Forged Performance: Road Atlanta PBOC HPDE

[CHADbee]

This past Saturday, the Forged Performance Motorsports Team made our way back to our home track, Road Atlanta. After a couple months away for the off season, it felt like an eternity since we last participated in any performance driving activities and we were going a little stir crazy! I personally had received an awesome Christmas present from Sharif, a brand new Nikon 70-200 f2.8 VRII camera lens that was just begging to be put to use trackside. I was extremely excited to be out there gripping my Nikon D700 and watching high performance cars from many different manufactures blast by me!

This weekends event was held by the PBOC Motorsports Club which is group dedicated to racing and drivers education and is open to Porsche, BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Ferrari's, Legends and more. We brought our Forged Performance sponsored 2010 GT-R and a FP prepared 2012 Nissan GT-R's out to do some additional track testing in preparation for the One Lap of America event in May. Both GT-R's are currently here at Forged being prepped for this event and as many of you know, Sharif will be co-driving the 2010 GT-R with Catesby Jones this year. This made it easy for both owners, who live in Florida, to jump on a flight to Atlanta and catch a ride with us to the track. Remarkably, these two cars still feature stock turbo set-ups with power, suspension, and brake modifications. The white GT-R also has some assistance in the downforce department thanks to some goodies from Aeromotions via their S2 Active Rear Wing and Front Splitter.

After a quick warm up session, it was clear that the owners of the GT-R's were going to make these Porsche, Z06, and Viper guys really work to keep Godzilla in their rearview mirrors. While there was plenty of fully race prepped exotics and large displacement American supercars, the GT-R's were getting point by's from 99% of the cars on track and being driven to the absolute limit, while remaining safely on track the whole day. While I did witness a few incidents involving cars, walls, and tire-stacks, everybody was able to go home in good health, even if their ego's and vehicles were a little bruised. Spending our Saturday at Road Atlanta for the PBOC Event proved to be a very productive day. We made some minor suspension adjustments through out the day which resulted in a more stable set-up and enabled more in-car confidence from the drivers and after some minor changes to tire pressures and shock settings both drivers were very pleased. Stay tuned for future updates on both cars as they continue their preparation for the OLOA Series!


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[SHHHH]

Very nice pictures! :goodjob:

[miatasaint]

DAMN!! Great shots Chad, as always! ;)

[CHADbee]

Thanks guys.

[jdm eg6]

poor viper.. btw nice pics

[CHADbee]

poor viper.. btw nice pics

I know I felt so bad for the owner! There was a handful of cars that got banged up Saturday at RA.

[jdm eg6]

yup sucks for the owner.. i hope nobody got hurt

[Drummerboy]

I hate to say it, but it looks like the gtr's were some of the less-prepared cars there. But results don't lie, they pull great times, and didn't end up in the wall like a few others.

[Elbow]

Lots of damage this weekend for sure, a BMW wrecked HARD in 10 yesterday. It was one of my favorite BMWs that goes to RA too. :/

[mistergou]

killer shots like always!!!

[firby911]

Nice pictures chad:goodjob:

[CHADbee]

Thanks for the comments on the pics guys^

While the GT-R's were on 20" true street tires, no cages and only bolt-on drivetrain mods they both were still faster than most fully race prepped and built cars there.

[CHADbee]

edit: double post

[Elbow]

Yeah I don't know why the race lap times were so high. The winning car Sunday typically runs around a 1:20 and his fastest lap I heard was a 1:30? The KIA testing Friday was running 1:32-1:33s. lol

Not taking anything away from you all as you were on street tires so that's damn fast.

The best racing of the weekend was the guys with the Thunder Roadsters, those things were balls out.

[CHADbee]

Yeah those Thunder guys are just absolutely insane!