{"id":11851,"date":"2012-04-05T09:31:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T16:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/?p=11851"},"modified":"2012-04-05T09:31:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T16:31:23","slug":"ready-for-formula-dirft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2012\/04\/05\/ready-for-formula-dirft\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready for Formula Dirft?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2012 Formula Drift Season starting this weekend, We&#8217;d like to wish SSR Sponsored driver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisforsberg.com\/\">Chris Forsberg <\/a>and Chris Forsberg Racing good luck and are hoping to see him standing on top of the podium at the end of the year! Chris Forsberg Racing had some changes since last year including moving to the East Coast but nothing is going to stop him from driving like a bat out of hell this season! Here are some of my fav pictures from the 2011 season.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2012\/04\/05\/ready-for-formula-dirft\/23-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11852\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11852\" title=\"23\" src=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/23.jpg 672w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/23-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/23-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<style type='text\/css'>\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\r\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\r\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\r\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\r\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\r\n\t\t\t\twidth: 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The Semi Solid Forged <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssr-wheels.com\/wheels\/typef_1516171819.asp\">SSR Type F<\/a>! He&#8217;s put so much abuse to these things and they just keep ticking!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Chris Forsberg's Type F 01\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-snc6\/205620_10150215472309439_55412159438_8417316_4722616_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Chris Forsberg SSR Type f 3\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-snc7\/291773_10150345795984439_55412159438_9659060_4944452_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p>-D.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2012 Formula Drift Season starting this weekend, We&#8217;d like to wish SSR Sponsored driver Chris Forsberg and Chris Forsberg Racing good luck and are hoping to see him standing on top of the podium at the end of the year! Chris Forsberg Racing had some changes since last year including moving to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2012\/04\/05\/ready-for-formula-dirft\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[178,819,48,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11851"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11878,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions\/11878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}