THE ULTIMATE READING EXPERIENCE VOLUME 8 ISSUE 1 - APR 2018
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NEWProducts Professional Awesome offers More for Less
Canadian Racers Go Hollywood K-Tuned racers James Houghton and Chris Boersma have gone Hollywood and created a podcast focused on the sport of Time Attack. Their first issue was rushed out early on Nov 30th but the norm will be a new issue released every Thursday evening. So what did we think of it? It was great! The chemistry that these two have at the track transponds into a well put together program with a few laughs thrown in to keep the mood light. Future issues will feature guests from within the sport as well as manufacturers and specialized companies that focus on Time Attack racing. Will some secrets come out? Not every one but the plan is to give something back to the sport the pair love and have been very successful at. The first guest will be none other than the hottest guy in Time Attack just now, Andy Smedegard, fresh off his win at Global Time Attack’s Super Lap Battle. Their web address is shown above and a Facebook page will be available shortly. 4
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Talking to PA’s Mike Lewin the other day we talked about the latest deal the Indiana based aerodynamic specialist have come up with. Lewin said, “Combine buying our aero products and you save your hard earned money! Racers that buy our vents, diffusers and vortex generators at one time will actually save money as opposed to buying them seperately.” Professional Awesome Vents: Designed and Optimized in CFD to ensure the best possible performance in a small package. The vent’s design promotes extraction by interrupting the boundary layer flow and creating a low pressure “bubble” to increase efficiency. Sides on a vent system are of critical importance as they insure that the “bubble” created by the inclines are not instantly filled by air wrapping around its edges, effectively reducing the vents usefulness. They significantly reduce under fender pressure by extracting air, which reduces lift. Vents can be used on either the hood or fender locations. Use in conjunction with our Splitter Diffusers to maximize your downforce gains.
Engineered by Professional Awesome and manufactured in the U.S.A. Made from high-quality, durable ABS plastic. Dimensions: 12″ long, 3.5″ wide, with a 1″ flange. 2 vents included per purchase. Note: These are racecar parts and will need to be cleaned up to be showcar ready. Designed for outright performance at a fair price, not for impressing at NOPI Nationals! Professional Awesome Diffusers: Designed and optimized using CFD to ensure the best possible performance. Once installed, diffusers create a low-pressure transition zone that greatly increase the downforce potential of any splitter. Designed to be installed on an otherwise flat splitter, instantly turning it into a high-end, active front element for a fraction of the price.
Dimensions: 12″ long, 6″ wide, 2.5″ tall, with a 1″ flange. 2 diffusers included per purchase. Install tips: Ensure adequate room in front of and behind diffusers to ensure airflow isn’t constricted for maximum performance. Designed to be riveted, bolted or bonded to a splitter and then have the rear flange removed to ensure the diffuser keeps its shape during install. Please ensure your splitter is properly attached to the car. These can, and will, create much more downforce and can rip the splitter from its mounts. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED! Professional Awesome Vortex Generators: Designed and manufactured in-house, Professional Awesome Vortex Generators are the next step in controlling airflow and bending it to your will. By generating energy in the slow-moving boundary layer, our vortex generators can delay local flow separation and aerodynamic stalling. This can improve the effectiveness of wings, spoilers and diffusers, all while reducing drag. • 3D printed from ABS plastic. • 10 vortex generators per package. • Install at a 15 degree angle to the direction of airflow
Use in conjunction with our universal vents to maximize downforce gains. Engineered and manufactured in the U.S.A. Made from high quality, durable ABS plastic.
Dalziel Bring Race Car Coaches to You. Florida domiciled Scottish racer Ryan Dalziel has just started a new business, RaceCarCoaches.com. He told us, “We are a network of highly experienced race car drivers, available for coaching services across North America. Whether it be for a track Motorsport News from MotorWerks Magazine
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day, race event, or simulator coaching, our network of carefully screened coaches is at your disposal. Finding the right coach for your track day or race event can be difficult. We want to simplify the process of connecting customers to our network of high qualify coaches, becoming the main source for your event needs. Each coach is unique, so we’ve made it possible for customers to review each coach’s resume and services offered. Our services are location based, making it easy for customers to find coaches by zip code.Even after taking your first racing school, continuing your training in race craft can be a long process. There are always areas to improve your lap times, and better your knowledge and understanding of the race car and track. Coaches bring a wealth of technical knowledge and experience that can prove to be invaluable both on and off track. The best race car drivers in the world will all tell you the same, no matter how much you think you know, there is always more to be learned.
R56 Race Bumper now available.
GP Garage in Italy now has a front race bumper available for the R56. It gives extra space of a front intercooler and comes with no cutouts allowing the racer to install whatever openings they require. You can follow the link to the GP Garage website to find out more. www.gpgarage.it/store/3621/Paraurti-R56-24h.html 6
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The LexusSPORT Cup goes Ice Racing
Noted scribe and racer Russ Bond is pleased to announce the 2019 LexusSPORT Cup will be part of the Minden Ice race series in 2019. Here is the basic premise.
LexusSPORT Cup 2001-2004 Lexus IS300. Spec tire- no mods- spec street stud. Must conform to all CASC ice race rules. Cars must have two front seats. passengers are encouraged. It will be an enforced non contact series. All races will be on Sunday’s only. Prize money: Champion 1500$, Runner-Up 750$, Third 250$ This could change to be top five instead of top three as we get closer to race time. LexusSPORT Cup clothing, jackets and touques will be provided to every series entrant. There will be a 3500$ claimer rule to encourage playing by the rules. The series runs as part of Minden Ice Race championship which runs in the Minden Fair Grounds from mid January to March every year, weather dependant.
DAYTON, Ohio – Team Dynamics has announced the relocation of its US operations to Forgeline Motorsports in Dayton, Ohio. The Team Dynamics USA office in California is now closed. Team Dynamics is a leading British wheel manufacturer specializing in alloy race wheels for smaller vehicles such as Lotus, BMW, Spec Miata, formula cars and the Ariel Atom as well as rally wheels for cars such as Subaru, Focus RS, Volkswagen, Audi and more. “Having known Forgeline as a company and its superior quality products for some time, we find it an extremely exciting time reaching an agreement for them to become our partner for the United States. Hopefully, both our products will complement each other perfectly, giving US motorsports and tuning enthusiasts no other place to look for wheels,” said Matt Neal, Rimstock Brand Ambassador and fivetime British Touring Car champion.
companies. Team Dynamics is known for making quality alloy race wheels including the racing wheels for the British Touring Car and Australian Supercar. Forgeline has built a reputation for manufacturing high-quality, extremely lightweight performance forged aluminum wheels. We both realized it would make good business sense to combine forces,” said Dave Schardt, president of Forgeline Motorsports. “With the combination of Team Dynamics and Forgeline, we will be able to supply everyone from a beginner HPDE driver to a professional racing team and everything in between.” In addition to Forgeline stocking thousands of completed wheels, Team Dynamics will ship blank wheels to Forgeline where they will be drilled and finalized for custom applications, giving Forgeline the ability to make special offsets, center bores and bolt patterns. About Forgeline Motorsports For over 20 years Dayton, Ohio-based Forgeline Motorsports has designed, engineered and manufactured premium, custom-made one-piece and threepiece forged aluminum street performance and racing performance wheels for the ultimate combination of fitment, performance and style. With a reputation for excellent quality and outstanding customer service, Forgeline creates bespoke wheels that are American originals. For more information call 1-800886-0093 or visit www.forgeline.com.
Forgeline Motorsports will now serve as the sole distributor and importer of Team Dynamics wheels and all Team Dynamics products for North America and will now ship from Forgeline’s Dayton warehouse. Forgeline will handle the sales, customer service, shipping and warranty of all Team Dynamics wheels sold in North America. “We met Matt Neal at the Performance Racing Industry Show in 2011, and started a friendship. Over the past few years, we realized there was some overlap between our two
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Team Dynamics Forges Alliance with Forgeline Motorsports in North America
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Klaus Composites Debuts Swan Neck Wing Package
printed ABS mount carrier inserts are formed into the wing core, tying all three wing components together into one optimized, load sharing assembly
Swan neck wings avoid a common pitfall associated with flow separation on the underside of the wing surface brought on by intrusive underside mounts, especially in high camber wing profiles running at high angles of attack. Swan necks rose in popularity between 2008 and 2009 in response to a change in ACO regulations that dictated LMP wing elements be reduced in span and chord by 400 and 50 millimeters, respectively. To regain the 30+% decrease in downforce (~600 pounds) over the previous year’s larger rear wing setups, LMP chassis builders took to their workstations and wind tunnels, developing new profiles and, most importantly, the swan neck mounting scheme, clawing back almost all the downforce lost by the rule change. Swan neck wings have, since then, become ubiquitous in LMP and GT car competition. The Klaus Composites swan neck wing’s custom high-camber profile was specifically tailored to coupe and sedan body styles and is intended for use in 250 to 500 horsepower racing applications. A rounded leading edge reduces pitch sensitivity, providing more stable and usable downforce regardless of vehicle attitude changes under braking and acceleration. The all carbon fiber wing element uses a longitudinal corrugated core and leading-edge splice eliminating potential for leading edge joint separation. 3D
for maximum strength and minimum weight. The integrated gurney flap increases aerodynamic efficiency. Bonded in black anodized aluminum mounts provide six distinct angle of attack adjustments. The wing is fully finished to a mirror polish using a high quality UV stable automotive urethane clear coat. Custom finishes are available upon request. The wing element weighs eight pounds fully finished and assembled with end plates. Current models come with a maximum sixty-six inch overall length with a twelve inch chord. Optimized all-carbon end plates are included. The uprights are carbon fiber hollow construction again finished with high-gloss UV stable automotive urethane
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clear coat. Custom finishes are also available upon request. Uprights are placed twenty-four inches on center, with custom mounting widths available upon request These position the wing at roof-height and
approximately ten inches behind the rear bumper on BMW E36, E46, E9X, and F3/8X platforms. The uprights can be custom tailored to suit other makes and models as well as mounting positions if necessary. Each upright weighs approximately 1.5 lbs, for a combined (wing, uprights, and end plates) weight of eleven pounds. The uprights are designed to pass through the trunk skin and attach to vertical, adequately braced structural mounts (customer furnished) to transfer downforce directly to the chassis without excessive
deflection. Trunk skin mounting is not adequate on its own and the chassis mounts must be capable of supporting approximately five-hundred pounds of sustained downforce and be sturdy enough to remain rigid in all directions in response to forward, back and side to side loading from drag forces and turbulence induced wing vibrations. Use two thrubolts with large fender washers per upright to attach the solid carbon upright bases to this structure. Use of blue Loctite is recomended on all fasteners. The kit ncludes stainless steel binding post hardware to mount wing element to uprights, and stainless screws for attaching end plates to the wing element. Additional hardware for bolting uprights to reinforced mounting structure must be supplied by the customer. Availability – Typically we keep one to two units in stock. Lead time in case of backorder ~3 weeks. The wing kit is available from Klaus Composites, Morehead Speed Works, and BimmerWorld. It retails for $4000 USD. Klaus Composites can be found on the Internet at http://klauscomposites.com, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/klauscomposites/ and
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Motorsport Spotlight!
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The history of Time Attack has its roots in Japanese motorsport back in the 1980s as a place for the many tuning companies in the country to display their talents in tuning modified street driven cars on the track. Sometimes called Superlap, groups 10
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of cars run together and their resultant lap times qualify them for the shootout if they are quick enough. During the Shootout cars are released with adequate gaps between them ensuring they do not catch the racer ahead. Racers begin with a warm-up
lap, run the timed laps and finish off with a cooldown lap. The quickest racer is the winner. The Time Attack craze would eventually would spread world-wide and there are now national championships running in the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, New Zealand and Australia. Often run alongside another imported Japanese motorsport, drifting, the two disciplines are perfectly designed
to capture the attention of spectators. Unlike road racing where even the shortest events can be twenty minutes long, Time Attack in the elimination phase is completed quickly with as little as four laps completed by the racers. The wham, bam aspect of both disciplines is perfect for keeping the spectators interested and entertained. The Big Daddy event, the World Time Attack Challenge is held annually at Sydney Motorsport Park. After running successful National events in Motorsport News from MotorWerks Magazine
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Ben Marouski - MIN Gridlife Time Attack Series Being someone who has always been super competitive with myself (whether it be sports, hobbies, career etc), Time Attack felt like the perfect fit for me. Coming from running HPDE’s/Track days for just four years prior, I was always pushing myself and my lap times from session to session, month to month. That chase to find a faster lap time became an addictive goal throughout the years. That’s why the moment I found out about Time Attack and how approachable it was, I became all about it. Something about the big aero, over the top builds, and seeing cars pushed to their absolute limit in the 12
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attempt to find that one perfect lap to take home the win, had me from the get go. There is something so motivating about not only racing your fellow competitors for the best possible time on the weekend, but instead more so racing yourself and pushing you and your car to the absolute limit in an attempt to find tenths of seconds anywhere on the track you can. With such attention being put on the lap time, it truly makes you try to perfect every adjustment on your car possible, nothing overlooked. Whether it’s an aero change, suspension adjustment, tweak of your tune, tire
NI Cooper S pressure drop, everything adds up when it comes to finding the perfect balance when “Attacking Time” out there. It’s then up to you, the driver to utilize every ounce of time, money, and mechanical perfection to its fullest potential to put down the most lethal lap possible. One of the most effective ways to find extra time out on track is to invest heavily in yourself as a driver, and finding ways you can improve out there to set you and your car up for success. It’s one of the reason’s I absolutely love running my MINI out there, I feel like a bit of an underdog in what is often times the lowest HP car in
my class, I love making up for that lack of power, by making the most time up in the corners and by trying to be the best driver possible. You begin to feel as one with your car when you’re constantly trying to find the limit, where the most minute changes are felt in the steering wheel or gas pedal, where every sound the car makes is that of an orchestra you are conducting from the driver’s seat. As a whole I also think in this format of racing allows you to step back a bit and appreciate fellow competitors builds. There is such a variance in car type, and what people have done with them that you learn to not feel threatened necessarily but instead really appreciate why or how they are able to squeeze out more or less time out there than you. From my experience it’s also a very friendly race type atmosphere, without the aspect of someone trading paint or blocking you in the corners it allows for a sense of community with everyone having the same exact goal out there of achieving that perfectly fast lap at the limit. Any way people can lend a hand or some advice, it is almost always offered with the genuine goal to help out a fellow competitor better themselves, and make things even more competitive. The back and forth battle throughout a weekend of competitors dropping tenths to swap position’s within their classes is addicting when in the thick of it. The feeling you get in your stomach between heats running up to the lap time boards to see if things shuffled, in the hope that the perfect lap you think you just ran holds up is a feeling I can’t get enough of. Yes it’s a different type of racing, but it’s one that I have learned to love. Ben was lucky enough to be chosen to join Team Racepak in 2018 and will be using a Racepak IQ3 datalogging dash to help him find more speed and reduced lap times. Good luck Ben!
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Chris Boersm
Multiple Time Atta One the main reasons why I love Time Attack is that it is one of the purest forms of Motorsports. It’s just you and the car and you get the chance to go as fast as you possibly can, without having to conserve the car or worry about traffic. It puts the pressure on you as a driver to perform in a very short amount of time and requires a car that can do the same. It’s also one of the only forms of Motorsports left that has a very simple rule book that allows people to 14
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explore the limits of what’s possible. To me it’s like can-am cars were back in the day, lots of power, aero and grip and the freedom to do whatever you want. There just isn’t anything that is as pure as Time Attack is right now.
Chris started his motorsport career in drag racing but once he found out about Time Attack there was no holding him back. He is a multi-time Champion with the Canadian Sport Compact Series as well as multi-class champion and class record holder with the Global Time Attack series at Buttonwillow and Atlanta. His 2018 plans include a full season of CSCS, GTA Road Atlanta, GTA New Jersey, GridLife Mid-Ohio, GridLife MidWest and SpeedRing. Motorsport News from MotorWerks Magazine
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Matteo Gualandi - MINI Italian Time Attack Series My involvement started in 2013 with the first Time Attack event in Italy, our MINI Cooper GP was a road car prepared for the track but from year to year it has continued to evolve until 2017 where we hit the track with 500hp, a sequential gearbox and carbon fiber body panels. Time Attack is a good advertisement for my company GP garage as it brings us work from customers who race in the series and also allows us to experiment with new solutions to bring to the market for that clientele. This kind of competition allows us to show what we do as tuners as there are no constraints to create new evolutions on the cars. Quite often they ask 16
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me why we do not run in the Mini Challenge series, I reply by saying that we could not showcase our products by running in a one-make series; therefore we limit ourselves to being only their suppliers. My history in the world of motorsport began in 1989 with the first races in the Italian minicross championship which I ran until 2006 with the European supermotard championship. From 2007 I moved over to cars and ran in rallies and hillclimbs. Since 2009, however, with the opening of GP Garage I started to go to tracks for track days with my MINI. But it was 2013 before I started to compete properly with the MINI.
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Richard Boake, Hometown: Toronto Car: Suburu WRX Team: Can-Jam Motorsports Sponsors: Versace Parfum, Steelcase Tires & Mags
In 2016 Motovicity Distribution came up with the idea of creating a one of a kind Time Attack event that would bring racers from all over to the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA. The event put on by Motovicity and HKS USA was a huge success and it was especially fitting when LYFE Motorsport’s Cole Powelson and their Nissan GT-R took the win for the USA over Japenese Super GT and D1 Grand Prix
driver Nobuteru Taniguchi in the HKS GT-R. For 2017 the event moved East closer 18
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to Motovicity’s Madison Heights, MI home base. The venue this year was the almost brand new M1 Concourse facility located nearby in Pontiac, MI. This year Vibrant Performance and ARP (Automotive
Racing Products) stepped up to the plate as presenting sponsors to help put on a Time Attack show as never seen before in the Mid-West. Part of the draw was the massive $20,000 payout for the racer that would set the quickest lap time. The Speed Ring would feature traditional Time Attack on Saturday with a Touge Battle on Sunday. The 20K could be won by setting the time on either day. And the guy who took it all home was Toronto’s Richard Boake and his Subaru WRX. Motorsport News from MotorWerks Magazine
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It was good friends Daniel O’ Donnell and James Houghton who faced off for the Unlimited Bracket Championship with O’Donnell taking the win. 20
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