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Uncle Kal’s Underground Raceway Monrovia, CA Feb. 2, 2002

We moved to the northern suburbs of LA County and to Uncle Kal’s Underground Raceway for round 2 of the 2002 schedule. This would be the raceway’s first ever glue race and the first race on a hill climb in many years here in SoCal.

Spray Glue Group 12
We managed to get a full field of 8 racers including several local “scale” racers trying their hands at wing car racing. When the racing got started it was Monty Ohren starting on the white lane leading for the first 3 heats, with local fast guy Casey Scott holding down the 2nd spot. Casey got past Monty in heat 4 and led till the end finishing 12 laps ahead Monty. Lin Hammond got by “Big” Brian Johnson in the 8th heat to take the final podium spot. Earl Wilson, Scott Johnson, Anthony Richardson and Jimmy Barnett were the other finishers.

Group 12
We could only get 7 racers to sign up for the glue race and Jason Holmes was the fastest qualifier.

Pat Ularte was the early leader, but dropped all the way down to 4th place during the 3rd heat when he got involved with other people’s crashes. Monty Ohren took over for one heat and then got his motor knocked out in a crash. Pat continued to make up laps and finally moved back into the lead in heat 7. Pat held his lead and won by 5 over Jason Holmes. Monty would recover from his problems and finished 3rd with Bill Taylor, Lin Hammond, Dale Garcia and Brian Johnson trailing behind.

Cobalt 12
We had a small turnout of only 4 racers for this event with Jason taking the 7 TQ points.

Jason was the early leader and led most of the race to win by 12 laps over Bill Taylor with Phil Larcom and Big Brian in his first cobalt race trailing far behind.

One Motor Open
The race started with Phil Larcom leading the first 2 heats. Group 12 winner Pat Ularte moved into the lead in heat 3 when Phil broke the rear motor mount solder joint. But it was Monty Ohren making the move in heat 5. Monty ran an 80-lap heat to move from 12 laps down to 13 laps up on Pat. Pat continued to fade as he ran the bottom gutters eventually giving way to Tore Anderson. Monty ripped off an 86 lap heat on white to seal his win with Tore holding onto the 2nd spot. Pat managed to save 3rd with Phil Larcom, Brian Johnson and Jason (I bent my chassis) Holmes the other finishers.

Track Calls
Oops: The winner of the spray glue race went 374 laps and the winner of the glue race only went 354 laps.

Steel cars were the order of the day in C-12 with only the winner Jason Holmes daring to use an aluminum car. OK, so the rest of us guessed wrong.

Uncle Kal regular “Big” Brian Johnson made his first wing car starts. Although he had all kinds of problems ranging from inexperience in glue to a blown controller in the one motor race, he really seemed to enjoy himself.

Every time I go to Kal’s I get a flashback to the 60’s and 70’s. The raceway is downstairs under a wine shop and a number of the shops I raced at during that time were downstairs. Places like Closter, Nutley and Elmsford Raceway’s and others, were all down a flight of stairs.