Mascot Mania!

This past weekend Fontana Nissan Racing displayed the Nissan 350Z at the Lancaster Jet Hawks baseball games, promoting the upcoming Redline Time Attack event at Willow Springs International Raceway.

The car was a crowd favorite, especially with the little kids and Mascots!  KaBoom, Stealth, and McGruff all took a turn at the wheel of the 350Z, much to the delight of the crowd.

The High Desert Broadcasting Hotties from 93.5 The Quake stopped by to hand out flyers and chat with the crowd.

The car generated a lot of interest in the Liberty Grand Prix with the local crowd.  Make sure to get your tickets early online to receive your free Redline T-shirt!! Stop by our paddock, check out the Fontana Nissan Racing GT-R and 350Z and get Mike’s autograph!

Full fan schedule is available by clicking on this link:

https://redlinetimeattack.com/ul/images/willow/WillowScheduleSpectator.pdf

See you there!!

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The GT-R Smile

It never fails to happen. When Mike Cronin gives anyone a ride around the track in the Fontana Nissan GT-R, the result is the biggest, widest smile ever.

Fontana Nissan and Mike Cronin were happy to support Redline Time Attack by bringing out the GT-R to Willow Springs for the Media Day.  All of the local press and radio people were invited to come out to the track and get a taste of what Redline is all about. Both Mike Cronin and the GT-R and Dez Ballard and his wild Mini were kept busy giving everyone rides around Big Willow.

Emmitt from High Desert Broadcasting was a bit hesitant to belt into the GT-R. After watching just about everyone else have a great time, he took the plunge.  Needless to say, he is wearing the patented GT-R smile!

All the folks from The Edge 100.1 fm are ready to buy a GT-R!

The Media Day was held to inform everyone about the upcoming Liberty Grand Prix. Redline is going all out on this event, with a huge fireworks show Saturday night, Circuit Battles between evenly matched Redline competitors (including Mike Cronin!), Drag Racing on the 1000 foot drag strip, and of course the Time Attack on Sunday.  As the local radio ad says “If you have plans for the Fourth of July weekend, BLOW THEM OFF and come out to Willow Springs for the Redline Time Attack Liberty Grand Prix!!!” 

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What has 100+ Fast Cars and 2,600+ Explosions?

The Liberty Grand Prix Redline Time Attack Event at Willow Springs International Raceway of course!!

In addition to watching the Fontana Nissan Racing Nissan 350Z and Nissan GTR attack the clock, spectators at the Liberty Grand Prix will be treated to the largest fireworks show in the Antelope Valley on Saturday night, July 3rd. This show is bigger than the Lancaster city sponsored show the following night. Bring your welding goggles and earplugs!

 

The hugely popular Redline Model Search Contest will be taking the stage on Sunday, with girls from all over competing for the chance to be Miss Redline 2011. The winner from the Auto Club Speedway event will be present, along with Novella, Miss Redline 2010, to conduct the interviews and M.C. the contest.

For the first time in 2010, Redline is bringing back the wildly popular Circuit Battles! If you don’t know, a Circuit Battle is an informal, bragging rights only, head to head battle between 2 competitors. Both cars start their first hot lap about 100 yards apart, switch positions during the cool down lap, and do one more hot lap. Best combined time wins. I’m sure Mike will be out to establish dominance in the Fontana Nissan cars! Trash talking has already begun on Facebook and the forums!

Into Drag Racing??? Bring your hot rod out to this event and be prepared. 1000 foot track with tree and timing slips!! Anyone can enter, with drags starting at 6pm until 9pm.  Willow Springs has been running Wednesday evening drags for awhile now and drawing a bunch of competitors. The drags will be conducted on the front straight which allows for optimum viewing from the grandstands. Who knows, maybe the Fontana Nissan Racing GT-R might have to make it’s drag racing debut!!

I know that you are planning ahead and want to purchase your tickets online. If you do, you will receive a cool Redline Time Attack t-shirt absolutely free!! Go to www.redlinetimeattack.com to purchase your tickets.  Tickets are $30 for a 2-Day Ticket and $20 for a 1-Day Ticket.

Fontana Nissan Racing has a stack of $3 off discount coupons to this event. If you would like to receive a coupon, email melinda@fontananissanracing.com, include your name and mailing address and how many coupons you need, and I will send them to you asap.

See you there!

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1st and 3rd at RTA Auto Club Speedway!!

Fontana Nissan Racing attended the Redline Time Attack event at the Auto Club Speedway over the Memorial Day weekend,  scoring 1st place in Super Modified RWD in the 350Z and 3rd place in the Modified AWD!

The 350Z made its 2010 debut at this event after suffering an engine problem at Auto Club last November.  The engine was rebuilt and ran very strongly all weekend.  The power steering servo failed on Saturday, forcing Mike to drive the Time Attack without power steering. He started Sunday with the upper body of Mick Jagger but ended up with the upper body of the Incredible Hulk!  Hanging on at 173 mph around the banking was a bit of a challenge! Mike’s time of 1:43.202 was good for 1st place in the Super Modified RWD class and was also the 3rd fastest lap run by anyone in the Time Attack!

The Fontana Nissan GT-R ran flawlessly all weekend.  The GT-R  was updated with an OS Giken limited slip differential to achieve better handling and take the loads off of the front drive clutch, thereby reducing the temps.  Mike ran a 1:46.369, good for a podium 3rd place finish.

Fontana Nissan was host to 12 Nissan GT-R’s from the NAGTROC organization. They made quite the impressive display, with most of them running the Saturday Test and Tune Day and a few running in the Time Attack on Sunday. Thanks to all of them for coming out and supporting Redline!

Scott Vanderheide, Parts Guru, was on hand with the display of parts from Fontana Nissan. 

Gin from Sakata Motorsport Electronics not only worked for the team but ran his own car as well!  Go Gin!

Mr. Cronin took his Ferrari 430 out for a spin. We were wiping the drool off of it all weekend.

Old friend Stu Hayner is now working as the Chief Driving Instructor at Redline Time Attack. If you want the opportunity of a lifetime for free instruction from one of the best drivers in the world, bring your car out and join the novice group. You will learn, improve, and have a wonderful time while doing it. School was never this fun!

All in all, it was a very successful event for the Fontana Nissan Racing team. It was good to have the 350Z back in action! We will be attending the Liberty Grand Prix, July 2nd through 4th at Willow Springs International Raceway. Redline is really going all out to make this event very special, with drag racing, wheel to wheel racing, girls, fast cars, and best of all the biggest fireworks show in the Antelope Valley. 22 glorious minutes long Saturday night, don’t even think about missing this!

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