SFR Solo2 Round 6

The San Francisco Region Championship Series returned
to the Coliseum in Oakland for the third time since
the slurry coat resurfacing of the parking lots last
July. As expected, the surface provided more grip than
in March of this year, but somewhat disappointingly
the surface is still yielding a considerable amount
of fine gravel which accumulates during the day.

The first group out had their choice of lines but
driving technique would rule the day. In A Stock
Jerry Mouton made it five in a row winning handily
in the white Porsche Carrera over Taka Aono in an
MR2, second place points holder Dan DeGruchy in
another Porsche, and Kit Wetzler, in a Honda S2000.

In B Stock Kevin Lahey solicited and listened to
some gray beard advice about slowing down for the
tight corners well enough to get the power down
early and just nipped Craig Boyle for the win. Kevin
moves to second in points behind Craig and just
ahead of Keith Hearn who finished fourth on the
day. Andrew Jensen took third in yet another Miata.

In C Stock the 1.6 liter Miatas suffered no indignities
at the hands of the B Stock 1.8 liter MX5's with
Chris Herring just pipping Kevin Lahey's time. Points
leader Scot Zediker came second and is beginning to
wonder where that winning feeling went. 1999's Rookie
CSP Champion Dennis Armstrong took third and is
currently second in points on the year. Chris' win
moves him to third in points ahead of Doug Gentges
who finished fourth on the day.

Kevin Kluge took top time of the group running in
the rookie class with a BMW M3. Second was Karl
Glynn in the BMW Z3 Coupe admitting to not quite
being over the (too) late-braking syndrome. Thomas
Juong took third in a Miata. Tony Tabacco's Miata
was back in 5th but he maintains second in points
behind Kevin.

The second group out still had a relatively clean
course and Soebe Soebiantoro took advantage of it
to set top PAX time of day winning the Street
Touring R Class yet again in Chok Balmaceda's
Integra GSR. Mark Watson grabbed second and is
third in points. Sheening Lin finished third and
is fourth in points. Chok remains second in points
but could not better fourth on the day.

In Street Touring S Barry Chafin tried to take a
page from co-chair Ben Martinez's book to not
let attending to all the niggling details of the
events operation distract him from driving in
top form. So we hooked him up on his first run
with a lovely young lady considering autocrossing
her Maxima and Barry went out and nailed an
astounding eleven cones. Perhaps he was trying
to give her the impression there would be no
competent competition if she decided to run.
Barry cleaned it up on his second and third
runs but not enough to avoid losing to Jay
Parcon's second best indexed run in a Honda
Prelude. Greg Umbay took third on the day and
is trailing Barry in the points race.

Street Modified was somewhat routine with Jim
Zalesny taking his fifth win of the season over
George Matuszek in a Honda CRX and Jamie Ruderman
in a Mazda MX3.

The rookie group went to Tony Munoz, Prelude,
Chris Ku, Civic, second in points Jeff Finder,
Maxima, and third in points Elton Hom, Civic.

Corvettes came to play in the third group but
the always winning boring one stayed home. Kevin
Stevens claimed the Super Stock win and second
place in points with a run good enough for 6th
fastest and 4th best PAX time on the day over
fourth in points Fred Van Wagenen. Niles Baker
took a Mazda RX7 to third.

In the lightly subscribed B Street Prepared class
Ray Razon won in a Corvette over points leader
Keith Mendia in a Corvette and Frank Burkeen in
a Datsun 240Z.

A Street Prepared repeated the results of round 5
with Chris Boynton continuing to close in on points
leader Jeffrey Gordon with Rob Boynton running
in third.

Corey Smith took his Audi S4 to it's second win
in C Street Prepared over Travis Lane, BMW M3,
who has dramatically improved over three events
from 7th to 5th to 2nd. Corey takes the points
lead over Don Ebaugh who finished fourth. Steve
Sherwood took third on the day and is third in points.

Jeff Singer won the rookie class in his second attempt
in a Porsche Boxster S over Josh Schaefer who is tied
for the points lead. David Tchankotanze put a Porsche
911 in third place.

In the last of the morning run groups Arie Villasol
won the PAX class driving his FSP MGB. There's
nothing else to say. He won. That's it.

Dave Rowney drove the BMW 328i to another win and
reclaimed sole possession of the points lead in the
Street Tire Class. Trygve Isaacson put the Boxster
in second. Carl Merritt placed third to take over
the fourth place points position and David Parker
finished fourth slipping back to second in points.
Peter Thana took 5th and holds 5th in points.

For the afternoon groups considerable gravel had
accumulated even on the "clean" line and the
first slalom had to be moved outboard one car
width due to an oil-soaked patch of slurry coat
breaking up.

Vernon head promptly set fast time of day running
solo in the F125 Shifter Kart Class. Son Derek
went but 3.9 seconds slower in a Junior Kart running
in class 3. Chris Spencer make good use of a test
session to take his second win and tie second
place finisher Cameron Kahangi for second in points
behind Elyse Mottaz who finished third ahead of
fourth place points holder Amanda Kahangi. Steven
Goldine borrowed the Spencer Kart for a run in
Class 2.

Barry Spencer brought out the Lotus Europa for the
first time in eight months and posted the undisputed
best time of day for automobiles with the fibreglas
in his nose pod still curing. Barry Goldine shared
the Europa in the E Modified Class.

In Open Street Prepared Archie Collantes bested 22
other drivers for his first win of the season. Tito
Solis claimed second place half a second and 70 points
back of Archie. Third went to Bong Solis tied for
5th in points. Fourth was Mert Solis, third in points,
followed by Howell Leung (8th in points), Anthony
Abeleda (11th), Joey delos Trinos (7th), and Gino
Coscolleula (tied for 5th).

Edwin Rogriguez took the rookie class win in a
Toyota Celica over George and Soslan Kibilov who
are now tied for the points lead. Jojo Bayabo
finished fourth and carries third place seasonal points.

In the sixth run group Dwayne Komush dropped Neal
Ryan's oil on the course to cause a considerable
delay and much dryall to be added to the existing
gravel at the bumpiest, slickest, hardest braking
corner on the course. Neal managed one run in the
Fiat 124 prior to the incident to take second
place to E Prepared points leader Neil Verity's
MGB.

After throwing out his student and a loose floor
mat (between runs), Rich Urschel's A Prepared
Lotus Elan managed a squeaker win over John Kelly's
Lotus Seven A which stood on it's first run's time.
Rich was credited with a super fast time on his
third run but it was surely a timer error as the
previous car was given the same identical time.
Pat Kelly's competition in APL failed to materialize
so she contented herself with the joys of Lotusing,
autocrossing, and visiting many a friend.

In F Street Prepared Scott Fraser, VW GTI, turned
some very quick times to take the win and the points
lead back from Durk Edward's Toyota Corolla. Sean
Wheeler, Sirocco, captured third place and is fourth
in points.

Ed Chang convincingly won E Stock for the fifth time
in his Honda Civic over Alan Gruner, Civic, Jeff
Hodde, Integra, and Todd Codinha, VW Rabbit.

Larry Sharp returned in his Ford Focus to take the
H Stock win and reclaim the points lead. Zach
Scibior, Integra, took second and is fourth in
points. Au Nguyen placed third and is third in
points.

Calvin Wan won the rookie class for the second event
in a row and took over the points lead. Chrisitian
Ellingson drove a Honda Civic to second followed
by Greg Chiocco also in a Civic. Now tied for second
in points, Stan Guidero, CRX, and Jeremy Bergsman,
Integra placed fourth and fifth.

Run Group 7 saw the usual close battle in E Street
Prepared won for the third time by Kirk Meline,
Mustang, followed by Tony Ozello, third in points,
Navid Kahangi, and Jim Ochi, second in points to
Kirk.

Chris Warner, Eagle Talon, took his first win in
the rookie class to close the points gap on second
place finisher Michael Santos, Ford Mustang. Brian
Chow and Eric Silva took the next two spots in
Chevrolet Camaro Z28s.

In the last run group, completed by 5:15pm, Donald
Lew drove his Toyota Supra to win number four over
Darryl Cheung, BMW 1600, and Kristi Soo Hoo, Ford
(sold by Mercury in the 1970's) Capri.

John Lawrence took a close D Stock win over Dan
Williamson to tighten up the race for second
place seasonal points.

Peter Mottaz eked out a half second G Stock win
on the course now resembling kitty litter more
than asphalt, still managing a third best PAX time.
Stuart Langager finished second and is third in
points in an Eagle Talon Tsi. Joe Mercado and
Marvin Martin made it three out of the top four
for BMW 325i's.

The rookie group's Carlos Gomez drove his Integra
Type R to a fourth win and second place in points
over Michael Donlon, fourth in points, and Elbert
Chin, third in points. George Chiou fell to midpack
but maintains the points lead.

-Rich Urschel