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2005 Wing Round 1 - Jan 8th - Santee Raceway

Santee Raceway Santee, CA Jan 8, 2005

For the first race of the year it was down the freeway to Dave Rodgers excellent and challenging King Cobra.

Spray Glue G-12
For the first race of the new year we get 12 entries.

Jonathon Forsyth started on orange was the early leader. Last years winner Brian Dalperdang made his appearance on the track in heat 4 and led on the average for the next 2 heats. However a bad run on the blue lane dropped him back into second behind Jonathon. Tim Peck had started on black and had dropped several laps to the leaders. He started to make laps up and after he ran the red lane, Tim made his first appearance on the leader board. Jonathon continued to lead until heat 10 when he moved to yellow. Jonathon dropped 10 laps to both Brian and Tim in that heat and dropped to 3rd on the average. Brian would finish after heat 11 and would be forced to watch as both Tim and Jonathon took their last shots at him in the 12th and final heat. They both came up short and Brian took his 2nd consecutive spray glue victory on his home track. Tim had to settle for 2nd only one lap behind Brian. Jonathon took 3rd  11 laps down. Eric Duggie, Earl Wilson, Kenny Rodger, Paul Sterrett, Steve Forsyth, JB Barnett, Nick Richardson, Scotty Johnson and Adam Kirchhoffer took up the other placings.

G-12
After we got the track glued up we got 9 racers to turn cars into tech inspection.

Bill Taylor started fast and led by more than 3 laps on the average after 4 heats. Unfortunately Bill could not negotiate the dead man on black and dropped 16 laps putting him behind Mickey Johnston and into 2nd. Mickey continued to lead and in heat 7, Bill Pinkston ran a race high 62 and also moved past Bill. Mickey continued to lead and was only 5 laps ahead of Pinkston going into the final heat. Pinkston made up 3 of them giving Mickey a well-earned 2-lap victory. Pinkston took 2nd with Bill Taylor taking the final podium spot. Rick Elting, Steve Forsyth, Dale Garcia, Art Richardson, Adam Kirchhoffer and Jonathon Forsyth were there other racers.

One Motor Open
We looked at the growth of this class and it was decided to split it into 2 groups, calling them Pro and Semi Pro. The SoCal technical committee met and set all the racers into the appropriate categories for the year.

At this race there was only 8 total entries, 4 in each class, so we ran them as one race. I will write the race report as 2 separate races.

Semi Pro
Bryan Struck and Josh Bauer battled each other swapping the lead back and forth several times with Bryan “don’t call me Brian” Struck taking the win ticket ahead of Josh. Rick Elting and Bill Taylor were out early.

Pro
John Tore Anderson took the early lead with Forrest moving past him in heat 3 with a race high 111 lap heat on orange. Tore moved back into the lead after 4 with Forrest dropping to 3rd behind Gil Gunderson. Gil stayed within shouting distance of Tore and ready to make a challenge if the opportunity presented itself. It didn’t and Tore took the win ticket ahead of Gil with Forrest and Robert Park trailing with various car problems.

Track Calls
It was unfortunate that we did not get the turnout that we had anticipated. There was another big storm scheduled for arrival that evening and there was a large number racers who decided not to make the trip.

We had a G-27 race on the schedule but there were no entries. We also had a G-7 race scheduled. But there were only 3 racers for the class and they had all run in the One Motor race, so they decided to call it an early day.