Adam Roberts wins SCCA Runoffs at Indianapolis Motor Speedway!

Adam Roberts wins SCCA Runoffs at Indianapolis Motor Speedway!

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**** GUEST BLOG – BY ADAM ROBERTS****

2017 SCCA RUNOFFS AT INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY | SEP 28TH & OCT 9TH

This Guest Blog is written by Adam Roberts. Adam messaged us to tell us about his experience at an event. We love receiving all of the stories we receive of Konig wheels in use. Adam talks about his win, and issue he ran into and his thoughts on the Flow Formed Konig Dial-In. We thank Adam for sending in this write up but also for his support!

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Quick little intro about myself, I started racing in NASA and SCCA racing at the beginning of 2016.  I formerly raced Carts and Legends Cars.  This year was my 2nd SCCA National Championship Runoffs.  I also Race my personally owned Spec Miata.

We qualified on pole for this years Runoffs at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  Coming to the Green Flag the driver on outside of me (2nd place) made contact with my left rear wheel.  Unknown to myself and my crew, one of the spokes on my wheel had broken from the impact of the other vehicle directly to the wheel.  The other driver suffered a flat tire. 

I fell to as low as 3rd place and three seconds back from leader. But I kept my head down, pumped out some great laps in traffic and capitalized on a mistake to take the lead. For the last 5 laps myself and Eric Kutil went side by side, bumper to bumper for a epic last 5 lap shootout for the Win.  I was able to hold off Eric for the Win.

The damaged wheel survived 40 minutes of side by side, curb hopping, racing.  I can’t be more thankful to KONIG for the great product they have manufactured.  It not only brought me my first National Championship but most importantly myself, and all other competitors that were with me on track are safe because it held together.

I not only finished the entire 40 minutes of the race but we won the largest amateur racing event of the year!  Over 1,000 competitors attended and over 5,000 visitors attended.

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Adam Roberts was running the Flow Formed Konig Dial-in in 15×7 w/ et 35mm offset all around. The Konig Dial-in is Flow Formed.

You can watch the whole race, in car, here:

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Curb hoping shot courtesy of: SCCA / Jay Bonvouloir

Wrecked Magazine Formula Drift Gallery: Round 6

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Wrecked FD Round 5 “Throwdown” Gallery

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Formula Drift RD1: Streets of Long Beach

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Images and words by Fuel Culture | Article

Dennis Mertzanis came off the 2011 season with his best career finish in the series. During the off season, a new car and a wildly more extreme Chevrolet Performance Parts engine set the stage for Round 1 Streets of Long Beach this past weekend. His new car is a 1991 Nissan 240sx with a S14 kouki front end. The car started its life as a Fuel Culture project car and was publicly debuted at the 2011 SEMA Show in the Kenda Tire booth.

New to Mertzanis Racing for the 2012 season is Fuel Culture which is a virtual car garage where users can come and rate, review, and price compare aftermarket parts for their car. Another great website coming into the picture this year is www.rentreporters.com which is a great innovative service that allows renters to report rent payments to the credit bureaus. Everyday, they are helping renters build credit for something they are doing every month already! SPEC Clutch has come on board to provide us with the best LS clutch technology that money can buy. Rounding out the new sponsors is BodyArmor which is a superdrink packed with antioxidants, electrolytes, vitamins, and nutrients on top of being an all natural beverage.

The new chassis features a Chevrolet Performance Parts crate engine LS3 which is producing over 500whp and receiving all of its fuel needs from Aeromotive parts. We are running VP Racing 100 octane fuel to reach this horsepower output. We teamed up with KW Suspension and SPL Pro Suspension parts for the most lightweight and adjustable suspension you can throw at a Nissan 240sx. Dennis still remains on Kenda Tires for 2012 and continues to run the Kaiser KR20 using Konig Milligram 18 inch wheels which are lightweight thanks to MAT technology. And rounding out the return sponsors, Dennis continues to support Petfinder.com to help great dogs and cats find a forever home.

When Dennis hit the Streets of Long Beach, it was his first official drift event with a V8 engine and he couldn’t believe how the torque helped him keep up around the track including that drag race to the first turn. He was able to keep up with any car on the track when following in drift including the event winner Justin Pawlak during practice.

When they lined up for qualifying, the Mertzanis Racing team was still working on some setup changes to the car but qualifying had to go on! After watching 40+ car runs in front of him, it was time to put on a show! Dennis sadly missed the 53mph minimum trap speed with his qualifying pass but managed without 10 points for speed to lock him in for 32nd place. This meant lining up in the main event against Ryan Tuerck who was the events number one qualifier.

During Saturday morning practice, our support team Ryan Clemens and Dave Epifano made some extreme suspension changes and we found the car now running through the speed trap at 57mph which is over 8mph faster than where we qualified. Now facing off against Ryan Tuerck, the team threw everything we could at him during competition. Dennis was so solid through Turn 10 of the LBGP course, he caused Ryan Tuerck to make a huge correction and straighten out. It was a hard fought battle and the judges actually had to go through deliberation before declaring Ryan Tuerck the victor. This moved Ryan into the Top 16, ending the weekend for Dennis Mertzanis. The team is set on doing a few more test sessions this month to be ready for a huge finish at Road Atlanta in front of the team’s hometown crowd.

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