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[John Gorski]

The Checkpoint Cup West Coast Reunion Spectacular 2011

(The big highlight of the weekend was five people in the same lap for the third place Can-Am podium... CRAZZZY!)

First Thank You...
Keith Tanaka, Paul Sterrett, Team Cort, Bob Crane, Barney Poynor, Jay Henry for your support and help making it happen. You're the best!

Congrats to the winners...

Bryan Warmack - Congrats on your GT Coupe and 1/32 Inline win; you deserve to be on the cup. All the time and work you put in on these little monsters, the help with making awesome parts and your creative ideas. You're the Man!

DURAN - What can I say Mr 5 peat. Your talent creativity and passion for racing brought it to a new level, a higher standard to raise the competition bar of D3. You were in a Jimmie Johnson, Micheal Jordon, MICHAEL SCHUMACHER zone this weekend.

Jonathan Forsyth - Congrats on getting on the cup. Missed seeing your Dad there this year.

Bob Crane - Great RetroPro TQ, Dude! and nice sixth place in F1! Great as always hanging out with the All Star Pit Crew Team. You're the best!

Howie "Sano" Ursaner - Always Great hanging out with you at a race. We'll raise the bar next race whereever it is.

Crusin Bob, Tore Anderson, Mike Steube, Doug Matthes, Lee Hines, Terry Schmid (great chassis dude!), John Cukras, Mill Conroy (thanks for the goods), Phil Nyland, Bob Chaney, and all the other racers this weekend. Great seeing you guys again and hanging out.

Keith Tanaka and Paul Sterrett - The men with the dream and that it is. Congrats on another great event, a true once in a lifetime experience. A well run show.
D3 racing is the real deal. Thank you both for your support and friendship.

Philippe- As always thanks for your contributions to all of slot racing. You keep the history of slot racing alive.

Haruki Kan - Mr LifeGuard -The Japanese connection - Great talking with you. Thanks for coming all the way from Tokyo to race. Thanks for taking Retro global.

Jim & Debbie - The people that make us feel at home away from home. A great atmosphere at their track, a true racers' raceway. Thanks for all you do and for having the third Checkpoint Cup.

To all the other racers I talked to and hung with all week it was a blast.

To all my Racing Blood Brothers - Thanks!!!

John Gorski

[Keith Tanaka]

John, thanks for being at the Checkpoint again this year. It's always special when you and others travel a long distance to be a part of this annual event.
The John and Howie show is always a lot of fun while bringing out the best in competitive, fun racing. Each year we have another Legend from the past join in the fun.
This year, Charlie Nelson did very well in his first ever D3 race, not bad for a great racer who last raced over 41 years ago.

We hope next year's Checkpoint will see you and Howie as well as Sano Dave and many others join in the fun again. Maybe we can get some of the other Legends (oldtimers) to come by and see how a bunch of old guys can have more fun than they did in the 60's Who knows, maybe Sandy Gross, Mike Morrissey, Doug Henline, Team Russkit, etc., will show up next year to see their old racing buddies.

Keith

[Bryan Warmack]

John,

Thanks for the great wrap-up!! Pretty much says it all and thanks to all of the out-of-towners who make the Checkpoint Cup special every year!!

It was an absolutely fantastic race in the Can-Am and congrats, Doug, for being first in class. Congrats, Duran, for being in a class of your own!

Great seeing Charlie Nelson again after 43 YEARS!! and it looked like he hasn't missed a beat.

Thanks again to Paul, Keith, Jim, Debbie and anyone and everyone else who helped out. A special thanks to Gary Donahoe and Jeff Easterly for all your assistance. It went so fast I regret not having more time for everything!!

[usadar]

Hello, John,

So nice to see you at the Checkpoint Cup.

Here in Tokyo, eleven racers came to my raceway last Sunday for the preparation of our first Tokyo D3 Can-Am race, scheduled for February 20. A few more racers are going to join us.

I hope I will be bringing Japanese D3 racers to the fourth Checkpoint Cup next January to race with such great legendary racers like you at BPR.

Good racing,

Haruki

[Bob Chaney]

Great to see you John .. let's all get together and do it again soon! .. and bring a friend with you next time! I'm bringin' Honeycutt

[John Gorski]

I forgot... Thanks, Jeff Easterly, for all your hard work Checkpoint weekend.

Jeff helps out at the track during the week. Thanks for opening for us and keeping things in line in front and behind the counter.

Peace, Bro.

[Jonathan Forsyth]

John, great to race with you again. Always fun.

Thanks to Richie Austin for most all my cars, sorry I couldn't get the 1/32 car going in time to race. Bryan Warmack, thanks for the two great cars you loaned me, especially the Stock Car. Jimmy Bling, thanks for the Stuebe/Matthes Jail Door, a good car that kept me in the hunt.

Howie, always great hanging out with you and just clipping you by the smallest margin. Looking forward to next time. By the way $250, still can't get over that, but at least it's a good story.

Congrats to all the winners, well done.

Thanks to Paul Sterrett, Keith Tanaka, and everyone behind D3, you're doing a great job. Thanks to Buena Park Raceway and all their contributors for allowing this great race to take place.

PdL, thanks for the trip to the Slot Car Museum; I had a great time.

Jonathan

[68Caddy]

John it was great to see ya again and Howie and the rest of the "Usual Suspects" at BP. Have to say I'm worried about you Jonathan, what's up with that beard?
Is Arizona turning you into a trapper, so next is you are going to something with the hair?
Big thanks to Warmack and the rest of the gang wish I could have stay a bit longer but I got
depressed.


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