We are proud to announce the fastest Time Attack team from USA, Sierra Sierra, and the Mitsubishi Evo that is affectionately known as “Christine” have confirmed entry into the World Time Attack Challenge in August.
With a very strong showing in 2010 and a second place just behind the Cyber Evo, this team have certainly made their intentions very clear for 2011.
“Our whole team is very excited to be returning to Australia, we certainly have some unfinished business to take care of at Eastern Creek” said Richard Raeder, Sierra Sierra’s team manager from their base in Minden, Nevada.
Sierra Sierra have a history of winning, and before they set out to build “the fastest time attack car in the world” they were a dominant force in Formula Atlantic racing throughout the US culminating in winning the 2007 championship.
They are a very experienced team and with another year of development under their belt are certain to be a force to be reckoned with in August at Eastern Creek. The 4G63 engine has seen a fair increase in power since we last saw it in May 2010, having switched to the new BorgWarner EFR Performance Series turbocharger, E85 fuel and is still in a state of constant development from Eric Hsu and the team at Cosworth USA. The results of this have been obvious as this team has been busy resetting their own records with a time of 1:41.046 recorded at Buttonwillow at the end of 2010.
To give you some perspective of the progress this team has made, when they competed in Australia on May 2010 they held the Buttonwillow record with a time of 1:43.523 which is a clear two and a half seconds. It may not sound like much but in the world of time attack racing, it is enormous and clearly demonstrates this team’s ability to make all the right changes and get the results they are after extremely quickly. We can only wonder how much further progress they will make before the car is pushed into the container to head down under.
“To have Sierra Sierra return to Australia is absolutely fantastic” said Ian Baker Superlap CEO “there is no denying that this team was a crowd favorite last year and I am sure they will represent the USA with pride, and there is certainly no doubt that they plan on taking the biggest trophy back to America with them when they leave.”
“The entire Sierra Sierra Enterprises team takes this very seriously and these guys won’t be coming out here to muck about, they are coming out to try to reset the lap record!”
Sierra Sierra is another of the top teams that will be running the Hankook Ventus TD Z221 tyres and with the legendary Canadian driver and former Indy lights champion David Empringham once again taking the wheel we are sure to see an international battle of epic proportions when the flag drops on August 5th and 6th at Eastern Creek.
Read the Sierra Sierra Enterprises Evo Spec Sheet
Very Nice!
Let’s bring the event title home to North America Emp!!!