May/June 2013 - New England Region

T H E O F F I C I A L P U B L I C AT I O N O F T H E N E W E N G L A N D R E G I O N , S C C A , I N C . 

V O L U M E 6 9 , N U M B E R 2 M AY / J U N E 2 0 1 3 

Opening Day and Triple Play 

Regional Race Results 

Solo Events One & Two 

PIT TALK May June 2013 1

2013 NEW ENGLAND REGION DIRECTORY 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

REGIONAL EXECUTIVE: 

Paul Zahornasky 

5 Twelve Rod Way 

Haverhill, MA 01830 

978.495.2583 

pzahornasky@gmail.com 

ASSISTANT 

REGIONAL EXECUTIVE: 

Brian Mushnick 

1 Frederickson Road 

Norfolk, MA 02056 

617.733.8568 

bg43wex@rcn.com 

SECRETARY 

Trevor Hermance 

234 Whiting St. 

New Britain, CT 06051 

860-986-9613 

racerguyii@yahoo.com 

DIRECTORS 

Sterling Cole 

PO Box 8334 

Boston, MA 02114 

617.851.7713 

teamgpracing@hotmail.com 

Wiley Cox 

78 Sunrise Dr 

N Weymouth MA 02191 

wiley.cox@gmail.com 

Bill Gendron 

77 Stafford Hollow Rd 

Monson, MA 01057 

413-267-0904 

bill@smallfotuneracing.com 

Douglas Fisher 

59 Old Post Rd. 

Wakefield, RI 02879 

401.789.8647 

fisherdo1@cox.net 

Douglas Myers 

775 Worthington Ridge 

Berlin, CT 06037 

860-828-6726 

d.myers@snet.net 

Chris Regan 

717 Old Colchester Rd. 

Salem, CT 06420 

203.979.3196 

chregan@aol.com 

Elizabeth Winiarz 

11 Beverly Street 

North Dartmouth, MA 

02747 

508.999.8696 

ewiniarz@umass.edu 

TREASURER: 

Louis Gingerella 

636 Pendleton Hill Rd 

North Stonington, CT 

06359-1130 

860-599-2647 

lwgrh@yahoo.com 

AREA ONE DIRECTOR 

Dick Patullo 

370 Chapin Road 

Hampden Ma. 01036 

413.530.1393 

patullo@verizon.net 

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SPECIALITIES 

MEMBERSHIP CHAIR 

Paul Krysiak 

653 Shenipsit Lake Rd. 

Tolland, CT 06084 

860.875.2220 

pkrys0kb@snet.net 

CHIEF REGISTRAR 

Peg Dowd 

30 Summer St. 

Foxboro, MA 02035 

508.543.6620 

nerregpeg@comcast.net 

PIT TALK EDITOR 

Bob Beaulieu 

PO Box 703 

Scituate, MA 02060 

bob@beaulieudesign.com 

Web Master 

Neil Schelly 

webmaster@ner.org 

MERCHANDISE CHAIR 

Donna Stevens 

PO Box 1122 

Merrimack, NH 03054 

603.566.2774 

donstev311@gmail.com 

PUBLICITY/COMMUNI- 

CATIONS CHAIR 

Paul Zahornasky 

5 Twelve Rod Way 

Haverhill, MA 01830 

978.495.2583 

pzahornasky@gmail.com 

paul@treasuresthrutime.com 

ROAD RACING BOARD 

CLUB RACING BOARD 

CHAIRMAN 

Jerry Rigoli 

Jerry@Rigoli.com 

508.561.6001 

ASST CHAIRMAN 

Kathy Barnes 

kjbarnes22@gmail.com 

860.875.2220 

ASST CHAIRMAN 

Marilyn Freeman 

msf.ner@gmail.com 

508.561.2188 

DRIVERS REP 

OPEN WHEEL 

Paul Faford 

Pfaf11@yahoo.com 

603.622.8215 

DRIVERS REP 

CLOSED WHEEL 

Brian Mushnick 

bg43wex@rcn.com 

617.733.8568 

RALLY BOARD 

RALLY CHAIRMAN 

Scott Carlson 

17 White Plains Road 

Webster, NH 03303 

603.648.6020 (home) 

treemonkey1105@juno.com 

RALLYX CHAIRMAN 

Chris Regan 

717 Old Colchester Rd. 

Salem, CT 06420 

203.979.3196 

chregan@aol.com 

RALLYX ASST. CHAIR. 

RallyX Registrar 

Kathy Moody 

40 Dylan Court 

Whtefield, NH 03598 

603.616.1195 (cell) 

rallykat158@yahoo.com 

COMPTROLLER/ROAD 

RALLY/POINTS KEEPER 

Jon Lamkins 

71 Hazelwood Dr. 

Southington, CT 06489 

860.621.5964 (h) 

860.620.4839 (cell) 

jon.lamkins@cox.net 

NEDIV RALLYCROSS 

STEWARD 

Scott Beliveau 

38 Cedar St. 

Laconia, NH 03246 

603.527.2342 (d) 

603.524.4305 (e) 

Beliveau@aavid.com 

ROAD RALLY 

EQUIPMENT 

Fred Mapplebeck 

67 Chappy Lane 

Salem, NH 03079 

603.898.4778 

derfrally@aol.com 

New Driver Licensing 

Pat Travers 

401.461.9219 

CHIEF RADIO TECH 

Douglas White 

ddwb@hotmail.com 

203.878.5141 

INSTRUCTORS LIAISON 

Alan Dunklee 

802.436.2414 

STEWARDS LIAISON 

Kathy Barnes 

kjbarnes22@gmail.com 

860.875.2220 

SCRUTINEERING 

REGIONAL 

ADMINISTRATOR 

Scott Dowd 

Nerscrutineer@comcast.net 

508.543.6620 

CHIEF OF RADIO 

Doug White 

203-878-5141 

MEMBERS AT LARGE 

Philip Lamoreaux 

plamoreaux@tds.net 

Harold Denham 

60 Jarr Brook Road 

Holliston, MA 01746 

617.519.3309 (cell) 

halrallyx32@gmail.com 

Ted Goddard 

P.O. Box 267 

Perkinsville, VT 05151 

802.263.5678 (home) 

tedgcb@tds.net 

Steve McKelvie 

12 Hunters Run 

Frankiln, MA 02038 

508.520.7135 (home) 

shanna12@comcast.net 

Adam Brodeur 

408 Parker Street 

Gardner, MA 01440 

978.632.1368 (home) 

978.430.1397 (cell) 

apbrodeur@yahoo.com 

Scott Beliveau 

38 Cedar St. 

Laconia, NH 03246 

603.524.4305 (home) 

603.527.2342 

beliveau@aavid.com 

MEMBER AT LARGE & 

RALLYX POINTS KEEPER 

Matt Henry 

REGISTRATION 

REGIONAL 

CO-ADMINISTRATORS 

Peg Dowd 

NERregPeg@comcast.net 

508.543.6620 

Marilyn Freeman 

NERregMSF@aol.com 

508.561.2188 

GRID REGIONAL 

ADMINISTRATOR 

Karen Petersen 

Petersen.425@gmail.com 

860.523.9252 

STARTERS CONTACT 

Donna Stevens 

dost2@fairpoint.net 

603.566.2774 

PITS REGIONAL 

ADMINISTRATOR 

Rick Gannoe 

41 Hillside Ave. 

Keene, NH. 03431 

603-903-0489 

vthic16113@aol.com 

SOLO BOARD 

CHAIRMAN 

Bob Davis 

rr_davis@comcast.net 

COMPTROLLER 

Kathy Barnes 

653 Shenispit Lake Road 

Tolland CT 06084 

860.875.0254 

kjbarnes22@snet.net 

COURSE 

COORDINATOR 

Nate Whipple 

OPERATING STEWARD 

Brian Levesque 

crxracerb@aol.com 

CHIEF OF REGISTRATION 

Barbara Seeger 

CHIEF OF TIMING & 

SCORING 

Jenna D’Amico 

jenna.damico@gmail. 

com 

CHIEF OF WORKERS 

Wiley Cox 

78 Sunrise Dr 

N Weymouth MA 02191 

wiley.cox@gmail.com 

EQUIPMENT 

MANAGER 

Dave Hyman 

davidh@alum.wpi.edu 

CHIEFS OF TECH 

Allan Parker 

Josh Parker 

SOUND CONTROL 

REGIONAL 

Administrator 

Peter Perrault 

miatapeter@aol.com 

603.888.9283 

FLAGGING & 

COMMUNICATIONS 

REGIONAL 

CO-ADMINISTRATORS 

Daniel Hoffman 

danielhoffman@concast.net 

603.401.2206 

Mike Ostrander 

ostramr@aol.com 

860.859.2705 

TIMING & SCORING 

Linda Louie 

blackcatracing@aol.com 

EMERGENCY SERVICES 

REGIONAL 

ADMINISTRATOR 

Peter Villaume 

NEDIV_ES@roadrunner.com 

603.785.7383 

CHIEF SAFETY STEWARDS 

Russ Siggelkoe 

rsiggelkoe@comcast.net 

SAFETY STEWARD 

INSTRUCTOR 

Stacey Strout 

14 Old Ashburnham Rd. 

Rindge NH 03461 

603.899.5045 h 

stacey@j3.org 

CHIEFS OF GRID 

Shawn Collins 

David Collins 

CHIEFS OF KARTS/ 

YOUTH STEWARD 

Paul Bowin 

47 Richardson Ave 

Norton MA 

508.222.7513 

pbowin@comcast.net 

Eric Krueger 

PUBLICITY & 

COMMUNICATIONS 

Ed Savage 

8 Chase Rd 

North Brookfield MA 01535 

508.867.5189 

CHIEF OF PROTEST 

Kathy Barnes 

653 Shenispit Lake Road 

Tolland CT 06084 

860.875.0254 

kjbarnes22@snet.net 

AREA ONE DIRECTOR 

Dick Patullo 

370 Chapin Road 

Hampden Ma. 01036 

413.530.1393 

patullo@verizon.net 

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COVER: 

Spec Racer Fords head to 

turn six at the opening Day 

Regional Races. 

Photo: Yusuf Abudi

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As I write this May has turned to June. Since I last hacked away at the keyboard Club 

Racing has held its first two events plus the driver’s school and Solo has put three events 

into the books. 

By the time you probably read this, summer will have just started, Club Racing will have 

held its event at Lime Rock, the Region will have run a small PDX at 

Lime Rock, the Solo Program will have run a Starting Line school, a 

junior karting school, and the fourth points event of the year. 

IN THIS ISSUE: 

Rally had Big Lap 17 on June 8 and depending on how fast our 

postal service gets this to your mailbox the Okemo RallyCross is 

either just completed or right around the corner. 

That’s a lot in one month to choose from. In fact out of the five 

weekends in June, four had a New England Region event happening, 

and some more than one. 

Why am I rehashing a month’s worth of events after the fact To 

point out that there are plenty of ways to get value out of your 

membership. We tend to pigeon hole ourselves into one discipline 

and stay in that comfort zone, never venturing out into a different 

direction to see how the rest of the Region plays with cars. 

At the Annual Awards Ceremony, I challenged those in attendance to do just that. Go 

out and explore. 

Some have. Specifically I’ll mention Clifton Kangas who has taken is RallyCross Impreza 

and his outgoing personality to all three (as of this writing) Solo events this year, even 

taken home a trophy or two. I’ve seen a few other club racers at Solo this year as well. 

Someone is reading this right now thinking “Yeah I do want to do more, but with three 

different programs how do I figure out what to do” 

Well do I have good news for you. We have an event in August where you can get 

involved in all of our programs in a single weekend. 

Racing Against Leukemia Weekend is our most important event of the year. First and foremost, 

we get the opportunity to raise thousands of dollars for the UMass Memorial Fund 

to be used toward leukemia research. It is also the only other time besides the annual 

meeting when the entire region has an opportunity to gather together. 

But it is also your chance to try something new. Step out of the comfort zone and see 

what else the club offers. With all three programs running, there are plenty of opportunities 

to see how the other two –thirds of the club lives. All you need to do is look 

inside the front cover, pick something new and contact the person in charge. It really is 

that easy, 

From the RE .................................................................... 3 

Speak My Mind .............................................................. 4 

RAL Weekend ................................................................. 5 

T.A.H. D.A.H. ................................................................. 6 

Opening Day Regional Race Results .................................... 8 

Triple Play Regional Race Results....................................... 16 

Solo Event #1 Report and Results ...................................... 20 

Solo Event # 2 Report and Results ..................................... 16 

2013 NER Calendar ..................................................... 24 

Classifi eds ................................................................... 24 

Merchandise Order Form ................................................ 25 

BOD Meeting Minutes, April ........................................... 26 


HERE 

TO 

SPEAK 

MY 

MIND 

By Jon Lamkins 

Let’s go for a drive 

I think I’ve been reading too many articles in Hemming’s Classic Car Magazine and Hot Rod Classic, 

because I’ve been imaging what times were like back in the 50’s and 60’s. Highways were being built. 

The economy was going along fine. Gas was (relatively speaking) cheap. And more and more families 

in the USA were getting a car. 

American Automobile manufacturers were building new cars catering to family needs of transportation 

with whatever level of luxury you could want and afford. Meanwhile, the youth of America were 

salvaging 20’s and 30’s cars from junk yards and fields, lightening the cars, adding bigger engines, and 

building hot rods. Manufacturers would then get into the muscle car wars jumping onto the horsepower 

band wagon. Somewhere in the mix, you had the VW Beetle leading the small car charge and 

providing the basis for a blooming kit car industry. 

No, I haven’t forgotten the class of cars most dear to us, the sports car. Whereas the American car was 

designed as transportation and the hot rod/muscle cars were designed to go fast and burn rubber, the 

sports car placed a premium on handling and driver enjoyment. I’m envisioning a light weight, two seat 

convertible, primarily British but possibly Italian, German, or other European manufacturer. 

While people certainly did go for a ‘Sunday Drive’ in their family, muscle, or hot rod car, I feel the sports 

car gave you the best experience as a driver. Top down, wind in your hair, enjoying both scenery and 

the twists and turns in the road. 

Flash forward to the 21st century. Most families have two vehicles. Pick-up trucks, SUV’s, and Crossovers 

are more popular that cars. Most vehicles come with more standard features than we can count on both 

our finger and toes, and technology is so prevalent that vehicles have more electronics and computing 

powers than computers from the late 20th century. And while some may hate this complexity, it does 

make even the most basic vehicle of today, safer and better handling than the 

cars of the era we just came from. 

When’s the last time you went for a drive, purely for the enjoyment of driving and 

not to get anywhere in particular Granted, gas isn’t cheap but vehicle mileage 

is improving yearly. To this extent, here are some roads in Connecticut that I 

find ‘fun’ to drive on. It’s just a small sample and I’m sticking to number routes for 

simplicity. (Watch for a thread in the ner.org forums so everyone can contribute) 

Cornwall Bridge. 

• Route 4 Between Goshen and Cornwall Bridge: The Scenery as you drop into 

Mohawk valley from the intersection with Routes 43 and 128 down into the village 

of Cornwall is very breath taking. Curves between Cornwall and Cornwall Bridge 

are just challenging enough. 

• Route 109 between East Morris and Washington Depot: Relatively straight but many up and downs 

through rolling farm land. 

• Route 140 between Stafford Springs and Ellington. Flat, with enough turns to make it enjoyable. 

• Route 169 between Southbridge, MA and Brooklyn, CT. Country Road, take me home. . . 

LOOKIN’ BACK: Bryar Motorsport Park, about 1982. A Showrom Stock B Chevy Citation (they were 

relatively quick!) and a BMW negotiate the turn two complex. The approximate location would probably 

be turn three of the NHMS oval. It was a real drive in the country side in those days. Photo: George Miller 

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RAL WEEKEND 

AUGUST 10 AND 11 

Driver’s….Start Your (Fundraising) Engines! It’s 

hard to believe, but our annual Race Against 

Leukemia (RAL) weekend is just around the 

corner. Last year’s RAL/NER Charities event was 

a huge success raising over $17,000. What a 

truly heartwarming display of our member’s 

generosity, compassion, and drive to support 

the need to cure cancer! And what a FUN 

weekend as well!! When else can you have the 

opportunity to participate in Road Racing, Solo 

& RallyX all in one weekend at NHMS …I dare 

you to try all 3!! 

How can you fire up your fundraising efforts 

Let your friends, family & co-workers know you 

are Racing- For- A- Cure. For further information, 

or to set up a fundraising webpage on our 

website (see http://www. 

ner.org/region/racingagainst-leukemia) 

so they 

can sponsor your efforts. 

If you have any questions 

or are interested in joining 

the steering committee, 

which organizes the 

weekend, please contact 

Jody Fisher at 

401-486-6911. 

Donations and Raffl e 

Items Will Be 

Greatly Appreciated. 

Our Annual Race Against Leukemia is New 

England Regions’s largest event of the year to 

reach out to our community and assist in this most 

worthy endeavor! As in previous years, many 

raffles are offered during the festivities, but we 

need you to help assist with the donations. 

Anyone who can help with a donation of gifts or 

services (it’s a great way for your business to say 

we care!) for the Raffle please contact Linda Kogan 

at lkogan at charter.net or Jody Fisher at Jody 

jfisher@gallothomas.com 

In advance we really 

appreciate the many 

that step forward...NER 

really appreciates your 

dedication and help. 

Last year, RAL’s highlight may have been the opportunity to 

bid and donate for the removal (shaving) of Jerry Rigoli’s Ho 

Chi Minh beard. What will it be this year Our RAL committee 

surely promises something is up their sleeve to make this the 

fun-filled weekend of the year! 


T.a.H.-dah! 

Of the most fundamental concepts in performance 

driving, the management of latitudinal and 

longitudinal force among a car’s wheels (in 

accordance with the weight transfer/loading of 

those wheels) is, in my opinion, the most rewarding 

to grasp and easiest to picture mentally – despite 

the length of this first sentence. Let me back up and 

break down this idea, called the friction circle, for 

you: 

To begin with, we’re fortunate that most cars have 

four wheels, each with some form of suspension, 

shock-absorbing capacity, and relatively grippy 

rubber tires at their corners. Whether front-, 

rear-, or all-wheel drive, understanding how this 

big mass of metal floating on springs over two 

steerable tires at the front and two straight ones 

at the rear is pretty much the same. However, 

if you want to learn how to hot lap your Deuceand-a-half, 

Reliant Robin, top fuel dragster 

or Newfangled 1892 Automodrive-a-wagon 

Contraption, I’m sorry; I can’t help you here. 

The points of contact those four tires make with 

the surface of the road (or dirt, as the case can 

be) are called contact patches. Each one is a surprisingly 

small amount of two-dimensional area (for holding up all that 

weight, anyway – and at high speed, no less!). The input 

of force between the car and the road – and, keeping with 

Newton’s laws, the road and the car – only through these four 

areas is what creates all the motion in driving, from parking lot 

creeping up to F1 velocity. 

Contact patches are not a constant size; our pneumatic 

tires can stretch and broaden the area of interface for these 

forces to be passed through. 

Conversely, they can also shrink, 

lessening the amount of force 

which can be transferred. Picture 

even regular street driving 

to see why, especially under 

acceleration and braking: the 

physical properties of the car 

and its suspension above the 

road cause it to pitch rearward 

and forward, respectively. 

Steering left or right causes a 

similar reaction, rolling to the 

opposite side. This spring motion 

dynamically reallocates the 

overall downward force gravity 

is exerting on the road through 

By Trevor Alexander Hermance 

THE FRICTION 

CIRCLE: 

ONE OF THE 

BASICS OF 

CAR CONTROL 

The right-hander at the bottom of the hill at NHMS is always an area 

for the case of front wheel unloading (also a small bump assists in 

the display as well). Maurizio Cerasoli gives a classic example at 

the recent Triple Play Regionals. Photo: Roz Rositoski 

the car’s tires and, thus, contact patches, causing 

some to grow while others will shrink. When it comes 

to fast driving, knowing which contact patches have 

grown and are offering the most potential force 

(especially for acceleration, which is what racing is 

all about) is paramount. Learning to exploit the extra 

grip offered at opportune moments, without going 

that extra bit too far, is what yields the precious 

hundredths in your laptimes. 

Perhaps you can picture a car “on the edge”, nearly 

powersliding through a right-hand turn with 

its left rear tire really pushed down hard into 

the pavement and the right front so unloaded 

it’s actually hanging in the air, the other two 

tires somewhere in the middle. This is not an 

easy situation to take care of for a newer 

driver. So, let’s instead imagine a car which 

is currently neutrally balanced, but traveling 

down a straight at 75 mph. It needs to enter a 

relatively sharp left turn up ahead. To maximize 

the time spent at high speed (racing: be at 

high speed more than the others and you win), 

you spend the least amount of time braking 

for this turn, and the least amount of time 

possible not accelerating. Fortunately, with the proper understanding 

and technique, this time only braking and/or turning is not very 

long at all – certainly not as long as it used to be when the general 

consensus was that a driver could only touch the gas pedal once the 

car was fully out of a corner. 

Coupled with fantastic rubber tires, cars today have great brakes. 

Discs suffer much less fade than drums, and friction material is 

greatly improved over the days of leather straps. Brake hard on 

the race track! It’s the way to get the most force (“g”s) out of pretty 

much any car. So, that’s what 

we do in this hypothetical: 

we brake, let’s say up to a 

maximum of 2g, almost locking 

the tires with just a hint of 

sonic feedback from the tread 

blocks vibrating with all of that 

energy flowing through. This 

pitches the car forward, and 

it stays there as we continue 

to brake toward the turn-in for 

the bend. We’ll be turning the 

steering wheel at that point. 

But, it’s not possible to turn 

while already maximizing the 

contact patches up front for 

braking. Doing that would 

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push the interaction of road and 

rubber over the brink to where the 

tire just slides over the pavement 

(and crumbles away in smoke and 

dust), rather than meeting up with 

it perfectly, if only instantaneously 

(remember that a rolling wheel isn’t 

actually moving relative to the ground 

at the point where it meets the ground, 

but the center of it is moving forward 

at a speed, and the top of it is actually 

moving forward relative to the ground 

at twice that speed. It’s trippy, man). 

Friction is what is holding all this 

together, and the least friction is 

available when the two objects are sliding across each other (dynamic 

friction). We want to keep that rolling friction (which is really a variation 

on the strongest friction, the static, or “not sliding” variety) working for us, 

but only just barely. As it turns out, there’s actually a spike in available 

friction at that brink where sliding is about to begin; the most force can be 

achieved with the tiniest bit of a tire’s 

“scrub” under braking or acceleration, 

or “slip angle” while turning, but it 

takes time and practice to finesse a 

car to that level. 

Back to our example: We are braking 

at 2g, and want to turn the car at 

its maximum performance potential, 

also theoretically set at 2g (some 

cars won’t corner as well as they 

brake, others will do better. This one’s 

nice and even). To keep those fronts 

working for us and get them to steer, 

we’ve no choice but to release some 

brake pressure and (if we’re efficient 

with our timing and wasting as little 

as possible, anyway) simultaneously 

feeding in some smooth steering 

input to the left. This will allow those 

nicely loaded, fat contact patches to 

change the car’s direction up front 

while still getting some braking done 

(but “trailing” away). The friction circle 

itself is a way to visualize this change 

graphically: on a graph of the car’s 

capability with forward and rearward 

axes (braking and accelerating) 

and side-to-side axes (right and left 

turning force), the car is keeping at 

its limit, which is a certain radius (in 

this case, 2g) from the neutral point at 

the center. If we were to keep braking 

at the 2g limit but start steering at a 

level which would yield another g of 

force (if we had supernatural tires), 

we would be steering and braking at 

a combined force of over 2.5g (the 

exact number can be found through 

some mathematical formula), which is 

outside the circle and just isn’t possible 

for this car. In reality, that would most 

likely result in a ton of understeer (the 

car would keep going straight despite 

the steering input) and probably at a 

scary speed! 

The fact that the geometric representation is a circle rather than some kind 

of jagged star shape is also a sign of the need to be smooth and carefully 

measured with your inputs at the steering wheel and pedals, as stepping 

too far beyond that boundary is all too easy while you’re near the limit. 

All of that space within the circle, however, is area where you can be 

more abrupt with inputs, which 

is something you sometimes 

need when traveling within 

the car’s limits on the public 

roads and you’re forced to 

make an emergency-avoidance 

maneuver. 

Finishing our example, we’ve 

smoothly transitioned from full 

braking to braking and turning, 

still keeping the tires at their 

squealing limit and exerting 

maximum force. We’ve gotten 

to the apex where we’ve pretty 

much transitioned all of that 

braking to steering input alone, 

and our foot is moving off of 

the brake pedal back to the 

accelerator. We can now do 

the same process in reverse for 

the exit of the corner, “opening 

up” the turn while we start to 

transition the weight in the car 

to the rear with some smooth 

acceleration. Another handy 

visualization is that of the string 

tied to a point at the bottom of 

the steering wheel and the top 

of the pedals. When you have 

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OPENING DAY Regional Race Results New Hampshire Motor Speedway 

Race One Results, Saturday, April 20, 2013 

Results of Gp 1. ITA, IT7, ITC, EP, FP, HP, GTL, ITR, ITS 

Pos No. PIC Class Name Laps Best Tm Diff Gap Make 

1 09 1 ITA Brenton Piekarski 18 1:15.475 Mazda 

2 14 1 ITS Glenn Lawton 18 1:15.074 0.193 Mazda RX-7 

3 37 2 ITA Abhijeet Ghatak 18 1:16.167 32.918 Miata 

4 46 2 ITS Russ Jones 18 1:16.799 0.023 Porsche 944S 

5 43 3 ITA James Alley 18 1:17.124 1.887 Miata 

6 3 1 ITR Brian Bagnall 18 1:17.926 1:11.997 Corvette 

7 5 4 ITA Alan Dunklee 17 1:23.349 1 Lap Miata 

8 81 1 IT7 JB Swan 17 1:23.805 1 Lap Mazda RX-7 

9 70 5 ITA Eric Maynard 16 1:26.185 2 Laps Plymouth Laser 

10 71 1 FP Nuno Ferreira 16 1:26.430 2 Laps Fiat 124 

11 93 2 ITR Chris Outzen 9 1:15.928 9 Laps BMW Z3 

DNF 94 DNF ITA Dan Deyo 2 1:21.522 7 Laps Acura Integra 

DNF 83 DNF ITA Denise VanBuren 1 1:25.777 DNF Acura Integra 

Results of Gp 2. FA, FB, FC, FE, FF, FM, CFC, CSR, DSR, NCF, S2, ASR FS - 

1 87 1 FE Bruce Allen 16 1:07.610 VanDiemen 

2 53 2 FE Roger Feghali 16 1:07.053 9.049 9.049 FSCCA 

3 ‘07 1 FC Robert Laverty 16 1:08.075 36.141 27.092 Citation 

4 81 3 FE Jerry Streckert 15 1:06.134 1 Lap 1 Lap VanDiemen 

DNF ‘02 DNF FC Fred Bross 7 1:07.450 DNF 8 Laps VanDiemen 79 

DNF S2 Giovanni Sorbello 5 1:27.247 DNF 2 Laps Lola S2000 

Results of Gp 3. SSM, SM2, STU, STL 

1 78 1 STU Joel Arel 16 1:14.661 Subaru WRX 

2 ‘09 1 STL Brenton Piekarski 16 1:15.859 2.916 2.916 Mazda 

3 70 1 SM2 Jimmy Locke 16 1:17.277 30.692 27.776 Miata 

74 2 STU Frank Capobianco16 1:15.718 30.891 0.199 BMW 325i 

5 19 2 SM2 Shelby Churchill 16 1:17.521 32.996 2.105 Miata 

6 95 2 STL Kenneth Payson 16 1:17.278 34.421 1.425 Miata 

7 ‘05 3 STU Dwayne Bennett 16 1:17.469 38.507 4.086 Miata 

8 30 3 SM2 Tom Bogar 16 1:18.387 52.979 14.472 Miata 

9 33 4 STU Steven Berry 16 1:19.046 56.730 3.751 Miata 

10 81 5 STU Jonathan Fryer 15 1:21.343 1 Lap 1 Lap Porsche 944 

11 77 1 SSM Paul Perry 15 1:22.520 1 Lap 15.949 Miata 

12 75 2 SSM Wayne Dyer 15 1:22.354 1 Lap 6.247 Miata 

13 68 4 SM2 Kevin Miles 15 1:21.688 1 Lap 0.449 Miata 

14 63 3 STL Hugh McHaffi e 14 1:19.199 2 Laps Miata 

15 18 5 SM2 Marc Ulan 11 1:18.425 5 Laps Miata 

Results of Gp 4. SRF, SPU 

1 ‘05 1 SRF Trevor Hopwood 16 1:14.642 20:07.338 Spec Racer 

2 31 2 SRF David Anzalone 16 1:14.589 10.337 10.337 Spec Racer 

3 20 3 SRF Steve Owens 16 1:15.266 3.956 3.619 Spec Racer 

4 42 4 SRF Miguel Fidalgo 16 1:15.158 15.090 1.134 Spec Racer 

5 32 5 SRF Steven Sammut 16 1:15.443 16.029 0.939 Spec Racer F 

6 55 6 SRF David Mailhot 16 1:15.321 20:28.36 21.024 Spec Racer 

7 57 7 SRF Joe Sammut 16 1:15.381 21.174 0.150 Spec Racer 

8 6 8 SRF David Ferguson 16 1:15.675 28.100 6.926 Spec Racer 

9 35 9 SRF Richard Wiehl 16 1:15.603 28.727 0.627 Spec Racer 

10 86 10 SRF Raffaele Sammut 16 1:15.778 28.975 0.248 Spec Racer 

11 26 11 SRF Tom Brown 16 1:15.688 36.052 7.077 Spec Racer 

12 83 12 SRF Jonat.Daellenbach 16 1:17.330 1:03.662 27.610 Spec Racer 

13 89 13 SRF Jonathan Harshaw 16 1:17.336 1:09.274 5.612 Spec Racer 

DNF 2 DNF SRF Edward Sanders 7 1:19.549 DNF 9 Laps Spec Racer 

Results of Gp 5. SM, SM5, T3, B-Spec, ITB, T4 

87 1 T3 Chris Outzen 18 1:15.519 Nissan 350Z 

2 70 1 SM Jimmy Locke 18 1:18.082 38.749 38.749 Miata 

3 '05 2 SM Dwayne Bennett 18 1:18.144 45.832 7.083 Miata 

4 19 3 SM Shelby Churchill 18 1:18.186 46.349 0.517 Miata 

5 2 1 ITB Nat Wentworth 18 1:18.678 53.772 7.423 Volvo 

6 4 1 T4 Robert Demers 18 1:17.398 54.888 1.116 Solstice 

7 63 4 SM Hugh McHaffi e 18 1:18.998 1:00.752 5.864 Miata 

8 18 5 SM Marc Ulan 18 1:18.970 1:03.683 2.931 Miata 

9 62 2 ITB Paul Curran 18 1:19.147 1:04.706 1.023 Volvo 142e 

10 29 6 SM Richard Bennett 18 1:18.872 1:06.970 2.264 Miata 

11 33 7 SM Steven Berry 18 1:19.515 1:15.928 2.234 Miata 

12 17 3 ITB Jason Benagh 17 1:20.249 1 Lap 1 Lap Golf 

13 61 8 SM Wes Gronek 17 1:20.062 1 Lap Miata 

14 9 9 SM Sandy Stevens 18 1:18.756 1:13.694 6.724 Miata 

15 0 4 ITB Zachary Kelly 17 1:20.851 1 Lap 11.576 Golf 

Results of Gp 6. GT1, GT2, GT3, AS, ITE, T1, T2, SPO 

1 4 1 SPO Jeff Hawkins 16 1:05.599 Monte Carlo 

2 18 1 T1 Dave Maynard 16 1:11.221 5.662 25.662 BMW 330 

3 60 1 ITE Ephraim Dobbins 16 1:11.488 31.230 5.568 Porsche 911 

4 78 2 ITE Joel Arel 15 1:15.357 1 Lap 1 Lap Subaru WRX 

5 74 3 ITE Chris Jurkiewicz 15 1:15.938 1 Lap 28.097 BMW 325i 

6 14 1 AS Bill Hopwood 14 1:17.665 2 Laps 1 Lap Camaro 

A close formation of Spec Racer Fords accelerate up the hill out of turn six. 

Jason Annuziata leads another F500 into Turn Three. 

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7 2 2 AS Shaun Griffi n 14 1:17.953 2 Laps 1.032 Pontiac GTO 

8 80 1 GT2 Maurizio Cerasoli 13 1:11.672 3 Laps 1 Lap Porsche 944 

DNS 28 DNS ITE James B. Ray III BMW 325is 

Results of Gp 8. FV, F5, FST, F6 

1 6 1 F5 John Annunziata 16 1:10.978 QRE Invade 

2 '03 1 FV Craig Swinehart 16 1:19.052 12.386 12.386 Protoform P2 

3 15 2 FV John Ferreira 16 1:18.616 12.712 0.326 SpeedSpor 

4 79 3 FV Robert Zatz 16 1:20.062 17.009 4.297 Vector GB4 

DNF 42 DNF F5 Jason Annunziata 6 1:11.260 11:35.126 DNF KBS MK7 

Opening Day Regional Race Results 

New Hampshire Motor Speedway 

Sunday Qualifying Race Results 

April 21, 2013 


1 14 1 ITS Glenn Lawton 17 1:15.224 Mazda RX-7 

2 09 1 ITA Brenton Piekarski 17 1:16.157 6.253 6.253 Miata 

3 37 2 ITA Abhijeet Ghatak 17 1:15.791 10.042 3.789 Miata 

4 43 3 ITA James Alley 17 1:16.471 16.735 6.693 Miata 

5 3 1 ITR Brian Bagnall 17 1:16.735 38.402 21.667 Corvette 

6 94 4 ITA Dan Deyo 17 1:18.844 59.184 20.782 Acura 

7 4 5 ITA Peter Morrison 17 1:18.828 1:04.169 4.985 Miata 

8 9 6 ITA Sandy Stevens 17 1:18.883 1:10.118 5.949 Miata 

9 83 7 ITA Denise VanBuren 16 1:18.657 1 Lap 1 Lap Acura 

10 5 8 ITA Alan Dunklee 16 1:21.49 1 Lap 37.947 Miata 

11 81 1 IT7 JB Swan 16 1:23.565 1 Lap 34.163 Mazda RX-7 

DNF 70 DNF ITA Eric Maynard 7 1:22.856 DNF 9 Laps Plymouth 

DNF 71 DNF FP Nuno Ferreira 4 1:28.525 DNF 3 Laps Fiat 124 

Results of Gp 2. FA, FB, FC, FE, FF, FM, CFC, CSR, DSR, NCF, S2, ASR FS 

1 '02 1 FC Fred Bross 15 1:06.944 VanDiemen 

2 87 1 FE Bruce Allen 15 1:06.612 1.926 1.926 VanDiemen 

3 57 2 FE Joe Sammut 15 1:06.641 2.044 0.118 SCCA 

Results of Gp 3. SSM,SM2, STU, STL 


2 82 1 STL Robert Blake 15 1:14.562 8.605 8.605 Mazda RX-7 

3 '05 2 STU Dwayne Bennett 15 1:16.704 15.451 6.846 Miata 

4 70 1 SM2 Jimmy Locke 15 1:17.440 23.172 7.721 Miata 



7 74 3 STU Frank Capobianco 15 1:16.116 30.902 5.380 BMW 325i 


9 63 3 STL Hugh McHaffi e 15 1:17.998 39.563 1.066 Miata 

10 18 4 SM2 Marc Ulan 15 1:17.923 39.717 0.154 Miata 

11 33 4 STU Steven Berry 15 1:18.151 40.377 0.660 Miata 

2 81 5 STU Jonathan Fryer 15 1:18.994 57.753 17.376 Porsche 944 

3 4 4 STL Donald Barron 14 1:19.667 1 Lap 1 Lap Miata 

14 68 5 SM2 Kevin Miles 14 1:19.897 1 Lap 3.754 miata 



DNF '09 DNF STL Brenton Piekarski 5 1:17.321 DNF 9 Laps Miata 


1 '05 1 SRF Trevor Hopwood 15 1:14.071 Spec Racer 


3 20 3 SRF Steve Owens 15 1:14.829 13.191 2.520 Spec Racer 


5 32 5 SRF Steven Sammut 15 1:14.486 19.351 5.385 Spec Racer 

6 55 6 SRF David Mailhot 15 1:15.159 19.851 0.500 Spec Racer 




10 2 10 SRF Edward Sanders 15 1:18.178 1:14.966 41.482 Spec Racer 

DNF 89 DNF SRF Jonathan Harshaw 6 1:17.466 DNF 9 Laps Spec Racer 

DNF 26 DNF SRF Tom Brown 1 2:46.395 DNF 5 Laps Spec Racer 

Results of Gp 5. SM, SM5, T3, B-Spec, ITB, T4 

1 87 1 T3 Chris Outzen 17 1:14.953 Nissan 350Z 




5 63 4 SM Hugh McHaffi e 17 1:17.495 43.018 0.117 Miata 


7 33 5 SM Steven Berry 17 1:17.881 51.420 1.837 Miata 

8 2 1 ITB Nat Wentworth 17 1:17.832 55.360 3.940 Volvo 142 

9 18 6 SM Marc Ulan 17 1:18.093 55.847 0.487 Miata 


11 0 3 ITB Zachary Kelly 16 1:20.252 1 Lap 1 Lap Golf 

12 17 4 ITB Jason Benagh 16 1:19.368 1 Lap 6.730 Golf 

13 61 7 SM Wes Gronek 16 1:20.463 1 Lap 2.362 Miata 

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Shaun Griffin in his really clean AS Pontiac GTO. 

James Ray experiences maybe a little too much rear-brake biasis in his ITE BMW. 

All photos Yasuf Abudi 



1 18 1 T1 Dave Maynard 15 1:11.115 BMW 330 

2 32 1 SPO Tom Haronian 15 1:11.202 13.558 13.558 NRP truck 


4 80 1 GT2 Maurizio Cerasoli 15 1:12.318 18.486 3.360 Porsche 944 

5 78 2 ITE Joel Arel 15 1:15.119 1:14.336 55.850 Subaru WRX 

6 74 3 ITE Chris Jurkiewicz 14 1:15.995 1 Lap 1 Lap BMW 325i 

7 14 1 AS Bill Hopwood 14 1:16.411 1 Lap 18.611 Camaro 

8 2 2 AS Shaun Griffi n 14 1:17.048 1 Lap 1.787 Pontiac GTO 

9 55 1 GT3 Rod Folia 10 1:16.046 5 Laps 4 Laps Mazda RX-3 


1 6 1 F5 John Annunziata 15 1:14.382 QRE Invader 

2 '03 1 FV Craig Swinehart 15 1:18.218 39.424 39.424 Protoform P2 

3 15 2 FV John Ferreira 15 1:18.679 41.154 1.730 SpeedSport 

4 76 2 F5 Edward Forer 15 1:15.489 41.682 0.528 QRE Invader 

DNF 42 DNF F5 Jason Annunziata 5 1:17.160 DNF 10 Laps KBS MK7 

Opening Day Regional Race Results 

New Hampshire Motor Speedway 

Sunday Race Three Results 


Chris Outzen only made nine laps of the first race, but turned in very 

respectable times in his BMW Z3. All photos Yusuf Abudi 


1 14 1 ITS Glenn Lawton 17 1:16.248 Mazda RX-7 

2 37 1 ITA Abhijeet Ghatak 17 1:17.633 13.802 13.802 Miata 

3 43 2 ITA James Alley 17 1:17.246 21.088 7.286 Miata 

4 3 1 ITR Brian Bagnall 17 1:17.008 33.973 12.885 Corvette 

5 4 3 ITA Peter Morrison 17 1:18.464 54.036 20.063 Miata 

6 9 4 ITA Sandy Stevens 17 1:18.817 54.590 0.554 Miata 

7 94 5 ITA Dan Deyo 16 1:19.159 1 Lap 1 Lap Acura Integr 

8 5 6 ITA Alan Dunklee 16 1:21.687 1 Lap 2.224 Miata 

71 1 FP Nuno Ferreira 16 1:24.234 1 Lap 37.546 Fiat 124 s 

10 81 1 IT7 JB Swan 16 1:24.309 1 Lap 1.787 Mazda RX-7 

DNS '09 DNS ITA Brenton Piekarski DNS Miata 

DNS 70 DNS ITA Eric Maynard DNS Plymouth 

DNS 83 DNS ITA Denise VanBuren Acura Integra 

Results of Gp 2. FA, FB, FC, FE, FF, FM, CFC, CSR, DSR, NCF, S2, ASR FS 

1 57 1 FE Joe Sammut 15 1:05.409 SCCA 

2 '02 1 FC Fred Bross 15 1:06.637 4.281 4.281 VanDiemen 

3 87 2 FE Bruce Allen 15 1:06.786 6.796 2.515 VanDiemen 

4 53 3 FE Roger Feghali 15 1:06.489 7.099 0.303 FSCCA 

5 79 1 S2 Giovanni Sorbello 14 1:10.655 1 Lap 1 Lap Lola S2000 

Results of Gp 3. SSM,SM2, STU, STL 


2 82 1 STL Robert Blake 15 1:15.013 4.852 4.852 Mazda RX-7 

3 74 2 STU Frank Capobianco15 1:15.732 15.120 10.268 BMW 325i 

4 '05 3 STU Dwayne Bennett 15 1:16.463 17.053 1.933 Miata 

5 70 1 SM2 Jimmy Locke 15 1:17.500 26.442 9.389 Miata/ 




33 4 STU Steven Berry 15 1:17.384 40.266 0.740 Miata 

10 18 4 SM2 Marc Ulan 15 1:18.128 42.745 2.479 Miata 

11 63 3 STL Hugh McHaffi e 15 1:17.891 43.219 0.474 Miata 

2 4 4 STL Donald Barron 15 1:20.027 1:17.062 33.843 Miata 

3 68 5 SM2 Kevin Miles 14 1:20.326 1 Lap 1 Lap miata 



DNF 81 DNF STU Jonathan Fryer 2 1:23.071 DNF 12 Laps Porsche 944 

Although the Open wheel brigade was relatively small, they put on 

a good performance, all turning times within a second of each other. 

Here, Joe Sammut follows Roger Feghali in the downhill. 

Jeff Hawkins in his SPO Monte Carlo...Monte Carlo 

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1 '05 1 SRF Trevor Hopwood 15 1:14.313 Spec Racer 


3 20 3 SRF Steve Owens 15 1:15.015 8.063 0.925 Spec Race 


5 32 5 SRF Steven Sammut 15 1:15.106 11.376 0.479 Spec Racer 


7 55 7 SRF David Mailhot 15 1:15.315 19.242 7.660 Spec Racer 


9 26 9 SRF Tom Brown 15 1:16.040 35.418 14.071 Spec Racer 


11 89 11 SRF Jonathan Harshaw 15 1:17.863 55.861 12.883 Spec Racer 

DNS 2 DNS SRF Edward Sanders Spec Racer 

Results of Gp 5. SM, SM5, T3, B-Spec 

1 87 1 T3 Chris Outzen 17 1:14.424 Nissan 350Z 




5 63 3 SM Hugh McHaffi e 17 1:17.848 50.927 1.773 Miata 


7 33 5 SM Steven Berry 17 1:18.140 9.975 3.677 Miata 


9 61 6 SM Wes Gronek 16 1:19.648 1 Lap 1 Lap Miata 

10 2 2 ITB Nat Wentworth 16 1:19.219 1 Lap 7.874 Volvo 142 

11 0 3 ITB Zachary Kelly 16 1:20.171 1 Lap 1.207 Golf 

12 17 4 ITB Jason Benagh 16 1:19.822 1 Lap 0.10 Golf 

DNF 84 DNF ITB Canio Tartaglia 7 1:39.538 DNF 9 Laps BMW 318 

DNS 18 DNS SM Marc Ulan Miata 


1 32 1 SPO Tom Haronian 15 1:11.123 NRP truck 


3 74 2 ITE Chris Jurkiewicz 15 1:14.053 30.642 4.636 BMW 325i 

4 78 3 ITE Joel Arel 15 1:14.315 45.508 14.866 Subaru WRX 

5 55 1 GT3 Rod Folia 15 1:15.823 1:14.521 29.013 Mazda RX-3 

6 14 1 AS Bill Hopwood 14 1:18.068 1 Lap 1 Lap Camaro 

7 2 2 AS Shaun Griffi n 12 1:17.287 3 Laps 2 Laps Pontiac GTO 

DNF 80 DNF GT2 Maurizio Cerasoli 3 1:13.666 Porsche 944 

DNS 18 DNS T1 Dave Maynard BMW 330 


6 1 F5 John Annunziata 15 1:15.220 QRE Invader 

2 76 2 F5 Edward Forer 15 1:15.480 8.053 8.053 QRE Invade 

3 '03 1 FV Craig Swinehart 15 1:19.642 1:07.916 59.863 Protoform P2 

4 15 2 FV John Ferreira 15 1:19.277 1:17.639 9.723 SpeedSpor 

5 9 3 FV Jerry Rigoli 14 1:21.390 1 Lap 1 Lap Citation FV/ 

DNS 42 DNS F5 Jason Annunziata KBS MK7 

DNS 79 DNS FV Robert Zatz Vector GB4 

Brenton Piekarski took the Flatout Miata for the first two ITA race wins and 

was a DNS on the third.. Photo: Roz Rosintoski 


TRIPLE PLAY Regional Race Results New Hampshire Motor Speedway 

Race One Results, Saturday, May 26 2013 

Pos No. Cl PIC Name Laps Diff Gap Best Tm Model 

Grp 1. FV F5 FST 

1 1 FV 1 Anthony Parker 15 1:29.535 Womer 

2 05 FV 2 Nicholas Galuardi 15 12.685 12.685 1:29.685 Caldwell 

3 03 FV 3 Craig Swinehart 15 1:21.76 1:09.0761:33.063Protoform 

4 55 FV 4 Bruce Rodman 15 1:25.441 3.680 1:34.221 Caracal 5 

27 FV 5 Mark Filip 14 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:33.812 Womer 

6 06 FV 6 Peter Cheney 14 1 Lap 13.052 1:34.168 Protoform 

7 15 FV 7 John Ferreira 14 1 Lap 28.370 1:38.604 SpeedSp 

8 11 FV 8 Thomas Pape 14 1 Lap 6.207 1:36.849 BRD AFV 

9 79 FV 9 Robert Zatz 14 1 Lap 58.116 1:42.908 Vector 

10 20 FV 10 Thomas Galuardi 13 2 Laps 1 Lap 1:42.226 Barrcar 

DNS99 FV Paul Faford Caracal 

DQ 33 FV Tyler Reynolds 15 1:29.338 Citation 

Grp 2. ITA IT7 ITC EP FP HP GTL 

1 37 ITA 1 Abhijeet Ghatak 13 1:27.409 Miata 

2 12 ITA 2 Demetrius Mossaidis 13 1.081 1.081 1:28.010 Honda 

3 19 EP 1 Keith Hammitte 13 1.696 0.615 1:27.868 BMW 

4 48 EP 2 Jonathan Leitner 13 2.313 0.617 1:27.816 BMW 

5 45 ITA 3 Garry DeLea 13 3.231 0.918 1:27.864 Miata 

6 08 ITA 4 Jeff Wasilko 13 11.093 7.862 1:29.931 Miata 

7 4 ITA 5 Peter Morrison 13 14.797 3.704 1:29.102 Miata 

8 13 ITA 6 Bradley Bray 13 35.185 20.388 1:32.469 Miata 

9 50 ITA 7 Christ. Milton-Hall 13 37.121 1.936 1:32.472 Miata 

10 83 ITA 8 Denise VanBuren 13 38.515 1.394 1:32.585 Acura 

11 9 ITA 9 Sandy Stevens 13 46.249 7.734 1:32.944 Miata 

12 2 EP 3 Robert L. Dardano 13 53.508 7.259 1:30.348 Triumph 

13 62 IT7 1 Drew Young 13 56.469 2.961 1:32.341 RX-7 

14 79 IT7 2 Ray Lee Chee 13 56.908 0.439 1:31.131 RX-7 

15 67 HP 1 Matthew Baldoni 13 1:04.40 7.500 1:35.334 Scirocco 

16 81 IT7 3 JB Swan 13 1:06.173 1.765 1:35.283 RX-7 

17 53 ITA 10 Alan Dunklee 13 1:09.753 3.580 1:32.953 Miata 

18 5 HP 2 Stephanie Funk 13 1:19.087 9.334 1:35.444 Civic/ 

19 7 IT7 4 Greg Amy 13 1:20.211 1.124 1:35.858 RX-7 

20 16 ITA 11 Ronald Buckler 13 1:20.26 0.049 1:34.967 Miata 

21 29 IT7 5 Michael Buccella 13 1:23.85 3.590 1:36.869 RX7 

22 77 IT7 6 Daniel Sheppard 12 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:33.183 RX7 

23 95 IT7 7 Michael Turchuk 12 1 Lap 21.106 1:41.140 RX-7 

24 41 EP 4 William Thompson 12 1 Lap 1:02.00 1:49.482 Rx 7 

25 46 ITA 12 Pat DeSimone 12 1 Lap 0.626 1:49.048 Miata 

26 22 FP 1 Philip G. Perron 11 2 Laps 1 Lap 1:59.083 Alpine 

27 15 IT7 8 Richard Patullo 7 6 Laps 4 Laps 1:35.650 RX7 

DNF 09 ITA Brenton Piekarski 2 Laps 1:30.314 Miata 

Grp 3, FA FB FC FE FF FM CFC CSR DSR NCF S2 ASR FS 

1 27 FF 1 Charles Foster 16 1:21.940 Piper 

2 46 FC 1 Douglas Rocco 16 45.580 45.580 1:25.690 VanDiem 

3 81 FE 1 Jerry Streckert 16 51.939 6.359 1:27.243 VanDiem 

4 87 FE 2 Bruce Allen 16 1:02.93 10.996 1:27.396 VanDiem 

5 4 FC 2 Dennis McCarthy 14 2 Laps 2 Laps 1:22.934 VanDiem 

DNS 93 FF Geoff Rainville VanDiem 

Grp 4. SSM SM2 STU STL 

1 19 SM2 1 Shelby Churchill 16 1:25.780 Miata 

2 9 SM2 2 Jesse Schmidt 16 0.463 0.463 1:25.505 Miata 

3 7 STU 1 Cy Peake 16 18.804 18.341 1:25.603 Miata 

4 95 STL 1 Kenneth Payson 16 25.207 6.403 1:27.101 Miata 

5 70 SM2 3 Jimmy Locke 16 28.822 3.615 1:26.399 Miata 

6 63 STL 2 Hugh McHaffi e 16 37.166 8.344 1:26.276 Miata 

7 #6 STL 3 Rob Sturgis 16 1:04.37 27.208 1:30.125 Miata 

8 13 STL 4 Bradley Bray 16 1:16.54 12.166 1:30.625 Miata 

9 08 STL 5 Jeff Wasilko 16 1:21.54 5.003 1:30.792 Miata 

10 0 SSM 1 Christo. Milton-Hall 15 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:31.798 Miata 

11 83 SM2 4 Tom Minuto 15 1 Lap 13.372 1:31.901 Miata 

12 54 STL 6 Jeff Campbell 15 1 Lap 1.672 1:32.919 Miata 

13 06 SM2 5 Jeff Longo 15 1 Lap 8.593 1:29.690 Miata 

14 33 STU 2 Steven Berry 15 1 Lap 5.476 1:33.192 Miata 

15 44 STL 7 Clinton Chichester 15 1 Lap 1.074 1:32.523 Miata 

16 07 STU 3 Kenneth Burtt 15 1 Lap 0.724 1:32.078 Miata 

17 79 SM2 6 Andrzej Wegrzyn 15 1 Lap 5.116 1:31.878 Miata 

18 05 STU 4 Dwayne Bennett 15 1 Lap 25.895 1:33.076 Miata 

19 18 SSM 2 Dave Valliere 15 1 Lap 3.327 1:34.572 

0 53 SM2 7 Louis Gingerella 15 1 Lap 13.847 1:35.365 Miata 

21 15 SSM 3 Simon Kennedy 14 2 Laps 1 Lap 1:36.918 Miata 

22 17 SM2 8 Tom Masiero 14 2 Laps 30.535 1:39.243 Miata 

23 88 SM2 9 Daniel Meade 14 2 Laps 6.535 1:35.383 Miata 

24 46 SM2 10 Pat DeSimone 13 3 Laps 1 Lap 1:46.315 Miata 

25 12 SM2 11 Kevin Stromski 13 3 Laps 2.598 1:32.315 Miata 

26 77 SSM 4 Paul Perry 12 4 Laps 1 Lap 1:36.297 Miata 

27 00 SM2 12 Russell Gee 11 5 Laps 1 Lap 1:29.568 Miata 

28 71 SM2 13 David Pettigrew 11 5 Laps 56.117 1:35.543 Miata 

DNS30 SM2 Tom Bogar 

Miata 

DNS 09 STL Brenton Piekarski Miata 

Excccuuuse Me! As I take the line away from you... Stephanie Funks’ HP Civic experiences a 

little confrontation with SM’s Alan Dunklee. Photo: Yusuf Abudi 

A mixed bag of closed-well racers approach the downhill right hander 

led by Chris Outzen (doing double duty) in his 350z. Photo: Roz Rosinitoski 

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SRF SPU 

1 12 SRF 1 Steve Introne 14 1:34.160 Srf 

2 10 SRF 2 Doug Garrison 14 19.835 1.635 1:33.867 SRF 

3 66 SRF 3 Bill Watts 14 38.029 18.194 1:37.152 SRF 

4 6 SRF 4 David Ferguson 14 54.233 16.204 1:38.132 SRF 

5 20 SRF 5 Steve Owens 14 55.595 1.362 1:38.624 SRF 

6 0 SRF 6 James Regan 14 56.130 0.535 1:36.757 SRF 

7 35 SRF 7 Richard Wiehl 14 1:09.61 13.483 1:40.552 SRF 

8 31 SRF 8 Leslie Kurz 14 1:42.99 33.381 1:44.293 SRF 

9 89 SRF 9 Andrew Bairley 13 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:46.819 SRF 

10 2 SRF 10 Edward Sanders 14 1 Lap 24:00.6 10:00.00 SRF 

11 13 SRF 11 Carl Warren 8 6 Laps 5 Laps 10:00.00 SRF 

DNF 42 SRF Mark Saviet 2 SRF 

DNF 3 SRF Jerry Streckert 2 1:35.263 SRF 

Grp 6. SM SM5 T3 Bspec 

1 90 SM 1 Dylan Murcott 16 1:24.452 Miata 

2 63 SM 2 Craig McHaffi e 16 8.001 8.001 1:25.069 Miata 

3 7 SM 3 Cy Peake 16 20.484 12.483 1:25.597 Miata 

4 70 SM 4 Jimmy Locke 16 24.695 4.211 1:25.494 Miata 

5 9 SM 5 Jesse Schmidt 16 43.518 18.823 1:25.721 Miata 

6 19 SM 6 Shelby Churchill 16 59.494 15.976 1:27.692 Miata 

7 85 SM 7 Keith Hammitte 16 59.776 0.282 1:27.745 Miata 

8 00 SM 8 Russell Gee 16 1:02.38 2.608 1:28.099 Miata 

9 12 SM 9 Jerry Rigoli 15 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:30.625 Miata 

10 07 SM 10 Kenneth Burtt 15 1 Lap 17.557 1:30.915 Miata 

11 6 SM 11 Jeff Longo 15 1 Lap 8.180 1:31.446 Miata 

12 44 SM 12 Clinton Chichester 15 1 Lap 3.929 1:32.315 Miata 

13 83 SM 13 Tom Minuto 15 1 Lap 8.929 1:33.306 Miata 

14 49 SM 14 Paul Broomhead 15 1 Lap 3.498 1:33.582 Miata 

15 33 SM 15 Steven Berry 15 1 Lap 0.152 1:32.949 Miata 

16 54 SM 16 Jeff Campbell 15 1 Lap 1.991 1:33.268 Miata 

17 66 SM 17 James Santa Maria 15 1 Lap 25.229 1:33.409 Miata 

18 15 SM 18 Simon Kennedy 14 2 Laps 1 Lap 1:35.561 Miata 

19 05 SM 19 Dwayne Bennett 13 3 Laps 1 Lap 1:33.448 Miata 

DNF 14 SM Jonathan Goring 7 6 Laps 1:24.288 Miata 

DNF 79 SM Andrzej Wegrzyn 6 1 Lap 1:37.014 Miata 

DNS 30 SM Tom Bogar Miata 

Grp 7. GT1 GT2 GT3 AS ITE T1 T2 SPO 

1 18 T1 1 Dave Maynard 14 1:18.686 BMW 

2 16 ITE 1 Bruce Bairstow 13 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:28.159 BMW 

3 28 ITE 2 James B. Ray III 13 1 Lap 33.108 1:28.955 BMW 

4 17 AS 1 Mark Wheaton 12 2 Laps 1 Lap 1:32.442 Mustang 

5 5 GT2 1 Dougl McCormack 12 2 Laps 30.598 1:31.879 240Z 

6 2 AS 2 Shaun Griffi n 12 2 Laps 40.631 1:37.871 GTO 

DQ 36 T3 DQ Derrick Reade 12 Neo 

Grp 8. ITB ITR ITS T4 

1 43 ITS 1 Nick Leverone 10 1:23.650 Miata 

2 44 ITS 2 Joe Stadelmann 10 27.456 27.456 1:27.308 Porsche 

3 6 ITS 3 Rob Sturgis 10 36.221 8.765 1:28.792 Miata 

4 30 ITB 1 Travis Washay 10 54.387 18.166 1:29.811 golf 

5 13 ITR 1 A.Lamport Hamm 10 1:06.04311.656 1:27.379 BMW M 

6 33 ITB 2 Ryan Hall 10 1:09.040 2.997 1:30.138 Golf 

7 5 ITB 3 Edward L. Funk 10 1:26.11317.073 1:30.461 Civic 

8 14 ITS 4 Glenn Lawton 10 1:31.353 5.240 1:31.843 RX-7 

9 8 ITB 4 Matthew Mullen 9 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:32.371 Audi 

10 86 ITB 5 Tim Mullen 9 1 Lap 1.484 1:33.335 Golf 

11 4 T4 1 Robert Demers 9 1 Lap 6.812 1:34.697 Solstice 

12 2 ITB 6 Nat Wentworth 9 1 Lap 25.699 1:37.207 Volvo 

13 17 ITB 7 Jason Benagh 9 1 Lap 2.281 1:36.733 Golf 

14 67 ITB 8 Eli Garrett 9 1 Lap 5.784 1:37.569 Scirocco 



Race Two Results, Sunday, May 26 2013 

Results of Grp 1. FV F5 FST 

1 1 FV 1 Anthony Parker 15 1:25.599 Womer 

2 05 FV 2 Nicholas Galuardi 15 14.240 14.240 1:24.017 Caldwell 3 

55 FV 3 Bruce Rodman 15 14.414 0.174 1:25.777 Caracal 

4 33 FV 4 Tyler Reynolds 15 26.558 12.144 1:24.223 Citation 

5 03 FV 5 Craig Swinehart 15 33.928 7.370 1:26.295 Protoform 

6 06 FV 6 Peter Cheney 15 1:16.29542.367 1:29.086 Protoform 

7 15 FV 7 John Ferreira 15 1:16.700 0.405 1:28.806 SpeedSp 

8 20 FV 8 Thomas Galuardi 13 2 Laps 2 Laps 1:36.322 Barrcar 

DNF11 FV Thomas Pape 6 DNF 7 Laps 1:35.815 BRD AFV 

DNF79 FV Robert Zatz 1 DNF 5 Laps Vecto 

Results of Grp 2. ITA IT7 ITC EP FP HP GTL 

1 48 EP 1 Jonathan Leitner 15 1:15.617 BMW 

2 19 EP 2 Keith Hammitte 15 4.335 4.335 1:16.141 BMW 

3 37 ITA 1 Abhijeet Ghatak 15 30.973 26.638 1:19.103 Miata 


5 12 ITA 3 Demetrius Mossaidis15 5.033 6.944 1:19.613 Civic S 

6 7 IT7 1 Greg Amy 15 59.588 4.555 1:20.636 RX-7 

7 62 IT7 2 Drew Young 15 1:05.644 6.056 1:21.061 RX-7 

8 08 ITA 4 Jeff Wasilko 15 1:06.240 0.596 1:19.832 Miata 

9 50 ITA 5 Christ.Milton-Hall 15 1:10.026 3.786 1:20.828 Miata 

10 13 ITA 6 Bradley Bray 15 1:10.641 0.615 1:20.110 Miata 

11 83 ITA 7 Denise VanBuren 15 1:11.865 1.224 1:20.182 Acura 

12 79 IT7 3 Ray Lee Chee 15 1:15.360 3.495 1:21.548 RX-7 

3 67 HP 1 Matthew Baldoni 14 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:21.638 Scirocco 

14 29 IT7 4 Michael Buccella 14 1 Lap 14.848 1:23.521 RX7 

15 81 IT7 5 JB Swan 14 1 Lap 8.452 1:23.116 RX-7 

16 53 ITA 8 Alan Dunklee 14 1 Lap 1.152 1:22.292 Miata 

17 15 IT7 6 Richard Patullo 14 1 Lap 20.445 1:24.612 RX7 

18 5 HP 2 Stephanie Funk 14 1 Lap 5.160 1:25.584 Civic 

19 16 ITA 9 Ronald Buckler 14 1 Lap 5.981 1:24.283 Miata 

20 41 EP 3 William Thompson 10 5 Laps 4 Laps 1:34.862 Rx 7 

21 22 FP 1 Philip G. Perron 9 6 Laps 1 Lap 1:37.300 Alpine 

DNF77 IT7 Daniel Sheppard 5 4 Laps 1:21.908 RX7 

Results of Grp 3. FA FB FC FE FF FM CFC CSR DSR NCF S2 ASR FS 

1 46 FC 1 Douglas Rocco 1:06.998 VanDiem 

2 87 FE 1 Bruce Allen 15 5.698 5.698 1:06.803 VanDiem 

3 81 FE 2 Jerry Streckert 15 35.560 29.862 1:08.719 VanDiem 

4 27 FF 1 Charles Foster 15 51.833 16.273 1:10.119 Piper 

DNF 4 FC Dennis McCarthy VanDiem 

Results of Grp 4. SSM SM2 STU STL 

1 82 STL 1 Robert Blake 15 1:14.852 RX-7 




5 19 SM2 2 Shelby Churchill 15 21.518 3.850 1:17.530 Miata 

6 6 STL 4 Rob Sturgis 15 31.311 9.793 Miata 


8 07 STU 2 Kenneth Burtt 15 35.349 0.519 1:17.466 Miata 

9 00 SM2 3 Russell Gee 15 36.141 0.792 1:18.274 Miata 

10 06 SM2 4 Jeff Longo 15 36.379 0.238 1:18.280 Miata 

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11 05 STU 3 Dwayne Bennett 15 38.171 1.792 1:17.897 Miata 

12 13 STL 5 Bradley Bray 15 42.402 4.231 1:18.423 Miata 

13 04 SM2 5 John Mason 15 42.833 0.431 1:18.465 Miata 

14 33 STU 4 Steven Berry 15 47.377 4.544 1:18.574 Miata 


16 50 SSM 1 Christo. Milton-Hall 15 53.974 5.369 1:19.843 Miata 

17 44 STL 6 Clinton Chichester 15 54.260 0.286 1:19.561 Miata 

18 18 SSM 2 Dave Valliere 15 54.525 0.265 1:19.464 Miata 

9 08 STL 7 Jeff Wasilko 15 56.632 2.107 1:19.521 Miata 

20 4 STL 8 Donald Barron 14 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:20.080 Miata 

21 75 SSM 3 Wayne Dyer 14 1 Lap 1.031 1:21.140 Miata 

22 77 SSM 4 Paul Perry 14 1 Lap 24.333 1:23.735 Miata 

23 12 SM2 7 Kevin Stromski 14 1 Lap 1.186 1:23.899 Miata 

24 71 SM2 8 David Pettigrew 14 1 Lap 1.278 1:23.467 Miata 

25 17 SM2 9 Tom Masiero 14 1 Lap 0.385 1:23.192 Miata 


27 79 SM2 11 Andrzej Wegrzyn 13 2 Laps 1 Lap 1:26.671 Miata 

28 88 SM2 12 Daniel Meade 9 6 Laps 4 Laps 1:20.041 Miata 

29 54 STL 9 Jeff Campbell 9 6 Laps 31.159 1:21.025 Miata 

Grp 5. SRF SPU 

1 0 SRF 1 James Regan 11 1:14.448 SRF 

2 12 SRF 2 Steve Introne 11 1.038 1.038 1:14.823 SRF 



5 35 SRF 5 Richard Wiehl 11 11.513 0.570 1:16.092 SRF 


7 13 SRF 7 Carl Warren 11 37.360 20.709 1:19.057 SRF 

8 5 SRF 8 Mark Saviet 11 45.072 7.712 1:19.543 SRF 

9 31 SRF 9 Leslie Kurz 11 45.966 0.894 1:20.221 SRF 

10 2 SRF 10 Edward Sanders 11 56.088 10.122 1:21.097 SRF 

11 89 SRF 11 Andrew Bairley 10 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:27.014 SRF 

DNF 66 SRF Bill Watts 3 3:55.612 1:16.290 SRF 

DNS 83 SRF Jerry Streckert SRF 

17 14 SM 17 Jonathan Goring 14 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:15.929 Miata 

18 79 SM 18 Andrzej Wegrzyn 14 1 Lap 1:51.5 1:23.073 Miata 

19 85 SM 19 Keith Hammitte 12 3 Laps 2 Laps 1:18.256 Miata 

Grp 7. GT1 GT2 GT3 AS ITE T1 T2 SPO 

1 18 T1 1 Dave Maynard 15 1:11.112 BMW 

2 80 GT2 1 Maurizio Cerasoli 15 33.587 33.587 1:13.006 Porsche 

3 60 ITE 1 Ephraim Dobbins 15 53.518 19.931 1:14.130 Porsche 

4 16 ITE 2 Matthew Rooke 14 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:15.437 BMW 

5 28 ITE 3 James B. Ray III 14 1 Lap 1.441 1:16.780 BMW 

6 15 GT2 2 DouglMcCormack 14 1 Lap 20.329 1:16.741 240Z 

7 2 AS 1 Shaun Griffi n 14 1 Lap 3.874 1:17.598 GTO 

8 17 AS 2 Mark Wheaton 14 1 Lap 11.486 1:18.377 Mustang 

9 36 ITE 4 Derrick Reade 13 2 Laps 1 Lap 1:22.787 Neon 

Grp 8. ITB ITR ITS T4 

1 16 ITR 1 Matthew Rooke 15 1:14.458 BMW 

2 14 ITS 1 Glenn Lawton 15 4.455 4.455 1:15.003 RX-7/ 

3 13 ITR 2 Ann La.Hammitte 15 20.290 15.835 1:16.773 BMW 


5 6 ITS 3 Rob Sturgis 15 46.874 6.186 Miata 

6 2 ITB 1 Nat Wentworth 15 46.875 0.001 1:18.027 Volvo 

7 30 ITB 2 Travis Washay 15 49.904 3.029 1:18.855 golf 

8 4 T4 1 Robert Demers 15 1:08.18 18.280 1:19.447 Solstice 

9 5 ITB 3 Edward L. Funk 15 1:14.40 6.218 1:19.938 Civic 


11 86 ITB 5 Tim Mullen 15 2:20.08 1:05.19 1:20.164 Golf 

12 17 ITB 6 Jason Benagh 14 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:21.125 Golf 

13 08 ITB 7 Matthew Mullen 14 1 Lap 5.290 1:21.342 Audi 

14 39 ITB 8 David Celani 14 1 Lap 57.971 1:24.491 Golf 


16 43 ITS 4 Nick Leverone 12 3 Laps 2 Laps 1:15.305 Miata 

17 99 ITR 3 Geoff Branscombe 10 5 Laps 2 Laps 1:19.974 Acura 

Grp 6. SM SM5 T3 Bspec 





5 07 SM 5 Kenneth Burtt 15 11.915 0.020 1:17.409 Miata 

6 05 SM 6 Dwayne Bennett 15 22.768 10.853 1:18.199 Miata 

7 04 SM 7 John Mason 15 23.600 0.832 1:17.501 Miata 

8 06 SM 8 Jeff Longo 15 25.158 1.558 1:18.318 Miata 

9 00 SM 9 Russell Gee 15 26.542 1.384 1:18.013 Miata 


11 12 SM 11 Jerry Rigoli 15 31.401 0.029 1:18.846 Miata 

2 33 SM 12 Steven Berry 15 35.805 4.404 1:19.283 Miata 

13 9 SM 13 Jesse Schmidt 15 50.448 14.643 1:19.145 Miata 

14 44 SM 14 Clinton Chichester 15 50.996 0.548 1:19.542 Miata 

15 49 SM 15 Paul Broomhead 15 1:12.382 21.3861:20.947 Miata 

16 66 SM 16 James Santa Maria 15 1:12.573 0.191 1:19.570 Miata 

Bob Demers makes an uncharacteristic move as he experiences a conflict on 

the exit of turn three. Photo: Roz Rosintoski 

Rob Dardano in his EP TR6 chases Greg Amy in his IT7. (top) Charles Foster aced the 

first race for open wheel in the wet Saturday conditions. (below) Photo: Yusuf Abudi 

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Sunday Race Results, May 26 2013 


Results of Grp 1. FV F5 FST 

1 2 F5 1 Richard Johnson Jr 15 1:12.940 Red Devil 

2 1 FV 1 Anthony Parker 15 31.819 31.819 1:16.819 Womer 

3 05 FV 2 Nicholas Galuardi 15 34.846 3.027 1:16.538 Caldwell 4 

33 FV 3 Tyler Reynolds 15 1:09.46 34.620 1:19.258 Citation 

5 55 FV 4 Bruce Rodman 15 1:16.78 7.316 1:19.655 Caracal 

6 79 FV 5 Robert Zatz 14 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:20.363 Vector 

7 06 FV 6 Peter Cheney 14 1 Lap 7.440 1:21.890 Protoform 

8 27 FV 7 Mark Filip 14 1 Lap 4.670 1:21.413 Womer 

9 15 FV 8 John Ferreira 14 1 Lap 8.894 1:22.016 SpeedSp 

10 11 FV 9 Thomas Pape 14 1 Lap 0.392 1:22.142 BRD AFV 

11 20 FV 10 Thomas Galuardi 14 1 Lap 6.842 1:22.809 Barrcar 12 

03 FV 11 Craig Swinehart 10 5 Laps 4 Laps 1:18.467 Protoform 

Results of Grp 2. ITA IT7 ITC EP FP HP GTL 

1 48 EP 1 Jonathan Leitner 14 1:16.083 BMW 

2 37 ITA 1 Abhijeet Ghatak 14 4.698 4.698 1:18.166 Miata 

3 12 ITA 2 Demetrius Mossaidis14 8.712 4.014 1:17.962 Civic Si 

4 13 ITA 3 Bradley Bray 14 10.326 1.614 1:18.469 Miata 

5 #2 EP 2 Robert L. Dardano 14 13.307 2.981 1:18.456 Triumph 


7 7 IT7 1 Greg Amy 14 14.982 0.590 1:20.068 RX-7 

8 77 IT7 2 Daniel Sheppard 14 6.507 1.525 1:18.873 RX7 

9 83 ITA 5 Denise VanBuren 14 17.850 1.343 1:18.689 Acura 

10 50 ITA 6 Chri.Milton-Hall 14 19.924 2.074 1:20.383 Miata 

11 08 ITA 7 Jeff Wasilko 14 20.451 0.527 1:20.236 Miata 

12 29 IT7 3 Michael Buccella 14 21.307 0.856 1:20.470 RX7 

13 79 IT7 4 Ray Lee Chee 14 25.646 4.339 1:21.420 RX-7 

4 15 IT7 5 Richard Patullo 14 26.212 0.566 1:21.249 RX7 

15 67 HP 1 Matthew Baldoni 14 30.785 4.573 1:21.741 Scirocco 

16 81 IT7 6 JB Swan 14 31.513 0.728 1:21.797 RX-7 

17 53 ITA 8 Alan Dunklee 14 33.876 2.363 1:20.740 Miata 

18 16 ITA 9 Ronald Buckler 14 51.179 17.303 1:24.753 Miata 

19 41 EP 3 William Thompson 14 59.742 8.563 1:26.640 Rx 7 

20 5 HP 2 Stephanie Funk 13 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:22.640 Civic 

DNF 62 IT7 Drew Young 4 5:33.225 DNF RX-7 

DNF22 FP Philip G. Perron 3 4:31.506 DNF Alpine 

DNS 19 EP Keith Hammitte BMW 325 

Results of Grp 3. FA FB FC FE FF FM CFC CSR DSR NCF S2 ASR FS 

1 6 FC 1 Douglas Rocco 15 1:07.723 VanDiemen 

2 87 FE 1 Bruce Allen 15 0.666 0.666 1:07.441 VanDiemen 

3 07 FC 2 Robert Laverty 15 23.051 22.385 1:07.573 Citation 

4 27 FF 1 Charles Foster 15 40.173 17.122 1:10.123 Piper DF5 

5 81 FE 2 Jerry Streckert 15 59.262 19.089 1:06.774 VanDiemen 

Results of Grp 4. SSM SM2 STU STL 

1 82 STL 1 Robert Blake 15 1:14.056 RX-7 




5 07 STU 2 Kenneth Burtt 15 17.655 5.588 1:16.900 Miata 


7 6 STL 4 Rob Sturgis 15 24.873 1.493 Miata 

8 05 STU 3 Dwayne Bennett 15 27.465 2.592 1:17.317 Miata 

9 19 SM2 2 Shelby Churchill 15 30.485 3.020 1:17.726 Miata 

10 33 STU 4 Steven Berry 15 34.148 3.663 1:17.843 Miata 

11 04 SM2 3 John Mason 15 37.314 3.166 1:18.335 Miata 

12 13 STL 5 Bradley Bray 15 40.648 3.334 1:18.812 Miata 

13 06 SM2 4 Jeff Longo 15 48.712 8.064 1:19.076 Miata 

14 00 SM2 5 Russell Gee 15 49.126 0.414 1:18.910 Miata 

15 50 SSM 1 Christo.Milton-Hall 15 54.838 5.712 1:19.712 Miata 



Thompson Road Course to Re-open, 

and requests your “vintage” photos 

As I'm sure many of you are aware efforts are well underway to re-open the road racing course 

at Thompson Speedway. The planned opening is for June of 2014. As Jerry Rigoli announced at 

New Hampshire, NER has signed up for two dates in 2014; one in early July and the other in early 

October. 

The track will be approximately 1.7 miles long. The design of the track will be similar to the original 

road course with some changes made to add a couple of interesting corners and passing zones. 

Dave jones chases down a corvette at the exit of the 

Some infrastructure construction has already begun; running power and water lines, cutting trees (but “Esses” back in ‘74. Photo: Stan Clinton 

not the big maple in the infield!) moving dirt for much more paddock space and solo activities and 

building several new support buildings. The actual track work will start in November once the current season wraps up. 

With the re-opening of the road course, Thompson will be putting together a history of the track with a display of pictures from the beginnings of the 

road course up to the new construction. They have many photos of the old track but are looking for more. With that, we need your help. We are 

seeking photos of racing activities at the old track. Action shots, interesting items or famous (infamous) people at the track. 

Any help is much appreciated. Please email us at roadcourse@thompsonspeedway.com with any photos or comments. 

Thank you — Lou Gingerella 


NER Solo 

Championship 

“Well now, wasn’t that exciting….” 

– storm prior to the February Annual Banquet 

By Eddie Savage 

Moore Airfield – Sunday. ‘Tis not really winter; still not spring. I consider it “officially” 

spring at Devens, only when the pollen wafts on high, and the waist-high dirt-covered 

snow mounds acting as Armco at the Tower corner are no more. Early April at Moore 

Airfield is alluring in a haunting way and manner; it’s stark, dark and dreary in attitude. 

Still brown, still cold, still seemingly devoid of most life and still unforgiving; and then we 

arrive to light a new season fire... 

 

Harkening back a few months, the New England Region SCCA had 2 annual banquets 

to speak of, to start the 2013 season. Held at the Royal Plaza in Marlborough, Mass, our 

first banquet was brazenly interrupted in newsworthy fashion by a snowstorm that resulted 

in a road closure announcement by our Governor (Dude, this is New England, what, 

you no got 4-wheel drive). Our second attempt at a banquet was pleasantly fashioned 

together a month later in late March. I will say, the make-up banquet was lean and mean, 

and a rather nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon between office chores. For me, a 

“Thanks” to the organizers for getting it done that way! 

Points Event #1. 

Solo Airways 

Ft. Devesn, MA 


With the crowning glory stuff out of the way, a few weeks later Solo found its path-worn 

road meandering up the Ayer-Woodsville hillside. We wake to a Sunday not unlike any 

other for the times, overcast conditions, cool (55 if we got lucky, and there was that wind 

chill), wind and no wind, and then more wind again. Even the local bears took a peek 

outdoors and went back for another week of hibernation. 

Rob MacAlpine designed the clock-wise course, and most regarded it as fun albeit tasking 

in a few spots. PJ Corrales lovingly referred to it as a “pinching” design. He with Nissan 

Panda of uber-wide fiberglass hips would surely know. 

Both the layout, it being the season opener, and 23 Novices led to a tally of over 170 

DNF’s covering a 5-run day. A quick look places a chunk of those at the ST-based and RTA 

classes. Perhaps their mindset was having them still plowing around in some snow-covered 

parking lot… 


Lovely early spring conditions for solo...Mark Dudek drives around the snow cones. Photos: Eddie Savage 

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NER SCCA “Solo Airways” Final Results - Points Event #1 - Sunday, April 7, 2013 

Pro Class 

1 BS 192 Nick Barbato S2000 47.377 

2 ES 196 Billy Davis Miata 48.211 +0.834 

3 STS 69 Ben Wagstaff Miata 48.532 +0.321 

4 ES 98 Todd Kean Miata 48.591 +0.059 

5 SS 57 Grant Reeve Corvette 48.607 +0.016 

6 DSP 42 Marc Monnar RX-8 48.835 +0.228 

7 SM 99 David White 240SX 49.036 +0.201 

8 CM 46 Joshua Parker Reynard 49.110 +0.074 

9 ES 96 Bob Davis Miata 49.415 +0.305 

10 DSP 142 John Rappa RX8 49.490 +0.075 

11 BS 92 Justin Lau S2000 49.766 +0.276 

12 STX 139 PJ Corrales 240sx 50.025 +0.259 

13 ES 198 Scott Thursby Miata 50.913 +0.888 

14 SSM 171 Eric Chiang Miata 51.317 +0.404 

15 STR 28 Neil Schelly Porsche 54.786 +3.469 

16 BSP 5 Jeff Seeger Corvette DNS 

Super Stock 

1 57 Steph Zadrozny Corvette 61.552 

A Stock 

1 15 Siddharth Saxena Porsche 73.088 

B Stock 

1 74 Tim Kong S2000 59.229 

2 45 Chang Ho Kim Callaway 59.797 +0.568 

3 11 Barbara Seeger Corvette 61.447 +1.650 

4 145 Jeff Martynuska Callaway 62.418 +0.971 

5 24 Carolyn Green Solstice 70.103 +7.685 

C Stock 

1 57 Chris Mills MR2 65.257 

D Stock 

1 22 Wiley Cox Mini 62.156 

2 122 Jojo Corrales Mini 67.367 +5.211 

3 138 Ramon Thomas Subaru DNF +67.367 

4 38 Gary Yu Subaru DNF +67.367 

F Stock 

1 4 Philip G Gott Dodge 69.333 

G Stock 

1 48 allen parker Honda 65.339 

2 43 Sam Creasey Honda 65.456 +0.117 

3 148 Paul Krysiak Honda 66.255 +0.799 

4 9 Jack Nguyen Volvo 67.991 +1.736 

H Stock 

1 13 Charlie Thompson Mini 65.585 

2 29 Paul Zahornasky Mazda 3 68.302 +2.717 

A Street Prepared 

1 1 Matthew Mickle Subaru 58.508 

2 75 Joshua Noble Subaru 58.989 +0.481 

3 87 Sandi Moreno Subaru 79.162 +20.173 

C Street Prepared 

1 55 Rob MacAlpine Miata 60.594 

D Street Prepared 

1 9 Tamaz Shiloshvili Dodge 68.313 

E Street Prepared 

1 96 Thomas Powderly Shelby 67.676 

2 90 John Barck Eagle 68.822 +1.146 

F Street Prepared 

1 6 Alexander Twombly Volvo 68.624 

X Prepared 

1 37 Brian Kuehl Miata 60.896 

2 137 Robert Day Honda 62.349 +1.453 

C Prepared 

1 146 Phil Mackaronis Camaro 61.751 

2 14 Nick Murphy Mustang 67.751 +6.000 

E Prepared 

1 94 Brian Levesque Honda 56.930 

2 194 Myron Steer Scirocco 62.334 +5.404 

3 80 Daryl Beck Volks 65.779 +3.445 

4 180 Jason Fair Volks 66.833 +1.054 

5 3 Eli Ahrensdorf BMW 70.204 +3.371 

A Modified 

1 64 Bill Gendron Dragon 51.848 

2 64 Robert Barone Dragon 57.036 +5.188 

3 146 Stacey Strout Dragon 59.800 +2.764 

Street Touring FWD 

1 6 Thomas Soja Mini 68.836 

2 61 Christopher Brooks Mazda 70.179 +1.343 

Street Touring C 

1 54 Robert Pellerin Subaru 67.099 

2 55 david tolle Nissan 72.556 +5.457 

Street Touring S 

1 22 William Brundige Miata 61.034 

2 89 Shawn Lyons Miata 69.936 +8.902 

3 23 Zack Thomas Miata 72.369 +2.433 

Street Touring R 

1 7 Mark Dudek BMW Z4 60.772 

2 73 Matt Thompson Miata 60.824 +0.052 

3 78 Tony Economou S2000 62.083 +1.259 

4 37 Don Kuehl Miata 67.082 +4.999 

Street Touring X 

1 78 Jeff Anderson RX8 0.270 

2 178 David Thomas RX8 60.974 +0.704 

3 139 Derek Sivret BMW 61.176 +0.202 

4 39 David Gott BMW 61.344 +0.168 

5 80 brent vander werf BMW 66.317 +4.973 

6 11 Lawrence Coffin Mini 68.947 +2.630 

7 46 Matt Weaver Mini 81.022 +12.075 

Street Touring U 

1 33 Bryan Mancuso Evo MR 59.794 

2 25 Jeffrey Dansereau BMW M363.793 +3.999 

3 142 Derek White Subaru 68.448 +4.655 

Street Modified 

1 141 Eric Heinrich BMW 59.415 

2 41 Mike Iannotti BMW 59.464 +0.049 

3 72 Stephen Botsford Nova 69.803 +10.339 

Street Modified F 

1 21 Dan Durusky GTI 65.473 

2 99 Aaron Telage Mini 67.021 +1.548 

3 7 Michael Smith Kia 76.404 +9.383 

Super Street Modified 

1 111 Patrick Heck Elise 58.601 

2 71 Mathew Nieman Miata 60.623 +2.022 

3 99 Jenna Corrales 240sx 60.861 +0.238 

4 11 David Oliveira Elise 62.282 +1.421 

5 63 Jonathan Leith Miata 65.204 +2.922 

6 1 Brian Cunningham Corvette 67.041 +1.837 

Junior Kart A 

1 37 Evan Woodsom GP Kart 68.398 

2 137 Adam Woodsom GP Kart 79.560 +11.162 

3 119 Jessica Arsenault Black 81.071 +1.511 

4 19 Jacob Arsenault Black 88.136 +7.065 

Junior Kart B 

1 52 Kimsoo Gopnik CRG 76.620 

Road Tire FWD 

1 HS 79 Patrick Huxley Civic 51.054 

2 HS 26 PJ Aspesi Focus SVT53.387 +2.333 

3 HS 10 James Akiba Focus 54.422 +1.035 

4 HS 77 Michael Smith Focus 55.570 +1.148 

5 HS 61 James Daugherty Mazda 57.375 +1.805 

6 HS 110 Andrew Sharicz Focus 58.199 +0.824 

7 HS 161 Kristyn Brophy Mazda 58.375 +0.176 

8 GS 47 Joanne Ago Civic Si 58.821 +0.446 

9 HS 22 Richard Currey Matrix 60.140 1.319 

10 GS 147 Michelle Sharron Honda DNF +60.140 

11 GS 95 William Ryan Saab 9-5 DNF +60.140 

Road Tire RWD 

1 CS 11 Darius Trinka 350z 52.560 

2 FS 63 Stephen Tise Shelby GT52.939 +0.379 

3 BS 36 Josh Brockman S2000 53.464 +0.525 

4 CS 3 Jon Zombeck Rx8 54.606 +1.142 

5 CS 7 Eric Deutchman 370Z 54.706 +0.100 

6 CS 98 Christy Carlson Subaru 55.039 +0.333 

7 ES 37 Robert Woodsom Miata 56.009 +0.970 

8 CS 198 Chris Gervais Subaru 56.190 +0.181 

9 ES 137 Jeff Arsenault Miata 60.411 +4.221 

10 ES 5 Nathan Wolsky Hyundai 64.540 +4.129 

11 FS 166 Bruce Benoit Mustang 76.531 +11.991 

12 FS 66 can. sutherland Mustang DNF +76.531 

13 CS 9 Michael Odikadze 2013 DNF +76.531 

Road Tire AWD 

1 DS 72 Andrew Barrette Subaru 62.034 51.240 

2 DS 172 Kenneth Johnson Honda 52.218 +0.978 

3 DS 151 Connor O'Farrell Mercedes 52.770 +0.552 

4 GS 8 Warren Barck Subaru 55.104 +2.334 

5 GS 69 Clifton Kangas Subaru 56.132 +1.028 

6 DS 90 Daniel Podolski Volksw 56.533 +0.401 

7 GS 14 Justin Vogel Subaru 57.395 +0.862 

8 GS 97 Thomas Pyle Subaru 57.820 +0.425 

9 DS 51 Brock Donnelly Subaru 58.494 +0.674 

10 GS 19 Bill Cioni Subaru 60.907 +2.413 

11 DS 71 Tristan deBarros Subaru 61.669 +0.762 

12 DS 70 Tomas Revetria BMW 64.233 +2.564 

Novice 

1 GS 12 Michael Sherman Volvo 55.493 

2 STC 13 Jason Capracotta 240sx 57.670 +2.177 

3 BS 167 Jeremy Bourassa S2000 58.255 +0.585 

4 HS 10 Brady Horrace Focus 58.585 +0.330 

5 CS 86 Joe Ferreira Subaru 59.381 +0.796 

6 BS 1 Bill Bither Audi S4 59.486 +0.105 

7 CS 41 Joshua Homen Scion FR-S59.511 +0.025 

8 ES 17 Nikolas Finn Miata 59.716 +0.205 

9 CS 48 Alan Salnikov Scion FR-S59.968 +0.252 

10 STU 42 Michael Caporello Subaru 60.169 +0.201 

11 CS 7 Eduardo Sverdlin Scion FR-S60.666 +0.497 

12 HS 110 Joseph Crehan Focus 61.297 +0.631 

13 ASP 24 Jason Aiello Subaru 61.637 +0.340 

14 DS 11 Jonathan Shontz Infiniti 61.696 +0.059 

15 BS 67 Jamie Bourassa S2000 62.415 +0.719 

16 STX 180 Sarah Contreras BMW 3 62.647 +0.232 

17 ASP 2 Steve Bodnar Subaru 62.709 +0.062 

18 ES 14 pat kelly miata 63.776 +1.067 

19 FS 27 Sean Reilly Dodge 66.863 +3.087 

20 CS 44 Stephen Wong Scion FR-S68.734 +1.871 

21 BS 9 jerome antique Subaru 70.567 +1.833 

22 HS 4 Haley Scott Kia Forte 75.000 +4.433 

23 STX 69 Pablo Martinez RX-8 DNF +75.00 

The Arsenault’s talk kart strategy. 

Photos: Eddie Savage 


Solo Airways 

—continued from the previous page 

Of the 152 registered entrants, 8 were left 

with no recorded times, either struggling to 

learn the basics or via mechanicalitis. Jeff 

Seeger gets the top o’ the hat for starting 

out the day but having to depart, missing 

his runs, yet returning later in the day just to 

help staff the club for duties here and there. 

That is what volunteering and team work for 

NER is all about. 

My standard disclaimer applies: all times 

reported are valid unless later updated on 

the website due to a triple quadruple audit 

request or someone reports an error that 

doesn’t make sense. Remorse about your 

own lack of focus, concentration or just plain 

ol’ crappy driving at any Solo event is not 

cause for audit or correction to boost you 

up, so get some sleep the night before! Oft’ 

said by this reporter to the young at heart: 

“We learn by doing.” 

Let’s go take the class tour: Pro had 16 

entries, and saw Nick Barbato take the 

pax-based class by a solid 0.834 over 

second place in his BS Honda S2000 CR. 

His last, raw time run of 56.068, netted that 

finish and first place in Pax, too. Nicks time 

factored to a 47.377. By the way, the Top 

Ten Pax times all came out of the Pro ranks. 

Billy Davis in the ES Miata was on the fence 

(the wrong fence it seemed) for his first 4 

runs, but wailed to a Pro second spot on a 

58.226/48.211. Ben Wagstaff was third 

on his STS Miata run of 58.543/48.532, 

Todd Kean in the ES Miata was fourth with an 

early second run 58.685/48.591, and Grant 

Reeve, fifth, in the Z06 Corvette. Grant took 

the GoVette to a third run 56.586, factored 

to a 48.607. Of note is a bunch of the Pro 

drivers coning their last runs, and for some, 

the last two runs of the day. 

The Pax-based Novice class had 23 drivers, 

with a handful of new Scion FR-S and Subaru 

BRZ’s on site to mix and match. Michael 

Sherman took his GS Volvo S60R to top 

Rookie on a fifth and final run of 68.007 

(factored to 55.493), a full 2 seconds on the 

others. Jason Capracotta was second in a 

STC Nissan 240SX, with a 69.989/57.670. 

Jason may not have noticed, but we did see 

the G-Fab family eyeing it for possible donor 

parts as the day progressed. Jeremy Bourassa 

was third with a Honda S2000 powered 

68.941/58.255, Brady Horrance fourth with 

a Focused 72.868/58.585 and rounding 

out the Top 5 in Novice was Joe Ferreira in a 

new Subaru BRZ with a 71.201/59.381. 

Joshua Homen in his Scion FR-S came within 

0.025 seconds (on pax) of the last trophy 

spot with last run 71.357/59.511, but just 

a whisker short of Bill Bither in his Audi S4. 

Bill ran a 70.398/59.486, also on his final 

pass. Interesting is that valid (non-DNF runs) 

cone calls for Novices were light at 31, but 

Jeff Arsneault in the RTR Miata. 

Bob Barone in his A-modified Dragon. 

Cone Road Kill for dinner tonight. 

Okay, where’s the kitchen sink. The Pirate established 

camp of the Levesque’s. All Photos: Eddie Savage 

18 PIT TALK

they were tagged 33 DNF’s overall. But to be 

honest, I remember my first autocross too…Four 

of the rookie drivers staked their best runs but 

“with cone”, and that is something those drivers 

need to focus on, as the added penalty kept 3 

of them out of the Novice trophies. Ouch. 

The Road Tire classes are also Pax-class based, 

and are filling up with those debating tires vs. 

cost vs. time divided by what “better” road tire 

is out there vs. “that competitive urge”. RTR 

(rear) saw 13 drivers and Darius Trinka took 

the Nissan 350z to a last run 63.022/52.560. 

He needed that, as it was his only clean run 

of the day. Stephen Tise was second in the 

Ford Shelby GT on a 63.782/52.939, just 

under a fourth of a sec on pax. RTF (front) saw 

Patrick Huxley hot-wheel the Honda Civic to a 

63.501/51.054, easily dispatching the rest of 

the 10 driver field. 

RTA (all-wheel) was led by Andrew Barrette in 

the Subaru WRX, taking a last run 62.034, 

paxing to a 51.240. Andrew’s run was 

nearly a full second on pax over Ken Johnson 

in a Civic Si. Ken took a 63.218/52.218. 

Honorable mention in RTA goes to Connor 

O’Farrell, who negotiated the course with a 

Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG, taking third in a 

63.887/52.770. 

The Kart classes were but 2: FJA and FJB. 

Kimsoo Gopnik took the lone driver FJB class 

with a 76.620, and Evan Woodsom led FJA 

on his fourth run 68.398. Adam Woodsom 

was second (79.560), Jessica Arsenault third 

(81.071) and Jacob Arsenault, fourth (88.136). 

3 cars ran in SMF, taken by Dan Durusky in the 

Volkswagen GTi with a last pass 65.473. Street 

Mod also had 3 cars, led by Eric Heinrich 

in the BMW 325i on a 59.415. STF went to 

Tom Soja (MINI – 68.836), STC to Robert 

Pellerin (Impreza RS – 67.099) and STS to Bill 

Brundige (Miata – 61.034). STR was 0.052 

close for the top spot, with Mark Dudek taking 

a BMW Z4 to a 60.772 over Matt Thompson 

in the MX-5 Miata and a 60.824. Of note in 

the class was Don Kuehl who auditioned his 

hyper- Honda CRX in the morphed form of a 

older silverish Miata (matching his greyish hair, 

perhaps). I think Don still enjoyed the day in 

spite of being the class “tail end Charlie.” 

The 7 driver STX class was led by Mazda 

RX-8 power and Jeff Anderson with a last pass 

60.270. STU’s 3 driver field went to Bryan 

Mancuso in the Lancer Evo, pulling a fourth 

run 59.794. Top Raw went to the Top A-Mod 

driver, Bill Gendron in the CK Dragon. Bill went 

to a 51.848 on his final and fourth run before 

retiring the car for co-driver and owner, Bob 

Barone. ASP went to Matt Mickle, while CSP, 

DSP and FSP were lone entries. ESP went to 

Tom Powderly and his Ford Mustang Shelby 

GT. 

Ceeee-P went to Phil Mackaronis (Camaro 

- 61.751) and XP to Brian Kuehl (Miata – 

60.896). EP had Brian Levesque take the 5 

driver Prepared class on a 56.930. The Stocker 

ranks saw single entries for SS, AS, CS and 

FS, but there were 5 drivers recorded in BS. 

Tim Kong took that class on a Honda SR2000 

CR run of 59.229, and gets a “thumbs up” 

for the yellow-green color of his wheels and 

near-matching numbers and letters. (Don’t get 

me started on the Novice numbering reminders 

just yet…) Chang Ho Kim and Jeff Martynuska 

shared Jeff’s “which was once Chang’s” 

Corvette, battling along with Barbara Seeger 

and Carolyn Green. 

DS held sway to 4 drivers, with Wiley Cox at 

top with a MINI Cooper S run of 62.156. HS 

had 2 drivers, Paul Zahornasky and Charlie 

Thompson. Charles took his MINI Cooper to 

a 65.585, but PZ had only 4 runs on the day, 

unfortunately finding his Mazda 3 ‘de boot 

on ‘de axle was much more worse than wear. 

Charlie is running a JCW “Lite” version of a 

MINI this year, and who better to compete 

against than Mr “PZ”. The competition between 

then should be awesome to watch this year. 

GS saw Allen Parker take the venerable 

(vulnerable) vintage Honda CRX to a win 

with a 65.339 over Sam Creasey (by just 

0.117), Paul Krysiak and Jack Nguyen. The 

ol’ autocross veteran from New Hampshire is 

eating his Wheaties it seems… 

For SSM, Patrick Heck took his Lotus Elise to 

a win in the 6 driver class. Taking a last run 

58.601, he was a clear 2 seconds ahead 

of the field. I need not mention to Gus, as he 

knows it well, he just has to repeat that for the 

next event. He keeps a very good log of his 

modifications and progress on his website, 

so keep at it. For the outsourcing department 

fanatics, the G-Fab Panda saw a breakdown 

of its axle components on the day, causing 

some co-drive shuffling for the Pro drivers, and 

no doubt a trip by PJ later in the week to some 

classified heat-treat shop or NASA parts bin for 

stiffer drive gear stuff for the next event. 

The day ended with everyone bundled in winter 

coats, the “sizing” worn off plenty of new tires, 

Kimsoo selling cookies for charity at the trailer, 

short memories yet tall tales, welcome new 

companions, hello old friends. Winter may be 

harsh, and Devens a task-master, but it can’t 

beat the warmth of the NER Solo community. 

Be seeing you! 

Oh sure, she said I could drive; nuthin’ about 

changing tires...Wiley Cox and JoJo Corrales. 

Stephen Botsford and the 1972 Chevy Nova. 

Nothing like 40-years of experience. Phil Gott 

muscles his Challenger around the cones. Time 

to get the TR4 out Phil 


NER Solo 

Championship 

“Rescue 51, report of a crash, fire and 

trapped occupant…” 

- from the TV show “Emergency!” 1972-1977 

By Eddie Savage 

 

Points Event #2. 

Cinco de Mayo 

May 5, 2013 

Tom Moore, long-time Mustang aficionado launches 

past the tower. Photos: Eddie Savage 

Moore Airfield – Sunday. The NER Solo Points Event #2 launched at Devens with the moniker 

“Cinco de Mayo”. Now, some may say that’s short for mayonnaise, and after a lengthy 

timing and computer failure in mid-day that had the course workers feeling that’s what they 

were - a bit oozy baking in the sunshine - it none the less means the 5 th of May is here and 

the go-go-go of autocrossing across the country is in full swing. 

It hadn’t been much of a warm past month or so; a few decent days here and there, but mostly 

raw and cool. Today was probably the second weekend in 2 months that could go to the high 

70’s with abundant sunshine, and run with that combination we did. The 139 entrants had 

dropped to 137 for the actual start, and only 16 Novices were here to make note of. Did the 

bright orb in the sky scare the young-in’s away 

The sunshine brought out a few Hawaiian-style shirts, notably one on tall-dude Brian Levesque, 

whose yellow, green and orange motorcycle and palm tree motif shirt, when he sat in the 

ol’ family B-Mod (now operated by the Van De Carr’s), seemingly rose high into the near 

stratosphere in bright contrast to the powder blue and silver Formula racer. 

5 runs were logged into the archives for the event. The course was perhaps just a tad friendlier 

for smaller cars or those with modest power curves, and some “power-cars” were really 

finessing the throttle in spots or left hungry at others. The clockwise 

attack around the airfield ended with a clever left twitch just 

aft of the finish-lights that caught a few off-guard (remember to 

always ‘look ahead’) with the resultant car-askew digital image 

captured for prosperity and for all the world to see on Flickr. Let’s 

get started: 

Super Stock fielded 2 drivers, and Russ Siggelkoe shook his Lotus 

Elise to a 56.903, a good turn ahead of Stephanie Zadrozny 

in the Corvette Z06 and her 58.577. Five drivers played in 

B-Stock, taken by Tim Kong in the Honda S2000 on a 56.612, 


20 PIT TALK

NER SCCA “Cinco de Mayo” Final Results - Points Event #2 - Sunday May 5, 2013 

Pro Class 

1 CSP 196 Billy Davis Miata 46.406 

2 STS 69 B.Wagstaff Miata 46.572 +0.166 

3 SM 199 PJ Corrales 240sx 46.840 +0.268 

4 ES 198 Scott ThursbyMiata 46.840 +0.000 

5 ES 98 Todd Kean Miata 46.898 +0.058 

6 CSP 96 Bob Davis Miata 47.618 +0.720 

7 SM 99 David White 240SX 47.724 +0.106 

8 DSP 142 John Rappa RX8 47.768 +0.044 

9 SS 57 Grant Reeve Corvette 48.126 +0.358 

10 CM 46 Jos. Parker Reynard 48.205 +0.079 

11 DSP 42 M. Monnar RX-8 48.431 +0.226 

13 STU 33 Justin Lau EVO 50.550 +1.777 

Super Stock 

1 42 Russ Siggelkoe Elise 56.903 56.903 

2 57 Ste,Zadrozny Corvette 58.577 +1.674 

B Stock 

1 74 Tim Kong S2000 56.612 

2 145 Jeff Martynuska Callaway 57.703 +1.091 

3 45 Chang Ho Kim Corvette 58.371 +0.668 

4 11 Barbara Seeger Corvette 59.041 +0.670 

5 94 Fedja Jeleskovic Lancer SE 60.561 +1.520 

C Stock 

1 163 Bud Collins Solstice 57.223 

2 63 Lynn Collins Solstice 58.640 +1.417 

3 157 Robert Mills MR2 61.258 +2.618 

4 57 Chris Mills MR2 62.308 +1.050 

5 17 A. Archambault RX-8 R3 65.984 +3.676 

D Stock 

1 22 Wiley Cox Mini 59.650 

2 122 J.Corrales-Kean Mini 63.358 +3.708 

F Stock 

1 4 Philip G Gott Dodge 66.777 

G Stock 

1 43 Sam Creasey CRX Si 62.238 

2 48 allen parker crx si 63.941 +1.703 

H Stock 

1 29 Paul Zahornasky Mazda 60.703 

2 13 C. Thompson Mini 61.021 +0.318 

3 55 M. Bruneaux Saturn 74.170 +13.149 

A Street Prepared 

1 1 Matthew Mickle Subaru 56.083 

2 75 Joshua Noble Subaru 57.273 

3 87 Sandi Moreno Subaru 72.399 +15.126 

C Street Prepared 

1 55 Rob MacAlpine Miata 58.063 

2 7 Paul Krysiak CIVIC 63.943 +5.880 

D Street Prepared 

1 39 Nathan Draper BMW 61.686 

2 27 Chris Fitzgerald Volvo 65.631 +3.945 

E Street Prepared 

1 96 Thomas Powderly Ford 61.914 

2 41 Thomas Moore Mustang 65.811 +3.897 

3 890 Warren Barck Subaru 67.812 +2.001 

4 90 John Barck Talon TSi 68.927 +1.115 

F Street Prepared 

1 62 A.Twombly Volvo 24065.774 

2 162 H. Barczynski Volvo 24070.418 +4.644 

X Prepared 

1 43 Brian Kuehl CRX 61.946 

C Prepared 

1 146 Phil Mackaronis Camaro 59.851 

2 50 Arnold Beebe Mustang 60.350 +0.499 

3 14 Nick Murphy Mustang 64.063 +3.713 

E Prepared 

1 94 Brian Levesqu Honda 56.463 

2 180 Daryl Beck Volks 60.859 +4.396 

3 47 Myron Steere Volks 60.920 +0.061 

4 80 Jason Fair Volks 65.364 +4.444 

F Prepared 

1 40 Robert Lang TR6 58.216 

A Modified 

1 164 Bill Gendron Dragon 48.496 

2 138 William Goodale Dragon 48.809 +0.313 

3 38 Stacey Strout Dragon 50.270 +1.461 

4 64 Robert Barone Dragon 53.305 

B Modified 

1 167 G. VanDeCarr Winkelman54.747 

2 67 D.Van De Carr Winkelman57.932 +3.185 

Street Touring FWD 

1 2 James DaughertyMazda 66.049 

2 61 Christor. Brook Mazda 66.577 +0.528 

3 16 Athena DeGangiAcura 67.036 +0.459 

Street Touring C 

1 151 Roger Whipple Civic 61.173 

Street Touring S 

1 89 Shawn Lyons Mazda 68.570 

Street Touring R 

1 37 Don Kuehl Miata 61.720 

2 37 Joanne Ag Miata 69.364 +7.644 

Street Touring X 

1 78 Jeff Anderson RX8 57.847 

2 178 David Thoma RX8 58.206 +0.359 

3 139 Derek Sivret BMW 58.843 +0.637 

4 39 David Gott BMW 59.132 +0.289 

5 80 br. vander werf BMW 61.435 +2.303 

6 98 Christy Carlson Subaru 62.961 +1.526 

7 198 Chris Gervais Subaru 65.973 +3.012 

8 1 Jason Hill Subaru 69.643 +3.670 

Street Touring U 

1 33 Bryan Mancuso Evolution 58.396 

2 25 Jeffrey Dansereau BMW 62.893 +4.497 

Street Modified 

1 41 Billy Haley Subaru 64.286 

2 141 Alan Herrick Subaru 65.215 +0.929 

3 62 Jack Nguyen Volvo 70.297 +5.082 

Street Modified F 

1 21 Dan Durusky GTI 62.768 

2 1 Corey Demers Cougar 64.921 +2.153 

3 7 Michael Smith Kia 68.827 +3.906 

Super Street Modified 

1 99 Jenna Corrales Nissan 57.58 

2 1 Mathew Nieman Miata 58.613 +1.033 

3 11 David Oliveira Elise 59.384 +0.771 

4 111 Patrick Heck Elise 59.404 +0.020 

5 7 William Salie corvette 60.155 +0.751 

6 171 Jonathan Leith Miata 60.167 +0.012 

7 1 Nou. Tebelekian BMW 65.520 +5.353 

8 3 Bri, Cunningham Corvette 66.083 +0.563 

9 77 eduard gukasov evolution 69.267 +3.184 

Adult Kart 

1 95 Sarah Bowin Elite 54.350 

Junior Kart A 

1 37 Evan Woodsom GP Kart 64.776 

2 119 Jessica Arsenault kart 0.610 +5.834 

3 137 Adam Woodsom GP Kart 71.554 +0.944 

4 19 Jacob Arsenault kart 80.764 +9.210 

Junior Kart B 

1 52 Kimsoo Gopnik CRG 63.438 

Road Tire FWD 

1 HS 79 Patrick Huxley Civic 50.045 

2 HS 26 PJ Aspesi Focus 52.444 +2.399 

3T HS 77 Michael SmitFocus 53.030 +0.586 

4 HS 10 James Akiba Focus 53.381 +0.351 

5 HS 111 Joseph Crehan 54.995 +1.614 

6 HS 110 An Sharicz Focus 55.241 +0.246 

7 HS 11 Bra. Horrace Focus 56.353 +1.112 

8 HS 22 Rich. Currey Matrix 57.857 +1.504 

Road Tire RWD 

1 BS 36 Josh Brockman Honda 50.972 

2 FS 63 Stephen Tise Ford 51.213 +0.241 

3 BS 24 Carolyn Green Solstice 53.971 +2.758 

4 CS 7 Jeremiah Mason 370z 54.815 +0.844 

5 ES 37 Ro.. Woodsom Miata 54.968 +0.153 

6 ES 137 Jeff Arsenault Miata 55.478 +0.510 

7 CS 14 Justin Vogel Subaru 57.554 +2.076 

8 BS 6 Marcel Baur S2000 59.084 +1.530 

9 FS 66 can. sutherland Mustang 60.642 +1.558 

10 FS 166 Bruce Benoit Mustang 66.478 +5.836 

Road Tire AWD 

1T DS 90 Daniel Podolski Volks 53.580 

2 GS 69 Clifton Kangas Subaru 54.132 +0.552 

3 DS 71 Tristan deBarros Subaru 54.924 +0.792 

4 GS 19 Bill Cioni Subaru 55.089 +0.165 

Novice 

1 ES 17 Nik Finn Miata 53.423 

2 CS 86 Joe Ferreira Subaru 55.366 +1.943 

3 CS 41 Joshua Homen Scion FR-S 56.108 +0.742 

4T HS 24 Craig Clark Subaru 56.110 +0.002 

5 CS 48 Alan Salnikov Scion FR-S 56.968 +0.858 

6 DS 9 Kam.Vasudevan Subaru 58.538 +1.570 

7 STX 26 Alexander Grillo Civic Si 59.290 +0.752 

8 CS 3 Hung Tran 350Z 59.628 +0.338 

9 GS 2 Erek Cook Subaru 59.659 +0.031 

10 BSP 13 David Marchione 350Z 60.196 +0.537 

11 DSP 44 Kevin Flanagan 240SX 60.972 +0.776 

12 SM 49 Brian Lohnes Caprice 61.894 +0.922 

13 HS 71 Sven Karlson Civic Si 62.710 +0.816 

14 ASP 3 jerome antique Subaru 64.807 +2.097 

15 CS 91 Stephen Wong Scion 67.321 +2.514 

16 ESP 7 Bill Morton Porsche 74.023 +6.702 

PJ Corrales does a little wing adjustment on his 

240sx. Photos: Eddie Savage 


“Cinco de Mayo” 

—continued from the previous page 

paxing overall in tenth. Bud Collins led the 

5-driver CS field on a Pontiac Solstice powered 

57.223. Bud also earned eighth in Pax, 

converted to a 47.724. He and Tim Kong were 

the 2 drivers in the Pax Top Ten not competing 

in the Pro ranks. 

Wiley Cox won DS on a MINI S run of 

59.650, and Sam Creasey won GS on a CRX 

powered 62.238. H-Stock saw 3 drivers, with 

Paul “PZ” Zahornasky in his Mazda 3 getting 

the best of Charlie Thompson and the MINI 

today, 60.703 to 61.021. Mathieu Bruneaux 

in the Saturn Aura was third. Single entry 

classes included FS, XP, FP, STC and STS for the 

event. 

ASP went to Matt Mickle (Subaru STi - 56.083), 

CSP to Rob MacAlpine (Miata - 58.063), DSP 

to Nathan Draper (BMW 330ci - 61.686) and 

ESP to Thomas Powderly in his Shelby Mustang 

GT on a 61.914. CP was a 3 car field, with 

Phil Mackaronis in the Chevy Camaro taking a 

last run 59.851. Arnold Beebe in his Mustang, 

forever sporting the 4 “most honkin’ tires you 

will ever see sticking outside of a fender-well” 

was second, with Nick Murphy, also Mustang 

powered, third. 

EP was taken by Brian Levesque in his Honda 

CRX with a 56.463, leading the 4 driver field. 

The noteworthy item was Daryl Beck and Jason 

Fair, teaming up and introducing yet a different 

vintage Volkswagen that has been added to 

their collection. This, a not too common Jetta, 

was sporting a light tan color reminiscent of 

egg shells and had its suspension cobbled 

together in the wee hours of the night before. 

I will venture that if you know of an old Jetta, 

especially in GTi or diesel attire, that needs a 

good home, see those two guys as they may 

have an interest...“Look Daryl, PARTS CAR!”” 

4 drivers took to the course in A-Mod, led 

by Bill Gendron in the CK Dragon, now with 

100% functional pedal cables. Bill ran a 

48.896, topping Bill Goodale, Stacey Strout 

and Bob Barone. Bill was also Fast Time of the 

Day. Charlie Levesque’s vintage B-Mod was on 

hand, with Dean and Greg Van De Carr now 

at the helm. Greg ran a best 54.747 in the 

Winkelman. 

Street Touring had some decent action across 

the ranks. James Daugherty took the 3-car 

STF class on a last run 66.049 in the Mazda 

Demio, regulating Chris Brooks to second, 

who couldn’t improve on a third run 66.5. Don 

Kuehl took STR in the Miata with a 61.720, 

sharing the seat with co-driver Joanne Ago. STX 

had 8 drivers and Jeff Anderson again took top 

honors with a Mazda RX-8 pass of 57.847 on 

his third and only clean shot of the day. Codriver 

David Thomas was 0.329 back with a 

58.206. 

Bryan Mancuso cleanly took STU, and I say 

cleanly in that it was his only clean (and last) 

run of the day. SM (Street Mod) went to a 

Subaru STi and Bill Haley, running a 64.286 

best over the 3–driver class. Dan Durusky and 

the VW GTi had 2 seconds on the 3-car SMF 

field with a third run pass of 62.768. 

SSM was 9 drivers deep, and saw Jenna 

Corrales use Panda-power to steer the Nissan 

240SX to a 57.580, although she almost had 

the class from her second run of a 58.8. Matt 

Nieman in the Miata was second with a last 

run blast of 58.613, and David Olivera in the 

Lotus Elise, third on a 59.384. Shout-out to 

Mitsubishi Evo driver Eduard Gukasov, simply 

because his name is spelled ‘Eduard’. 

In the karting classes, Adult Kart had Sarah 

Bowin as a single entry, going 54.350 on 

her fourth run. Formula Junior A (FJA) had 4 

entries, led by Evan Woodsom with a second 

run 64.776. Jessica Arsenault was second 

(70.610), Adam Woodsom third (71.554) 

and Jacob Arsenault, fourth (80.764). FJB was 

Kimsoo Gopnik, placing a 63.438 on her last 

pass. 

In Pax-based classes, RTF’s Patrick Huxley 

handily drove his Honda Civic to a 62.245 

in the 8-driver field, paxing to a 50.045. RTR 

went to Josh Brockman, using Honda S2000 

power to run a 60.323 / 50.972 over 9 

other drivers. Stephen Tise was second in the 

Mustang Shelby GT (61.703 / 51.213). RTA 

was 4 entries, and saw Daniel Podolski take his 

Volkswagen R32 to a last run 64.867, with a 

pax of 53.580. 

Pro had 13 entries, and notably absent was 

Nick Barbato, who was poolside at some 

Mediterranean resort, sipping Campari & soda, 

strenuously practicing for an Aston Martin drive 

at a race-track. Ah, tough job, but someone has 

to do it…Pro seemed to share more cone calls 

and DNF’s than normal this event: 42 cones 

and 4 “excursions” of sorts, with Billy Davis 

“...and, and this cone ... it just jumped right out in front 

of me...” . Greg Van DeCar seems to express the what 

gives moment about cone snagging. Photos: Eddie Savage 

22 PIT TALK

and Scott Thursby the only “Mr. Clean” pro drivers all day. Billy took the CSP Mazda Miata to 

a fourth run 53.898, Paxed to a 46.406. Ben Wagstaff was second, also Miata powered but 

in STS, on a fourth run 56.179 (46.572), just 0.166 off. 

Credit goes to Nick who later mentioned on the NER forums that he spotted Ben’s sponsor 

slogan of the event: “Its easier to staple Jello to a tree than win PRO w/ STS PAX!” I’d have 

spotted Ben a tenth of a second for the quality of that ditty, but sorry Ben, you’d still have 

wound up in Second Place. Third in Pro went to PJ Corrales (54.026 / 46.840), fourth to 

Scott Thursby, and fifth to Todd Kean. Both Todd and JoJo Corrales, now JoJo Corrales-Kean, 

proudly sported a “Just Married” decal on the back of JoJo’s MINI, so congratulations to both 

of you! 

Novice notez of the day have Nik Finn taking the top Rookie of the event with a Mazda 

Miata. Nick went 64.521, paxed to a 53.423, almost 2 seconds on pax over Joe Ferreira 

in the Subaru BRZ. Joe wheeled the CS-classed BRZ to a 66.387, on a pax of 55.366. Scion 

FR-S powered Joshua Homen to third (67.276 / 56.108), a Subaru legacy took Craig Clark 

to fourth (69.789 / 56.110), and Alan Salnikov used another FR-S to run 68.307 / 56.968. 

Starter Bud Collins and Arnold Beebe in his c-prepared bigtired 

mustang. 

The “Hmmm, I should re-think that approach” to rookie Kevin Flanagan in the Nissan 240SX, 

who did a really hot spin coming into the finish, having a few cones wedge and take away 

a corner of his fiberglass front air-damn as a sort of pay-back. I thought I heard him say 

afterwards: “Awww, it was loose anyway”. One can wonder if that meant the car or the 

panel. Kevin ran a best 71.313. 

Honorable mention goes to rookie Brian Lohnes, driving his 1987 Chevy Caprice with SM 

classification. Brian wheeled his full size sedan to a respectable 71.389 (pax of 61.894). 

Brian has the distinction of being able to say: “I can put 3 Miata’s in my trunk and still have 

room to spare.” 

Novice cone calls were but 26 or so (not too bad), but there were 17 DNF’s, so there is a bit 

of work that some of you need to “focus on”. Remember, we have instructors; USE them. Of 

note in Novice was how many instructors “really needed” to instruct driver Bill Morton, as Bill 

drive in with his Mahogany Porsche Panamera 4. C’mon, you know who you are, so‘fess 

up…Bill ended the day with a best of 85.189 plus 1, and earned his first cone-kill stripe for 

the sports sedan. 

Don’ t underestimate this big ol’ Caprice... remember how 

many used to be on the road with State Trooper markings. 

They knew something that Brian Lohnes knows... its a real 

Q-ship.. 

We all may ponder and sometimes think of our autocrossing friends as living some sort of 

common, day-to-day existence of a regular persons life, much like our very own. Maybe 

some do, maybe some don’t. For me, I’m no one special in the grand scheme of things. But 

sometimes an individual gets handed, or thrust into, a situation where your character gets a 

surprise exam by the Great Architect above, your backbone gets tasked to a breaking point, 

or your very human skills are tested to an extra-ordinary limit. 

That happened to Josh Parker back on May 1 st , when he and 2 of his co-workers, David 

Sampson and Jose Palacoios, simply doing their day-to-day job working on a driveway in 

Nashua, New Hampshire, heard a crash from around the corner. They had the sense to take 

a look. Seeing a minivan around a tree, a fire starting beneath it, they also saw and heard a 

woman trapped inside. 

Noubar Tebelekian competes in SSM in his 86’ BMW 325. 

In the Buckaroo Banzai movie, there was a line: “Character is what you are in the dark” 

(originally excerpted from American evangelist, Dwight Moody from the mid-1800’s), but 

character is also what you are in the day. The 3 men did something that showed what 

“character” really means: they ran toward the wreck and helped, pulling the woman to safety. 

On May 17 th , the Nashua Fire Department honored Josh, David and Jose with their 

departments annual “Citizen Life Saving Award”. I don’t think I need to say anything else, 

except, “Well done.” 

And with that, I’ll close out for event #2 with a quick question: What do you get when you 

mix Cinco de Mayo and Subaru anti-freeze Answer: You get your mess mentioned in Pit 

Talk! Soooo, drivers, always check your fluid levels, radiators, connections and thermostats, 

or you too, will be an inductee into the NER Solo “kitty-litter klub”… 

Be seeing you! 

Chris Fizgerald in his DSP Volvo. Photos: Ed Savage 


2013 Calendar 

RACE 

August 10 & 11 NHMS RAL, triple NERRC regional* 

September 7 & 8 NHMS Cheap Date, triple NERRC regional* 

*Double sanction 

** Single sanction 

RALLY-X 

August 11 RAL, NH 

November 3 Covered Bridge Mt Snow, VT 

December 7 Wolf Chase Proctorsville, VT 

RALLY 

July 20 Mass Challenge MA 

August 3 Hurdle Southington, CT 

August 10 RAL Loudon, NH 

November 2 Covered Bridge Mount Snow, VT 

SOLO 

Sat. July 20 TireRack SCCA Devens Match Tour 

(Points Event #5) Day 1 Devens Complex, Ayer, MA 

Sun. July 21 TireRack SCCA Devens Match Tour Day 2 

Devens Complex, Ayer, MA 

Sat. August 10 RAL-Jeff Gordon Challenge NHMS, Loudon, NH 

Sun. August 11 Points Event #6 

“Racing Against Leukemia” NHMS, Loudon, NH 

Sat. August 17 Points Event #7 “Scorched Orange” 


Sun. Sept 15 Points Event #8 “Attack of the Cones” 


Sun. Sept 29 Points Event #9 “Finale” and Stirling Moss Runoffs 


Sun. Oct 10 Non-Points “Always Fun Team Challenge” 


Schedules may change, Check the website for changes, updates or 

additions (and registrations) to the NER calendar: www.ner.org 

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T.a.H.-dah! 

—continued from page 6 

the wheel turned to the left, the string is 

pulled up taut from its neutral position 

and won’t stretch, keeping you from 

depressing the gas pedal. To do so, you 

need to smoothly release some of that 

steering input so you can push the pedal 

(and pull the string) downward. Likewise, 

you’ll need to give up some force at the 

gas or brake pedal to pull the string up 

with some steering. Stretching or snapping 

the string would be the same as bounding 

outside the friction circle. 

By the time we’ve finished the corner at 

the track-out point, we’re back to straightline 

driving and at full throttle, though 

most likely not at 2g (there aren’t really 

cars capable of that). The reality is most 

sports cars’ abilities map out to a “friction 

egg”, with stellar braking, great steering, 

and good acceleration capabilities. Still, 

it’s a shape with a nice smooth profile, 

and one that must be respected at the high 

speed limits. 

As with anything in the world of racing, 

a few paragraphs here won’t go deep 

enough into the theory. But also, as with 

anything in the world itself, practice and 

rehearsal will help keep concepts like 

these at the forefront of your focus, while 

not causing you to overthink every move. 

This is a good thing, because we’re surely 

close to the next corner by this point! Tell 

yourself at every turn-in; “Don’t tread too 

far outside that circle…” “ 

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New England Region, Sports Car Club of America, Inc., 

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes — April 10, 2013 

The Board of Directors met at the Hampton 

Inn Auburn, 736 Southbridge Street, 

Auburn, MA. 

Present were Regional Executive Paul 

Zahornasky, Assistant Regional Executive 

Brian Mushnick, and Directors,Trevor 

Hermance, Bill Gendron, Elizabeth 

Winiarz, Chris Regan,.Sterling Cole, Doug 

Fisher, Doug Myers,,and Wiley Cox. Also 

in attendance were Area One Director Dick 

Patullo, Jessie Honigs, Eric Heinrich, Solo 

Chairperson Bob Davis, Marc Monnar, Paul 

Krysiak, and Jerry Rigoli. 

These minutes may not be in chronological 

order. 

The meeting was called to order by Paul 

Zahornasky at 7:30 PM. 

After review by Directors, a motion was 

made to accept the minutes of the February 

12th,2013 meeting. (Fisher/Gendron) 

PASSED 

Attendees of the NeDiv Roundtable meeting 

gave a summary of the events there. 

Dates for the remainder of the board 

meetings before the next annual meeting 

were set. The dates are as follows: 

Second Wednesday night of each month 

excepting July, 7:30 PM, Auburn 

There was further debriefing on 

the National Convention and the 

communications and program improvements 

explained there by SCCA staff. 

Lou Gingerella is working on the 2012 tax 

filing. He may need a replacement in the 

foreseeable future as his personal business 

has greatly increased. 

Paul Zahornasky will be getting a job 

description from him so that a new person 

can be sought. 

A discussion took place on whether 

any bookkeeping activity should be 

compensated for the sake of securing a 

person who would be more permanent. 

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Club Racing’s contracts are progressing; 

NHMS signed, LRP waiting after first event. 

Season opener pre-registration has 

been sluggish. Supply trailer inventories 

have been checked. Flagging and 

Communications held a pre-season meeting. 

RallyCross had some successful events (Slip 

& Slide, Test & Tune). Frost Heaves Road 

Rally went well. 

Registering the new truck has been a 

headache (Insurance, Registration to 

inactive [in NH] organization listing). 

Solo had their first event this past weekend. 

There continues to be a struggle to a void 

binding up the event with large numbers 

of entries (especially novices) vs. a desired 

minimum number of runs. 

Membership at the beginning of March was 

2212; it is currently 2246. A motion was 

made to transfer $67 from the General/ 

Marketing account to Merchandise for the 

production of key members’ business cards. 

(Fisher/Myers ) PASSED 

Trevor Hermance provided an update on 

the promotional activities performed at 

regional racing and car shows, including 

two in the Springfield, MA area. As Paul 

Zahornasky’s efforts in this area will 

somewhat be diverted to his work as R.E., 

the board was reminded to watch for 

members who would be great ambassadors 

for NER and would be able to contribute 

time to publicity and marketing for/of our 

club and its events. 

A motion was made to accept the program 

reports as delivered (Regan/Gendron) 

PASSED 

Palmer Motorsports Park’s latest permitting 

(for an altered entranceway) has been 

completed by Fred Ferguson and his 

associates. 

There was a discussion on finishing website 

improvements paid for in 2011. Full implementation 

has not occurred, perhaps 

due to the volunteer nature of the site’s 

administration. A new web host was 

recommended so that a new consultant 

can be hired to better serve our region’s 

officials, members and participants/ 

customers. 

Google Apps enterprise was suggested 

for region e-mail accounts, etc. The board 

anticipates having cost estimates at the next 

meeting to guide in decision-making. 

Fairfield County Sports Car Club desires 

a Street Survival-type curriculum. It was 

proposed that we get involved to hold a 

program together (in Stratford, CT, perhaps 

late 2013). 

The board authorized Bill Gendron to 

pursue this project and he will work out a 

budget to present at the next meeting. 

Board members’ goals for the season 

were discussed. Sterling Cole will work to 

coordinate website and communications 

improvements. Trevor Hermance and Doug 

Myers are collaborating on the PDX/Time 

Trials program startup and will have a 

proposed budget and event layout at the 

next meeting for execution at the June Lime 

Rock event. 

Brian Mushnick will work to develop 

comprehensive plans for “cohesive 

communication” among and between our 

programs, and directors familiar with the 

Club Racing program will identify and 

promote an eventual successor to Club 

Racing chairperson Jerry Rigoli who wishes 

to step down after years of service. 

A motion was made at 9:50 to begin an 

executive session amongst the Directors, 

then not to return to open meeting (Cole/ 

Fisher) PASSED 

Respectfully submitted, 

Trevor Alexander Hermance, Secretary 

Next meeting will be held on Wednesday, 

May 8, 2013 at the Hampton Inn Auburn, 

Auburn, MA at 7:30 PM.

Triple Play Regional Results 

—continued from page 15 

17 18 SSM 2 Dave Valliere 15 1:00.95 5.392 1:19.753 Miata 

18 08 STL 6 Jeff Wasilko 15 1:01.79 0.840 1:19.923 Miata 

19 4 STL 7 Donald Barron 15 1:06.13 4.346 1:19.849 Miata 

20 44 STL 8 Clinton Chichester 15 1:09.00 2.868 1:20.459 Miata 

21 88 SM2 7 Daniel Meade 15 1:15.14 6.135 1:19.668 Miata 

22 77 SSM 3 Paul Perry 14 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:22.552 Miata 

23 75 SSM 4 Wayne Dyer 14 1 Lap 0.846 1:22.089 Miata 

24 17 SM2 8 Tom Masiero 14 1 Lap 2.829 1:21.805 Miata 

5 71 SM2 9 David Pettigrew 14 1 Lap 8.751 1:22.645 Miata 

26 12 SM2 10 Kevin Stromski 14 1 Lap 0.781 1:23.232 Miata 

27 79 SM2 11 Andrzej Wegrzyn 14 1 Lap 7.170 1:23.644 Miata 


Results of Grp 5. SRF SPU 

1 12 SRF 1 Steve Introne 15 1:15.162 SRF 



4 0 SRF 4 James Regan 15 15.971 6.887 1:14.935 SRF 

5 35 SRF 5 Richard Wiehl 15 18.833 2.862 1:16.150 SRF 

6 66 SRF 6 Bill Watts 15 19.327 0.494 1:15.638 SRF 


8 5 SRF 8 Mark Saviet 15 1:09.90 37.689 1:18.914 SRF 

9 31 SRF 9 Leslie Kurz 15 1:17.89 7.991 1:19.513 SRF 

10 2 SRF 10 Edward Sanders 15 1:18.52 0.628 1:19.634 SRF 

11 89 SRF 11 Andrew Bairley 13 2 Laps 2 Laps 1:25.653 SRF 

12 13 SRF 12 Carl Warren 15 32.212 11.655 1:16.630 SRF 

Results of Grp 6. SM SM5 T3 Bspec 





5 14 SM 5 Jonathan Goring 15 14.002 0.873 1:16.913 Miata 

6 04 SM 6 John Mason 15 18.787 4.785 1:17.586 Miata 

7 05 SM 7 Dwayne Bennett 15 22.108 3.321 1:18.095 Miata 

8 07 SM 8 Kenneth Burtt 15 22.275 0.167 1:17.834 Miata 

9 5 SM 9 Keith Hammitte 15 22.861 0.586 1:17.730 Miata 


11 33 SM 11 Steven Berry 15 34.867 11.638 1:18.457 Miata 

12 06 SM 12 Jeff Longo 15 38.141 3.274 1:18.842 Miata 

13 12 SM 13 Jerry Rigoli 15 43.264 5.123 1:18.928 Miata 

14 44 SM 14 Clinton Chichester 15 57.525 14.261 1:19.392 Miata 

15 66 SM 15 James Santa Maria 15 57.962 0.437 1:19.942 Miata 

16 49 SM 16 Paul Broomhead 14 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:22.081 Miata 

17 79 SM 17 Andrzej Wegrzyn 14 1 Lap 15.074 1:22.407 Miata 

DNF9 SM Jesse Schmidt 4 10 Laps 1:20.087 Miata 

DNS 00 SM Russell Gee Miata 

Results of Grp 7. GT1 GT2 GT3 AS ITE T1 T2 SPO 

1 18 T1 1 Dave Maynard 15 19:54.328 1:11.152 BMW 

2 80 GT2 1 Maurizio Cerasoli 15 17.644 17.644 1:12.488 Porsche 

3 60 ITE 1 Ephraim Dobbins 15 21.444 3.800 1:12.398 Porsche 

4 16 ITE 2 Matthew Rooke 15 53.986 32.542 1:15.747 BMW 

5 28 ITE 3 James B. Ray III 15 54.713 0.727 1:15.154 BMW 

6 15 GT2 2 DouglMcCormack 15 1:13.14 18.428 1:17.471 240Z 

7 17 AS 1 Mark Wheaton 14 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:17.427 Mustang 

8 2 AS 2 Shaun Griffi n 14 1 Lap 0.284 1:18.166 GTO 

Results of Grp 8. ITB ITR ITS T4 

1 6 ITR 1 Matthew Rooke 15 1:15.353 BMW 

2 4 ITS 1 Glenn Lawton 15 1.077 1.077 1:15.089 RX-7 

3 43 ITS 2 Nick Leverone 15 .534 1.457 1:15.370 Miata- 

4 3 ITR 2 Ann Lam.Hammitte 15 11.834 9.300 1:15.961 BMW M3 


6 6 ITS 4 Rob Sturgis 15 46.282 4.018 Miata 

7 2 ITB 1 Nat Wentworth 15 53.111 6.829 1:18.595 Volvo 142 

8 30 ITB 2 Travis Washay 15 1:03.08 9.972 1:19.33 Golf 


12 86 ITB 5 Tim Mullen 15 1:18.42 6.373 1:19.944 Golf 

13 17 ITB 6 Jason Benagh 15 1:18.474 0.045 1:19.742 Golf 

14 08 ITB 7 Matthew Mullen 14 1 Lap 1 Lap 1:21.274 Audi 


16 39 ITB 9 David Celani 14 1 Lap 27.452 1:24.941 Golf 

DNF99 ITR Geoff Branscombe 4 10 Laps 1:18.245 Acura 

Dan Shephard’s IT7 Mazda does a fair imitation of an evening fire pit. Later 

reported as not too much damage, a few electrical lines etc. Photo: Yusuf Abudi 

Douglas McCormack’s very neat, classic GT-2 Datsun 240Z. Photo: Yusuf Abudi 


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