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Santee Model Car
Raceway, Santee, CA, Sept, 14 2002
Spray Glue G-12
We had
11 racers sign up and it was straight to the round robin main event.
The early leader on the average was “Big” Brian followed by Santee
regular Hector Cuadras, Casey Scott and Monty Ohren. Brian went
to the sitouts after 2 and Evan McKee was the first in and was quickly
on the pace. JB Barnett was last in and after a weak red, was really
making the laps in the middle lanes moving into the lead. Evan wrecked
and Jimmy could not maintain the pace. Brian was back in for heat
7 and took up the chase, running down JB to move into the lead in
heat 9. Black lane would be his undoing. A deslot and “T-bone on
the back straight and the call of “motors out” put an end to Brian’s
chances. Casey moved to the front and held on the lead with Joe
Chevy and JB in 2nd and 3rd. Earl Wilson took 4th ahead of Monty,
David Aikens, Brian Johnson, Hector Cuadras, David Rogers, Nick
Richardson, Evan McKee and Bob Johannis.
Group-12
We were able to
get a full field of 8 and it was the 2002 Spec 15 Nats Champion,
Joe Chevy with the fast time. Jason came to this race needing to
finish ahead of Pat Ularte to help his points chase. Jason came
loaded for bear and was on cruise control and leading by more than
20 laps after 5 heats. But just like the leader of the spray glue
race, Jason would lose his motor not once but twice. “Front row”
Joe would blast through to the lead ahead of Pat. At the finish
it was Joe Chevy, Pat and Jason as your podium. David Aikens and
Brian Johnson waged an outstanding battle for the 4th and 5th places
by running 61 (perfect heat) and 60 laps respectively in the last
heat. These were the only 60 lap heats in the race. Dale Garcia,
Bill Taylor and Art Richardson were the also rans.
One Motor Open
Or, the
case of Pat and the missing magnet. Forrest Watchers was the leader
after 2 heats but then the evil black lane reached out and kicked
him in the guide flag causing him to drop more than 40 laps to Joe
Chevy. Joe had his own problems on the red lane in the next heat
and dropped to 3rd behind Pat Ularte. In the 5th heat all the racers
got together (CRASH!!!) and decided to have Pat experiment with
a new magnet configuration that I call V6 version 3.1. That’s 3
in the front and 1 in the back. (That motor will be going back to
Buef) And here comes Forrest. At one time he was more 40 laps out
of the lead, but he just kept working at it lopping big chunks out
of Pats lead every heat and finally running a 110 lap final heat
on green. And, as an oh by the way, Forrest ran a 2.022 for the
fast lap of the race doing it. This was more than a tenth faster
than the next best lap. Unfortunately Pat was just a bit to far
ahead of Forrest going into that final heat. Score it Pat, Forrest
and Mickey Johnson for the podium. Phil Larcom, Joe Chevy, Jason
Holmes, Monty Ohren and Brian Johnson were the other racers.
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