Switzer Sets Records

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Jo Borras
Switzer Performance Innovation
440.774.4219

http://www.switzerperformanceinnovation.com

Oberlin, OH - 19OCT2009 - Switzer GTRs Blister Tracks Across the Globe

October has been a busy month for Switzer Performance. After kicking off 
a 1-2-3 finish at the Moscow Unlimited, the company's tuned GTR Nissans 
posted record-breaking results (for an R35) in standing mile and 
dragstrip events in Miami, Moscow, and the company's home state of Ohio.

First up was last weekend's Milemarker-1, a standing mile event in Miami 
that saw one customer's GTR reach an official 191 mph in the standing 
mile, despite the extreme humidity and sweltering track temperatures of 
the Florida Everglades – conditions not usually kind to turbocharged cars.

Next came word of a similarly spectacular quarter-mile pass from one of 
Switzer's Russian GTR customers – a 10.193 second pass at over 133 mph.

One-hundred and thirty-three miles per hour in a quarter mile, while 
fast, is still shy of the unofficial R35 trap speed record (10.48 @ 
134.3 mph). With that trap speed in mind, another Switzer customer 
offered to take his car out to Ohio's Dragway 42 (a track which is both 
IHRA and FIA certified) for on open test and tune … and recorded 
back-to-back passes in excess of 141 mph! (141.41 and 141.51, respectively)

Tym Switzer is, understandably, very excited about the car's 
performances, saying that “it's been an amazing couple of weekends here 
for us. We really just went to the mile event to see what the car would 
do, and were excited to break into the 190's in those conditions. The 
really exciting thing for us, I think, is that all of these numbers were 
generated by customer cars, with off-the-shelf kits, being driven by 
their owners. No ringer cars or ringer drivers – that 141 speed was even 
on all-season tires. I don't know if you can call any of these runs 
'official' or 'records', but one thing is for sure: these cars are 
rockets! It's been a great October for the shop and the R35 platform. I 
couldn't be happier or more proud of everyone's performance these couple 
of weeks.”

Switzer's R35 GTR tuning packages are available now through Switzer 
Performance dealers. Contact Switzer for more.

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http://www.switzerperformanceinnovation.com/pr_folder/pr_gtr-oct09.zip

VIDEO LINKS

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2jzz5cpSeQ_ (Miami Milemarker)
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc1x6xxZknY_ (Moscow Unlimited)