After two events in the 2017 Formula Drift Pro 2 series, Travis Reeder held a 78 point lead over the next closest competitor. Reeder' success continued into the start of the 2017 Formula Drift Pro 2 season, as he earned second in his first event at Orlando Speedworld and won the second event at Road Atlanta. With the Evergreen ProAm series conquered, Reeder turned his attention to the next level. Overall, Reeder claimed four of five podium finishes in his first competitive season and won the championship by six points over Matt VanKirk. Reeder ended up finishing second at the first ProAm event he entered and won his second event. He wasn’t expecting to see results so quickly in competition, but was happy with them and continued to push towards a bigger goal.
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This same series has spawned several Formula Drift drivers in the past, including Walker Wilkerson, Ian Fournier, Kyle Pollard and Cameron Moore. Six years after acquiring the car, Reeder felt like he was ready to start competing and entered the Evergreen Drift ProAm series just outside of Seattle in 2016. He slowly built it over time, adding parts as his budget would allow and driving at as many local events as possible to build up his experience. The Nissan S13 Coupe would be the workhorse drift car for Reeder over the following six years. That coupe is the same Nissan S13 that Reeder used to win the 2018 Formula Drift Pro 2 championship and was the stand-in car for the first two rounds of the Pro 1 series in 2019. Of course, he didn’t actually tell his parents that he welded the diff, but who really tells their parents about welding the differential in the hand-me-down pickup truck? A few years later, Reeder received some money from family and friends that was intended to help him get a start in college, but instead, Reeder decided to use that money to go purchase a used 1991 Nissan 240SX S13 coupe. Reeder’s first vehicle was a hand-me-down mid-'90s Toyota pickup truck, and as soon as he officially got it from his dad, he did what any kid who wants to get involved in drifting and has a little bit of welding know-how would do: He welded the differential and started to slide it around at any chance he got. Since his family was a normal working class family and didn’t have deep pockets, he knew that cost would be a factor in getting involved with any motorsport. “A weekend of drifting would cost a couple hundred bucks, which is much cheaper than a lot of other motorsports,” Reeder said. As soon as Reeder got his driver’s license, he knew he wanted to get into drifting because it was the cool new sport and very affordable to participate in. His parents were always into cars, having various hot rods in the garage and watching NASCAR or NHRA drag racing on the weekends.
Reeder was part of a family of gearheads growing up in Vancouver, Washington. Let’s get back to how Travis Reeder navigated his way through the grassroots and Pro-Am circuits to get into Formula Drift in the first place! The Early Years After the much-documented drama surrounding the car at Formula Drift Long Beach, and a mechanical issue that kept the car from competing at the second event of the season in Orlando, the team was relieved to put the car into the show at Road Atlanta.īut we’re getting ahead of ourselves.
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On May 10, 2019, Travis Reeder slid into history as the driver of the first electric drift car to qualify for Formula Drift in his Napoleon Motorsports EL1 Camaro, earning 67 points on his second qualifying run.
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