Good morning from Braselton, Georgia where Chelsea took to the track at Road Atlanta yesterday for the first time since his third-place finish in Orlando. Round 3 of the 2019 Black Magic Pro Championship season comes just two weeks after the Orlando competition and is the shortest turnaround time of the season, but off the truck Chelsea’s RTR team had his Spec 5-D dialed in making no substantial changes throughout the first day of practice.

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We all saw what Vaughn’s RTR Motorsports team could do in under 20 minutes at Formula Drift Orlando so when his Spec 5-D rolled off the truck two weeks later here in Georgia it was definitely Ready to Rock! Turning some quality laps in both practice sessions yesterday, one remains this afternoon before Round 3: Road to the Championship qualifying begins here at Road Atlanta.
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As the first Formula Drift event of the season wrapped up in Long Beach, California, Ryan Tuerck was unsure of what car he would compete in for the second round in Long Beach. With just three weeks and a 2,500+ mile tow between Long Beach and the second round in Orlando, Florida, Tuerck and his Race Service team knew they had to make a quick decision. As many drivers took it easy on Sunday following the race, Tuerck and his team tore his competition Toyota GT86 down to the bones to evaluate the crash damage from a collision with the tire wall at the end of the final practice prior to the Top 32 tandem battles. The results weren’t very promising. A twisted strut tower, a rippled firewall and a transmission tunnel that looked more like an arch than a carefully fabricated tunnel were all signs that the chassis had probably seen its last competition. Continue reading COLLISIONS SLOW VAUGHN GITTIN JR. AND RYAN TUERCK WHILE CHELSEA DENOFA FINDS THE PODIUM IN ORLANDO

Saturday marked round 2 of the Formula Drift Pro Championship. This time the event would have the teams travel across the country from the previous round in the streets of Long Beach to Orlando, Florida’s banked oval track. Around 10,000 people sat on the edge of their seats. Taylor Hull and his team were feeling confident after the previous event.
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10. Ryan Tuerck Made It!

Wow, the fact that Ryan Tuerck scrambled to get his Toyota 86 rebuilt in an old chassis over that short period of time was pretty insane. Double that with the ability to run into the Top 16 was a pretty impressive feat for any team to build a car that quickly and not have some serious mechanical issues. Now the challenge will be keeping this new build together for the east coast leg until the team returns back to home base in Los Angeles and works to push Tuerck back into the Top 10 in the championship race.

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