So this is complete speculation/guessing at this point but we have a good feeling that Ryan Tuerck will also be in a Scion FRS for the 2013 season. He is following after Otto Graven, Toshiki Yoshioka, and Tony Angelo who are all bringing BRZ/FRS to the track for new cars in 2013 but his comes with a big twist! The Scion FRS driven by Ryan Tuerck will be Chevrolet LS powered.
The second half of this rumor is that Retaks is being teamed up with Air Force to run Tuerck’s sponsorship for the 2013 season. A pretty large pickup for Ryan Tuerck who has lacked major corporate backing for 2012 while continuing to be a top performer. Ryan Tuerck wouldn’t confirm any of this so we could be all wrong but only time will tell!
you nerds just make shit up so you can post in your blog don’t you?
@Pat
I would venture to guess our Rumormill posts have about a 85-90% accuracy rate over time.
Hope the chassis still stays in FD.
Hasn’t Tuerck already confirmed a sponsorship with Greddy? He has talked a lot about turbo JZ motors in his web videos…
i hope to god this rumor isnt true i hope it falls in that 10-15%
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He did say in a recent Tuerck’D he has a deal with Garret for this year.
Where’s all the hate for the FRS coming from all of a sudden?
I’d LOVE to see an LS powered FRS in Formula Drift! Especially in the hands of someone as capable as Ryan Tuerck!
Plus more sponsorship coming into the sport is never a bad thing…
Here comes the FR-S bandwagon
As long as its not as hideous as last seasons car. Nobody should use those “abomination upon people’s yes” wheels!
We all knew this was going to happen sooner or later. If this rumor is true, I hope he kills it this year.
Why are we hating on FR-S’s?
Yeah, let’s keep on using prawn spec $200 dollar 20 year old Nissans. Cutting edge yo.
id like to see someone come to the FD grid in a crown vic. complete with police like livery and light bar.
It would be a real blessing to the drifting world if Mike Peters made a comeback. You are always so insightful and articulate shen it comes to commenting about drifting. You were and still are to drifting, what Honey BooBoo is to television.
hell no…
minus one S chasis
@Mike D — Seen that at Firebird Raceway in AZ a few times without the police livery. Bondurant has a few, and did some drift demos back in 2007. Maybe Corey Hosford was one of the drivers?
That was James Bondurant and Ryan Hampton
Hopefully new sponsors and a new car will mean a new livery, his 2012 livery is sooo cluttered!!
Wasn’t Dai gonna do this next season in a sooby BRZ? why is everyone hating on the FR-S? Maybe this car will be more competitive than that turd of a 240 he was driving last year
@SamuraiSam Yes, Dai Yoshihara is set to hop into a Subaru BRZ in 2014. Reported at SEMA last October.
http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/blog/2012/10/30/formula-drift-2014-dai-yoshihara-will-compete-in-a-subaru-brz/
@lifer, sweet! wish i could see that, i can only catch the drift stream up here. its a bit of a mission for me to catch any FD events for now..
in general maybe FD should offer some incentive for people to bring different cars out.. i like seeing a varied Grid, with long, mid and short wheel base cars.. if drifting is supposed to be about style and personality it sure sucks when every car is the same..
Tuerck almost beat everyone in that super old 500whp s13. Think about that. He’s gonna destroy no matter what he drives.
There’s 6 FRS’s for the new season so far. Geez
Wouldn’t be surprised if it jumped to 10 by long beach. Smh
A Chevy V8?!?! Grrrrr…
@Mike D, Originality=expensive to make competitive. I agree with having more variety, but I’m not complaining with what we got. It just has to be the top teams or a big budget to enter FD with a unique chassis/engine combo. Proam is where you will most likely see a larger variety since they are much more lenient with the rules pertaining to chassis and subframes. FD did open up with the rules in allowing AWD and FWD cars to be converted to RWD and be allowed to compete as long as they pass safety rules as well. This is what I remember, not reading off anything verbatim. If anyone has more details on this, please share.
If all that everyone’s worried about is originality, go watch UK/European drifting…
Everyone is in 10/20 year old cars, and inline-6′s are like the craze over here
who are the 6 FR-S’s?
Gushi (EJ257 Motor)
Otto (crazy tundra motor)
Yoshioka (EJ257 motor)
Angelo (2AZ Motor)
Tuerck (LS motor)
Are you counting Pat Cyr? I think he’s DMCC only
FD needs more four door cars.
hell yes!
If FD is ever going to have any commercial/mainstream success- the pros need to be showcasing cars that can be bought in any new car showroom across the nation- instead of rust buckets on craigslist.
@Crook – I have made a few friend overseas and I gotta say you are on the money there. Plus the skill level and style is more reminicent of D1 with the European flare. Amazing things have been happening just in the past year with crazy unique events that is impossible to do in the USofA. The skill level of the drivers in Europe, Asia, NZ, and AU are very high, and they often wish they could afford to get a chance to show their stuff in FD and D1. We need another RedBull World Cup or somthing like that again.
@lifer, not arguing with you on it being a little more expensive to fester originality, and ive seen the originality in the pro/am’s and the eu series, but i meant something along the lines of what SteveO just mentioned. get the manufacturers in on it, i know dodge is working on a rwd car (code 130R i think) i would like to see more of a race it on Sunday sell it on Monday feel from FD. maybe with Ford being a major sponsor in the series that is what well see , other manufacturers joining the fray. going pro in FD already requires a big budget, its all a relative scale in the end.
@crook, not necessarily originality, more on the side of diversity.
Woot more FR-S/BRZ. can’t wait for the 2013 season to start.
@ Mike D, I see where you are going with this now. Yes I completely agree that more manufacturers should make a presence into the sport. You would think every manufacturer would have some sort of RWD sport coupe/hatch/sedan in their lineup. FD has a large talent pool of drivers that could be picked up by a manufacturer to drift their car professionally.
@wrecked_nerds
I’m pretty sure you’re in the 10-15% this time
He is boss no matter what car.
Assuming 2 of the 5/6 FR-S chassis cars competing have no support from Toyota/Scion, Why are teams not selecting other rwd sports car platforms which are proven eg Hyundai Genesis or Nissan 370Z??
Is it the pure appeal of the FR-S?
I dont see why everybody is all upset about more FR-S’s, a manufacture basically came out and gave us a brand new drift car, and people dont expect to see it drifting??? As LS’s go Ryan may love his 2j’s and SR’s but he has always said the LS’s are great for comp’s proven by how well he did last year in a pretty out of date car. 86LS is all win. I cant wait to see it. (if its real that is)
just to clarify i have no hate for the frs, i just would like to see more variety on the grid. that is all. maybe FD could reduce entry fees for cars that have less than 3 entrants into the comp with the same chassis?
I personally am a fan of the frs and brz, they’re drift cars plain and simple. It’s no surprise to me that they’re replacing the s-chassis craze. And as far as the LS v8 goes I’m all for it. It’s a competitive high poweredand relatively cheap motor to build. It’s alsow
Weighs less than most other v8s*
I’d imagine everyone is jumping to an fr-s is do to marketing. For it being such a new car there’s already a TON of after market support which makes building the car cheaper. Also companies wanting to build, test and supply parts for this platform are more then willing to jump on as sponsors to get their name out there.
@JordyTheGiant i wouldn’t say they are drift cars as it doesn’t seem to me that they were engineered to drift from the get go. as Gazoo racing and the Toyota marketing division have shown with last years endurance racing at the Green Hell, the FRS/BRZ was originally designed to be a sporty car that’s fun to drive with the same light weight toss-ability as the miata with out the stigma and stereotypes attached. the fact that they are being turned into drift cars is just good marketing aimed at the target demographic.
oh and dont forget BRZ GT 300 that was being teased way before ken got his new drift car for 2012
@Pat
How’s it feel to be wrong?