Tyler McQuarrie

I was so excited for Round 1 of the 2010 Formula D season in Long Beach. For the first time in my Formula D career, I was returning in the same car I ran the season before. I know we will do awesome this year!

With 53 cars entered, it made practice on Friday a little tight but I still had an amazing practice. I had killer runs with the highest entry speed of the entire field! I was pumped for qualifying and I nailed my second run which gave us 2nd place in qualifying. I was matched up with Takatori for top 32. On my lead run, we took off and I was going all out into turn one and I noticed that he was right with me. I nailed my run and was able to pull out a 6+ car lead on him. On my follow run, we took off together and then he stopped accelerating… he even started to slow a bit before we entered into turn one. This caused me to be all over him in turn 1. He was also very slow from turn one to turn 2 and I couldn’t go any slower, which caused me to straighten up a bit. Takatori wins…WTF is all I was thinking! Did that just happen?

Things can change in a heart beat and one little mistake can end your weekend. But it is what it is and I’m over it and moving onto the World Challenge race at Long Beach this weekend. Can’t wait to race this weekend!!!

Here is a practice vid from Long Beach

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