Nightmotorsport at Road Atlanta

Night Motorsport Shines at GTA Road Atlanta

Night Motorsport made the long cross-country trip from California to Georgia for the first round of Global Time Attack Pro Championship at Road Atlanta and came away with the Street Class win. Night Motorsport’s first win of the season came in front of a big crowd of spectators drawn by the one-two punch of Global Time Attack and Formula Drift events that shared the beautiful circuit through the weekend. The Night Motorsport's Subaru STI, driven by Istvan Klag, won the class decisively with more than 1.3 seconds in hand over the nearest Street Class competitor.

Night Motorsport has upped their game this year with programs specific to vehicle and driver development, and the team is already seeing gains in performance. Despite a busy shop schedule, the team accomplished a rigorous pre-season chassis testing and development program that guided several updates to improve outright performance and reliability, as well as caught a few issues that would have been difficult to overcome during a race weekend. Furthermore, Night Motorsport owner and racing driver Istvan Klag has brought in veteran Time Attack driver Gary Sheehan as a driving coach to accelerate his learning curve as a developing driver.

Pedal to the Metal 

 Istvan is certainly no stranger to hard work, and honing one’s driving skills in a 550+ horsepower race car on street tires is not an easy task. Added to this was the challenge of learning the daunting high-speed and high-risk layout of the famous Road Atlanta racetrack in competition and you have quite an intimidating set of circumstances for a developing driver. Istvan showed his maturity with a steady approach to progressing throughout the weekend, taking his time to learn the track and pick up pace session after session. Istvan felt the time was right midway through the second day, and was able to put together his class-winning lap near the end of his session, knocking over 1.5 seconds off his fastest lap of the weekend and catapulting him into the class win.

Significant in the team’s success was the 2006 Subaru STI’s reliability throughout the weekend. Time Attack cars are not endurance race cars by any means, being built for outright speed for short bursts of track time. Thanks for Turbo By Garrett , Cp Piston , AEM performance electronics , Paez Precision , APR  performance, Konig wheels ,Momo Italy , Clutch Masters , WCB 5 printing , Eibach Springs ,Darton Sleeves, BMS machining and Nightmotorsport team  performed flawlessly all weekend, giving Istvan the consistency needed to learn the track coupled with the outright power pull out the Street Class win.

With this first round victory in-hand, the Night Motorsport team now heads back to their home state of California for the second round of the Global Time Attack Pro Am series at Chuckwalla Valley Raceway in Desert Center, CA on June 8th. The close-to-home venue is a welcome change from the challenges of racing across the country, however, the desert racetrack surely bring high mid-June temperatures into the mix, which will make it hard on both the cars and the drivers, and the single day format demands maximum attack from the very first session. To follow the action at Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, visit the NightMotorsport Facebook page for continuous updates throughout the day.

Night Motorsport is a full-service high-performance shop based in Rialto, California supporting the greater Inland Empire area of southern California. Night Motorsport gets its name from the shop’s unique business hours, operating on weekdays from 3pm to 11pm, giving performance enthusiasts the opportunity to have their cars service outside of normal business hours. Night Motorsport specializes in Honda, Hyundai, Infiniti, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota performance vehicles, offering products from a wide range of top performance manufacturers and services from general maintenance to full street performance and racing engine builds.

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Photo by Klye Lewis