In Street FR class, Robert Walker drove the Evasive Motorsports '06 S2000 into First Place with a 1:56.762, edging out Tarzan's time by just over four-tenths of a second, and running nearly three seconds faster that his next-fastest RWD competitior. More impressive is that the car's time was only 1.7 seconds off JC Meynet and the JHP USA/AQ S2k's winning time in the Limited FR class.
And if that wasn't proof enough that there might be some truth in traditional beliefs of FR elitism, we have Billy Johnson and the Cricket/FX Motorsports Development '91 Acura NSX, who won the Unlimited FR class (yes, we know it's technically and MR...) with a 1:45.247-fast enough to also secure his number-four spot in the ultimate fastest lap record books. His second-round lap was even faster than Sierra Sierra's first-roung lap bye 0.161 seconds, which has the RWD purists mouthing "told you so" for a good hour ot two until the third session. Still, we can't help but wonder if next year's savior of Stateside time-attack prowess might come in the form of a 700whp NSX.
For the past three years General Motors' GM Performance Division Cobalt hel the Unlimited FF class record with a 1:51.318 clocked at SLB Finals in 2006-a record import-segment gurus (Hasport, 5Zigen, Toda Racing, etc.) have failed to topple...until now. Currently sitting atop the ultimate FWD throne, in place of the big-budget, corporate-sponsored, domestic Chevy Cobalt is Chris Rado and the slightly smaller-budget, sill corporate-sponsored, made-in-America-but-by-a-Japanese-subsidiary-company World Racing/Scion tC, with a 1:49.703 clocked in the second round of competition. And to those of you who talked trash on its front wing al season-now would be a good time to shut up.
Limited and Street FF competition were every bit as epic as Rado's Unlimited show in their own rights. KBR Performance's Fair Enough Competition/Robi-spec '97 Eclipse GS-T Spyder clinched the top spot in Limited, but only after as stock open differential had to be used to replace the team's two-way LSD that broke during their first lap out. With 687 whp, 18-inch wheel and 315-series tires, we're not sure what's more impressive: that driver Matt Andrews knocked out a 1.58:027 winning lap with that combination, or that it held together long enough form him to do so. If that's not enough, Douglas Wind drove his Windspeed Motorsports/Continental Tire '04 SRT-4 form North Carolina to lap the circuit in 2:00.256-earning the win and setting a new class record-begore driving 3,000 miles back home, all on a single set of ContiSportContact 3S. Let that sink in for a moment.