The Thrill of Tesla Racing: A Wild Ride at Laguna Seca

As I sat in the studio, surrounded by the Grid Life crew, we were all buzzing with excitement. Today was the day we would witness the ultimate showdown between two high-performance vehicles - a Tesla and a Lamborghini. The anticipation was palpable as we prepared for the racing event that would take place at Laguna Seca.

The starting lights went off, and our friend, Mark, who was behind the wheel of the Tesla, took off like a shot. His speed was incredible, and it seemed like he had the car on rails. But what really caught my attention was how quickly his skills improved as he navigated the track. He was a natural, and it showed in every corner, every straightaway.

The tension was building up, and I couldn't help but feel a mix of emotions - excitement, nervousness, and even a hint of concern for Mark's safety. As we watched him battle it out with his opponent on the radio, it seemed like he was in control of the situation. He made some sharp turns and drifts that left us all speechless.

But just as things seemed to be going smoothly for Mark, our friend, Mike, hopped into the Tesla and took over the wheel. His skills were almost unmatched, and it was clear that he had a deep understanding of the car's capabilities. The two drivers went toe-to-toe, pushing each other to new heights.

The battle raged on, with both cars taking turns in the lead. Mark was determined to hold onto his spot at the front, but Mike was not giving up. He kept coming back, trying different strategies and techniques to outmaneuver his opponent.

As we watched, mesmerized by the action unfolding before our eyes, it seemed like anything could happen next. Would Mark's car be able to keep up with Mike's incredible pace? Or would he manage to hold onto the lead?

The tension was building, and I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement mixed with trepidation. What would happen if one of these drivers lost control? The possibility hung in the air like a threat, making every moment all the more thrilling.

Just as we thought things were getting too intense, Mark's car took a turn that sent us all into shock. It was a breathtaking move that left everyone stunned - including Mike. As he radioed back to his team, it seemed like Mark had just pulled off an incredible drift maneuver, leaving him in the lead for good.

The crowd erupted into cheers as we watched Mark celebrate his victory on the radio. We couldn't help but feel elated for him and excited by what we had just witnessed. What a thrilling ride that was!

But the battle didn't end there. Mike's car came roaring back onto the track, determined to take down the Tesla and claim victory for himself.

And then it happened - a moment of pure genius that left us all gasping in awe. Mark and his friend were seen walking off the track after their battle with Mike's car. After this last ride at Laguna sea.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat what's up you guys are you guys ready for this you wanted more driving and we're bringing it to you today is a boat to get real crazy real competitive Mike said it's time for me to take the training wheels off and drive the the race car flat out against some real competition we are here at gridlife Willow Springs International Raceway with the Lamborghini super tro Evo 2 Mike's going to be pushing me Mike is a professional 25-year veteran Pro race car driver and a Formula Drift Champion if you didn't know you better know Mike brought out his 1100 horsepower M3 competition FD car and he's going to be racing it as well it's going to get crazy I'm sure a pro race car driver is likely to embarrass a Lamborghini owner how you feeling I'm nervous I'm actually nervous obviously this is a very Advanced car for a very novice person to have as a first race car everybody here is like who's the in the uh Lamborghini race car he's probably pretty good my fifth time driving this car and I'm actually trying to race against people yeah so we put you in the time attack unlimited group guys are going to be going out there and trying to set a fast lap everybody will be out on the track at the same time but some guys will be actually trying to set a fast lap while other guys are trying to move out of the way and set up and warm their tires up or cool their tires down after they did a flyer so just it's a lot of being heads up right pay attention to the guys behind you but also to the guys in front cuz they might just let off at any second their LA's not going good I'll make sure I keep an eye on my rear view mirror oh never mind I don't I don't have one I I'm really nervous I'm really excited you've giv me some really good coaching but at the end of the day when you get in the car it's all on you right basically what you're saying is go out there figure it out go out there and figure it out how much horsepower do your comp car have 1100 yeah today it's only like 900 I turned it down only 9 900 I'm excited to get back in my car todayz it has been a long time it's been a year almost shake the old cobwebs off this thing and get back in the groove a lot of fun I'm looking forward to it and I think for Damon you know this is a different experience than what he has had in that car it's been like open track days where it's all Point bypassing and now we threw them into the unlimited time attack Group which is like there's some serious equipment out there I think one of these Open Wheel cars that I saw in the padic was a car that had run Pikes Peak and set at really fast laop time and the streets of Willow is kind of that track this is where guys come to test for Pike Peak cuz it's some faster sections a little bit of straightaway and some really tight hair pins so I think dam is going to have a blast but you know we'll see how his times are he's going to work his way down to get some killer lap times by the end of the day maybe a little coaching maybe he's going to figure it out on his own see how it goes basically you'll come out here there's a skid pad there's a couple tight corners and then you shoot down a back straight way over the second gear maybe a third gear kind of banked U-turn then goes through a couple windy sets comes back down to where these guys are right now and then basically it's downhill U-turn uphill U-turn back to the straightway so this is my group right now yep what do you think David's going to do against that yeah I don't know man he might catch up to the CTR though I'm sorry Mark he's not even trying to overtake he's only three laps in and he's just trying to figure out the track at this point which is very smart he's not trying to just blow by cars and then be lost with no one to follow might not look that impressive right now but by the end of the day he's going be much much quicker come here come here I got a secret for you guys it's a social media app I've been using and I absolutely love it is Vero because it has no ads no algorithm and they are today's sponsor so thank you to ver ver posts things in full resolution for video and photos I've been posting things on here that is behind the scenes of our builds different shows I watch a lot of my personal life and I've been connecting with a lot of you guys so if you go to @ Damon fryer and give me a follow we can connect we can talk about things like the sneaky little photo I of the mercy seats were going to look like before I put it anywhere else we can talk about what the 720 GTR Kit's going to look like cuz I posted it here before I posted it anywhere else you get exclusive access to things here at DD that we do as well as just my personal life what song I'm listening to what book I'm currently reading this book actually helped change my life in so many ways because I get asked all the time how do you become successful and I recommend books like The Four Agreements we can connect on Vero it's absolutely free go to the link in description download the app find Me @ Damon friy also make sure you do at Daily driven Exotics and we'll chat I have a little secret for you come this way behind these doors is a twin turbo F12 that is being built I'm about to take a photo right now and post it on Vero and you're going to be able to get a behind the scenes that no one even knows about cuz this video ain't coming out for like a couple of weeks there's something in the car that uh only on Vero you will find watch this click the link in the description download Vero and you'll find out what's in the Twin Turbo F12 that is so important that only on Vero you will find yo that dude in that Open Wheel car that ran that Pikes Peak I think he set like a Pikes Peak record last year he just smashed the record at the streets of Willow so I've had a pretty fast lap here like a 111 something in a Porsche he just did a 59 11 seconds faster it is absolutely insane it's like a Formula One car it is crazy dude that was insane thank you yeah that was a fun R it's nice to fresh out of the box no no warm up send it full second quicker than we' ever been before and bro the lap Rec by 11 seconds yeah so I've done a 111 here on a test day in a Porsche and yeah 11 seconds faster this absolutely insane so what does this thing weigh uh with me it's about, 1500 yeah so much so it's real it's like lighter than a modern Formula 1 car probably not as much down Force as a Formula 1 part more down more downforce than than a car again cuz you see like the the wi thing on it and then we also have a tunnel floor as well so this is I'm not going to claim it's more sophisticated or it's you know likeing ways this is just big dirty Wings yeah actually big dirty wings are quite clean an aerodynamic yeah exactly probably about 700ish fly wheel BS ker Honda motor K Ser Honda yeah simple turbo b corner is the way to go 870 the cool thing about this car is buy every single part on this car build you know what chassis is it so it's a wolf gb8 the wolf's very first chassis when it went over to the Italians with sports races okay it doesn't look much like that original car because the configuration now is so different you know the original car had much smaller ties the front end was fended with like a prototype style splitter and now we really you know this is this is for po Peak this is a hill climb car and this weekend we're just seeing you know how fast is it how fast can we go yeah pretty pretty pretty fast pretty fast as it turns out so this has no power steering on it and I think we're weel straight maybe 5 Seconds a lap we're doing over 140 at that point so you have to hold on to still so your arms just don't get a break and we like you know 3 and 1/ half 4G yeah cber woo that is insane so it's yeah it's old school race car none of this new NY py stuff I love it it oh damid oh man driving a track you don't know at all is like sketchy for one four corners out there covered in gravel it doesn't matter how cold your tires are which was like the first four laps because you can't get enough speed like in this thing other than the straight there's nowhere to go ripping into like Get Enough speed and then get on the brakes to heat the brakes up to heat up the tires like you said so left foot brake when you're driving around the corners when you are going slow drag the brakes a little bit not for too long cuz you don't want to overheat them but 2 3 4 seconds and then off that'll help build up the heat thanks for the tip good job uh yeah good job I didn't crash right you didn't crash that's all that matters go off can you please scare the living out of Chris no problem he he he's never been in a drift car oh he's going to have the ride of his life right now so Mike said he'd take you but he's just going to take it easy okay that's fine good luck Mike Ain going to take it easy Skinny's got his helmet with his spoiler up a second wait a second what are you doing oh my God have you ever seen anything like that rear visor rear it's a new wave right there yeah he just missed Dave he wanted to have the little wrap around oh go oh W holy are you serious that sh was oh my god dude listen to skinny screaming so sick my God that is wild I'm like in tears that crap was crazy dude what do you think dude like sideway way the control is it's unbelievable I've never experienced some of that in my life yeah the control I thought you were get a 360 nope you bring it right back holy crap dude I was like I'll probably go easy on the first lap you know I haven't been in the car for a year and then I saw Z and I was like oh Tandem and then she pointed Me by over here so I'm like yeah water tower why not click forth bang it up the hill so good when you went tanon with that Z that was wild dude you guys were moving like when you came down and you were like screw it boom boom boom that that's that's crazy like you can't describe it you see it dude you see it from the outside of the car and you have no idea no idea I'm so pumped right now I could probably go jump to the Moon I'm I thought I was driving I thought I was driving we were all standing over here going oh there goes skimy Soul go somewhere over there in the cloud oh oh my now I see why you're a champion I get it I get it I get it I get it so just take the tires are done they're done oh they're done dude oh dude come look at the tires Chris is just lost his wild like my heart is coming right now roller coaster I don't nothing compared to this this is insane I so much respect to Mike man I that is crazy you know what man you looked a little rusty so a couple pointers a little more throttle a little more angle but you'll figure it out you'll figure it out dude it's like riding a bike when you've done it for as long as you have yeah let's go let's go let's face it there's no taking it easy not when you've been doing this at a pro level it's it's in your heart right and then you've got the car you built exactly the car is like yeah ripping yeah what was louder the squeal of the tires or the squeal from skinny it was actually like on par it was equal oh the engine sound the tires and skinny were all at the same level they're all turned up to 11 so crazy that was freaking insane riding straight into a tornado you have nothing to do but give in just enjoy the ride crazy experience man all right you've scared the living piss out of two people yep we're just getting started here's my question what if we started DD started covering the cost of running your Pro Comp car so that maybe I could learn how to drive before I get my F12 the F12 going to be like a few more bucks no offense y but it's going to be a few more bucks I mean this is a $100,000 car that's a million dollar car right so little different so we use one of your cars what do you think yeah I'm down yeah we we run this what about your black car I think we should run the black car honestly it's what's the difference the suspension is a little more like the F12 is going to be um it's also got a seat that's a little wider it's got sliders a little what little wider little wider seat it's a wi you're saying the seats you know I've lost 40 lb my glass out I think my hips though you know it's this this right here you actually hold on this is a weird angle guys but yeah okay so no Bulls officially out of tires one and 1/2 laps blows an complete set of tires let's take my amateur back down there and I'm going to race against some cars now that I'm getting more comfortable with the track I'm going to try to put down my fastest lap time keeping the Good Vibes going man we're all I'm going to push it let's go what it's Checkers or Wreckers Checkers or you got to love those straight cut gears the dogs in the transmission it's like all these super visceral sound that race cars make and I got like a really tall first gear in here and a four PL collect so it's like hard to get the car moving but man once it's moving it's moving he that wine that transmission wine with a great cut what the F12 is going to sound like except with six more cylinders so there's so many things I'm looking at now that I'm just like like man when the F12 is dialed and we got the shifter in when all the steering column stuff is done and mounted the pedal assembly the E braake I mean it is going to be sick it's such a it'll be so different too cuz in this car I sit like up pretty high because it's got a tall roof but in the F12 we're sitting on the floor so driving that car is going to be such an intense experience the lower you are to the ground the more you feel the speed it's going to be sick all right so Damon is heading out on track now for his second section I think he's got a little more confidence built up he kind of knows the corners on the track about to crush this right now baby let's go R oh yeah he's picking up the pace now yeah he screaming getting you the point by there you go there you go breing Point look good turn in yep nice job look for the aex all right so treat this corner like a single Apex get your Apex there and then let the car unwind all the way out to the edge of the track keep going there you go yep now back over to the right brakes yep downshift turn in look for your Apex start to roll on the throttle roll on the throttle as soon as you can and just yeah pin it now pin it yeah that was good that was really good w I think he sto it he was doing really good he was Trail breaking in to the first Corner got the car a little loose got on the throttle and I think he just gave it a little too much throttle and it stepped out just looped around you see me come down the straight yep yeah you were doing good it was looking really good it was looking good until it wasn't until it wasn't just a little too much throttle and trying I it looks like you were trying to tighten up the steering a bit and roll in the throttle the front just bit it just Loop you around yeah yeah that's that where that uh steering lock gets you yeah you're like oh I can get this nope nope I can't and with slicks they're like at temp they're good and then they get greasy and then they're gone like they overheat so fast on the surface and it's like ice hey man you're not trying unless you're spinning out or doing something y I was starting to get on it yeah I mean that's the right spot to do that's where I tell everybody like on the skid pad you got like nothing to hit you're wide open like push it that's where you can really feel what the car wants to do we with Larry chin the man the myth The Legend and we've got the crazy camera setup on the front of the car here and we're going to go chase FD Champion Michael alsoo around go so close dude what I'm actually doing is I'm aiming the camera for video that is really yeah I mean like I'm like just planning out my shots my God yeah so you obviously know the track really well yeah and you know the thing is Mike and I have driven together a lot too um you know all different tracks so I trust him bro yeah that is that is is is it a different view it's it's cuz you've ridden in so many drift cars you've ridden in so many crazy cars the view is just different right it's not I don't know what's going on because like I I was didn't think you were going to get that close I back up just enough to let him transition and then I go back into the pocket dude I mean you so it's the pocket that I'm like why are we so close what we have set up is we have two Canon 1dx Mark II's one is shooting video so that's rolling constantly and one is shooting Stills and you're the one who's shooting The Stills because I already have enough going on I can't put a button on the steering wheel and think oh this is a good picture you know another reason why I get close is because you want to really show the sense of speed so I'm running 27 mm is up top oh hell and that is full frame 35 that's the way to do it is wide angle close to the car I had an absolute blast thank you Mr Larry Chan go and follow this guy if you're probably already are but if you're not please go and follow Larry Chen I'll put a link in the description for our video the footage from video to photo the most stunning Automotive content you'll ever ever see and it's everything every type so you'll find something you like I actually guarant guarantee it that's a guarantee I don't guarantee much in life I guarantee you'll find something you like on his on his page dude I appreciate it you're welcome thank you guys so so far it's been an awesome day I had my drift car out we got Larry Chen to chase me while we were on horse St Mile and I was drifting the whole track it was a blast Damian is actually on track right now getting the tires warmed up you can hear him spinning the tires out there this is his last session of the day so there is a Tesla that is faster than Daman right now it is actually insanely fast has a massive wing see if Damon can improve on his lap time he's already like really really doing well I think he did a 117 it's first time out here second session with like maybe 12 laps in so he's feeling it now we dro the tire pressure down it's ready to rip dude that Tesla just went off in glorious fashion he's down Damon now's your chance let's see what you can do a dude am I in trouble no you killed it I thought I was in trouble no it wasn't transponder they were saying on the radio like your transponder or ours and I was like a in trouble no no actually on the walkie they were like they're going at it they're battling they were going crazy over you in the Tesla racing oh really sick dude you crushed it dude you guys were killing it that was cool killing it is that what was behind me a Tesla yeah dude that thing is low yeah it's got like a big splitter or something yeah oh yeah I can barely see it like my it's all blind spots right you can't see much except for you know the track in front of you when you're in first if you're you got we getting first oh it's someone else's turn the ride of death the kiss of death you ready for this I'm nervous but I'm excited have you ever been in a drift car never once ever never take a good look guys it's last time you'll see Mark soul have fun I'm in a studio I'm cra me like song yeah I'm cra me songing on my Che my she want to go that's the thing most people understand been working up building me my own do it man I need my dude that was crazy it's so wild so dude that's wild right let's go that's CRA like we and it was weird too cuz the car like the power kicks in so fast so we'd be like oh I guess he's just going to chill through this corner and then all of a sudden and just like wo whoo whoo and then you flick it another way slow down start cooking it that was wild but your the tires are done yeah like I knew halfway through that last lap he was just staying in it like look oh my god oh toast wow it was it was literally like hanging out by a thre it was like I said I said the skinny I was like dude let's run over cuz he's done you can see him sliding and he's not even on the exactly you just see me floating down the hill yeah oh you're not going to put these on you said that's the the last set that's going on there but you haven't been in the car yet I know I know and I want to go but you know what we're going to Laguna sea that's very true October 20th with grid life these same guys y I don't care who thinks they're getting a ride along with him I'm the only one I'm hogging all the Ride Along alongs at luguna so rock paper scissors if you guys want to go for one more with Mike you're fighting over the Essa you're fighting over them ready of three go on scissors wait don't go on shoot go did he just say go on scissors that's a good mind best out of three go go go ready best out of three ready winding it out oh one one okay he's walking off okay go W all right get I didn't tell him was on the rock paper scissor champ skinny don't do it we got the screamer we got the screamer back in with the champ dude what a day here with the grid life crew getting down and dirty with the Tesla boys dude you were I wish you could be on the outside and on the inside of the car at the same time so you can watch that battle it was sick it was tight it was fun to watch him in my mirrors I don't know man I think on the straights he was getting you he was close the problem is I couldn't get the uh power down cuz you got to remember Tesla's all-wheel drive yeah my car is rear wheel drive so when we're I'm hitting the dirt he can just hammer it and the front end's going to help steer the car we're like I hit the dirt the back end kicks out despite the fact that he had all wheeel drive he still found a way to spun out so you were okay yep at the end of the day it was Lamborghini super trao Evo 2 amateur driver takes down the Tesla race car so you whatever you want Tesla Tesla hey Lamborghini owner and race car embarrasses Tesla race car drivers because race car because because G because gas powered race car yeah okay all jokes aside not to go too hard on those guys uh the Tesla actually got the fastest lap today wasck in the end at the end of the day he actually beat me and he beat me by like 6 seconds my fastest time was a 117 he did a 111 they were killing it but at the end couldn't pass me if you ain't first you're last\n"