| Billy Johnson, Jack Roush Jr. win at Homestead, a 400th victory for Jack Roush. by smartbomb |
MotoIQ Staff Report
Billy Johnson and Jack Roush Jr. overcame a qualifying penalty, which forced them to start at the back of the field, to score an amazing win in the Miami Grand Prix, Round 2 of the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge at Homestead Speedway. This was the duo’s second Grand Sport (GS) class victory together in the 2.5 hour, 91-lap Homestead 200 in the No. 61 ROUSH Performance Products Ford Mustang GT. This was Johnson’s second consecutive victory at the 2.3-mile, 11-turn road course, in a car that advanced 33 positions from start to finish.
The race will be airing on SPEED Channel: Homestead-Miami Speedway March 13 (Sat.), 1 p.m. ET
www.BillyJohnsonRacing.com
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| Time Attack Terror: FXMD's Record Setting Acura NSX by smartbomb |
By Mike Kojima and Billy Johnson
If you follow Time Attack at all you are probably very familiar with FXMD's Acura NSX Unlimited RWD killing machine piloted by our own Fast Lap Editor, Billy Johnson. In the 2009 Time Attack season the NSX has given the competition the business in every event it has entered for an undefeated 2009 Redline Time Attack season. Lets take a deep technically based look inside the fastest Time Attack machine in North America.
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| FX Motorsports Development to enter the World Time Attack Challenge by |
MotoIQ Staff Report
FX Motorsports Development is proud to announce their entry in the 2010 World Time Attack Challenge at Eastern Creek Raceway in Sydney, Australia! Many of the top teams around the globe will be attending this event to find out who is the fastest in the world! Eastern creek is renowned as a horsepower track and with the highly experienced Billy Johnson doing the driving they will certainly be one to watch on the 21st 22nd May!
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| Fast Lap With Billy Johnson : Auto Club Speedway Roval (Video Inside) by smartbomb |
By Billy Johnson
Auto Club Speedway, previously known as California Speedway is a relatively new track built in early 1997 and has been the host for many racing series including NASCAR, IRL, Motorcycle, Grand-Am, and even JGTC. This D-shaped oval incorporates 11-degree banking on the front straight with 14-degree banking in NASCAR Turns 1 and 2. This track also has a series of infield road-course combinations with the largest and fastest utilizing the oval’s front straight and first two turns before going back down into the infield. This 2.88 17-turn "roval" is a common configuration for everything from Grand-Am to track days.
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| Congratulations Billy Johnson and Team FXMD/Cricket Wireless! by smartbomb |
MotoIQ Staff Report
MotoIQ would like to give a hearty congratulations to our very own Billy Johnson for his smoking lap time of 1:36.106 at the Redline Time Attack 2009 season finale at California Speedway last weekend. Billy's time was good for:
1st Overall
1st Unlimited Class
1st Unlimited RWD
New RTA track record (and track record for a production-based car).
The win sealed Billy's Redline Time Attack Championship's in both Unlimited and Unlimited RWD classes. |
| Congratulations Eric Hsu-Sierra Sierra and Billy Johnson-FX Motorsports Development by smartbomb |
MotoIQ Staff Report
MotoIQ's master Tech Editor Eric Hsu helped Sierra Sierra win the overall victory at Source Interlink's Superlap Battle Time Attack with their locked and loaded EVO VIII. Eric's contribution is supporting the Cosworth Powertrain that propels the potent EVO. |
| Fast Lap: Willow Springs International Raceway by smartbomb |
By Billy Johnson
Willow Springs International Raceway (WSIR), the “Fastest Road in the West” is the oldest purpose-built road course in North America and has remained virtually unchanged since its creation in 1953. The 2.5mile nine-turn track earned its nickname from its medium to high-speed corners including the infamous Turns 8 and 9. While not the most technical track out there, “Big Willow” puts the mechanical and aero grip of a car to the test while high horsepower cars can see over 160mph. Because of this, the average speed of a car is faster here than almost any other track in the country. The words “ballsy” are often thrown around when talking about WSIR |
| Congratulations Billy Johnson! by smartbomb |
MotoIQ Staff Report
MotoIQ's professor of race craft, Fast Lap Columnist Billy Johnson was victorious last weekend in the Salt Lake City 200 Koni Grand Am Cup race at Miller Motorsports Park. In an exciting knockdown-drag-out battle with the defending race winner Bill Auberlen, Johnson passed Auberlen in Turn 1 of Lap 46, the final lap of the two-and-a-half hour race to win by a narrow 1.095 seconds. This was Johnsons second Grand Sport (GS) victory of 2009 and the first ever for co-driver Jack Roush Jr, son of the legendary Jack Roush Check out the Video here! |
| Fast Lap With Billy Johnson -Buttonwillow Configuration #13 CW by smartbomb |
By Billy Johnson
Ed Note- I would like to introduce MotoIQ's latest columnist Billy Johnson. You have probably heard of him as one of the top Time Attack Pilots in the country. Outside of the Import Performance world, Billy is also a Top Professional racer competing in the Grand-Am Sport Car Series for Horsepower Ranch/Roush Racing's Ford Mustang GT with a winning track history. Billy is also a Skip Barber instructor. It is an honor to have someone of his caliber gracing our pages. Follow Billy in upcoming months as he shows us the fast way around many of our countries fastest track and gives us advanced tips on driving and racecraft. You know I will.
Buttonwillow (BW) is a great test track used by many professional sports car and formula car racing teams because of the track’s variety of corners. From on-camber and off-camber corners, to sweepers, chicanes, hairpins, and man-made elevation changes, BW is a well-balanced and technical track that challenges both the driver and car. In recent years BW has become center for Time Attack drivers and teams attracting cars from as far away as Japan. Like Tsukuba Circuit in Japan, Buttonwillow has become the milestone for lap times for the top tuners in the time attack world. It has also become the benchmark for bragging rights for many OEM manufacturers. |