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WRPMotorsports Driver Willie Phee Kicks off the 2014 Season with Four Podiums in Four Races at the July Road Atlanta Regional Race. July 12-13, 2014 – Road Atlanta, Braselton, Georgia WRPMotorsports driver Willie Phee would finish 2nd in both Carolina Pro Cup Series Races (CCPS) and 3rd in both SCCA ITA Regional Races. Phee would qualify on the pole for the Saturday ITA race and 2nd in class for the CCPS Race. “It was great to get a pole and a 2nd place start after being out of the car since the September races last year at Barber Motorsports Park” said Phee. In race one Phee would be unable to start from pole position due to some last minute changes suspension settings on the car and would start last on the field. “The team wanted to make some changes and unfortunately I was late to the grid and ended up catching the tail end of the field as they were entering turn 10. I knew I would have to be patient and try to work my way through the field but ended up getting hung up a couple of times in turn 10 with slower traffic” said Phee. Phee would end up finishing 3rd in class and 12th overall after starting last in the 27 car field. In the afternoon 45 minute CCPS race Phee would start 2nd in class and 3rd overall. The CCPS race format was different from the Pro-IT format that the Atlanta Region normally runs in that it included a mandatory 2 minute pit stop. “The pit stop added an element that required a strategy of determining when the best time to pit would be. I decided to pit whenever traffic became an issue and caused my lap times to increase” said Phee. “It actually worked out and when I caught lapped traffic I was able to make my pit stop and come out ahead of the 2nd place car”. Phee would go on to finish 2nd in class and 3rd overall at the end of the race. For the Sunday races Phee would qualify 2nd in class and 12th overall for the ITA race, and 2nd in class and 5th overall for the CCPS race. At the start of the CCPS race Phee would maintain his 5th place position for the first 5 laps but dropped back to 10th by lap 7. “I was keeping a good pace and had the leaders in sight but I missed a couple of shifts and that dropped me back. I decided to go ahead and make my pit stop on lap 8 and would try to make up some time with a clear track” said Phee. Phee would end up dropping back to 23rd after the pit stop but would eventually fight back to 2nd in class and 2nd overall. In the afternoon ITA race Phee would move up to 2nd in class for the first 4 laps and would have a good battle with his team-mate for the rest of the race. “I had a good jump on the start and made up a couple of positions but got hung up with a slower ITS car for most of the race. I had a faster pace through the turns but the ITS car had much more speed on the straights. That allowed my team-mate to get by me when I got balked in turn 10 on lap 5” said Phee. Phee would finish just behind his team-mate for 3rd in class and 8th overall. “Overall I’m really happy with 4 podiums in 4 races, especially after not being in the car since September of last year. It would have been nice to start on pole for the first race but the team decided that we needed to make some changes prior to the start and we were just late to the grid. Next time we’ll have all the changes sorted out early enough to avoid that problem in the future” said Phee. The next race is scheduled for August 2-3, 2014 back at Road Atlanta for the NASA Championship Qualifier. The WRPMotorsports team is sponsored by Optima Batteries, Sparco USA and OPM Autosports. Photos courtesy of Motorsports Photography by Clark McInnis Race Results WRPMotorsports Driver Willie Phee Débuts a New Acura TSX at the NASA Road Atlanta Event on August 2nd and 3rd August 2-3, 2014 – Road Atlanta, Braselton, Georgia WRPMotorsports driver Willie Phee would have mixed results over the weekend as electrical gremlins would affect the car all weekend. “It’s never a good idea to shake down a new car at a race but we had no choice as this was the first weekend we had to test the new car” said Phee. “This entire weekend was about testing the car and running enough laps to qualify for the NASA National Championship race at the end of the month”. Phee would indeed run enough laps to qualify and in spite of the problems over the course of the weekend Phee would finish 1st in Performance Touring “C” class in both races and finish 2nd in both races of Honda Challenge 2. The Friday test day would be the first time Phee would drive the car since it was built. The first session was just about riding around and getting a feel for the car. The car was set up fairly soft and as the speed increased it was clear that the suspension needed to be stiffened up and the ride height needed to be raised. “The first session started out well but the car developed a misfire about half way through the session. When I got the car back to the paddock it turned out the car had a bad cam sensor”. In the second session the car wouldn’t run below 3,000 RPM and start intermittently cutting out above 5,500 RPM. “The crew traced the problem to the AEM ECU so we hooked up the stock ECU and the car seemed to run fine. Unfortunately the car was down on power since it was tuned with the AEM ECU” said Phee. Over the course of the weekend the crew would replace the alternator, the kill switch, the battery and would switch back to the stock ECU. Over the weekend Phee would gradually improve his lap times and continue to work on suspension settings. “As I got more comfortable in the car and the lap times started dropping I started bottoming out the car in several of the faster corners so I knew we needed to stiffen up the suspension and raise the ride height”. “I definitely think the car has potential, we just need to get the engine electronics sorted out and continue to work on the handling and suspension settings” said Phee. In both races on Saturday and Sunday Phee would complete enough laps to qualify for the NASA National Championship Race and gain some valuable seat time to help learn more about the car. The next race is scheduled for August 30-31, 2014 back at Road Atlanta for the NASA Championship Race. The WRPMotorsports team is sponsored by Optima Batteries, Sparco USA and OPM Autosports. Photos courtesy of Kim Dunbar Steyn at http://www.adeptstudios.com/ and Bill Vanderford
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WRPMotorsports Driver Willie Phee Finished 4th in PTB and 6th in HC2 at the NASA Eastern National Championship Race held at Road Atlanta on August 31st    August 29-31, 2014 – Road Atlanta, Braselton, Georgia In just the second outing in the WRPMotorsports Acura TSX Willie Phee would finish 4th in PTB and 6th in HC2 at the Eastern region NASA National Championships held at Road Atlanta Raceway in Braselton, GA.   “It was a good weekend especially with the previous results I had with the car” said Phee. “The team was able to sort out the electrical problems and we ended up switching to a different ECU to try and get the engine tune more consistent.” The format for the NASA National would consist of a qualifying race on Friday and a second qualifying race on Saturday to set the grid for the Championship race on Sunday.  He challenge for Phee would be that the qualifying races for the two classes he would be running were back to back on Friday and the Championship races on Sunday would be the same way. Phee would end up qualifying 5th in PTB and 10th in HC2 for the two Championship Races. The first Championship Race would be Honda Challenge and traditionally Honda Challenge uses a standing start.  Phee was schedule to line up in the 10th starting spot but made the decision to start at the back of the field.  “I had only done a couple of standing starts in the car so I decided to start at the back just to be safe. Plus I had a really difficult time with the spec Toyo tires all weekend, the car just never seemed to have decent grip.  It seemed like the back end would just slide everywhere”.  “The team mounted a camera in the wheel well to see what the tire was doing in the corners and as it turned out the tire had a significant amount of side flex. Plus with the PTB race schedule immediately after the Honda Challenge race I knew I wouldn’t have enough time to change tires and refuel the car if I ran to the finish of the HC race.”  Phee would make a good start and move up a few positions over the course of the 19 lap race running as high as 8th at one point but would pull off on lap 14 in order to prepare the car for the next race. At race end Phee would be credited with 11th place.  However due to technical infractions the top five cars were disqualified and Phee would be officially listed in 6th place.   Ironically had Phee completed the full 19 lap race his finish could have been as high as 3rd.  In the PTB Championship race Phee would start 5th in a car that was classified for PTC. “The race officials asked me and one other PTC car to move up a class so they would have enough cars to compete for the Championship”.  “What a difference different tires make, I was using an older set of Hankook tires for the PTB race and the car responded beautifully”.  “It was amazing how much better the car felt even with the older tires on it compared to the Toyos”.  Phee’s lap times in the PTB race were nearly two seconds faster on older tires. Phee would go on to finish in 4th position in a car that was clearly not up to the performance standards of the class, however Phee did manage to put his car into 4th in class.   The next race is scheduled for November 1-2, 2014 back at Road Atlanta for the SCCA American Road Race of Champions.   The WRPMotorsports team is sponsored by Optima Batteries, Sparco USA and OPM Autosports.  Photos by Chris Schutze of Finish Line Productions at   http://www.finishlineprod.net/ 
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