[GarySheehan]

The event coverage of the Live Sockets Battle Series at Auto Club Speedway just became available. This was the grudge match between the GST Motorsports Subaru Impreza L and the famous carbon fiber C-West Honda S2000.

Most of these "battle" events typically are lead-follow for a single lap. The gap between the cars is measured as the cars cross the starting line and the gap is measured again at the end of the lap. If the gap at the end of the lap is smaller than the gap at the start, the car behind won. If the gap got bigger, the car in front won. This is done twice, with the order inverted for the second lap, and the combined times determine the winner. No passing is allowed.

The GST Motorsports car and the C-West car are so different in the way they get around the track that neither myself nor Tyler McQuarrie felt that the no passing rule would work for us. The C-West car is really fast in the corners and the GST Motorsports car is really fast on the straights. So, because both Tyler and I have lots of roadracing experience and both cars were built for wheel to wheel racing, we worked with the organizers of the event to make this a heads-up, anything goes, wheel to wheel battle.

This video shows exactly how things went....

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Gary Sheehan
Sheehan Motor Racing
www.garysheehan.com
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[USNSTI]

Very nice. I'm curious what kind of times they would have run seperately? Seemed like the Cwest car could have gone faster, but he never got a chance to pass in the corners. I still think the GST car would come out on top though. Thanks for posting this.

[kayno]

Congrats! That's one heck of an amazing car!

[GarySheehan]

Originally Posted by USNSTI

Very nice. I'm curious what kind of times they would have run seperately? Seemed like the Cwest car could have gone faster, but he never got a chance to pass in the corners. I still think the GST car would come out on top though. Thanks for posting this.

At the end of the day after the Redline Time Attack, the GST Subaru turned a fastest lap of 1:38.395, beating the C-West S2000's quickest lap of a 1:41.621 by over 3 seconds.

Gary
Sheehan Motor Racing
www.garysheehan.com

[Earl]

Gary "172mph" Sheehan is a MONSTER behind the wheel of the "L"!!!

What an awesome weekend that was. Gary and GST took ALL 4 first place trophies they had available!

VIR could not be here soon enough. Dare i say rematch?!

Hats off to Tyler for a hard fought battle as well.

[Earl]

Originally Posted by GarySheehan

the GST Subaru turned a fastest lap of 1:38.395

Gary
Sheehan Motor Racing
www.garysheehan.com

And shattered the course record by 5.xx seconds without breaking a sweat.

[TIMELESS]

Turn 2-3 is where lightweight shines from the s2k, kamakazi braking!...but traction was its downfall everywhere else.

Gary in the L is no joke!

[Deuce Cam]

Congradulations on the victory, that GST car is a monster. I was fortunate enough to see the car in action last May here in Phoenix. A couple of my friends and I were shocked at how fast the car was.

[IGoFast1589]

That was very cool.

[ConradSTI]

yeah sweet video.

[elirentz]

Awesome video. Great driving by both teams in two amazing cars.

[subysti5486]

i wish i could drive like that

[crf-sti]

^^don't we all!
sweet vid btw!

[Glycerin]

holy crap!!

[YPH]

Originally Posted by GarySheehan

This is done twice, with the order inverted for the second lap, and the combined times determine the winner. No passing is allowed.

Hm, how come on the second run the order wasn't inverted?