Ridetech Ruled Motor City During Optima’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car


Ridetech Ruled Motor City During Optima’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car

Michigan International Speedway is a pretty cool place, and the Ridetech gang showed up in force and filled the pits with A LOT of Ridetech equipped stuff. Both house cars and customer cars went to the top of the heap during this past weekend’s Optima’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car event near Detroit. Specifics are below, but lets just say there were a few times where the Ridetech guys should have just stayed standing up there.

And do you remember those new Corvette bushings we announced last week? Well those things must kick ass because the GTS Class was dominated by Corvettes, and the podium was ALL Ridetech Equipped. Special kudos go out to Randy Johnson who debuted his brand new Corvette this weekend to lots of praise, but a few new car “adjustments”. All the other competitors should be afraid of this Ridetech Equipped, D&Z Customs built machine though because even learning the car and fixing some small things had Randy finishing in the #3 position overall behind “Bad” Brad Yonkers and Jim “I’ve already won Optima once!” McKamey. The truth is that he may have taken the overall win at several of our other events in the last year.

 

Overall it was a great weekend, and we have full results right here at BangShiftAPEX as well, just click the link below.

Ridetech populates the podium at Optima in Michigan!

McKamey Win Ridetech

Ridetech sweeps the GTS class…winner Jim McKamey, 2nd Brad Yonkers, 3rd Randy Johnson.

 

Ridetech customers got well aquatinted with the winners circle at the Optima Ultimate Street Car event at Michigan International Speedway this weekend. The list is long enough that we’ll just give you the highlights here…
Overall Winner GTS class- Jim McKamey – 2000 Corvette (2nd event for this car.)
McKamey Winning Corvette Ridetech
Overall 2nd place GTS class – Brad Yonkers – 2002 Corvette (hq series smoothbody shocks)
Overall 3rd place GTS class – Randy Johnson – 2002 Corvette (1st event for this car)
Randy Johnson Ridetech

Randy Johnson placed 3rd in the GTS class (behind 2 other Ridetech customers) in his very FIRST outing with his 2002 Corvette!

Overall Winner – GT class – Danny Popp – 2012 Lingenfelter Camaro
Danny Popp L28 Camaro Ridetech

Fastest road course lap of the weekend and GT class winner Danny Popp driving the Lingenfelter Camaro. The tq series struts, billet control arms, and splined swaybars are starting to scare people!

2nd place speed/stop GTV class – Chris Smith 1972 48 Hour Corvette
48 Hour Corvette Ridetech 2
3rd place speed/stop GTV class – Bret Voelkel 1967 48 Hour Camaro
48 Hour Camaro Ridetech

The 48 hour camaro is still whipping up on the competition…3rd in the speedstop and 5th in the autocross in the gtv class.

3rd place autocross GTV class – Rob McGreagor – 1969 C10 truck
5th place autocross GTV class – Bret Voelkel – 1967 Camaro
6th place autocross GTV class – Chris Smith – 1972 48 Hour Corvette
48 Hour Corvette Ridetech 1
Fastest road course lap of the weekend (all classes) Danny Popp – 2012 Lingenfelter Camaro
RideTech President (and fellow racer) Bret Voelkel seemed pretty happy with the weekend’s results:
“We’ve worked exceptionally hard on developing the Corvette and Camaro product lines. We validate ride quality on the street but handling performance must be proven on the track.  These kinds of results are what our customers are looking for!”
While several of the Ridetech equipped cars had plenty of laps and tuning time on them enroute to these successes, Jim McKameys Corvette was only on its 2nd event…and Randy Johnsons 2002 Corvette was attending its FIRST race! By virtue of winning the GTS class, Jim McKamey won the invite to race at the Optima Search for the Ultimate Street Car event in Las Vegas in November.

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