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Amanda Sorensen

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438 total appearances

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Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

No, we're all friends. Everyone. That's what I love about the drifting community. And like, even when I go to a practice event, like I'm going to on this Saturday and like you pull up to a practice event and it's so accessible to the general public, like the drifting events and just drifting in general, that there is such a large female audience there.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Um, so a lot of the females support each other over on the East coast. They have this like club called drift kitchen and it's like at least 20 females that have drift cars like in one state. And so, um, a lot of the girls support each other. Everyone loves to just go out and like drive with your friends. Like that's the concept of drifting.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Um, so a lot of the females support each other over on the East coast. They have this like club called drift kitchen and it's like at least 20 females that have drift cars like in one state. And so, um, a lot of the girls support each other. Everyone loves to just go out and like drive with your friends. Like that's the concept of drifting.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Um, so a lot of the females support each other over on the East coast. They have this like club called drift kitchen and it's like at least 20 females that have drift cars like in one state. And so, um, a lot of the girls support each other. Everyone loves to just go out and like drive with your friends. Like that's the concept of drifting.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

So Formula Drift came to the United States in 2003. And I like was one years old at that time. But it's crazy because I didn't really follow it until about COVID time, like 2019, I would say.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

So Formula Drift came to the United States in 2003. And I like was one years old at that time. But it's crazy because I didn't really follow it until about COVID time, like 2019, I would say.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

So Formula Drift came to the United States in 2003. And I like was one years old at that time. But it's crazy because I didn't really follow it until about COVID time, like 2019, I would say.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

but it came to the united states in 2003 and it's the fastest growing motorsport wow in the usa right now that's impressive so um for me i have really just been able to go and travel the world and see the other drift series other than just formula drift here so there's like drift masters in europe um their last round is in poland and

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

but it came to the united states in 2003 and it's the fastest growing motorsport wow in the usa right now that's impressive so um for me i have really just been able to go and travel the world and see the other drift series other than just formula drift here so there's like drift masters in europe um their last round is in poland and

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

but it came to the united states in 2003 and it's the fastest growing motorsport wow in the usa right now that's impressive so um for me i have really just been able to go and travel the world and see the other drift series other than just formula drift here so there's like drift masters in europe um their last round is in poland and

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

in a stadium that sells out with 60 000 people damn so it's crazy because i didn't really understand the potential of this sport until i had gone international with it i also didn't understand my social media following until i had realized how huge it is like internationally in brazil in europe in japan like the scenes over there are insane so you got a big international following then

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

in a stadium that sells out with 60 000 people damn so it's crazy because i didn't really understand the potential of this sport until i had gone international with it i also didn't understand my social media following until i had realized how huge it is like internationally in brazil in europe in japan like the scenes over there are insane so you got a big international following then

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

in a stadium that sells out with 60 000 people damn so it's crazy because i didn't really understand the potential of this sport until i had gone international with it i also didn't understand my social media following until i had realized how huge it is like internationally in brazil in europe in japan like the scenes over there are insane so you got a big international following then

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Yeah, exactly. And I didn't understand that, you know, like until I went to like a true like cultured car event overseas.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Yeah, exactly. And I didn't understand that, you know, like until I went to like a true like cultured car event overseas.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

Yeah, exactly. And I didn't understand that, you know, like until I went to like a true like cultured car event overseas.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

That was different. That was like a rally race that I was doing. So I race in this series called Extreme E. There's 10 races. We race in five different remote locations in an electric race car.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

That was different. That was like a rally race that I was doing. So I race in this series called Extreme E. There's 10 races. We race in five different remote locations in an electric race car.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

That was different. That was like a rally race that I was doing. So I race in this series called Extreme E. There's 10 races. We race in five different remote locations in an electric race car.

Digital Social Hour
Inside the World of Professional Drifting & High-Speed Racing | Amanda Sorensen DSH #1220

All wheel drive electric race car. I raced for GMC and our car was like a replica of a Hummer EV. I actually daily to Hummer EV, which I thought was like pretty great. Like I really wasn't into electric cars until I daily one. And I was like, OK, this is kind of cool. But I got to work a lot with the team on developing the front to rear power. There's so much you can do.