{"id":1917,"date":"2021-01-20T21:33:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T21:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2021-01-30T21:36:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T21:36:04","slug":"team-sahlen-achieves-100-victory-milestone-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/20\/team-sahlen-achieves-100-victory-milestone-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Sahlen achieves 100 Victory Milestone in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Team Sahlen, presented by honeybeeBase.com,\nreached their 100th<\/sup> Victory within Endurance Sports Car Racing\nduring the 2020 Race Season.  The 100th<\/sup>\nVictory came at Pittsburgh International Raceway Complex on October 4th<\/sup>.\nThe event was with the Tire Rack \u2013 ChampCar Endurance Series.  There were 62 entries for the 7 hour\nendurance race, that saw Team Sahlen secure 1st<\/sup> and 3rd<\/sup>\nOVERALL with their duo of Porsche Boxsters. \nDrivers in the winning car were long time team drivers Joe Sahlen, Wayne\nNonnamaker and Will Nonnamaker.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This\nmilestone was achieved in the team\u2019s 36th<\/sup> year of racing. The victories have been secured\nin a wide variety of both Professional and Sportsman level series.  The team has secured victories in races as\nlong as 24 hours, as well as events that saw over 100 competitors to race\nagainst.  And many of the victories\ncoming with the team securing the OVERALL win in the events.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

56 of the Victories were\nachieved in Professional Endurance Sports Car Racing Series.  This extensive list includes the SCCA Playboy\nEndurance Series, SCCA Escort Endurance Championship, IMSA Firestone Firehawk\nEndurance Championship, SCCA World Challenge Series, IMSA Endurance\nChampionship, Professional Sports Car Street Stock Championship, SPEEDVISION\nCup, Motorola Cup, Grand-Am Cup, Grand-American ROLEX Sports Car Series,\nGrand-Am KONI Challenge Series, and IMSA Continental Tire Challenge.  These victories greatly assisted Team Sahlen\nin securing 7 Professional Driver Championships through the 5 decades of\nracing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team Sahlen has also secured\n45 Victories in Sportsman Endurance Sports Car Series.  These have included SCCA National &\nRegional Events, Tire Rack \u2013 ChampCar Endurance Series, Summit Racing \u2013\nAmerican Endurance Racing Series and World Racing League.  In 2021 and beyond, Team Sahlen will be\npursuing Victories in additional Sportsman series such SCCA Endurance, NASA\nTeam Endurance, Lucky Dog Racing Series and 24 Hours of Lemons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wayne Nonnamaker shared his\nthoughts \u2013 \u201cIt would be hard to rank the victories from 1 to 100, as each win\nwas special in its own way.  For me, I\nwould have to say that at the top of the list of Professional Victories would\nhave to be our 2012 win in the ROLEX GT series at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca\nwith our Mazda RX8.  This was the very\nlast pro win for a Rotary motor worldwide, and to accomplish this at Mazda\u2019s\nhome track was just very special.  As I\nthink about our Sportsman wins in Endurance racing, I would have to say that\nour 2019 OVERALL victory at the legendary Nelson Ledges 24 hours holds a\nspecial place for sentimentally reasons, as our dad Joe ran in the very 1st<\/sup>\n24 hour event there in 1980.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Team Sahlen has been honored through the years with a who\u2019s who of racers.  These names include Dane Cameron, Simon Pagenaud, Paul Menard, Andy Wallace, Andy Lally, Pierre Kleinubing, Memo Gidley, James Jakes, Bruno Junquirea, and Herm Johnson.  All in all, there has been 156 drivers who sat behind the wheel of a Team Sahlen race car.  With over 2 dozen being able to lay claim to assisting the team in securing their 101 victories.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo win in a long endurance sports car event requires both speed and reliability.\u00a0 Having competed with 62 race cars over 8 brands, this type of continuous diversity has put an extra level of effort for our crew be able to be prepare and develop our race cars for each race.\u00a0\u00a0 Our crew has always done such a fantastic job preparing our Team Sahlen race cars so they can run the full distance.\u00a0 We are usually the last team to leave the track the night before a race, as we are always working doubly hard to ensure we are prepared for the epic 6, 12 or 24 hour race that is to come the next day.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 shared Driver Will Nonnamaker <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Within the 36 years of racing, Team Sahlen has had 1030 race entries to reach the 100th<\/sup> Victory Milestone.  The quick math shows that this is over 28 entries per season.  And these entries are spread across 56 Race Tracks that has spanned 27 states as well as 4 countries.  Some of those tracks are some of the most famous in the world including the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Daytona International Speedway.  And some of the tracks that Team Sahlen has visited don\u2019t even exist anymore such as Pikes Peak Raceway, Riverside and Texas World Raceway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a season where COVID affected all levels of\nlife and racing, Team Sahlen too was impacted, with the team only having 18\nentries in 7 races.  Although this saw\nthe team secure only 3 victories to bring their mark to 101 wins, the team felt\nfortunate to even be able to have the opportunity to race when so much was\noccurring in everyone\u2019s daily lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs I look back over the\nyears, we have raced in both Pro and Sportsman Series.  In the end, the goal is still the same \u2013 get\nto the checkered flag before your competitors. \nAnd the challenge to win is always a thrill but never taken for granted.\nThis year was like no other, and like everyone, we too had to make adjustments\ndue to COVID.  Hopefully, as the 2021\nyear moves forward, we can get back out racing, continue to have fun and add to\nour victory in the years to come.\u201d <\/em>\u2013  shared\nDriver Joe Nonnamaker <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sahlen\nPacking Company, a leading producer of premium quality meat products in Western\nNew York, is known for their high quality hot dogs, sausages, and deli meats.\nFounded in 1869 in Buffalo, New York as a family business, Sahlen\u2019s continues\nto be the name behind Western New York\u2019s favorite hot dogs. www.sahlen.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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