Redline is having their first Time Attack of the year at California Speedway. Feb10th is a test and tune/track day and Feb11th will be the Time Attack.

On-Line Pre entry Fees:
1 Day Sat or Sun: $240
2 Day Sat and Sun: $420

At Track Entry Fee:
1 Day Sat or Sun: $270
2 Day Sat and Sun: $470

Spectator Admission:
Feb 10th and/or 11th: $20
Time Attack starts at 12:30PM on Feb11th

Here is a link for more info and to register:
http://redlinetimeattack.com/index-6.html

Hope to see some of you guys there

AJ

 

Getting ready for it now........

 

I'm planning on being there...

 

I have school commitments for one of my kids that weekend. Looks like no joy for me that weekend, at least not on the racetrack. Have fun guys.

 

^^^Ahhh, we will miss you there Ed. I will be there as well.

 

Editor-In-Chief Dave Ochenreider will be attending the Redline event on Sunday, February 11th. Please stop by the Nissan Sport booth and say hello.

He'll be featuring a special promotion for the event, so be sure to ask him!

David Muramoto
Senior Editor
Nissan Sport Magazine

 

Verry cool. Hopefully we can do Nissan proud at this event so you have some good stuff to put in the magazine .

 

Doh, I've got my season opener at Infineon that weekend. I've got it on my list to hit some socal tracks this year.
good luck to those going.

 

update

 

more info:

REDLINE TIME ATTACK Cali Speedway Feb 11th TV Deal DONT MISS THIS EVENT
Category: Automotive Industry Headlines Autoweb PR

REDLINE TIME ATTACK Feb 11th California Speedway w/ CIRCUIT LIFE
Redline Presents the first Time Attack of the 2007 season at California Speedway Feb 11th. We are pleased to announce the latest updates for this event and 2007 series. Come out and see the future of the sport compact industry.
- More Magazine coverage than ever before with C16, TPR, S3, Nissan Sport, Subiesport, DRIFT & Rwd Sport, Modified, Luxury & Exotic magazines covering the action.
- "CIRCUIT LIFE" Brings the best of the sport compact industry together. Circuit Show gives you 9 classes of friendly show competition again with magazine coverage. Circuit Cruise gives show participants the opportunity to be on the other side of the fence and cruise at a decent speed around the track. Circuit Tech teaches both the participant and spectators how to properly improve both you and your vehicle. Circuit Meet gives top forums and clubs the opportunity to have mini-meets within the "Circuit Life" area of the event. Add that to our ever expanding CIRCUIT LIFE Manufacturers Area and you have an event that is becoming a destination of its own.
SEMA will be there to get your input on the Sport Compact Industry and tell you about some brand new programs. Get out here people this isn't your regular event.....This is the only stop in Southern California and then we're off to Montreal, Atlanta, Summit Point, St Louis, and Laguna Seca.
- TV coverage for many events beginning with the California Speedway Feb 11th event being covered by "Import Racers" for ESPN2.
- Top Teams from around the USA battle it out for awards, bragging rights and the biggest contingency program in US Time Attack. Cars scheduled to appear include: XS Power, COBB Tuning, AMS Performance, Turbonetics, MWorkz, Hasport, Robispec, Crawford, JIC Magic, World Racing, Skunk2, Team X, Evasive, Monstor Fabrication, Factor X, Axis, Full Race, Works, GMG, and more. Come out and run against the best tuners in North America. For more info go to www.timeattack.com.
To register for the Circuit Life car show go to www.timeattack.com and go to the Circuit Life section. To schedule a Forum or Club Mini Meet contact me at dan@redlinetimeattack.com or call 661-992-2383
To add your company to the ever growing manufacturers area at California Speedway call me at 661-992-2383. Booth space Starting at $ 200.00
CIRCUIT LIFE MANUFACTURERS AREA for Feb 11th includes
S3 Magazine
C16 Magazine
Modified Magazine
DRIFT & Rwd Sport
TPR magazine
SEMA
Extreme Autofest
Kognition Composites
ACT Clutch
JIC Magic
RPS Turbo Clutch / Brakes
Hawk Brakes
Cobb Tuning
KW Suspension
SWIFT Springs
KAAZ Differentials
TOMEI Japan / KURE
MONSTOR Fabrication
AMS Performance
SKUNK2
NOS Energy Drinks
TOYO Tires
HANKOOK Tires
CUSCO / Nukabe
and more......

Dont miss this event. Come out and enter to win track days, meet the magazines and manufacturers. See the action up close. Go live your dream on the track....

 

OK, I cannot run, just not the time to prep the car. But I will come out on Sunday because too many of you studs, (Scott, Mike A, Mike B, Steve) are going to be there and I cannot pass that up. SO I will bring the beast to the Nissan Sport booth, park it, wear a nifty cap and hang around to help you guys take tire temps, swap wheels and generally work up a sweat without the fun of tearing around the track. Looking forward to seeing you all out there.

 

That's a shame Ed (Eagle1)!! I'm bummed that one of the most solid cars I've ever driven and helped configure, and one of my vavorite people (you) are not going to run??

No time to prep the car ???........ I am sure Mark and I can help you out if you can get us the car, we do have 10 whole days, I'm pretty sure it doesn't need much.......

 

I am just buried in work, having been on the road the entire last week, and then playing hookey to run Laguna Seca on Wednesday this week. I need to do a complete front to back safety check and wrench on everything I can reach, and I need new tires since I gave Mike my extra set at Buttonwillow at the last time attack. After running LS doing times in the 1:44 range, (I have some neat video blowing through the field with a passenger I will bring if you want to see it), what was left on those Nittos was worked pretty well. They have lasted extremely well, but that infield course at Cal Speedway is very hard on rubber and there is not enough left to make me comfortable about running time attack on them. My spare set is worthless because I lent Dayton one of my wheels when he got a flat back in October, and I still don't have it back from him.....three wheels will not take one very far! (Maybe you could call him and at least have him bring it down to you guys so it could be trailered up?) Bottom line, I am behind on work, have to do school interviews and other family stuff all day Saturday, just no time to do it this time around. If they were running the Roval..........different story. Like a trip to LS, you just do whatever it takes to get there when the opportunity is available.

No crying here, been getting lots of track time in the last couple of months. Laguna Seca four times (including the Skip Barber racing car control clinic with my two oldest sons, a nice driver tune up), Sears Point, Buttonwillow, Thunderhill (abbreviated due to rain so did not get a good run in), and two days at Firebird in the Bondurant advanced racing school with five hours of track time each day...just awesome learning experience), all in four months. That is a dream series of months for me and the car. Ok to take a breather.

My appreciation for what the car can do has risen substantially in the last half year of study and practice and experience, and my skill sets have also jumped appreciably with the intense instruction and seat time, for which there just is no substitute. Having an Indy Lights driver teach you for two days is just wonderful (and about the most humbling thing I have had to go through....the fellow was just great and was so many light years above me that it really was an eye opener on what can be done with a car. I would like to think I am just like him....except as we joked his pucker factor is a mere 50mph above mine!)

I will see you guys there and cheer you on! And let Dave O school me on some more scientific analysis that he and the boys at Nissan Sport Magazine have been conducting for their next issue. I will bring the car and put it in their booth, flop out a chair and kick back. After the day is done, if you are up for it, I will buy a couple rounds for you hard chargers to celebrate.

 

I'll be at the autocross at Cal Speedway in lot 12 that weekend. If I get a chance I'll wander over to the Redline event in the infield.

 

Well Ed, I am glad that you are going to come out afterall even if its just on the sidelines . Maybe you can give me a quick rundown of the things you learned at all of those driving schools.

Beta - It would be good to meet you, if you come down, be sure to find us and say hi!

 

Love to see you there John! Good luck at the AutoX event.

 

Got a lot of good instruction, but then I have so much improvement to make that is not hard to get! The fundamentals just are so important, and as you go faster.....the same things apply, just a little differently. Vision is the absolute king in this regard, as your head angle and vision field has to change materially when you are going faster and faster. It is easy to not notice that little thing, and suddenly you find yourself being "rushed" when it really is not the speed of the car, though you are in fact going faster, but it is because your habits of where you fix your vision from before is no longer adequate. Compounded with the increased sensitivity of the car to inputs at speed... and suddenly you are reacting and not directing, and you are screwed. Make sense? Flowing through the course and not fighting the car became so much easier, and faster, with just that simple reminder. And car control inputs at the limits really became so much more subtle and effective. And then a bunch of stuff on heel toe downshifting refinements, some steering wheel techniques etc.
At Laguna Seca I think the first time out using things learned in my own car, and it behaves differently than the mustangs cobras of course, I cut two seconds off my lap times. In the advanced group I was routinely running 1:47-1:48 lap times in traffic, and down around 1:42-1:43 when I could get clear. That felt huge to me, and it was way more comfortable and smooth than my fast laps before. Just using up that cushion of comfort that I had to leave on the track every lap because I was so concerned about being on the edge and losing it. Now with better recovery and control skills, and working the edge frequently, it is a safer place for me and the lap times just come down naturally. Better heel and toe technique was probably responsible for about a full second of time....showing that not doing it, or not doing it well just means you are throwing time in the trash can.....and better and smoother counter steer and superior corner exit speed from being able to point the car and get on throttle sooner was good for about 2 seconds per lap. I really did not get as many clear laps as I wanted because I had to keep lifting throttle and short shifting at the sound station on the climb from turn 5 to turn 6, and there was a lot of traffic, so probably there is another second or two in the bottle to come out at this particular skill level. After training with the instructors...I have no doubt that they could just jump in my car and beat me by five seconds a lap, if not a lot more. They were awesome!

 

You will definately have to sit down with me and go through this with me. Training yourself to look farther ahead or to calm down your inputs at speed is the tough part. When I first started in Beginner level HPDEs I was lucky enough to get an instructor from the Skip Barber school out here in Vegas to be my instructor for that HPDE as he was out there with his own car. I learned more that session from him than I have learend from all of the other instructors I have had combined. He taught me about looking forward, keeping your hands in one place on the steering wheel, and much more that helped me pick up the basics fairly quickly. I had my first track day in September 2004 and my second in February of 2005 so I have really not been doing this for long and thanks to that instructor I got a little head start in figuring out the basics. It takes a while to refine new skills and even after two years, I still catch myself looking at the car ahead of me instead of the track. Maybe a few more years and I will start to be able to use my car to its real potential .

 

Check out the new Contingency Sponsorship Programs:
http://www.redlinetimeattack.com/Contingency_Info.htm

There is plenty of contingencies available, many of you may already have these contingency parts installed on your car, and if so you could actually win cash for placing in the TIME ATTACK.

For example, MOTON is a contingency sponsor. If you have MOTONS installed, you're already set to go.

 

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