r/FormulaDrift

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😅

The admins behind the YouTube account are so disrespectful and unprofessional. People could ask the most genuine question and they would reply with a dickhead response in the live chat or in the comment section. They claim Racer+ works and they will say it does knowing it doesn’t for some people. No wonder I like DriftMastersGp better.

I posted something related to this last year, but lost it since I deleted an old account.

I actually feel like switching to a subscription based streaming site is the beginning off the end.

Apparently, the site it doesn’t even work? Lol.

I watch 3 runs of top 32 and cannot stand Jared anymore. He talks so much useless shit all the time. Get him gone

So how does ticketing work for this event? I've been to other grid life's and other FD events but I just can't wrap my head around what's going on. So we just have to buy FD weekend tickets and we get access to everything? I just don't want to buy FD tickets and they say come back at night when FD starts...

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..

I stopped watching Formula Drift about 10 years ago after Forsberg crashed into Wang. I don't like Forsberg because he always appears to be immature and often unprofessional (such as the NOS IG post). I also never really liked how inconsistent FD was with judging/processes, especially in this case.

Make fun of me all you want but I enjoy LZ and was excited to see him compete in Formula Drift so I started watching the streams on YouTube again for him. Over time I've become dedicated again and was watching Pro Top 32 and Top 16, and occasionally Prospec Top 16. LZ was 100% responsible for getting me to watch Formula Drift events in full again and becoming invested in multiple drivers.

If I spent enough time on it I would've figured things out probably, but I'm always busy adulting and had limited patience trying to get the Top 16 to stream on my TV. Probably largely user error but Formula Drift also just really doesn't seem to be doing a good job handling the transition away from YouTube as I struggled to find instructions.

Formula Drift is entitled to make the business decisions they want, and hey, maybe this new streaming strategy is better for their bottom line, but there is no reason for Formula Drift to treat fans like idiots in the the YouTube Top 32 stream. Truly unbelievable for a "professional" organization to be so clueless. YouTube is ubiquitous for online video and Formula Drift should've 100% expected heavy dissatisfaction from this segment and prepared accordingly to gently encourage fans to try an alternative streaming option. Or just don't reply to these fans at all.

Anyways I'm done with Formula Drift.... again... sort of. I've mostly been skipping LZ's Formula Drift recap videos on YouTube because I'd see his runs live on Formula Drift's YouTube stream but moving forward I plan to depend on his Instagram/YouTube Formula Drift posts to see what happened. I'll also do the same for all my other favorite drivers who use these platforms. (Now how funny would it be if Formula Drift changed the rules to prohibit competitors from sharing official stream footage on their socials?)

/ rant

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?

I know a lot of us hate the new racer+ app. While I don’t mind having to watch on a different platform (we have to for f1 and other races, so it’s not entirely a new concept for us) it doesn’t even work. For dayssss now I’ve attempted to watch top 16 and every time the stream glitches, pauses, is buffering mid run, skips sections of the stream entirely, just a total mess. (I’m casting to my tv from my phone. But even just directly from my phone or iPad it’s still faulty). I’ve tried adjusting the quality and a few other things. I don’t mind if the color is skewed (I haven’t had that happen but others have complained) I just want to watch without constant pauses.

Has anyone had any luck watching it through without the glitches? If so, pleaseeee give me some tips.

As someone who worked in FD a couple years ago I’m realllly disappointed in this, as well as the way they are handling the comments from fans on YouTube. It’s honestly disgusting behavior to not even consider the feedback fans are providing and just immaturely clapping back.

looking at buying tickets, but only for 1 day. Which day would be the final for pro spec? It's from a Thursday to Sunday I believe.

Can we all agree this was a horrible decision. I understand the logistics and I give the fd team credit for stepping up and trying to make changes. But this app is horrible.

I can’t even finish top 32 because it has removed the stream.