Honda Day Coverage - Raceway Park

Honda Day at Raceway Park is always a great event. Vendors, show cars, race cars and spectators literally packed out Raceway Park this past Sunday. If you have never been to a Honda Day event you truly don't know what you are missing!

We are again proud to announce that Chris won the Outlaw Event against Jonathan Reynolds in the finals. NRG Tech team member Rob Mapps had a great day at the track as well with a personal best of 9.4 @ 150 on a 67 turbo! Unfortunately, because there was SO many racers participating, the SFWD final was called due to a time curfew. We're pretty sure Rob would have had the win in the bag though ;).

As always, we would like to thank our sponsors for their great products! Driveshaft Shop, Precision Turbo, EFI Wizard Injectors, Avid Racing, AEM and Spec Clutch are all fantastic companies dedicated to providing top-notch products and support to racers.

Check out our Honda Day August 15 gallery on http://nrgtechracing.com/galleries.htm

Honda Day @ Raceway Park

This Sunday, August 15 is Honda Day at Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ. This is an event not to be missed! Every year there is exciting racing and a huge turnout of both racers and spectators.

Come out and support racing! As usual, we'll be there under the orange tents repping Outlaw, SFWD and All Motor!

If you are interested in participating, here's all the class info:

Heads-Up Classes
Drive Shaft Shop SFWD (16 Car Field)
Open to all 4 cylinder Honda and Acura vehicles. “SFWD Trim” Must have 2 front seats and Interior panels. No Gutted out cars permitted. Max Tire 25 x 9.5. Open exhaust OK. Lexan prohibited. 1 piece fronts prohibited. 72 mm max turbo size. Fuel Cell OK - NHRA guidelines MUST be followed. .400 PT, Sportsman Ladder. Winner - $1000; RU – $400; Semi’s – $200; ¼’s - $50 (1/4 finalists will be paid if there is 16 car field). Must have 16 cars for full payout

Yosolo Racing/1320 Performance All Motor (16 Car Field)

All Honda/Acuras. 4 and 6 cylinder. FWD only. Naturally Aspirated. Lexan ok (front windshield MUST be glass). No 1 piece front ends (3 piece OK). 25″ x 9.5″ max slick. Fuel Cell OK - NHRA guidelines MUST be followed.. No pro level cars. Gutted interior ok. Open exhaust ok Sportsman ladder. .400 PT. Heads-Up Eliminator. 16 car field.*Must have 16 cars for full payout.
Min. Honda weightsHonda:2200lbs-J Series2150lbs-K Series, F2K2000lbs-H Series1900lbs-B Series and all other motors
Winner - $500; RU - $250; Semi’s - $100. 16 cars needed for full payout.

Hondata New SI Shootout (16 Car Field)
This class is open to all naturally aspirated 2006 and newer Civic SI.
FULL INTERIOR REQUIRED. Must run a true threaded DOT radial tires. (No cheater slicks) Drag radials ok (ex. BFgroodrich, Nitto, MT). All bolt-on’s OK. Full exhaust Required. Winner – Hondata Flash Pro; RU -Hondata Reflash; Semi’s - $50

CHR Performance 11.50 Index (All Run Field)
Open to all Honda/Acura Cars. Any Honda powered Combination allowed at any weight. No Throttle Stops or Delay Boxes allowed. NHRA safety rules apply. 16 Car Field All Run Field .400 Pro Tree, No Deep Staging allowed, Sportsman Ladder. *Must have 16 cars for full payout. Winner - $400; RU – 200; Semi’s - $50

Competition Clutch Unlimited FWD (Outlaw Trim) [8 car field]:
All Hondas. 4 cyl. and 6 cyl. power adder (Nitrous, Supercharger, Turbo, combinations OK) No Pro Level cars allowed (no pro cars) Outlaw shootout rules apply. FWD Only! 26” x 10″ Slicks max. 72 mm max. Turbos. No min. weight, No Lexan. .400 Pro Tree. Sportsman Ladder. Heads-Up Eliminator. 8 car field. Winner - $1000; RU - $500; Semi’s - $250 *Must have 8 cars for full payout. Additional payout will be gamblers style and collected by a class representative in the staging lanes prior to the start of qualifying.

Bracket Classes

Full Throttle Performance ET1 [13.99 & Quicker] Open to all Honda and Acura vehicles. Naturally aspirated or Power adder ok. Must have Honda/Acura powerplant.Winner - $400; RU - $200; Semi’s – $60. Must have 32 cars for full payout.

OGS ET2 – [14.00 & Slower] Open to all Honda and Acura vehicles. Naturally aspirated or Power adder ok. Must have Honda/Acura powerplant. Winner -$300; RU - $150; Semi’s - $40. Must have 32 cars for full payout

Miller Takes Home The Win!

This past weekend was the 2nd Annual Outlaw Shootout at Fall Nationals at Englishtown, and what an amazing weekend it was! We started off the week with Danny Smith coming in from Alabama, Jose Jiminez and Aldo Mireles coming in from Texas and Alberto Rodriguez coming in from Albany all to get some work done before the Shootout. What resulted was 90+ hours of straight labor, long days, even longer nights, broken parts and some seriously stressed racers. After a very long week, we set out on Friday morning for Englishtown, NJ with our sights set on Raceway Park. After arriving we began doing some testing on Alberto Rodriguez's civic which was to run the SFWD trim. ARod managed to nail down his personal best time and mph with a 9.47@155mph.

Saturday morning we were up early finishing up some mechanical work and polishing up some tunes. The rain delayed qualifying for a few hours on Saturday afternoon but we were eventually able to get the qualifying runs in. Miller was #1 qualifier with a 8.81@171mph.

Saturday night was a true showing of how much racers really look out for and help fellow racers! Jose Jiminez and Aldo Mireles, both of 1320 Racing in Texas, ran into some brake and axle problems. Jose's brakes kept locking up and we were, eventually, able to diagnose the issue and fix it. Aldo's axle broke in the halfshaft. While Greg Fiero from the NRG team and Aldo drove to Long Island to get a new axle, Jay at http://www.n2mb.com/ was a huge help with getting the axle out of the half shaft. Bill Draghi and Paul Pero also stayed up all night to help out.

Sunday was a literal whirlwind. From the minute we woke up (after our 2 hours of sleep) till the last race went off the day was nothing but full of energy and craziness! Everyone involved in this event, from the track officials to the racers to the fans, was AWESOME! The racers who competed put on an amazing show. Between their dedication to the sport and their absolute willingness to push their cars to limit they were able to give us all an incredible event.

Chris had an amazing run all day Sunday. Everytime we thought that the car had nothing left in it, him and the crew pulled it out. As many of us know it was Chris and Fernando Cunha in the finals. Both cars were hurt, but these two showed just how much fight they have in them. Chris was able to pull it out one last time and ran a scorching 8.75 @ 172 mph.

We (Chris and myself) need to acknowledge and thank some people without whom this event would have never seen the light of day!

Big Thanks go out to:

Borg Warner Turbo Systems

Vibrant Perforamance

Spec Clutch

Cisco's Performance Center

Import DPS

N2MB.COM

Avid Racing

Bullhead Gears

TSL2K4.COM

Speed Theory

Hondata

Outlawzz Racing

Injector Dynamics

CP Pistons

Supertech

Absolute Pro Formance

Justince Racing Engines

Tempest Racing

Full-Race Motorsports

Precision Fabrication

NYCE1'S.com

Raceway Park

OGS

GRS-motorsports.com

Exospeed

A very special thank you to our NRG Tech crew - Bill Draghi, Greg Fiero, Paul Pero, Ehren Geitheim and Tom Lisner.

Congrats to Tim Grey on his All Motor win! Congrats to Rob Mapps, Alberto Rodriguez, Danny Smith and Kevin Van Natten on reaching new personal bests!

Want to see ALL of the amazing pics from this weekend? Check out http://www.grs-motorsports.com/

Video of Final Round - Miller v. Cunha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoys9nVPFbI

IN-CAR video of Final Round - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=923xTC3yLIU

Click here to read Miller's pre-Shootout interview with Greasy Blocks!http://www.greasyblocks.com/2009/09/210

Outlaw Shootout 2009 flyers are here!

As if we weren't excited (and stressed) enough with the Outlaw Shootout looming large on our calendar, we just received a huge shipment of promotional flyers for the event! We may be a bit biased, but they look awesome! The SignLab did such an amazing job with the flyers they have decided to make them into t-shirts as well. If you are still on the fence about wether or not to come to the Shootout, let us be the first to slap you upside the head and tell you: DON'T MISS THIS EVENT! This event really does have something for everyone - fast cars, intense competition, fantastic vendors and big money prizes!

So here's the who, what, where's:

2nd Annual Airwerks by Borg Warner Turbo Systems $10,000 Outlaw Street FWD Shootout Fall Nationals
October 3 & 4, 2009
Old Bridge Township Raceway Park
230 Pension Road
Englishtown, NJ

And for anyone who wants to compete or learn more about what's shaping up to be one of the biggest events of the season, click here: http://www.honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=2577750