{"id":1257,"date":"2010-04-20T12:47:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T19:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2016-08-15T23:36:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T06:36:20","slug":"ready-for-editing-ed-nazarian-buttonwillow-raceway-417-1810-super-touring-race-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/ready-for-editing-ed-nazarian-buttonwillow-raceway-417-1810-super-touring-race-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Nazarian @ Buttonwillow Raceway April17-18 2010 &#8211; NASA Super Touring 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pntrst_main_before_after\"><\/div><p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/11308077\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Ed Nazarian - Super Touring Evo 9 - Buttonwillow #13CW - April 17, 2010\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ed Nazarian racing his RRE Super Touring \u00a0EVO 9 at Buttonwillow #13CW, on Saturday April 17, 2010.\u00a0 At this weekend event Super Touring was mixed with a bunch of lower classed cars.\u00a0 Typically ST2 is mixed with SU, ST1, ASC, GTS, AIX and AI.\u00a0 This time around GTS was in a separate group with BMWCCA, so a bunch of lower classed cars were mixed with them instead.\u00a0 Ed\u2019s group consisted of Super Unlimited, Super Touring, Honda Challenge, Performance Touring, and Spec E30.\u00a0 Basically, most of the cars in his group were significantly slower.\u00a0 On top of that they had a really big group, nearly 50 racecars.\u00a0 So maneuvering through traffic played a significant role that weekend, which resulted in slow lap times.\u00a0 Ed was also held up quite a bit by a Super Unlimited FFR GTM-R prototype when he was battling one of the Mazda GTs.\u00a0 By the time Ed got around that SU racecar he ran out of time.\u00a0 Ed got 6th place on Saturday out of 10 ST2 racecars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/ready-for-editing-ed-nazarian-buttonwillow-raceway-417-1810-super-touring-race-results\/iamspeed\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1456\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1456\" title=\"iamspeed\" src=\"http:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/iamspeed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately we couldn\u2019t get the camera to record on Sunday so this race from Saturday is all we have to show.\u00a0 It\u2019s really unfortunate because this Saturday race fails in comparison to how intense Sunday\u2019s race was.\u00a0 On Sunday Ed and one of the Mazda GTs were battling intensely.\u00a0 They exchanged positions many times throughout that race, while maneuvering through traffic.\u00a0 Ed was able to pass that Mazda GT towards the end, and ended up passing another Mazda GT in the meantime.\u00a0 He caught up to the leaders and had them in sight, but ran out of time.\u00a0 He ended up getting 5th place on Sunday out of 10 ST2 racecars.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1257 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/ready-for-editing-ed-nazarian-buttonwillow-raceway-417-1810-super-touring-race-results\/garage\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/garage.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/ready-for-editing-ed-nazarian-buttonwillow-raceway-417-1810-super-touring-race-results\/iamspeed\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/iamspeed.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/ready-for-editing-ed-nazarian-buttonwillow-raceway-417-1810-super-touring-race-results\/mikeandrossy\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/MikeandRossy.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/ready-for-editing-ed-nazarian-buttonwillow-raceway-417-1810-super-touring-race-results\/onramp\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"93\" src=\"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/onramp.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/ready-for-editing-ed-nazarian-buttonwillow-raceway-417-1810-super-touring-race-results\/pregrid\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pregrid.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/ready-for-editing-ed-nazarian-buttonwillow-raceway-417-1810-super-touring-race-results\/sunrise-01\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"91\" src=\"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sunrise-01.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/ready-for-editing-ed-nazarian-buttonwillow-raceway-417-1810-super-touring-race-results\/withrx7\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"87\" src=\"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/withrx7.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ed&#8217;s Full War Story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0We were racing at\u00a0BRP\u00a0last weekend, April 17-18, on configuration #13CW.\u00a0 The last time we were racing at BRP was this same event in 2009, so it\u2019s been a year since the last time I raced there.\u00a0 I felt rusty at BRP and never really got into a groove, but at least I wasn\u2019t busy this time fixing\/wrenching on my racecar like I was at ACS because my front end didn\u2019t get coned this time.\u00a0 Even though I\u2019ve driven ACS significantly less than BRP, things seemed to click better at ACS.\u00a0 We rolled with the punches and finished 2 more 35min races totaling 6 that we have finished this season, with a total of 14 races since our last years debut.<\/p>\n<p>Before I proceed with the results, I want to say thank you to a few people.\u00a0 Thanks to Mike Welch and his guys at\u00a0RRE\u00a0for helping fix the damage my car sustained from ACS.\u00a0 New Griffin IC, lip, undertray, fixed my side skirt and front bumper.\u00a0 A few months ago Mike also sourced some Carbontrix CF replacement headlights.\u00a0 Mike installed those also.\u00a0 Yes, Mike actually works on my racecar.\u00a0 Want to thank Martin Meade from\u00a0Girodisc\u00a0for shipping me some ST43 brake pads.\u00a0 Also want to thank Robert Fuller, aka Robi from RobiSpec\u00a0for providing me trackside suspension tuning for both races.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend I set some blisteringly fast lap times in my ST2 races, and qualifying sessions&#8230;not.\u00a0 The BMWCCA was racing with us this weekend, so the groups were changed up a bit.\u00a0 Typically, the group we race in consists of SU, ST, ASC, GTS, AIX, and AI racecars.\u00a0 This time GTS was in a separate group with BMWCCA, and the AIX\/AI drivers skipped this event because they have their own West Coast schedule.\u00a0 Therefore, our group this time consisted of SU, ST, and they added HC, PT, and Spec E30 with us.\u00a0 Basically, most of the racecars in our group were significantly slower.\u00a0 On top of that, we had a really big group, nearly 50 racecars.\u00a0 So maneuvering through traffic played a significant role that weekend.\u00a0 Other than that you just needed to get lucky.\u00a0 The weather was a little on the warm side also, but we managed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday Qualifying<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t set a fast lap in qualifying if my life depended on it.\u00a0 Just way too many lower classed cars out there.\u00a0 Drivers usually cooperate in a race, for the most part, but the Qualifying sessions seem to always be every driver to himself.\u00a0 Everyone is trying to set a fast lap, and since there were nearly 50 racecars out there you\u2019re basically hitting traffic pretty much every other corner.\u00a0 And sometimes one corner to the next.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday Race<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Out of the 10 ST2 racecars, I qualified P8 and finished the race in P6 for ST2.\u00a0 I thought since we had 10 ST2 racecars, we would get our own rolling start.\u00a0 But we didn\u2019t.\u00a0 Instead, we were mixed together with SU, ST1, and a solo Orange AIX Mustang.\u00a0 So given our mixed rolling start, I was in P15.\u00a0 Mixing us with those other classes ruined the ST2 race.\u00a0 Because instead of having the opportunity to battle with other ST2 drivers as a whole from start to finish, we ended up getting scattered all over the track because we had SU and ST1 drivers in between us.\u00a0 And on top of that, we had to deal with traffic, which scattered us even more.\u00a0 I was pretty upset with that because as a higher class series, ST2 had the biggest field that weekend.\u00a0 And we had the potential to have a really close and exciting race from start to finish.\u00a0 I think it was such a big time waste to have not given us our own rolling start.<\/p>\n<p>As for the race, I\u2019m not sure what happened at the start, but something appeared to get mixed up because I was supposed to be on the left side when we were in formation, but I ended up on the right side.\u00a0 Beyond that, since we got scattered I only had the opportunity to battle one of the Mazda GTs, Mark Montoya.\u00a0 Unfortunately, a Super Unlimited driver in a FFR GTM-R prototype held us up quite a bit.\u00a0 At one point Mark passed him, but I got stuck behind that SU prototype.\u00a0 Not sure why he wouldn\u2019t just let me by because he was by himself.\u00a0 I finally got close enough to him at the buttonhook and made a move on him.\u00a0 I took the inside line and was around his RR.\u00a0 I was gradually pulling on him and at one point he for whatever reason turned into me a bit and almost drove me off track to the right.\u00a0 I decided it was now or never so I kept my foot in it and maintained my position.\u00a0 I passed him at the entry to cotton corners.\u00a0 You can watch my in-car from Saturdays race to see it all unfold.\u00a0 Mark then had an off after the bus-stop and I passed him.\u00a0 If he didn\u2019t have that off I may have never caught him again because that SU prototype had held me up too much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday Qualifying<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was the same deal as Saturday.\u00a0 I was a bit more lucky with traffic, but still couldn\u2019t set a fast lap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday Race<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Sundays race, out of 10 ST2 racecars, I qualified P6 in ST2, and was P12 for our rolling start.\u00a0 I finished the race in P5 for ST2.\u00a0 Sundays race is probably my most exciting race thus far because I was having a major battle with one of the Mazda GTs, Thorpe logemann.\u00a0 We exchanged positions I don\u2019t know how many times.\u00a0 But what kills me is that I couldn\u2019t get my GoPro camera to start recording.\u00a0 Pretty ironic when I think about it.\u00a0 It\u2019s really upsetting to not have that footage.\u00a0 And unfortunately, Thorpe doesn\u2019t have any in-car either.\u00a0 There were many incidents in the race, so on top of trying to deal with traffic, we were also trying to deal with yellows, and double yellows.\u00a0 At one point I thought the race was going to end under double yellow, but it finally restarted.\u00a0 At one point I passed Thorpe around the buttonhook and I got lucky with traffic while he got left behind.\u00a0 In the meantime we passed another Mazda GT.\u00a0 I caught up to the leaders towards the end, and had them in sight, but I ran out of time.\u00a0 My in-car from Saturdays race fails in comparison to how exciting this race was.\u00a0 In fact, if I had in-car from this race, it would have been at the top of my list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday Qualifying times:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. 1:54.474 &#8211; John Gordon #30 Porsche 996<br \/>\n2. 1:55.123 &#8211; Jon Van Caneghem #00 Mazda GT<br \/>\n3. 1:55.557 &#8211; Josh Carroll #35 Mazda GT<br \/>\n4. 1:57.001 &#8211; James Wagaman #98 Mazda GT<br \/>\n5. 2:00.879 &#8211; Thorpe Logemann #3 Mazda GT<br \/>\n6. 2:01.225 &#8211; David Beatie #6 Mazda GT<br \/>\n7. 2:02.970 &#8211; Team Howard Racing #70 Mazda Rx7<br \/>\n8. 2:03.781 &#8211; Ed Nazarian #415 Mitsubishi Evo 9<br \/>\n9. 2:05.787 &#8211; Dan Miller #34 Mazda GT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday Race results:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. 1:57.059 &#8211; Josh Carroll #35 Mazda GT<br \/>\n2. 1:56.183 &#8211; John Gordon #30 Porsche 996<br \/>\n3. 1:57.122 &#8211; Jon Van Caneghem #00 Mazda GT<br \/>\n4. 1:59.024 &#8211; James Wagaman #98 Mazda GT<br \/>\n5. 2:01.333 &#8211; Thorpe Logemann #3 Mazda GT<br \/>\n6. 2:02.241 &#8211; Ed Nazarian #415 Mitsubishi Evo 9<br \/>\n7. 2:03.594 &#8211; Dan Miller #34 Mazda GT<br \/>\n8. 2:02.180 &#8211; Mark Montoya #50 Mazda GT<br \/>\n9. 2:04.318 &#8211; Team Howard Racing #70 Mazda Rx7<br \/>\n10. 2:08.885 &#8211; David Beatie #6 Mazda GT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday Qualifying times:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. 1:54.575 &#8211; John Gordon #30 Porsche 996<br \/>\n2. 1:56.350 &#8211; Josh Carroll #35 Mazda GT<br \/>\n3. 1:56.596 &#8211; Jon Van Caneghem #00 Mazda GT<br \/>\n4. 1:57.349 &#8211; James Wagaman #98 Mazda GT<br \/>\n5. 2:00.739 &#8211; David Beatie #6 Mazda GT<br \/>\n6. 2:01.596 &#8211; Ed Nazarian #415 Mitsubishi Evo 9<br \/>\n7. 2:08.111 &#8211; Dan Miller #34 Mazda GT<br \/>\n8. DQ &#8211; 2:01.724 &#8211; Mark Montoya #50 Mazda GT<br \/>\n9. DQ &#8211; 2:02.603 &#8211; Thorpe Logemann #3 Mazda GT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday Race results:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. 1:56.538 &#8211; Josh Carroll #35 Mazda GT<br \/>\n2. 1:55.877 &#8211; John Gordon #30 Porsche 996<br \/>\n3. 1:57.852 &#8211; Jon Van Caneghem #00 Mazda GT<br \/>\n4. 1:59.194 &#8211; James Wagaman #98 Mazda GT<br \/>\n5. 2:00.536 &#8211; Ed Nazarian #415 Mitsubishi Evo 9<br \/>\n6. 2:01.518 &#8211; Thorpe Logemann #3 Mazda GT<br \/>\n7. 2:00.800 &#8211; Mark Montoya #50 Mazda GT<br \/>\n8. 2:08.655 &#8211; Dan Miller #34 Mazda GT<br \/>\n9. 2:02.502 &#8211; David Beatie #6 Mazda GT<br \/>\n10. 2:04.062 &#8211; Team Howard Racing #70 Mazda Rx7<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Ed+Nazarian+%40+Buttonwillow+Raceway+April17-18+2010+-+NASA+Super+Touring+2\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\" data-lang=\"en\" data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/ready-for-editing-ed-nazarian-buttonwillow-raceway-417-1810-super-touring-race-results\/\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><div class=\"pntrst_main_before_after\"><div class=\"pntrst-button-wrap\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\" data-pin-custom=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\"><img data-pin-nopin=\"1\" class=\"pntrst-custom-pin\" src=\"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-buttons-pack\/bws-pinterest\/images\/pin.png\" width=\"60\"><\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/ready-for-editing-ed-nazarian-buttonwillow-raceway-417-1810-super-touring-race-results\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/ready-for-editing-ed-nazarian-buttonwillow-raceway-417-1810-super-touring-race-results\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Nazarian racing his RRE Super Touring \u00a0EVO 9 at Buttonwillow #13CW, on Saturday April 17, 2010.\u00a0 At this weekend event Super Touring was mixed with a bunch of lower classed cars.\u00a0 Typically ST2 is mixed with SU, ST1, ASC, GTS, AIX and AI.\u00a0 This time around GTS was in a separate group with BMWCCA, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[23,36,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6589,"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/6589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}