Rotnralph
January 30th, 2008, 10:46 PM
First things first.........
Chad / David, cool forum. If the website turns out half as popular as the forum seems to be, it'll be a big hit. Congrats!!
Now on to the event info:
Background: Playing with some of the toys at Buttonwillow recently and started talking to some of the V8 guys in attendence. Seems there might just be some muscle car addicts out there interested in showing the sport compact world that they've nothin' on good old American Iron. With that in mind, Redline Track Events and Spectre Performance got together to create a class strictly for the muscle car crowd at Redline's "Time Attack" road course events this year.
For those unfamiliar with this type of event, a Time Attack is simply a closed course competition giving you an opportunity to compete head to head against other drivers for the best lap time on some of the country’s best road courses, without having to trade paint or bang up your sheet metal. This is your chance to show what you can do on a race track with turns.
Every driver will receive a number of practice sessions in the morning to fine tune their car and perfect their racing line. Finishing off the day will be the official Redline Time Attack! competition session. Each division will be sent out onto the track in small groups of 5-9 cars. After one warm-up lap, all cars in the Time Attack session will have 3 hot laps to run the fastest time possible. Winners will be crowned in each division following the completion of the time attack sessions.
The first event is scheduled for March 29th and 30th at Buttonwillow Raceway Park in Central California with plans in place for a second event to be held at California Speedway in Fontana, California July 19th and 20th. Class breakdown will depend on the amount of interest and type of iron you want to run. Current plans are for a single class for V8 powered pre-'80 cars, but that can be changed.......... 9 entries make a class, so let's see who's interested. If there's enough interest in this type of event, we're open to expanding the schedule to include all the Redline Time Attack events throughout the country (currently on the schedule are Gateway International Raceway, Miller Motorsports Park, Nashville Super Speedway, Summit Point Raceway and Virginia International Raceway). The guys at Redline are way cool and are willing to open up an area in the pits for you and your buddies to bring out the show cars as well.
Let me know what you think. Feedback, good or bad is always welcome in starting a new venture. Maybe we can even get Chad to bring "Rusty" out again and show us how to put some heavy metal hurt on 'em! :D For further information or registration see the Redline Time Attack website ( http://www.redlinetimeattack.com/index.html ) or you can contact me directly at 1-800-821-4868 x329.
Thanks for taking the time.......
Mike
Chad / David, cool forum. If the website turns out half as popular as the forum seems to be, it'll be a big hit. Congrats!!
Now on to the event info:
Background: Playing with some of the toys at Buttonwillow recently and started talking to some of the V8 guys in attendence. Seems there might just be some muscle car addicts out there interested in showing the sport compact world that they've nothin' on good old American Iron. With that in mind, Redline Track Events and Spectre Performance got together to create a class strictly for the muscle car crowd at Redline's "Time Attack" road course events this year.
For those unfamiliar with this type of event, a Time Attack is simply a closed course competition giving you an opportunity to compete head to head against other drivers for the best lap time on some of the country’s best road courses, without having to trade paint or bang up your sheet metal. This is your chance to show what you can do on a race track with turns.
Every driver will receive a number of practice sessions in the morning to fine tune their car and perfect their racing line. Finishing off the day will be the official Redline Time Attack! competition session. Each division will be sent out onto the track in small groups of 5-9 cars. After one warm-up lap, all cars in the Time Attack session will have 3 hot laps to run the fastest time possible. Winners will be crowned in each division following the completion of the time attack sessions.
The first event is scheduled for March 29th and 30th at Buttonwillow Raceway Park in Central California with plans in place for a second event to be held at California Speedway in Fontana, California July 19th and 20th. Class breakdown will depend on the amount of interest and type of iron you want to run. Current plans are for a single class for V8 powered pre-'80 cars, but that can be changed.......... 9 entries make a class, so let's see who's interested. If there's enough interest in this type of event, we're open to expanding the schedule to include all the Redline Time Attack events throughout the country (currently on the schedule are Gateway International Raceway, Miller Motorsports Park, Nashville Super Speedway, Summit Point Raceway and Virginia International Raceway). The guys at Redline are way cool and are willing to open up an area in the pits for you and your buddies to bring out the show cars as well.
Let me know what you think. Feedback, good or bad is always welcome in starting a new venture. Maybe we can even get Chad to bring "Rusty" out again and show us how to put some heavy metal hurt on 'em! :D For further information or registration see the Redline Time Attack website ( http://www.redlinetimeattack.com/index.html ) or you can contact me directly at 1-800-821-4868 x329.
Thanks for taking the time.......
Mike