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[68Caddy]

Friday, July 13, 2012 (Aaarrgh! Friday the 13th!!! )

Friday report by Philippe de Lespinay

Retro Coupes Races

Philippe de Lespinay was tech inspector and all cars passed with no issues.
Here, Dennis Hill is filling his entry and looks ready for business with a "get out of my way" posture.



Most of the coupes have now been through tech:



Concours judging was unanimous: these 3 cars were the best. The winning entry was Mill Conroy's beautiful Lola T70 MK2B, with Jay Henry's Chaparral and someone's Porsche 908 (please let me know so that I can put your name on it...



Retro Coupe qualifying, MTT track, 14 entries.

Bryan Warmack qualifies his Porsche 908:



1-Phil Nyland-----------------4.481"
2-Duran Trujillo--------------4.498"
3-Mill Conroy-----------------4.517"
4-Bryan Warmack-----------4.554"
5-Dennis Hill------------------4.585"
6-Marc Franco---------------4.617"
7-Dennis Samson-----------4.631"
8-Tim Neja--------------------4.640"
9-Philippe de Lespinay-----4.627"
10-Alex Freund---------------4.675"
11-Mike Aguirre--------------4.751"
12-Mark Wampler------------4.755"
13-Richard Hofer-------------4.790"
14-Jay Henry------------------5.014"

Retro Coupe "B" Race

The "B" race ready to go:



The racers are awaiting the beep from race director Barney Poynor:



The race quickly turned into a duel between Tim Neja and Alex Freund, with Mike Aguirre trying his best to hang with them.
Well, Tim made it to the "A".



Retro Coupe "A" Race

The "A" race was the usual Duran Benefit, with the SoCal ace blitzing everyone, with only Bryan Warmack even close. Mill salvaged a third placing by working hard at it, barely edging Phil Nyland. Tim Neja did his best but those guys up front are tough...

1/ Duran Trujillo. 314 laps, fastest lap 4.28"
2/ Bryan Warmack, 311, 4.33"
3/ Mill Conroy, 306, 4.39"
4/ Phil Nyland, 306, 4.32"
5/ Tim Neja, 303, 4.44"
6/ Alex Freund, 288, 4.55"
7/ Marc Franco, 285, 4.60"
8/ Dennis Hill, 144, 4.50"

Sorry, no podium pic yet. Cars pics will soon follow. ____________________________________________________________________________________
Retro 32 Races

15 entries for this impromptu race, and here are your Concours winners:



Yep, another Noose body on Philippe's Lola, the car expertly prepared by Bryan Warmack, who wins third place. Second was that beautiful Porsche of Mill Conroy. Wait, headlights on a 917-30????
Or is it a 936?

Retro 32 qualifying, MTT track, 15 entries:

1-Duran Trujillo--------------4.704"
2-Bryan Warmack-----------4.817"
3-Tore Anderson------------4.826"
4-Dennis Samson-----------4.830"
5-Mill Conroy-----------------4.907"
6-Phil Nyland-----------------4.908"
7-Oscar Morales-------------4.974"
8-Tim Neja-------------------- 5.011"
9-Philippe de Lespinay-----5.018"
10-Mike Aguirre--------------5.020"
11-Mark Wampler------------5.131"
12-Jay Henry-----------------5.137"
13-Eddie Shorer-------------5.232"
14-Richard Hofer-------------5.283"
15-Marc Franco--------------5.724"

Retro 32 "B" Race

The cars ready to roar:



Drivers line up:



The race was a straight fight between Tim Neja and Philippe de Lespinay. Eventually Philippe was able to put a bit of a cushion behind his car and edged Tim. Mark Wampler hacks third after a fine drive.

Retro 32 "B" Race results:

They will be posted in detail ASAP.



Philippe de Lespinay wins it over Tim and Mark Wampler who drove an excellent race, and moves to the "A"

Retro 32 "A" Race results:

The fast guys are prepping themselves for a head shampoo by Superman Duran.



The machines anxious to develop their power:



And guess what :



Anderson tried, Bryan tried, but Duran's car was in a league of its own, and Duran was driving it. Conclusion:

1/ Duran Trujillo, 298 laps, fastest lap 4.51"
2/ Tore Anderson, 292. 4.67"
3/ Bryan Warmack, 284, 4.60"
4/ Dennis Samson, 280, 4.71"
5/ Philippe de Lespinay, 278, 4.84"
6/ Mill Conroy, 276, 4.82"
7/ Oscar Morales, 255, 4.93"
8/ Phil Nyland, 216, 4.89"
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Retro Pro Races

There were plenty of racers to contest the fastest SCRRA racing class. Driving these Retro pro cars is like driving a mid-1970s wing car without... wings! The lap times would have been world records then!
The cars are lined up here for qualifying and Concours judging:



Concours saw Philippe's super lightweight car win it, with its Noose painted body. Mike Low and Craig Correia were runner ups.





As often and along with Mike Boemker, Mill Conroy and Barney Poynor, Alex Freund acted as race director. Thanks Alex!



Qualifying went swiftly and well. Here, Texan Richard Hofer tries his luck at breaking the sound barrier:



Retro Pro qualifying, King track, 21 entries:

1-Duran Trujillo--------------3.342"
2-Doug Matthes-------------3.385"
3-Jerry Johnson-------------3.386"
4-Tim Neja--------------------3.426"
5-Philippe de Lespinay----3.426"
6-Jay Henry------------------3.472"
7-Dennis Hill-----------------3.502"
8-Jonathan Forsyth--------3.502"
9-Tore Anderson------------3.533"
10-Mike Boemker-----------3.537"
11-Craig Correia------------3.538"
12-Alex Freund--------------3.559"
13-Bryan Warmack---------3.564"
14-Mike Brannian-----------3.573"
15-T.J. Albu------------------3.588"
16-John Hegedus-----------3.602"
17-Mike Aguirre-------------3.635"
18-Jim Watterson-----------3.639"
19-Richard Hofer-----------3.655"
20-Dennis Samson---------3.893"
21-Mike Low-----------------4.053"

Retro Pro "C" Race

The "C Guys" ready to scoot:



Da machines:



This one was simply dominated by our track owner, Jim Watterson. He took two heats to sort it out and then, he was gone.

At the end, we got this:



Richard Hofer and John Hegedus share the glory.

Jim chose not to move up and to take care of his raceway instead,

Retro Pro "B" Race

Next, the "B Guys" prepare for mortal combat to make it to the "A".



Their race cars chomping at the bit:



Another fast race with its share of little drama, and here we go:



Alex overwhelms Craig Correia and Jonathan Forsyth and moves up to the "A".

Retro Pro "A" Race

The fastest Retro drivers in the West have already pulled their controllers from their holsters and in a few seconds, the fight at OK Corral will begin.



Hold your horses for a few more seconds:



This one had the only "ugly incident" of the weekend, when a racer's car got unfortunately put into a wrong lane by a track marshal. The race director made a decision that was contested by the racer and words were unfortunately exchanged, not something that the SCRRA ever wants to see again.
In the meantime, a fierce battle took place between Jerry Johnson and Duran Trujillo, with Tim Neja also in the hunt. Eventually, Duran disciplined driving made the difference when Jerry ran into some trouble, and they finished in that order, Philippe de Lespinay driving a no-fault (but not fast enough!) in 4th place.



Actual race finishing for all the Friday races will be posted as soon as... we get them!

Saturday

Saturday report by Nesta Szabo:

Well here is a small part of the SWC race report, to much happened and it was great time to see guys coming from Japan, Texas, Arizona and the guys from Northern California.
Lets start out with the guys that came to visit BPR, we all liked Tex great guy and good racer, happy to have a chance to meet him.



Then it was great to see Haruki again and he is even better then in the past.



We had some guys coming down from North Cali like Jeff Bell.



Jay Henry who came up from SD to put some life into the gig.
Got my fair share of it.



Haruki's friends from Japan.



This are some of the guys that came down to BP to race and had a good time with the locals.











Mark Wampler:



Mike Kravitz:





It was a great bunch of guys that came to BP to race and they sure where part of the Southern California gig, lets hope they will come again for a fun day's of racing.

Gentleman lets get back to the CanAm race on July 14th.
This is what we all raced for:



I would like to include some of the best racers in Southern California as well, lets start with Duran.



Mill Conroy.



"John" Tore Anderson.



Dennis Samson and upcoming hot shoot Jimmy Bling.



Philippe and Cukras.



Bryan Warmack.



JC, Terry and John.



Tech was perormed by Cukras and big thanks for doing it and thanks to Philippe to check the motors.







I will break this report up for the guys that only want to see the CanAm top and bottom.

The Can AM cars and we had a entry of 36 racers, all handout motors.





























More to come, I need to download more pics.
Nesta

[TSR]

Saturday Retro Can Am qualifying:

1-Haruki Kan---------------------------4.149"
2-Duran Trujillo------------------------4.174"
3-Jonathan Forsyth-------------------4.256"
4-Gary Donahoe----------------------4.259"
5-Tore Anderson----------------------4.271"
6-Mill Conroy--------------------------4.277"
7-Jason Holmes-----------------------4.294"
8-Alex Freund-------------------------4.304"
9-Bryan Warmack--------------------4.305"
10-Jay Henry--------------------------4.315"
11-Mark Wampler---------------------4.350"
12-Terry Schmid----------------------4.351"
13-Philippe de Lespinay------------4.386"
14-John Cukras-----------------------4.391"
15-Dennis Samson-------------------4.408"
16-T.J. Albu----------------------------4.430"
17-Mike Aguirre-----------------------4.443"
18-Jerry Johnson---------------------4.444"
19-Oscar Morales--------------------4.466"
20-Mike Kravitz-----------------------4.469"
21-Craig Correia---------------------4.479"
22-Dennis Rios-----------------------4.485"
23-Dan Ruddock---------------------4.516"
24-Marc Franco----------------------4.532"
25-James Gonsalves----------------4.551"
26-Jeff Bell----------------------------4.556"
27-Nesta Szabo----------------------4.570"
28-Richard Hofer---------------------4.571"
29-Mark MacVittie--------------------4.582"
30-Mike Brannian--------------------4.687"
31-John Wakamatsu-----------------4.699"
32-Al Thurman------------------------4.726"
33-Earl MacCutcheon---------------4.880"
34-John Thompson------------------4.902"
35-Tom Eatherly----------------------4.929"
36-John Hegedus--------------------7.416"

Sunday Retro F1 Qualifying:

1-Duran Trujillo-----------------------4.290"
2-Jason Holmes----------------------4.303"
3-Haruki Kan--------------------------4.341"
4-Mike Aguirre------------------------4.357"
5-Jonathan Forsyth------------------4.361"
6-Alex Freund-------------------------4.401"
7-Bryan Warmack--------------------4.408"
8-Jay Henry----------------------------4.419"
9-Craig Correia-----------------------4.435"
10-Philippe de Lespinay------------4.436"
11-Terry Schmid----------------------4.447"
12-Jerry Johnson---------------------4.447"
13-Mill Conroy-------------------------4.458"
14-Gary Donahoe--------------------4.465"
15-Bill Vanderziel---------------------4.479"
16-Dennis Samson-------------------4.508"
17-Oscar Morales--------------------4.518"
18-John Hegedus---------------------4.525"
19-Nesta Szabo-----------------------4.528"
20-John Cukras-----------------------4.540"
21-T.J. Albu----------------------------4.585"
22-Richard Hofer----------------------4.594"
23-Bob Crane--------------------------4.677"
24-Marc Franco------------------------4.753"
25-Jeff Easterly------------------------4.804"
26-Mike Low----------------------------4.913"

Saturday and Sunday races results will be inserted within Nesta's photo report.

[Tim Neja]

It's interesting --I think the Can Am cars have finally made a progression in speed over the F-1 cars. The new Tokyo D3 chassis are showing to be very good-- I'm not sure if we look back that there is a full tenth of a second difference in previous qualifying? But the first 6 Can Am cars are faster than the best F-1. That may be a first?
Thanks
T

[John Gorski]

Tim was voltage checked on both days?

[TSR]

Yes. 12.6V for both Can Am and F1. The difference in qualifying and race times were due to the difference in the amount of glue and rubber on the track. The track was cleaned and sprayed on the evenings of Friday and Saturday.
The track was according to Duran Trujillo who is at this time the most competent and most successful of our racers, perfect on both days, but for me it was a bit loose Saturday for the Can Am races, while more stuck for the F1 on Sunday.
The power supply worked perfectly and only a car that had a broken lead wire that shorted the track caused the power supply to fall on safe mode for about 5 seconds.
There were zero motor failures and I personally ran the same motor in my Can Am car, then did two races (B and A) with my F1 car, and the motor is still just fine. It never really got hot, and I never used either a heat sink or a cooling stick between race segments.

[Mark Wampler]

With all due respect to the B Coupe and 1/32 racers, they are entitled to their standings like everyone else including Richard Tex Hofer who ran a great program. SO....lets have the complete report plz ??

Jim and Debbie keep all the race reports in a log book by the women's restroom. They are available.

Like this one

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[Slotgeezer]

I'd like to thank the SCRRA board for running such a great race....

Although I was next-to-last in F1, I certainly enjoyed myself....

Thank you, Dokk & Jim, for covering my entry....

It made the weekend pretty special, being able to race F1 cars w/ my friends....

Many thanks to everyone who attended.... Without your participation, this series of racing retro-inspired slot cars wouldn't exist...

To those who found the track conditions had changed on Sunday morning, I'm sorry if having a clean track wasn't part of what you had expected...

SCRRA officials felt that having a clean, freshly-glued track for both Saturday & Sunday was the best way to insure fair racing conditions...

Obviously, the fact that the track would be cleaned before the F1 race was run should've been conveyed to all racers....

I'm certain that these issues will be addressed in further events....

Again, many thanks to all those who attended this event, & I look forward to seeing everyone at our next big racing event....

Thank you, & good racing....


Jeff Easterly
BPR race reporter
Junior member - Team Zombie


Oh, yes.... 2-tone could hardly restrain herself, the weekend was so exciting....

[chaparrAL]

Thanks to John and the race staff for staging this fine event. Thanks to Jim and Debbie for not throwing me out for running an HO car around the track. And big thanks to goodguy Craig for trackside assistance for myself and Mark.

[TSR]

The race results and pictures are being loaded when time permits, so please refresh your page time to time to follow the posting progress.

Nesta, please keep posting the pictures and comments below, and they will be incorporated in the race report.

[68Caddy]

Part II.

































Next part III

Nesta

[68Caddy]

Part III.








































Next Concours.



Nesta

[68Caddy]

Concourse, selection of Bryan and Philippe.
Let the pictures tell the story.











Have to say that I started to fell like Philippe at that point!






The final selection:








We had a late arrival Mike B.






BPR own photographer Greg taking pics while Jim Watterson is watching the outcome.






Congrats to you all for the greatly painted body's.



Next Qualifying.



Nesta

[Old pink can guy]

Great Job Nesta! Wow Terry does it again. What a Chassis.

[MrWeiler]

I had fun! Thanks Oscar for the carr and Jeff, Terry and Mil for pitting for me.

[68Caddy]

Qualifying of CanAm:






There is always excitement in the building when Tore is there.




Terry, Bryan and Tore.





Guys are getting ready for this gig!







Jay Henry.






Haruki






Jason Holmes.






Superman Duran.














TJ Albu





Alex thanks for running the Qualifying.





It was great to meet Tex, great guy and a good racer.





Gary D. one of the fastest at BPR.






Mr. Samson.





Pdl, you never know is he will win it?







Mike B.







Bryan Warmack.






Mill Conroy.






TORE.






Mr. Controller.





Jerry J. fast.







JC








Terry S. what a nice guy.






This guys are checking out the competion, Bling, Jonathan and Doug.






Mike ?







Bling.







Love his head gear!






Johnathan.





A big congratulation to Haruki Kan for TQ, he was really fast.

Qualifying times:








Next we have the races, five mains!



Nesta

[68Caddy]

Race, E-main.
We had one move up for every main, line up of the rides.






Thanks Alex.





Line up of the racers in E-main.










Race result for E-main.





Congrat to to Mike B, John Wakamatsu and John H.






Next we have D-main.



Nesta

[68Caddy]

Main is D, I like it, and it was way fun and I blow it.
Love to see this I was racing and did only take one pic and this guys where having way to much fun?






Lets get it over with it, line up of the rides.




The line up:




Race result:




Congrats to the podium guys and the sweet one for Mark Franko,





Next we have C-main:



Nesta

[Tex]

That screenshot of the D-main is misleading. As shown, 3 of us finished on the same lap(296), but the order on the track between us 3 was different than what the computer showed. Dennis Rios was 3rd, I was 4th and Nesta 5th. Only a 5-lap spread from 1st to 7th; I think that was the best race I've ever competed in.

[68Caddy]

C-main:
But first we have to hang with Haruki.




What is in that can?





Looking at Philippe, I wonder?





Line up of the rides for the race.






C-main racers.





I would like to thanks Jason Holmes for handling this gig.





Jeff Bell one of the best in turn marshaling.





Line up of the C-main.




Gone racing.







Terry and Philippe waiting for their gig.





Race result for C-main.





Congrats to Dennis, Jerry and TJ.




Someone tried to sneak into the pic?





Next we are having B-main.



Nesta

[68Caddy]

B-main race is the race for the last place in A-main. All the guys raced their hearts out to move up but Lady Luck would just pick one of us.
Face it, it just got tougher as they moved up the mains.

Lets get started with the line up of the cars.






The line up for this race and I won't mention any names all great racers.





Off they went for the A-main spot.







The turn Marshall's did a great job in this madness.











When all is said and done this is what it is.




Congrats to Alex, Bryan and Cukras.





Next A-main:


Nesta


BTW I want my PM rights back please.

[68Caddy]

A-main:
The rides.






Thanks Dennis for being the race director.




Line up of the racers, from left to right we have....Jason, Duran, Alex, Gary, Mill, Haruki, Jonathan and Tore.










Check out Haruki, I think Gorsky has competition in style?





The results of A-main.





I think part of the ceiling fell down!





Congrats to Duran, Jason and Jonathan.





The winning ride of Duran and Jason.








Next F1 July15.



Nesta


BTW I want my PM rights back!

[Bryan Warmack]

Kind of out of order, but here are some pics of the podium cars from the Anglewinder Coupe race on Friday.

1st Place.............Duran Trujillo...... Trujillo chassis




2nd Place............Bryan Warmack...........Warmack chassis




3rd Place...........Mill Conroy........Warmack chassis

[Bryan Warmack]

From the 1/32nd race on Friday. Pics of the podium cars.

1st Place..........Duran Trujillo.........Dennis Samson chassis.




2nd Place........Tore Anderson.......Dennis Samson chassis




3rd Place..........Bryan Warmack........Warmack chassis

[Old pink can guy]

Great job Nesta. What can ya say about Terry's Chasis and Mills Warmak? Can ya get me one of each? LOL Thanks for all the hard work. Ken.

[usadar]

Nesta,

Jay Henry's car is missing in the photos of the teched Can-Am's.

Haruki