It was great to meet all of the competitors at the track!
Photography by Chris Tropea
What’s been on our mind this week? The truly spectacular selection of hand-picked speed machines that raced in the Tire Rack Ultimate Track Car Challenge Presented by Grassroots Motorsports at Pitt Race last week.
It was the perfect chance to prove who truly has the fastest track car in the country–an honor won by the Ford Mustang driven by Brian Faessler. While the grid was hand-selected, all track machines were welcome to set their fastest times, new or old, professionally-built or home-brewed. All that was required was that both the driver and the car pass a safety inspection. Seriously, that’s it.
[Twin-turbo V8 Mustang wins Tire Rack Ultimate Track Car Challenge]
Miss out on this year? Don’t worry, there’s plenty of time to get your track car sorted for next year.
Most of all, stay tuned for the full feature coming soon to an issue of Grassroots Motorsports near you. (Yes, entries in the UTCC get guaranteed ink in an issue of GRM.) While we dot the i's and cross the t's in that story, here are a few of our favorite photos from the event to hold you over.
The Tire Rack Ultimate Track Car Challenge is presented by Grassroots Motorsports and fueled by Sunoco, in association with Wilwood, Vitour Tire, CRC Industries, Vbox Motorsport and Red Line Oil, with trophies from BimmerWorld, Nine Lives Racing, and Falken Tire.
It was great to meet all of the competitors at the track!
That looks like a good time.
Looking forward to the article, as usual.
Are they still... dive planes? Is that even the term? if they're at the top rear of the front fender? I'd love to see the airflow visualization that makes sense of that... In volleyball terms, the splitter ends go "set" and the top ones go "spike!"? Catching outwash from the rounded hood?
Aesthetically, I kinda hate it. But it's always neat to learn how stuff works.
Have you guys ever done an analysis of how differently the winning cars do what they do from year to year? Seems a little like you've had winners that were smaller, lighter, probably carried All The Corner Speed (dedicated prototype things), and then also some relatively heavy sedans with tires big enough to need zip codes and more liters than a pallet of Coke under more pressure than if there were Mentos in the Coke bottles...
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