Samuel Hubinette #696 Gästförare 2007 

Samuel Hubinette “Formula Drift Champion 2006”

I was born and raised in Jokkmokk close to the Artic Circle in the Sweden. Controlling a car while sliding on ice and snow is something my father taught me at a young age. When I was eight years old I started to slide cars around on the Artic frozen lakes. Since the country was covered in snow eight months of the year, drifting became second nature.

By the time I was 16 I had my first competition in Rally Cross in Sweden. By age 23 I was working as a Test Driver at Volvo Cars. During that period I became their stunt driver for all new Volvo commercials and I also begun competing in Touring Car Racing for Team TDR. I worked at Volvo for nine years until I set my sights on America. I came to Newport Beach, California in 1998 to hang out for a year. While here, I went to a driving event for BMW where I was able to compete in 330s and ended up winning over some of the instructors.

However, without a green card, I returned to Sweden and hoped to make it back to Newport Beach one day. Some would call it luck, others would call it Gods blessing, but I won the Green Card lottery! I jumped on the next flight.

After a couple years working as a driving instructor with Skip Barber and many driving/racing gigs, including starting my own racing school, I landed the best deal I could imagine – Drifting for Mopar in the Dodge Viper. It just so happens that I signed this deal on April 1st. But, April Fools Day or not, I went on to win the first Drifting competition at Road Atlanta and also the Championship 2004. The season 2005 was also a great year finishing 2nd overall.

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