Yesterday marked the opening day of the 2011 Formula Drift season and GM opened the season up with a bang! Thanks to some fearless driving during qualifying by Conrad Grunewald and his GM Performance Parts-powered Chevy Camaro, GM earned the first qualifying position among the top 32 competitors out on the field. Conrad’s Camaro is powered by a GMPP Crate Engine version of the upcoming supercharged Camaro ZL1 powerplant, so there’s plenty of power to swing the Camaro’s rear end around. We’ll be excited to see just how well those ponies can leave little bits of Hankook rubber on the Streets of Long Beach track today.

Formula Drift action opens up today at 11:30 PM PST and we’ll be carrying all of the action here on GMTunerSource.com via the livestream here - http://www.gmtunersource.com/gmracing/drifting/formula-drift-live

In case you can’t sit glued to your computer all day, GMTS will be broadcasting up to the minute updates during competition runs on our Facebook page here - http://www.facebook.com/GMTunerSource

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This weekend is Round 3 of the Formula Drift season and we’re happy to be able to bring you all of the action LIVE, right here on GMTS all weekend long! The coverage starts tomorrow at 11am and you can watch the whole event for free on our livestream right here. The schedule of this weekend’s events is located on the bottom of the coverage page so you can make sure that you don’t miss any of the qualifying or elimination rounds. Let us know who you’re rooting for in the comments section.

For all of the rookies to professional Drifting, there are three GM cars running for the Formula Drift championship this season so even if you don’t have a favorite driver, you can easily find one to root for. Ryan Tuerck is piloting the Mobil 1 Pontiac Solstice, Conrad Grunewald will be slicing up the track in his Hankook Tire Chevy Camaro and Darren McNamera will be tearing it up with the top down in his Falken Tire Saturn Sky.

Cheer them all on online and trash talk their competition all LIVE on our livestream right here - www.gmtunersource.com/index.php/gmracing/drifting/formula-drift-live

The 2010 Camaro is one of the hottest cars on the scene right now and one that no doubt will be the “it” car at this year’s SEMA Show. Now while anyone can head down to the showroom floor of their local Chevy dealer and pick one of these bad boys up, only a very select few individuals will be chosen by the GM Design Team to build a custom Camaro on behalf of General Motors. In total, eight Camaros will be delivered to the designers that won the design contest with a mix of V6 and V8 model renderings being selected.