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Red River Region Race 7 Denton Texas

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October 12-13 Race Report

Saturday brought partly cloudy skies with thin 80° air, perfect for racing.  As over 40 entries joined in Saturday, the Red River region took the honors of having the highest season total entry count for all SKUSA Regions in 2002. 

In the Fall season entries typically drop some due to new season commitments (academics is usually high on the list), budgets strains, and just plain season fatigue.  This meet provided some welcome relief by concluding Saturday's events of practice, qualifying, and race 1 an hour ahead of schedule.

Early Sunday morning the north winds brought in a cold front with temps in the 60's.  The air may have cooled, but the racing heated up!  A summary of the finishes are below by class.  Several folks ran under existing track records at the North Texas Karters facility.

Michael Brookes in K1 provided some in car video that will be edited and posted later this week.

It was also announced that Regional Director Rodney Berryhill had to make plans to be overseas during the last scheduled SKUSA Red River race (Nov 23-24, Norman) and was considering alternative dates.  Watch the forum for updates and feel free to provide positive input.  Please remember compromise will be required to accommodate all the great competitors in the Red River Region.

G1

FIC

FMX

K1

60 Novice

Running under the 60 Novice track record NTK of 39.19, Reid Miller lead the pack to the checker with a 5 second margin.

Rotax Jr

These evenly matched power plants provide some great racing action.  Red River Region also has some of the fastest young ladies in America racing in this class, and sometimes winning.  With a terrific 3 way battle going on in the final between Jordan Blissit, Drew Cleaver, and Cory Phelps, a tangle between them occurred in lap 8, resulting in Cory's retirement.

Finishing on top and turning laps under the NTK record of 38.37 was Brad Coleman.

Formula 80 Jr

Most of these young chargers have at least a full season of shifter racing among some  fast competitors.  Half of the field runs in the ProMoto series.  Each race was action packed and incident free.  Brad Coleman and CR Crews put on a great show with clean passes and counter passes.  Garret Napier showed some real strength winning the first two heats.

CR Crews brought home the bacon for the final, again running under the NTK Track Record of 37.01.  ( It was only a few years ago that 125's broke under 37 seconds at NTK!)

RotaxMax

With a relatively small turnout for RotaxMax, the competitors still had a load of fun.  Erin Dodson and Justin Melton crossed over into run with the Seniors

FIC/K1/S1

Running these 3 classes together added to the excitement for those racing.  Ryan Kinnear showed dominant K1 performance coming off his podium finish from the World Finals.  Ross Smith showed some strong runs in the first two heats in his Pavesi powered FIC, but found himself parked in the tire wall halfway into the first lap of the main.  The real racing action was between Chuck Herber and Robert Coreale.  A strong duel found Chuck first to the finish line.

K1

FIC

G1

S1

With the season winding down, the points battle will be on the line down to the last race.  Ryan Kinnear made his debut in 125 with strong finishes for his first time in 125.

Chris Story was in great form on Sunday having chassis and motor set-up looking good in heat 2.  Michael Johnson  also looked like he was right on top and looked in form for a main win.  It looked like Michael may have loosing water, and he pulled in early in the main race.

Kyle Piepenbrok had the stuff and picked his way through the pack, and took the lead.  About lap 18 of the 20 lap main, Kyle kept reaching over his motor, and was slowing.  When he came in, the reason for his distraction was obvious - the coil wire was coming off his plug electrifying his driving experience.

80Jr Grid	Garret Napier	Xan Rose	Brad Coleman	Micheal Brookes
Robert Coreale	Chuck (in the air) Herber	S1 Grid	Garret on track	Herber on track

Rotax Sr

80 Jr + Max Jr

60 Novice