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Weekend Report:

The 3rd round of the Honda Challenge series brought us to Buttonwillow Race Park in central California. Edo Motorsports brought their #78 Acura Integra, piloted by Edik Stepanyan, to compete in H4 and try to cut down the Championship lead gap between 1st place James Landry and Edik. The point gap is currently at 48 points after 4 races.
Edomoto would like to welcome 2 new sponsors who joined after the California Speedway event in March: JE Pistons and Motul.

The qualifying session was cut short as the Jeff “Kiwi” Owen’s H1 Integra spilled oil in the middle of Talladega and caused several cars to spin out. Edik was able to save the car from collecting Jeff who was stopped off track. In the next turn though, Edik went off due to the oil on the tires and damaged the splitter. He was still able qualified in 4th place out of 11 cars with a 2:06.057 lap time. John Howard qualified in 1st with a 2:05.848. James and Terri Rossi fell into 2nd and 3rd. In H2, Renan Bayar qualified first with Jeff and Greg Neuwirth behind him. The splitter was repaired and ready for the race. Edik was able to get an excellent start and got by Terri, James and Renan to take over 2nd place behind John Howard. During the second lap Edik made a clean pass coming out of the Buttonhook turn and held onto the lead. Michael Lee started from the back of the back in H1 and spilled some fluid coming out of Talladega which caused several cars to get a little sideways. Edik swapped the overall HC lead several times with Renan finishing overall and taking the H2 win. Edik held brought the car to the finish line finishing 2nd overall and 1st in H4. James finished in 2nd place with Terri in 3rd by less than one second.

Sunday’s qualifying session went better for Edik as he qualified in 2nd place with a 2:03.337 lap time behind Manny Coats who ran a 2:03.218 with Terri in 3rd. Renan qualifed in 1st again with Greg in 2nd. Another great start by Edik put the EdoMoto Integra in first place in the first turn of the race. Edik built a safe lead in H4 and was in front of Michael and Renan for the overall lead. They both made the pass to get in front of Edik. Renan developed a problem and DNF’d with several laps remaining. This gave Greg the win in the H2 class and Michael crossed the finish line to take 1st place in H1.
Edik cut down the gap between James Landry and himself from 48 points to 23 points in the Championship by winning both days.


We’d like to thank several people who helped us out throughout our busy weekend: Hovsep(Joe), Suren and Tigran.

I’d also like to thank Tom Paule for instructing my Dad in his first HPDE event on Saturday.

Thanks to our sponsors for helping us make the events: Hondata, Speedvision motorsports, JE Pistons, Motul, Mirage Auto Body, Sav-On driving & Traffic School, 5Zigen, and Mfactory. http://edomoto.com/sponsors.html

Complete race pics are: http://www.edomoto.com/images.html











Edik Stepanyan, Manny Coats, Renan Bayar
















Modified by UltimateTSI at 9:54 PM 4/30/2008


Modified by UltimateTSI at 9:56 PM 4/30/2008


Modified by UltimateTSI at 11:57 PM 5/1/2008

 

Nice pics Harut! Nice Job EdoMoto & John Howard!


Modified by .:Made in OC:. at 10:26 PM 4/30/2008

 

Nice report. Bring back the loser cam!




Modified by sidtc at 7:03 AM 5/1/2008

 

nice harut!

 

Nice pics!! You guys put on a great show!!

 

congrats edo! nice job

 

Great Pics Edo!!!! Thanks for all the fun . Your driving is amazing. I cannot believe you drive a 2500+ lb car that fast

JT

 

Nice job Edo and Harut !

 

Thanx Guys. I couldent have done it withouth My Crew and Sponsors.
My Brother did Triple duty This weekend. And want to Thank Erevryone That helped.

Edo.

Nice Shot

 

Great driving Edo and nice pics Harut! I wish I could have been out there with you guys this year. I'll definitely try to put a SoCal stop on my calendar for next year.

- Scott

 

Harut gets a for a great job.

Congrats to Edo for winning both days.

 

nice pics, Harut. Hopefuly I get to play with you guys sometime this year.

 

Nice pics Harut! Congratulations Edo! Great weekend, I had a blast. It was a fun and action packed weekend between the classes of racers. I can't wait for the next one in Willow Springs, hopefully I can make it to help you guys out again.

-Suren

 

Congrats Edo

 

Nice Shots! Congrats

 

Nice!!

 

Thanx Everyone. I will put up saturdays race Tonight.


Edo

 

Wow, RSX in honda challenge now? Running in H1 I take it?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by blackdc5 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Wow, RSX in honda challenge now? Running in H1 I take it?</TD></TR></TABLE>

h2

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by blackdc5 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Wow, RSX in honda challenge now? Running in H1 I take it?</TD></TR></TABLE>

H2


Edo

 

awesome, was it very competitive?

 

LOL I was wondering the same thing...being in the back of the pack = so sad for RSX

 

i think it has more to do with the driver then the car.


He performed really good at cali speedway

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by slammed_93_hatch &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i think it has more to do with the driver then the car.


He performed really good at cali speedway</TD></TR></TABLE>while it's true, it's just hard to refute when ppl mention RTR dropping the RSX for TSX.

i still got love for the RSX though...if i didn't it'd be in the street, daily driven, daily beated on...but now it's garage kept, and saved for track days, or when i miss driving it lol.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by blackdc5 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">while it's true, it's just hard to refute when ppl mention RTR dropping the RSX for TSX.

i still got love for the RSX though...if i didn't it'd be in the street, daily driven, daily beated on...but now it's garage kept, and saved for track days, or when i miss driving it lol.</TD></TR></TABLE>

If you think they "dropped" the RSX by choice you are mistaken.

RTR is a fully factory backed team. If American Honda tells them they are going to run the honda pilot in 2009 they would start testing it as soon as they could.

They "dropped" the RSX because it was no longer being sold by honda, and for a time being the TSX was allowed a bigger motor.

The RSX is a VERY capable car, it was won many GAC ST races, and WC TC.


It is actually faster then the TSX in WC TC trim