FD Round 6- Infineon Raceway

The NOS Energy Drink Drift Team started off the weekend making an appearance at Universal Technical Institute’s (UTI) Sacramento campus. Along with Drift Alliance brothers Tony Angelo and Justin Pawlak, the teams hung out with the students, showed off the cars and passed out some NOS Energy Drinks. The Team also took advantage of the schools dyno and made some final tuning adjustments on the Nissan 350Z. The massive “Hot Rod” facility was packed with students and on lookers watching team crew chief Kevin Wells finely tuned the Titan V8 power plant to make optimum power and torque.

From the UTI Campus the team rolled into Sonoma’s own Infineon Raceway ready to defend his win last year and pick up valuable championship points as the season is nearing the end. Forsberg was excited to have his NOS Energy Drink 350Z back in peak performance after a pair of engine failures from previous events caused some unfortunate results. “Our Titan V8 has also been a very solid power plant,” stated Forsberg, “but over the last few events we’ve had some misfortune blowing 2 engines in the last 2 events. Kevin worked feverously over the last few weeks to ensure we had solved our issues.”

The team’s hard work had paid off as the team was looking to be the team to beat during Fridays seeded practice. Forsberg was putting down high entry speeds as the long straight-a-way and downhill slope creates the fastest entry speeds the competitors will see this year.

Forsberg put the NOS Energy Drink 350Z in 6^th place after qualifying giving him a great position going into the tandem battles. Forsberg beat Kyle Mohan in the Top 16 to move into the Great 8 where he faced off against 3^rd place qualifier Bill Sherman. Bill had been setting top speeds all weekend making him a tough competitor to follow in tandem. Forsberg chased Sherman down the long straight reaching his fastest entry speed of the weekend but a correction at the main clipping point gave Sherman the advantage. Forsberg then lead putting down a great run but it was not enough to make up the previous advantage giving Sherman the win. Forsberg finished the event in 6^th place overall.

“The NOS Energy Drink Team had a great weekend overcoming serious mechanical issues from previous events and showing that we are a threat for the championship,” said Forsberg. “We’ve been able to put ourselves in a position to capture a top 3 spot in the championship. It would be great to give NOS and Maxxis 2 consecutive championship podiums.”

The NOS Energy Drink Drift Team will be making an appearance at Hot Import Nights – Night Shift in Pleasanton, CA on September 20^th before heading back to the Formula Drift Finale at the “House of Drift” Irwindale Speedway on October 11^th-12^th.