Redline Time Attack Schedule for 2009 with Mazda Contingency!

[afgmoto1978]

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....

[alnielsen]

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

[Brent]

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

[Brent]

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!!

[andrewdruiz]

Originally Posted by Brent

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.

[Brent]

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!

[afgmoto1978]

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

[afgmoto1978]

More Pics

[Brent]

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.

[afgmoto1978]

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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http://videos.streetfire.net/video/R...ack_643983.htm

[afgmoto1978]

Brent are you going to do any of the east coast events?

[Brent]

Yes sir I'll be at Nashville in a couple of weeks. Should be a fun time. I don't think I'll be that competitive, but track time is track time... and I am hurting for my fix pretty bad currently. What about you?

[afgmoto1978]

Pay cut from work has virtually killed my chance of doing any more TA events this year. But I've been trying to find side jobs in order to upgrade the car and possibly compete in the last two events of the year. Most likely only the last one though, Fontana, half oval, top speed, jizz my pants.

Whatever you do be sure to have a fresh set of street tires if you plan on doing the event. I made that mistake at buttonwillow running tires that had one too many heat cycles. On that note I wish I had driven that track before, I would have completely changed my suspension setup for that matter.

[Brent]

Thanks for the pointers Adam. I'm going to be running my 275/35/18 Dunlop Z1 Direzza Starspec's with 4 days on them. Not as grippy as new tires, but they are still plenty grippy. I'm switching back to R Compounds once these wear out so I don't want to drop the change on a new set of street tires. I'm in the middle of building my LS1 track car so most of my funds are going towards it right now. I've actually thought about throwing the hoosiers on and running the modified class.

As for Nashville SuperSpeedway, it's a smaller course that you can't really carry alot of speed on(aside from the front straight). A sequential twin car would be perfect for this track and I've been trying to get SPICcnmFD or Chadwick to run but haven't had any luck as I really think they could lay waste to the street or modified class. With my laggy T78, I'm just going to go and have some fun and get some experience

Hope you can make both events. I had planned on doing most of the Redline events, but I decided I didn't want to do events on a bunch of tracks that I had never ran on. I'm also focusing on getting my competition licenses with NASA this year so I can do TT's next year. I have 3 days at Nashville now, 2 in my blue car and only 1 in the silver, but that's a good start. I just can't say no to NSS as it's only an hour from my house. I just wish they had more track days. After this event, I don't know of any more at NSS until the Mustang Club has one in Mid September... in which I'm doing a 3 day PCA event at VIR(I'll sign up for Novice and request Fritz as my instructor... pick his brain for 3 days ). Oh well, I'll gladly drive 4 hours for Road Atlanta or Barber, and 8-9 hours for VIR. That's why I have the truck and trailer

BTW, I almost spit my drink everywhere when I read your Andy Samberg comment... haha!! Speaking of which, have you seen the Mother Lover video? "What is it dog?"

[josh18_2k]

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