Conrad Grunewald took home the top qualifying spot at Formula Drift Long Beach.

[sidewaysrules]

Conrad Grunewald took home the top qualifying spot at Formula Drift Long Beach. Here are the results:
1. Conrad Grunewald
2. Daijiro Yoshihara
3. Kyle Mohan
4. Matt Powers
5. Rhys Millen
6. Darren McNamara
7. Walker Wilkerson
8. Tyler McQuarrie
9. John Russakoff
10. Ryan Tuerck
11. Justin Pawlak
12. Matt Field
13. Matt Waldin
14. Jeff Abbott
15. Ross Petty
16. Chris Forsberg
17. Michael Essa
18. Ken Gushi
19. Dennis Mertz
20. Charles Ng
21. Alex Pfeiffer
22. Cyrus Martinez
23. Joon Maeng
24. Fredric Aasbo
25. Taka Aono
26. Otto Graven
27. Mike Feiock
28. Dean Kearney
29. Jeff Jones
30. Patrick Mordaunt
31. Odi Bakchus
32. Toshiki Yoshioka

[Jonny Fonseca]

Last years champ didn't qualify???

[Justin Banner]

He fell just short. He was #33 with a 0 on his second run and a 40-something on his first.

[YOitzJDM]

Brackets, per how I calculate them

1 Conrad vs 32 Yoshioka
16 Forsberg vs 17 Essa
8 Tyler McQuarrie vs 25 Taka Aono
9 John Ruskakoff vs 24 Fredric Aasbo
4 Matt Powers vs 29 Jeff Jones
13 Matt Waldin vs 20 Charles Ng
5 Rhys Millen vs 28 Dean Kearney
12 Matt Field vs 21 Alex Pfeiffer

2 Dai Yoshihara vs 31 Odi Bakchis
15 Ross Petty vs 18 Ken Gushi
7 Walker Wilkerson vs 26 Otto Graven
10 Ryan Tuerck vs 23 Joon Maeng
3 Kyle Mohan vs 30 Pat Mordaunt
14 Jeff Abbott vs 19 Dennis Mertezanis
6 Darren Mcnamara vs 27 Mike Feiock
11 Justin Pawlak vs 22 Cyrus Martinez

[CanadianKiwi]

WHAT?!?! no gittin. no hubinette. i know foust isn't competing,but, no foust? Damn! as Bob Dylan so eloquently wrote " the times, they are a changin!"

[Bebop]

Car trouble or bullsh*t qualifying tactics for JR?

[MonkeySlide]

Car trouble or bullsh*t qualifying tactics for JR?

It might have been car trouble the first run as he bobbled a lot and lost drift in the middle of the course.

The second time the judges just got strict with him as he made a mistake in the hairpin.

Honestly comparing the two runs if anything I would have given the first run a 0 and scored the second one. That might not nessasarily have gotten him in but despite the hairpin mistake his 2nd run was a hell of a lot better than his first.

[my 1 88 u]

Well that was some bs. Who knew you could win by out pacing drivers that are throwing monster angle and smoke?

[Bebop]

I'm a bit biased but I was there and I disagree.

Maybe its the camera angles the driftstream uses....

[my 1 88 u]

I just don't see it. He spins against Dai and gets a omt. Doesn't flick as aggressive, doesn't hit as much of angle and doesn't get as close to the wall, but because his pace is faster he wins?

[Bebop]

He stalled.... consider that Dais was essentially the fastest driver the whole weekend throughout both speed zones. With that consider the +/- 5MPH rule, also consider that Dais car is very different then JTPs and cant move around the track exactly the same. The first decision could have gone either way, iirc it wasn't unanimous.... but I do believe JTP won the OMT set battles. Good performance by both, all top 4 finishers deserved to be there in some order.

[Jonny Fonseca]

What about Walker vs Otto? I thought otto won b4 the OMT!

[Bebop]

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Tony talks about the OMT decision @ 6:00

I honestly thought overall all of Otto's runs chase and follow were a bit dolt in comparison of his competitors and most of the other drivers we saw this weekend. But I would have given a slight edge toward Otto. But remember back in the day when they did the judging by points if the decision was with 1 point it was automatic OMT.