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Santee Slotcar Raceway, Santee, CA, April 5, 2003 

It's April, so we are off to the San Diego suberb of Santee and race number 4 of 2003. This will also be the warmup for the Western States. On arrival we find coffee and donuts in abundance, but more importantly we find a track that has been completely worked over with new braid and the deadman, switchback and lead on reset and a few degrees of banking added.

Spray Glue G-12
There were 14 racers signing up and according to SoCal rules, this would normally mean we would be running semi's. But with most of the racers being Santee local's, they asked for a round robin race and since all were in agreement, the race was changed to make them all happy racers.

It was Joe Chevy and Hector Cuadras quickly seperating themselves from the massed hordes as the balance of the field crashed and bashed itself into oblivion. Joe and Hector swapped the lead 5 times and were tied in one heat, but in the end it was Joe winning by 16 laps over Hector and 36 laps over Chris Radisich. Emo Cuadras, JB Barrnett, Ron Esau, Nick Richardson, Chuck Panno, Terry Sartain, Ken Rodger, Lui Labora, Earl Wilson, Tim Peck and Dave Rodger were the other racers.

Group 12
There was a short field of only 7 racers and it was Jim Swofford (so what else is new?) the fastest qualifier. Joe Chevy and Rick Elting were 2nd and 3rd.

The race started with Jim and Joe swapping the lead back and forth over the first 3 heats. Joe was slow on black in heat 3 and dropped to 3rd behind Jason Holmes. Jim went for a new motor after 4 and the new motor hung up a motor brush leaving Jim with a 33 on blue. Jason made good his return to the fold by holding off Joe to win by 6 laps. Dale Garcia took the last podium spot with Rick Elting, Chris Radisich, Art Richardson and Jim Swofford taking the lesser spots.

One Motor Open
We had a full field of 8 racers for this event and it was Joe Chevy and Al Chuck leading the first 2 heats. Forrest Watchers took over in the 3rd heat and never looked back. Phil Larcom ran in 2nd place for the first 7 heats but fell back in the last heat running on the black lane and letting Pat Ularte into 2nd at the end. Phil managed to take the last podium spot with Joe Chevy, Al Chuck, Rick Elting, Jim Swofford and Jason Chudakowski making his first SoCal start since moving to our area from the East coast about a year ago.

Group 7
Al Chuck was the fast qualifier with a lap of 1.66. Jim Swofford led the first 2 heats with Forrest running the bottom gutters. For heat 3 Jim moved to purple and Forrest moved to yellow and into the lead. Al Chuck and Phil Larcom then moved to 2nd and 3rd. In the end it was Forrest, Al, Phil, Jason C and Jim.