We took the RX8 down to Road Atlanta for the NASA event this weekend with Chip Herr and Greg Shaffer doing the driving. This was the first real gathering of the Grid 1 World Challenge Touring Car team, and in my opinion it was a huge success.

A tire issue -they didnt show up- caused us a stressful Thursday and Friday morning. We finally got tires (thanks to Tom Neal of The Parts Group!)and were able to run part of the enduro Friday afternoon but we were able to run the TT sessions and the Lightning group Saturday.

Chip got a bad break during qualifying and sat P2 in the 3rd group for the Saturday Lightning race, which put him starting in 28th position overall. On grid I gave him the green light to hold nothing back, run the car on a race pace. Despite a bad start which was my fault, he ran the car hard and made up the 28 positions for the overall win.

Since we were using the event as a test weekend, the decision was made to decline the win and allow it to pass on. We pulled out tonight (Saturday) and are already back in Nashville with the car, the temporary HQ for the cars with me headed back to Denver in the morning.

More to come including a few pics probably tomorrow when I get off the plane.

 

Pics-

Chip in front of the car



Car in its old livery, the sharper fellows will notice that the stickers on the car disappear over the weekend as we had time to remove them-