Samuel Hubinette

2-time Formula DRIFT Champion and Hollywood Stunt Driver. This crazy Swede has the most wins in Formula DRIFT history.

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.

The 2006 Season Was Great
I had a great season this year and you can see all the championship stops and results below. The season was not only great because I finished as number one, but also because everybody involved was doing a great job - including the car that is just a great ride. Also, it's not easy beating the rest of the guys in the Formula D.

2007
We introduced the 2007 Dodge Charger SRT-8 and had a successful year with one first place finish and 5th over all. It was the heaviest car in the circuit and many people did not think it was going to do that well as it did. The car with a set of Bf Goodrich KDW 335s ended up being a very competitive car.



	Quick Info Name – Samuel Hubinette Age – 36 Height – 5’ 11” Weight – 180 Nickname – The Crazy Swede Car Number – 77 Hometown – Newport Coast, CA Team – Nuformz Mopar/BFG Crew Members – Shan, Scott, Wheels, Tim Car Specs – Charger SRT-8, 392 Hemi 750hp Sponsors – MOPAR,BFG,Sparco,Oakley,Kicker Website – SamuelHubinette.com Career Results Wins - 16 Personality Questions Favorite Music Artists – Def Leppard Favorite Movies – Forest Gump Hobbies – Tennis, Skiing, Mountain biking, Go Carting, Travel Personal Heroes / Role Models – Papps

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