blog.CarlRydquist.com: Redline Time Attack coming up

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Redline Time Attack coming up

Friday, November 13, 2009

As a method to keep my Porsche racing skills current (and have fun) I will be competing in a number of Redline Time Attack events next year. To shake-down the car and gather some data I will be participating in RTA out at Auto Club Speedway (ex California Speedway) this weekend already, which is the Redline finals of 2009. The 2010 season start sometime around Feb-March again so the winter break will be short.

Redline is a qualifying competition with essentially three classes: Street, Modified, Unlimited. These in turn have sub-categories for FWD, RWD, AWD. On Sunday I will be in Modified AWD since the car I will be driving is a 911 Turbo with just above 500hp.

The car is only slightly modified with GT2 suspension arms and aerodynamics, Endless brake pads for the Porsche Brembos, a half-cage from GMG and some shock and swaybar upgrades, however it definitely is fast enough to serve its purpose as a practice car.

Usually a lightly modified car like this belongs the in Street class, but by the vehicle classification in the rule book most Porsches automatically transfer to Modified - modified or not.

Tires for the event will be these: