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2024 Season Recap: Driving and Style Continue to Level Up, Even After 19 Years

by Sam House

2024 Season Recap: Driving and Style Continue to Level Up, Even After 19 Years

The Drift Indy team and community closed out the 2024 season with a killer party in Indianapolis, wrapping up our 19th season organizing events. Drift Indy drivers, media, friends and family joined us at the Saint Shack and the Patron Saint for an award ceremony and party in the city where it all started.
Posted in DIGP, DISL, Event Recap, No Star Bash, Season Recap

No Star Bash XIII Recap: A Killer Celebration of Drifting

by Sam House

No Star Bash XIII Recap: A Killer Celebration of Drifting

Despite the added challenges of an extra day and a full round of Drift Indy Street League, this 13th edition of No Star Bash delivered on the promise of a four-day shredfest. With over 165 drivers and around 2,500 spectators packed into Kil-kare, the Drift Indy community showed out for our annual all-out celebration of drifting.
Posted in Event Recap, No Star Bash

Donati Looks to Close Out FD ProSpec Season, Reflects on Round 3

by Sam House

Donati Looks to Close Out FD ProSpec Season, Reflects on Round 3

Photo Courtesy of Andrew Donaldson | @valera.ajd Geoff Donati again advanced to the round of 16 at Formula Drift ProSpec Round 3 in St. Louis befo...
Posted in Event Recap, Formula Drift

Driver Spotlight: Cash Staub

by Sam House

Driver Spotlight: Cash Staub

Four seasons ago, a 15-year-old and his dad showed up at one of our clinics with a cool, V8-swapped BMW E28. We weren’t even sure if he was going to be allowed to drive, but they got it figured out and he set off to learn the basics. Today, that same kid is first in this season’s Drift Indy Street League rankings and has been proving his mettle with pro drivers on the Drift Appalachia touges. 

Cash Staub, now 18 and a high school graduate, lives and breathes drifting.

Posted in DISL, Drift Appalachia, Driver Spotlight, Event Recap

DISL Round 2 Recap: Staub and Cornewell Earn Second Straight Podium

by Sam House

DISL Round 2 Recap: Staub and Cornewell Earn Second Straight Podium

If anyone doubted that we’ve entered a new era for Drift Indy Street League talent, back-to-back podiums from Cash Staub and Sam Cornewell ought to be enough evidence that we truly have. Cash took the gold, Sam the silver and DISL newcomer Steven Fishel snagged the bronze at the end of two days of shredding from some of the best in the midwest.
Posted in DISL, Event Recap

Donati Advances to Round of 16 in E-Town, Looking Forward to St. Louis

by Sam House

Donati Advances to Round of 16 in E-Town, Looking Forward to St. Louis

Geoff Donati had a good showing in the heat at Formula Drift ProSpec Round 2 up in New Jersey. After qualifying and advancing through the round of 32, he was knocked out by Kelsey Rowlings in the round of 16.

He and the team are headed to St. Louis this weekend for Round 3 in a better spot than they were in at this point last season.

Posted in Event Preview, Event Recap, Formula Drift

Girls Gone Drifting! Event Recap: the Ladies Level Up

by Drift Indy

Girls Gone Drifting! Event Recap: the Ladies Level Up

On June 14th, 22 ladies of all skill levels came out to Kil-kare Raceway to join us for the Inaugural Girls Gone Drifting event! Drift Indy partnered with Girls Gone Drifting to host an all-ladies drift event at their home track in Xenia, OH.
Posted in Driver Article, Event Recap

Geoff Donati Looks Toward Round 2 After Early Exit in Atlanta

by Sam House

Geoff Donati Looks Toward Round 2 After Early Exit in Atlanta

After tricky weather made most of practice a waste, a tough draw in the top 32 and a super competitive battle that saw him lose to eventual event winner Tommy Lemaire, Geoff Donati is pleased overall with his and his team’s performance at FD Prospec round 1 in Atlanta.

Posted in Event Recap, Formula Drift

DISL Round 1 Recap

by Sam House

DISL Round 1 Recap

There’s no shortage of analogies to describe what went down at Drift Indy Street League Round 1 this weekend. We shook the etch-a-sketch. We poked the reset button with a mechanical pencil. We deleted our My Player. We prestiged.

Whatever. The point is, it’s a new era for DISL, and the new look is rad as hell. 

Posted in DISL, Event Recap

DISL Showoff Recap

by Sam House

DISL Showoff Recap

Sexy cars and cold hands were the name of the game at last weekend’s Drift Indy Street League Showoff. 

Posted in DISL, Event Recap

No Star Bash XII: Event Recap

by Sam House

No Star Bash XII: Event Recap

The 12th iteration of Drift Indy’s No Star Bash provided the promised seat time, homie hangs and party atmosphere that everyone has come to expect from the biggest bash on our yearly calendar. 
Posted in Event Recap, No Star Bash

Drift Indy x Drift Appalachia Touge Recap

by Sam House

Drift Indy x Drift Appalachia Touge Recap

Standing halfway up a mountain road in Jackson County, KY and hearing 12 different exhaust notes echoing through the hills as 10 drift cars, a lead car and a chase car start to gun it toward the uphill section of the US’ first legal touge on a public road gave me chills then and remembering it still does now. 
Posted in Event Recap