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Event: Redline Time Attack! Autobahn - June 20th-21st, 2009

Redemption.

On June 21st, 2009, Ryan Gates dominates the Modified Class at Round Three of the Redline Time Attack! series. Ryan took victory in the Modified AWD Class as well as capturing the Overall Modified Class Championship with a time of 1:30.7, more than 2.3 seconds faster than the nearest competitor.

After a forgettable Round Two, Ryan was determined to make up for lost time at Round Three. Once back at AMS Performance HQ, Eric and Ivan from AMS quickly got to work addressing the problems on the car. The issue from Willow Springs turned out to be a failed secondary fuel pump, which was caused by an electrical short of some sort. Ivan buttoned up the wiring throughout the car to make sure everything was correct and thankfully the car was back up and running. Testing at Autobahn was next.

We joined AMS on Friday before the Redline Time Attack! for testing at Autobahn to run the car and make sure the car was back to 100%. Just a few short sessions later, we were very satisfied with the car and pulled in for the day.

Saturday was practice day for us running the Time Attack on Sunday. We ran the practice sessions conservatively and focused on chassis setup. Bryan from JRZ was out at the track with us and with just three sessions, he perfected setup with ease. After the third session, we left the car alone and prepared for Sunday’s Time Attack sessions.

Race day came and we were well prepared. In Sunday’s first practice session, Ryan went out to make sure the car was running perfect and to determine his grid position by posting a lap time. Ryan posted a lap very conservative lap, knowing there was much more in the car...about 6 seconds more! Everything was in place, the first Time Attack session was up next.

Ryan was on grid and awaiting the start of the Time Attack session with confidence in the setup. Once on the track and up to speed, Ryan went 100% on his first timed lap. The lap was very smooth and Ryan flew onto the front straight to cross the finish line with an impressively quick lap time on 1:30.781. Ryan took a cool down lap in preparation for the third and final timed lap. The third lap went smooth but Ryan kept it very conservative and posted a time of 1:32. The next closest competitor was 4+ seconds back, with a 1:34.

Ryan sat out the second Time Attack session, confident his lap time was more than fast enough to take the win, and it was. The fastest lap was posted by Sharif A. in his modified R35 GTR, a 1.33.091. A fast time, but still 2.3 seconds behind Ryan’s very impressive time of 1:30.7. With that, Ryan took the victory in Modified AWD Class, and secured the Overall Modified Class Championship at Autobahn. Ryan will be competing again with Redline at Nashville on July 26th, look for a similarly impressive performance.

Ryan Gates would like to thank the following sponsors for their incredible support in 2009:

AMS Performance
Nitto Tires
K&N Engineering
JRZ Suspension
etnies
Carbonetic
Girodisc
Seibon Carbon
Forced Performance
Double Down Motorsports
Evasive Motorsports
Voltex

More photo's and a preview of a full video (coming soon!):

Video:

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/AMS-Evo-X-Redline-Time_690883.htm?ref=62d6e372-0736-4697-b5af-ce145a0cb573

Bryan from JRZ and Ryan, happy with the setup and the win:

Ryan

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rockjock · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:26 pm Post subject:

beautiful!

dzuest · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:06 pm Post subject:

Great stuff yet again! keep it up Ryan.

EnjoyDriving · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:08 pm Post subject:

That white one in front of yours is a GTR, right? How did that one run?? Laughing

Matt D. · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:53 pm Post subject:

Awesome, man, congrats! Make sure you tell people how strong the Minnesota Evo community is and plug evomn.net. Smile

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rockjock · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:38 pm Post subject:

GT-R=

311evo · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:15 pm Post subject:

BlackTrack · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:35 pm Post subject:

GNOIX · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:53 pm Post subject:

Congrats on another big win Ryan.
You make us MN Evo owners very proud!!
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MyEvo · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:56 pm Post subject:

Congrat on the run! Very Happy

evoatcha · Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:58 pm Post subject:

Nice work! Which course were you running at Autobahn? North or South?
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BlackTrack · Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 12:06 am Post subject:

cdeutsch · Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:52 am Post subject:

RSMotors · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:47 pm Post subject: Anothe one

Wow Ryan! Another win for our local evo mn member. I bet the car is a completely different animal from when I saw it almost a year ago.

Some awesome driving. I want some lessons. Seriously.

05 MR · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:02 pm Post subject:

My student at BIR with a new R35 GT-R had the full Stillen race prep package on it (700HP). I think with a fully stripped interior (less sub), 2x $3k carbon Recaro's, lots of CFRP body panels, but adding back a full cage, halon fire system & MOTEC data acquisition, he was down 275Lbs from stock. This is still a fat car at around 3539Lbs.
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