Boersma Racing Fighting It Out In TrackMod!

Posted on September 27, 2019September 27, 2019 by Konig Gfx

The Boersma Racing team headed to the infamous Road America in Wisconsin to wrap up the GridLife season. This track is known for its high speeds and at 4miles long it would be the longest track the team had raced on yet, putting tons of stress on everything in the car. The Saturday of the event would be run as a traditional Time Attack event, with the Sunday being reserved for bracket battles. With the recent success of the car, the team was feeling very confident heading into the weekend that they could take 1st place in the Time Attack and possibly secure the championship win.

The 1st session of the day was catastrophic as fellow competitor William Au-Yeung had a failure heading up the front straight which resulted in the car hitting the wall multiple times. Chris was the 3rd car through the wreck and saw that luckily Will was OK, but the session was red flagged, and the cars were brought back into the pits. The track went cold for almost an hour while the track workers cleaned up the debris and oil which put the event a little behind.

Heading into the second session you could tell most of the competitors were a bit nervous, Chris worked up to pace and managed to crack off a respectable 1st lap. Some of his competitors had been running the day prior which gave them a definite advantage on such a high-risk track. Chris’s lap time of 2:21.8 put him squarely in 4th place and he knew he’d have some work to do if he wanted to be the fastest of the day. Chris was fighting 2 seriously quick Corvettes and the points leader Luke McGrew in his Viper ACR.

The team prepared for the 3rd session of the day, they reviewed data and formulated a plan of attack to find some time. Chris headed out and started his first hot lap, the lap started out perfectly and he was seconds up on his previous best time, as he came through the kink though he heard a familiar sound and he knew that the intercooler piping had blown apart. He had to abort the lap and come into the pits, a quick look in the hot pits confirmed that the hot side piping had come apart. The team had worked to fix this issue which happened at New Jersey, but it had reared its ugly head again. As the team looked at the data from the session Chris was definitely way up on the lap but it just wasn’t meant to be. The team worked hard to put the car back together for the final session, but the same thing happened again towards the end of the lap the piping blew apart again. This meant Chris did not improve on his time and he’d have to settle for a 4th place finish in the Time Attack battle.

Chris and the team spent the rest of the day and evening trying their best to come up with a solution to keeping the piping together. They used everything they had in the trailer to come up with a solution and planned to keep the power turned down for the track battles to try and keep things together for longer. The Track Battles weren’t using the entire course and eliminated 2 of the 3 straightaways. The format has a lead follow type of approach with both cars trying to pull away or close the gap to the other car.

The first battle Chris had was against a Miata, Chris headed out as the follow car to start and managed to close the gap, in the second run with Chris leading he was able to stretch the gap out and take the overall win. This put him up against a familiar competitor Joel from Nine Lives Racing in his turbocharged S2000. Chris knew he was going to have his work cut out against Joel. The team decided to up turn the boost setting up to 5 to ensure that Chris had the power he needed. Chris was the lead car in the first run and managed to pull away from Joel, in the chase lap he got a bad start, but still managed to close the gap up by the end of the lap securing the win and moving on the next round.

This round would be the hardest of them all, with Chris facing off against Jeremy Swenson in his Corvette. Jeremy had run the fastest time of the event so far and the team knew they were going to have their work cut out to beat him. They turned the boost up to setting 6 and hoped that the boost piping would stay together. Chris had the lead for the first run, he got a good run at the beginning of the lap and felt like he was pulling away from Jeremey as they came into Canada Corner, however the boost coupler decided to let go again and that was the end of the battle.

All was not lost though, the team worked as quickly as they could to try and fix the issue as Chris would be facing off with another Corvette for the 3rd place. They managed to get everything fixed and decided to leave the car on boost setting 6 as they knew they’d need everything they had to beat this very fast vette. Chris had the lead run to start and managed to secure the win, on the follow lap Chris got a terrible start to the lap and the vette was pulling away from him, as he came into Canada Corner he noticed that vette had made a mistake and he closed up right onto its bumper crossing the line as the winner.

The win was bittersweet as they team really felt like they had the pace to do better that weekend but taking a 3rd place with the competition level in TrackMod wasn’t bad either. Chris said “I really enjoyed the track the facilities were unbelievable, and the track really suited the car quite well. I know we had more pace then we showed and I can’t wait to come back next year and really put the car through its paces!”

Boersma is running Konig Hypergram in 18×11 et 15 front and 18×9.5 et 35 rear. The Konig Hypergram is Flow Formed.

Behind The Wheel Podcast: – Wheel Wednesday – Wheels for the track!!!

Posted on August 14, 2019August 20, 2019 by Konig Gfx

Wheel Wednesday is a segment where Scott (Konig Wheels, Marketing Director) and Nick (Konig Wheels, Marketing team) break down some of the questions we consistently get asked via social media, discussing one wheel tech-related topic, talking cars and any other cool things we have upcoming or going on. So you may be the first to hear about wheel giveaways or new wheels. We also might go in-depth on technical topics!

On this episode, Scott and Nick talk “WHEELS FOR THE TRACK”! Some awesome motorsport events went down this past weekend and our boys quickly recap Formula Drift St. Louis and Global Time Attack NJMP! Nick got a chance to head out to NJMP and caught up with some of our sponsored drivers such as Sally McNulty, Chris Boersma, James Houghton and Shilun Wu. As well as giving you some insight about wheels for motorsport and how Konig Wheels are beneficial on the track!

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Boersma Racing Returns To GridLife MidWest Festival!

Posted on June 14, 2019June 14, 2019 by Konig Gfx

Boersma Racing Returns To GridLife MidWest Festival!

The 2019 season continues with the team making a stop at GridLife Midwest Festival. This event has become one of the premier motorsports events of the season and the team came in with a slew of improvements to the car hoping for good results.

Taking everything they learned from Road Atlanta, the team spent the few weeks between events addressing some of the issues they encountered. The biggest issue was to figure out how to keep the aero off the ground and get rid of the suspension undulation at high speeds. The team threw a bunch of changes at the car in hopes of getting everything resolved and just finished everything before having to leave for the event.

The first day of the event starts later in the afternoon so the team had time to button up a few last minute items before heading out on the track. The first session the team wanted to focus on ensuring the changes they made had fixed the suspension issues, so the power was turned down, final checks made and Chris headed out on the track. Immediately Chris was on the radio, giving the team positive feedback that the handling was much better in the car and after turning 5 laps he brought the car in to review data and debrief. It seemed like the issue was fixed, a great success for the team! The team spent the next 2 sessions on Thursday testing out a few other changes on the car, preparing for Friday and Saturday.

Friday kicked off and the team was ready to start attacking. The car’s power was turned up and the first session saw Chris start to improve on his times, but the team was still way off the pace compared to years past. With the power increased the car became difficult to drive and increasingly pushy. The team worked to go through the data after the first session and decided some changes to boost delivery in lower gears and some traction control changes would help.

Chris headed out in the second session with the changes and reported a definite improvement to the car and he managed to knock 2 seconds off his previous best time. Unfortunately, they were still 1 second off the rest of the field’s pace, but the team was happy with the results as it showed they were heading the right direction.

The last session of the day saw Chris improve his times again with some more changes to the car. Chris said, “I’m really starting to get comfortable in the car and understand more what it’s going to do. This car is so different from anything I’ve driven in years past and it’s taking me time to figure out exactly how to drive it. We started off with a rocky relationship, but we’re starting to figure each other out and get on the same page!”

The final day of competition saw some rain, but also dry sessions. The team was focused on making small improvements to the car and Chris’s driving to improve the lap times. With these changes Chris was able to run his fastest time of the weekend a 1:35.2, however, the rest of the field was still moving faster and that put him squarely in 5th place. As the day went on another car managed to push Chris into 6th position, as the team wasn’t able to improve on their lap time.

The team was happy with the results for the weekend. They wanted a record for sure but knew based on the issues they had faced at Atlanta that just getting the car headed in the right direction was more important than anything and they achieved that goal. GridLife Midwest was another spectacular event with tons of fans, media, competition and things to see. The team was happy to be part of this amazing festival again this year and can’t wait to return in 2020 to reset their record!

Boersma is running Konig Hypergram in 18×11 et 15 front and 18×9.5 et 35 rear. The Konig Hypergram is Flow Formed.

Wiborg Engineering is back for 2019 season! TANU RD1 recap!

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Konig Gfx

TANU: Ring Knutstorp – ROUND 1 | May 10th and 11th

An amazing start to the 2019 season!

During the winter the Wiborg Engineering Evo had undergone a massive upgrade program featuring a new engine and turbo/IC setup. Weight saving of close to 50kg, implementation of carbon brakes and a completely new front end aero package.

The team knew beforehand that the first race weekend was going to be a real challenge with all the new bits and pieces on the car, no prior shakedown and a double race weekend that started in Norway and the Rudskogen track with NTA series on Friday and the weekend would be finished with TANU on Saturday at the Knutstop track in Sweden.

The team arrived early Friday morning at a rainy Rudskogen track in Norway, the car was unloaded and all the tools and equipment set up in the pit box. The first 3 outings on the track were spent on a fully wet track with a very busy shakedown program where the new brakes were bedded in, the new engine is broken in, the new boost control setup tuned and some fine tuning of the engine ECU and new aero package started.

After 3 heats on full wets, the track was beginning to dry up and with more rain scheduled for later in the afternoon the team new, this might be the only chance this day to go for the tintop track record that was the aim with this trip. The boost was still on a very low setting (2.0 bar) due to the limit time to set up the car. The track was judged to be dry enough to head out on slick tires. Slicks showed to be the correct choice but the track was still damp and very slippery but one attempt on a fast lap was done but it was impossible to get a good enough lap time in to brake the current record due to some of the corners still being fully wet. Despite this a time of 1:24:8 was but down only 3 seconds of the record before the heat was red flagged due to an accident.
The team hoped for the weather to stay dry for another 60 min for a chance of a run on a fully dry track but unfortunately, it started raining heavily again. The amount of water on the track meant the planned schedule also had to be canceled. The car was later in the afternoon sent out in the heavy rain for a run in the finals to secure the overall race win, the time set was good enough to win with almost 10 seconds and the team packed up quickly and prepared for the trip back to Sweden and Knutstorp where some sunny weather was forecasted. Although the record could not be broken the team was in very good spirits after a great event by NTA and the car seemed to be working perfectly so far.

Saturday morning after only a few hours of sleep the team again unloaded all the gear into a pit box this time at Knutstorp and the first race of TANU series. The weather for Saturday was perfect with sun forecasted for the entire day. The plan was to continue the aborted shakedown program during the first 3 heats and then go for the tin top record in the final (4th heat).
The 1st heat, however, did no go as planned as a fatigue failure on the OEM steering rack caused the car to go off track and hit a banked grass section with the splitter first. Mikael and the team managed to do some quick repairs of the failed rack and patch up the splitter that luckily only suffered cosmetic damages but for this meant another heat was lost which was a big issue due to the limited track time available.

For Q1 the car was sent out still running at the low 2.0 bar boost setting, after 3 laps a time of 57,9 was put down only 0.9 sec of the overall tin top record. For Q2 the boost was raised to 2.2 bar and some new Yokohama super soft compound slicks fitted and another 3 laps put in. The result was an impressive 56,2-sec lap a full 0.8 seconds faster than the current tin top lap record and the setup and balance was now spot on.

With the tin top record already broken the overall lap record seemed to be within reach standing at 55.5 seconds. a further 0.7 sec was needed and prior to the final, the boost was raised to last years max levels at 2.4 bar (2.8 bar is the intended race boost level for 2019). The car setup was absolutely spot on and after 2 attack laps, the clock showed an amazing time of 55.177 a new absolute track record with a 0.3-sec margin and a the tin-top record was now broken by 2 seconds. This meant the 10-year-old record overall track record had been broken and not by a formula car!

So to summarize the first weekend of 2019 it seems the changes done for the 2019 spec Evo performed exactly as intended and that there will fall a lot of records this summer.
For the next race, the last tuning on the boost control and engine ECU will also be finished to enable the max boost of 2.8 bar to release the last bit of speed.
A huge thank you to the team that consists of Mikael, Jimmy, Martin, Marcus and Lucas and of course all our partners that make this possible.

Frederik is running Konig Hypergrams in 18×9.5 et 25mm all around in Race Bronze. The Konig Hypergram is Flow Formed.

Boersma Racing Back on Track for 2019! (GTA Road Atlanta Recap)

Posted on May 15, 2019May 28, 2019 by Konig Gfx

Boersma Racing Back On Track for 2019!

Welcome to the 2019 race season, the team at Boersma Racing finally unveiled the new 2019 Time Attack car this past weekend at Global Time Attack Road Atlanta. After spending the offseason completely rebuilding the car from the ground up the team was excited to introduce the car to the world and showcase all the changes they had worked so diligently on.

With all the changes to the car, the team knew they were going to have some figuring out to do. Basically, every part had changed from the previous season. The team had focused on improving every aspect of the car, power, aerodynamics, grip, suspension, and handling, electronics, pretty much everything!

The Thursday of the event is an open test day so the team used this to shake the car down and ensure that everything was functioning as expected, there were a few issues the team had to work through but for it being the first time the car had been on track everything was pretty minor.

The team spent the evening preparing the car for the first day of competition, doing a nut and bolt check, pulling logs from the Link Thunder ECU, making changes to the traction control profiles and changing wheels/tires to be ready to attack the first session on Friday.

Friday kicked off with the threat of rain that never really materialized. The first session out for the car did not go as planned as starting his first timed lap Chris had the car unload through turn 2 which sent the car off track damaging the splitter. The team worked hard to fix the splitter and also raise and re-align the car to ensure this wouldn’t happen again. The team worked so quickly that they were able to make it back on track for the 2nd session of the day. With the car fixed for the 2nd session Chris headed back on track, only to find that there was a vibration in the car above 160km/h, the car was back in the pits and the team decided to change the tires out for the next session to see if that was the culprit.

The 3rd and final session of the day, the car headed out on track on new tires and the vibration issue was fixed. However, a new problem appeared, with the car starting to become uncontrollable at higher speeds from oscillation in the suspension, likely due to the new aero on the car. Chris managed to push through and complete a timed lap, but had to keep his speed under 200km/h in order to keep control of the car. At the end of the first day, the team was still sitting on the podium in 3rd place, not too bad considering the issues they had.

Day 3, the final day of competition again saw the threat of rain that never materialized. The team worked throughout the night trying to make changes to the suspension in hopes that they could control the oscillations that were occurring. Unfortunately, the 1st session saw no improvement. The team worked again between sessions to try and get the issue rectified but saw no improvement throughout the rest of the sessions for the day. Chris did manage to get 1 lap in, again limiting his speed to keep the car in control and still managed to crack off a 1:34.097 lap time on the cars lowest boost setting. Unfortunately, this time was just shy of getting the team on the podium but they still wound up in 4th place out of a 20 car field.

Overall the team was happy with the results given how new of a car they had brought to the track and the amount of data they were able to gather has definitely set the team up for more success in the future. The team is going to continue working and testing the car before the next event GridLife MidWest to ensure that they can put their best foot forward for this highly competitive series

Boersma is running Konig Hypergram in 18×11 et 15 front and 18×9.5 et 35 rear. The Konig Hypergram is Flow Formed.

Boersma Racing’s Whirlwind Season Finale!

Posted on October 10, 2018 by Konig Gfx

Boersma Racing’s Whirlwind Season Finale!

Chris Boersma and the K-Tuned Honda Civic team headed to Toronto Motorsports Park for Round 5 of the CSCS season its final event. Chris and team headed into this event confident they would be able to break the record they had previously set closing the gap between Super Street and the Unlimited records.

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 worked hard to prepare the car for this event, making some small aero changes and working to address an oil pressure related issue they had been dealing with all season.

The car performed flawlessly in qualifying with Chris setting the 2nd fastest time in class after hitting some traffic in his qualifying run. After looking at the data from the car it was clear that they were on pace to break their record finally getting into the 1:13 lap time range. With the data gathered, the team worked to prep the car for the final timed runs where Chris would put it all on the line.

The final timed runs started and Chris set his safe first lap and started on his second flyer. He was attacking every corner as hard as he could, the predictive lap time on the dash was showing a 1:12 lap time when Chris caught the car in front of him. This isn’t supposed to happen as the cars gape when they are sent out, the car in front had broken and decided to parade around the track rather than get off. Chris attempted to pass but was blocked. Chris was given an extra lap to try and repeat, however, the car began to overheat and the temperature protections kicked in and robbed him of another great lap.

Without his flyer laps, Chris had to settle for 2nd place, finishing behind the car that had ultimately blocked him on track. It was an unfortunate end to their CSCS season, “After working so hard to lose in this manner was one of the most disappointing things I’ve ever experienced in Time Attack” Chris said.

Leaving the event the team re-focused on getting the car ready for the SpeedRing event the following weekend, trying to think of the positives. The car was working better than ever and that means they had a real shot at doing well at that event. Chris’s dad put it best “Onward and upwards!”

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

Boersma Racing Back To Their Winning Ways!!!

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Konig Gfx

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.

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.

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.

The new KING OF MANTORP!!!

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Konig Gfx

Time Attack Festival at Mantorp Park

The new King of Mantorp!

Last week saw the biggest event of the year for time-attack, the Time Attack Festival and King of Mantorp event in Sweden. The lineup for this years event was the best ever seen with 17 entries for the fastest Unlimited class, among those 17 was some of Europes fastest Time-attack teams including the King of Mantorp 2014 and 2016 European champion Valtonen Motorsport leading the Finnish teams assult, also featured was SMR Porschen that hold the tintop record for 4 years until it was broken by us at the last TANU round.

In between TANU Round 3 and the Time Attack Festival the car saw an upgrade package being launched including new bigger D2 front brake discs following the overheating issues seen at Rd3, new front knuckles with lower weight and further adjusted geometry. The rake angle and overall ride height was changed as well as some minor aero updates. Also a late decision was made to scrap the current boost control strategy that had seen issues all the way from round 1 and never worked to ouor satisfaction. The new boost control Strategy/setup and wastegate settings where implemented on friday/saturday before the race and the car loaded and shipped of to Mantorp.

Sunday – Race day
The warmup was used to fine tune the new boost control at a lower boost setting, after a few visits to the pitlane it was all working fine. For Q1 the boost level was increased to normal setting and some fine tuning was done also here. It was now time for Q2 (3 qualifying rounds in total and then the top 5 would advance to a superlap final deciding the winner). In Q2 the goal was to set 2 quick laps and then do some fine adjustment for Q3 where the record attempt would take place. Due to some incidents on track a full lap on attack could not be completed but at least it was enough to get a feel for the setup.
Coming in to Q3 the boost was raised to the “lap-record” setting new tires where fitted and the car left the pitlane for a 1 lap shootout for a new record. The lap was put down and coming to the line the clock showed 1:13.4 a new lap record by 0.15 se and by far the quickest time of the day so far. However the goal was to go sub 1:13 and the car was much quicker this time around then at Rd3 when the 1:13.5 record was put down. When reviewing the logs from the lap compared with the old record it was obvious that the extreme headwinds down the long Mantorp straight was the cause, the top speed had decreased by 25km/h and almost a second was lost over the straight alone.
Time for the superlap final. At the courtesy of being quickest in qualifying we were the last car to go out on track. Due to a runoff in the lower class before the Unlimited class the finals were running late and the 2 warm up laps where shortened to only 1, also the headwind was still super bad although slightly better than in Q3.
The lap was started and by the first sector the delta showed -0,1 sec. Coming to the end of the long straight the headwind was obviously less and the delta showed -0.4 sec. Coming to the braking after the long straight the wind gusts had been causing issues all day with some big aero instabilities during braking so some margin was left for the hard braking zone not to risk throwing the overall victory away. Entering the final sector the delta showed a estimated laptime of -0.35 sec (1:13.2) when coming up to the line the timing showed a laptime of 1:12.6 crushing our own record by 0.9 sec after a mega last sector. The time also meant we won the overall event by almost a 2 second margin.

The feeling after the final was great, this was the first event when the car performed 100% without any issues all day, also the boost control was now working perfect and the upgrade package launched before the event did what was intended. All in all a perfect race day (disregarding the windy conditions).

It´s now two races left this season and we dare to promise two more lap records if the weather is on our side.

Frederik is running Konig Hypergrams in 18×9.5 et 25mm all around in Matte Grey. The Konig Hypergram is Flow Formed.

Wiborg recaps TANU RD 3 at Mantorp Park!!!

Posted on July 13, 2018July 20, 2018 by Konig Gfx

TANU: Kinnekulle Ring – ROUND 3 | June 29th and 30th

The Big Lap Record!

This weekend it was time for round 3 of TANU this time at the most legendary track in Scandinavia, Mantorp Park.

The team headed up to the track early on Friday morning after working late on Thursday to get the car ready (late arrival of parts for the new silencer setup). Having found and fixed the boost/missfire issue from Rd2 the team had big hopes for the weekend. Going out in practice session 1 the car felt good and the engine was running very nicely at full boost with no issues at all. However the joy was short as on the 3rd lap at full boost in 5th gear there was a huge boom noise and the engine lost all power. Coming into the pits it was found out that it was not to bad as it was only the pressure hose from the outlet of the turbo that had simply burst under the boost pressure. A new pressure hose was fitted and the team headed out for practice 3. However during the first full throttle run on the straight the same boom and boost pressure was gone again. This time however the hose hadn´t burst but simply slid of the pipe. The problem with the spare hose was that it was slightly shorter then the original hose that was secured by double clamps at each end. However this was not possible with the shorter hose. The team tried some different solution to fix it for practice 4 but to no affect so it was simply to pack it up for the day. Meanwhile in our hometown Street Performance had already prepared and delivered a big box of all different kind of premium pressure hoses from their shop for the team to bring with us on Saturday morning.

Saturday – Race day
With new (better) hoses fitted and secured the team headed out for the warmup, Unfortunately one of the Pro cars in the heat before had a engine failure and poured out oil on the track. The Xtreme Rescue Team that TANU uses during their events did a great and quick job (as usual) to fix the track but unfortunately the delay meant only 1 warmup lap could be done. At least it was enough to see that the hoses stayed on at full boost.
Now it was time for Q1.

Coming out to Q1 not a single complete lap had been run at full attack but fearing that more issues could occur there was no gambling and a fast lap was to be put down directly. Two warmup laps where done and then the first attack lap was started. The car felt amazing and coming over the finish line the dash showed the time 1.14.49 beating the old track record of 1.14,6. A second lap was started but in the second corner however the next issue arrived as the brake fluid boiled and all brake performance was gone. It was simply the fact that at the fast Mantorp and running at the higher power the front discs was simply to small to handle the engery put in and thus boiling the brake fluid (to much weight savings). The entire team was quite shocked that the (supposedly hardest to beat) record had been broken on the first attack lap. It was now time to crush it….

The car was pitted and prepared for Q2. Knowing we only had 1 lap to put in a good time the tire pressures was adjusted accordingly. However the troubles was not over as during the warmup lap something in the front suspension broke in a right hand corner. After coming back into the pit it was found out that the wheel bearing hub had split into two. The team went to work to get the car ready for the Final and it was rolled out of the garage just 5 min before the closing of check in.
Winning the race was ofcourse of big importance so to not risk it the brakes was not used at all during the warmup lap thus having cold tires starting the attack lap (impossible to get enough heat in the front racing slicks without braking). It was a full attack lap and coming up on half lap distance the time was almost exactly the same as the record lap from Q1. During the second half of the lap the tire temp came up and the lap could be finished of almost 1 second quicker meaning a new lap record of 1.13.525 destroying the old record. The second lap was started but in the last corner before the long straight the brake fluid boiled again and the lap had to be aborted. The time up on the previous lap in the first sector? A whopping 0.8 seconds.

The team is super happy with another win and to crush the overall tintop track record. Regards to the what could of been lap, don´t worry in 5 weeks time it´s time for the biggest event of the year at TANUs time attack festival at, you guessed it Mantorp Park.

So if you want to see a new track record be sure to save the date, also the rumors says an update package is being fitted for the time attack festival. Don´t miss it!

#UltimateEVO #No1 #TANU2018

A big thank you to all the amazing people involved in this Ultimate EVO build, without you this would not be possible!!!

Frederik is running Konig Hypergrams in 18×9.5 et 25mm all around in Matte Grey. The Konig Hypergram is Flow Formed.

Wiborg breaks record at TANU RD2!!!

Posted on June 20, 2018June 20, 2018 by Konig Gfx

TANU: Kinnekulle Ring – ROUND 2 | June 9th and 10th

Win and a track record at Kinnekulle

This weekend it was time for round 2 of the TANU series at Kinnekulle ring. The team came in to the round with one goal, to break the track record (currently held by a DTM car). The car was rolled of the trailer Saturday morning and with the new EPAS solution installed as well some replaced parts to fix the boost pressure issue that also haunted the team at round 1 it was now time to see the true potential of the Evo.

However during the Saturdays early practice heats the boost pressure issues from Knutstorp was still there and the boost pressure did not go above 1.1-1.2 bar (should be 2.0) leaving the car with 150-200hp less power. For the 5th and final heat the issue was finally found, however the joy was very short since running at full boost now caused the engine to misfire.
Returning for race day on Sunday we thought the problem with misfires was resolved after we found that the connection between the ignition coils and ignition cables was not perfect. However during the warm-up this was found not to be the case. To make matters worse the car now did not run on low boost either. So before Q1 more or less all cables and parts around the ignition system was replaced as well as the spark plugs and injectors. However the car still suffered badly from misfires as soon as the boost pressure increased. The team figured out it was bad sparks causing the misfire and with no real fix available a last shot was to decrease the spark plug gaps to improve the sparks slightly. Although not solving the issue it made it good enough to run low boost settings at 1.1-1.2 bar boost pressure.

Now being into Q2 we went out on the track and started to step up the pace, after only 2 laps on attack we got a technical flag due to sound levels being over the regulation 95dB and we had to abort Q2.

So for the final an extra silencer was fitted and we headed out again, although running on low boost the record was still within reach and on the first full attack lap a time of 49.768 was put down beating the old record with 0,15 sec and winning the round.

The team now has 3 weeks to solve the engine issues as well as implementing some other small improvements for round 3 on Mantorp Park. .

Also big thanks to everyone joining up and helping out during the weekend, without you we wouldn’t have made it this time.

Now it’s time to go brake some more records….

Frederik is running Konig Hypergrams in 18×9.5 et 25mm all around in Matte Grey. The Konig Hypergram is Flow Formed.