• Finished 10th in the Formula Drift (FD) points standings while campaigning his Mopar Dodge Viper SRT10® drift car.
• Was No. 1 Qualifier in Round 3 at Wall Stadium Speedway in New Jersey.
• Qualified among the Top-3 in six of the seven events.

QUICK FACTS

• Has nine career FD victories, the most of any driver competing in the series.
• 2011 marks the second year of Samuel Hübinette Racing, with the two-time Formula Drift champion owning his own team.
• Fielding a second car in 2011 for European ProDrift champ Dean Kearney.
• Has competed in each and every one of the first seven seasons of Formula Drift.
• Will compete in off-road racing this season in the Traxxas TORC Series aboard the No.77 PRO Light class Ram.
• Earned an historic win in his 392 HEMI®-powered Mopar Dodge Charger SRT8® drift vehicle at the FD event at Summit Point Raceway in West Virginia in 2007. The victory was the first in a professional racing series by a race car based directly on a Chrysler LX platform vehicle.
• Finished fifth in the final 2007 FD standings.
• Captured a Team Drift win along with friends Tanner Foust and Rhys Millen at the Streets of Long Beach FD event in April 2007.
• Was featured in a 2007 nationwide television ad campaign by sponsor BFGoodrich Tires.
• Captured the FD championship in 2006, giving him two championships in the first three years of the series.
• Added three more wins (Long Beach, Chicago, New Jersey) to his career total. His three wins were the most of the series in 2006.
• Scored podium finishes in five of seven 2006 events.
• Competed in the historic Mopar D1 All Star Duel at Irwindale Speedway, the first-ever meeting between drifters and NASCAR Nextel Cup stars. NASCAR drivers, including Kasey Kahne, Matt Kenseth and Bill Elliott, drifted with Hübinette and others in the event, which benefited the Kasey Kahne Foundation.
• Became a U.S. citizen in 2006.
• Married his longtime girlfriend Stina in late December 2006.
• Served as a stunt driver on the Universal Pictures’ films “The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift” and “The Fast and The Furious 4.”
• Scored a runner-up finish in the 2005 FD Championship, contending for the title up to the very last event, and finishing only 40 points out of the top spot.
• Wheeled his way to two wins in 2005, at Road Atlanta and the inaugural Drift Chicago event.
• Became the FD Series’ first repeat winner at a venue with his win at Road Atlanta.
• Advanced to at least the Elite 8 round of eliminations in five of the six FD events in 2005.
• Won the inaugural FD Championship in 2004.
• Swept three of four series events in 2004 (Atlanta, Houston and Sonoma).
• Captured an historic win in the first-ever SCCA FD Series event at Road Atlanta in 2004. It was also the first win for a domestically manufactured vehicle: the Mopar Dodge Viper Competition Coupe.
• His Mopar Viper Competition Coupe was officially retired from competing in the FD Championship at the conclusion of the 2004 season.
• Finished first among U.S. drivers and in the top-10 overall at the 2004 D1 Grand Prix at Irwindale Speedway.
• Selected to be one of eight (out of 52 Americans) to compete in the first D1GP American drifting competition ever held.
• Worked as a performance driving instructor, including a three-year stint at the Skip Barber Racing School, where he gained experience driving Dodge Vipers. Hübinette was a member of Skip Barber’s elite Special Product Group.
• Joined the LA Motorsports Stunt Team and has a thriving career as a stunt driver. Has worked on several television commercials and feature films.
• Competed as a driver in Touring Car racing on a team for Volvo, from 1997 through 2000. Worked for nine years as a test driver in product development for Volvo, conducting high-speed and aggressive tests across Europe.