MomentumAutosports

Well we are back after a LOT of work. The crew here at Momentum Autosports put in nearly a month of 12+hr days with only one day off. The last 3-4 days were working around the clock, a few of us only got 3 hours of sleep over the final 60hrs. We had the cars done and loaded at 5:55am, our truck driver showed up at 6am to head to MSR-C for pre St Pete testing.

Testing went flawless, we killed 2 sets of tires over our 2 day test with out any problems. Cars are good for the mid 2:teens at MSR-3.1 mile.

After packing up from MSR-C, we headed to St Petersburg, FL for the first World Challenge race. Right off the bat Alec Udell (who just turned 15) was in the top three in practice. He later clicked off a lap good enough for an easy third in qualifying. We were all really happy. The cars weren't even running 8 days prior, and we had never seen the Pirelli tire until we showed up in FL. Unfortunately the line lock stuck on Alec during the first race start causing him to get shuffled back. In lap 3 he tagged a wall which broke the strut. 2 laps later he lost control of the car due to a failed strut and hit the wall- hard. Even after turning only 5 laps he ended up with the 3rd fastest lap of the race. On Sunday we had the car put back together after a late night, be we were never able to get the power steering system 100% back together right and Alec lost power steering on lap 3 and had to retire in the second race.

Ardee our beloved elder driver(snicker) wadded the car up in the first practice. But to his credit he shook it off and we got the car put together for Qual. He never put a wheel wrong the rest of the weekend and finished with two top 10s.

The cars were awesome for so little testing. Alec probably had a shot at winning, and definitely a podium. Look for big things as the year goes.

Due to conflicts, we won't return to World Challenge until Mosport in May. We are hard at work improving the cars and testing until then... oh, and straightening them back out

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We will have video up of the test soon, and the race (on-board and the like!)

Be sure to visit our facebook page, www.facebook.com/momentumautosports and "like" it as we update it all the time during the race weekend with pictures and results, etc.

mountainbiker2

looking forward to the videos.

cookba

iTrader: (10)

excuse my ignorance. but were yall the 2 Camaro's racing at the WC GP @ St. Pete last Sunday? I watched some of it on the internet, not the best picture.

MomentumAutosports

Yessir, that was us.

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cookba

iTrader: (10)

are you guys going to be at VIR May 13-15?

MomentumAutosports

World Challenge doesn't go to VIR unfortunately.

Glenn98ZM6

When you guys gonna let me come up and help you guys out?

MomentumAutosports

Honestly I have been so busy Ive tried to keep the same core group that we have had for 2 years, but some of that may be changing. Ill keep you posted. Definitely ccould have used the help getting ready for St Pete, but not sure if you would have liked the 60hr, unpaid, shift

cookba

iTrader: (10)

Do you guys have any races planned for VA, WV, MD, DC area this year?

MomentumAutosports

Check out MomentumRaceGroup.com for our schedule. Disregard Miller and Long Beach.

SVThuh

iTrader: (2)

Sorry to hear about the troubles you guys had on your first competition with these cars.. Looks like they are pretty well engineered and it sounds like you have a couple of hot-shoe drivers.

3rd fastest lap is nothing to scoff at, and is quite impressive for the amount of track time that these cars have seen. Im sure you guys will be back and will easily pull off a podium finish.. or 2..

Look forward to seeing you guys in action. Good luck with the rest of the season. Its always good to see a competitive fifth-gen or two out there!!

trj20

Its a shame you had troubles as the cars are clearly capable of running at the front. For those that aren't familiar, this class has the new Boss 302 S cars vs. new Camaro's with the LS3 motors, and an Acura mixed in. The weekend went in Fords favor at St. Pete but Momentum will have to be dealt with.

I post this mustang in car footage only to show the competitiveness this class has in it already as its the new Chevy vs. Ford pro series. I would have loved to see Momentums Camaro in this battle and should have been. But thats racing. I'm sure we will see more action like this as the season progresses.

Nice car guys. I would love to drive it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v9r_...layer_embedded

MomentumAutosports

Just wanted to let you guys know I have some videos up on Youtube from the test and the event.

Shake down the weekend prior: Clicky, clicky!

Our channel with some on-boards from the race!