Radix Motorsports Wins at 2009 San Diego National Tour

Written by: Jaime Mendoza

Starter problems when unloading the car from the trailer in San Diego started to give the feeling of a bad weekend, but all was fixed that afternoon with a replacement starter and the results could not have been better, even though we missed the opportunity to test and tune.

In a field of 13 cars I was able to lock in 1st place win for the San Diego National Tour with a 0.5 second lead and 2.5 second difference between 2nd and 3rd place. Our first big event of the season with only 4 previous events in the CRX and 1 with the new TOYO R1R tires.

The weather was not on our side with an overcast day on Saturday and a wet course for the 1st run of 3 on Sunday. Blacktrax Performance did a great job to fine tune the ECU on the previous Wednesday to give us a smoking gun up the hill of Qualcomm Stadium.

For the Regional Events, we are now in 1st place in points for the San Francisco Region Championship with over 10 events left in the season.

This is becoming a very exciting season for us, and look forward to the competition along the way until the National Championship in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Read about the ST and STS class wins:

http://www.toyoeditor.com/Race_report.html

Upcoming events are:

-SF region Championship Event Round 6 - April 17th
-42nd Annual Duel At DeAnza - May 17th
*We are preparing the Integra Type R for the 09 Hoopa Hillclimb in July


Radix Motorsports is sponsored by:

Supertech Performance
Swift Springs
Team MFactory
BlackTrax Performance
Craftwerx Concepts
Redstone Motors
Steve Osborne Motorsports
AutoImage.net
Lubrify.com
Genitrix Motorsports

Jaime Mendoza
Radix Motorsports.com
jmendoza@radixmotorsports.com

April 18, 2009 - Annual BayAreaPrelude.Com Dyno Day

BayAreaPrelude.Com will be holding their annual dyno day at BlackTrax Performance. Honda Prelude owners as well as other cars are welcome to join, hang out and talk cars.

More Details Visit:
http://www.bayareaprelude.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23487

HIN "Kick Off Event"

To view more, please visit DFINED.ORG or My Gallery.

Jei will post all the award stuff very soon. Stay tuned.

Edited by Natalie

UPDATE: Awards WON by the BlackTrax Group

Best Honda - Jei Chang

Best Toyota - Alex Kuang

Best Street - Tim Oakes

Best Group Representation Overall

Best Photography/Model Hijaking - Tom Nguyen VDMTom

WEKFEST COVERAGE `09!

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BlackTrax Builds A One Of A Kind AE86

Alex Kuang has had his eyes set getting featured in Sport Compact Car Magazine. With the unfortunate news that SCC was going to be cut, we thought that all prep work for the photoshoot was wasted. Luckily, photographer Steve Demmitt was able to take his pictures and feature them on JTuned . We're very happy the way these pictures turned out and we're proud to be a part of this project. This car was actually prepped and painted by Alex with Spies-Hecker paint, honestly one of the best paint jobs we've seen come through our shop. You've probably seen it at many of the NorCal gatherings and shows. Please visit www.jtuned.com and check out some of Steve's sick pics!

Redstone & BlackTrax Team Up At 25 Hour

Redstone and BlackTrax teamed up to race in the 25 Hour of Thunderhill with Liam Downey's B16A powered EG Civic. The team kept consistant 2:05 and 2:12 lap times with the best time set at 2:02.703 by Devin Raynal. Unfortunately due to oil starvation, we lost a rod bearing which took us out of the 5th place position. Shout outs to the drivers: Liam Downey, Graham Downey, Derrick Welch & Devin Raynal. Check out these pictures taken at the 25 Hour at Thunderhill by Jeremy Forbes.

Graham Downey Takes 1st at NASA Nationals Honda Challenge H1 @ Mid-Ohio Sport Car Course - Sept. 14, 2008

Congratulations to Graham Downey who took the pole on Saturday and won 1st on Sundays H1 NASA Nationals race. It was definitely worth the 48 non-stop hour trek to Mid-Ohio. Also congratulations to Jonathan Meris who placed a very close 2nd place finish.

"I had a great time at Nationals. I had my most fun race ever with Meris. He raced me clean and gave room when it was needed. Definetly two thumbs up for the brilliant driving by Meris. Congrats to Meris on his awesome finish, racing thru the pack and finishing 2nd! great drive! First I have to thank my parents (Liam & Loyola) for helping me get to Nationals. If it wasnt for them I definetly would'nt have made it to Mid-Ohio. It was so fun spending 9 days with my family on the road and at the track. Even though after 5000 miles of driving I was a little fussy!Huge thanks to my girlfriend Ashly for taking time off work to go with me to Ohio! She was super helpful and a great spotter on the radio. I couldn't have done it without her being there!
I also have to thank the following sponsors,

- Redstone Motors for suppling the car and spares and for allowing me to take 10 days off work!
- Blacktrax Performance - Jei for his tuning, Aki for his welding, Mark for being my crew chief, and Natalie for making all the arrangements to get the guys from CA to Ohio
- Roger Kraus Racing - Big help from Brandon for setting up my car. He always does killer alignments and the corner weights are always dead on! Thanks for mounting and balancing all my tires too!
- Prima Racing - Andrie Hartanto for providing me with driving tips, car set up and race strategies. Great guy and super knowledgeable!
- Epic Images - Thanks to Waldo for making me stickers at the last minute! Thanks to Austin for picking them up for me!
-Thanks to John W. for the shifter box and Edik & Harut Stepanyan for the grease and 10mm nut.

Hope to see everyone in Utah in 2009!"