SFR Solo2 Round 7

Ben Martinez chaired round 7 of the San Francisco
Region Championship Series at 3Com Park on June 4th.
The weather was pleasant with occasional gusts off
the bay and attendance remained strong at 258.

Ben was able to get out on course with the first
run group to take the D Street Prepared win over
Dietrich Schultz and points leader Don Lew. John
Lawrence posted a Neon win over D Stock points
leader Patrick Jones. Stuart Langager came away
with his first G Stock win in an Eagle Talon over
points leader Pete Mottaz, Sean O'Boyle and
ten other drivers. Carlos Gomez claimed his fifth
win and the points lead in the Rookie Class over
Michael Donlon and Elbert Chin who are third and
fourth in points.

In run group 2 Honda S2000s profoundly disrupted
the status quo of A stock with Eric Cheung taking
the lead on the first runs and then falling behind
codriver and eventual winner Rob Luis and Kit
Wetzler also in an S2000. On the final runs Dan
DeGruchy second in class points also snuck ahead
of Eric for third place. Points leader Jerry Mouton
made little progress reducing his time collecting
cones while searching for a way to fit his Porsche
911 onto the Honda line.

In the B Stock class Rick Gould moved to second in
points with a convincing win over points leader
Craig Boyle and points contenders Andrew Jensen,
Christopher Carfi, Keith Hearn and 3 other Miata
drivers. The slower Miata class, C Stock saw a
very close race between points contenders Dennis
Armstrong (2nd), Chris Herring (3rd), and points
leader Scot Zediker. Their times would have placed
them in 3rd through 5th in the faster class.

The Rookie group was again won convincingly by
Kevin Kluge in his BMW M3 with Sean Kearney hustling
his Porsche 968 into second place in his second
ever autocross besting fellow Irishman and pal
Karl Glynn who took third in his BMW Z3 Coupe.
Karl has pulled up to third in season points
behind Alexander Komlik who finished fifth on
the day.

In the third group Barry Chafin ran away from
the rest of the field in Street Touring - Street
Tires besting Jesse Peralta, Integra, Greg
Umbay, Civic, Giles Douglas, VW Jetta, Joseph
Luk, Impreza, and Mike Magdaluyo, Maxima.

Street Touring - R Tires went to Soebe Soekamto
and it (sigh) wasn't even close. Car owner Chok
Balamaceda took another second trailed by Joel
Cady, Eric West, and fourth in points Sheening Lin.
Top honors in Street Modified went to Jamie
Ruderman, MX3, second in points Jeff Cavano, Eclipse,
and Michael Moal, Mustang. Adrian Tang scored his
fourth win in the rookie class.

In the fourth run group Chris Boynton continued
his assault on the A Street Prepared points lead
taking his fourth win in his Porsche Turbo. Ray
Fiore claimed second in another Porsche over
points leader Jeffrey Gordon and Rob Boynton.

Corey Smith claimed the win and points lead of
C Street Prepared over Travis Lane, BMW M3 (E30)
and Steve Sherwood, Audi S4. Joe Siam took fourth
in his Integra, and some guy who needs to clean
up his sponsor's name took fifth over Bryan Nemy
in his Mazda RX7.

Also of considerable note in the final morning
run group, Don McKenna showed up in Super Stock
and did not win. Codriver Steve Hobaugh collected
the 200 points over Don and Michael Willink, RX7.
In the rookie group Josh Schaefer put his BMW M
Coupe into the points lead with his third win.
Jeff Singer finished second and is third in points
in his Porsche Boxster S. Gideon Archer placed
an M Coupe third followed by David Tchankotanze
in an M Roadster. Jack Stone made the rest of
us feel better taking fifth in his considerably
lower budget Mazda RX7.

In the fifth run group Peter Thana claimed his
first Street Tire Class win in his BMW Z3 2.8
Coupe over points leader Dave Rowney, BMW 328i,
and second in points David Parker, Nissan 300ZX.
Peter moves to third in points over Carl Merritt
who couldn't better sixth place on the day.

The PAX class was decided by half an indexed second
(that's almost like cursing) with points leader
Teresa Neidel taking a 15/100ths win over Andy
McKee and second in points Katie Kelly.

In group 6 Chris Spencer pasted Elyse Mottaz by
six seconds. Oh my. Elyse still leads in points.

Points leader Tito Solis took top time of day and
a convincing win over 13 other drivers in Open
Street Prepared. Gino Cosolluela took second with
Solis's of the Bong and Mert kind following up.
Archie Collantes caught a bad case of coneitis
finished behind James Creasy's Cobra.

In the rookie group Edwin Rodriquez made it two
in a row over first and second in points Soslan
and George Kibilov.

In the Seventh run group E Prepared Dwayne Komush
moved closer to the points lead with a win over
David Pina and third in points Neal Ryan.

In A Prepared John Kelly scored his second win
in the Lotus Seven A. Thanks to Peter Thana
I was able to salvage the points lead while
risking a rekindling of BMW lust driving his Z3.

In F Street Prepared Durk Edwards took the win
for Toyota and the class points lead for himself.
Jo Jo Collantes came alive besting Sean Wheeler
for second place and tying him for third in points.
Fourth place went to second place points holder
Scott Fraser. One could seasick following the
points lead in this class.

Mark Hansen took E Stock in a VW VR6 but Alan
Gruner's second place was good enough to take
the class points lead.

Calvin Wan won the rookie class again taking a
considerable points lead over Carlos Evangelista.

In the last run group Jim Ochi took E Street
Prepared win number 3 over points leader Kirk
Meline and third in points Tony Ozzello. The
rookie class went to Chris Warner over points
leader Michael Santos, and third in points
Heather Santos.

-Rich Urschel