Team 949 Racing Thunderhill 25 Hours
 

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NASA 25 Hours Of Thunderhill
December 3-4
E2 Class
Thunderhill 25 Hours Media Guide

We have assembled a team of all stars. We have two kick ass cars. We have spent a mountain of time testing and training over the last two years. We are ready.

The Team 949 Racing facebook page will be information central. Most of the team will be making twitter updates during the race that will propagate to the FB page. Anyone interested is free to take stuff from the FB page and post it here.

Team Roster

Crew
Oscar Jackson - Crew Chief
John Wing - Engineer (satisaii)
Andrew Kidd - Head Mechanic (savington)
Manny Hernandez - Head Fueler (Neocataboi)
Chris Clay (luder_5555)
Grant Conley
Eric Emerson
Murat Guruz
Chris Klein
Steven Krause (kung_fu_jesus)
Wytt Lusanandana
Nop Lusanandana
Keith Tanner (Keith)

Sponsors
Nitto Tire
Jackson Racing
Carbotech Brakes
DIY Autotune
Injector Dynamics
Keegan Engineering
Mclaren Autobody
Motorsports Squared
OS Giken
Subesports
Racepak
Prospeed RS683
TC Design
Track HQ
InJoy
The Parts Group
2nd Chance Roadster
Autokonexion
Trackspeed Engineering
Boundary Engineering
Pocket Bilt

Drivers
Nick Buchanan (crashncar)
Emilio Cervantes
William Chen (bellwilliam)
Oscar Jackson Jr
Sean Johnston
Dean Thomas (deano)
Sonny Watanasirisuk (VagaXt)

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Best of luck out there guys! I know youll do well!
Im looking forward to seeing how this turns out regardless.

Just a heads up, fb page link is broken.

Allstar roster indeed! Kick ass!

949 Racing is not listed as a sponsor?

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SuperMiata

This is legit!

I need to find coverage of this event. I hope SPEED does their job. But there will probably be a Pimp My Ride marathon that weekend.

how does mt.net get on this beast?

Easy. Have Rick write a check.

I'll be a watchin the times LIVE just wish we had a live feed from speedcast, but since they are doing it for Versus, it won't air it until later, right? Anyway - drive hard, drive fast - and safe!

you forgot to leave anyone for the competition

Good luck guys!

Good luck guys!! I will be on the lookout for a "949 NEW record" thread. ;)

Looking forward to meeting you guys. You guys sound better prepared than our team, and most of our guys have been to the 25hr 4+ times (with multiple class wins).

As of right now our car doesn't have an engine in it...and we're supposed to be testing Saturday or Sunday...

Nothing like taking a brand new, untested car to a 25hr race. Luckily our second car is a more seasoned enduro car.

Best of luck to you guys!

which car you guys running ? Hoverspeed Miata ?

No, he is in an acura/honda if I remember correctly.

This is awesome and I'm anxious to see the results!!

iJealous; looks like a blast. Good luck guys!

It's an honor to be part of the team, i hope you guys follow us. This is going to be awesome!

+1. I'm lucky, honored and privileged to be a part of this Miata all-star team. So excited!

Drive well Sonny! I wish it wasn't 12 hours for me to get there or I'd lend a hand with the crew.

Hai, we will have an RSX-S in E1 and a 2012 Honda Civic Si built to Grand AM ST specs. Not sure what class the Si will be in. Not even sure which car I'll be driving, it's likely I'll be in the RSX though.

And to Emilio, I call BS. You guys have two small cars and you get two pit spots. We have two large cars (relative to a miata) and we only have one pit spot. Sharing is caring...

Two weeks from right now I'll be at Thunderhill for the first time, getting ready to do the test day. Twenty minutes from now we'll be putting the engine in...

lol.. from what I understand. if you were willing to take just 1 pit space for your 2 cars, you get to pick your pit space.

calling it 2 pit spaces is also quite a stretch. our "2" pit spaces are a total of 20' long. Miata is 14' long. you get the point.

Yea I guess the reason we took 1 space was to get a "nicer" spot. We're the first spot in from the north ramp. I've never been to TH so I have no idea if it's actually a decent spot or not.

In for crowded pit lane...

Flight leaves crappy Ohio in just over 10 days. Yay

That's a good spot, but just like where you live, your neighbors can make or break your location... And, if you have 6-Hour competitors next door, they will cease operations approximately 6 hours into the race, perhaps leaving you with a little more elbow room.

We're 2 spots in north of the south ramp. We're only a spot away from Mercer Motorsports, the GT3 Cup team that will be going for their 3rd overall win in a row. So, there will be lots of people lurking close by our pits to watch the action.

We're close to the Hooverspeed guys. There's another team in between us but I didn't recognize the name. We're used to sharing pit stalls in Grand AM so I don't think it will be an issue. Being friendly with your pit neighbors goes a long, long way.

Picture taken by Murat Guruz, one of our fuelers Friday 25th at BRP. Dean and Sean were getting familiar with the cars plus some seat time and collecting data. We stuck around 'til after sunset to putt around the track and aim our revised light set up. In this pic, I'm driving and that's John Wing with the crew chief headset.

I love this pic

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Amazing picture!! I will be at Road Atlanta the same weekend with NASA. I wish you guys good racing and hope to see a 1st place!

Do you plan on having someone post or tweet updates to the race/team 949? Best we can see live is the scoring... btw, those light are insanely bright - I love em! Info on the whale tail?

I'll be tweeting on dthomasracing and will also be updating the Team 949 Racing Facebook page which you've ALL liked by now, right? RIGHT?? :)

Cheers,

Dean

Nothing clever. Just a sheet of aluminum tacked onto trunk. I found some aluminum piano hinge years ago and finally found a use for it, attaching the sheet to the trunk. Two turnbuckles underneath and its done. We added a few short pieces of .125" angle to stiffen it.

We need 24hr updates!

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GoRacingTV.com to Feature 25 Hours of Thunderhill Coverage in Performance Racing Industry Trade Show LIVE Stream

Don't know if we'll be able to view anything - if anything, it may be an infomercial

But to the point - go get 'em guys! Enjoying pics on twitter

Good luck! Should be interesting to watch this unfold... unfortunately I will be at the track (in AZ) for most of it.

Qualifying ended early but we got a good lap and qualified right where we want, p1 in e2.
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Get em guys!

Pics like that last one remind me that I'm not living my life properly.

WTF is that unicorn horn on the hood of crusher?

+1. It looks like a really severe aerodynamic device for hood extraction.

Extra lights:
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Qualifying results are now up: http://www.nasa25hour.com/

Is anyone else unable to see the stream?

Me neither, and other comments on the video page say they can't see it.

it was up earlier before the start today. It showed track shots. I dont see it now

Reminds me of the Panavision camera (giant a** movie camera) equipped Porsche 908 Steve McQueen's production company entered in the 1970 Le Mans race to get in car footage for the film. Ran the entire race but didn't classify due to minimum distance regs because it took so long to change film and camera batteries during pit stops.

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Can someone please find quality coverage of this race!

http://www.nasa25hour.com/live-timing-feed.html

Aaah! The suspense is killing me.

I just hope that "my" ECU holds up!

(Ok, so the only thing I did was tweak the trigger input settings and move a couple of wires around. I still have a sense of ownership here.)

Anyway to see rankings by class? I have no idea who is in what class.

If you have android you can download an app that does it by class.

Live radio
http://www.livestream.com/endurancer...enduranceradio

Super Miata is back at 14th over all

Crusher #51 is 13th and Enzo #99 is 22

NASA just posted this on facebook. Looks like someone did some mild aero modifications:
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Damnit man! Hope that drivers fender doesnt cut the tire. Looks like someone brake checked with a trailer hitch...

Link me to their page I cant find it on facebook

Crusher is in 12th, Enzo is in 21st.

Bummer. Looks like they lost half of their lighting.
Oh well, it's only a flesh wound. The brake ducts look OK, and no IC means a big crush zone before any cooling gets damaged. And I doubt the suspension was affected. With no front plastic bumper thingie it probably was not even a very hard hit that did that.

William just commented and said someone hit the back of an Acura. If you want updates and your friends with William on facebook comment on his picture of Savington with the bino's.

Some kind of a full course yellow pace car procession going on right now.