SFR Solo2 reaches midseason

Round 8 of 16 scheduled events was held at the San Joaquin County fairgrounds on April 8, 2001.
The event chairs looked at the early morning turnout and quickly decided to combine the first two 
run groups. This caught out participants expecting to run in groups 2 and 3, eliminating the 
opportunity to unload their cars, so the start was pushed back to 9:30 am. Overall attendance was 
fair for Stockton at 134 despite a weather forecast of occasional showers and possible afternoon
thunderstorms. The rain held off most of the day, allowing the first six of eight groups to run in
the dry.

Only seven of the usual dozen or so participants showed up for the Street Tire class with points
leader Dave Rowney gone missing. Karl Glynn seized the day strengthening his points lead over
David Parker and Sean Kearney who was unable to match his last winning performance due to
new (squirmy tread) tires. 

In Open Street Prepared Tito Solis tightened his death grip on the points lead with Vic Sias 
missing in action. Mert Solis, Bong Solis, James Creasy, and Anthony Abeleda  claimed 
2nd through 5th mirroring their season points positions of 3rd through 6th.
  
Vernon Head is continuing to carry the shifter kart banner setting official top time of day.
Four junior kart drivers joined the fray with Chris Spencer winning convincingly in his 
second appearance of the year. Elyse Mottaz closed on points leader Jake Mottaz while 
Sarah Jones closed on the absent third place points holder, Cameron Kahangi.

Legson Sayo took the win in Novice class 2 moving up to 4th in points behind Dan Dalen
while Kenneth Kong closed on points leader Alan Chin.

E stock has seen six different winners in eight events as Regis Bectarte took his second
while Alan Perucho closed on points leader Steve Bowlus.

In H stock Alan Gruner won his seventh of eight events over Stan Guidero and Jieve Zapata.

Sean Wheeler scored his sixth win in F Street Prepared over third in points George Hong
and Arthur Vizcarra.

Rich Urschel made a rare appearance (and wrote this rare report) in A Prepared besting
points leader John Kelly while Pat Kelly closed on second place in points held by
Patrick Jones whose Lotus Elise developed terminal understeer after performing well just
two weeks before.

Although five different drivers have won C Prepared, no one appears committed to 
the season trophy race. Louie Lira won his second in round 8 over Seth Emerson.

Dan Pina won his fourth event in E Prepared stretching his points lead over the absent
David Pina and Arnold Escano who finished second just six hundreths of a second back.

In the Novice 3 class Greg Jones won his first event closing on points leader Clay Cifford
and second in points Carl Valerama.

In the Street Touring Street Tire class Simon Yu won his first event and moved up to 
third in points behind points leaders Ian Green and Robert Vincent. In the R Tire version
of Street Touring Adrian Tang needed and got his third win to maintain second in
points over Niki Tam as each closed on points leader Richard Reeves.

In the Street Modified class Elton Hom found the semi-small, semi-slick, semi-bumpy
Stockton lot to his liking taking his first win of the season by four thousandths of a
second over points leader Don Ebaugh while Ricky Hines closed on Durk Edwards
for second in points.

David Benach captured the win and points lead over the absent David Chiang in the
Novice 4 class. Alan Leung took third strengthening his third in points position.

Pete Mottaz took his second G stock win maintaining third in points over Paul Tibbals.
Elbert Chin finished second to close on the absent points leader Sean O'Boyle.

In D Street Prepared Charlie Davis and Don Lew pushed Ben Martinez to the top
PAX time of day in securing his seventh win of the season.

Kevin Hubert made it three Novice 5 wins in a row with a two second margin over
points leader Tarek Khoury. Alberto Fonseca managed 5th to stay ahead of Kevin
in season points. Tarek posted his eighth straight second place finish behind four
different event winners.

Peter Thana scored A Stock win number three to add to his substantial points lead.
Fred Cambell holds second in points with E. J. Bayliss third. Howell Leung claimed
second behind Peter on the day.

Craig Boyle took his sixth B Stock win over Kevin Lahey and second in points
Tony Tabacco.

In C Stock Dennis Armstrong took his first win of the year with a six tenths margin
over points leader Scot Zediker.

Novice 6 had a turn out of 11 drivers with Ian Porteous and Mike Kyle closing on
points leader John Stimson. Phil White, the only other event winner on the year
holds fifth in points.

The rains came in the seventh run group and made third runs academic except for
Larry Marsala who lengthened his Novice 7 class points lead in his Lotus Esprit V8.
In A Street Prepared Chris Boynton took advantage of the dry course on his first
run to win by 1.7 seconds. Points leader Jeffrey Gordon took second over second
in points Joe Weinstein and third in points Rob Boynton. Regina Morec held on
to fourth in points ahead of Chris.

Tony Ozello got in the quick E Street Prepared dry run over points leader Kirk Meline.

In Super Stock Kurt Fehling scored his first win closing on the absent points leader
Don McKenna. Rick Grefsrud took second to move up to fourth in points.

Faisal Qaisi took the B Street Prepared win and points lead from the missing Ray Razon 
and third in points Peter Guagenti.

Three of the top four C Street Prepared points scorers travelled to Stockton with Mark
Watson taking win number six to lengthen his dominant points lead. Michael Moal
protected his second place in points with a second place finish. No show Bryan Nemy 
hung onto third in points by a slim ten points over third place finisher Sterling McLane.