This weekend at Sonoma Raceway (October 4-6) CSRG is hosting the Charity Challenge featuring the John Morton Cup. The race is for Historic B-& C Sedans and includes our hero and legendary driver John Morton.  Don’t miss this event it promises to be an epic gathering of vintage Datsun racers! Check out the schedule below, Group 9 is the one to watch for B-Sedan action:

 

The Historic B & C Sedan Challenge will be joining The John Morton Cup (through CSRG), and it was created by our friends and fellow racers Glenn Chiou and Dave Stone. Check out their site for more info on the series HERE

Z Car Garage Supports Five Datsun 510 Race Cars!

We will be providing race support for the following five Datsun 510s this weekend, enjoy this video preview of them below:

There will be a field of 38 B-sedans with 12 Datsun 510s mixing it up at Sonoma Raceway. John Morton is Grand Marshall and will also be racing a Datsun 510!

 

#7 Rob Fuller

ZCG owner Rob Fuller will be piloting the #7 Bay Area Datsun Dealers car

#51 John Morton

John Morton will be driving the #51 car owned by Taz Harvey.  You might find this 510 familiar as it was built by our friend Troy Ermish and the previous owner was Wayne McAttee! Car is currently being prepped at ZCG!

 

#80 Howard Swig

Howard Swig is driving the #80 Red Farmer car (also owned by Taz). Swig is an Auction Manager at Bring a Trailer and this 510 was purchased via a BaT  back in 2014 (link). Car is currently being prepped at ZCG!

 

#72 Tom Dockery

Tom Dockery is driving the Ex-Norm Balzer 510. This car made its debut in May and we are excited to share its full story and profile Tom’s journey into racing soon.

  

#52 Alex McDowell

Alex will be driving the 1967 Bluebird Coupe.

 

510 Friends!

Many notable Datsun 510 racers will be in the group, gunning for the trophy. We look forward to the challenge!

#33 Glenn Chiou

Glenn will be driving the Ex-Finn/Harris U2.5L Trans-Am ’68 510. This car made its debut in May at the SVRA event at Laguna Seca. Glenn did an admirable job (as always) getting this historically significant 510 back on the racetrack!

  

#93 Dave Stone

Dave Stone will be driving the #93 Ex-Frellsen 1973 National Champion 510. Dave is fast!

 

#52 Jim Froula

Race car driver and restoration specialist Jim Froula of Racecraft is running the Ex- Harry Stewart Datsun 510. Can Jim’s large shoe size give him the advantage this time?

   

Join us at Sonoma Raceway this weekend for the John Morton Trophy race and enjoy some B-sedan action!

#DATSUNDOMINATION

Just when you thought Nissan stopped caring about Motorsport.. the National Auto Sport Association (NASA) and Nissan are teaming up to create a new Spec “Z” Series similar to the incredibly successful “Spec-Miata” Series. Spec Z will be specifically for the ’03 to’08 Z33 models with plenty of incentives for all of you hardcore track junkies.
Nissan, BFGoodrich and NASA are all providing cash support/prize money for podium finishers in SPEC Z at the 2012 NASA Championships! We hear that our very own Scott S. will be running his new race car(above, at T-Hill) in the series, stay tuned for the action!

Below is the Nissan Press Release, click on the “more” to get the full story on SPEC Z and prize money/entrant details:
NISSAN PARTNERS WITH NATIONAL AUTO SPORT ASSOCIATION TO CREATE NEW SPEC Z SERIES

Popular 350Z will be the basis of cost-effective racing program

Nissan North America and The National Auto Sport Association (NASA) are pleased to announce the creation of an all-new Spec Z series that will feature the Nissan 350Z®. The NASA Spec Z class will include all trim levels of the 2003-2008 year model Nissan 350Z in a single classification focused on close competition, parity and cost containment that will showcase driving ability and car setup skills.

NASA Spec Z will offer a comprehensive contingency prize program that will reward both Regional and National Championship competitors. Nissan Motorsports will provide significant support for the series, and their contingency prize program provides cash rewards up to $850 for the top three finishers at each regional competition weekend. Additionally, Nissan Motorsports will provide $6,500 in cash…
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Autoblog has a great feature on Adam Carolla’s car collection. It’s no secret that he is a huge Datsun nut but read further into the article and look at the pictures of his super-clean garage…he also loves classic Lamborghinis! Maybe Adam’s foray into vintage racing has got folks interested in what kind of toys the man has.
We look forward to seeing Adam running his Datsuns hard at the track like he did recently at Laguna Seca.

Dual at DeAnza annual autox
The 43rd annual Dual at DeAnza autox was held May 16th, 2010, at DeAnza college in Cupertino, CA. The Smitty Racing / Z Car Garage 350Z took 1st in the OSP class out of 13 cars, and 16th overall out of 242 cars. The 2003 Nissan 350Z was driven by Scott Smith. Complete results are posted here: Duel at DeAnza May16 Results 2010

NorCal UFO autox
Scott drove the Z to 1st in the OSP class and 4th overall out of 156 cars at the Northern California United 510 Owners Club (www.norcalufo.org) autocross held at The Marina Airfield on June 27th, 2010. Scott leads the OSP class for the year, and is currently in 3rd in PAX out of all the cars that routinely show up for the NorCal UFO autox series.

More and more Zs and Gs are showing up! Most recently, Tiffini Clark, the ZONC President, autox’d at this month’s event for her first time with Scott providing instruction. Tiffini piloted her 2006 350Z and dropped over 16s from her first run to her fourth and final run – way to go Tiffini!

                    

Here are the overall results from this month’s event:
NorCal UFO AutoX Series Event8 June27

The next NorCal UFO event at The Marina Airfield will be held on August 1st, 2010. We are trying to organize this event to include any ZoNC member that is interested in driving. Those interested can meet at Z Car Garage between 6:20 and 6:30 for a 6:30am departure, or meet us at The Marina Airfield by 8am. Entry details are here:
NorCal UFO AutoX Event9 August 1

Long live the Z!

I know this is a little late notice but there will be a ZONC car corral at the event this weekend.   The corral tickets are no longer available as far as I know, but it is always worth a shot to send the powers that be over at ZONC.org an email just to make sure.  Anyways, I hope to see a few of you there.

I’ll have a few more things up soon.  ZCG