2008 Formula D season

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The 2008 Formula D season (officially titled Castrol Syntec Power Cup) was the fifth season for the Formula D series. The series began April 12, 2008 and concluded on October 11. The highest scoring drivers of the series were invited to a non-point scoring All-Star event to compete with other drivers from other series all over the world on November 16, 2008.

Schedule

Round	Title	Circuit	Location	Date	Winner	Car	Results
1	Streets of Long Beach	Streets of Long Beach	Long Beach, California	April 12	Chris Forsberg		Results
2	Feel the Heat	Road Atlanta	Braselton, Georgia	May 10	Rhys Millen	Pontiac Solstice	Results
3	The Gauntlet	Englishtown Raceway Park	Englishtown, New Jersey	June 14	Tanner Foust		Results
4	High Stakes	Las Vegas Motor Speedway	Las Vegas, Nevada	July 12	Toshiki Yoshioka		Results
5	Breaking Point	Evergreen Speedway	Washington	August 9	Rhys Millen	Pontiac Solstice	Results
6	Locked and Loaded	Infineon Raceway	Sonoma, California	September 13	Tanner Foust		Results
7	Final Fight	Toyota Speedway	Irwindale, California	October 11	Vaughn Gittin, Jr.		Results
nc	Red Bull Drifting World Championship	Purpose-built	Port of Long Beach, California	November 16	Rhys Millen	Pontiac Solstice	Results
Source:[1]

Championship standings

Event winners in bold.

Pos	Driver	LBH	ATL	ENG	LVS	EVS	SON	IRW	Points
1	Tanner Foust	83	69	107	62	76	107	95	599
2	Samuel Hübinette	96	66	66	85	96	69	66	544
3	Rhys Millen		103	84	67	101	93	62	510
4	Daijiro Yoshihara	65	75	77	91	58	57	58	481
5	Chris Forsberg	106	56	64	56	56	65	56	459
6	Ryan Tuerck	63	80	56	55	63	72	64	453
7	Michihiro Takatori	54	88	54	69	61	55	71	452
8	Vaughn Gittin, Jr.	58	68	56	0.25	0.25	71	103	356.5
9	Conrad Grunewald	55	55	63	0.25	56	65	55	349.25
10	Robbie Nishida	0.25	55	0	62	83	55	63	318.25
11	Ryuji Miki	55	0.25	64	0.25	64	55	62	300.5
12	Darren McNamara	61	56	55		65	0	0.25	237.25
13	Stephan Verdier	0.25	58	55	56	0.25	55	0.25	224.75
14	Ken Gushi	56	0.25	0.25	55	55	56	0.25	222.75
15	Bill Sherman	0.25	63	0			84	56	203.25
16	Justin Pawlak	57	0.25	0.25	0.25	55	0.25	84	197
17	Kyle Mohan	70	0.25	0	0.25	55	56	0.25	181.75
18	Kenji Yamanaka	55	55	0	0.25	0.25	56	0.25	166.75
19	Kazu Hayashida	63			0	60	0	0.25	123.25
20	Manabu Orido				64			58	122
21	Mitsuru Haruguchi	64			0		0.25	55	119.25
22	Tony Angelo	0.25	0.25	56	0.25	56	0.25	0.25	113.25
23	Toshiki Yoshioka	0.25			104		0.25	0.25	104.75
24	Tyler McQuarrie	0.25	0.25	92	0.25	0	0	0.25	93
25	Tony Brakohiapa	0	0.25	0	63	0.25	0.25	0.25	64
26	John Russakoff				58			0.25	58.25
27	Hiro Sumida	0	57	0.25	0.25	0	0.25		57.75
28	Yasu Kondo	0.25			56	0	0.25	0.25	56.75
29	Taka Aono	0.25	0.25	0.25	0.25	0.25	0.25	55	56.5
30	Patrick Mordaunt	0.25	55	0.25	0	0.25	0.25	0.25	56.25
31=	Ross Petty	0.25	0.25	55	0	0.25	0.25		56
31=	Calvin Wan	0.25	0.25	0.25	55	0.25	0		56
33	Blake Fuller	0	0.25	55	0	0.25	0.25		55.75
34	Henry Schelley	0.25	0.25	0.25	0.25	0.25	0		1.25
35=	Joon Maeng	0.25	0	0.25	0.25	0.25	0		1
35=	Stephan Papadakis	0.25	0.25	0.25	0	0	0.25		1
35=	Seigo Yamamoto	0.25	0.25	0	0	0.25	0	0.25	1
38=	Chris Kregorian	0.25	0.25	0	0	0.25			0.75
38=	Quoc Ly	0			0.25		0.25	0.25	0.75
38=	Brian Peter	0	0.25	0.25	0	0.25	0		0.75
41=	Gary Lang	0	0	0.25	0	0	0	0.25	0.5
41=	Tommy Suell	0			0.25	0.25			0.5
41=	Jairus Wharerau	0			0.25		0.25		0.5
44=	James Bondurant	0	0.25	0	0				0.25
44=	Alex Pfeiffer				0			0.25	0.25
44=	Doug Van Den Brink	0			0.25				0.25
44=	Dan Willie		0	0.25			0		0.25
Source:[2]

Honors

• Rookie of the Year

Michihiro Takatori

• Most improved driver

Stephan Verdier

• Driver of the Year

Ryan Tuerck

• Hardest Charging Driver

Robbie Nishida

• Spirit of Drifting

Patrick Mordaunt

• Superstar of the Year

Tanner Foust

• Best Style

Daijiro Yoshihara

References