I was at Buttonwillow Raceway the last couple of days for the Super Lap Battle invitational Time Attack event. Super Lap is organized by the guys at Source Interlink who publish Super Street, Import Tuner, and Modified Magazine. Elliot and the Souce Interlink crew threw a pretty good event that was on schedule throughout the day. Unfortunately there was no free lunch this year like in previous years, but oh well. It seems nobody's giving free lunches these days...

Tuesday was actually the EVO vs. STi event where I heard most of the STis broke (nothing new there huh?). It was also open practice for the next day's Super Lap competitors. There was a lot of traffic so it was difficult to get a clean run. Normally when the Sierra Sierra EVO 8 is on track its on Yokohama slicks. Since Super Lap only allows DOT tires, Hankook Ventus Z214 C91 were used. After some suspension tweaks driver and car were able to squeak out a 1:45.86 in practice.

By Eric Hsu. Excerpted from MotoIQ. Full Story at http://www.motoiq.com/MagazineArticles/tabid/59/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1368/Source-Interlink-Super-Lap-Battle-2009.aspx