One of our fellow musclecar aftermarket vendors in SoCal is the crew at Hotchkis Sport Suspension. Like Spectre, Hotchkis spends a lot of time at the track for R&D, and they often invite along some customer cars to join them. We were delighted to be invited to play with the Hotchkis H-Team at Willow Springs Raceway this month.
We ran a condensed version of the Streets of Willow counterclockwise which threw many of us off. It’s amazing how different a familiar racetrack becomes when you run it in the opposite direction.
It was a great test-bed though for right and left hand turns, and it was quite helpful for making sure the car was dialed in along not to mention the fun of hitting some pretty intense speeds down the hill on the straightaway!
Not only were the usual H-Team members out –including several with Spectre intakes and filters on their rides– but along with Dan Weishaar, Mike Hickman, Carl Casanova, Aaron Ogawa and Rob Phillips, Matt D’Andria from Motorator and comedian Chris Titus came out to play as well.
At the end of the day, everyone was exhausted with all the laps we got in and a lot was accomplished. We would like to thank John Hotchkis for inviting us! Hopefully we will be able to attend more of those in the future. It’s really nice to see our products in use by so many awesome drivers!
