Redline Time Attack Schedule for 2009 with Mazda Contingency!
 

I'm def. in on the Nashville one. Maybe the Autobahn and Carolina Motorsports Park. Just have to see.

Taken from the other site:

WOW! That's pretty cool!

Ahh yes...they held a competition at the Nashville Superspeedway when Import Alliance hosted the gathering in 08...lots of heavy hitters were there ie. Chris Rado and some other Japanese names I can't pronounce.

nice! Good looking out.

I emailed the event director to see what configuration they run at Nashville. I'm pretty sure it's the same one that the mustang club runs by watching the video's he sent me. Here are two video's of the Nashville configuration for anyone interested:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WzfFiNEtkdQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZyceB3ASByg

I read the rules last night just to see what to see how everything is classed. I'm pretty sure if I throw a hi flow cat and street tires on my T78 I can run the "street class" :D Dan, I'm pretty sure you could lay waste to the street class.

Just confirmed that you can put any turbo you want and can still run street class. Also, street porting does not qualify as a "major" upgrade. So streetports are good to go in the street class as well.

I'll be competing at the following events:

Buttonwillow Raceway, CA – March 28th- 29th

Willow Springs Raceway, CA – May 29th- 30th

Spring Mountain Motorsports Park, NV September 26th-27th

Auto Club Speedway, CA – November 14th – 15th

I'll be in Street RWD class in my FD

really??? Any turbo still allows you to be in the STREET CLASS?

I see you are doing the West divisions. I'm giving some serious thought into doing all the East Division races. You running your LS1 FD or your LS1 FC? :D I'd love to run my LS1 FD in this, but I'd have to be in the unlimited class.

Yes, as long as the car came factory equipped with a turbocharger.

My LS1 FC is long gone. I put some of the money into my FD and "saved" the rest up, till I blew my LS1 up at a track day and had to dump all the "saved" money into a new engine. I've been following the Redline TA's for the past couple of years and it's absolutely ridiculous how much faster and how much more heat everyone is bringing into the game. For instance, at Buttonwillow, about two or three years ago, the street RWD winner was a Mustang running 2:03.xxx, now the fastest car is a Supra running 1.57.xxx!!! Six whole seconds faster! It's insane!

You should definitely do all the East divisions, to get a feel for the competition and where you stand.

I hope I can at least break the current FD record at a few of these tracks. I'll be very very lucky to even get into the top 3... if I don't blow up, that is :rofl:

Luckily not too many Mazda's compete in street RWD, so I should be able to snatch up $800, which should cover all my entry fees for that year :)

time to switch to the reliable rotary? :suspect:

$800 isn't bad. They still require the mazdaspeed decals, right?

Same here, I will be competeting in all the west coast events. See you at the track Andrew. :driving: Oh, and your going have your work cut out for you on getting that $800 bucks. ;)

http://blog.cardomain.com/2008/08/11/time-attack-rec/

And yes you have to run the decals and the patch if your wearing Nomex.

Sounds like you guys will have a blast. Yeah, I've looked into a little each year. I think the first year no one really knew about it and was kind of a last minute thing. As you guys said, I expect there to be alot more cars out there this year. I'm still debating whether or not I'm going to do the series. I'll def. do Nashville because I'm never going to turn down an event that is only an hour from my house, but I'm undecided on the rest of them. Autobahn and CMP are both around 8 hours from my house. My main priority this year is getting everything lined up to do NASA TT next year.

Anyone know of a good street tire with at least a 140 tread wear rating that comes in 285/30/18? I know Adam is running the RE-01R's... wish they made them a little wider. Any word on the new Nitto's?

I have been thinking of a 20b swap :suspect:

:cuss: Awww shucks, well worst-case-scenario is $400 ;) I'll be sure to bring the heat!

I have a post on the evil forum on the tires/wheels/susp. section in regards to the "good" street tires. That forum I linked in my post is very informative. A lot of the West coast TA'ers post there.

I guess since we're on the subject of track events and since safety goes in line with it... would anybody have a lead on a Raceshop roll bar FS? Or Larry's contact info? I really don't want to do Big Willow or Cali Speedway without having a roll bar. Especially Cali Speedway since I'll probably be hitting 160+

Kuhmo XS come in 275s, seems like their on par with the RE01Rs and AD07s through tire rack performance reviews.

Another one seems to be the Dunlop Direzza Z1 Star Spec. What a dumb name, but if it get's the job done, whateve's

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/survey...ay.jsp?type=EP

Thanks Adam. I'll look into those.

That's what I'll be running ;)

do those cut it for street class? thought you could run something stickier

Rules state any DOT approved tire with a tread wear rating of 140 or greater. I haven't found any R Compounds that have that high of a tread wear rating.

Well, I'm willing to bet money that RE01Rs, AD07s, Z1s and XSs are at or lower. Seriously, as fast as these tires wear away driving them on the street they have to softer than 140. That and the recommend optimal temps for all of them is in the region of 200 degrees.

So it looks like Mazda will give a $1000 to a Mazda that wins the championship in their respective class. Sweet!

I wonder if they will let the LS1 swap slide on Andrews car lol.

I was just wondering that myself :o11:

:cuss: I'm going to have to call them up to see...

Edit- Is it for the actual 1st place in overall standings at the end of the year in each respective class? Or is it 1st place in overall Mazda standings in each class?

1st place in each class, either way it's a nice year end bonus for all the hard work.

according to the factory specs all of those are higher. Either way, no one else will be running any r compounds in the street class either. I would love to run my LS1 in ultimate, but I don't think it'll be worth my time. Like you said, there might be a technicality with the Mazda Contingency for not having a Mazda engine. I also don't think there will be enough Mazda's in the Ultimate class.

Alright, I talked to a friend of mine who actually sat down for the conversations between MNAO and Redline for the contingency program and he's pretty sure I'll be able to qualify. He's a TA driver and his uncle is the manager of Mazdaspeed, so he's a pretty legit source. I'll call tomorrow to confirm, though :001_005:

Nice Video!! Who's FD is that?

Wow, this makes me want to prep my car for this...probably next year though as it's already way too late...

Afgmoto what cat are you running?

Magnaflow universal Highflow 94100 unit with 3" inlet/outlet. Wish they made a 3.5" or 4" unit.

http://www.car-sound.com/02product/universal/941.asp

FYI, running a cat without the air pump is a good way of killing it in a hurry. I got enough overlap on the intake/exhaust that I still get cool flames during down shifts, which doesn't do the cat any good.

Wish we could run the race cat and be legal. http://www.car-sound.com/02product/universal/race.asp

Bull, you have three weeks to prepare for the first race of the season. And it's at Buttonwillow, so it's not like you can't drive to the event. :driving:

Yokohama Street Class Shootout!

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Los Angeles, CA – March 12th, 2009


The Redline Time Attack Series and Yokohama Tire are excited to announce the “Street Class Shootout”, a new program aimed at rewarding the fastest “street legal” Time Attack competitors in the United States. Three winners will be crowned at the Season Finale, to be held at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. Each winner (one for each drive-train configuration: FWD, AWD, RWD) will receive a 2-Day School of Racing with the Jim Russell Racing School (valued at $4000), located at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California.

Over the course of the 2009 Redline Time Attack season, competitors in the Street Class Division will battle for a Season Championship in their respective geographical region (Western/Eastern). The six Regional Champions will be brought together at the season finale event, November 14th-15th, to battle head-to-head with one another. When the dust settles, National Champions will be crowned in each Street Class Division (FWD, AWD, RWD) with the drivers being given the experience of a lifetime piloting a Formula-3 race car around the beautiful and technical Infineon Raceway.

The Yokohama Street Class Shootout was conceived as a way to give something back to the “little guy”, the grassroots racer, often overshadowed by the bigger teams and Professional drivers. Footage will be captured during the Shootout and a special highlight video will be produced by Fizix Media Labs and distributed across the Web by official media partners of the Redline Time Attack series. With the 2009 Redline Time Attack season set to kick off the weekend of March 28th-29th at Buttonwillow Raceway, the chase for the Street Class National Championship, and a seat at the Jim Russell School, will be underway!

To answer some questions...

ALL Street Class competitors are eligible....

You DO NOT have to use Yokohama tires throughout the season OR during the Shootout.....

Each car competing in the Shootout WILL have to run Yokohama stickers on their car....

East Coast Region Champions will receive have their entry fee WAIVED for the event at Auto Club Speedway (to help defray the cost of transporting the car cross country)

The Championship Points System will determine the 6 cars (3 from WEST, 3 from EAST) that will be invited to participate in the National Championship and Yokohama Street Class Shootout at Auto Club Speedway. Win your Region, get invited to the big dance.

The West Region cars will obviously not wrap up their Championship until the TA competition is over at Auto Club Speedway... the Street Tire Shootout will happen DIRECTLY after the 2nd Unlimited Class TA session is over.. and DIRECTLY before the Super Session Event. So yeah, the West Region participants may not be determined until darn near just before the end of the final event of the year. :-)

The 6 cars will be sent out on the track at the same time... FWD vs FWD, AWD vs. AWD, RWD vs. RWD... to run a normal TA session (5 laps: 1 warmup, 3 hot, 1 cool down). Fastest time in each drive wheel category, wins.

The East Region cars will be allowed to practice in the practice sessions throughout the day, but will NOT compete in the TA sessions....

Anyone needing a crew member for the Autobahn event, look me up.

Bump this up so Adam and/or Andrew will post the results of how they did today later on this evening.

Results from Buttonwillow posted here: http://redlinetimeattack.com/Article/Details/5

Looks like street class RWD had 29 entrants. Very nice turn out. I looked at Ultimate and they only had around 3 entry's... but were REALLY fast!!

Yeah, I had mechanical issues on Saturday and had to back out for Sunday :(

My friend (Billy J, the guy in the NSX that won overall) was driving my car when it failed. He said it was sub-2 min car for sure, and having driven hundreds of modified street cars over the years, he ranked mine as one of his favorites/fastest.

Sorry to hear that man. Any idea what the issue is? Saw that Adam came in 10th. Still $200 from Mazda for finishing first of the Mazda's that entered. Hard to beat!

For Sure, any little bit helps.

All things considered I'm okay with where I placed, 10th. Seeing what I'm competing against I definitely need aero, more tire, better coilovers and more track time on the tracks we’re racing on.

Did a 2:05.414 on the first session, knowing I could at least shave off 2 seconds. I really pushed on the second session, but with a dusty track, tires that were going away and accidentally turning off the boost controller, it was just a fun run.

Looking forward to racing at Willow Springs. Hopefully I will be able to get at least a rear wing and make more power.

Adam

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Nice pictures, looks like some nice track prepped cars! I know what you mean about more seat time at the tracks the events are held at. I decided a few weeks ago for that very reason to only do the Nashville event this year. I *should* be able to get 4 days of driving on that track hopefully before the TA there. Hopefully that'll get me somewhat familiar with the track.

Buttonwillow's a really technical track, love it, but I wasn't on the line the whole time around that track. The asphalt patches made it a real challenge. Wish it was closer to Portland, or better yet in Portland for that matter, but repaved and smooth, hehe.

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