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[Cheater]

More Can-Am practice.



L to R, Will Brinkley, Mike Iles, Biscuit Bresett, Carmen Veneziale, and Willy Custer.

[Cheater]

As well as thanking all veterans today, racers need also to thank this well-tanned guy, SpeedZone owner Mike Iles. Without his commitment to SpeedZone and IRRA^® racing, there would be no Fall Brawl. That tan suggests he's been spending a lot of time on his boat and at the marina he now runs.



Two great racers and... a great builder who would like to be a great racer. LOL.



L to R, Joe 'Chubby' Salzman, Brazil's Luis 'Gugu' Bernardino, and 'Jersey' John Molnar. You know you've made it in the slot car world when you have a single-word nickname everyone knows.

[Cheater]

Report is that 48 cars have cleared tech for Can-Am.

 

So eight mains, with the top two finishers in each sub-main advancing to the next main.

[Cheater]

The Can-Am concours winners.

 

 

1) Ryan Bruce - Koepp paint

2) Doug Griffith #3

3) Gary Clinton Sr. #64

 

Qualifying should be starting real soon...

[Cheater]

Can-Am qualifying:

 

1) Mike 'Biscuit' Bresett - 4.844 secs - new IRRA^® Can-Am track record!

2) Wes Pikunix - 4.851

3) Willy Custer - 4.864

4) Duran Trujillo - 4.882

5) Howie Ursaner - 4.944

6) Dale Yamashita - 4.946

7) Keith Libby - 4.948

8) John Gorski - 4.964

9) Andrew Ford - 4.973

10) Will Brinkley - 4.985

11) Joe 'Chubby' Salzman - 4.987

12) Matt Bruce - 4.991

13) Tom Adams - 4.995

14) Gary Clinton Jr. - 5.001

15) Tom Hansen - 5.002

16) Dom Luongo - 5.021

17) Rick Dodge - 5.030

18) Ed 'Edsel' Sohl - 5.041

19) Gary 'Hip' Culy - 5.053

20) Joe 'Noose' Neumeister - 5.059

21) Gary Clinton Sr. - 5.072

22) Alex Freund - 5.078

23) Rob Geibel - 5.080

24) Brian 'XPro' Cochrane - 5.082

25) Ryan Bruce - 5.121

26) Max Iles - 5.129

27) Mile Iles - 5.168

28) Tim Wiegand - 5.170

29) Greg Fox - 5.173

30) Doug Murphey - 5.183

31) Dave Demott - 5.186

32) Steve Levitsky - 5.192

33) Preston Selfinger - 5.201

34) Jason Holmes - 5.244

35) Doug Griffith - 5.246

36) Dan Wiegand - 5.254

37) Luis 'Gugu' Bernardino - 5.313

38) Carmen Veneziale - 5.391

39) Kyle Hall - 5.481

40) 'Jersey' John Molnar - 5.561

41) Ray Carlisi - 5.587

42) Bill Sutton - 5.592

43) Dave Brooks - 5.611

44) Miley Iles - 5.621

45) Dennis Samson - 5.643

46) Don Perry - 5.867

47) Jeff Millinghausen - 6.075

48) Clyde Romero - n/t

 

Qualifying spreads:

First eight qualifiers – .120 secs.

First 16 qualifiers – .177 secs.

First 24 qualifiers – .238 secs.

First 32 qualifiers – .348 secs.

[Cheater]

Can-Am - H Main
 


Mikey and Dennis advance to the G Main.

OK, there's a little snag happening with the results LapMaster is pushing out to the SpeedZone website (and that's where I get these terrific color-coded tables). The move-ups from the previous Main are not being shown, i.e. only six racers' results are being exported. So all I can do at this time is to tell you who the move-ups are.

Can-Am - G Main (partial results)



Gugu and Mikey (laps not shown) advance to the F Main.

Can-Am - F Main (partial results)



Dave and Gugu (laps not shown) advance to the E Main.

 

Can-Am - E Main (partial results)

 

 

As Noose is probably getting ready to race, he's not yet messaged me with the move-ups as before and that's certainly understandable. If anyone knows who moved up from this main, please let me know so I can add them here.

 

Can-Am - D Main (partial results)

 

 

Don't yet know who the move-ups were from this main.

 

Can-Am - C Main (partial results)

 

 

Don't yet know who the move-ups were from this main.

 

Can-Am - B Main (partial results)

 

 

Will and Andrew advance to the A Main.

 

Note: Thanks to Jimmy Williams, full results for each main are available in post #36 below.

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Can-Am - A Main

 

 

 

1) Willy Custer

2) Mike 'Biscuit' Bresett

3) Will Brinkley

 

Willy Custer's first-place car.

 

 

 

Mike Bresett's second-place car.

 

 

 

Will Brinkley's third-place car.

 

 

 

Why is Will wearing the champion's belt in the above pic?

 

 

I think it's because he's bigger than Willy... LOL! [Stupid Cheater... see post #40.]

[Cheater]

OK, here's the overall lap chart.

 

You'll note there are a number of lines where no or few individual heat totals are shown. I am unable do anything to fix that from this distance right now. I've asked Carsten if he can reconstruct the missing data, and if he can, I will update the info.

 

[Cheater]

FWIW, I find the geographical distribution of the Can-Am A Main racers pretty interesting.

 

Duran Trujillo, Dale Yamashita – California

Mike Bresett - Florida

Wes Pikunis – New Jersey

Willy Custer – Ohio

Will Brinkley, Andrew Ford – Tennessee

Howie Ursaner - Wisconsin

 

What does this say or prove?

 

That IRRA^® Retro racing is popular all over the country!

[Jimmy Williams]

Since I wasn't able to attend, I had all day to watch the stream and recorded the data that I knew would be lacking since they had it set to Heat Race instead of Heat Race Promoting. The poor results above are not a fault of the program but a fault of the user not choosing the right mode.
 
Can-Am  - H Main
 
Mikey Iles  -  240.08,  5.348 on green
Dennis Samson  -  236.16,  5.534 on green
Dave Brooks  -  234.23,  5.434 on red
Don Perry  -  230.02,  5.520 on red
Clyde Romero  -  229.00,  5.883 on blue
Jeff Millinghausen  -  224.04,  5.693 on blue
 
Can-Am - G Main
 
Mikey Iles  -  263.08,  5.243 on red
Luis ‘Gugu’ Bernardino  -  257.10,  5.323 on orange
Kyle Hall  -  256.10,  5.258 on blue
Carmen Veneziale  -  251.09,  5.466 on red
Bill Sutton  -  227.24,  5.630 on green
Ray Carlisi  -  186.00,  5.430 on orange
‘Jersey’ John Molnar  -  135.00,  5.460 on yellow
Dennis Samson  -  89.00,  5.461 on blue
 
Can-Am - F Main
 
Dave Demott  -  265.11,  5.279 on orange
Luis ‘Gugu’ Bernardino  -  262.16,  5.278 on green
Doug Griffith   -  255.19,  5.324 on blue
Jason Holmes  -  254.04,  5.265 on green
Dan Weigand  -  253.10,  5.183 on orange
Mikey Iles  -  248.04,  5.242 on red
Steve Levitsky  -  68.00,  5.264 on white
Preston Selfinger  -  26.00,  5.297 on green
 
Can-Am - E Main
 
Max Iles  -  267.18,  5.111 on green
Mike Iles  -  266.22,  5.236 on orange
Luis ‘Gugu’ Bernardino  -  265.07,  5.233 on white
Ryan Bruce  -  264.16,  5.203 on red
Greg Fox  -  263.08,  5.186 on green
Tim Weigand  -  260.10,  5.182 on blue
Dave Demott  -  255.08,  5.275 on green
Doug Murphy  -  251.08,  5.347 on yellow
 
Can-Am - D Main
 
Brian ‘XPro’ Cochrane  -  269.06,  5.160 on blue
Alex Freund  -  269.00,  5.102 on yellow
Gary ‘Hip’Culy  -  267.05,  5.067 on red
Joe ‘Noose’ Neumeister  -  266.21,  5.208 on green
Max Iles  -  266.06,  5.142 on orange
Gary Clinton Sr.  -  263.03,  5.198 on blue
Rob Geibel  -  76.00,  5.209 on green
Mike Iles  -  45.00,  5.263 on yellow
 
Can-Am - C Main
 
Tom Adams  -  272.04,  5.099 on green
Brian ‘XPro’ Cochrane  -  270.18,  5.081 on blue
Tom Hansen  -  268.07,  5.084 on green
Rick Dodge  -  268.02,  5.144 on green
Dom Luongo  -  267.06,  5.104 on white (I don’t know who got the tie-breaker)
Gary Clinton Jr.  -  267.06,  5.091 on green
Edsel  -  266.16,  5.138 on red
Alex Freund  -  257.29,  5.047 on white
 
Can-Am - B Main
 
Will Brinkley  -  274.25,  5.068 on orange
Andrew Ford  -  274.18,  4.990 on green
Tom Adams  -  274.15,  5.050 on red
Matt Bruce  -  273.01,  5.087 on red
Keith Libby  -  271.10,  5.053 on green
Joe ‘Chubby’ Salzman  -  269.03,  5.077 on orange and white
Brian ‘XPro’ Cochrane  -  267.20,  5.073 on orange
John Gorski  -  260.29,  5.066 on green
 
Can-Am - A Main
 
Willy Custer  -  283.16,  4.908 on green
Mike ‘Biscuit’ Bresett  -  280.14,  4.930 on green
Will Brinkley  -  278.12,  5.027 on red
Wes Pikunis  -  278.00,  4.979 on white
Howie Ursaner  -  276.11,  5.036 on green
Duran Trujillo  -  274.01,  5.129 on green
Dale Yamashita  -  273.29,  5.090 on green
Andrew Ford  -  272.05,  5.055 on white

 

Congrats to all the winners this weekend and Will Brinkley on the overall championship. Hopefully no more unfortunate events come up to prevent me from coming next year and taking that belt.

[Cheater]

Thank you for this, Jimmy!

[Noose]

Willy Custer’s lap total and race lap are new track records.

[A. J. Hoyt]

Great job reporting from afar, Cheater.

 

Did anyone else notice that each main (featuring eight faster qualifiers) seemed to improve the lap total by only two or three laps (to win). G to F was more but that is kind of expected.

 

Then, the A Main increases the winner total (required to win) by 10? Stunning performance, Willy! Especially since it was not on another King track!

 

I'm impressed!

 

You guys kept it in the slot!

 

AJ

[Dan Ebert]

Willy Custer can win anywhere on any type of track. 

 

I saw him dominate at Bristolville. That convinced me that Willy was the real deal. Bristolville was one flat technical track with more turns than any track should be allowed. The Penn-Ohio series raced there for years, until it closed a few years back. He has won on every track in the Penn-Ohio series. We had two different flat tracks, Hillclimb,  Grandstand, mirror orange, Gerding King, and blue Kings. 

 

So Mr. Custer is not a one-trick pony. Winning at the Fall Brawl does not surprise this Willy fan. 

 

Congrats to both Will Custer and to Will Brinkley on their Can-Am finishes. 

[Cheater]

Guys, I need to correct my snarky edit of post #32.

 

The championship belt at the Fall Brawl is awarded based on a racer's combined finishes in Stock Car, GT Coupe Pro, F1, and Can-Am. This was either not clear to me or I am getting senile due to advanced age (probably the latter).

 

Will Brinkley earned the belt because of his crazily-consistent finishes in the classes listed. 

 

The amazing thing is that Will didn't win a single one of those races!

 

Congrats to Will and apologies for my earlier misstatements.

[willy wonka]

The Fall Brawl is great and I don't think anything needs to be changed!

 

Thanks, Mike, Mic, and crew, for hosting it every year.

 

Already can't wait to take my belt back next year, Brinkley!

 

Congrats to all the winners and podium finishers this weekend.

[Noose]

Whew. Another Premier race in the books! Don’t think I’ve seen closer racing ever!

Super thanks to SpeedZone for another great event and my buddy Edsel for his help all weekend!

Congrats to the winners:

Dale Yamashita - Can-Am Plus
John Gorski - RetroPro
Keith Libby - Stock Car
Danny Zona - GTC-FK
Mike Bresett - GTC-Pro
Duran Trujillo - Formula 1
Will Custer - Can-Am

And to the Heavyweight Champion - Will Brinkley!

I’ll post the pics of the winning cars as soon as I can.

[Cheater]

Don’t think I’ve seen closer racing ever!

I agree 100%, although obviously I didn't actually see any of the racing...

But I can't think of any slot racing of any kind anywhere that was closer, in every class, than at this year's Fall Brawl.

[Clyde Romero]

Well, the Fall Brawl is over.
 
As special thanks goes out to the best race director I’ve seen to date, Brandon. He tackles the task like no other.
Time and time again with multiple entries and move-ups that would stump a calculus professor. He gets it done. Like pouring sand out of shoe with the instructions on the heel! Makes it look easy

And let’s not forget Noose, who has the daunting task of keeping everything in check. A job that he catches a lot of flack for but ask yourself this: would you want that job? Outstanding job, Boss. You give as good as you get and you know what, that’s what it takes

So until next year... be safe and enjoy the holidays.

Clyde out!

[MSwiss]

Whew. Another Premier race in the books! Dont think Ive seen closer racing ever!

I think you may have. LOL.

Below is a Retro East race from 2016, again at SpeedZone.

You were also part of GTC-Pro race at Sano 9 where Howie won with 295, and 6th and 7th had 292.

IIRC, you were one of those 292 guys. LOL.

[Bryan Warmack]

Congrats to the winners:

Dale Yamashita - Can-Am Plus
John Gorski - RetroPro
Keith Libby - Stock Car
Danny Zona - GTC-FK
Mike Bresett - GTC-Pro
Duran Trujillo - Formula 1
Will Custer - Can-Am

And to the Heavyweight Champion - Will Brinkley!

 
The results of all the races show a different angle on just how close the racing was. Not one repeat winner and the overall champ didn't win a single race!!
 
Congrats to all the winners and a real cross-section of racers from all over the country! 

[Noose]

Here ya go!

 

 FB9 Winning Cars.pdf   1.98MB   366 downloads

 

[MSwiss]

Thanks for posting, Joe.

Lots of cool stuff.

An old school Camen wing car paint job from Dale was neat on his CA+ car.

Also, Andrew Ford really put a lot of stuff on the podium, including Willy's Can-Am.

It's great to see some different looking stuff, and with a racey (chopped up/drilled) look.

[Brinkley47]

This is one of my favorite races of the year.
 
I have to send a huge thanks to Andrew Ford for supplying all four cars I raced. He has done his homework and every car I put on the track was fast. Andrew also made the fronts and rears I raced.
 
In addition, I want to thank Custer for the motors. He is always willing to help with anything. He even helps with knocking my car out of the slot during the race... LOL.
 
FYI, I hope to keep the belt for the next six years.
 
Huge thanks to Brandon, Noose, Mike Iles, and everyone else who works hard to make the event amazing.

[Matt Bruce]

This year's Brawl was just fantastic. The quality of racing was the best I've seen in all the years I've been racing Retro while traveling to races all over the country.

 

We all appreciate all the racers who make it out to this event every year because it's you who make this race what it is and what it has become. We realize that you guys have limited time to race and have to pick and choose sometimes, and it makes us very happy that you continue to pick the Fall Brawl as a can't-miss event.

 

Great to see everyone each year.