Get more from your driving and your time on track. Private driver development and Flatout destination track experiences, backed by engineering depth and hands-on motorsport experience.
Confidence grows when you understand what the car is doing—and how your inputs change it.
My coaching connects driving technique with vehicle behavior. We build around your experience, your goals, and your car, using clear feedback and a development plan you can carry into your next session.
For new HPDE drivers, experienced drivers chasing consistency and lap time, and drivers learning a circuit or preparing to race.
It’s difficult to convey just how much his instruction contributed to my positive experience.
Neal VaughanHPDE driver
DJ makes complex vehicle dynamics easy to understand. He connects what drivers feel behind the wheel with why the car behaves the way it does.
Andrew GillelandSenior VP Toyota NA
DJ’s passion, skill, and knowledge are second to none. He elevated our entire program.
Eric Provost15× WRL winner
Flatout brings a small group of drivers to carefully selected track events, with vehicle transport, registration, professional coaching, and trackside support coordinated for you.
Event selection puts the driving first: low car counts, generous track time, and a paddock experience you’ll want to share.
Talk about Flatout ’27 ↗Event selection, registration, transport, and coordinated logistics. Know where you’re going and what’s included.
Coaching, trackside support, and a small group with a shared enthusiasm for driving.
Specific inclusions are agreed before booking. Your personal travel and vehicle maintenance sit outside the package.
2027 plans are being developed. Get in touch to discuss destinations, availability, and the experience you’re looking for.
A mechanical engineer, driver, and program builder who sees the car and the people around it as one system.
I spent 13 years at Toyota North America R&D, working in chassis engineering, vehicle performance evaluation, emergency-handling certification, and electronic brake controls. I led evaluation programs and worked directly with supplier specialists to understand and improve vehicle behavior.
Alongside that work, I helped develop Toyota’s advanced driver-training curriculum and led instruction and training-vehicle development. Through EVOQ, I continue to support Toyota programs while consulting with race teams and coaching private clients.
I’ve built programs from the ground up, improved established teams, and helped new drivers and crews become competitive. That experience shapes how I work: understand the goal, identify what matters, and give people a clear path forward.
Define the priorities. Understand the tradeoffs. Develop a program that works as a whole.
I help teams and owners turn driver feedback, data, and trackside observations into practical decisions. That can mean diagnosing a vehicle’s behavior, setting development priorities, improving preparation, or building a race strategy around pace, fuel, tires, and pit time.
My background combines Toyota vehicle evaluation and certification with hands-on leadership of endurance racing programs—from production-car builds to class wins.
Discuss your program ↗Handling, steering, brakes, tires, and setup. Objective and subjective evaluation, development planning, and supplier coordination.
Translate feedback and data into priorities. Model pace, fuel, and pit-time tradeoffs, then improve the processes that execute the plan.
Build preparation standards, develop drivers, and transfer knowledge. Support OEM training and technical performance experiences.
Connect the technical story with what people experience behind the wheel.
I support OE vehicle launches, driving experiences, and customer-facing programs through technical facilitation, vehicle education, and driving support.
My background in Toyota vehicle evaluation and driver training helps me explain what a vehicle does, why it behaves that way, and how participants can experience its capabilities with confidence.
From participant briefings to arrive-and-drive experiences, I help make the program clear, engaging, and grounded in the vehicle.
Discuss your OE program ↗Support for the people, the vehicles, and the experience.
Help participants connect with the vehicle through a clear, well-supported driving experience.
Turn vehicle features and behavior into explanations people can understand and use.
Support vehicle familiarization and driver preparation so participants can focus on the experience.
These programs brought together engineering, driving, strategy, suppliers, and team development.
Co-founded Toyota R&D’s volunteer endurance team and developed a production FR-S / 86 into a championship-winning car. Led technical direction, preparation, setup, budgets, and race strategy.
Led development of a new A90 Supra into a WRL GTO winner in ten months. Later transferred the car and operating knowledge to an all-new team, mentoring its captain, crew, and new endurance drivers to become GTO winners.
Starting from an existing foundation and seeking its first-ever endurance win, the program was rethought from top to bottom using the EVOQ Motorsport engineering approach—including weight, power, tires, setup, and race strategy. It went on to win five of the next six races.
Engineering, driving, strategy, and preparation work with Edge Autosports, Magic Developed, and HQ Autosport.
Connect your driving technique with vehicle behavior. Build confidence, consistency, and a clear development path.
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Your car, exceptional circuits, and the details handled. Destination track days built around the driving.
03Vehicle development, race strategy, preparation, and team processes that turn potential into performance.
04Technical facilitation, vehicle education, and driving support for launches and customer experiences.
A race program, a better day on track, or a vehicle-development challenge. Tell me where you are and what you want to achieve.
Lee’s Summit, Missouri
Available for project consulting, trackside support, and private coaching.