Mopar's Hübinette Takes Second in Long Beach Team Drift Event
Team Mopar driver and two-time Formula Drift (FD) champion Samuel Hübinette added to his burgeoning collection of podium finishes at the FD Streets of Long Beach venue, partnering with fellow drifters Conrad Gruenwald and Kyle Mohan to place second in the Team Drift event at Long Beach on Sunday, April 19.
The exhibition performance follows on the heels of Hübinette's runner-up outing at the season-opening FD points event at Long Beach on April 11. The man known as the "Crazy Swede" also took the inaugural win at Long Beach in 2006, a Team Drift victory in 2007 and a runner-up finish in the 2008 Long Beach points event.
"It was a blast to drive with Conrad and Kyle and to freestyle drift around the Long Beach course," said Hübinette, who piloted his Mopar NuFormz Dodge Viper SRT10® in the exhibition. "This being a non-points event, there wasn't any pressure. It was just about having fun and getting out on the track. I also got the chance to drive some hot laps in the pace car before the Long Beach Grand Prix. There were huge crowds all weekend and they always go crazy for us drifters. It was a lot of positive exposure for the sport of drifting and also for my sponsors, Mopar and BFGoodrich."
Hübinette will get back into competition mode at the Round Two: Proving Ground FD event at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Ga., May 8-9. The venue is the site of the first-ever FD event, held in 2004 and won by Hübinette. For more information on the Formula Drift Series, visit http://www.formulad.com.