaoting around now that DC has finally dumped that money pit known as mitsubishi.

 

[Yellow Fever]

I bet it's a BLAST to watch !!!! Ever see the Ford GT-40 Commercial ??It blows the SRT-10 commercial away.. Nuff said !

 

[pdmracing]

It would have been nice to know about the CC befor the event, we could have showed some support.

Sort of overkill dont ya think?

 

[pauls]

I was there working for Dunlop. I'm involved in Event Marketing. This was my first Drift event. I also do a lot of sport compact events for Dunlop. It was great to see good old American HP kick some rice. The Vipers (2) and Millen's GTO were the class of the field.
Anyone is sadly mistaken if you don't think it takes a great deal of driver skill to win one of these. Yes anyone can do donuts, but these guy progress through a series of turns, left to right and back, in a controlled drift at 80MPH. Sprint cars on pavement.
I agree that this serves not useful place in motorsports. If racing is Hockey, this is Figure Skating. It fun to watch once or twice!

 

[Brad04Mamba]

Theres a video on the "other" board

 

[Craig 201 MPH]

I was there working for Dunlop. I'm involved in Event Marketing. This was my first Drift event. I also do a lot of sport compact events for Dunlop. It was great to see good old American HP kick some rice. The Vipers (2) and Millen's GTO were the class of the field.
Anyone is sadly mistaken if you don't think it takes a great deal of driver skill to win one of these. Yes anyone can do donuts, but these guy progress through a series of turns, left to right and back, in a controlled drift at 80MPH. Sprint cars on pavement.
I agree that this serves not useful place in motorsports. If racing is Hockey, this is Figure Skating. It fun to watch once or twice!

Good comparison. Figure skating is *** and so is drifting. You couldn't be more right!

 

[viper spray]

http://vca2.viperclub.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB14&Number=398869&Forum=All_Forums&Words=1646&Match=Username&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=398869&Search=true#Post398869

 

[MichaelP]

They are trying to make it an Olympic sport along with synchronized Team burnouts I have heard the Japanese team is favored to take the gold for some odd reason

 

[fast?]

marko is the vegas vca president. i think if you contact him he will send you pics of the car. he gave me two 8x10 different pics at the mopar event in vegas. he road races that car and even brings it to the drag strip. now thats a real viper owner.