Daytona 370Z RC Roar before the 24
 

Doran racing is officially headed to Daytona Int for the Roar before the 24 test days. This is the first stop in the 2013 Continental Tire Sports Car Series championship.
The team will once again be rolling out the 370Z RC edition against the Porsches, BMWs, Mustangs,Camaros, Subarus, and Aston Martins.
Tim Bell and BJZ are once again back with the team but this will be the first time the Z has been on the high banks of Daytona.
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Good Luck!!

tickets already purchased for cota! cant wait to see the doran car doing its thing on that beautiful track!

Can't wait to see you guys in Daytona at the end of the month. It'll be curious to see how the Z does compared to its V8 counterparts on the high banks.

Going to try and make it to Lime Rock in Sept.

Good luck

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They took some RPMS away from us which kinda blows. They are going to look at our data at the end of the test days and then we may get some back.
They are limiting us to 8450
They also took some away from the Mustangs and just about everyone.
Guess we shall see.
This car is still gonna sound wicked coming through the tri oval.

Lordy lord, how high were you spinning before???

Sweet! Looking forward to seeing you guys race. I already got my Rolex 24 4 day passes.

lol :icon18:

Good luck during test sessions and practice, hope they give you some of those RPM's back. Give em hell on race day!

Met Downshift this morning when I went over to the track for a little bit. Here are a few pics I snapped:

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Nice meeting you Downshift. Hope you had a good session today.

Looks pretty sweet

Car is in one piece after a day of dry weather. We have a lot of work to do and some of the rule changes for the series are not favoring us....
If it rains tmrw we will pack it up and take her home .

What are some of the new rule changes?

Lots of cars got RPM limits
Subaru got a boost increase
Aston just got faster... Insanely faster
Porsches got a restrictor and weight ..but they were fast enough last year that they are still fast
Mustangs got RPMs taken away... But still make torque like crazy... Also got new front nose splitter vented hood and GT500 brake kit including Bosch ABS
BMW got weight removed
We wanted them to put us on the dyno (as they have one their) but that didn't happen.
Daytona is always just a bunch of games.....
I believe we are submitting some dyno sheets to them ...hopefully things are not set in stone and a couple changes happen.
Rather than us getting something approved and having to spend more $$$$... Would like other to be brought back.

Tough class for heavy low displacement car. Fundamentally teams racing this car need every advantage they can get. Good driving alone won't get them there.

Looks like 370z is back where it was when things started with Grand Am. If it were not for Doran we wouldn't see the 370z at all in Grand Am. So bravo! But I haven't seen a wining effort yet. Looks like another season of disappointment for us Z34 fans watching Grand Am. Don't think I can bear watching another losinf Grand Am season for Nissan.

Wow...a little prejudgemental Shamu. First green flag hasn't even dropped yet. An effort means interest is there. Fans turning away now will mean less motivation for the teams, sponsors and Nissan. The teams need support and fan turn out at the events more now than ever if you want to see Nissan continue with motorsports.

Werd.

Got my tix for COTA...

Wish I could get pit/paddock passes :(

Why can't you? :P

They don't offer only that. They offer 'Pit Row Suites' which are $500 a person and don't really get you paddock-level access (you know, to poke around and look at the cars)

I think you have to know someone to get access like I'm talking about..

Someone like BJ. ;)

That's disgusting. COTA is sounding lamer and lamer.

Unless I miss read the email I got from COTA, ALL tickets include paddock/pit entrance at specific times.

Can you forward that to me? I've gone through my emails and can't find what you're talking about.

Definitely doesn't say anything about it on their site or on my receipt from them...

I found the email. ugh.

Thanks!

:tiphat: NP

Yeah, I read the email like 10 times to make sure I was getting it right because COTA doesn't have it nowhere on their site. and I was not willing to spend 500 on the other tickets.

Word.

Another thing they don't tell you is that your grandstand tickets are good for general admission seating too. So if you want to go sit on the lawn, you can, with your normal ticket. Soooo I had to have my tickets changed already lmao.

Going to be on Turn 15. What about you?

Most of the grand-am races are general admission tickets and they include paddock passes. Grand-am is very fan friendly allowing fans to get up close to the car and talk to the teams and drivers. Before the race they have a fan walk so you can go out on pit lane and see all of the cars.

BJ, any way we can get some Doran T shirts or something before the race?

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+3, I will rock them at Mid-Ohio

I vote we keep this thread on the topic of Doran racing and the 370 and not clutter this up with unrelated and unwanted thread crapping.

Agreed. I am willing to delete my posts to reduce the post to its core focus. Sorry BJ!

I'd love to get one before the Daytona race!

In for shirts!

I got tickets for the main straight away at the end of the pits.

+1 for shirts

Dustin no need to apologize ....At all.
For the doubters: winning a 3 day test session at Daytona only wins weight and restrictors.
Although we may have a steep hill to climb ...let us get to actual real racing before you bust out your pitch forks.

No pitchfork here, just an insatiable need for t shirts, and maybe ball caps.

If we get some extra funding... We will get some sweet loooon swag .... But right now all efforts / funding are being invested towards development of the car.