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“I just want to thank AMS for all the support that helped us win our second straight SCCA T2 National Championship!!. The car ran perfectly all week and allowed our heavily restricted Evo to battle toe to toe with the 2011 5 liter Ford sponsored Mustang GT driven by Grand am cup Pro Andrew Aquilante and the Nissan sponsored 370Z driven by World Challenge Pro Tony Rivera as well as many others.  With a slightly damp track and clouds looming, we chose to go out on rain tires where most of the front runners went out on dries. Once the track dried up we slipped back a few places until the rain finally hit as we had planned. The advantage swung back in our favor and we were able to get back to the lead and the win.”

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ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (Sept. 25, 2010) – Marty Grand, of Manassas Park, Va., won the Black Magic Touring 2 race during the 47th SCCA Runoffs Presented by Subway at Road America. Cooper MacNeil, of Hinsdale, Ill., and Mark Boden, of Winnetka, Ill., completed the podium.

Grand started second in the No. 4 AMS Performance/TRE/Switchback/JRZ Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and got a great jump to take the early lead into Turn One. But, Grand immediately found the No. 2 BimmerHaus/Hoosier/Deadfast Racing BMW Z4 M Coupe of Jason Ott, of Thorton, Colo., filling his mirrors. Ott’s BMW shadowed every move Grand’s Mitsubishi made for the first four laps. In fact, Ott made contact with Grand’s rear bumper coming out of Turn 12.

Grand thought he had lost his brakes heading into the corner and had to slow down. That’s when the contact occurred. With Grand’s bumper was now loose and dragging, Ott took advantage of Grand’s new aero package and passed him on the next lap coming down the front straight. Read more…

For those of you that have been on this forum for years, you’ll likely recall the ‘life experiences’ that Marty and I have had during our attempts to compete in the SCCA National Championship Runoffs. We’ve had a zillion blown trailer and RV tires, wrecked race cars that we wrenched on for days just to turn laps, but in recent years Marty has been knocking down wins, Divisional Championships and last year was three laps from being the National Champion when literally the wheel fell off… no not the wheels, just the left rear wheel, hub, axle (part of it), caliper/rotor and other associated pieces. That has made the off season and even the races building up to this event all the more difficult to endure.

Marty has had a great season winning every event he entered and in one case even jumped in to an STO race to dominate the entire run group during a rain race (including GT-1 cars that see 185+ MPH in the dry).
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AMS sponsored SCCA T2 EVO driver Marty Grand participated in the North Carolina Apr Double National race held at VIR last weekend and took home two first place finishes and set a new class track record!

Here is Marty’s quick rundown of the weekend’s  events along with some video clips:

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Results from Summit National by Marty Grand

Had a great time at Summit, was lucky enough to get the pole with a qual time of 1:22.3 with CJ right next to me with a 1:23. My hope was to get to T1 first and let the other 3 fast cars CJ, Kleeman and Seg battle it out while I slipped away. Well the plan worked out perfectly so I had a pretty easy day. CJ was in 3rd going into T1 as he got blocked out by Seg in his F body on the start, but soon after ran Seg down and regained 2nd place. He held Kleeman (350Z) off till near the end of the race but his brakes were leaking fluid and started fading on him. Kleeman dove inside of CJ just as CJs brakes failed enough for Kleeman to slip by. In pursuit of Kleeman, CJ set his quickest lap of the race, but it wasnt quite enough to catch the Z that late in the race. 2 out of 3 podiums (same as last year actually) so all in all a great Evo weekend!! Big thanks to AMS and TRE for giving me a great running set up!!]

Results:
1. Marty -Evo 1:23.690-track record
2. Kleeman -350Z- 1:23.804
3. CJ – Ev0- 1:23.950
4. Seg – Camaro-1:24.321
5. Hund – GXP- 1:24.305

CJ Moses Incar from Summit Point