We signed the car up under "914Club.com" as a sponsor. If they announce the car on TV.. they *should* say "the 914club.com Boxster"



B

I looked at the picture again..

Funny seeing "our" sticker next to the BIG names

Makes me feel proud of where I came from



B

cool!
and you didn't even need to ask me for .eps files

dude that sticker looks very cool is that Adam Sandler

That is Chris Prey! Season 2 "Setup" winner from Speed Channel!!



B

Jeroen,

I had them in my truck forever, then moved them to my laptop bag!!

Still need graphics for the 18wheeler and a BRAG package for Boxsters!!



B

I'll assume that those stickers are unavailable???? any NOS ones laying around???

I would like one, please

If hes out I have a vinyl cutter I can have a bunch of them made up.

Awesome!


Way to go.


KT

Haha, Looks great Brad! it's all about where you came from I suppose.. If you ever do a run of windshield decals again, or oldschool, if you do them, I'd be interested.

Hi Jeroen,
Can you post the .eps file

I have windshield banners.. I just hate shipping them. I have to roll them up and ship them in tubes I have to cut down

Car is doing well. We are currently 14th out of 32 cars running 33.6's fastest lap is a 32.4 right now. We were on old tires (4 heat cycles is old)



B

I have two banners.

I'll stick them on the LeMons car today.


KT

Want to know why Brad makes changes to the setup at AutoX events? Club racing and Pro events??

How about going from 14th out of 32 cars this morning to 4th out of 32?

1MM TOE CHANGE IN THE FRONT AND 2 CLICKs OF REBOUND IN THE REAR!!! (from the morning setup)

Grand Am live timing and scoring Choose ST class at the top. Gene Sigal and Chris Prey are the drivers.

1mm toe change was worth 3mph at the end of the two main straits.


B

win this thing man!

Best part? We were on scrub tires. We will drop another .5 of a second on stickers. We watched 90% of our field go out on stickers for that practice session.

Should be interesting to say the least. The key is: both our drivers are running within .3 of each other in lap times. Rarely does a pro team have TWO fast drivers



B

Top 5 Street Tuner Practice Times (Speeds):

Sarah Cattaneo /VJ Mirzayan, No. 197 RSR Motorsports Mini Cooper S - 1:39.902 (89.126 mph)

Eric Lutz/Ryan Eversley, No. 75 Skunk2/Honda Honda Civic Si - 1:32.912 (89.117 mph)

BJ Zacharias /Craig Conway, No. 198 RSR Motorsports Mini Cooper S - 1:33.003 (89.029 mph)

Chris Prey/Gene Sigal, No. 86 Royal Purple Porsche Boxster - 1:33.265 (88.779 mph)

Thomas Lepper/Gunter Schmidt, No. 22 Sick Kids Foundation Chevrolet Cobalt - 1:33.307 (88.739 mph)

Think I take this seriously? Rules call for 2600 w/o driver and no fuel We will pick up 2-3lbs worth of tire marbles.. and we have checked the car against the GA scales. We are dead nuts on with them (this pic shot from our scales)



B

Yeah that's close. Hate to see you under weight though. Is that weight with our without the marbles?

Are those lap times? must be an error on the mini

We bolted the cool suit bracket into the car and re weighed it. We are now 2603

The Mini's are fast!!

Qualifying is coming up at 5pm EST


Wish us luck!!

The car is setup up for qualifying to get the session done in 5 laps.

Race setup will be a LOT different.


B

Do mini's have to run restrictor plates? Seems like turbos would have real advantage.

Not quite sure what the minis run weight wise but even if the allowed the JCW spec car it is only ~200hp. Frankly, I am surprised that front wheel drive cars dominate that class. I mean a Chevy Cobalt, really? I haven't been in a Cobalt but I have been in a Caviler and that car is probably the worst car in every respect that I have ever been in.

Look at powerband of the turbo cars. They make better power across wider RPM range. They also make better torque numbers. Cobolts are doing very well in Europe in Touring car series. Granted they are a little tweaked from stock but they arent all that bad of a FWD race car. I wouldnt touch one but they seem to have decent suspension and very strong motor.

We qualified 5th and the session was shortened by an off. The mini's were allowed more power this year. The GIRL driving the pole car is really good.. she was motoring us on the straights and parking it in the corners in front of us. See our 35? we told the driver to back off and get away from her. He passed her twice and she would nearly spin in front of him.

This is where you want to be after qualifying!!


IMPOUND!!!


They check our weight
They check our ride height
They check our camber



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FYI: We are on a junk yard engine. I have their old engine at the shop. I'm in the process of building a race engine for the Boxster.


B

Good stuff Brad .. hard work and talent does lead somewhere

The rules limit camber? How about toe and castor?

Toe and caster are wide open. We are NOT even close to max camber. We put on the car what the tires temps tell us. We are limited to -3.0 F+R and we are running 2.1 on the right side of the car and 1.7 on the left front and 1.9 on the left rear (Homestead is a Roval)


Good morning race fans..


B

Second in practice with a FULL fuel load.. we were first until the last 1 minute of the session when one of the Mini's clicked off a lap faster than us

FYI: we were on old tires again..



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We have started the engines!!


B

went from 5th to 3rd first lap...

http://grandam.racersites-cluster.com/Orbi...39&VN=50693

Looks like they got 6th. They finished on the lead lap!

-Britain

not too shabby for a junker huh?

nice run brad

Good Job B

Just thinking out loud here, but I think that car could use a bit more of an attention-getting graphics scheme

Next event the car gets a complete wrap with "ironman 2" we are promoting the movie

We did well, but kinda messed up on one of the restarts after we pitted on a yellow. The driver who got into the car did not race back to the back of the pack after he left pit lane. We lost about 2 positions. The driver also was tapped in the left rear which knocked the toe out and caused too much scrub down the straights (went from toe in to toe out)


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Some pics from our event.


B

I took the picture of the windshield banner to show something I NEVER thought would happen in my lifetime....


Porsche is PAYING us contingency MONEY!!!


They have given us the "ok" to race a Boxster!!!



B

dfgad

Daytona 24hr winner

Porsche Cayenne V8 powered.


B

Very cool! I didn't know you needed permission to race a Porsche

How does "contingency money" work?

Porsche has verbally told Grand Am multiple times in the past that they did not want the Boxster or Cayman road raced professionally.

Contingency sponsors pay X amount of money depending on where you place. Each sticker you see on the car pays us to run the sticker. This event the contingency stickers amounted to about $2400



B

damn... 2400 for those 4 pesky stickers?
I say forget about sponsors, just plaster the car with them

Great work Brad! We need more efforts like this with Boxster platform. About time the redheaded stepchild is recognized as a real race car.

"Redheaded stepchild"? How do you figure?

Congratulations Brad, you made it into the Pros! You make us proud.

Bill

This is my 10th year running pro cars. Some years I only ran 3/4 of the season due to budgets other years were full seasons.

Going through the data more thoroughly this morning while waiting on my flight out of Florida..

Car pulled a max G load of 1.36

In the banking it would pull -1.76

Max speed for the main straight leading into turn one was 142 mph (we put a 6 speed in the car before Daytona)

More info and screen shots to come!!


B