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F1
Ten entries





A Main


L to R, Joe McIntosh, Jay Guard, Kenny Hendrix, Ralph Thorne, Bobby Robinson, Gil Gundersen, Bill Bowers, Roger Holtsclaw, Steve McBride

1) Ralph Thorne - 279 laps, best lap of 4.890 secs in yellow lane
2) Bobby Robinson - 277, 4.891 in purple
3) Jay Guard - 272, 4.832 in orange
4) Steve McBride - 270, 4.827 in yellow
5) Kenny Hendrix - 268, 4.941 in yellow
6) Joe McIntosh - 267, 4.782 in blue
7) Roger Holtsclaw - 265, 4.954 in blue
8) Gil Gundersen - 262, 5.000 in yellow
9) Bill Bowers - 256, 4.954 in yellow
10) Chris Lowery - 184, 5.000 in blue


L to R, Bobby Robinson, Ralph Thorne, Jay Guard





Concours
Best Appearing: Joe McIntosh


Most Realistic: Gil Gundersen, Ralph Thorne, Jay Guard (three-way tie)



Can-Am
Fourteen entries





Can-Am Qualifying

1) Rick Crutchfield - 4.482 secs
2) Joe McIntosh - 4.563
3) Jay Guard - 4.587
4) Steve McBride - 4.614
5) Bobby Robinson - 4.639
6) Ralph Thorne - 4.660
7) Gil Gundersen - 4.693
8) Bill Bowers - 4.733
9) Kenny Hendrix - 4.830
10) Kelly Lebechuck - 4.853
11) Chris Lowery - 4.969
12) Roger Holtsclaw - 4.995
13) Mike Arnold - 5.006
14) Ryan Jones - 5.224

After polling the racers, it was decided to seed the top six qualifiers into the A Main and move the top two finishers in the B Main into the A.

B Main


L to R, Gil Gundersen, Chris Lowery, Kenny Hendrix, Roger Holtsclaw, Kelly Lebechuck, Ryan Jones, Mike Arnold

1) Gil Gundersen - 368 laps, best lap of 4.781 secs in blue lane
2) Bill Bowers - 353, 4.828 in purple
3) Roger Holtsclaw - 344, 4.992 in yellow
4) Kelly Lebechuck - 340, 4.988 in yellow
5) Mike Arnold - 334, 4.777 in yellow
6) Chris Lowery - 329, 4.559 in black
7) Ryan Jones - 308, 5.048 in yellow
8) Kenny Hendrix - 1233, 4.891 in yellow

A Main


L to R, Joe McIntosh, Bobby Robinson, Ralph Thorne, Steve McBride, Jay Guard, Gil Gundersen, Bill Bowers, Rick Crutchfield



1) Jay Guard - 379 laps, best lap of 4.610 secs in yellow lane
2) Bobby Robinson - 365, 4.832 in black
3) Gil Gundersen - 363, 4.781 in blue
4) Steve McBride - 358, 4.720 in yellow
5) Joe McIntosh - 349, 4.718 in yellow
6) Ralph Thorne - 348, 4.879 in orange
7) Rick Crutchfield - 324, 4.609 in blue
8) Bill Bowers - 51, 5.172 in green


L to R, Bobby Robinson, Jay Guard, Gil Gundersen


(I took the bodies off, but forgot to turn the cars over!)

Concours
Best Appearing: Joe McIntosh


Most Realistic: Jay Guard
(Missed snapping Jay's yellow car, but it can be seen elsewhere in the pics)

[Rick Crutchfield]

If you didn't make the SERRA race this weekend you missed an AWESOME day of racing! The turn-out was a little low because of work and family matters but the racers who were there showed what Retro racing is about: A LOT OF FUN AND GOOD TIMES!

Mike Arnold, Freda, and I want to thank ALL the racers that came out and raced here at Central TN Raceway for our first (but not our last!) Retro race since we opened the raceway.

Thanks again to everyone, especially Greg Wells and Jay Guard, for a GREAT time.

Rick

[Keith Tanaka]

Team Boola strikes in Tennessee. Good racing, Gil Gundersen!

Keith

[Rick]

Gil is now a "good ole boy"? WOWZA!

[Cheater]

Hey, finally getting to meet Gil was just about the highlight of the 730-mile round trip for me. (He and Jay were already acquaintances from Jay's time on the left coast.) He's clearly a hell of a racer.

Gil got married (for the first time!) about a year ago and the couple lives in Antioch, TN, about four miles from Central TN Raceway. Co-incidentally, Antioch is where my paternal grandmother was born and raised.

Gil said he likes the traffic in the Nashville area... imagine that! LOL!!

[Roho21]

I had a blast! The track was great, the competition was great and we once again experienced what Retro racing is all about... fun! I hope that we have this same feeling after our first Retro race in the Smoky Mtn Retro Association race in Bristol. Thanks to Rick and Freda for once again being great hosts.

The highlight of my weekend... I passed Jay Guard under green!

Lowlight... He passed me like 27 times! How does he get through those corners so fast?

[HarV Wallbanger III]

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Gil said he likes the traffic in the Nashville area... imagine that! LOL!!

Gil is a expert on traffic coming from SoCal! I met and got to know Gil about 1983-4 racing out here at Wild Willie's raceway and later in SoCal USRA through my Front Line years.

Tell him Annette and I say congrats! We are on our 25th year!

[Cheater]

I finally was able to add the pics to the SERRA #22 coverage. Still need to go back and add them to a couple of previous race reports, too. Sure seems like there are fewer hours in a day than there used to be...