Ed Higginbotham
Ed Higginbotham Editorial Assistant
4/29/15 3:00 p.m.
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The biggest surprise of the inaugural Traqmate Skidpad Challenge? A certain 9-year-old named Mason DeJarnet.

Mason took to the skidpad in his Quarter Midget and dropped everyone’s jaws, recording 1.867g of lateral g-force. That bests Factory Five 818R driver Bob Stuke, our second-place finisher, by a whopping 0.327g.

More than 50 drivers made runs that day, with the field ranging …

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bstuke
bstuke New Reader
5/1/15 10:37 a.m.

Trophy and certificate in the mail? awesome time and thanks for the tshirt Marjorie.

jstein77
jstein77 SuperDork
5/1/15 12:25 p.m.

I foresee a tech article - exactly how do you pull 1.27 G's in a stock 240SX?

Marjorie Suddard
Marjorie Suddard General Manager
5/1/15 12:29 p.m.
bstuke wrote: Trophy and certificate in the mail? awesome time and thanks for the tshirt Marjorie.

Any time

Tim Suddard
Tim Suddard Publisher
5/1/15 1:14 p.m.

Yes, that was a good time. With a little more tweaking we can have even more fun next year.

mr2peak
mr2peak GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
5/1/15 6:49 p.m.

How about year info for the BMW's? There's 30+ years of possibility for the actual car model for most of them.

Rupert
Rupert Dork
5/1/15 7:04 p.m.

In reply to jstein77:

Good car design & hellacious tires!

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