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[Keith Tanaka]

Saturday's monthly F1/Can Am races returned to the infamous "knife fight in a phone booth" Kingleman track at BPR.

Die hard F1 racers as well as an all Legend podium for the Can-Am race made the day fun and memorable.

Thanks to Jim and Debby Watterson for their support of D3 racing at BPR.

Thanks to our race director, Adam Kirchhoffer

Here's the complete race/chassis photo report link:

race/chassis photo report

D3 F1 racers, L-R, Paul Sterrett, Bryan Warmack, Dale Yamashita, John Cukras, Oscar Morales, Keith Tanaka, Nesta Szabo


F1 podium, L-R, John Cukras 2nd, Dale Yamashita 1st, Paul Sterrett 3rd[/b]


Dale Yamashita's winning F1 car.


D3 Can-Am racers, L-R, Paul Sterrett, Bryan Warmack, Tore Anderson, Oscar Morales, Jeff Easterly, John Cukras, Duran Trujillo, Jim Watterson, Mike Kravitz, Nesta Szabo, Keith Tanaka


Can-Am podium, L-R, Tore Anderson 2nd, Bryan Warmack 1st, John Cukras 3rd. That's a "Legends" podium!


Bryan Warmack's winning Can-Am car.


The next D3 race will be Sunday, May 22. NASCAR and Coupe on the BPR Kingleman track.

Track opens at 11 AM, NASCAR tech at 12:30 PM.

Keith

[John Gorski]

Congrats to...

Bryan Warmack - 1st... Chassis god.
Tore Anderson - 2nd... Goat, nice body & 3.56 lap.
John Cukras - 3rd... Nice double podium, Jet.
Dale Yamashita - 1st... That F1 works.
John Cukras - 2nd... Cukras green is back.
Paul Sterrett - 3rd... Nice chassis cut, Paul.

Great detailed report as always, Keith.

[JimF]

Great to see JTA back racing again but sorry to see the interest in the Kingleman starting to wane. That is my favorite track at BPR and maybe anywhere.

Wish I coulda but I couldn't. Hope to make it next month for the flatster.

[68Caddy]

Thanks for the race report, Keith, and I sure enjoyed it. Have to say it's great to see JC andTore racing more frequently at BPR.

Congrats to you podium winners.

Nesta

[Lee Jet]

Gorski man, well said from this side of the world, as well!

Looked like a fine race between the aforementioned hot sticks!

And no knife wounds or scars were inflicted it seems!

A question: What happened to Duran?

[Keith Tanaka]

A question: What happened to Duran?

Duran was running second when he had a problem with his car. I believe it was a lead wire.

Bryan probably would have won anyway since he had a good lead at the time.

After the race, Bryan said he had a clean race, no deslots, crashes, or nerfs, just what it takes to win on the Kingleman.

Keith

[68Caddy]

You are so right about that, long way for me to achieve that goal but I have the best in the business to learn from.

Bryan earned every lap in this race because their was a lot of activities going on, and poor Duran became a rider and his car flew like a missile, that one did him in but he took it like a pro.

Tore was on rail and so was Cukras and the rest of you podium hogs!

Nesta

[Bryan Warmack]

Keith,

What I said was it was unbelievable that I did not come off the track in the LAST SIX HEATS!! Unbelievably lucky!!

I was off maybe 40 times in the first two heats but was able to somehow claw back through the wreckage without an off!! I think Tore, Duran, and myself were within a lap or so of each other going into the last heat and they both ran into trouble. Tore got killed on black or I think he would have won. A BRUTAL race!!

Can't wait to do it again in August!!

[Mark Wampler]

Hummm, I do have a NASCAR and Coupe. Its only been a couple years since they've seen a track. Next Sunday?

[68Caddy]

Can't believe that you said that, Bryan. I was a good boy, I think?

Nesta

[Bryan Warmack]

A few final words on the Kingleman.

Congrats to Dale Yamashita in the F1 race and special thanks to Rob Hanson from Illinois for building the car I drove in the race. It is more or less a Dennis Samson clone but with a very long wheelbase like Dale's super car and ran great. Thanks, Rob!!

Also thanks to Adam Kirchoffer for running the races and Jim Gonsalves for helping turn marshal. Thanks, Paul and Keith, and thanks Nesta for the pics.

Welcome back, Tore, and great job!!

Congrats John Cukras for second and third.

See everyone in a couple weeks!