Boersma Racing Back To Their Winning Ways!!!

Boersma Racing Back To Their Winning Ways!!!

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Boersma Racing Back To Their Winning Ways!

Chris Boersma and the K-Tuned Honda Civic team headed to Shannonville Motorsports Park for Round 4 of the CSCS season. This is the second year CSCS has come to this famous track, with Chris and team taking the overall Super Street record at the inaugural event last year. The team had been hard at work with changes to try and see if they could break their record again this year.

Chris Boersma CSCS Rd4

The weather for this event was perfect for breaking records with no rain in sight, a nice change from all the other events this year. The team had spent the downtime between events, building a new engine and getting it in the car between events. The team has been fighting issues with oil drain back which has forced Chris to only turn 1 or 2 laps before running low on oil. Changes were made in the new engine that would hopefully solve the problem once and for all. The team would use this event as a test as they were immediately leaving for GridLife South Festival after this event.

The car performed flawlessly with the new engine and Chris managed to break his previous Super Street record running a 1:51.357 right off the bat. “The car is just so easy to drive this year, it’s so consistent and predictable which makes my job a lot easier” Chris commented after the record-breaking run. Chris went on to say “The braking in this car this season is unbelievable, I’ve consistently moved my braking points back at every event we’ve run and still feel like there’s more to go. Every time I step on the pedal the car does exactly what I want and I feel like that’s been a huge part of the gains we’ve seen this year in times.” The team managed to see over 2Gs under braking at this event and Chris really felt like that was a big part of what contributed to the new record time.

Chris Boersma CSCS Rd4

The team was very happy with the results from this event, other then a bath the car doesn’t need anything before leaving for GridLife South, where Chris and team hope to break the TrackMod FWD record and put a better foot forward than when they were there for the GTA event in May.

Boersma is running Konig Ultraform in 18×10.5 et 25 front and 17×8 et 35 rear. The Konig Ultraform is Flow Formed.

Scott & Joey talk FDNJ RD4 on Behind The Wheel Podcast: FD Edition!!!

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Scott and Joey take us into Formula Drift New Jersey and discuss FD Point System, Pawlawk coming in guns blazing, Vankirk showing he deserves rookie of the year, Pro 2 Smoke line affects and more in this Edition of BEHIND THE WHEEL PODCAST FD EDITION! Tune in and give us some feedback!

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Behind The Wheel Podcast: FD Edition – RD4 New Jersey

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In this special, Formula Drift edition episode of the Behind The Wheel Podcast, we cover some of the highlights from Round 4 at Wall, NJ, talk about the points race and even get into how tire smoke may be the one thing that pro drivers coming from Pro2 never saw coming?

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0:18 | Intro
0:52 | Falken Tires goes hard at Wall!
2:12 | Ken Gushi, he’s a veteran and it shows!
4:48 | Vankirk shows why he should be Formula Drift Rookie of the Year!
5:59 | What MVK Racing needs for next season.
8:49 | The role of horsepower
9:20 | Pawlak comes guns blazin’
10:45 | Fields comes in strong at FDNJ!
12:29 | A match we need to see again! Deane vs. Wiecek
13:37 | 100th event for Formula Drift
14:50 | FD winners and the global impact of the sport.
16:49 | Wang has a demolition party!
18:04 | Consistency of the judges
23:31 | Dean ends cold streak w/ FDNJ victory!
26:14 | How FD points are distributed
29:13 | Wall Stadium…the good, the bad, the Jersey.
33:15 | How the smoke line affects the game.
36:48 | Wrap up / Contact info

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Formula Drift Round 4 [Mertzanis Recap]

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Round 4 of Formula Drift could not have come at a better time for the Mertzanis Racing team. The Fuel Culture S13 rolled off the trailer and started ripping in practice. An Aeromotive fuel cell was loaded with VP Racing 110 octane fuel and Dennis proceeded to put down quality runs at high speeds around the Wall Speedway course.

This is the first banked track of the season we venture to in the Formula Drift series and it results in serious adjustments to the suspension overall and some minor tire pressure adjustments. The result allows Dennis to enter into the bank aggressively and stay flat out for the bottom figure 8 part of the course.

Things became super tricky as qualifying kicked off and the weather changed to rain pouring down. Dennis’ first qualifying run was the key to locking him into the show which ranked him 21st overall.

The draw for Top 32 was a battle against the Go Pro x Mobil 1 Chevrolet Camaro driven by Tyler McQuarrie in a tough first round battle. With Tyler qualifying higher, Dennis’ first duty was to put down a follow run which he performed flawlessly. Dennis then held a tight line against the very fast Camaro going through the complete course.

When Dennis was leading, he took such a high and aggressive line into the bank that he was pushed out into the wall coming off the bank and crashed into the barrier at the last second in an attempt to pull out a giant lead on Tyler McQuarrie. The car came out of it with very minimal damage, luckily, but it did allow Tyler to continue into the Top 16.

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