The pseudo rookie and D1 Champion Daigo Saito did what many of us suspected he would do since he game to Formula Drift, he won an event in his first season.  Daigo-san took down Conrad Grunewald, Darren McNamarra, Chesea DeNofa, points leader Justin Pawlak, and finally Chris Forsberg to take the victory at Palm Beach International Raceway over the weekend.  Keen observers will note that every opponent he defeated pilots a V8-powered car which should put Daigo in the lead for the Turbonetecs “V8 Hunters” cup.  Dai Yoshihara and Justin Pawlak battled it out for third place and Dai came out on top grabbing a much needed podium. 

Although despite not making either one of the three steps Justin Pawlak remains the points leader but Daigo is now only 20.5 points behind him due to his consistent podium finishes.  Dai is in a distant third with 197 points but the season is still young and the 2011 champ has time to mount a come back. 

We will see if Daigo can further encroach on JTP’s territory when Formula D returns to New Jersey’s Wall Speedway AKA “Irwindale Jr.” towards the end of the month!

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Formula Drift Round 3 “Invasion” is happening right now at Palm Beach Interational Raceway in Florida and if you are reading this sentence that means you are probably not sitting in the stands in freaking Flordia watching this awesomeness go down; so do yourself a favor scroll below and watch the whole thing LIVE right now.  To make things easy on you I will stick this post to the top of the blog so it will be easy for you to find all weekend.  You’re welcome!

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