Hope you enjoy something a little different with this one. We wanted to share a BTS of our championship winning season ender. We'll be back to technical vids on the next one!
As we head into a new season of Formula Drift, join the Papadakis Racing crew and Fredric Aasbo and Ryan Tuerck for a behind the scenes look at the Irwindale season ender in 2021. This is for real. We all worked hard for this. The stress is high (for most of us... Freddy somehow is fine?). Spoiler alert: We won the championship!
And yeah. The team's FIRST two-time champion, Tanner Foust, makes a cameo.
Formula Drift Irwindale 2021 Competition Top 16 through finals: • Formula DRIFT Irwindal...
Toyota GR Supra build: • Supra Complete Teardow...
Papadakis Racing is:
Stephan Papadakis
Shawn Hillier
Aldo Villagran
Mario Salguero
Matt Lease
Jen Horsey
Drivers:
Fredric Aasbo
Ryan Tuerck
Jhonnattan Castro
Track team members:
Brian Hartsock
Dominic Brio
Alex Pico
Nick Byatt
Hayden Tavernetti
Eduardo Grau
Shasky Taveras
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ABOUT PAPADAKIS RACING:
The Papadakis Racing team began drifting in 2004 and is the most winning team in Formula Drift history, earning the 2015 & 2021 titles with driver Fredric Aasbo, as well as back­ to­ back championship titles with driver Tanner Foust in 2007 and 2008. The Rockstar Energy Drink / Nitto Tire Toyota GR Supra is the latest competition build from the Carson, California, based team.
Team owner Stephan Papadakis is a legend of sport­ compact racing who began building his reputation in the 1990s with the first front-wheel ­drive, tube­-chassis drag car in the U.S. The team earned multiple records and championships in the discipline, turning in elapsed times and trap speeds previously thought unattainable in front­-drive drag cars. Papadakis' successes in front­-wheel drive were matched by his efforts in rear­-wheel drive when he campaigned a Honda Civic that became just the fifth car to join the NHRA's Sport Compact 200 MPH club