Recapping Regional Races 1 & 2 of the SCCA SFR Championship

April 17th, 2019 by James Chartres

Word By Aaron Meyer

Group 2

The wings and things group had a total of 11 cars for this race with 2 P1 cars, 2 P2 cars, 2 FA cars, 1 FS, 1 FE2, 1 DSR, 1 FB, and 1FS. The pole sitter, Vasile Stratton, in the #26 black/gold P1 car had the fastest time in qualifying but was late to grid and forced to start from the back…

Group 3

The Big Bore Sedan group was made up 19 cars for this race with 6 AS cars, 3 GT1 cars, 1 GT2 Car, 1 GT3 car, 1 GTA car, 1 ITE car, 2
SP cars, and 4 T1 Cars. The pole sitter, Michelle Nagai, in the black #72 GT1 Corvette had the fastest qualifying time but was late to the grid and forced to start from the back. This put Darrel Anderson
in the #50 T1 and Michael Fine in the #66 GT1 on the front row…

Group 4

The small wings and things group was made up of 7 total cars for this race with 2 FC, 4 FF, and 1 FC. Paul Rodler in the #68 FC had the fastest qualifying time and would start on the front row with Peter Gregor inthe #73 FC besides him…

Group 5

Thee small-bore sedan group was made up of 33 cars for this racewith 1 FP, 1 HP, 16 ITA, 1 ITS, 9 ITX, 4 SMG, 1 SSC5, and 1 STU. Ken Pedersen in the #39 SMG had the fastest qualifying time and would start on the pole next to Roger Eagleton in the #93 SMG. Group 5 had a late green flag, by the starter, to be sure all 16 rows of cars would all get a chance to get a good start. As the green flag flew…

Group 6

The Spec Racer Ford group was made up of 30 total cars with 7 SRF, and 23 SRF3. The #34 of Umberto Milletti had the fastest qualifying time with a 1:58.2. Starting along side Milletti is the #14 of Gregory Hoff. As the starter ew the green ag, Milletti timed his start perfectly to enter Turn 1…

Group 7

The Spec Miata group was made up of 41 cars in total with 7 SM, 21 SMT, and 13 SSM. Tommy McCarthy in the #23 SM had the fastest lap in qualifying with a 2:09.0. Starting next to him would be the #53 SM of Cole Gibson. The 21 rows of Miatas were anxiously awaiting a green from the starter, who held them as long as possible and let them loose at the last second…

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