The Panoz
 

Here's some shots from July w/ NASA @ Summer Slam @ VIR. Ran TTS on Sunday and had a best of 2:11 on full course the first session out. Running on fairly used R6s. Car is built around NASA ST2 specs and currently has 315 rwhp. Weighed 2975 w/ me in it and 3/4 of my 32 gallon fuel cell full.

Taking it out this weekend for NASA's Fall Finale running TTS. My father is running it in HPDE3 (advanced).

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Built 5.0 w/ AFR 165s, Ed Curtis cam, and a Pro-Systems carb.

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Interior setup w/ the new Tach and Traqmate data acquisition/lap timer setup and PI digital dash (we use the PI for oil temp, pressure, water temp etc. etc.)

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That's an awesome little car! I would love to get something like that for the track, looks like it was a fun day :takdir:

It's great for the track because it's easy to work on and consumables last forever... especially compared to a C5/C6 platform. If I should ever introduce it to a tire wall it's every easy to fix as the chassis is square-tube and the body panels are plastic.

Sweet :thumbs-up-emoticon:

Looks like a great time!

That looks like a hell of a lot of fun! :cool2:

Wow, I didn't realize how cool that thing is - thanks for all the pics. :cool2:

It's even cooler close up...

Very sweet ride. I'm sorry someone stole your steering wheel.

Har har har...

I bet its a blast drive even more now with the work you an your dad put into it...

Were you also up at the Mazda HPDE ? I though I remembered the car from there or at least looks the same ! I was the black ZO6 with black rims.

Yeah we ran w/ mazdadrivers 2x this year. Grand East and VIR full. I ran it in red and my father in yellow.

Set a new personal best today with a 2:09.1. No 100% clear laps though.

Well Sunday was great... ran a 2:07.3 2nd session Sunday and finished 2nd overall in my class. I win 1 free Hoosier tire for my efforts :)

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The classes aren't listed, but the first two cars are in TTU and Mark Nunnally is in TTA w/ his C5Z. Dan Kroll's STi edged me out for the TTS victory.

Were you at Mazda HPDE near Labor Day ? I ran my blk zo6 and looked over what I think is the same or similar Panos...Really neat ride !

badass!! is that some sort of kit car? kind of looks like a mazada from the rear viper on the side and Daytona front...

Yeah was tehre :cheers:
It's a Panoz race car designed for the Panoz driving schools that are located at Sebring, Road Atlanta, and Texas Motor Speedway. They sold the driving school operation to Barber Motorsports who decided to use Mazda Miatas so all the school cars went up for sale. The car is designed, looks wise, around the Panoz Esperante street car.