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September 13-14

  

Leaving Denver International Airport Saturday early morning and driving west into the mountains, snow was falling, at times heavy, but with 50° temps it didn't stick.  Winding through the spectacular continental divide the weather changed from gloomy to beautiful sunny skies after crossing the Atlantic-Pacific watershed.  Steamboat Springs had picture perfect weather for the weekend.  Short-sleeves were the dress code for the weekend during daylight hours.

As the final stage of the Colorado Sprint Championship (CSC) tour, this event had an impressive XXX entries.  While most of the entries were CSC regulars, some of those making the journey from out-of-state included Scott Betts (125 Novice) and Bobby Wilson (125 Pro).

Held at the parking lot in the world-famous Steamboat Springs Ski Resort, the track was a half mile layout of 7 sweeping turns lined with hay bales, split tire halves, and pylons.  The weekend saw spectacular safe racing.  The background view was simply breathtaking.  A fairly large number of spectators came to watch the thrilling racing action, and were astonished by the performance of the shifters.

The CSC tour is a statewide racing championship co-operatively run at Bandimere Speedway, IMI Motorsports, Grand Junction Motor Speedway, and CRE Motorsports, with the grand finale at Steamboat Springs.   This series was developed to put together fun tight racing with large fields without the expense of traveling

A total of 12 classes were run, a few classes were combined for a total of 9 sessions.  Practice and qualifying rounds on Saturday, with  Pre- Final and Final race on Sunday.  Saving the highlight for the last race of the day was the "King of the Hill" race for the Pro 125cc shifter class.

King of the Hill (Pro 125cc Shifter)

Colorado has some top name drivers, so they brought in a "ringer" with Bobby Wilson.  Bobby is planning a move to Colorado in the next month, so where better to test the Colorado racing then in the King of the Hill contest?  The Pro 125cc class features a blend of ICC and Moto powered racers both at 385lbs.  On the pole with a GP6 chassis and Swedetech Moto power was Sam Walls with a lap time of 38.257.  Bobby Wilson with a Pavesi powered First Kart qualified second posting a 38.292, and AJ Noud third on a GP6 powered by CRS with a 38.391.

In the Pre-Final Bobby got the jump on the green with Sam glued to the back bumper.  The Moto has a boost coming out of the turns, where the ICC has the mid-top power, and lap after lap on the two straights Sam was working on a pass that never came together.  particularly thrilling was the back straight "jump" where the only ripple in the pavement gets a kart airborne - the more on line, the more air you get!  Its was Bobby, Sam and AJ.

The 20 lap Final had about 18 laps of really hard racing with Sam just not having quite enough to get by.  Then with Sam getting a pretty good launch coming out of one the esses with AJ right behind Sam managed to pick up a hay bale wrapper on his front tire and fell off the pace adding to Bobby's lead over the pack.  Bobby Wilson collected the "King of the Hill" award with $500 cash.

11 other classes were run at the Steamboat Springs Grand Prix;

  • Kid Karts

  • Junior I

  • Junior II

  • 60cc Novice

  • TAG Jr

  • 80cc Jr

  • 4 Cycle Sr Stock

  • 4 Cycle Sr Modified

  • TAG Sr

  • Novice 125 Shifter

  • Sr/Heavy 125 Shifter

We do not have the results for these races, please see the editors note below.

Steamboat Grand Prix Photogallery

Editors Note:

I have to apologize to our audience about the lack of information we are providing in this report, but it is totally beyond our control.  When I arrived I made it crystal clear that our reporting process relied on receiving a text file of timing & scoring results,  providing a diskette to store the AMB scoring data.  I was assured this information would be mailed to me no later then Monday AM.  Our news process has been structured to provide a full comprehensive report, photogallery, and race videos, but the entire process is linked to a text file of scoring results.  As the Tuesday publishing deadline approached, I had no choice but to post the incomplete story, as my schedule is simply booked for the next two weeks.  I may attempt to update this report to a proper format in a few weeks if the information required is furnished.  Again, I apologize to those who were looking forward to a full report.