Category: sergioorestes
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Gridlife Laguna Seca 2026 was another big learning experience for me and my Toyota GR86 in the Gridlife Touring Cup (GLTC). Competing against a field of 35 cars at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, I put down a best practice lap of 1:40.1 and finished P12 in practice before qualifying P20. The weekend also brought hard-fought…
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Finally, the first race of the 2026 season has come. Ive been longly anticipating this event since it marks the starts of my first real full season of racing cars wheel to wheel since moving up from karting. Although this first race is a non points race, it will still serve as a good test…
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This past race weekend was another important step forward—one of those weekends where the results might not jump off the page, but the progress definitely does. Race 1 was a bit of a grind. I didn’t quite have the pace early on and found myself starting back in P13. The race ended up coming to…
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Everything started off very well, with a pretty good result of p12 out of 27 cars during fp1, putting us just shy of the top 10. During practice 2 however, I suffered a brake failure towards the end of the session. Missed qualifying and race 1, so had to start race 2 from p21 and…
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I finished P1 in the TT5 class on both days and set a new NASA TT5 class record with a 1:30.01 lap time at the iconic Willow Springs International Raceway “Big Willow”. You can see the official results on the NASA website Round 3 Results: https://drivenasa.com/wp-content/uploads/results/NASA_California-Southern_Region/2025-Official-Results/2-March-15-16-Willow-Springs/March-152025-TT-Final-Results.pdf Round 4 Results: https://drivenasa.com/wp-content/uploads/results/NASA_California-Southern_Region/2025-Official-Results/2-March-15-16-Willow-Springs/March-162025-TT-Final-Results.pdf
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I’ve decided to create another blog to document my racing career here, rather than just posting on social media. I’ve been karting for a while now and casually doing car track days while karting, but recently I’ve started competing in time attack as a budget friendly means to transition to touring car racing. Welcome to…
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The stage was set at the las vegas motor speedway Outside road course. Registered the car in TT5. Managed to set the TT5 class record and 86 chassis record with a 1:58.7. Here is my onboard lap. There is some more information about the lap on LapMeta here. https://lapmeta.com/en/lap/detail/25573 They gave me a really cool…
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Sergio Orestes first open wheel drive.
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This is actually my second time participating at this event. I first attempted it in 2022 with my first generation 86/brz. Back then I was way more unprepared, and it was kind of an amateur try just for fun. The second time I attempted this event I decided to shoot for the win in Enthusiast…
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First competition with the freshly completed gr86 build and it was at buttonwillow #1CCW layout for SoCal 86 Cup Round 8. The car felt very quick right off the bat, and it remained that way, as Sergio managed to finish purple in every session that day. Jayson Rodriguez (@jay_reef15) from 787Garage helping dial in tire…
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We were gonna take this weekend off, but instead decided to hit up our local kart club race. This weekend they were running at Adam’s motorsports park. I work as a factory driver for Jhmotorsports, so I get to drive a lot, wether it be for driver coaching or lead and follow sessions, but I…