Driver Profile #56 Rich Spohr

Name: Rich Spohr

Age: Old as fuck

Location: AZ

Years Drifting: 3 Years


Vehicle of Choice: 350Z - It's the new 240

Why: It's the new 240

Mods: Full cage, Nismo Diff, KSport Kontrol Pro's, 350Z MotorSports adjustable camber/toe arms, 350Z MotorSports solid diff bushings, Megan long tube headers, Kinetix Plenum, Injen intake, Tein tie rods, Wilwood BBK, etc...

Favorite Track to Throw Down: PIR-100mph entries

Personal Accomplishments in Drifting: No real accomplishments, yet...

Personal Goals for the Future: Pro License

Random Fact: I could be your daddy...

Last Comment: Shout out to AZDRiFT, AZ240SX.org, AZ350Z.com & DriftSlutZ.com

Driver Profile #55 Raymund Berlo

Name: Raymund Berlo

Age: 34

Location: Las Vegas, NV

Years Drifting: Off & on for 4 years

Vehicle of Choice: Lexus IS300

Why: Drift the 4 door! It’s different and very unforgiving, makes it good to learn with. Oh, yeah, it’s still comfortable. ;)

Mods: full suspension, LS400 T-body, getrag V160 trans, Toy Sequoia driveshaft, carbon/kevlar hood, and any other parts I can get my hands on to test.

Favorite Track to Throw Down: Anywhere I can make it to.

Personal Accomplishments in Drifting: Clocked a quicker lap time at an autocross drifting than a guy talking smack about drifters.

Personal Goals for the Future: Pro License & keep having fun!

Random Fact: Aruba has animals on their paper money.

Last Comment: More tires please!

Driver Profile #54 Thomas Osborn

Name: Thomas Osborn

Age: 23

Location: Baltimore, MD

Years Drifting: 3

Vehicle of Choice: Mazda Miata

Why: It's not your typical drift car, and I prefer the natural light weight high grip threshold the car has.

Mods: AVO Turbo kit, MMR Solid motor and Diff mounts, ACT 6 puck clutch, 7mm steering rack spacers, Level 7 Tune Steering Knuckles, AGX Shocks paired with Racing Beat springs, Frame Rails, Hard Dog Roll Bar, 1.8 Welded Diff, Custom high flow intake manifold.

Favorite Track to Throw Down: Summit Shenandoha bridge course.

Personal Accomplishments in Drifting: Actually making it through a drift day.

Personal Goals for the Future: Do well in the 2010 Season, move to DN Pros, maybe pick up a sponsor!

Random Fact: I also DD (daily drift?) a 1993 Nissan 240sx.

Last Comment: Maryland has some of the best drifters the world has never known.

Driver Profile #53 Robert Strohmeyer

Name: Robert Strohmeyer

Age:

Location: Las Vegas

Years Drifting: 7


Vehicle of Choice: 99 GS400

Why: I love big body four doors

Mods: Full cage, full suspension, wheels, engine building in the works.

Favorite Track to Throw Down: Interior track Homestead Speedway Miami

Personal Accomplishments in Drifting: A bunch Top 5 finishes in drift showoff comps in 04-05
4th RS-R Drift festival in 04
Other local area titles

Personal Goals for the Future: I'm turning into a filmmaker!

Random Fact:

Last Comment: I've dropped the level of money spent into drift a lot since 2005. I'm starting a new business that will hopefully get some money in my pockets so I can finish my build and get back on the track.

Driver Profile #52 Willie Ortega

Name: Willie Ortega

Age: 32

Location: philly/ jersey

Years Drifting: 8 on and off


Vehicle of Choice: currently a ka-t powered ae86, but pretty much anything that has wheels

Why: idk its like a bad relationship. i hate them, i love them, i hate them a gaing. but this time i have the perfect receipe for it.

Mods: bc coilovers, adjustable four links and panrod arm, tc rods, battle version bumpsteer blocks, celica-supra rear diff. wheels, body kit and paint im still debating on. beside the engne been a ka24de, everything else its a secret..

Favorite Track to Throw Down: e-town, philly

Personal Accomplishments in Drifting: started alot of great friendships.

Personal Goals for the Future: destroy tires , get married

Random Fact: apparently ikea has some awesome footage of me and a couple of friends destroying there parking lot. one of the security guard was tring to get a copy but failed.

Last Comment: stay away from the wall

Driver Profile #51 Danny Le

Name: Danny Le

Age: 24

Location: phoenix AZ

Years Drifting: 1yr

Vehicle of Choice: s13

Why: its a good car to start practicing with.

Mods: motor, suspension, aero, interior etc..

Favorite Track to Throw Down: FIR main track. the only track i drifted on....

Personal Accomplishments in Drifting: at local events i got 3rd place. got 1st place. got to tandem with forrest. got sponsor. Learn how to do a motor swap and other stuff.

Personal Goals for the Future: Need to get my car ready to compete in xdc in oct 16 @ FIR

Random Fact: drifting is a expensive!!!!

Last Comment: Shout out to Ace up motorsports for all the help. Rich from 350zmotorsports for setting up all the events and for sponsoring me. Zombified crew, teamtopflight.blogspot.com, and always REMEMBER "Function over fashion" vitaly s

Driver Profile #50 Corey Zinkhan

Name: Corey "shamkhan" Zinkhan

Age: 21

Location: Cumberland, MD

Years Drifting: 4 Year, 1 year at track


Vehicle of Choice: s-chassis (like new mustang though fun to slide)

Why: Because It was my second in list dream car next to the FD3S. Just an S-chassis with an SR when I was 16. Now it was just conveniant I payed $500 for Nathan Brasz old chassis.

Mods: Full Origin Aero, Piper Motorsports cage, reliably built up SR, S15 T28, BOLTONS, Tein Coils, random mustang wheels and 2 MB's, Bride bucket ect ect...

Favorite Track to Throw Down: Summit Point Raceway Bridge Course of BUST!

Personal Accomplishments in Drifting: I wrecked my car after nonestop building it for 3 weeks at 100 Drifters of December and somehow pulled out a third place but got second since yoshi left earlie. Prior to that crazyness I gave Vaughn Gittin my throttle body so I could watch him battle Dan Savage tandem!!

Personal Goals for the Future: Hit up E-Town, get this site up and running good, make all the east coast grassroots events the place to be.

Random Fact: muffed up bed sheets annoy me

Last Comment: Keep it real, keep it fun, no risk no reward, never lift, kill the shit, and stay balls out!

Driver Profile #49 Mike Swartz

Name: Mike Swartz

Age: 32

Location: Carlisle, PA

Years Drifting: 4

Vehicle of Choice: 92 Dodge Ram 50 pickup

Why: Cause its a truck

Mods: 4G63 turbo engine, 4 link and tube frame rear, body drop

Favorite Track to Throw Down: VIR Patriot course

Personal Accomplishments in Drifting: Best truck ever

Personal Goals for the Future: Whiplash 3 - I really should make it.

Random Fact: I just got a G35 coupe to beat up on the street

Last Comment: XOXO

(Corey Z: Mike is a total real badass. He sold me a shirt dubbed "JDM Boner Dude", its all the rave in town)

Driver Profile #48 Marc Bergeon

Name: Marc Bergeon

Age: 24

Location: Arizona

Years Drifting: 7


Vehicle of Choice: any legal professional drifting 240

Why: good power/weight distribution, light weight and easy to toss around and be competitive with.

Mods:

Work Wheels SD9's 17x9.5 +15 and 18x10 +15
Series 2 RB25det
Garrett T04E Turbo .63 a/r
Sparco quick release
Nardi Torino steering wheel
D-max type 3 aero
D-max front and rear fenders
D-max Hood
D-max roof lip
Custom tubbed front wheel wells
Custom D1 legal cage built by Ryan Hampton and myself
Custom removable tube front rad/IC mount built by myself and Intensepower.com
Bride Zeta 2 seat w/low rails
R33 crossmember
R33 aluminium 4 piston calipers
R33 rotors
SS lines
s14 LCAs
s14 Knuckles
Tein tie rods
H Competition Tension rods
H Competition RUCA's
H Competition Toe rods
H Competition Traction rods
boxed in the front tension rod brackets
Cusco bar that goes across the tension rod brackets
Intense Power front 30mm Swaybar
Energy syspension steering rack bushings
Solid aluminium SPL steering collumn bushing
s13 rear subframe, re-enforced
Stance solid aluminium subframe bushing replacements
brand new nissan s13 rear LCAs
s14 rear uprights
s14 rear brakes and ebrakes
s14 ebrake cables
5 lug
Custom chassis wiring
Apex-i gauges
Custom Hydraulic hand brake
rotora slotted rear rotors
180sx Kouki tail lights
and a lot more....

Favorite Track to Throw Down: Phoenix International Raceway

Personal Accomplishments in Drifting: D1 grand prix licensed driver, may 2009

Personal Goals for the Future: finish the new car and find enough funds to compete in either the XDC series or Formula D

Random Fact: I'm peggin' the fun meter!

Driver Profile #47 George Garcia

Name: George Garcia

Age: 32

Location: Los Angeles, Ca

Years Drifting: None! I have been in the Industry since 2004 running a small site by the name of EverythingDrift.com. Came from the NHRA as a former Employee there and been around the world and back...

Vehicle of Choice: I switch cars to often and yet still have never gotten a damn RWD! I did have a truck but I blew that up! Currently sporting a 05' Ford Focus that is viciously abused

Why: Needed a car that can take some abuse and stil roll with my kidos in...

Mods:Intake is the only thing and will be chaging the brakes/rotors out.

Favorite Track to Throw Down: Favorite Track to see is Irwindale as well as Button Willow even thought its hella far...

Personal Accomplishments in Drifting: Launched the first site of its kind and ran the first LIVE Blog/Update system for Formula Drift in 2007.

Personal Goals for the Future: Actually drift or try to get back into some form of racing.

Random Fact: My LifeUnwanted.com will be a new personal project site on my life and its accomplishments and failures.

Last Comment: Hit me up if you have any questions or just anything in general. I freelance in almost everything!

(Corey Z: Mad props to George for helping the movement grow!)