Ed Nazarian racing his RRE Super Touring Evo 9 at ACS Roval on Sunday, March 6, 2011. In this race several classes were mixed together, SU, ST1, ST2, STR1, GTSU, GTS5, and GTS4.
Ed was busy again on Sunday getting his corded tires flipped/mounted/balanced, so he was late to grid again. He didn’t have enough time between his qualifying session and the race to get everything done quickly enough to make it to the grid on time. He had to start in the back again.
At the start the cars in front of him looked confused. Ed was able to capitalize on that and passed 3 out of class cars, and a fellow ST2 racer. He set his fastest lap of the entire weekend in lap 2 with a 1:48.622. Unfortunately, his tires started cording again during this race also, but this time it was far worse than Saturday’s race. Here’s a breakdown of his lap times illustrating how badly his tires corded:
Consistent and decently fast laps in the beginning:
Lap 1: 1:54.130
Lap 2: 1:48.622 (Fastest lap)
Lap 3: 1:48.747
Lap 4: 1:49.094
Lap 5: 1:49.022
Since his tires started cording he tried to maintain consistent yet somewhat fast laps:
Lap 6: 1:51.451
Lap 7: 1:51.376
Lap 8: 1:51.518
He could no longer maintain those lap times because his tires were cording severely:
Lap 9: 1:53.155
Lap 10: 1:54.272
Lap 11: 1:55.658
Lap 12: 1:57.688
Lap 13: 1:57.187
Lap 14: 1:58.173