{"id":2479,"date":"2021-09-18T16:49:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T16:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2021-09-18T16:49:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T16:49:50","slug":"team-sahlen-secures-dual-overall-victory-at-mid-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/18\/team-sahlen-secures-dual-overall-victory-at-mid-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Sahlen secures dual OVERALL Victory at Mid-Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Team Sahlen, presented by honeybeeBase.com, entered the Tire\nRack \u2013 ChampCar Endurance Series at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.  Friday was an optional Test Day, and Team\nSahlen utilized the opportunity to not only test their \u201cKetchup\u201d & \u201cMustard\u201d\nPorsche Boxsters for the ChampCar event, but to also bring out their \u201cSalt\u201d\n& \u201cPepper\u201d Porsche Caymans in preparation for the upcoming Summit Racing \u2013\nAmerican Endurance Racing event at Mid-Ohio in October.  The Test Day was beautiful blue skies, and team\nwas able to get in some very quality laps around the track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The drivers for the weekend were Joe Sahlen & Will Nonnamaker\nin the \u201cKetchup\u201d entry and Joe & Wayne Nonnamaker in the \u201cMustard\u201d. This\nlineup had proven to be strong throughout 2021, with several OVERALL victories\nalready to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saturday dawned with beautiful blue skies and dry track,\nwhich is exactly how Team Sahlen likes to go racing.  With 80 entries, managing traffic would be essential.  Especially with Team Sahlen having the \u201cbind\ndraw\u201d starting slot of 41st<\/sup> and 42nd<\/sup>.  With steady pace and staying out of trouble,\nboth Team Sahlen entries were in the lead at the 2 hour mark.  Then after securing the lead, Team Sahlen had\na fantastic hour 2-4 and pulled out a 4 lap lead on 3rd<\/sup> place.  From the halfway point in the race till the\ncheckered flag at hour 8, Team Sahlen focused hard on hitting their marks on\ntrack, and having super clean pit stops. \nThis dedicated effort sat Team Sahlen secure a \u201cphoto finish\u201d of 1st<\/sup>\nand 2nd<\/sup> Place OVERALL at the Checked Flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Will Nonnamaker shared his thoughts after the amazing race \u2013\n\u201cYou dream about this scenario, you hope you will be in a position to have\nsuch a result, but in racing it rarely happens. \nBut today the skies were blue and the wind blew right for us, and here\nwe are with one of these magical days with a 1st<\/sup> and 2nd<\/sup>\nPlace OVERALL.  The competition in the Tire\nRack \u2013 ChampCar Endurance Series is very strong, and some of the best racers in\nthe series were here today.  We feel very\nfortunate to have such a result.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday dawned again with beautiful blue skies and dry\ntrack.  On this day, the \u201cKetchup\u201d entry\nwould start a lap down due to the Saturday victory.  This lap was quickly snatched back by a super\ngreat 1st<\/sup> stint by Joe Sahlen passing the leader to get back on the\nsame lap.  The \u201cMustard\u201d entry had a bit\nof altercation on the track, that saw rear quarter damage and slipping back a\nbit.  But just like Saturday, Team Sahlen\nkept focused on the task at hand and was sitting in 1st<\/sup> and 2nd<\/sup>\nplace OVERALL at the 2 hour mark.  This\npace continued, with Team Sahlen staying in 1st<\/sup> and 2nd<\/sup>\nat the 4 hour mark.  At this point, the \u201cKetchup\u201d\nentry had a mechanical issue that put it back in the garage for the rest of the\nday.  This left the \u201cMustard\u201d entry to uphold\nthe honor of the team. And for the next 3 hours, the \u201cMustard\u201d entry did just\nthat.  The end of the race was not\nwithout excitement though, as the RBank Honda entry was able to cleverly adjust\ntheir pit stop strategy to skip a fuel stop, thus negating 5 minutes in the pits.  This placed the CRX only 30 seconds back with\n45 minutes to go.  Wayne Nonnamaker was\nable to put down some very solid laps that ensured that Team Sahlen was able to\nretain margin and cross the checkered flag in 1st<\/sup> place OVERALL.  For Team Sahlen, this was the 1st<\/sup>\ntime accomplishing the dual weekend victory in the Tire Rack \u2013 ChampCar\nEndurance Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wayne Nonnamaker shared his thoughts after the race \u2013 \u201cWow,\nto secure OVERALL Victory 2 days in a row, with each of our Porsche Boxsters is\namazing.  Mid-Ohio is the home track for\nour Nonnamaker family, and I think we have over 1000 laps around this track.  That knowledge certainly helped as we raced\nthe RBank Honda at the end of the race.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next event for Team Sahlen will be the Tire Rack \u2013\nChampCar Endurance Series event at Pittsburgh Intenational Race Complex.  The event will start on Friday \u2013 October 1st<\/sup>\nwith an open test and tune.  Then\nSaturday will be an 8 hour enduro starting at 9 am.  Sunday will be a 7 hour enduro.  The races will be televised on Champcarlive –\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/ChampCarEnduranceSeries\/videos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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