{"id":20,"date":"2009-06-06T21:07:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T01:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/v3\/?p=20"},"modified":"2009-07-22T22:08:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T02:08:22","slug":"featured-event-formula-d-round-3-the-gauntlet-wall-nj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/v3\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Formula D Round 3: The Gauntlet &#8211; Wall, NJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elusivemedia.com%2Fv3%2F%3Fp%3D20&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=dark\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px;height:60px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/gallery\/d\/104613-3\/IMG_7596.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Date: June 6, 2009<br \/>\nBy: Eric, Erik &amp; Scott<br \/>\nFormula D &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.formulad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.formulad.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nGallery &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/gallery\/v\/events\/2009\/fdr3\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Formula DRIFT Round 3: The Gauntlet Results;<br \/>\nDarren McNamara Takes the Victory and Rises to the Top of the Standings<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach, Calif. \u2013 June 6, 2009 \u2013 Formula DRIFT returned to Wall Speedway in New Jersey after a 1 year absence for Round 3: The Gauntlet. Darren McNamara in the Falken Tires \/ Sears Auto Center Saturn Sky took the victory and the lead for the Formula DRIFT Championship point standings. Team Falken Tires finished the event strong filling the top 3 podium positions.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the initial rain on Friday, the skies cleared for the main competition at Wall Speedway setting the stage for a great event. The fans were treated to temperatures in the mid 70&#8217;s and partly cloudy skies. Thousands of fans packed the grandstands of Wall Speedway and witnessed another spectacular drifting competition of the season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/images\/fdrd3crowd_big.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Click for hi-res image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/images\/fdrd3crowd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a trying event for our staff and for the teams given the rain on Friday forcing us to pack all the action into one day,\u201d said Ryan Sage, vice president of marketing and co-founder of Formula DRIFT. \u201cYet at the end it was a huge payoff for everyone. Team Falken put together an incredible showing and swept the podium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/gallery\/d\/106536-3\/DSC_3280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the first time Team Falken took each position on the podium with Tyler McQuarrie in the Falken Nissan 350Z taking 3rd place, Vaughn Gittin Jr. in the Falken \/ Ford Racing Mustang GT taking 2nd place, and Darren McNamara in the Falken \/ Sears Auto Center Saturn Sky taking the victory and moving into 1st place overall in the Formula DRIFT point standings. Hometown hero, Ryan Tuerck moved into 2nd place overall in the Mobil 1 \/ Gardella Racing Pontiac Solstice right in front of Round 2 winner, Chris Forsberg in the NOS Energy Drink \/ Maxxis Nissan 350Z. The victory for McNamara, the 2006 Pro Drift Champion and 2007 Formula DRIFT Rookie of Year, was well earned after putting on a great performance and laying it all out on the line at this event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll day I felt completely comfortable and confident behind the Falken \/ Sears Auto Center Saturn Sky,\u201d said Darren McNamara, winner of Round 3: The Gauntlet. \u201cI couldn&#8217;t have done this without the help of the Falken crew, Sears Auto Center, ASD, my girlfriend, and all my friends and family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Formula DRIFT returns to Las Vegas Motor Speedway for Round 4: All In on July 10-11. Tickets are on-sale now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/gallery\/d\/106494-3\/DSC_3118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elusivemedia.com%2Fv3%2F%3Fp%3D20&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=dark\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px;height:60px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: June 6, 2009 By: Eric, Erik &amp; Scott Formula D &#8211; http:\/\/www.formulad.com\/ Gallery &#8211; Click here Formula DRIFT Round 3: The Gauntlet Results; Darren McNamara Takes the Victory and Rises to the Top of the Standings Long Beach, Calif. \u2013 June 6, 2009 \u2013 Formula DRIFT returned to Wall Speedway in New Jersey after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126],"tags":[39,10,12,13,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4122,"href":"https:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/4122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elusivemedia.com\/v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}