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Registration is officially open for the 2017 USAF 25hrs of Thunderhill presented by Hawk Performance https://nasaproracing.com/events/2662

The 2017 25hrs of Thunderhill Presented by Hawk Performance is set to open registration on July 19th at 7am PST. To get you started here’s a link to the 2017 Supps and a link to the turn 1 RV parking reservation page Remember to like our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/NASA25HrsofThunderhill

Cars entered: 58 Cars finished: 35 Lap count of overall winner: 751 Miles driven by overall winner: 2,152 Laps completed by all cars: 30,418 Mileage driven by all cars: 87,177 Fastest Race Lap Team: JFC Racing Wolf MJ-V8, 1:38.333 Racecars, by brand Mazda 15 BMW 15 Honda 5 Porsche 4 Acura 2 Nissan 2 Factory Five 2 Panoz 2 [...]

Overall Position Class Position Team Laps 1 ES/1 TOYO Tires / Flying Lizard Motorsports 751 2 ESR/1 Ryno Racing Team 1 745 3 ES/2 TOYO Tires / Flying Lizard Motorsports 730 4 ESR/2 Ryno Racing Team 2 725 5 ES/3 CLP Motorsports 713 6 ENP/1 Diamond Level Motorsports 2016 701 7 ES/4 Tiger Racing/Bavarian Tuning [...]

If you can’t be racing in the 25 Hours of Thunderhill, the paddock is the place to be, and if you can have a camera, it’s even better. Here are a few scenes captured during the 2016 25 Hours of Thunderhill.   Night Shift Here’s a taste of what it’s like during the nighttime at [...]

JFC Racing has been bringing its Wolf chassis to Thunderhill for a couple of years now, and it’s usually one of the fastest ESR cars on the track. Last year the car was equipped with a Honda K20 engine, which was good for 240 horsepower and a fast lap of 1:41.819. But the engine didn’t [...]

The last time a Corvette raced in the 25 Hours of Thunderhill presented by Hawk Performance, George W. Bush was still in office and C6 Corvettes were barely a year old. That seems like a long time ago. NASA SoCal’s T.C. McNett was the crew chief of that team. He said they only raced it [...]

When U.S. Army veteran Tom Woods wanted to get back into racing, he also wanted to do something positive. Woods then partnered with Diamond Level Motorsports and Fisher House to bring together a group of five veterans, and himself, on a team that would take on the toughest endurance race in North  America. “The thought [...]

The front row for the start of the race was a pair of Ryno Racing Ginettas, which were large — in a literal and figurative sense. These brutes loomed over everything in the ESR class and dwarfed some of the smaller production vehicles in the numbered classes. Powered by General Motors’ LS V8s, the Ginettas [...]

For the last several years, the overall winner has gridded in ES class. ES cars don’t usually have the pace that ESR cars do, but they compensate for what they lack in comparative speed with greater durability. That was true in 2015 when the Toyo Tires/Flying Lizard Motorsports Audi R8 cranked out 690 laps during [...]