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[Keith Tanaka]

The monthly D3 F1/Can-Am/Jail Door races returned to the King track for September.
A lot of very close, clean (much less deslots/crashes than usual) racing provided an exciting and fun day again at BPR.
Some new cars built using a new kit from a Tokyo D3 racer (Hanada) proved to be a winner.

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

Thanks to our race directors and tech inspector: Paul Sterrett, Keith Tanaka, Philippe de Lespinay

Here's the complete race/photo report:

F1/Can-Am/Jail Door race/photo report

F1 TQ: Duran Trujillo 4.131 sec.

F1 racers, L-R, Gary Donahoe, Doug Matthes, Jim Gonsalves, Keith Tanaka, Philippe de Lespinay, Marc Franco, Bob Crane, Mill Conroy, Bryan Warmack, Duran Trujillo

F1 podium, L-R, Mill Conroy 2nd, Duran Trujillo 1st, Doug Matthes 3rd



Duran Trujillo's winning F1 car


Can Am TQ: Doug Matthes 4.176 sec.

Can Am "B" Main racers, L-R, Jeff Easterly, Keith Tanaka, Marc Franco, PdL, Adam Kirchhoffer, Jim Gonsalves


Can Am "B" Main podium, L-R, Keith Tanaka 2nd, Adam Kirchhoffer 1st, Philippe de Lespinay 3rd


Can Am "A" Main racers, L-R, Gary Donahoe, Doug Matthes, Adam Kirchhoffer, Paul Sterrett, Mill Conroy, Phil Nyland, Duran Trujillo, Bryan Warmack


Can Am "A" Main podium, L-R, Doug Matthes 2nd, Duran Trujillo 1st, Bryan Warmack 3rd


Duran Trujillo's winning Can Am car (Hanada kit built by Duran)

Jail Door racers, L-R, Philippe de Lespinay, Gary Donahoe, Keith Tanaka, Jim Watterson, Paul Sterrett, Bryan Warmack.


Jail Door podium, L-R, Philippe de Lespinay 2nd, Paul Sterrett 1st, Keith Tanaka 3rd


Paul Sterrett's winning Jail Door car

The next F1/Can Am/Jail Door races will be on Sat. Oct. 8th, on the BPR Flat track.
Track opens at 8 am. F1 tech opens at 9:30 am, closes at 10 am sharp.

The next D3 Hardbody races will be on Sun. Sept. 18th, first race 1:30 pm.

The first D3 Hardbody Nats will be at BPR on Saturday/Sunday, Oct. 29-30, 2011.

Keith

[John Gorski]

Congrat, Doug, on TQ! Duran Twin wins & TQ! & Paul on Jail Door victory great to see a Chaparral in the winners circle. I miss racing those Chappy bodz

Sano Report as always, Keith (Mr. Hardbody).

Welcome back to the pack, Stork!!

[j-slot]

Keith,
Thank you very much for your great race report as usual.

I'm glad the Hanada kit cars, Kamo's and mine showed good performances at BPR.
Congrats all the winners.

Akitani

[TSR]

Akitani,
Some day we hope to meet you personally. Your chassis and parts are great!


REMINDER to ALL D3 RACERS:

The rules clearly posted, forbid ANY alterations to the motors.

From the very next race, no alteration of any part of the can such as grinding or adding solder will be allowed for any reason at time of tech inspection.
The only allowed modification to the motor is trimming the pinion shaft to fit requirements of pinion and gear clearance. Period, end of sentence.
Please be kind to bring cars to tech inspection at the next race that meet the motor rules,

As they say in bad B-movies about future police-run societies: "We thank you for your cooperation".

[Gary Donahoe]

Another fun day of racing at Buena Park. Thanks to everyone who contributed.

Special thanks to Kamoshita. With a little more tuning and better driving I was able to qualify his Can-Am car at 4.214 and complete 308 laps, both are personal bests. Kamo's car is great fun to drive and has proven to be competitive on both the King and flat tracks.

More thanks to Paul for the use of his Jail Door car.