{"id":855,"date":"2011-08-30T01:27:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T08:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/?p=855"},"modified":"2011-09-27T21:59:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T04:59:35","slug":"ed-nazarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/ed-nazarian\/","title":{"rendered":"ED NAZARIAN"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed is a good guy. \u00a0I have gotten to spend some time with him over the last few months for NASA. \u00a0He is the perfect garage mate. \u00a0He doesn’t talk to you too much and takes care of business. \u00a0He also has the coolest dad ever. \u00a0The last time I ran NASA was in June. \u00a0Ed wasn’t driving but he came out anyways and did a ride along in my EVO. \u00a0Then, he drove my EVO, which scared the crap out of me. \u00a0There is nothing like having a real race car driver drive your daily driver around the track in anger to freak you out and show you how slow you are. \u00a0I thought I was kicking some imaginary ass in HPDE but ED is really the one killing it!! \u00a0I can’t wait to have more good times with Ed out on the track this year in NASA. \u00a0You should come out too!! [nasaproracing.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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More on ED Nazarian after the break<\/p>\n

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Here is what Ed has to say:<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t grow up wrenching on cars, and never had any interest in racing, so it is pretty bizarre for me to sit here and write about how I got into car racing in 2009, and my relationship with RRE.\u00a0 You can read in more detail about my races and how I got into racing on my website:
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In the meantime here\u2019s a little background info.\u00a0 I started off doing HPDE\u2019s (high performance driving events) and I was hooked right away.\u00a0 In 2007 I felt like I wanted to compete on some level, and after looking around I found out about Time Trial events, which is a competition where drivers compete for fastest lap.\u00a0 NASA\u2019s rules made the most sense to me, so in 2007 I started competing in NASA\u2019s TT series.<\/p>\n

I competed in the TTA class for about 2 seasons, 2007-2008.\u00a0 In 2008 I also went to NASA\u2019s National Championship, at Mid-Ohio, which was a grueling trip for me that totaled around 5,000 miles.\u00a0 Nationals had a major impact on me and upon returning I started thinking about taking that step and transitioning into racing.\u00a0 During the 2 seasons while I was competing in TTA I had followed a few of the race classes.\u00a0 After some thought I realized that nothing excited me more than to race my Evo, so Super Touring was the class I decided with.\u00a0 I\u2019m lucky though, because ST2 is competitive at the National Championship and in Socal, which was one of my deciding factors, i.e. I wanted to race in a class that is competitive at Nationals and in my region.\u00a0 That\u2019s important because you\u2019re really not going to learn how to race if you\u2019re racing in a class that\u2019s not competitive.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re in the 2011 season now, and within the last 2 years I\u2019ve been in 21 races.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also raced at NASA\u2019s National Championship during both of those years, 2009 and 2010.\u00a0 But if it wasn\u2019t for RRE\u2019s support, I wouldn\u2019t have been able to accomplish all that.\u00a0 Their knowledge and hard work is what put me in a position to aim for such goals.\u00a0 Therefore, what I\u2019ve been able to do since I started racing in 2009 is partially a reflection of what RRE is made of.<\/p>\n

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Ed Nazarian<\/p>\n

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Ed is a good guy. \u00a0I have gotten to spend some time with him over the last few months for NASA. \u00a0He is the perfect garage mate. \u00a0He doesn’t talk to you too much and takes care of business. \u00a0He also has the coolest dad ever. \u00a0The last time I ran NASA was in June. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[39,14,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855"}],"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=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadraceengineering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}