Another Track Record & First Place Finish for WORLD Racing

Chris Rado and the rest of the WORLD Racing team made their way to Road Atlanta for the Super Street Super Lap Battle and the NASA Hot’lanta Nationals, the biggest NASA southeast event of the year. At this huge event, there was about a combined 450 cars racing at the track – everything from Porsche Cup cars to Corvette Cup cars, full chassis lolas and radicals to sport compacts like Subaru’s, Hondas, and the of course, the deadly and feared WORLD Racing Scion tC.

WORLD Racing was very excited to get back to the Road Atlanta track, considering that they already held a record for FWD best lap time at this venue. After coming off three straight wins, and making improvements in the tC at every event, Chris and the team knew that they would be on fire in Hot’lanta.

In the first session on Saturday, the WORLD Racing team decided to take it easy by going out on the track to warm-up and make sure everything was working properly. Chris ran a 1:34.6, which was almost a second and a half faster than their current track record at Road Atlanta. Not a bad way to start the event!

Chris was very excited about this record breaking time, especially since he hadn’t even really pushed the Scion tC yet. This time was also a full five seconds faster than the record time for any Super Street Super Lap Battle competitor at Road Atlanta. The only car faster than Chris on this first lap was Ed White in his Porsche GT3 who ran a 1:32.89

By the time round two came around, the WORLD Racing team had made some tweaks to improve their time. And you know that’s exactly what they did! Ed White was right on the money again with another 1:32 lap time, but Chris bested him with a time of 1:31.92. Not to mention WORLD Racing had also improved their past time by over three seconds.

After accomplishing his first goal, Chris now had his sights set on beating the Porsche Cup car that had run a 1:31.59 in the second session. Chris was ecstatic that he was only three-tenths of a second behind this half-a-million dollar Cup car. He had left everyone at the track amazed and scratching their heads that he had just ran such an incredible time in a four-cylinder tC with a stock transmission and many other stock components.

Towards the end of the second session, Chris caught one of the gators trying to pinch off an apex a little sooner, hitting the oil pan ever so slightly. Chris got the car off the track to avoid any more damage to the car. It had taken five races to finally bottom out the oil pan pickup to kill Gary Kubo’s “little engine that could” – which the team wasn’t too mad about because it was just so amazing how strong the motor was to have lasted for five consecutive events.

They team took the old motor out of the car and took the already prepared new motor out of the trailer and made the swap. Unfortunately, they had to miss the last session on Saturday, but they were prepared to do battle with the new motor Sunday morning. Chris and the team wanted badly to get into the 1:20’s and beat the Porsche Cup car. So it was crucial that the WORLD Racing Scion tC be in perfect shape for session one on Sunday.

Sunday morning the crew got to the track bright and early to have the car completely ready for the first session. They knew that with the high amount of cars on the track, the team was going to get only one or two laps at best to make it happen. On the first hot lap, Chris pushed a little harder everywhere he could. This extra push allowed Chris to run a 1:30.76. This time was more than a second faster than the day before and almost eight seconds faster than any FWD had ever been at Road Atlanta. By the looks on the faces of drivers, team members, and fans at Road Atlanta, they were boggled. Chris had beaten the Porsche Cup car’s time by almost a tenth of a second.

Chris came in 1st place overall at the Super Street Super Lap Battle, beating out all the AWD and RWD cars, which is a first for the WORLD Racing team. On Saturday, Chris had received 1st place in the NASA TTR Unlimited time trials and was 2nd place on Sunday. Overall, Chris was the second fastest car at the track over the weekend.

Next up on the agenda, Chris and the WORLD Racing team will be at Summit Point Raceway in West Virginia for Redline Time Attack, where they will be going for their fifth consecutive win. The WORLD Racing team is on fire and has no plans of being put out anytime soon! Chris would like to thank his sponsors, fans, friends, and family for their amazing support!

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