Monday, November 16th, 2009 | Parked inside: Motorsports

Super Lap Battle 2009 Time Attack

By Joey Leh, Photography by Duane Uyeda

Time attack is a simple game of car and clock. The rules are fairly open, most of the front running cars can outrun Speed World Challenge GT cars, and the fastest lap of the day counts towards competition. The sport was originally begun as a showcase for aftermarket tuning companies, allowing manufacturers the chance to prove who had the capability to go fast.

It’s for this reason that the cars are heavily modified and often driven by professional hot shoe pilots. Podium spots are separated by mere tenths and the Super Lap Battle race is still one of the biggest events in the US time attack scene.

Held once a year at Buttonwillow Raceway, Super Lap Battle sees some of the biggest names and fastest cars appear. There are classes for front-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive, all-wheel drive, racecars and pure street cars. At the front of the pack, everybody had only one thing on their minds – the record time of 1:43.523 set by the HKS Lancer Evolution.

Big names teams like AMS (Lancer Evolution X), FX Motorsports Development (Acura NSX), Crawford Performance (Subaru WRX STI) and Sierra Sierra Enterprises (Lancer Evolution VIII) came out with highly developed efforts in order to unseat HKS from the top spot in the record books.

In the end, they would all have to wait until next year. Sierra Sierra took the top overall spot with a 1:45.061 while AMS had to settle for 3rd place in Unlimited AWD behind Crawford Performance. FX Motorsports Development set a new record in Unlimited RWD with a 1:45.247.

Further down in the Street class, the naturally aspirated Evasive Motorsports Honda S2000 set a new record with a blisteringly fast 1:56.762.

This even beat the 1:59.789 time set by Project Evo IX, although our engine was slowly dying throughout the day and was unable to go any faster. Project 240SX also made the trip out to Buttonwillow with SR Motorcars, running a 2:08.217 despite some mechanical teething issues.

Source
Super Lap Battle
www.superlapbattle.com

Place Name Member Class Overall Best Time
1 SIERRA SIERRA ENTERPRISES David Empringham Unlimited AWD 1:45.061
2 Cricket/ FX Motorsports Development Billy Johnson Unlimited FR 1:45.247
3 Crawford Performance Tarzan Yamada Unlimitd AWD 1:45.552
4 AMS/NOS Energy Drink Time Attack Team Paul Gerrard Unlimited AWD 1:46.829
5 Driving Ambition Kip Olson Unlimited FR 1:48.072
6 Dell™ Equallogic/GOTO:Racing Brian Lock Unlimited AWD 1:49.366
7 WORLD Racing Chris Rado Unlimited FF 1:49.703
8 Gates311.com / AMS Ryan Gates Limited AWD 1:49.805
9 Evasive Motorsports Tim Kuo Limited AWD 1:49.977
10 Harmonmotive / AQ Motorsports JC Meynet Limited AWD 1:50.202
11 HASport / Ksport Tage Evanson Unlimited FF 1:53.002
12 TEAM 5ZIGEN KATSUYUKI HIRANAKA Unlimited FF 1:53.422
13 LIC Motorsports Dr. Russ Warr Limited AWD 1:53.835
14 JHPUSA / AQ JC Meynet Limited FR 1:55.024
15 Forged Performance Sharif Abdelbaset Limited AWD 1:55.583
16 Fair Enough Competition Matt Andrews Limited FR 1:55.763
17 Eastside Muffler Joe Santiago Limited AWD 1:55.985
18 UMS Tuning Anthony Szirka Unlimited AWD 1:56.434
19 BuddyClub / APR / trackHQ.com Manly Kao Limited FR 1:56.640
20 Evasive Motorsports Robert Walker Street FR 1:56.762
21 Tomei-GT Tarzan Yamada Street AWD 1:57.188
22 HB Speed / Cobb Tuning/ Robispec Jon Drenas Street AWD 1:57.630
23 Stop Tech Stephen Ruiz Street AWD 1:57.699
24 Fair Enough Competition / KBR Performance / ROBISpec Matt Andrews Limited FF 1:58.027
25 Trackspeed Engineering Andrew Kidd Limited FR 1:58.119
26 NASA Jeremy Croiset Street FR 1:59.768
27 Bergenholtz Racing Edward Bergenholtz Unlimited FR 1:59.776
28 OctaneReport.com/M1FD/TTech Russ Warr Street AWD 1:59.789
29 Tein / Import Tuner Tyler McQuarrie Street FR 1:59.829
30 AFI Turbo Jeremy Renshaw Limited FR 1:59.830
31 Forged Performance Jared Stoops Limited AWD 1:59.963
32 ZielSports/ JIC Jon Kaneda Street AWD 2:00.162
33 WindSpeed Motorsports / Continental Tire Douglas Wind Street FF 2:00.256
34 Pizza Factory/Robispec Robi Fuller Street FR 2:00.585
35 Tein / AMS / C-West / HB Speed Robert Walker Street AWD 2:00.908
36 Evolution Racewerks VJ Mirzayan Street FR 2:00.994
37 Team SCS Darin Nishimura Limited FF 2:01.139
38 Berk Technology Mike Bonanni Street FR 2:01.534
39 Team SCS Paul Yim Street AWD 2:01.772
40 Honda Tuning Michael Dylan Huig Limited FF 2:02.884
41 Team SCS Jonathan Gih Street AWD 2:03.605
42 DoubleDownMotorsports.com Mike Bonanni Street FR 2:04.205
43 GT Channel/GTI Dai Street FR 2:04.872
44 Raceline USA Elton Lo Street FF 2:05.733
45 Sparco Emile Bouret Street AWD 2:05.794
46 SPEC Clutch David Norton Street FR 2:06.051
47 HASport Gabe Ortega Street FF 2:07.298
48 Honda Tuning/JHP USA Ryan Novak Limited FF 2:07.394
49 SR Motorsports Steven Rogers Street FR 2:08.217
50 Modified Magazine Peter Tarach Street FF 2:08.322
51 JSP Performance / Circuit Hero Reza Yaghoubi Limited FF 2:09.895


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