Here is my GoPro video from qualifying. I only did 2 laps but it was enough to get pole

Tyler McQuarrie Qualifying Lotus for World Challenge from tyler@tylermcquarrie.com on Vimeo.

To race on the Long Beach GP weekend is awesome. To Win, is AMAZING! This race weekend has been going on for the past 36 years and its kind of like the Monaco of North America.  This deal was put together late and the team worked many all nighters to just get the car ready to race in World Challenge.

Once we got on track and realized how quick the car was, it was not a surprise that we got poll. I was worried about the race simply because we had not run the car for more than 15 minutes and I was not sure if it would last. My main goal was to be easy on the car and to just go fast enough to keep Cunningham in the Real Time Acura behind me. I got a great start and got by four GT cars which gave me a buffer between me and Cunningham. I was hoping for my team to give me the gap but my radio was not working so I was watching the jumbo TV when I went down the front straight and I saw him coming into the pits with his hood up. At that point, I knew it was my race to lose. I just cruised around the rest of the race until I saw the white flag. Thats when I said “No way… We are going to win Long Beach!” What better way to thank LPL Motorsports, than to go out and win the GTS World Challenge race!

This was the first win for Lotus at Long Beach since Mario did it in 1978! I’m not sure what is going to come from this but I hope to do more racing this year! The team is thinking about going to the next round at Mosport but we will see. Most  people in the paddock know that I’ve done a lot of racing but there where some people that thought I had only done drifting. I didn’t correct those people cause I thought it was funny to see their confused look on their face that a drifter just beat all these racer’s at Long Beach! hahaha

I had some time on my hands so I thought I would give you guys a peak inside the Falken Tire Formula D compound. It says a lot about Falken’s support of drifting, but it also says a lot about the sport of drifting!

Here is a quick video of the Falken pit. You gotta love Garage Boso in this and you have to ask Ross about the story behind Mase…

Quick walk through the Falken Tire FD Compound with Tyler McQuarrie from tyler@tylermcquarrie.com on Vimeo.

UGHHHH! Man I was having such a good weekend at the first event of the 2010 Formula D season. Practice was awesome and l qualified 2nd, which lined me up against Takatori in the Top 32.

On my lead run, we took off together and he had no problem keeping up on the approach to turn 1. I nailed my run and pulled out a very big gap. On my follow lap, we took off and then he stopped accelerating and almost started to slow. We were side by side going into turn 1 and going VERY slow. I was all over him and it forced me to initiate early under the bridge and with the speed so low I straighted up. I got back up on his door through the rest of the run but the mistake had been made. I was thinking podium but all it took is one little mistake to change your weekend. I’m not sure why he did that but thats not how I would want to win but it is what it is. I can’t wait for ATL!!! I’m so comfortable in the Falken Tire 350z that I’m hoping to climb my way back into the Championship

Here is one of my practice runs using my GoPro HD camera’s

LBC Formula D Practice run with Tyler McQuarrie from tyler@tylermcquarrie.com on Vimeo.