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Gryphon AutoLab, Ryan Kado and Karl Osaki sign with Yokohama Tire for the 2014 Formula Drift season

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Gryphon AutoLab, Ryan Kado and Karl Osaki sign with Yokohama Tire for the 2014 Formula Drift season

Huntington Beach, Calif – March 17, 2014 – The newly formed Gryphon AutoLab team is proud to announce today that they have signed a deal with Yokohama Tire to be the team’s official tire sponsor for the 2014 Formula Drift season. Gryphon AutoLab will be campaigning a two car team for the 2014 season with drivers Ryan Kado and Karl Osaki. Ryan Kado will be driving the DNA Motoring/Yokohama Tire Nissan 350Z. And Karl Osaki will be the driver for the DNA Motoring/Yokohama Tire Nissan 240SX(S14).

“We are very excited to have Yokohama Tire join our program” commented Matt Perkins, Gryphon AutoLab team manager, “With their commitment to motorsports and providing high performance street tires, as well as being the tire supplier of returning 2013 champion Michael Essa, we feel Yokohama Tire will be a major asset in helping our team climb the ranks in Formula Drift.”

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Carl Rydquist 2014 Road Race Engineering and Berk Technology Livery

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2014 is a big year for Road Race Engineering, Berk Technology and our driver Carl Rydquist. Formula Drift has become more competitive than ever and nowadays in order to be competitive, the cars have to be extremely developed, the driver exceptionally talented and the teams must bring pro level experience. We’re working on all
of these fields:

Currently the tech crews at RRE and Berk are working double duty to get the RRE Berk Nissan 350Z V8 Turbo as competitive as possible for the 2014 season. We’re keeping our 6.0 liter V8 and building a custom Garrett GTX4088R single turbo setup that will let us pass the magic 1000 hp limit. With that comes several other updates to make the car light and quick, including a C&R Racing Nascar dogbox transmission. More spec details will be released soon or simply swing by the shop if you can’t wait!

We have also committed to run BOTH the Formula Drift PRO Championship and FD Pro2. This will maximize Carl’s seat time and helps close the experience gap to the long time front runners in drifting. There’s no lack of speed or talent in our tall Viking driver “Sweedness” but when the option presented itself to add competitive drifting experience and exposure in front of the fans for all of our sponsors, it was a golden opportunity.

Below is a rendering of the car in the trademark Road Race Engineering colors that we will use this season. Until our title sponsorship is completely negotiated and signed on the dotted lines, we want to emphasize our love and support for Reach Out World Wide which is a globally acting first response relief team that jumps into action when a disaster strikes. ROWW.org was founded by our great friend and inspirer Paul Walker.

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