News>>stephan Verdier Wins Fd Sonoma

At the end of another smokey evening of Formula Drift Competition up here in the SF Bay Area there was only one driver left standing – and that driver was Stephan Verdier in his Subaru WRX. It was certainly an unexpected result, but not an undeserved one with Stephan taking down a number of FD's biggest drivers on his way to the to the top.

There's more to come from FD Sonoma, but for now congrats to Stephan Verdier as well as fellow podium mates Ken Gushi and Ryuji Miki!

-Mike Garrett

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1

really unexpected but props to Stephan!

2

Wuuuuuuutt.congrats to him

3

Awesome, great driving well deserved

4

This is a proud day for France and all the French People!

5

Yay Ken and Miki on podium! My favs drivers. Congratz to Stephan even though i dont really recognize him ^^ But car i know lol xD

6

What?!?! It wasn't Matt Powers?!?! Just kidding... Verdier had several really great runs in "Seattle" (Evergreen Speedway is about 45min from Seattle) but also had a few terrible ones... His suspension looked really soft and his car looked really high- anyone else notice this?

7

Henry, there's been a very long-lasting debate about prodrift suspension settings. Most drivers out there run high, soft suspensions, so that they have more control over the weight shift of the car. Look it up.

8

how is this guy winning? he's not really a good driver...

9

Crawford builds great Subaru time attack cars, then Ken Blocks gymkana cars and now a drift car. They sure seem to know what they are doing.

10

man can't wait til the finale at the house of drift!!!

11

Ok, I'll look it up... I did notice Kumakubo has a similiar set-up but not as high

12

I love how everything in FD is getting shaken up. And Stephan is a funny guy. I bet he's stoked.

13

Stephan easily had the best entry along with Pawlak. Stephan defiantly out drove all the people he was matched up against. Defiantly a good first career podium for him.

14

Props to Verdier and the subie! Crawford really does great with those cars, they work Subaru magic it seems.

15

unexpected couldn't be emphasized any stronger! wow.



That's great great news. This is turning into quite season at the very end.

16

You guys should look at his Twitter updates:

http://twitter.com/stephanverdier

17

AWESOME!!!

18

I'm french and i verry happy for stephen, his subaru is verry complet and i verry impatient for a new run! Congrads for verdier and for miki and gittin !

19

I saw him run and he did really well! Go subie!

20

so happy for stephan!

HOO-LEE SHIT

21

im jonesin for the top 16 report. help me out mike!

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