A regular podium finisher, Ryan Tuerck is known as much for his online videos featuring his creative build projects as he is for driving. He competes in Formula Drift in the Papadakis Racing Rain-X Toyota GR Corolla.
His build legacy includes the Stout and the Formula Supra, and started with the viral Toyota GT4586 build released in 2016. His inventive first project inspired the genre of build content online when he paired a Toyota GT86 with a Ferrari 458 engine to generate some 70 million digital impressions. Tuerck started his motorsport career on two wheels, racing AMA motocross through his early teens.
He developed a passion for drifting at age 16 while learning to control rear-wheel drive cars on the snowy winter roads near his family’s New England home. He soon became a regular at Club Loose events on the east coast and began competing in Canada, where he immediately won back-to-back national championships (2005, 2006), before moving to Formula Drift.
In addition to a full competition schedule and serial build projects for YouTube, he runs a robust appearance calendar, counting GRIDLIFE, the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the Daytona 500, and the Velocity Invitational among some of his favorite stops in recent years. He lives in New Hampshire.
