86 Challenge Round 6 Results
Thunderhill East – Sep 01, 2024
Despite a two-month summer break to avoid the heat, we still found ourselves with a 100°F day for Round 6 at Thunderhill East. 23 participants braved the heat, across Stock, Street and Touring classes.
In GT Radial Stock class, Saurabh Kulkarni and Nico Iskos played spoiler to Ivan’s bid to achieve a perfect season. Saurabh ended up claiming P1 with a 2:07.998, just edging out Nico’s 2:08.044 by half a tenth. 3rd-5th place were just separated by 1 tenth of a second, with Ivan nabbing P3.
Moving to GT Radial Street class, Timur Iskhodzhanov made the most of his cheeky double registration—getting twice the track time by competing in two run groups. He set a 2:05.418 to take P1 and improved the Street class record by a whopping 1.5s. Bill Wu came in P2 with a 2:05.695, also comfortably beating the previous record. Jason Jin completed the Street class podium.
In Touring, it was a tale of two strategies, with Qianli Xing taking P1 with his 9 point build over Michael Oilar and Albert Meixner, both with Gen 1 cars with only 2 point builds. Qianli set a 2:04.933, the fastest overall time of the day.
Next up, we have 2 infrequently run, reverse layouts: Buttonwillow 1CCW followed by Thunderhill West CW.
Published by Brian Armstrong on September 03, 2024 21:44