I understand, but that leaves a lot of us who are too far from Beaver Run and other tracks a** out. They made me angry as well after I paid my money to race and they pulled that BS with you guys and I was one of the first pay. You assured all of us that you would have it there again this year. Maybe if you had one in Indy we can deal with that, but Mid-Ohio is our course and I would like to run there. Well maybe if some how my company can get the Investors lined up and have a Car Country Club facility built somewhere between here and Columbus, Ohio we would be straight (Know of any potential investors??). I have spent lots of money out of my two companies funds building this car to run Mid-Ohio RedLine Time Attack only to throw it away and I have no interest in investing time into NASA TT's (I don't have the time). As usual, us in Ohio get the short end of the stick because everyone thinks we are in the middle of no where land.

Later

 

BTW, I think you "SHOULD" post up what they did since those of us that were signed up already know. Besides, they screwed all of us (especially you guys) so it's not like you will likely do an event there so why worry about posting it up.

later

 

St Louis is pretty much in the middle of nowhere; I feel your pain! Besides gateway, the nearest track in Putnam which is 220miles away.

Although we have about 4 total tracks within 330miles... roadtrips!

Hopefully this one gets a good turnout and can continue!

 

Thanks.

The Mid-West needs to get the respect we deserve like the Coasts get when it comes to events. If some of these events/venues were correctly and truly advertised, the amount of participants would be off the charts. There are by far a great deal of racers here in Ohio and throughout the Mid-West, and very good racers at that. If this particular venue was to be advertised on TV(cable on Speed channel) for each event, the turnouts would be very large and very competitive. Me and my companies have experience doing this, since we have organized car events here locally and drew some of the biggest names in the field, so I know what works and what doesn't. As for Mid-Ohio race course, Red Line Events needs to step up to the plate and make something happen here instead of letting them give them the run around. Hell, we have two of the biggest names in Evo building and tuning history close (AMS and Buschur) and Mid-Ohio is in both of their backyards.

later

 

I would ABSOLUTELY love to go back to Mid Ohio... However, there will need to be some serious changes to the way they treat us during the entire process of securing a date, planning the event and running the event. What they did to us left a VERY bitter taste in our mouths.

 

We have confirmation that both AMS Performance and JIC Magic will be at this event with their top cars:

AMS Mitsubishi EVO
JIC Magic/Hankook Tires Nissan S-15 Silvia

The JIC Magic car is coming off a win at Buttonwillow Raceway where driver Tyler McQuarrie broke the existing Time Attack track record with a lap time of 1:48.76.

AMS Performance is coming off an Event Championship at St. Eustache, Montreal where they too broke the existing closed-wheel lap record with a lap time of 54.754 seconds.

It is going to be a knock down, drag out fight in St Louis. Im most interested to see if any big hitters from other road racing series/sanctioning bodies are going to step up to contend for the event championship... Corvettes, Vipers, Porsches, BMWs, whatever.

In the lower divisions, DTM Motorsports, reigning Modified Class Champion from Summit Point 2006 will be in attendance. SPL Parts, runner up two events in a row in California is considering attending the event and giving the East Coast boys from DTM a run for their money. In the Street Class division, James Elterman will be piloting both Nukabe/Cusco STIs at this event in the AWD Street Class and Manuel Ortega will be making the trek all the way out from California to battle for the Street FWD crown in his Neon SRT-4.

 

Yeah I know, and I don't blame you. I had extensive conversations last year with you on the phone about it. Well, lets see what we can get going with them. Please try one last time and see if you can work something out with them. Let them know that they lost a great deal of money, media attention, as well as respect with many racers and the community by the way they treated all of us like second rate customers. I think you should be able to secure something. If all fails, at least you tried for all of us. If I can just get some decent investors on board, we can get a new track facility/country club built whereas, we wont need to deal with them fools. I want a track facility that we can run everything from D1 drifting all the way to TT, Touge's and HPDE days. I've had a plan in the works for about 17 years now, I just need some hefty, knowledgable investors as well as some major sponsors(which I can can pretty much bag that). Just a thought/dream or whatever, but would absolutely be sweet as well as very profitable like the new car country club being built in Northern Kentucky. Call me crazy, but I would be willing to put both of my companies on the back burner if I could get something like this going. I am very serious about racing, but my time is limited unless I can get a viable income option from a facility like this. I would drop everything to just get the opportunity to make people happy and fulfill a lifetime dream. Also, would like to put some sort of Drifting or car event together here in Dayton, Ohio if you guys(Redline) would be interested in co-sponsoring some sort of event at the Nutter Center or some other place. We need to push our sports venues to the limits and get as much airtime and advertising as possible.



Thanks

 

We look foward to this event.
There will be however more than just entries in the "lower divisions"
See you guys in St Louis

Nick
DTM Motorsport

 

The JIC 350Z and / or the Mazda RX8 will be making their Time Attack Debut at this event.

 

Sweet! Yukio, do you have any photos of the 350 or RX-8?
I can put them on the Redline Time Attack website if you have any photos of the new cars. Right now, I only have the S15 up there.

 

If anyone has photos of the cars competing in this Time Attack, please let me know so I can list them all on the website with photos and team/driver bio too.

 

I talked to robi today; and he said he's like 90% confirmed for the event! Rock on!


I'm thinking about competing in the street time category.

 

As we get closer and closer to the event the number of high level cars committing to the event continues to rise!

Yukio, that is great news! So is the S-15 officially retired from Time Attack competition now?

The Street Class and Modified Class are still wide open at this time. If you have any thoughts of competing in this event, or even of only driving in the HPDE on Saturday, and you have questions for us, please call us or email us. We want to make sure that everyone is in a position to make a proper decision to participate.

661-992-4384

Info@RedlineTImeAttack.com

 

Hell yea...im all signed up for street AWD....ive done similar time attacks but never at that track. So im hoping for an underdog win....HAHA. It will be an awesome time no matter what i FiniSh. Cant wait to see everyone there!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Called alot of shops today who I had sent fliers to. Sounds like we'll be seeing a ton of nicely prepared cars at the event from shops all over the Mid West! Maybe you guys will send a message to people on both Coasts that the Mid West is legit and knows whats up! :-)