LIC Motorsports Subiefest Race Report
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LIC Motorsports Subiefest Race Report
Subiefest 2009 - Willow Springs, Rosamond, CA 10.10.2009
The week preceding the event date LIC Motorsports made the call to not attend this event due to our 3rd place last Redline Time Attack event (our suspension was not up to task for an unlimited class event) and quite frankly not being in a position to afford another 3 sets of tires. Aside from the money factor being a big issue; we started to develop braking issues at the last event and we were now fighting our braking bias being way off. We were hesitant knowing that Willow Springs is a very fast track and brakes would play a crucial role. With the car on the back burner we focused on our daily operations and wrenching on customers cars.
About 5 days prior to the event I received a phone call from Mike Warfield at GST Motorsports to see if we would be attending this year's event. I mentioned my situation and predicament; his response was "come on mate, this is an all Subaru event and one that you should come show the LIC Motorsports car", I agreed with everything he was saying but addressed my lack of funds for tires and that our car would have to be in the Unlimited Class as opposed to the street class (Normally the LIC Motorsports car runs in a modified class and is setup as such), Mike said he had some take off/throw away Hankook C91's that I could have as they were just taking up space and awaiting disposal. Knowing I would be potentially racing others with the same tires and/or full slicks, I figured it was better than nothing. I also made a call to the good folks at Wheeldude to acquire a few sets of Rota DPT 18x10 wheels as our tires were a bit stretched on the previous setup....continue to rest of report here: LIC Motorsports Subiefest Race Report
-Noah
The week preceding the event date LIC Motorsports made the call to not attend this event due to our 3rd place last Redline Time Attack event (our suspension was not up to task for an unlimited class event) and quite frankly not being in a position to afford another 3 sets of tires. Aside from the money factor being a big issue; we started to develop braking issues at the last event and we were now fighting our braking bias being way off. We were hesitant knowing that Willow Springs is a very fast track and brakes would play a crucial role. With the car on the back burner we focused on our daily operations and wrenching on customers cars.
About 5 days prior to the event I received a phone call from Mike Warfield at GST Motorsports to see if we would be attending this year's event. I mentioned my situation and predicament; his response was "come on mate, this is an all Subaru event and one that you should come show the LIC Motorsports car", I agreed with everything he was saying but addressed my lack of funds for tires and that our car would have to be in the Unlimited Class as opposed to the street class (Normally the LIC Motorsports car runs in a modified class and is setup as such), Mike said he had some take off/throw away Hankook C91's that I could have as they were just taking up space and awaiting disposal. Knowing I would be potentially racing others with the same tires and/or full slicks, I figured it was better than nothing. I also made a call to the good folks at Wheeldude to acquire a few sets of Rota DPT 18x10 wheels as our tires were a bit stretched on the previous setup....continue to rest of report here: LIC Motorsports Subiefest Race Report
-Noah
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Good write up with some pretty crazy stuff involved! I'm soooo glad (and I bet you are too) that you guys attended and raced the beast! 
First place, and not just by a little, you guys KILLED out there!
Good work Adam and Noah, you guys are both great people and you guys deserved this as you both work really hard and go the extra mile to make things right the first time around. It's clear that you guys held up your reputation with the car's success!
Props to GST for hooking you guys up with tires! I feel the subaru love, AKA Bromance.
I sound like a broken record, but you guys deserve all the praise, again, congrats and best wishes for more wins in the future!
First place, and not just by a little, you guys KILLED out there! Good work Adam and Noah, you guys are both great people and you guys deserved this as you both work really hard and go the extra mile to make things right the first time around. It's clear that you guys held up your reputation with the car's success!
Props to GST for hooking you guys up with tires! I feel the subaru love, AKA Bromance.
I sound like a broken record, but you guys deserve all the praise, again, congrats and best wishes for more wins in the future!
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ha ha well we took forever to load the trailer and needed to grab a bite to eat..by the time we left you guys bailed out (but you had been there for a bit).
-Noah
-Noah
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You might sound like a broken record but LIC set a SubieFest track record. Over 6 seconds faster than the previous years fastest time. Good stuff guys!