Home Scale Results Menu      Scale Round 5 Race Report  Race Results Tech Sheets Photo Gallery
Scale R5 Green Flag Raceway Hesperia May 17th 2003 

 SoCal USRA Scale Race #5 Green Flag Raceway, Hesperia Calif. May 17. 2003

After being off the SoCal USRA scale schedule for two years Green Flag Raceway, run by the City of Hesperia California’s Parks and Recreation department returned and put on a great show on their 135’ Hasse Kingelman.

Over the two years Green Flag was missing from the schedule they have moved, dropped the old King track and added an original American Orange, complete with esses and the famous bumps in the straight. SoCal will most likely never race on the Orange but it sure brings back memories to those of us who cut our teeth running our first races on those fun but challenging old tracks.

Amateur 4” Nascar kicked off the racing and Uncle Kal’s Fast Kid Colin Herzig looked too fast as he came in on the red lane in the second heat scoring an awesome 41 laps. Arizona’s Jerry Johnson looked fast as well, but was turning 1 lap less per heat than Colin. Daniel Hudson, Phil Phillips and Tim Peck all gave chase but Colin and Jerry were heading off into the sunset to race between themselves for the win. After the halfway point in the 15 car round robin Jerry Johnson got it going and began to pull Colin. Jerry ran 42 laps in both his last heats to have two in hand over Colin at the end. Daniel Hudson claimed third with Phil Phillips fourth, Tim Peck fifth, Alex Freund sixth, Paul Abbey seventh, Jimmy Ross eighth. Big Brian, Wayne Shaw, TJ Albu, Earl Wilson, Jody Freund, Tim Hould and Mike Hudson Sr rounded out the field.

Expert 4” Nascar drew a full field and Old Nascar hand, BP’s Gil Rivera along with Chris Radisich both turned 41 lap first heats to tie for the lead after one. Duran and Mike Hudson both turned 40 lap first heats to tie for third. As the race wore on Duran got past Gil and began working on Radisich as Duran tied Chris’s high heat at 43.  Radisich continued to motor as Duran chased but it was clear that Duran’s charge was a little late and Radisich won by two, Duran second, Gil Rivera third, Steve Forsyth forth, Paul Sterrett fifth, and followed by Mike Hudson, Jonathan Forsyth and Roy Hood.

An even dozen Amateur 4.5” Nascars took to the track with Robert Stubbs taking another well deserved concourse prize in the Slixx Decal challenge. In the race Jerry Johnson. Phil Phillips and Tim Peck took off in the lead with Jerry again looking like the guy to beat. Strong, consistent heats on red, green, blue and purple put “Uncle” Phil Phillips in striking position and a solid 35 lap final heat on black gave Phil a one lap win over Tim Peck with Jerry Johnson third four back.  Jimmy Ross was one behind Jerry for fourth and was followed by Jody Freund, Andrew Ross, Paul Abbey, Mike Hudson Sr, Alex Freund, Robert “Concourse” Stubbs, Bob Abbey, and Daniel Hudson who was in the hunt early but broke and dropped out after three.

Expert 4.5 Nascar was pretty much all Duran Trujillo as he produced a 4.5 inch car as fast as any of the expert 4” cars and proceeded to run away with the race. Paul Sterrett and Gil Rivera were fast as well but Duran had a good two tenths on the field so, barring any misfortune, the race was for second. Sterrett won that race for second by two over Gil Rivera as Duran ran off to a twenty lap win. Radisich was fourth, three behind Gil with Jonathan Forsyth fifth, Mike Hudson sixth and Steve Forsyth seventh.

After the lunch break Amateur GT-1 got underway with 15 racers entered.  Jimmy Ross held the early lead with Phil Phillips right behind until Jerry Johnson and Daniel Hudson came in  and started going really fast. Jerry ran the races only 46 lap heats, on green and blue to take the 5 lap win over Daniel. Jimmy Ross was third, Phil Phillips fourth, Colin Herzig fifth four ahead of Adam Shaw in sixth. Tim Hould and TJ Albu filled out the top eight.

Expert GT-1 featured a dozen of the Contender/Sportsman powered Prototypes. Duran and Chris Radisich looked like the guys to beat with Alan Ohren a challenger as well. Chris held Duran off by one or two laps for the entire race as Alan chased them. In the end it was Chris by two with Duran second three ahead of Alan Ohren. Roy Hood was eleven more back in fourth with Mike Hudson fifth, Steve Forsyth sixth, Jonathan Forsyth seventh, Gil Rivera eighth and followed by Paul Sterrett, Chuck Panno. John Torre Anderson and Ventura’s Jason Stone.

Amateur GT-12 drew a healthy eleven cars Jerry Johnson and Colin Herzig again putting on a show battling for the win. Phil Phillips, Big Brian and TJ Albu chased but Colin and Jerry were in a class by them selves and the race was for third. Phil Phillips took third six ahead of Brian with TJ another four back in fifth. Daniel Hudson, Tim Hould and Paul Abbey rounded out the top eight. Earl Wilson was ninth, Alex Freund tenth and Bob Abbey eleventh.

The final and fastest race was Expert GT-12 and Alan Ohren returned to form to smash Casey Scott for the win by four laps.  Roy Hood was third with Radisich fourth. John Torre Anderson finished a strong fifth with Crazy only one back in sixth. Steve Forsyth was seventh with Monty Ohren, Jason Stone, Jonathan Forsyth and Arizona’s Bob Scott rounding out the field.

Thanks to Green Flag Raceway, our SoCal USRA officials and everyone who pitched in to make this race a success!  See you all at Buena Park next month.

    Greg G.