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[Bryan Warmack]

 The premier race of any Retro event is Can Am so it was for this years Parma Checkpoint Cup. The SCRRA again went with the hand out JK Hawk Retro format that worked so well at last years Checkpoint and Summer Western Classic. (3) marked and numbered motors were available to each racer and a very robust field of 46 took their chances at landing a "Silver Bullett!"  Everyone had their own break in procedure.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Can Am Realistic Concours

1st Place      #5     Earl McCutcheon       McCutcheon paint

2nd Place     #2     Philippe deLespinay       Noose paint

3rd Place      #3     Craig Correia           Yamashita paint

 

 

 

Earls usual awesome detail!

 

 

 

Can Am Presentation Concours

1st Place     #1   Dale Yamashita        Yamashita paint

2nd Place    #7   Jason Holmes       Noose paint

3rd Place     #3    Terry Schmid       Schmid paint

 

 

 

 Dales striking car!

 

 

 

Realistic Concours winner Earl McCutcheon

 

 

 

Presentation Concours winner Dale Yamashita

 

 

 

 

46 Can Am cars ready for qualifying........

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    AND THE FASTEST QUALIFIER IS........................................

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   Sam Rackham!!....with Duran Trujillo close behind and a super run by John Cukras to secure the final A Main sit out spot!

 

 

 Sam with another TQ plaque to add to his collection!

 

 

 

G Main racers

 

 

 

G Main results

 

 

 

G Main podium

1st Place      Mill Conroy

2nd Place     Mark McVittie

3rd Place      Tracy Chin

  Mill and Mark move to the F Main

 

 

 

F Main racers

 

 

 

F Main results

 

 

 

F Main podium

1st Place      Mill Conroy

2nd Place      Mark McVittie

3rd Place       Jason Holmes

Mill and Mark move to the E Main

 

 

 

E Main racers

 

 

 

E Main results

 

 

 

E Main podium

1st Place      Mark McVittie

2nd Place      Ernie Funez

3rd Place      Rick Linn

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D Main racers

 

 

 

D Main results

 

 

 

D Main podium

1st Place       Eddie Shorer

2nd Place      Rick Dodge

3rd Place       John Wakamatsu

Eddie and Rick move to the C Main

 

 

 

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C Main results

 

 

 

C Main podium

1st Place       Jerry Johnson

2nd Place       Eddie Shorer

3rd Place        Craig Correia

Jerry and Eddie move to the B Main

 

 

 

B Main racers

 

 

 

B Main results               Things are starting to get a bit serious as Jerrys 342 and Dales 341 lap total leave 'em turn marshalling!!     Great run Eddie, Eduardo and Marc!

 

 

 

B Main podium

1st Place      Alex Freund

2nd Place     Ben Cervantes Jr

3rd Place       Howie Ursaner

All 3 move to the A Main

 

 

 

A Main racers               Ben Cervantes Jr,  Duran Trujillo,  Alex Freund,  Sam Rackham,  TJ Albu,  Howie Ursaner,  Bryan Warmack,  John Cukras.          Awesome field with winners from just about every era!

 

 

 

   A staggeringly fast and clean race with Duran, Alex and Sam leading the way and Duran setting a new track record of 354 laps to the victory with Alex and Sam breathing down his neck!  Howie and Bryan battled the entire race with Howie just nipping Bryan by feet at the end!  Great race!!  Poor John went out with a broken frame early and 338 laps get TJ ..........seventh!  

 

 

 

A Main podium

1st Place       Duran Trujillo

2nd Place      Alex Freund

3rd Place       Sam Rackham

The well deserved winners! 

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 Can Am podium cars

 

1st Place         Duran Trujillo           KamoSpeed chassis

 

 

 

 

2nd Place       Alex Freund         Trujillo chassis

 

 

 

 

3rd Place        Sam Rackham         Trujillo chassis

 

 

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[Tom Eatherly]

Man, Can-Am had some serious racing! 354 laps for Duran, with Alex and Sam just a lap or two behind. Lordy!

Looks like the hand-out motors went without issue's. Good for everybody involved. Mighty fast racing indeed.

[Tim Wilkins]

Duran averaged 44.25 laps per lane.  Wow.  On paper, it looks like the greatest Checkpoint Cup A Main ever when you look at the lap totals for the podium winners.  Congratulations all!  Excellent report Bryan and really enjoyed all the pictures.  

[Mark Wampler]

Wow, great turn out and a total vindication of the short shaft HR motor!  A lot of hard work putting this report together.  Great job Bryan!

[MSwiss]

a total vindication of the short shaft HR motor!

I missed when the short shaft HR was ever ostracized, except for the theory, a Hawk 7 arm, could be transplanted in one, from the FB Greek chorus of non-IRRA® and SCRRA racers.

 

I thought it was a great move to use them for the handouts, at the CP, and told Bryan, as such, in a PM.

[Mark Wampler]

I missed when the short shaft HR was ever ostracized, except for the theory, a Hawk 7 arm, could be transplanted in one,

 

Just for the reason you stated.  The perception was that an H7 arm could be slipped in.  So, yes they were ostracized.  As a result I'm sure there is an abundance in storage, since the "R" motors have (evidently) been all snapped up.  Regardless,  this was a very wise move and there will probably still be short shaft HR's  available for Western Classic too.

[Howie Ursaner]

i believe that the original short shaft motors were not marked to distinguish them from Hawk 7's. These short shaft motors are marked 7R so there is no way to confuse them with the Hawk 7's. 

[MSwiss]

They were always clearly lasered marked.

The issue of cheating was based on racers putting Hawk 7 arms in 7R cans without detection (somehow? not disturbing the plating)

Since there wasn't a shortage of long shaft motors available, the IRRA® decided it made more sense to ban them.

My personal opinion, if someone put a Hawk 7 arm in one, it would be very obvious and the racer would get caught as a cheater.

The few times racers try to slip in Hawk 7 in my Wednesday night, no tech, GTP races, they are caught 1 -2 heats in the race, by me.