Jezarian Runs With K-Hill Motorsports for Remainder of ‘07

August 31, 2007–The G. JEZARIAN Fine Jewelry team arrived early to Summit Point Raceway for their private test and tune session on Friday. Kris Kaiser and K-Hill Motorsports had the car prepped and ready for the test with ace engineer Gib Gibson working closely with driver Gregory Jezarian throughout the day. The first session out, the track was slippery as the FBI were conducting high performance pursuit simulation sessions on the race course the previous day. By session two, the track got faster and the times dropped. “We found a good balance with the car and I felt ready to try some hot laps. We finally put on our fresh set of sticker tires and did a good scrub-in before noon” said Jezarian.

For the last session of the day, Gibby had massaged a little more from the setup and the car rolled back out for a few flyers before tomorrow’s qualifying. “I got out there and felt great with the new rubber, we picked up a full second and I know there was more time out there to be lost. Then on lap 7 I came through turn three faster than I had before and felt a thud so I backed out of it and limped into the pits.”

Under the canopy, Kaiser disassembled the gearbox to find the input and layshaft bearings both destroyed. Kaiser went to work removing the gearbox from a Ralt RT41 in order to remove and re-press the close tolerance bearings in Jezarian’s Swift. “I’m gonna cross my fingers and hope for the best, I think if anyone can get it done it will be Kris,” said Jezarian before leaving the track for the evening, “this kind of stuff is usually done back at a machine shop not in the back of an 18 wheeler but I have confidence in my guys.”

Qualifying for races 1 & 2 will begin tomorrow at 11am.