Your Enthusiast leader, Jonathan Wheeler.
Your Enthusiast leader, Jonathan Wheeler.
Your Unlimited leader, Cole Powelson. He was unable to break his record today as he had some transmission issues.
I couldn't find the GT-X leader, but it's Jenson Little, in a Norma M30 prototype. He laid down a 1:58.868 lap.
Many of the leaders will be foregoing the final session, however, anything can happen in the final laps.
NATA Championship presentation - Feras Quartomy - 2023 Unlimited Champ
NATA Championship presentation - 2023 Large Tire 200tw champion, Jackie Ding.
Super Lap Battle Winners:
Unlimited - Cole Powelson
Limited - Zhenyang Huang "Herrick"
Street - Kyle McKiou
Enthusiast - Jonathan Wheeler
GT-X - Jenson Little
Max Effort - Jason Hart
That wraps up our live coverage - full recap and more to come. Thank you.
Is there any rationale for LMP3s entering? I know this year isn't the first time, but I thought time attack was mainly about production vehicles.
Perhaps it's to be used as a measuring stick for what a "real race car" can do vs. modified street cars?
In reply to j_tso :
It's a good question. Overseas in Japan and Australia, they don't seem to compete with non-production based cars. I'll see if I can get an answer.
Okay, I have an answer after speaking with Jason Dienhart, who is the president of Global Time Attack and Super Lap Battle.
Those with race cars and other extreme builds in the past would ask to participate, and GTA would accept their entries and place them in an exhibition class. In 2016, demand was strong enough that GTA created a Pro/Comp class for these cars to compete against each other.
When Super Lap Battle moved to COTA, demand further grew to the point they split the class into Max Effort (for extreme builds with a VIN number) and GT-X (for pure race cars).
The two "are both exhibition classes separate from the true time attack competition," Jason says. "We are focused on the production based classes. They are everything to us. They are who we do this for."
So, are they doing these classes with extreme builds just for those class participants alone? No.
"GT-X Class is fun for the spectators," Jason continues, "and cool for the production based cars drivers to see how they compare."
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