Coming off of two consecutive wins, Chris Rado and the WORLD Racing team were very excited to be heading to Nashville Motor Speedway for another Redline Time Attack event. The Nashville Motor Speedway track is a much shorter and tighter course than Chris is used to, which meant he would be using second and third gear coming out of the turns; this is difficult for the tC because it is such a high-horsepower car. But even with knowing that he was definitely going to have his work cut out for him this weekend, Chris was ready for the challenge and had his aim set on another 1st place finish.

The team arrived in Nashville on Friday, just in time for the HIN Nightshift event at the Nashville Music City Motorplex. The WORLD Racing Scion tC was on display with all the NOS Energy Drink main attractions, and the fans were given a sight of the car that was going to be gunning for 1st place the following morning.

Saturday morning came and the Nashville temperature was up and blazing. The WORLD Racing team waited until the second session to get on the hot track. When Chris got on the track, what he thought to have been his not-so-up-to-par time, ending up being the fastest track time of the day thus far by about a half of a second!

After making some changes to the car in order to get a little more aggressive, Chris went back out on the track for the third session to improve his time. Chris ended the final session with the second highest time of the day – the fastest time was completed by the AWD Top Speed Subaru Impreza, who would turn out to be Chris’s main competition of the weekend.

Going into Sunday, after some changes to the tC and some new tires, Chris went out during the first practice session, to shave a few seconds off his time. He succeeded in this goal when he ran a 1.07.1 – not far behind the 1.05.8 top time of the Top Speed Subaru.

After prepping the tC for the first time attack session that actually counted of the weekend, Chris and the WORLD Racing Scion tC were gridded second behind the Top Speed Subaru. As soon as Chris left the line and pulled second gear, the transmission locked up. So the team pulled the car back into the pit area and saw that they needed to replace the transmission.

“This track was definitely rough on the car,” says Chris. “The transitions on and off the oval were really tough – you come from a high-banked oval onto a flat surface at such a high speed, it really beats up on all the parts of the car.”

Chris and the team worried at first that they might not be able to get back on the track for the next session, especially since the WORLD Racing Scion tC is a unibody car and it usually takes about five hours to do a transmission. “Fortunately, with the experience and level of expertise of the guys on my team,” says Chris, “they were able to get [the transmission] out, changed, replace the axels, and get it all back together in racing shape for the final session.”

Chris and the tC got on the grid for the third session of the day – the second session that actually counted – and was prepared to get himself on the board since he was unable to finish the session prior. Chris was gridded second again behind the Subaru.

“We knew we had to put a good number on the board right away,” says Chris. “And that is just was we did.” Chris laid down a lap time of 1.05.5, which was just a tenth of a second behind the track record for a production body vehicle.

By receiving this time, which was five seconds faster than any other FWD competitor at the event, Chris and the WORLD Racing team were awarded 1st place in the Unlimited FWD Class. They were also 2nd place overall at the event, barely trailing behind the AWD Top Speed Subaru Impreza. And to put the icing on the cake, Chris and the WORLD Racing Scion tC now hold the new track record for the fastest FWD lap time at Nashville Motor Speedway. What a weekend!

This win in Nashville makes three straight 1st place finishes for WORLD Racing, and this is a streak that the team doesn’t plan to let fade anytime soon. Next up on the team’s busy schedule – Road Atlanta, August 8 – 10, for Super Street Super Lap Battle where the WORLD Racing team, Chris Rado, and the WORLD Racing NOS Energy Drink Scion tC will be ready to bring home another victory.

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