SAMUEL HUBINETTE, FORMULA D Long Beach Winner!

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SAMUEL HUBINETTE, FORMULA D Long Beach Winner!

Samuel Hubinette, the "Crazy Swede," kicked off the Need For Speed Formula D Drift 2006 season in style, taking the Round 1 win at Long Beach, Calif., in his NuFormz Racing Mopar Dodge Viper SRT10.

Hubinette qualified sixth, then lined up against the Mustang of Vaughn Gittin Jr., in the first elimination round. After two passes, the crowd chanted "one more time," and that’s just what they got. The two drivers went head-to-head again. Contact between Hubinette and Gittin resulted in a lengthy deliberation by the judges, who awarded the win to Hubinette, after it was determined that Gittin had a mechanical problem, causing the contact.

Hubinette next defeated Tanner Foust in the Great Eight round and took the win over Ken Gushi in the Final Four, setting up a final round match against Rhys Millen, the 2005 champ. Millen spun out on the first pass, sealing the win for Hubinette and giving him his first victory since last year at Chicago.

"It was a phenomenal start for 2006, compared to 2005 when we made the round of 16 but didn’t advance," said Hubinette. "I had to struggle all season last year to work my points up. To get the full 100 points, that’s a great way to start the season. Especially now that we’re working on the new car [the Mopar Dodge Charger SRT8], there is always development time. The fact that I could run the Viper here, get a good start and be up at the top level is just so golden for me."

Hubinette will look to make it two in a row and maintain his points lead, when he debuts the new Mopar Dodge Charger SRT8 in Round 2 at Atlanta, May 12-13.


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[Coiloverkid]

congratulations, Sam.

[kurumakun]

Great job today Sam. You were super consistant all day!

[shubinette]

WOW.
That was a very intense day I must say.
To first have to go up against JR and doing a one more time. That was an awesome run we had, as always with him.
And then another one more time with Tanner, with his new car. He was sick out there with his new ride.
Gush and Rhys are always on their game.
Thank you all for coming out and watch today.

Now I am heading out to celebrate.

Samuel

[B DRIFTIN]

Video

Please, someone put up a video?

[my 1 88 u]

WOW.
That was a very intense day I must say.
To first have to go up against JR and doing a one more time. That was an awesome run we had, as always with him.
And then another one more time with Tanner, with his new car. He was sick out there with his new ride.
Gush and Rhys are always on their game.
Thank you all for coming out and watch today.

Now I am heading out to celebrate.

Samuel

Damn, you had to go through Gitten, Foust, Gushi, and Rhys to get there? Congrats on the victory.

[NM Drift Group]

Congrats Sam, Nice way to start off a new season.

[Casper Canul]

Mr. sam's win

Sam!!!!

You had some tough battles and it was a tough win! Congrats!!!!

See you in Atlanta

Casper

[CrazyHawaiian]

I have no idea what happened (since I live on a rock haha) but sounds like you had some crazy battles. Congrats on the win!

Hey side question, when will we see that Charger? Kinda interested in hearing how much time you had to spend tuning that beast to slide.

[shubinette]

The Charger should be ready for Atlanta,I hope!

Yeah, It was not an easy day I must say.
But lots of fun with all of you guys out there.
Looking forward to Atlanta, Should be fun.

[ModifiedGuy]

Congrats Sam! Looking forward to seeing the Charger!

[Sil-80]

congrats, to sam

[my 1 88 u]

us people that could not attend are dying here. Where are the pictures, video clips, and spectator commentaries?

[slideways2004]

us people that could not attend are dying here. Where are the pictures, video clips, and spectator commentaries?

seriously? i feel like i'm in another country. i want pics and vids

[MonkeySlide]

seriously? i feel like i'm in another country. i want pics and vids

Hey guys..pics on V562 will be up soon..Long Beach was really really rough photography wise but we managed to get almost 600 pictures.

Vids are a different story we didn't get any this time but hopefully some of the spectators may have some.