KW group joins forces with Ryan Tuerck Racing: Ryan Tuerck and KW automotive brands cooperate on various motorsport projects

Ryan Tuerck is a title favorite of the upcoming Formula Drift Championship and will start in 2025 with his "Rain-X Toyota GR Corolla" with a three-way ST XTA plus 3 coilover suspension kit. The New Hampshire native has been active in Formula Drift since 2007: "It feels like coming home. KW was one of my first partners when I started racing professionally, and it's exciting to have the chance to collaborate with the entire KW automotive family again across all my builds and competition vehicles."

 

 

The premiere of the 1054 hp "Rain-X Toyota GR Corolla" with ST suspensions coilover suspension is the Formula Drift season opener in Long Beach (California) on April 4 and 5, 2025. Ryan Tuerck will campaign ST Suspension XTA plus 3 coilovers on his Rain-X Toyota GR Corolla in the Formula Drift Championship and exclusively utilize products from the KW Automotive brand family across his portfolio of creative builds. The "Mobil 1 Heritage Stout Project" is based on a classic Toyota Stout pickup truck featuring a bespoke Belltech suspension. With Rieger Suspension, a rally suspension is currently being developed for a Toyota Celica project, which was inspired by the Group A Toyota Celica ST185 from the nineties. For time-attack races such as the "Global Time Attack" in Buttonwillow, California, Ryan Tuerck and the KW Group are building a "Formula Supra" with KW racing shocks. Since the KW Group equips various motorsport vehicles of the Japanese car manufacturer with its KW suspensions and Reiger Suspension brands, the cooperation with Ryan Tuerck underlines this commitment. For example, the Rally Raid Toyota GR DKR Hilux EVO T1U has a Reiger off-road suspension. In Toyota's customer racing program, the Japanese manufacturer equips globally all GR Supra GT4 racing cars, including Evo versions, with KW racing kits, and even unique models, such as the Toyota GR Supra A90 Final Edition, have a KW V3 Clubsport coilover suspension on board ex works. "We are thrilled to welcome Ryan Tuerck back into the KW Automotive family," said Michael Belcher, Director of Sales and Marketing for KW Automotive North America. "Ryan's unique mix of competitive motorsports and creative automotive projects showcases the versatility of our premium suspension products, and we're excited to support him across his many endeavors."

 

With over 1.7 million subscribers on his social media channels and his love of grassroots motorsports, Ryan Tuerck is one of the most well-known players in US drifting. Since 2020, he has competed in Formula Drift for the Papadakis Racing Team. He achieved notoriety outside the US scene with his Toyota G4586, a Toyota powered by a Ferrari 458 engine, which has already generated over 70 million views on various channels and even competed at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. For further information, please visit www.st-suspensions.net

 

The KW Group includes the suspension KW automotive with its brands Belltech, KW suspensions, Reiger Suspension, ST suspensions, ap Sportfahrwerke and the SimRacing brands TrackTime and Ascher Racing. With its immense chassis portfolio, state-of-the-art production technology, development and test center, KW has been operating successfully in all markets for over 25 years. As a development partner for sophisticated controlled suspension systems, KW automotive has the entire product portfolio of hydraulics, electronics, sensors, control units and damper controls as well as the necessary know-how for the application and coordination of complex driving dynamics control systems from a single source. In addition to its core business, the development and production of manually and adaptively adjustable coilovers and other suspension components for the aftermarket, as well as the range of accessories offered by various automobile manufacturers, the business segment in customer racing in the automotive industry is developing extremely positively. The group of companies has branches in the most important markets such as Belgium, Great Britain, China, Japan, Switzerland, Spain, Taiwan and the USA. Other business divisions include software and hardware solutions as well as events for virtual motorsport under the umbrella of the RaceRoom brand. Also, part of the KW Group is the chassis manufacturer KW Damping Technology, S.A. (formerly AL-KO Damping Technology, S.A.) and the light alloy wheel brand BBS. www.kwautomotive.de