Ryan Tuerck

Ryan Tuerck (born April 10, 1985), is an American professional drifter from Derry, New Hampshire who currently competes in the U.S. Formula Drift series in his Toyota Corolla Hatchback for Gumout, Nitto Tire, Mobil 1, and Toyota Racing.
Formula Drift Biography.
Ryan “Hampshaa” Tuerck is a leading social influencer and a champion in the making. With a career 14 podiums, he has shown winning potential when he’s behind the wheel of the right car. In 2020, he joins the Papadakis Racing organization, where he drives the Toyota-backed Gumout / Nitto Tire / Mobile1 Toyota Corolla Hatchback.
The driver’s "bro" type personality, commitment to the sport’s grassroots, and wealth to buy camera equipment have brought him a social fanbase of just over a million followers. Notable projects include the eponymous YouTube series Tuerck’d, Network A’s Drift Garage and the Gumout Blackout series. A build series on a Ferrari engine-swapped Toyota 86 known as the Toyota GT4586 has generated nearly 70-million impressions since its 2016 launch.
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.
In addition to campaigning a full Formula Drift season, he maintains a full demo and appearance calendar. A New Hampshire native, Tuerck now makes his home in Los Angeles.
History.
For as long as he can remember, Ryan has loved Extreme Sports, and at a young age he became interested in BMX and Motocross. At the age of nine, his father bought him his first dirt bike, and by ten years old he started racing motocross. As he progressed through the ranks of amateur motocross he had countless podium finishes. The highlight of Tuerck’s amateur career was placing 7th in the nation, at Lorreta Lynn’s Amateur Nationals. At 16, he received his professional license from the American Motocross Association (AMA), and by 17, Ryan earned the opportunity to travel Canada, to race in the professional Canadian Nationals. Some of the highlights of his professional career included, placing 5th in the 125cc Canadian Nationals Championship, as well as qualifying for Budds Creek, and Unadilla in the AMA Motocross Nationals. Though Ryan’s motocross career looked promising, he was forced to stop due to personal reasons.
Ryan was gaining a lot of interest in cars since he turned 16. When he stopped racing, he bought his first car, a 1990 Ford Mustang. At night, feeling the need to challenge himself he would get his car sideways pulling out of stop signs and slide around in empty parking lots near his home. After having the Mustang for a year, Ryan found out on the internet that sliding your car around or “Drifting” was actually a real sport. Ryan immediately sold his Mustang to buy a lighter, and better handling Nissan 240sx. He upgraded the suspension and bought a 2-way LSD for the car to help it drift. In 2003, Ryan went to his first formal event at Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ where he met future “Drift Alliance” teammates Tony Angelo, Chris Forsberg, and Vaughn Gittin Jr. Ryan did very well at first winning the competition. Ryan continued to do very well everywhere he went and constantly spending all his money upgrading his car.
Before joining Formula D, he completed successfully in Drift Mania Canadian Championship. In 2005, Ryan Competed in Two Rounds or Formula Drift where he did well enough to get noticed by a few sponsors. In 2006, Ryan competed in the entire Formula Drift series with help from his Drift Alliance brothers, Cooper Tires, Discount Tire, and 240sxMotoring. Ryan did exceptional in his rookie season with a 6th-place finish at the Sonoma round. In 2007, Ryan moved to California with his Drift Alliance Teammate Tony Angelo and started “Team Snakebite” together and ran the whole Formula Drift season independently with help from sponsors which resulted in Ryan finishing the season 15th in points. In 2008, Ryan was picked up by Gardella Racing and drove a 2007 Pontiac Solstice GXP sponsored by Gardella Racing, Mobil 1, GM Racing, and Maxxis Tires. Following in 2009, Ryan won first place on podium in Round 1 at Long Beach and again later in the year at Irwindale and in 2010 came 3rd in series points. In 2011, Gardella retired the Solstice from Ryan, picked up Red Bull as a lead sponsor and drove the 2011 Mobil 1/Red Bull Chevrolet Camaro in which he finished 15th that year. The 2012 season began with a shuffle of sponsorships, Ryan left Gardella Racing for personal reasons, and was picked up by Retaks before the first event at long beach. He finished off the season in fifth after a third-place finish at Irwindale.
Ryan is also in part of a missile drifting group (along with many of his drift alliance brothers) based out of Englishtown, NJ called "Blood Masters".
For the 2020 Formula Drift Season Ryan Tuerck is in a Toyota Corolla Hatchback built by Papadakis Racing. He is sponsored by Gumout, Nitto Tire, Mobil 1, Rotiform, Rockstar Energy, BC Racing and Toyota Racing
Currently Race Cars and Projects.
Drift Cars.
As of November 2020, Ryan Tuerck drives 3 Drift Cars and has another 1 in development.
Formula Drift Pro Car.
His current Pro Car is a Toyota Corolla Hatchback built by Papadakis Racing. The title sponsors are, Gumout, Nitto Tire, Mobil 1, and Toyota Racing. In his first season with this new chassis podiumed 4 times with a win in Texas
GT4586.
His previous SEMA build the GT4586 is still doing demos and was at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Papadakis Demo Car.
He is also the driver of Papadakis Racing Toyota Corolla Hatchback Demo Car that was most recently at the Gridlife Alpine Horizon Festival.
East Coast Car.
He is also working on an "East Coast" Toyota 86, that was originally the "$25k Baja 86". Both builds have series is posted on YouTube.
Other Builds.
Formula Supra.
He announced the "Formula Supra" in October 2021. It is a 2020 GR Supra with a V10 Judd engine. Which is mostly focused on hill climb and time attack
He is driving a Racecar Red Toyota Camry in the upcoming Freedom 500