2003 Rock Island Grand Prix

King of the Streets Race Report from Kartweb

Qualifying Results

Eight minutes pass quickly when you are of the twenty teams qualifying for King of the Streets.  Broken into two groups, the first ten laid out some impressive lap times with Preston Peebles coming out on top.  The second group of ten really turned up the wick, tossing the track record like a volleyball.  Kyle Wiegand, Joe White, Ron White, Bobby Wilson  turned in fast laps as they diced for the pole position.  Kyle Wiegand took the honors on a CRS powered Fury GP chassis tuned by McGrath Motorsports.

Qualifying action - Low res video of 3 minutes of qualifying - should play on 56K Modem!  Great Audio!

 

Pos. No. Name Best Laptime In Lap 2nd Best Remarks:
1 86j Kyle Wiegand 32.428 7 32.561  
2 71y Ron White 32.489 5 32.508  
3 3h Bobby Wilson 32.515 8 32.616  
4 12j Joe Janowski 32.520 7 32.600  
5 17y Joe White 32.590 7 32.643  
6 1 Matt Champagne 32.679 5 32.709  
7 23j AJ Whisler 32.937 5 33.028  
8 11o Preston Peebles II 32.941 10 33.003  
9 N4 Alan Rudolph 32.974 7 32.978  
10 9j Graham Rahal 33.011 8 33.017  
11 77y Wade VanHooser 33.024 10 33.056  
12 55j James Willis 33.104 4 33.154  
13 27z Seth Ingham 33.124 5 33.179  
14 2h Ryan Stringfield 33.228 8 33.264  
15 6j Darin Marcus 33.342 7 33.583  
16 29j Brian Reimer 33.703 7 33.714  
17 7j Larry Nagy 33.749 8 33.763  
18 25j Scott W. Miller 33.794 10 33.808  
19 18o Cody Yarborough 34.539 4 34.751  
DQ 20e Justin Stefani 33.426 3 33.576 DQ - scales

 

Race Results

Racing action in the wet was fast and furious, yet amazingly well restrained.  With 6-8 seconds added on to the dry lap times, slower traffic was weeded out by the "lapper removal" rules. 

Kyle Wiegand took the lead from the pole with Bobby Wilson working his way past Joe White for 2nd.  Bobby reeled in Kyle from 2 seconds back then put up a strong battle taking the lead just before halfway.  Kyle re-took the lead the next lap, and going into turn 2 put a wheel on the paint under braking over shooting the turn-in and lightly contacting the barrier, dropping him back about 10 seconds.

Bobby continued the pace on the edge bringing home the well-deserved win.

Alan Rudolph, Matt Champaign, and Joe White put on a good show with Alan then Matt passing Joe.

Wade VanHooser took advantage of a bad exit by Graham Rahal to make a pass with Graham glued to Wade's bumper the rest of the race.

Ron White was on a charge and tangled with Brian Reimer at the braking point into turn 1.  Brian pulled off and Ron re-fired, having a bent axle Ron retired.

Ron White coming off the SuperPro and ICC win at the World Finals the week before looked like the driver to pick.

At the awards banquet, Joe White Sr saluted Bobby Wilson with the following statement;

"We came the race the best and Rock Island provided us with that opportunity".

  • Roger Ruthhart presents "The Rock" to Bobby Wilson 

  • 2003 King of the Streets
   

 

Pos. No. Name Laps Total Diff. Time Best Lap In Lap Chassis/Motor
1 3h Bobby Wilson 30 25:37.2   40.981 19  FirstKart/Pavesi
2 86j Kyle Wiegand 30 25:51.1 13.901 40.966 19  GP6/CRS
3 N4 Alan Rudolph 30 26:01.7 24.527 41.711 29  FirstKart/Pavesi
4 1 Matt Champagne 30 26:04.5 27.268 41.859 24  PTK/CRS
5 17y Joe White 30 26:05.3 28.098 41.594 25  CRG/Pavesi
6 77y Wade VanHooser 30 26:13.0 35.81 41.835 26  Intrepid/TM
7 9j Graham Rahal 30 26:13.9 36.665 41.889 26  CRG/TM
8 11o Preston Peebles II 30 26:17.6 40.377 41.633 19  Arrow/TM
9 55j James Willis 24 22:02.7 -- 6 laps -- 42.277 22  Unspecified
10 23j AJ Whisler 23 21:26.7 -- 7 laps -- 42.524 19  FirstKart/Pavesi
11 12j Joe Janowski 20 19:23.0 -- 10 laps -- 41.704 17  GP6/CRS
12 27z Seth Ingham 18 17:59.8 -- 12 laps -- 42.578 17 Topkart/TM
13 6j Darin Marcus 15 15:54.6 -- 15 laps -- 43.181 11  FirstKart/Pavesi
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