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[Cheater]

Sounds like it's shaping up to be a heck of a weekend.

Yep, the depth of racer talent here exceeds any other Retro race I can recall.

Wish you were here, John. I was asking about you yesterday.

[Cheater]

Here's a sight familiar to racers at just about any IRRA^® Premier Race over the last decade: the brutal 'Tech Nazi' Noose making sure every car meets the letter of the rules. He may not be the nicest guy at a tech table, but he's without a doubt the fairest and most even-handed scrutineer to be found anywhere in slot racing. There's no counting the number of Retro cars he's teched over the last dozen years; it has to be in the thousands.



The field for Stock Car is 42 entries, which will give three eight-man mains at the top and two nine-man round-robin mains at the bottom. This is a one-and-done format, with final ranking based on lap total.



Concours, as usual the IRRA^® events, is awarded based on racer voting. For this class, there was a tie for second.

First places goes to Gary 'Hip' Culy, with Noose and Atlanta Slot Car Raceway owner Clyde Romero tied for second.

 

L to R, Noose's second place car, Hip's winner, and Clyde's second place car. Note that numbers and logos on Hip's car are hand-lettered on the outside of the body.

Qualifying is underway as I post this, in the typical format: best single lap turned in a one-minute qualifying attempt.

[TG Racing]

Congrats to Doc on second place in RetroPro! 

 

I wonder why there are so few entries in RetroPro?

[John Streisguth]

It's a class that is run only at a few large events, so fewer and fewer people are committing to it.

[Cheater]

Stock Car qualifying results:

 

1) Jerry Herbert - 5.520 secs

2) Jimmy Williams - 5.621

3) Gary Clinton Jr. - 5.716

4) Ed Sohl - 5.737

5) Keith Libby - 5.773

6) Pat Skegs - 5.811

7) Brian Cochrane - 5.821

8) Vinny Cafazio - 5.827

9) Greg Fox - 5.831

10) Danny Zona - 5.846

11) Howie Ursaner - 5.846

12) John Weaver - 5.854

13) Alex Freund - 5.857

14) Adam Chaya - 5.857

15) Mike Iles - 5.862

16) Jay Guard - 5.868

17) Dale Yamashita - 5.901

18) Dom Luongo - 5.907

19) Bill Gerhart - 5.945

20) Joe Neumeister - 5.959

21) Matt Bruce - 5.979

22) Gary 'Hip' Culy - 5.993

23) Rich Theisen - 6.016

24) Carmen Veneziale - 6.022

25) Duran Trujillo - 6.046

26) Bill Vanderziel - 6.062

27) Preston Selfinger - 6.114

28) Jason Holmes - 6.115

29) Pete Morton - 6.137

30) Dale Granger - 6.173

31) Doug Griffith - 6.222

32) Jimmy Rosselli - 6.250

33) Vinny Wisniewski - 6.261

34) Steve Levitsky - 6.303

35) John Molnar - 6.305

36) Dan Ebert - 6.357

37) Doug Murphy - 6.433

38) Fred Zufelt - 6.513

39) Clyde Romero - 6.529

40) Doc Dougherty - 6.562

41) Bill Sutton - 6.682

42) Dennis Dominey - (no time)

 

Race director Robert Geibel is loading names into the lap counting computer and configuring the it for the parameters for the five mains

He's now having the racers making their lane choices.

 

The nine-man E Main will be starting soon.

[John Streisguth]

Holy... 5.520 with a Stock Car???  

[Cheater]

Stock Car E Main results:

 

 

 

L to R, 'Jersey John' Molnar, Doug Murphy, Steve Levitsky.

[Steve Deiters]

Wowzer! 42 entrants for Stock Car.

[Half Fast]

Live timing is HERE.
 
Cheers,

[Cheater]

Stock Car D Main results:





L to R, Preston Selfinger, Duran Trujillo, Dale Granger.

[elinsley]

What are the bodies that the winner of each main has?

[John Gorski]

Great race report, Greg. Thanks!

[Cheater]

Stock Car C Main results:

 

 

 

L to R, Dom Luongo, Dale Yamashita, Rich Theisen.

[Cheater]

What are the bodies that the winner of each main has?

Eric,

I personally do not know. Perhaps Noose, who surely will know, will post later today to respond to your question.

[John Streisguth]

Pretty easy to tell, the Red Fox bodies have a much more pronounced front spoiler.   

Looking at the rack of cars, I would estimate maybe a dozen Red Fox, the rest VFC (maybe some Outisight and/or Parma in the mix, can't tell from the pic).

I would say Duran definitely had a Red Fox.

[John Streisguth]

Wow, B Main finishes with the three lead cars all on the same lap!
 
Duran's lap total still good for fourth overall.

[elinsley]

I'm talking about the red #3 body that Duran is holding along with the car he raced.

[John Streisguth]

Oh, now I get what you're asking.   

Yeah, looks like a commemorative body. I see Doug Murphy has a purple one, too.

[Noose]

Barry Rosenberger donated three bodies that the winners of the C, D, and E Main were awarded. They are VFC Chargers.

[John Streisguth]

Nice of Barry to do that. 

[Cheater]

Stock Car B Main results:





L to R, Howie Ursaner, John Weaver, Adam Chaya.

[Cheater]

Stock Car A Main results:

 

 

 

L to R, Jimmy Williams, Jerry Herbert, Keith Libby.

 

 

 

Keith Libby's third place car.

 

 

 

Jimmy William's second place car.

 

 

 

Jerry Herbert's first place car.

[Cheater]

Carsten's fabulous LapMaster software produces some extremely interesting analytical charts and I'm going to post a couple of them for the A Main.

 

The first chart is what Carsten calls the race development table. It clearly shows that Jerry Herbert led the A Main from start to finish, but it was a real dogfight for position behind him.

 

 

The second table is the actual vs. potential chart. It basically shows which racer got the most performance out of his car. Note that over the full race, Jimmy Williams got more of his car's maximum potential than Jerry did (98.7% vs 98.0%), but as qualifying showed, Jerry had the faster car and thus didn't have to run it as close to its maximum in order to win the race.

 

[Cheater]

Stock Car combined results:

 

 

[Cheater]

For GT Coupe FK, 25 entries were presented at tech and all passed... eventually. Thus there will be two eight-man mains and one nine-man round-robin main. As this is being typed, qualifying has been completed and lanes are being chosen.

 

 

... with three cars missing.

(Jason Holmes picture)

 

The racers voted for concours and the winners were Clyde Romero, first place; Rich Theisen, second place; and Charlie Geibel, third place.

 

 

L to R, Rich Theisen, second; Clyde Romero, first; Charlie Geibel, third.

 

GT Coupe FK qualifying results:

 

1) Rich Theisen - 5.187 secs

2) Vinny Cafazzo - 5.192

3) John Madtes - 5.209

4) Dale Granger - 5.378

5) Jason Holmes - 5.393

6) Doug Griffith - 5.400

7) Pete Morton - 5.410

8) Doug Murphey - 5.448

9) Steve Levitsky - 5.456

10) Jimmy Roselli - 5.497

11) Preston Selfinger - 5.519

12) Dan Ebert - 5.544

13) Carmen Veneziale - 5.546

14) Dennis Dominey - 5.611

15) Bill Vanderziel - 5.616

16) Vinnie Wisniewski - 5.617

17) Tom Verinecz - 5.632

18) Steve Russo - 5.681

19) 'Jersey' John Molnar - 5.688

20) Clyde Romero - 5.707

21) Doc Dougherty - 5.710

22) Ray Carlisi - 5.766

23) Fred Zufelt - 5.820

24) Bill Sutton - 6.510

25) Charlie Geibel - 6.542