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Uncle Kal's Underground scale races January 20th
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Uncle Kal's Underground
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FRIDAY Sept 21 The weekends racing began with the 1/32 I-32 Plafit GTs. Racers from all up and down the West coast filled the field to 15 of the little hot rods. Old Weird Herald’s Paul Kassens TQed. Steve Forsyth won the A main with Port Angeles Washington’s Dwayne Roberts second and Roy Hood third. Mike Brannian won the B main with Chris Bowman second and slotcar historian Philippe de Lespinay third. PDL also won concourse with a Beta McLaren in Fina livery. 1/24th Plafit GT-1 drew an impressive 18 entries with several racers from Fresno and Santa Maria where Plafit racing is popular. Philippe again took concourse with another fine Beta body. A GT-1 Porsche in Zakkspeed colors. Fred "Crash" Hood TQed on the twisty Korkscrew and won by 7 laps over Seattle’s Lee Gilbert. Roy Hood took third in his second roadcourse event of the day. Jim Langdon, Craig Rieland and Steve Forsyth were 1-2-3 in the B heat. Next up were the Amateur 4.5" Nastrucks. Tim Hould scored a triple with Concourse, TQ and the win after an awesome battle with Bob Johnson. Tim and Bob were on the same lap most of the race until Bob ridered into the wall with 5 seconds to go. Alex Freund took third after a great drive. John and Richard Estopellan were 4th anf 5th. Mike Hudson, Paul Starrett and Steven Bishop Jr rounded out the field. Expert 4.5" Nastruck was another close battle between Roy Hood, Phil Roberson and Gil Rivera. Roy took concourse and Crazy Chuck too TQ. Roy won after a great comeback with Phil winning the battle for second by inches over Gil Rivera. Duran, Chuck, Steve and Ira completed the positions. SATURDAY Sept 22 The first 1/32 Eurosport race in 4 years at the WSC was held on SoCal’s first true "flattrack" and actually outdrew the USRA Nationals with a full field of the little "nightmare" cars. Dwayne Roberts took concourse and Greg G was TQ. Greg lowered the "Korkscrew’’ 1/32 Euro record to 3.537. Fred Hood and Greg G took off in the lead and Greg was soon stretching it out as Lee Gilbert slowly began to reel in Fred. Paul Kassens battled back fromn early problems to take fifth behind Roy Hood. Chris Radisich, Dwayne Roberts and Craig Rieland rounded out the field. Amateur 4" Nascar was next up and required semis to pare things down to 1 main. Uncle Kal’s racer Mike Kidd won concourse. Mike Hudson and Tim Hould took off tied for the lead in the 8 car main with Jonathan Forsyth and Tim Recla swapping in third and fourth. Jonathan got past Mike Hudson for second as Mike edged Tim Recla by segmants for third. Paul Sterrett, "Big John" Estopellan, Uncle Kal and Steven Bishop Jr rounded out the field. Expert 4" started out as a great race between Roy Hood, Duran, Mike Stuart and Steve Forsyth. Duran finally pulled away as Stu took second, Roy third, Steve fourth . Gil Rivera, Ira Stoker, Bill V and Chuck Panno completed the main. Roy Hood took the concourse plaque and Stu was TQ at 4.339. The roadcourse races continued with Pro GT12. Paul Kassens took the concourse plaque and Greg G was TQ with a new record of 3.446 on the tight little track. Greg won with PauK second Chris Radisich third. Steve Forsyth drove Uncle Kal’s car to fourth after a great battle with Chris for third. Dwayne Roberts was fifth, Craig Rieland sixth, Monty Ohren seventh and Fred Hood, who contested for the lead early was a DNF. SUNDAY Sept 23 First up on Sunday morning were the insanely fast 1/24 Euros on the ultra tight "Korkscrew". Alan Ohren came out of retirement to give Greg G a race for the cash in this "Ultimate" scale class. Dwayne Roberts claimed the Concourse plaque as Greg G took another TQ with a new official "Korkscew" record of 2.926. Alan was next fastest at 3.0510. The B heat was a great race between young Jonathan Forsyth in his first Euro race against Craig Rieland. Craig finally put a couple of laps on Jonathan to win the B heat. In the A main Greg G took off in the lead and almost never looked back. Turns out it’s a good thing he did look back as two time USRA National Champ Alan Ohren was only three back going into heat 7. Alan moved past Greg and started the last segment two up. The final heat shootout saw Greg come back and take his second WSC 1/24 Eurosport title by two with Lee Gilbert third, Graig Rieland fourth and Jonathan fifth from the Bs. Steve Forsyth, Roy Hood, Paul Kassens, Dwayne Roberts, Chris Radisich and Fred Hood completed the eleven car field run as two mains. Amateur GT-1 drew a very large field and once again required semis. Greg Noah took concourse. Casey Scott put on a "Pro caliber" performance to lead from wire to wire with Mike Hudson second and TQ with a 3.948 on the orange lane. Paul Sterrett took the last podium position followed by Alex Freund, Jonathan Forsyth, newcomer John Emmons, Chris Radisich and Mike Lewis who led early. Expert GT-1 was a great comeback win by Greg G after Mike Stuart and Roy Hood had led most of the race. Greg spotted Stu and Roy as many as seven laps before remembering how to drive. Stu was not going down easily as Greg and Stu battled for the lead until Mike’s rear axle seized and brought him to a stop. Roy took over second and Stu hung onto third with Gil fourth, Duran fifth, Ira sixth and followed by Steve Forsyth and Bill V. Amateur GT-12 was all Jason Reynolds and Casey Scott. Jason set a blistering pace as Casey chased him in a 14 car round robin. Tim Hould and Jason Holmes tried to keep the pair in sight but in the end it was Jason, Casey. Tim H and Jason Holmes 1-2-3-4 with Jonathan Forsyth fifth, Tim Recla sixth, Mike Kravitz seventh and followed by Earl Wilson, Bill Taylor, Skip Colvin, Chris Radisich, Linn Hammond, Dennis Rios and Sam Rackham. Jason Reynolds was also TQ at 3.507. The final race of the weekend featured SoCal’s fastest production racers in expert GT-12 . Roy Hood, Greg G, Bill V, Monty Ohren and Duran were all lapping under the track record in practice. Greg G took off in the lead with a 50 lap heat on red and at the first break had one on Roy and two on Duran. Duran took advantage of a rough 2nd heat to go three up on Roy and Stu. Roy got as close as 1 lap behind Duran after 5 but Duran held on to win another WSC 1st place with Roy 2nd, Stu 3rd, Monty Ohren fourth and followed by Steve Forsyth, John Tore Anderson, Greg G who salvaged TQ with a 3.4135 on orange. Bill Vanderziel rounded out the 8 car main. Thanks to everyone for making this years WSC scale races a success!!
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