Stephan Papadakis
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Stephan Papadakis is an American racing driver and business owner. He heads the Papadakis Racing team which participates in the Formula DRIFT series.[1][2] The team now competes in the series in the Rockstar Energy Drink Toyota GR Supra with driver Fredric Aasbø behind the wheel and in 2020 added Ryan Tuerck to drive the rear-wheel-drive converted Gumout / Mobil 1 / Nitto Toyota Corolla Hatchback.
Originally from New York but raised in California, Papadakis is one of the real-life racers who inspired The Fast and the Furious film.[3]. Although the story was originally optioned on a magazine article about racers in New York,[4] script writer Gary Scott Thompson researched and based the film in Southern California at the time of his participation.[5] Mark Vaughn of Autoweek speculated that Papadakis and fellow racer Shaun Carlson's physical appearances were the model of Vin Diesel's character and Paul Walker's character.[3][6]
In the early 1990s as a high schooler, Papadakis started in the underground street scene of Southern California as a tuner and modifier of Honda Civics[7][5] before transitioning to sanctioned track racing. The 1998 Honda Civic hatchback he built was featured in Los Angeles' Petersen Automotive Museum in a 2018 exhibit on Japanese Car and Tuning Culture.[8] In 2003, Papadakis built a record-setting six-second rear-wheel drive Honda Civic that became only the fifth drag racing car to be admitted to the NHRA's Sport Compact 200 MPH Club.[9]
In 2005, Papadakis built a Honda S2000 to drive in Formula Drift, a new series founded the previous year. In 2006, he shifted focus from driving to team ownership, hiring Tanner Foust to compete for his eponymous Papadakis Racing team. Foust won back-to-back Formula Drift championships for the team in 2007 and 2008.
Papadakis built two different rear-wheel-drive converted Scion tC drift cars. The first debuted in 2009, and was powered by a V8 engine from the Toyota Racing Development NASCAR Truck Series program. The second, a 2014 Scion tC, was also displayed[10] at the Petersen Museum in 2018.[11] Launched at a time when high-horsepower V8 engines were popular in the sport, it is the first four-cylinder engined vehicle to earn a win in Formula Drift series history.[12]
When Foust stepped away from drifting in 2010, Papadakis invited Fredric Aasbø to join the organization and in 2015, the driver earned the team's third Formula Drift championship title. No other team has won more championship titles.
In 2018, Papadakis debuted a custom built Toyota Corolla Hatchback with Toyota at the New York International Auto Show.[13] The car won its series debut a week later in Long Beach, California.[14]
Papadakis' most recognized builds[15] are the early front-wheel-drive Honda Civic drag racing cars,[16] the rear-wheel-drive converted Scion drift cars,[17] the rear-wheel drive converted and exhaust tuned Tanner Foust Passat drift car,[18] the Toyota Corolla Hatchback.[19][20] now driven by Ryan Tuerck in Formula Drift, and the Toyota GR Supra[21][22][23][24][25][26] driven by Fredric Aasbo.
He has expanded his focus to social content in recent years to YouTube, gaining notable coverage for his technical videos in automotive media.[27][28][29]
References[edit]
- ↑ Korecki, Danny. "Watch Stephan Papadakis Disassemble Formula Drift Race Engine". The Drive. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ↑ "Frederic Aasbo & Steph Papadakis - Masters and Champions". SuperStreetOnline. 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The Kids Are (Still) All Right: The "Import Scene" is 10 Years Old and Growing". Autoweek. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ↑ "From The VIBE Vault: 'Racer X' (The Original 'Fast & Furious' Inspiration)". Vibe. 2015-03-26. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lee, Kristen. "How LA's Underground Street Racing Scene and The Fast And The Furious Grew Up". Jalopnik. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ↑ Vaughn, Mark (October 8, 2009). "Racing innovator Shaun Carlson dead at 35". Autoweek.
- ↑ Vaughn, Mark (2019-05-23). "Steph Papadakis' screaming yellow Civic was the ultimate icon of The Import Craze". Autoweek. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ↑ "Petersen Automotive Museum Celebrates Japanese Car & Tuning Culture". SuperStreetOnline. 2018-05-23. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ↑ "Performance Pioneer Stephan Papadakis Joins the DSPORT Hall Of Fame - DSPORT Magazine". DSPORT Magazine. 2017-03-08. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ↑ "The Deepest Dive Into JDM Rarities You'll Ever Take". Road & Track. 2018-05-25. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ↑ "Take a look inside an LA car museum's Japanese collection". Top Gear. 2018-07-31. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ↑ "2014 Scion tC by Papadakis Racing". Petersen Automotive Museum | Los Angeles Museum | Petersen. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ↑ Radu, Mihnea (2018-03-30). "Fredric Aasbo Shows 1,000 HP 2019 Corolla Drift Hatch in New York". autoevolution. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ↑ "1,000HP 2019 Toyota Corolla - Aasbo's Hammer". SuperStreetOnline. 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ↑ Leveton, Jacob. "PASMAG | PERFORMANCE AUTO AND SOUND - Papa Knows Best: Papadakis Racing Aims for the Record Books". www.pasmag.com. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ↑ "Stephan Papadakis Interview - Honda Tuning Magazine". SuperStreetOnline. 2013-06-25. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ↑ "Watch Steph Papadakis build a 1000-hp Scion tC engine in two minutes". Autoweek. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ↑ Orlove, Raphael. "The Story Behind The Gnarliest Exhaust In Recent Memory". Jalopnik. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ↑ Hoonigan. "Breaking Tradition: Fredric Aasbo's 2019 Toyota Corolla". Hoonigan. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ↑ "2019 Toyota Corolla hatchback drift car walkaround | Autoblog Short Cuts". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ↑ Jones, Greg (2020-11-10). "1,000 HP Toyota Supra B58 Inline Six-Cylinder Engine". Engine Builder Magazine. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ↑ Silvestro, Brian (2020-03-31). "Listen to This BMW-Powered 1000-HP Toyota Supra on the Dyno". Road & Track. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ↑ Vaughn, Mark (2020-04-02). "Dude, check out this 1,000-hp Supra!". Autoweek. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ↑ Chin, Chris. "Video: Formula Drift's Papadakis Racing Documents 1,000-HP 2020 Toyota Supra Build". The Drive. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ↑ www.digitaltrends.com https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/1000hp-supra-2-stephan-papadakis/. Retrieved 2021-01-11. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "Here's How A 2020 Toyota Supra Is Remade To Handle 1,000 HP And Competitive Drifting". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ↑ "You Don't Need To Engine Swap Your Toyota To Make 1,000 HP". Gizmodo Australia. 2020-02-04. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ↑ Perkins, Chris (2019-08-13). "Legendary Toyota Tuner Thinks the New Supra's Stock Crank Is Good for 1000 HP". Road & Track. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
- ↑ Beresford, Colin (2020-11-02). "Toyota Shows Off a Trio of Custom Supras at Virtual SEMA". Car and Driver. Retrieved 2021-01-11.
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