2020 Formula D season

The 2020 Formula D season (officially titled Formula Drift Pro Championship) was the seventeenth season of the Formula D series. The season began on September 5 at World Wide Technology Raceway and concluded on November 22 at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale after eight events. Entries 2012 Formula D season champion Daigo Saito planned to return to the series after a four-year absence, but this never materialised. Team No. Car Tires Driver Round(s) Alec Robbins Racing 35 Nissan 350Z Achilles Alec Robbins 1–4, 7–8 Arclight Racing 43 Dodge Viper ZB II Achilles Dean Kearney All 357 Chevrolet Corvette C7 Z06 Achilles João Barion 1–4 Asphalt Anarchy 82 Cadillac ATS-V Achilles Taylor Hull All Bakchis Motorsports 723 Nissan Silvia S15 Falken Aurimas Bakchis All BUY NOW JAPAN 530 Nissan Silvia S15 Nexen Wataru Masuyama All Drift Cave Motorsports 777 Chevrolet Corvette C6 Falken Matt Field All Drift Force 91 BMW F22 Achilles Yves Meyer 1–4 Essa Autosport 101 BMW M3 E46 Achilles Michael Essa All Garagistic drift team 171 BMW M3 E36 Achilles Rome Charpentier All Huddy Racing 129 BMW M3 E46 Achilles Dylan Hughes All Jeff Jones Racing 818 Nissan 370Z NexenGT Radial Jeff Jones All Jhonnattan Castro 17 Toyota GT86 Nexen Jhonnattan Castro All KGMS Toyota Racing 21 Toyota GR Supra Achilles Ken Gushi All KORUWORKS 909 Nissan 350Z GT Radial Ryan Litteral All Kyle Mohan Racing 99 Mazda RX-8 Nexen Kyle Mohan 5–8 LZMFG / Enjuku Racing 5 Nissan Silvia S15 Achilles Adam LZ All NOS Energy Drink Drift Team 64 Nissan 370ZNissan Silvia S14 Nexen Chris Forsberg All Papadakis Racing 151 Toyota GR Supra Nitto Fredric Aasbø All 411 Toyota Corolla (E210) Nitto Ryan Tuerck All Pawlak Racing 13 Ford Mustang Falken Justin Pawlak All RAD Industries 34 Toyota Supra A80 Nexen Dan Burkett All RTR Motorsports 25 Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-D Nitto Vaughn Gittin, Jr. All 88 Ford Mustang RTR Nitto Chelsea DeNofa All Shelby American Drift Team 7 Shelby Super Snake Nexen Tyler Nelson 1–6 23 Shelby Super SnakeNissan 240SX Nexen Jonathan Nerren All Team DAI. 9 Subaru BRZ Falken Daijiro Yoshihara All Team Faruk 53 Nissan Silvia S14 Nexen Faruk Kugay All Team UPGARAGE with GT Radial 123 Nissan Silvia S15 GT Radial Kazuya Taguchi All Travis Reeder Motorsports 77 Nissan 240SX GT Radial Travis Reeder All

Schedule An initial schedule featuring eight championship rounds was released in November 2019, but this was revised in April 2020 to a different schedule still featuring eight rounds. A final calendar was announced in June 2020 featuring four double-header rounds.

Round Title Circuit Location Date Winner Car 1 Crossroads World Wide Technology Raceway Madison, Illinois September 5 Fredric Aasbø Toyota GR Supra 2 September 6 Chelsea DeNofa Ford Mustang RTR 3 Throwdown Evergreen Speedway Monroe, Washington September 26 Vaughn Gittin, Jr. Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-D 4 September 27 Vaughn Gittin, Jr. Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-D 5 Showdown Texas Motor Speedway Fort Worth, Texas October 31 Ryan Tuerck Toyota Corolla (E210) 6 November 1 Chris Forsberg Nissan 370Z 7 TYPE S Title Fight Weekend Irwindale Speedway Irwindale, California November 20 Fredric Aasbø Toyota GR Supra 8 November 22 Aurimas Bakchis Nissan Silvia S15Sources:

The following rounds were included on the original calendar, but were cancelled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Title Circuit Location Date Streets of Long Beach Streets of Long Beach Long Beach, California April 11 Orlando Speed World Orlando, Florida May 30 Road Atlanta Braselton, Georgia July 4 Old Bridge Township Raceway Park Englishtown, New Jersey July 25 Sonoma Raceway Sonoma, California September 13Sources:

Championship standings Scoring system Formula Drift featured double-header weekends throughout 2020 in order to maintain an eight-event schedule. This compressed the schedule of each event, so traditional qualifying was scrapped and replaced by a seeding process based on, but not limited to, championship standings, similar to the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series.

For this reason, points were only awarded for the main event, which features a maximum of 32 competitors. The competitors proceed through a series of competition heats, with those eliminated in the first round (Top 32) receiving 16 points and classifying 17th through 32nd, the second round (Sweet 16) receiving 32 points and classifying 9th through 16th, and the third round (Great 8) receiving 48 points and classifying 5th through 8th. The two drivers eliminated from the fourth round (Final Four) engage in a battle for the final step on the podium, with the fourth-placed driver receiving 64 points and the third-placed driver 76 points and a trophy. In the Final, the runner-up receives 88 points and the winner 100 points.

Final classification within each round was determined by highest seeding position; for example, of the four drivers eliminated in the Great 8, the driver seeded highest going into the event is awarded 5th position.

Position 1st  2nd  3rd  4th  5th–8th  9th–16th  17th–32nd Points100887664483216

Pro Championship standings PosDriverWWT1WWT2EVS1EVS2TEX1TEX2IRW1IRW2Pts 1 Vaughn Gittin, Jr. 10 13 1 1 3 2 4 6 540 2 Chelsea DeNofa 12 1 13 4 9 3 3 2 500 3 Ryan Tuerck 2 3 11 3 1 6 10 9 484 4 Fredric Aasbø 1 12 2 18 7 5 1 17 448 5 Chris Forsberg 4 11 9 5 2 1 9 10 428 6 Aurimas Bakchis 3 2 12 10 11 13 18 1 408 7 Justin Pawlak 6 6 6 2 17 16 19 3 372 8 Michael Essa 13 7 3 17 15 15 2 14 356 9 Jeff Jones 14 15 17 7 4 10 12 4 320 10 Taylor Hull 15 17 8 6 5 9 7 5 320 11 Kazuya Taguchi 5 10 5 13 13 7 6 12 320 12 Adam LZ 25 25 14 9 6 4 5 13 288 13 Daijiro Yoshihara 11 14 4 14 14 8 11 18 288 14 Matt Field 9 4 7 12 12 14 14 20 288 15 Dylan Hughes 7 5 10 11 18 18 20 15 240 16 Jonathan Nerren 29 29 30 29 8 11 17 7 208 17 Dean Kearney 19 19 22 8 10 12 13 19 208 18 Ken Gushi 17 8 19 20 21 21 22 8 192 19 Travis Reeder 18 16 20 21 22 22 8 11 192 20 Dan Burkett 8 9 18 19 20 20 16 22 192 21 Jhonnattan Castro 20 20 23 22 16 17 15 21 160 22 Wataru Masuyama 26 26 15 15 19 19 21 23 160 23 Ryan Litteral 21 21 24 23 23 23 23 16 144 24 Rome Charpentier 23 23 26 25 24 24 24 24 128 25 Faruk Kugay 24 24 27 26 25 25 25 25 128 26 Alec Robbins 16 18 21 16 27 27 128 27 Tyler Nelson 28 28 29 28 26 26 96 28 Kyle Mohan 27 27 26 26 64 29 João Barion 22 22 25 24 64 30 Yves Meyer 27 27 28 27 64Sources:In-line notationBoldTop seedRookie of the YearRookie

Auto Cup standings Auto Cup points are awarded each round to the two drivers with the highest classified finish for each manufacturer. To be eligible, both the chassis and engine must have been constructed by that manufacturer. For example, the Shelby Super Snakes entered by Tyler Nelson and Jonathan Nerren were not eligible for Ford points because their engines had been developed by Shelby American, the Nissan Silvia S15 entered by Aurimas Bakchis was not eligible because it featured a custom-built V8 engine, and the Nissan Silvia S14 entered by Chris Forsberg in the final round was not eligible for the same reason.

PosManufacturerWWT1WWT2EVS1EVS2TEX1TEX2IRW1IRW2Pts 1 Ford 6 1 1 1 3 2 3 2 1140 10 6 6 2 9 3 4 3 2 Toyota 1 3 2 3 1 5 1 8 980 2 8 11 18 7 6 10 9 3 Nissan 4 10 5 5 2 1 6 12 716 5 11 9 13 13 7 9 4 BMW 13 7 3 17 15 15 2 14 356   5 Chevrolet 9 4 7 12 12 14 14 20 352 22 22 25 24 6 Cadillac 15 17 8 6 5 9 7 5 320   7 Dodge 19 19 22 8 10 12 13 19 208   8 Mazda 27 27 26 26 64  

Tire Cup Standings Tire Cup points are awarded each round to the two drivers with the highest classified finish for each tire manufacturer. PosTireWWT1WWT2EVS1EVS2TEX1TEX2IRW1IRW2Pts 1 Nitto 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1380 2 3 2 3 3 3 3 6 2 Falken 3 2 4 2 11 8 11 1 892 6 4 6 10 12 13 14 3 3 Achilles 7 5 3 6 5 4 2 5 820 13 7 8 8 6 9 5 8 4 Nexen 4 9 9 5 2 1 9 7 732 8 11 15 15 8 11 15 10 5 GT Radial 5 10 5 7 4 7 6 4 640 18 16 17 13 13 10 8 11

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