{"id":6080,"date":"2023-09-11T23:26:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T23:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/?p=6080"},"modified":"2023-09-11T23:26:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T23:26:25","slug":"team-sahlen-celebrates-10-years-of-racing-at-pittrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamsahlen.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/11\/team-sahlen-celebrates-10-years-of-racing-at-pittrace\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Sahlen celebrates 10 years of racing at PittRace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Team\nSahlen, presented by honeybeeBase.com, 1st<\/sup> drove around PittRace 10\nyears ago.  In 2013, Team Sahlen was\ntesting their Daytona Prototypes in advance of that season\u2019s Sahlen\u2019s Six Hours\nof the Glen.  At the time, the track\nconfiguration at PittRace was the original shorter track that racers so enjoy\ntoday.  Even from this 1st<\/sup>\ntaste of the track, the Team Sahlen drivers knew that they wanted more of this\ntrack.  The 1st<\/sup> time the team\nraced at PittRace was 2015 when the team entered their 3 Mazda RX7s in the\nChampCar Endurance Series Championship Event. \nThat year\u2019s event as a 14 hour event over 2 days.  Saturday was 7 hours, with Parc Ferme on pit\nroad, then followed up with another 7 hours on Sunday.  The team had just completed building the 2\nbrand new Rotary Rockets to complement the already tried and true \u201cCharcoal\u201d RX7.  In this event, Team Sahlen faced all types of\nopportunities that you can imagine would occur with brand new cars.  But the team persevered against the 51 car\nfield to secure 5th<\/sup>, 9th<\/sup> and 13th<\/sup>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Team Manager Allen Wells remember this race \u2013 \u201cThis was a crazy event.\u00a0 It rained, it poured, we couldn\u2019t reprep the cars on Saturday night, we had a motor in one of the new RX7 that was blowing up the whole race. But in the end, we persevered and finished all three, with an amazing Top 5 against some very strong competition.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fast\nforward to 2023, and Team Sahlen returns to PittRace as the returning victors\nin last years\u2019 ChampCar event. \nAdditionally, in the past decade, the team has been able to secure 16\nClass Victories at PittRace.  The many\nlaps and the many successful races has seen the Team Sahlen drivers grow very\nfond of the twisty track in the Allegheny region.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Will Nonnamaker shares his thoughts on PittRace \u2013 \u201cI just love driving at PittRace.\u00a0 I like to refer to the track as mini Spa. I have never driven Spa, but all the videos I have seen, this looks and feels like a miniature version of that legendary track in Belgium.\u00a0 Pitt Race has an amazing flow to it that just encourages a driver to go out and attack it.\u00a0 Then throw in 50+ other racers on track for over 7 hours of racing and you have a recipe for pure excitement.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For\nthis weekend\u2019s Beaver River Grand Prix at PittRace, Team Sahlen will be entering\n2 ECS Tuning Porsche Boxsters for this event: #942 \u201cKetchup\u201d & #943 \u201cMustard.\nDrivers will be Joe Sahlen, Joe Nonnamaker, Wayne Nonnamaker and Will Nonnamaker.  Friday will be day of testing.  On this tuning day, the team will be bringing\nout their #941 \u201cChili\u201d on Test Day to gain extra valuable track time for all four\ndrivers.  Saturday will be an 8 hour\nenduro and that will be followed a 7 hour enduro on Sunday.  The race will be televised live on ChampCarLive\npresented by AutoZone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2023 Team Sahlen Campaign\nPartners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

honeybeeBase.com, Porsche\nBeachwood, ECS Tuning, Tarett Engineering, Guard Transmission, HubstandsPRO,\nMaxima Racing Oil, Pagid Brakes, NGK Spark Plugs, CM Racing Products,\nGrassroots Motorsports Magazine, Design Engineering Inc., Hard Brakes,\nForgeline Wheels, Optima Batteries, All-Fit Automotive, Winding Road Racing,\n& Capri Tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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