{"id":1686,"date":"1993-10-22T01:18:55","date_gmt":"1993-10-22T01:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manifestclients.com\/teamusa\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2019-05-16T19:39:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T19:39:49","slug":"nadeau-nabs-pole-position-for-festival-heat-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"Nadeau Nabs Pole Position for Festival Heat Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 22, 1993 (by David Aronson)<br \/>\n<strong>Dartford, England<\/strong> \u2013 Valvoline Team USA driver Jerry Nadeau today qualified on pole for Heat Six of the 22nd annual Formula Ford Festival and World Cup in sunny but cold conditions at Brands Hatch.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 103 entries from 20 countries will contest the Kent-engined section of this weekend&#8217;s running of the prestigious end-of-season extravaganza, with the field split between six 12-lap heat races to be run on Saturday. The top nine finishers from each of these rounds will progress to the pair of 15-lap semi-finals on Sunday. The top 14 drivers from each race will then qualify for the afternoon&#8217;s 20-lap Grand Final.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/?attachment_id=4908\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4908\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4908\" title=\"Nadeau0001\" src=\"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nadeau00011-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nadeau00011-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nadeau00011-1024x693.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nadeau00011.jpg 1162w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Driving a stars-and-stripes bedecked Van Diemen RF92, powered by a U.S.-built Marcovicci Wenz motor, Nadeau claimed pole for Heat Six with a lap of 48.32s, equating to an average speed of 89.70 mph around the twisting 1.2-mile circuit. He also ended up second fastest overall and fastest Van Diemen pilot among the 103 Kent runners, his time beaten only by Irish teenager Peter Duke who set a best of 48.27s in annexing pole for Heat Three.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The car felt pretty good considering our problems in testing,&#8221; said Nadeau. &#8220;We went out blindfolded today because we hadn&#8217;t run the car since losing two driveshafts on Thursday. I tried to run alone on the track as much as possible while I was checking out the car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We made one change during the red flag period in qualifying today which helped the front but also gave us a bit too much understeer. But I&#8217;m pretty happy. I usually don&#8217;t get too crazy in qualifying. I tend to save my best for the race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really getting into the atmosphere of the event. There&#8217;s a real go-for-it attitude from everybody, including my team. John Bright, Ted Wenz and the Lanan Racing guys are giving me everything I need to be on the pace.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Off track, Valvoline UK&#8217;s distributors for southeast England, CS Oils, hosted a group of eight guests who cheered Nadeau on his way and enjoyed the hospitality of the team&#8217;s motorhome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 22, 1993 (by David Aronson) Dartford, England \u2013 Valvoline Team USA driver Jerry Nadeau today qualified on pole for Heat Six of the 22nd annual Formula Ford Festival and World Cup in sunny but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4902,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/4902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}