Fontana Nissan Racing attended the Redline Time Attack event at the Auto Club Speedway over the Memorial Day weekend,  scoring 1st place in Super Modified RWD in the 350Z and 3rd place in the Modified AWD!

The 350Z made its 2010 debut at this event after suffering an engine problem at Auto Club last November.  The engine was rebuilt and ran very strongly all weekend.  The power steering servo failed on Saturday, forcing Mike to drive the Time Attack without power steering. He started Sunday with the upper body of Mick Jagger but ended up with the upper body of the Incredible Hulk!  Hanging on at 173 mph around the banking was a bit of a challenge! Mike’s time of 1:43.202 was good for 1st place in the Super Modified RWD class and was also the 3rd fastest lap run by anyone in the Time Attack!

The Fontana Nissan GT-R ran flawlessly all weekend.  The GT-R  was updated with an OS Giken limited slip differential to achieve better handling and take the loads off of the front drive clutch, thereby reducing the temps.  Mike ran a 1:46.369, good for a podium 3rd place finish.

Fontana Nissan was host to 12 Nissan GT-R’s from the NAGTROC organization. They made quite the impressive display, with most of them running the Saturday Test and Tune Day and a few running in the Time Attack on Sunday. Thanks to all of them for coming out and supporting Redline!

Scott Vanderheide, Parts Guru, was on hand with the display of parts from Fontana Nissan.

Gin from Sakata Motorsport Electronics not only worked for the team but ran his own car as well!  Go Gin!

Mr. Cronin took his Ferrari 430 out for a spin. We were wiping the drool off of it all weekend.

Old friend Stu Hayner is now working as the Chief Driving Instructor at Redline Time Attack. If you want the opportunity of a lifetime for free instruction from one of the best drivers in the world, bring your car out and join the novice group. You will learn, improve, and have a wonderful time while doing it. School was never this fun!

All in all, it was a very successful event for the Fontana Nissan Racing team. It was good to have the 350Z back in action! We will be attending the Liberty Grand Prix, July 2nd through 4th at Willow Springs International Raceway. Redline is really going all out to make this event very special, with drag racing, wheel to wheel racing, girls, fast cars, and best of all the biggest fireworks show in the Antelope Valley. 22 glorious minutes long Saturday night, don’t even think about missing this!