Southeast News
By Jeff England
Published: March 19, 2008
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The March NASA-SE Time Trial at Road Atlanta was a sold out event with 45 entrants making it on track. TTA was the largest group with 10 cars running on Sunday. NASA-SE was the first event on the revised Road Atlanta and it is the same with the visual references just a little different now. A large contingent of NASA-FL Time Trialers made it to Road Atlanta to run with NASA-SE again this year. It was a lot of fun to have them at our event and they even brought Carbotech certificates for class winners. Hopefully, some NASA-SE Time Trialers are going to make it to Sebring in June to return the favor. The weather was the big factor on Saturday and everyone displayed exceptional track etiquette. The first session was wet, the second session was in a downpour and the final session was delayed by tornado sirens and hail. By the time we left the pits there was less than 10 minutes till track closure with a semi-dry line and wet everywhere else. The corner workers certainly had the best seat in the house since everyone was running hard to make a good time in 2 hot laps. The grid had a lot of low grip high horsepower cars farther back so there was a lot of passing going on in the semi-wet conditions. Excellent wet track skills, and some clean track, established the podiums on Saturday. Sunday was a completely different weather story with a cool damp track initially. It seems several did not heed the briefing on cold track, cold tires and the laws of physics. The first lap in the first session had a car in the wall out of T12. The session also had a blown engine with fire in T6, multiple offs and a car in the wall at T5. Amazingly, the track never really slowed down to clean up the incidents. New track records were set in TTU by Reese Cox, TTS by Jared McGillicuddy, TTB by Dennis Malevanyi, TTC by Everette Parson and TTE by Alex Bolanos. Reese Cox of MTI Racing turned the fastest time of the weekend of 1:27.121 in a C6 ZO6. Competition was fierce all weekend in almost all of the classes due to the large turnout and weather conditions. C5 and C6 Corvettes were well represented with wins in TTR, TTU, TTS and TTA.
