u/Key_Plankton3772

Idk, I been thinking. I know weve been dogging in FD lately but i naively think they will bounce back next round. Whatever issues they have with the robo-judge, hopefully will get smoothed out but i think the overall story this year will be interesting. Atlanta is the best track(at least to me) James i feel will be coming for blood next round and this is probably the most interesting start to a championship in a while. James is having to start his chase fo the title from behind and the drivers in front of him are still lethal(Connor, Jack, Fredrick) and despite their early exits Field and LZ still have the talent to beat james on any given day. So idk i acknowledge i could be dead wrong but i think next round could be a great round as long as they tweak the judging a bit more and god forbid it doesn't rain like it did last year, ill choose to be optimistic just this once..lol😅

Idk just because i decided to make a top 10 best drifters in the world list because i dont think there are too many official lists on the internet so these are my personal top 10 drifters in the world. Feel free to drop your own top 10 in the comments and this can be just fd, fd and driftmasters, or any combo of fd, dm or any other drifting championship

My Top 10.

1. James Deane

2. Piotr Wiecek

3. Connor Shanahan

4. Fredrick Aasbo

5. Lauri Heinonen

6. Jack Shanahan

7. Pawel Korpulinski

8. Hiroya Minowa

9. Kevin Pesur

10. Adam LZ

P.s this list is top 10 in 2026, not top 10 all time..

so i was watching some replays of old FD events from past years and idk it seems to me that there is a blatant skill gap between drivers thats wider than it is in Drift Masters for example. I feel drift masters have plenty of great drivers and then the rest are really good drivers where as fd has like 3 great drivers, 2 really good drivers and everyone else is mid to garbage. Like I love James Deane and I dont want to diminish his 5 FD titles but I just feel like hes gotten to this point over the last few years because he really doesnt have great competition in FD outside of Aasbo and Connor. FD has many issues(as i know this reddit has pointed out over the past few days) but ultimately they cant claim to be the premier drifting league in the world when they dont even have the best overall competition competing. What do yall think?