A total of 30 racers joined in on race #8 of the 10
scheduled for the 2012 Fall Sport/Pro league racing series Tuesday Nov. 20.
Racing on Track 1 c/c/w for the qualifiers into the heats and
racing c/w for the mains keeps everybody tuned in to how a simple direction
change can effect karts and driving style.
Same night with 2 track directions and 2 different karts.
The best at this are the drivers that can quickly become one with kart and direction.
In the Sport league we saw evidence of that with overall
points leader Chaz Baca Sr struggle in the qualifier/heat and have to start
from pole in the Sport “B” Main. He did win the “B” and go on to place 5th
for the night and still maintain
his overall points lead going into Race #9.
Group 1 Q/Heat was won by Ariel Rubio with Scott Swayzee less than .5
second off his rear bumper and Craig Moore bringing it home in 3rd.
Scott Swayzee had taken pole for the heat but could not keep Rubio at bay late
in the race. Cele Aragon took pole for the group 2 heat but Erik McCorvey put
together fast laps, got by, but once again a close finish that had 2nd
place less than .5 second away. Frank Dusanek held onto 3rd in that heat.
“B” Main races without incident but the “A” Main had John
Moldt and Austin Corr making contact with Moldt skidding out of control and
leaving fresh rubber marks on the track. Corr was black flagged with a stop and
go penalty. Meanwhile up front, Erik McCorvey takes down another win over Ariel
Rubio and Scott Swayzee finally ends up on the podium with a good run to take 3rd
overall for the night.
The Sport league continues to be a very competitive class
and with 2 races left, the points battle is heating up.
Erik McCorvey…Ariel Rubio…Scott Swayzee…Cele Aragon…Chaz
Baca Sr…Frank Dusanek…Craig Moore…John Moldt…Austin Corr…Matt Veretto…Scott
Reece…Greg Gillum…Mathew Bryant…Dawn Sharp…Jimmy Jo Jannetto…Apo Tsolakis…Ben
Conner.
Pro league racers take to the track and take over where the
Sport league left off. Best of the week times reflect the fast times of the
Sport leaguers but will soon be replaced by the fast times of the Pro leaguers.
Best time, in the Sport class, put down by Erik
McCorvey…22.192. By the end of the Pro league Chaz Baca Jr put down a 21.836
and three others also dipped down into the 21 second per lap arena. Remarkably
all those fast times were set in the Heats.
Kyler Repella was one of them and his time, (21.858) was
good enough to take pole position for the Pro league “A” Main. What? No Baca on
pole? Someone get me some smelling salts!
Cody Gutierrez starts from pole position in the Pro “B”
Main, wins it handily when Keith Sears is first passed by Jason Burstein, Sears
gets the position back and then is T-boned
by Burstein. Burstein was black flagged and decided to park it for the
night. Keith had good reason to be upset as he was running 2nd at
the time of contact and finished 5th in the “B” Main or 11th
overall for the night. Gutierrez now gets to start from the back of the pack in
the Pro league “A” Main. Soon after the start of the race it becomes 2 races. A
group of 3 led by Kyler Repella and a group of 4 led by Chris Wynne. Repella
loses the spot to Josh Lambeth who loses the spot to Chaz Baca Jr. The 2nd
race within a race was Wynne/Lattanzi/Crowe/Gutierrez and they ran bumper to
bumper lap after lap until Lattanzi made a move on Wynne and that gave
Gutierrez the opportunity to skate on by both and without a wave of thanks.
Charles Crowe now all over the bumper of Lattanzi and with
about 15 laps to go Lattanzi starts bouncing thru the turns like an over
inflated basketball.
Crowe finally gets by “the bouncer” and starts to reel in
Wynne but runs out of laps.
Josh Lambeth now has his second podium finish in two weeks
and is grinning like a Cheshire Cat.
Chaz Baca Jr…Josh Lambeth…Kyler Repella…Cody Gutierrez…Chris
Wynne…Charles Crowe…Steve Lattanzi…Mike McClaran…Brian Landry…Scott Lodding…Keith
Sears…Don Angel…Jason Burstein.
Congratulations to Sport league Race #8 Winner Erik McCorvey
and Pro League Race #8 Winner Chaz Baca Jr. Rumor has it that Baca Jr may not
make the Pro league Final on Sunday Dec. 2 due to another racing commitment.
Does he have enough wins piled up to win his 9th league series in a
row without the Final or will he lose it to Kyler Repella. Let’s see what
happens next Tuesday, Nov. 27, when we all get together again on Track 2 for
the best Sport/Pro league racing in the country.
Sport League.. 6pm to 8pm. $40.00…Final with trophy ceremony
on Sat. Dec. 1st … 9am
Pro League…8pm to 10pm. $50.00…Final with trophy ceremony on
Sun. Dec. 2…9am
Thank You!
Steve "Kandyman" Lattanzi
Competition Director
Lead Instructor for the Raceology 101 Jr Kart Racing School
317 S. 48th Street . Phoenix, AZ
85034
(d) 602-427-4416 / 602-321-2035(m)
