The GST Motorsports Blindside at Auto Club Speedway
Fontana, CA, 08/21/08 – Against all odds and expectations, the GST Motorsports Subaru Impreza “L” crushed the competition in Round 4 of the Redline Time Attack series at Auto Club Speedway in southern California. The 12 year old Subie turned a crowd shocking lap time of 1:38.395, shattering the track record and clinching the Overall Championship by 3.2 seconds!
This marks the first time that GST Motorsports has walked away with the title of Overall Champion. Along the way the team also collected trophies for the Unlimited Championship and Unlimited AWD class win, besting the heavily favored CWest/Brian Crower Honda S2000 and Subaru factory backed Crawford 2008 Impreza STi.
Adding insult to injury, GST Motorsports made it a clean sweep for the entire event by winning the inaugural Live Sockets Battle series Heads-Up Race. The grudge match pitted the GST Impreza “L” against the C-West/ Brian Crower S2000 in two consecutive single lap wheel-to-wheel races. The aging Subie left the S2000 in the dust as the cars crossed the starting line and went on to win both of the Battles with plenty of time in hand.
“The car really came to life this weekend”, said Gary Sheehan, driver for GST Motorsports. “The team has been working extremely hard since the last Time Attack and the ongoing development of this car is starting to pay off. Combined with Mike Warfield’s engine building and tuning ability, this car is now one hell of a package. I never thought I would find myself behind the wheel of a 12 year old Subaru staring down a braking zone at 172mph!!!”
“We have been having great success with our latest engine development” said Mike Warfield, owner and engine tuner of GST Motorsports. “The Cosworth block and heads combined with Darton Cylinder Sleeves and GT35r turbo make for an incredibly tough motor that just keeps putting out impressive levels of power event after event. This engine has been through three race weekends and two full test days and is ready to do it all over again!”
The next Redline Time Attack takes the team all the way to the east coast and the GT Live event at Virginia International Raceway on October 3-5. GST Motorsports plans to continue development of the Impreza “L” chassis and shoot for even more impressive power output in preparation for the last Redline Time Attack event of the season.
GST Motorsports would like to thank their sponsors for their continued support, Triple XXX Root Beer, Cosworth, BFGoodrich, Wheeldude.com, Cobb Tuning, Whiteline, I-Club.com, Endless USA, TEC, VFiber and Carbonetic.
GST Motorsports, Inc. is family owned and operated in Hayward, CA. With over 10 years experience in building, modifying and maintaining performance autos for applications from mild street to full race. GST operates out of a state of the art 5,000sqft facility boasting all the tools to fabricate, install and tune a host of applications. To learn more about GST Motorsports please visit us on the web at
www.gstmotorsports.com