Good morning race fans and welcome to the racing capital of the world! Indianapolis motor speedway is playing host to round 3 of the Link ECU Formula Drift Prospec championship and it is the 2nd of 3 new tracks being introduced into Formula Drift this year. Being at new tracks definitely evens out the playing fields and no one really has an advantage over the next person which is great for us as rookies in the 2026 season!

Wednesday:
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Load in and set up day is always a nice day, it’s relaxing and we can spend the day setting up our pit area and doing some final adjustments on the car ahead of Thursdays practice session. We also have to collect all of our tires for the week on Wednesday and get some of them swapped over onto our rims. It’s the one day we can also spend some time talking to other drivers as Thursday and Friday tend to be quite busy!

Thursday:
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Practice day is usually off to an early start on Thursday but there were some delays on the track side and most of the drivers only managed to get 1 practice lap in, some drivers didn’t even get any! We were one of the lucky ones to get a practice lap but after a few incidents FD decided to change the track up slightly to make it a little bit safer. We got an extended practice for the 2nd and final session where we managed to get in another 4 laps. I was feeling so good behind the wheel of the NonStopTuning mustang and had a lot of confidence leaving Thursday and heading into game day on Friday.

Friday:

​Game day! We had great rest Friday night after watching the seeding and Pro qualifying we saw some areas in which we can improve our line through some sections of the track. We had one more practice session where we managed to get in another 2 laps before our Top 32 battle. I was feeling really good and super excited to start the battles. Car is great, I feel great and just ready to kick things off!

​Our top 32 battle was against Ryan Kaufman, we did a practice run with him and knew that he had good speed and a super smooth line. After our first run I gave him too much breathing room when I was in the chase and the judges gave us a OMT! We knew in this 2nd run I really had to put it on his door and risk making contact because that’s how hard I needed to push. We managed to get the win and we were so pumped to move  on to top 16!

Again we get to experience the opening ceremonies, doing this in our rookie year is such a great achievement for us. Our top 16 battle we had Stuart Fam in his Corvette. We know Stuart is a great driver and we just had to give a solid lead run and be smooth behind him in the chase. He had a gap on me in the chase but I did not want to sacrifice my line to cheat down and get proximity because the judges don’t necessarily want that. We got the win on Stuart and that put us in the Great 8 up against Carsen Ruger.

​Carsen has been driving great all week, very smooth and calculated. I was comfortable with putting it on his door in my chase knowing he was going to give me a great lead run and he did just that. We got the win against Ruger and was moving onto the Top 4 where we would battle Dima Brutskiy who is just ahead of us in points for the championship.

​It was a hard battle and both of us were pushing really hard when the rain started to fall. Dima made a slight mistake on the final corner and that was enough to give us the win in our battle!

Next up we were in the finals against Camren Sorensen, this was going to be a great battle, I have never driven with Camren and was not too sure on his driving style but my spotter Mr Pawlak had been watching him in practice and knew what I needed to do. We chased first and was having a semi decent run until the 2nd to last corner where Camren slowed down quite a fair bit and I made contact with him. We finished our run and Cam had an advantage into our 2nd run. I laid down a great lead but unfortunately it was not enough to upset the mistake I made behind him. Cam got the win, we got 2nd and we still maintain 2nd in the overall championship going into our final round in Vegas.