The Forged Performance motorsports team returned from a very productive week at Road Atlanta. Although the purpose of this trip was to complete the testing and gather more data on the Catesby/Forged GT-R P800 Package, we ending up setting an unofficial street tire track record with a blistering 1:29.9 lap in Sunday morning’s NASA Time Trials.
We have made several key suspension changes to the car since OLOA 2012 in May, and the car keeps getting faster and easier to drive. A 1:29 in ANYTHING at Road Atlanta is incredibly fast, let alone in a 3900lb car clad in 300 treadwear Michelin Pilot Super Sport street tires.
Catesby returned from his family vacation in Europe, and he’s ready to hop back in the seat in what is now much faster and better GT-R! With that, we begin the planning stages for our 2013 OLOA program. We have no less than four customers that will be running Forged Performance prepared GT-R’s of various levels of performance in One Lap Of America. With a number of top shops and drivers slated to compete, it’s sure to be a very tight race.We are also preparing a little welcome home present for Catesby that all of us will enjoy.
Jay and Sharif traded laps in their 100% stock powered Spec-GT-R’s. It was a lot of fun watching them dice it up and turning some respectable lap times with nearly silent GT-R’s. We couldn’t hear the engine over the tire and air noise!
Mark West, driving his Forged Performance race-prepped GT-R in NASA racing this weekend. The car is detuned to the sub 400whp level in order to compete the ST-2 class. The car performed flawlessly all day and it’s great to see more fully race-preppared GT-R’s out there.
Mark and his GT-Republican!
Chad doing his thing!
Brutus takes after his daddy:
Plenty of additional photos can be found here: