DriftCon 2016 - Car Show & ProAm Round 2 Event Coverage

This marks the third year of DriftCon events at Evergreen Speedway and the June event is always the first of the season. Every time this event continues to grow in size and this year was no different. Compared to DriftCon Afterdark last September there was a 30% increase in overall attendance!

Photos by Adam Ruiz, TK Akiyama, and Nick/Melissa Poirier (Wicked-West). Text by Matt Haugness.

The Evergreen Drift ProAm season kicked off in April with round 1 on the 5/8’s bank. For round 2 (DriftCon) they elected to move over to the 3/8 course and run the mini-Irwindale layout. This was the same layout that was ran at DriftCon in 2015.

There were over 30 drivers that showed up to compete in the ProAm competition which was the largest turnout so far this season. Multiple familiar names including Rob Primo, Erich Hagen, and Joseph Lin returned after taking some time off from drifting competitively. After qualifying in first Travis Reeder couldn’t be stopped and ended up taking the overall win for the event.

For a full breakdown of the ProAm drifting make sure to check out the round 2 coverage on our sister site for the event – DriftCon.us.

The DC Team Tandem Competition returned and was even more competitive this year. A total of 8 teams of three competed and with Final Bout the weekend before in Oregon in Bash to the Future 4 the following weekend we were stoked that this many teams still were willing to come out and put on a show. Cream3.14 were crowned the champions this year and their team name will be added to the DriftCon Team Tandem Cup.

The Hoon-Off presented by Hoonigan was also a big hit this year with drifters jumping in to fill some last minute no-show spots. TJ Fry ultimately put on the best show for the crowd and took first place.

The car show was once again held alongside the track and was limited to the top 80 cars. Only the best of the best were selected for the Great 80 Car Show and the winners were determined by competitor voting. Scroll to the bottom of this post to see a full list of the cars that won each award.

Thank you to everyone that attended DriftCon. The turnout was our largest DriftCon event to date and we can’t wait until Afterdark on September 10!

Special thanks to all of the vendors and the following sponsors for their support of this event:
Hawk Performance
VLEDS
Hoonigan
Urbn Panda
Bardahl Manufacturing

More coverage:

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Schofhauser Media
Nissan Pacific
Pacific Northwest Car Culture
Zatvundoot
Picazzo Photography
SixStar Media
Lexanfilms
Ian Steez