SFR Solo2 Hosts Round 1 of the NorPac Divisional

Bob Neal of Harbor City took Super Stock on both days, but Don Mckenna scored a second and third with Kevin Stevens placing third and fourth. Jim Martin managed fifth on both days on a concrete surface offering at least as much dust as grip.

David Colman and Rob Luis said no to five drivers visiting A stock from Washington, taking first and second each day. Anna Hedly of Kirkland, WA took A Stock Ladies on both days with Judy Coleman second on Saturday and E.J. Bayliss rising to second on Sunday.

SFR fared less well in BS, with George Doganis leading Rad Vach each day by more than a second. Rod McLane stepped up for the fourth place divisional trophy. Two-time national BSL champion, NorPac Solo II Divisional Steward, and Divisional Event Steward Katie Elder greeted all comers with a 2.5 second victory in B Stock Ladies.

C Stock went to Washington with Glen Hernandez and Kevin Dietz leading Teresa Neidel and Derek Butts who were scoring SFR points in the PAX class. Soebiantoro Soekamto took official third place SFR C stock points both days with Sterling McLane claiming fifth each day.

D Stock had no Regional entries by choice or default. Rookie Doug Tejeda took the Divisional win over rookie Patrick Simmons.

In E Stock Daniel Pina took the win Saturday but fell to third on Sunday and third in the Divisional event as well with a couple of DNFs and 3-cone third run.

F Stock found no visitors with Eric Martin, Joel Gussy, Larry Baker, and Kert Miller lining up one through four each day.

First and second in G Stock went to Tom Smith of Huntington Beach and Ron Bauer of Bothell, WA in Integra Type Rs. Ric Quinonez bested Eric O'Brien and Jason Liao each day.

H Stock saw no entries from near or far.

A Street Prepared went to Wolfgang Hoeck from Thousand Oaks, CA by 2.6 seconds over Val Korry of Seattle. Jeffrey Gordon picked up third each day. Julie Lin of Thousand Oaks led Regina Morec each day in ASPL.

B Street Prepared has been unusually competitive and well subscribed this year in SFR, but with Rita Wilsey, Jeff Glorioso, Vic Sias, and Tony Colecchio (in Vic's car) taking the top four spots, Nell, Bonar, and Stark were racing for fifth place points.

C Street Prepared belonged solely to SFR with current National Champion Tom Ellam taking two more wins. Navid Kahangi who "coulda been a rookie" this year continues to impress with two second place finishes. Corey Smith, Don Ebaugh, and Durk Edwards traded third through fifth, with Jim Ochi taking two sixth place spots. Chris McKinney of Fresno and Catherine Liao traded wins in CSPL.

SFR's D Street Prepared drivers pushed four out-of-staters to the bottom of the list with Chris Cox taking 1 and 2, Arie Villaso taking 3 and 1, Ben Martinez scoring 2 and 4, and Dave Jackson taking 4 and 3.

In E Street Prepared Sacramento's former National Champion Ken Mitchell couldn't catch Lake Forest's Steven Equina either day. Fred Van Wagenen led George Fisk, Jim Zalesny, and Tony Ozello each day, but son Erick swept from 6th on Saturday to third on Sunday to nip Fred for the third and last divisional trophy. Many car owners would turn a co- driver loose for less affrontery, but what's a dad going to do but be proud? Brianne Mitchell swept Mary Frances Fisk on both days in ESPL.

In AP John Kelly finished fourth both days in the Divisional and third each day in the Regional events. Pat took second in the Divisional APL class and two fourths in the Regional AP class. See the OSP class for the missing link who carries none of the 17 or so National Championship titles displayed in this class. Bill Martin lead Saturday but gave way to Craig Nagler who graciously shared his BMW M3 on Sunday when Bill's Lotus Europa broke.

Rick Brown beat Bill Fleig on Saturday in BP, but slipped to second on Sunday, probably due to listening to my description of course conditions. Rick took the overall Divisional title from National Champion Bill.

Four-time National Champion Frank Stagnaro found his CP Shelby disconcertingly loose on Castle's dusty concrete but codriver Mike Maier took the Divisional title. SFR regular Derrick Bents picked up some points for the Corvair while chasing five drivers in Mustangs. Former National Champion Barbara Ogg clicked off another win for the white and blue Shelby GT350 taking CPL over Sharon Reuter of Redmond, WA and Suzanne Gutile of Fresno.

In DP Howard Wolf and Dwayne Komush claimed the top spots on Saturday with Fresno's Chet Hansen and Sacramento's Chris Kannan taking 1-2 Sunday. Howard held on for the Divisional win. Pam Kannan took DPL.

The divisional EP trophy was snatched up by rookie Rey Manalac running solo in Archie Collante's dubious for even DP Toyota Starlet. As the car was one of several carrying regional rather than divisional classification, it slipped by impound as an OSP car. No one ran EP in the Regional events.

A Modified had no entries at the divisional or regional level.

B Modified belonged to Mike Lella with a four second victory over Lorin Mueller of Eugene, OR and four others.

The Christman's have been just getting up to speed in their C Mod Tiga. Saturday saw Kevin within striking distance of Guy Ankeny and Gary Richardson, and Karena leading Mary Ankeny in CML. Unfortunately, a badly corroded ground strap limited Kevin and Karena to a single run each on Sunday. Guy and Mary took the Divisional trophies home to Simi Valley.

D Modified and DML had drivers carrying over 25 National Championship titles in but two cars. Chris O'Donnell took the two-day divisional title by a scant 0.5 seconds over Ron Babb. Karen Babb claimed DML. These folk have been giving Lotus Elans a reputation as unbeatable for a long time.

E Modified saw former Lotus factory mechanic Barry Spencer posting a 12 (twelve, not a typo, twelve) second victory in his Lotus/Mazda that used to be a Europa. For some reason, perhaps dizziness from chasing entry forms down from Guam and trying to sort out all the differing Divisional and Regional class entries, Ralph Elder drove Vic Sias' BSP car in the EM class. Gretchen Everett bested Joy Kreick, both of Renton, WA in EML.

Jesse Wills had rare company in F Modified taking the win over Mike Billings of Boise, ID, codriver Tom, and Bill Quintero. Jesse's gorgeous Lynx is for sale at a very reasonable price.

Eric West saved Street Touring for SFR taking the win over Steve Wynne of Redmond, WA. Phil Esra took the third and final Divisional trophy. Mark Watson claimed a fourth and fifth with Chok Balmaceda finishing sixth each day.

Open Street Prepared attracted Hung-jen Hung from Los Angeles and five drivers from the Sacramento and Fresno chapters. Archie Collantes sent out codriver Jo Jo and rookie Rey (see EP) before declaring a mechanical. Adding more delay by jumping out of the car after an aborted run, the current SFR OSP champion took three runs after most of the OSP field had completed 2 or all 3. His third (officially second) was good enough for the win, and his fourth was good enough to get a PA declaration that he was the "class dominator."

On Sunday, Archie had a tougher time claiming his seventh OSP win of the season as he needed all three runs to best Rich Urschel's first. Had Rich's AP/OSP Lotus not eaten a piece of foam through a ripped fabric air duct....next time, sir. Steve Carlson picked up a 4th and 3rd, Hung-jen claimed 3rd and 6th, with Tom Kubo stepping up his pace with two fifths. Steve Bradford pushed his way to 6th on Saturday, before claiming 4th on Sunday while he and Bret Norgaard quickly corded the Escort's front tires. Anthony Abeleda, chasing Jo Jo Collantes for the final fifth place trophy in the SFR regular season triumphed both days but had a scant four point advantage to show for it. Glenda Manangan ran solo both days in OSPL.

F125 Karts saw Steve Sharp and Darren Maddams over Pete Mottaz and Veron Head running a newly built engine. Sunday saw Mr. deja vu Mottaz taking it from Maddams, Sharp, and Head. Derek had to sit out both days as a Friday night scoundrel made off with the Head's junior kart. Peter garnered unwanted attention Saturday while breaking in (with permission) his new engine on a non-sanctioned area of the airport runways.

SFR's indexed class participants were scattered across many run groups as they were required to run in the Divisional's class groupings. Bring your calculator to this event and watch every run group for signs that various Divisional competitors might be claiming competition in your class at the Regional level, then wait for the published results to see if you guessed right.

The Rookie Street Prepared guys guessed pretty much right. Rey Manalac (EP) took the Saturday win over Chris Halton (DSP), Chris Strahorn (DSP), Carl Merritt (ASP), Michael Moal (ESP), and Lee Darzycki (ASP). On Sunday Chris Halton was pointedly asked to remove the Toyo Proxies (40 treadwear) from his Datsun 510 and dropped to 8th after switching to A509 Yoke's. Carl Merritt took the win over Manalac, Strahorn, Moal, Darzycki, and Glenn Nakata (OSP).

In Rookie Stock 1, Trygve Isaacson (AS) bested Damien and Stuart Teitelbaum (CS) each day.

Rookie Stock 2 belonged to DS's Doug Tejeda on Saturday and to Patrick Simmons on Sunday.

Rookie CSP running together in the CSP run group as usual saw Peter Hsu taking the win over Dennis Armstrong and Sharon Levy with Dennis and Sharon claiming first and second in Peter's absence on Sunday.

David Parker (FS) took his second Street Tire class win on Saturday over Kirk Meline (ESP), and two-time winner Brent Nordmann (AS). Class points leader Meline scored his first indexed win on Sunday followed by Nordmann, Terry Campbell (ST), Dietrich Schultz (CSP), and Scott Zediker in his new BS Miata. Victoria Szeto took two from Linda Traves in the Street Tire Ladies class.

PAX class regulars Teresa Neidel (1-3), Derek Butts (2-4), Jesse Wills (3-1), Kevin McCormick (4-7), Katie Kelly (5-6), Rod McLane (6-2), Andy McKee (7-8), and Charlie Davis (8-5) scored indexed SFR points while chasing Divisional open class trophies. The real Andy McKee was present, but running the underdeveloped Porsche 968 in AS for this event.