{"id":13353,"date":"2026-11-04T22:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T22:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/?p=13353"},"modified":"2026-11-04T22:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T22:49:19","slug":"team-sahlen-wraps-up-2026-season-at-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/team-sahlen-wraps-up-2026-season-at-atlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Sahlen wraps up 2026 season at Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Presented by Tarett Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Team Sahlen, presented by honeybeeBase.com, attended Atlanta Motorsports Park for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time ever.&nbsp; The rig made the long 12 hour journey to Georgia and arrived at the track on Friday afternoon.&nbsp; The crew worked diligently to nut&amp;bolt, and re-align the Porsche Boxsters.&nbsp; In addition, the rear semi trailer tire blew out on the windy trip to the track and had to be replaced that evening as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Friday dawned with clear but brisk skies.&nbsp; The team received a favorable random starting slot of 5<sup>th<\/sup> and 6<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; The drivers had the challenge of learning the track as the race started.&nbsp; The pace soon arrived, and at the halfway point in the race, Team Sahlen found themselves in 3<sup>rd<\/sup> and 8<sup>th<\/sup> place.&nbsp; Unfotunetely, all fell apart, as both cars had contact on track.&nbsp; This put the #943 \u201cMustard\u201d out of the race, and knocked the right rear toe out of the #942 \u201cKetchup\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The dedicated Team Sahlen crew did not give up \u2013 and persevered to get \u201cMustard\u201d back on track at the end of the day to ensure that the entire left rear suspension replacement was correctly fixed.\u00a0 \u201cKetchup\u201d kept plugging along, turning laps and good pit strategy.\u00a0 This resulted in a very fine 5<sup>th<\/sup> place overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Ian Nonnamaker \u2013 Team Sahlen Manager shared his thoughts \u2013 <em>\u201cShout out to the crew for digging in to get Mustard back on track.&nbsp; The entire left rear suspension had to be replaced.&nbsp; Yet in just a few short hours, all was fixed, realigned and back on track to shake it down for Sunday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Sunday dawned with the team full of hopes of to take the fight to the front of the pack.&nbsp; Early troubles followed the team into this 7 hour race, as an on track incident for #943 \u201cMustard\u201d put it behind and then #942 \u201cKetchup\u201d suffered a loss of 1<sup>st<\/sup> &amp; 2<sup>nd<\/sup> gear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">But the determination of Team Sahlen shown through \u2013 and amazingly, despite the handicap of no 1<sup>st<\/sup> and 2<sup>nd<\/sup> gear, Ketchup ran solid lap times with great pit strategy to jump all the way up to 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place overall in the end. And Mustard overcame the early troubles to rise up to 8<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Will Nonnamaker shared his thoughts after the race \u2013 <em>\u201cSometimes endurance racing is more than just winning the race.\u00a0 Often it is about persevering to the finish.\u00a0 And during this whole weekend the Team Sahlen crew demonstrated this grit and determination to get the Porsche Boxsters to the finish.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>2026 Team Sahlen Campaign Partners:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">honeybeeBase.com, Malco Products, Porsche Beachwood, Discovery Parts, Valco Cincinnati with Big Wrench Racing, ECS Tuning, Tarett Engineering, Guard Transmission, HubstandsPRO, Maxima Racing Oil, Pagid Racing, Frozen Rotors, NGK Spark Plugs, CM Racing Products, Grassroots Motorsports Magazine, Design Engineering Inc., OMP Racing, Bell Racing, Forgeline Wheels, Optima Batteries, All-Fit Automotive, Capri Tools, Fabspeed Motorsport, Rennline &amp; Eibach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented by Tarett Engineering Team Sahlen, presented by honeybeeBase.com, attended Atlanta Motorsports Park for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13356,"href":"https:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353\/revisions\/13356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}