Brent Rau, testing tonight in Ponce, PR

[Jean DSM]

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Video Here (http://www.grs-motorsports.com/noticias/foro/videos/ponce/62.wmv)

[Marco]

Wow! Not bad! Brent called me this morning and said he broke the track record at Ponce last night! Nobody has ever run that fast there.

That was a back up motor that I put together out of spare parts between 12 am and 5 am that night in Puerto Rico! We called it "the Veteran" cause it was so old.

Way to go GRS!!

thanks for the pics and Vids Jean!

Also Looks like Luis's car is shaping up nicely finally, Did Gaby have a look at it?

[Spark Tech]

Congrats to Brent and Team Magnus for setting new records in P.R. What did Luis run, been a personal friend for a long time.

[OKIX]

Thats just unreal! Very nice job guys.

[admin]

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Paradise Celica

www.grs-motorsports.com been going through this site all morning

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How much crap does a team have to go through to get a car to PR? What's the expense and paperwork?

[Da Fuhrer]

I can't see it being that bad, with the fact that so many PR teams bring their cars over for the Pan Ams and stuff like that. Plus, I think this is Brents 2nd trip in not so long

[Da Fuhrer]

Anyone know what sort of boost levels the Paradise car runs??

[Marco]

Brent called me again, I was kinda busy so I got few details out of him.

This was a match race featuring Luis Carujo of Paradise Racing. Luis is the fucking man BTW. So last time in PR the car was a little jacked up and was never going straight we were all suspecting it needed a big time alignment. I couldn't make it down for this race, But Brent's car is in Luis's trailer, so Brent went down just to move his car out of the trailer. While they were there Gaby (from GRS chassis, chassis builder and badass video editor) and Brent and Luis straightened out Luis's car, and now the car is running straight as an arrow!

Since they were there Brent decided to make a little hit to make sure everything was cool since we prepped the whole car before we left last time. Looks like everything was good! no more gremlins like we were having before! and he's also on 'only 65 psi' :D Gaby and some guys from down there were helping out Brent, from what he tells me.

I love the way everybody works together to help each other when were at the track truly a family experience.

If you guys want to get your cars down to PR I can talk to some of the event promoters when we are down there. It is the best place to race in the world.

Paradise runs lower boost, but he also has the big Toyota Tacoma motor. 2.4L I believe, makes gobs of tq

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Great update Marco. I would be love to take our car sometime. I've got to learn about the process first, then do the planning. After exchanging several PM's with many of the guys in PR, I have the feeling that they're very gracious in welcoming fellow racers.

[Mysterio]

Props to Brent! Some very fast cars down there!

[PharaOh]

Big ups to Brent and everyone who helped to make this happen.

[Jean DSM]

Well last wednesday Luis and Brent arrive to Puerto Rico, Gaby (GRS) & I pick them up at the Airport, then we went to the trailer park were Paradaise Racing Trailer was brent and luis cars' were stored to take the Celica to GRS Shop for some suspencion tunning and alignment.

Yesterday at Ponce I helped Luis and Brent, in simple stuff like changing oil and setting up the clutch , handing some tools and stuff. Luis Corujo had a Match Race with La Maijalin a 82 Toyota Starlet whio brote in a testing run.

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Luis Made a testing run...

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Luis and Brent's car along with other 6 cars from the US will stay in PR cus in march 7th Brent will have a match race with Adriana Is back and in march 14th is the PR vs. USA Event in Ponce.

[Marco]

Thanks for the update buddy! and good job on Luis's car. I can't tell you how happy I am to see his car running well!

[Jean DSM]

Thanks for the update buddy! and good job on Luis's car. I can't tell you how happy I am to see his car running well!

Youre welcome !

Luis is very happy with the acomplishment, he is only 2 mph below Brents car and it was on a consevative tune, he made 1.13 on the 60th foot while brent made 1.09 secs.

Now its time to turn up a little bit more power !

[Shearer]

Is Brent still running the 10.5's? Sounds like it would be a blast to be down there!

[Jean DSM]

Here's a video compilation of some of last thursdays passes:

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Click to see the Video (http://www.grs-motorsports.com/noticias/foro/videos/ponce/70.wmv)