Team RTR

Vaughn Gittin Jr.

World champion drifter and Professional Fun-Haver, Vaughn Gittin Jr., is best known for his aggressive, foot-to-the-floor, big-smoke driving style from behind the wheel of arguably the most recognizable cars in drifting: the 2023 Monster Energy Ford Mustang RTR Spec 5-D. Vaughn’s success on the track has helped grow the RTR Motorsports team into the world’s premiere drift team competing in the highest level of Formula Drift. Since its inception in 2010 RTR Motorsports has won two Formula Drift championships with Vaughn behind the wheel and grown to a two-car team with the addition of Chelsea DeNofa and Adam LZ.

Chelsea DeNofa

Since the start of his racing career, Chelsea DeNofa has had his hand in several forms of racing. His ability to balance an aggressive style with precise driving techniques have set him apart from his peers in drifting, road racing, and stunt driving. This incredible talent led him to take 2nd in the 2020 Formula Drift Championship, 4th in the 2021 and again in 2022. From grassroots events worldwide, to the no-lift entry at Formula Drift, Chelsea's driving makes him perennial favorite among fans.

James Deane

James Deane has established himself as one of the fastest- growing personalities in the sport and boasts the largest following of any Irish motorsport personality in the world. James began his competitive drift career in 2006 behind the wheel of a Ford Sierra in the Prodrift Junior Championship and in 2023 he is again behind the wheel of a Ford only this time it is a Mustang RTR Spec 5-FD in Formula Drift with 1,111 horsepower.

James makes his Formula Drift return, the world’s premiere drift series, after a three-year hiatus from the series which saw him take home the Championship in three consecutive seasons (2017, 2018, 2019). However, during his hiatus from US drifting he was no stranger to winning, taking first at the DriftNeu North Cyprus Championship Finals, Goodwood Festival of Speed Driftkhana competition, the LZ Festival Mondello Park, multiple podiums in the Drift Masters European Championship and that’s just 2022.

As 2023 gets underway James will be in pursuit of a record setting 4th Formula Drift Championship and 3rd for RTR Motorsports.

Adam LZ

Since 2009, 26-year-old Adam LZ, has been traveling the world and documenting his adventures on YouTube. After making a name for himself in BMX he leveraged his success to fund his first drift car in 2015. He has had hundreds of thousands with him watching his journey as he progressed from his first parking lot donuts to becoming a fierce competitor all over the world. Adam is most known for his aggressive entries, versatility with many different chassis, and a heavy Japanese influence in his driving style.

Vaughn Gittin Jr.

Vaughn currently races in the Ultra4 Racing 4400 class, an insane blend of short-course and endurance off-road race events that fuses high-speed open desert to technical rocky mountain terrain requiring agile and powerful all-wheel drive and a methodical temperament to navigate the extreme courses designed by mother nature. In 2021 Vaughn won his first 4400 Ultra4 Racing Championship competing in his 2021 Ford Bronco 4400 race truck. This was his first season running the second variation of his famed “Brocky” containing an innovative independent front suspension and Ford 460 cubic-inch tall deck D3 JGRE motor, capable of a naturally aspirated 780hp.

Loren Healy

Two-time King of the Hammers winner and the winningest driver in Ultra4 history, with five Ultra4 championships to his name, Loren Healy has been at the peak of off-road racing for the last 11 years and has over 30 years of actual off-road experience, continuing to push the sport and himself to new extremes. In 2018, Healy and Vaughn Gittin Jr. teamed up to launch Fun-Haver Off-Road; bringing decades of motorsports and business experience under one awning hand-deliver expansive and experiential programs that have covered ground in Moab, the Rubicon, Colorado high mountains, all the way down to Baja Mexico.