Know Your Instructors

Moto Miwa could've been the next Japanese noodle king of the United States, but his heart and passion was into cars and racing as well. 

In the early 90s, he built his first AE8686 coupe with a supercharged 4agze and founded the now infamous website for all things Toyota - Club4AG.com and raced the cars in local events hosting and operating Speedtrial USA and others.  With the resources from supporters, the team campaigned a number of AE86’s in the SCCA and amassed 3 National Championship trophies. 
Following the SCCA ventures, Moto co-founded Drift Association, which hosted possibly the earliest legally sanctioned Pro-drift events on US soil, being instrumental to the creation and shaping of early US drift competitions such as Falken Drift Showoff, RS-R Drift Festival, Option Ikaten USA, D1 Grand Prix USA and Formula D as well as the one-of-a-kind Super GT event in the USA called the GT-LIVE 2004. 

In the 2000s, working inside Falken Drift Team, he was supervising the two-car subset for Taka Aono and Hiro Sumida, and simultaneously supervised the operation of the Formula D pro-drift events tour in the early years.

Also worked with many drifting entities, venues, marketing entities around the USA, to format, and assess the feasibility and safety of driving events, as well as define insurance policies and technical regulations, from Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Miami Homestead, and Las Vegas Speedway, to regional and local competition events.
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In more recent decades, Moto also consulted on the development of ZN6 chassis with Toyota’s Chief Engineer, Tetsuya Tada, from a figment of imagination, a car which we know as FR-S/BRZ/GT86.  He’s spent the last several years on not only enhancing the owner experiences, through driving events like 86DDA, and 86Cup but also develop and calibrate parts for many aftermarket firms like Cusco, RS-R, Fujitsubo, Bride Japan, Ings, Winmax, SSR, Beatsonic, Enkei, and Weds Sport.

My name is Meng Tea, brother of Young Tea. The younger leaf! Also, one of the owners of “Threesracing.” I started working & learning about cars before I could even drive along side my dad and brother. My career started in Atlanta as a honda-tech for a couple of years before moving back to CA, to become a Toyota tech. I was a line tech at Toyota for 9 years before parting ways to start my own business at “Threesracing.” I am a ASE certified technician and crew member of Ken Gushi’s formula drift Motorsports program.
My background in racing has always been about learning car control and most importantly having fun. At Threes, we focus on building cars, putting them to the test and fixing things that are broken. I’m excited to be able to meet and teach the upcoming generation of car enthusiasts.

- M.T.

Hi, My name is David Cortes and I am the owner/ lead tech at Monrovia Alignment. I grew up around cars, learning how to wrench along side my dad at a very young age. Eventually, I decided to open my own alignment shop and in the process I was introduced into the world of road racing and what it takes to set up a car to perform at its peak. I have been consistently doing time attack in my ek hatch for roughly 3 years now, testing and tuning, and learning from my peers. Using that knowledge to better every car that rolls into the shop, I don’t just do alignments. Every car is different and my goal is to tailor every car to the driver and their specific needs. Whether it’s a time attack, drifting, drag racing, or your daily driver - I strive to achieve the best possible performance out of your car.

- D. C.