Source: http://www.themotorreport.com.au/19635/hyundai-and-red-bull-sponsored-genesis-coupe-drift-car-to-be-piloted-by-rhys-millen/

2009 sees Formula DRIFT entering its sixth year, and the first round begins with practice on April 9th at Long Beach ahead of Saturday’s main event. Several of the top drifters are in possession of new weapons for the forthcoming season including reigning champ Tanner Foust (Scion tC), Vaughn Gittin Jr. (2010 Mustang GT) and Rhys Millen (Hyundai Genesis Coupe).

With the number of new cars that will be on show and a huge field of 47 cars competing for the 32 positions in qualifying on Friday, it appears that the ‘global financial crisis’ hasn’t hit Formula DRIFT in the same way that it hit the Drift Australia series which itself has been reduced to a single round later in the year.

Millen, who is now running a brand new Hyundai Genesis Coupe, is possibly better known here in Australia for the Pontiac GTO (Holden Monaro) that he ran a few years back, showing that you didn’t need something small and Japanese to go drifting. His choices to step out of the GTO for a Solstice, and now a Hyundai, are more than likely fueled by the size of the check that accompanies them…