AWM3

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Great event this past weekend...EVO X's and EVO 9's did very well. Curious why there is not more car enthusiast / race fans that go to Time Attack events? The turn out was OK, but not as many people as I thought. The tuners did an amazing job getting ready and putting a serious effort into the race, but the "fan" support of racing seemed weak for Southern California and especially at a track that is so close. Any thoughts on why T/A is not marketed more or attended more?

jid2

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$20 gate fees. Kinda steep for this type of event - but I'm not local.

Bueller

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Time Attack and Time Trial events are great for Motorsports. I know this because i progressed through the NASA ladder system. I went from HPDEs, to Time Trialing, and now racing. If it wasnt for NASAs ladder system i probably wouldnt be racing today because i never had any interest in racing. However, other than maybe seeing an old friend, i have no reason to go watch a time attack. Why go watch a time attack when you can go watch some racing? If you want to watch some racing, go to a NASA or SCCA weekend event. Tons of great racing. I race with Socal NASA, and there were 4 weekend events that i didnt race. But you know what, i still went to watch the races.

Nikolas@Redline

That will certainly be addressed next season!

Those of you who were there for our press conference on Saturday night, heard/saw a glimpse of what we have in store for next season.

stuntman

Las Vegas, NV (Sunday November 15, 2009) FX Motorsports Development, Billy Johnson, and the Cricket/Yokohama Tire Unlimited NSX overcome disaster this weekend to take the Overall win at Auto Club Speedway and set another track record for a production-based car.

Coming from an Unlimited RWD class victory and record at the 2009 Super Lap Battle Time Attack event at Buttonwillow the previous Wednesday, FXMD came to the Redline Season Finale at Auto Club Speedway with high hopes. With new untested changes made to the FX750 NSX before Buttonwillow, FXMD was looking to further shake down the car on Saturday in preparation for Sunday’s Time Attack.

Saturday’s testing proved to be successful despite losing the right rear tire on the banking at 150mph. Driver Billy Johnson stated “I simply set the tire pressures too low for how cold the track conditions were and I didn’t let the tires get up to temp before the banking. It was not a tire failure by any means but rather a misjudgment in pressures. Thankfully I was able to keep the car off the wall and in one piece”. Unfortunately the down tire took out the canister of the KW 3-way motorsport dampers along with it. Thankfully KW North America was there and helped get the situation under control with a replacement.

As Sunday rolled around, testing couldn’t have gone better with the new Performance Friction “Z-Rated” Forged Monoblock Calipers with multi-pad technology (1 brake pad per piston) and 2pc floating rotors. “These brakes are amazing” Johnson said, “The pedal remained rock-solid and consistent lap after lap with zero signs of fade. The combined stiffness of the caliper and multiple pads per caliper make modulating the brakes almost telepathic, you have to truly experience it yourself to believe brakes can be this responsive and communicative”.



Despite the good start, the day was not going to be easy for the FXMD team. A snapped input shaft in the transmission looked to end their chances of competing and clinching the Unlimited RWD Championship. Crew Chief Radomir Banda said “Failures happen when making this kind of power. While we have made steps to increase the strength of the transmission, we have never seen a failure like this before. The fracture was so perfect it looked like it was cut on a lathe”. The team had three hours to swap transmissions before the last timed session of the day. “These guys are amazing” said Johnson, “Whenever we are thrown a curveball that would make other teams pack up and go home, the whole team comes together. Against overwhelming odds they put the car together in time to give me one last shot.”

For the final run, the team installed a bone stock transmission that had a less than ideal gear ratio and final drive, and no limited slip differential. They increased spring rates and raised the ride height to prevent the right front tire from bottoming out into the fender on the banking. They re-aligned the car, put on new tires, upped the boost, and fixed a cracked header. With all these changes and no practice time, the team wasn’t sure what the result was going to be.

As the sun started to set over the Southern California mountains, the last run group was the Unlimited class. With a best lap of 1:37.7 during testing, Billy had to shave off nearly 2 seconds to beat the current record set by the AMS EVO X which turned a 1:36.230 in the first timed session. On his second lap, Billy was able to edge AMS out with a record-setting lap of 1:36.103, just a tenth quicker than the EVO.


This result marks the 5th Overall Victory and 5th Track Record for the team out of 5 races attended this year. An undefeated record clinched the 2009 Unlimited RWD Championship for the FX Motorsports Development team. We would like to thank Redline for a great year and special thanks to Sierra Sierra Enterprises for welding our header back together, they are a class-act.


We would like to thank all of our sponsors for their superior track proven products and unwavering support throughout the entire year. Without their support this undefeated season would not have been possible. Special thanks to Sam Kwa from Yokohama Tire for providing us with valuable advice via phone throughout the entire weekend and Chris Marion from KW Automotive for the on-site product support.


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Celebrating the victory:




Full Results:

Unlimited RWD
1. Billy Johnson FX Motorsports Development Acura NSX 1:36.103

Unlimited All Wheel Drive
1. Paul Gerrard AMS Performance/NOS Energy Drink Evo X1:36.230
2. David Empringham Sierra Sierra Evo 1:38.028
3. Brian Lock GOTO Racing/Dell Equallogic Nissan GT-R 1:38.677
4. Tarzan Yamada Crawford Performance Subaru STi 1:40.505
5. Mike Cronin Jr. Fontana Nissan Nissan GT-R 1:44.026

Unlimited Front Wheel Drive
1. Chris Rado World Racing Scion tC 1:39.381
2. Katsuyuki Hiranaka Team 5Zigen Honda Civic 1:44.693
3. Jason Saini Tripoint Engineering Mazda 6 1:46.558
4. Andrew Gillis AIT Racing Ford Focus 1:53.549
5. Frank Yeung HPS Yokahama GP 1:56.300
6. Ryan Lapp 2:04.910

Modified All Wheel Drive
1. Ryan Gates RyanGates311.com/AMS Performance Evo X 1:43.497
2. Mike Cronin Jr. Fontana Nissan 1:44.730
3. Sharif Abdelbaset Forged Performance 1:44.943
4. Russ Warr LIC Performance/Crawford/Toyo 1:45.772
5. Dieter Heniz C-Spec Tuning/RobiSpec/RRE Time Attack Evo 1:45.904
6. James Elterman Takata 1:47.862
7. Jared Stoops Forged Performance 1:48.469
8. Carl Rydquist Citytireonline Porsche 911 1:50.004
9. Dez Ballard Gruppe-S/Hankook Tires 1:51.056
10. Ken Xu K&W Autobody/APM Racing/AIT Racing 1:53.425
11. Joel Miller Sparco USA/Designcraft 1:56.396
12. Dusty Nabor NNI Racing/101 Pipe/sparco 1:57.555
13. Kevin Welker Rally Innovations 2:01.064

Modified Front Wheel Drive
1. Tom Liang Racelikebunnies.com 1:58.991
2. John Lindeman Gear-X/Toyo Tire 2:02.176
3. Ross Miller PTuning 2:11.543
4. Jeremy Hugee 2:13.839

Modified Rear Wheel Drive
1. JC Meynet 1:45.462
2. Matt Andrews Nitto 1:45.541
3. Richard Taylor AE Performance/Hankook/JIC/Etnies 1:48.381
4. Alex Latteri 1:49.186
5. Stephen Ruiz 1:49.458
6. Jeremy Renshaw AFI Turbo/Kenney Ent/Willwood/Competition Clutch 1:49.706
7. Isaac Schumacher 1:50.343
8. Dave Lemon Mazdatrix Mazda RX-7 1:50.750
9. Jacob Tanaka NittoTires/Sams Autoland/Technosquare/SCT/XXR Wheels 1:51.746
10. Stu Hayner 1:51.895
11. Steve Butscher 1:52.785
12. Billy Brooks 1:57.214
13. James King 1:58.461
14. Ryan Rush 1:59.171
15. Ed Bergenholtz Nitto/Mazda No Time

Drift
1. Rhys Millen RMR/Hyundai/Red Bull Hyundai Genesis 1:48.004
2. Kyle Mohan Mazdatrix/Exedy/Turbonetics Mazda RX-7 1:54.025
3. Henry Schelley HPS/Baker/Driftspeed Nissan S14 1:57.497
4. Sasha Radojovic 2:01.621

Buddy Club Street All Wheel Drive
1. Jeremy Toye Reese Tuning 1:47.678
2. Stephen Ruiz Stoptech 1:49.050
3. Russ Warr M1FD/Tuning Tech/Octane Report 1:49.144
4. Tony Wiesenhahn Turn In Concepts 1:49.290
5. Erik Islas Robispec/Tuning Technologies 1:49.697
6. Tony Fuentes Island Motorsports/US Army/Spec Clutches/TITEK 1:55.452
7. Mauricio Calderon Massimo Power/AE Performance/Domospeed 1:58.729
8. Strothuer Jones 2:07.576

Buddy Club Street Front Wheel Drive
1. Clint Boisdeau FocusSport Ford Focus 1:56.844
2. Chris Stout Stout Performance 1:57.440
3. Jason Nathan 1:59.349
4. Brian Alvarez Tripoint/CP-E/Yokohama/HKS/Recaro 2:02.000
5. Alan Bowers 2:03.774
6. Charles Tran PlanB Motorsports/Special Projects MS 2:06.895
7. Sean Davies ExoSpeed 2:13.862
8. Danny Martinez Project Import No Time

Buddy Club Street Rear Wheel Drive
1. Jeremy Croiset MCS Motorsports/Berk Tek/KW Toyota MR2 1:50.692
2. Robert Choo DSPORT/Hankook/Vorte 1:51.617
3. Jeff Tyler HP Autowerks 1:52.811
4. Manly Kao TrackHQ/Buddyclub/Toyo/APR 1:53.640
5. Mike Bonanni Berk Technology BMW 135i 1:54.909
6. Kenny Chieu Konod 1:56.451
7. Mike Bonanni DoubleDownMotorsport.com Nissan 370Z 1:56.852
8. Eddie Lim KW 2:00.000
9. Mike Haddad Haddad Motorsports 2:05.179
10. Matt Johnson 2:05.180
11. Gregory Haye 2:05.348

Stock AWD
1. Matt Dennison TuningTech/RobiSpec/Mil.spec
2. Thomas Smith Zenkai Motorsports/Crawford/Duratec/Motul 1:53.884
3. Jon Drenas 1:55.173
4. Roger Hocking 1:55.753
5. Rigo Lafontaina Southcoast Mitsibushi 1:56.224
6. Chris Reber 2:00.296
7. Michele Abbate 2:00.411
8. Istvan Kiang 2:02.577
9. Verena Mei Southcoast Mitsubishi 2:07.118

Buddy Club Stock Front Wheel Drive
1. Dez Ballard ABF Performance / Gruppe-S 1:59.595
2. Eric Emerson E&A Motorsports 2:03.404
3. Adrian Torres Racelikebunnies.com 2:07.742

Buddy Club Stock Rear Wheel Drive
1. Paul Dentice AE Performance/Hankook/JIC/Etnies 1:55.534
2. Robi Fuller RobiSpec 1:55.670
3. Jim Tway 1:56.201
4. Ed Lee 1:58.166
5. Jairo Jaramillo Track HQ/Gableitfilms 2:02.063
6. Thomas Barrett Corvette Specialties 2:02.119
7. Christian Burke Circuit Motorsports/FSR/Hellfish Racing 2:05.104
8. Paul Paniagua Circuit Motorsports/FSR/Hellfish Racing 2:06.390
9. Christopher Chen VT Engineering 2:07.420

Super Session
1. Billy Johnson U-RWD 1:38.881 FXMD
2. David Empringham U-AWD 1:39.208 Sierra Sierra
3. Brian Lock U-AWD 1:39.359 GOTO Racing/Dell Equallogic
4. Mike Cronin Jr. U-AWD 1:43.087 Fontana Nissan
5. JC Meynet M-RWD 1:47.261
6. Sharif Abdelbaset M-QWD 1:49.321 Forged Performance
7. James Elterman M-AWD 1:49.418 Takta

chronohunter

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Nice Job Billy, though I was gonna' win that one then you come out and beat us by a 10th!

Next time right

Best,
Paul

tc17

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congrats on dominating this years redline time attack season. i will definitely see you more next season.

Nikolas@Redline

That was fantastic to watch. Both of you guys had to deal with adversity this past weekend. And for it to come down to 1/10th of a second, that is great competition! The battles are only going to get better next year!

stuntman

Thanks guys!
Hey Paul. I'm glad to hear you're alright after the fire at BW. The AMS guys must have busted their a&$es to get that thing ready for the RTA event. It was great running with you guys, it's always exciting when the times are that close (in all classes).

See you at the next one,

Billy

spdracerut

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Actually, I think it's a very good deal. You can walk all around pits, see the cars up close, talk to people about the cars, etc.

It's well worth the $20 to see how the cars are built and have the opportunity to talk to the teams and drivers.

Bueller

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I have a suggestion for now. Based on what i read in another thread, it sounds like there were 4 time attacks this year in Socal? And it was said that you guys are going to offer more time attacks next year? I understand money is an issue for everyone, but if i were committed to time attacks, i would be pretty disappointed if there were only 4 time attacks in 1 year. If i were competing in time attacks i would want that to at least double, something around 10 time attacks a season. If you want it to be an actual season long series, youre going to have to offer a good 10 time attacks a season. I dont run in time attacks, so i understand that my suggestion isnt noteworthy, but that would be one thing i would want if i were competing in time attacks.

Balrok

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That was just in SoCal bro, so you got spoiled actually. The season had more like 8 I think this year all over the country, so you had close 50% of the whole season in your back yard. 10 events would round up things nicely, put a couple closer to the middle of the country.

o-townFLA

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Ed, the new owner of RTA mentioned that they will have 8 premier events alone on the west coast. With what they had on the east coast this year (4 events), it looks like their will be a total of 11 events nation wide compared to the prior 8 nation wide events they had this year. And thats not including what the can muster from the east coast...

From what Jackson Stewart (new VP) said, expect BIG changes for next year... With the new ownership , Nik was hired to work full-time on the RTA series, instead of the recent part-time gig that the series was ran on....

It looks promising but who knows how it will unfold... I'll be there...

WheelDude.com

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I wish I could have made the event. I had planned to attend and setup a booth with GST Motorsports guys but I've been pretty sick since returning from SEMA

Big congrats to one of the teams we sponsor, Turn in Concepts. This was their first year competing in Redline Time Attack and they are now the 2009 Street AWD National Champs

Some shots a forum member took of their car




-Dan

AWD Motorsports

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Gotta give it up for my buddy James @ Reese Tuning for staying nearly 3 seconds ahead of the National Champ at the last event.. With Reese Tuning, Buschur Motor, Robispec Suspension, FP Hta Turbo, and an AWD MotorsportsTurbo Kit the Car was Flying!!!!

Redline Time Attack is certainly shaping up to be very competitive!!!

Buddy Club Street All Wheel Drive
1. Jeremy Toye Reese Tuning 1:47.678
2. Stephen Ruiz Stoptech 1:49.050
3. Russ Warr M1FD/Tuning Tech/Octane Report 1:49.144
4. Tony Wiesenhahn Turn In Concepts 1:49.290
5. Erik Islas Robispec/Tuning Technologies 1:49.697
6. Tony Fuentes Island Motorsports/US Army/Spec Clutches/TITEK 1:55.452
7. Mauricio Calderon Massimo Power/AE Performance/Domospeed 1:58.729
8. Strothuer Jones 2:07.576