Factory Five 818 Wins Skidpad Challenge!

Posted on June 30, 2017 by in What's New

Factory Five customer and hot-shoe driver Wayne Presley drove the Factory Five 818R to a 1st Place finish in the Unlimited Class at the 2017 Grassroots Motorsports Mitty event held at Road Atlanta! This is Wayne’s second recent impressive finish as he ran a very fast 1:59.900 lap to finish in the Top 10 at the Ultimate Track Car Challenge at VIR.


Grassroots Motorsports is about the only pure amateur racing magazine on the rack.


Wayne isn’t the only one making news with the 818. The crew at Dragonfly Motorsports is running hard at NASA events on the west caost with their Factory Five 818R which has been built into an awesome center-seat race car.

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