In a seminal paper Drinfeld explained how to associate to every classical r-matrix for a Lie algebra $lie g$ a twisting element based on $mathcal{U}(lie g)[[hbar]]$, or equivalently a left invariant star product of the corresponding symplectic structure $omega$ on the 1-connected Lie group G of g. In a recent paper, the authors solve the same problem by means of Fedosov quantization. In this short note we provide a connection between the two constructions by computing the characteristic (Fedosov) class of the twist constructed by Drinfeld and proving that it is the trivial class given by $ frac{[omega]}{hbar}$.