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On track, lap times are all that really matter. This simple concept forms the basis of the Hankook Ultimate Track Car Challenge Presented by Grassroots Motorsports, where a wide variety of track cars square off in a NASA Time Trial format to determine once and for all who's fastest.
This year, the showdown will go on at Buttonwillow Raceway Park on June 8. The deadline to apply for entry is May 1, 2008.
This year's UTCC will take several cues from the inaugural event. For one, classes and complications will be few, with only two categories: Shop Class for those who build and prepare cars for a living, and Independent Study for the do-it-yourself-ers.
Also as before, each category will be broken into two classes, Varsity and Junior Varsity. Anything with forced induction, racing slicks, a tube frame or an engine with rotors or more than four cylinders runs in Varsity. Everything that's naturally aspirated, has four-cylinders (or less), and is a mass production-based car running DOT legal tires falls in the JV class.
However, this year's Ultimate Track Car Challenge will have a new twist. Grassroots Motorsports has teamed up with CarDomain.com to add a new branch to the competition: The Green Car Challenge. This unusual offshoot of the Hankook UTC Challenge will test a selection of electric cars, hybrids, grease cars and other green machines to discover which is the fastest in the country.
CarDomain is once again helping out this year with registration for this invitation-only event. If you want to be considered for the Hankook UTC Challenge, log on to cardomain.com/grm and follow the steps to create a Ride Page for your entry. Be sure to include a photo of your car and as much information as you can on your page. We'll be picking entries based on these descriptions, and we won't know how cool your car is unless you tell us. You'll be able to poke around the Hankook UTC Challenge category on CarDomain and scope out the other cars running for a coveted entry spot. Readers can even vote on their favorite entries on the site to influence the staff's decisions.
The Ultimate Track Car Challenge is sponsored by Hankook tires, Koni shocks, Saferacer.com, StopTech brakes and Red Line Oil.
On track, lap times are all that really matter. This simple concept forms the basis of the Hankook Ultimate Track Car Challenge Presented by Grassroots Motorsports, where a wide variety of track cars square off in a NASA Time Trial format to determine once and for all who's fastest.
This year, the showdown will go on at Buttonwillow Raceway Park on June 8. The deadline to apply for entry is May 1, 2008.
This year's UTCC will take several cues from the inaugural event. For one, classes and complications will be few, with only two categories: Shop Class for those who build and prepare cars for a living, and Independent Study for the do-it-yourself-ers.
Also as before, each category will be broken into two classes, Varsity and Junior Varsity. Anything with forced induction, racing slicks, a tube frame or an engine with rotors or more than four cylinders runs in Varsity. Everything that's naturally aspirated, has four-cylinders (or less), and is a mass production-based car running DOT legal tires falls in the JV class.
However, this year's Ultimate Track Car Challenge will have a new twist. Grassroots Motorsports has teamed up with CarDomain.com to add a new branch to the competition: The Green Car Challenge. This unusual offshoot of the Hankook UTC Challenge will test a selection of electric cars, hybrids, grease cars and other green machines to discover which is the fastest in the country.
CarDomain is once again helping out this year with registration for this invitation-only event. If you want to be considered for the Hankook UTC Challenge, log on to cardomain.com/grm and follow the steps to create a Ride Page for your entry. Be sure to include a photo of your car and as much information as you can on your page. We'll be picking entries based on these descriptions, and we won't know how cool your car is unless you tell us. You'll be able to poke around the Hankook UTC Challenge category on CarDomain and scope out the other cars running for a coveted entry spot. Readers can even vote on their favorite entries on the site to influence the staff's decisions.
The Ultimate Track Car Challenge is sponsored by Hankook tires, Koni shocks, Saferacer.com, StopTech brakes and Red Line Oil.