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Arizona HOPRA
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Our Club was formed to race all manufacturers cars and parts to have FUN!

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April 2009
 
18th @ Eddie Torres (Schor) Super Scorpion ROAD TRIP





Mark Won SS and Modified, finished 2nd in NEO with Jim Williams Winning NEO, Glenn TQ'd in SS and 3rd in NEO, Al Thurman finished 2nd in SS and 5th in NEO and Larry Stewart taking 4th in SS, with a total of 15 racers.
To top off the weekend had dinner at Sizzler, great
 
dinning and fun weekend!!!!!!!!!


hi Glenn...thank you...Mark,Larry and Al for coming out for the SCHOR event. Hope you guy's made it home safely. Just got 

everything printed up. you already know who were on the podium's for the three classes. their were only two track records broke and 
they were both in Neo; Jim Williams, total race laps, 455 laps. previous was 452. Mark Macvittie total heat laps 83 laps. 2nd heat,
red lane. previous 82. these two neo records are always recorded in the main's. Fastest race lap is collected in all neo races; both 
Semi's and main's. Fastest neo race lap,Bobby Torres 1.912 A Semi.,it's correct, i checked. 2nd Jim Williams 1.933. 3rd Mark Macvittie
2.009. both times in the main...all the best time's were done on the white lane.
Glenn Gordon...You...had the fastest Pro S.S. time 3.235 in the B Semi., red lane. 3.252 for Macvittie in the Main...red lane.
Gary Morgan the fastest Pro Mod. time, 2.459...red lane...in the Main. Top three finishers w/totals for each class:
Pro S.S. 1st  Mark Macvittie 282.....2nd Al Thurman 279.....3rd Eddie Torres 269.
Pro Modified 1st Mark Macvittie 351.....2nd Gary Morgan 343.....3rd John Cukras 327.
Neo - 1st Jim Williams 455.....2nd Mark Macvittie 452.....3rd G lenn Gordon 446.
o.k., that's it...let me know if you need anything else...thanks,again!...yours,Eddie

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Team Banta 7,636
Team Budwieser 7414
MRT Racing 6689
GSL Racing 5859 Glenn

Glenn will be writing an article about the race soon!!



Road Trip to Eddie's Raceway

First we would like to thank Eddie and his wife for inviting our group to attend and for their hospitality and especially the fine food that was prepared for all those attending!!!!!!!!THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!

Mike and Mark meet Glenn at his house, about 3:35 Saturday Morning and packed Mike's Tahoe with Mark as usual bringing too much stuff, by 4:05 we were on the road to Eddie's Raceway. It looked like it was going to be a cold  day buy when arriving at Eddie's 5 hours later it was just a little cool but by the time the practice and racing started it was perfect weather. There was much talking and laughter in the pits and then there was some serious tuning going on. Early in the day it looked like Ben was the one to beat in all the classes and everyone was scrambling to be close. Fast lap time showed Ben to be at the top of the leader board but there were some changes taking place as the racing unfolded.

SuperStock

Mike look to be very fast in the first heat with a high of 55 laps and Ben following close behind while Mark was nipping at Ben's heals. Mike kept up the heat in heat two but Ben closed in and was only 2 laps behind and Mark 7 laps behind Ben. Heat 3 saw Mike on black lane and taking a nose dive loosing 8 laps to Ben and Mark gaining two laps on Ben. Heat four was Mike turning up the wick and getting high lap total of 56 taking the lead while Ben was on black only getting 42 giving Mike a six lap lead and Mark gaining 4 laps pulling within 3 laps of Ben.
In heat five Mark had a good run and pulled within 2 laps of Mike and pulling 3 laps over Ben,the final heat would be a tough fight for all of them. Ben had the high total in the last segment but was not enough to beat Mike with 290, Ben with 286 and Mark with 285, what a close up and down battle it was between these top racers!!!


Modified

Modified saw Ben's very fast T2 taking the lead with 57 laps to John the Jet with 53 while Mark, Jon and John all having 52. In heat two Mark pulled a 65 lap total to Ben's 56 and John the Jet with 54 giving Mark a four lap lead. In the third heat both Mark and Ben pulling 65 laps and John the Jet, 60 laps. In heat 4 Ben was able to pull 2 laps and Mark  with John the Jet loosing a few laps. In heat 5 saw Ben having pickup shoe problems and loosing 14 laps to Mark and John the Jet catching 7 laps on Ben. In the final heat Mark had some handling problems but was able on hold off Ben who gained 10 laps on Mark and he pulled out 11 more laps on John the Jet, Mark 375 laps, Ben 367 laps and John the Jet 346 laps. Both Ben and Mark did a high heat lap total of 70 laps so it was just keeping out of trouble that Mark was able to win over Ben.

NEO Drop in

Let the Carnage begin

And carnage it was, with both Mike and Bobby out of the race very early both not making it to the 4th heat while Glenn and Eddie have serious problems in the middle of the race. Then Mark had gear problem putting him out of contention for the lead, leaving Gary and Ben fighting for the lead. Ben looked to be the one to beat for he had been running a very consistently fast pace all race but Gary would have nothing with that keeping a small lead of 5 laps so whoever had the best run in the last heat would be the winner. The first half of the heat saw Ben closing fast on Gary but then he over pushed the car and came off a few time giving Gary a hard fought win, well done Gary!! Gary with 317 laps, Ben 307 laps and Mark with 275 laps were the totals.


Thanks Again to Eddie and his Family for putting on a GREAT EVENT!!!!!


SUPERSTOCK

 Place  Name  Total Laps
1  MikeStewart  290 
 2 BenVasquez  286 
 3 MarkMacVittie  285 
 4 GlennGordan  282 
 5 JohnCukras  276 
 6 EddieTorres  269 
 7 JonTheurich  252 
 8 GaryMorgan  239 
 9 JohnWatamatsu  227 
 10 MathewTheurich  222 
11  BobbyTorres  222 
12 MarkBrown 221


MODIFIED

Place  Name  Total Laps 
1  MarkMacVittie  375 
 2 BenVasquez  367 
 3 JohnCukras  346 
 4 MikeStewart  324 
 5 JohnWakamatsu  310 
 6  BobbyTorres 261 
 7 EddieTorres  250 
 8  GaryMorgan 234 
 9 MarkBrown   124
 10 JonTheurich  52 
 11 MatthewTheurich  22 


NEO Dropin


Place  Name   Total Laps
 1 GaryMargan    317 
 2 BenVasquez    307 
 3 MarkMacVittie   275
 4 GlennGordan   230
 5 EddieTorres    211 
 6 MikeStewart     74 
 7 BobbyTorres    56



2nd Annual 8 Hr Endurance Race at The Glenn!!!

First of all, we would like the thank Cathy for taking the time to cook us two excellent meals to give us all the energy to race The 8 hr Endurance Race at the Glenn, I think I gained 10lbs.

Racing was hot and fast, during practice we saw that the Denver Boys Slottech T2 car had the fastest pace and were the ones to beat, GSL seemed to be a close second running a close place the the Denver Boy, Team MRT was having handling issuses and it continued in the first two heats. In the first two hours the Denver boys took a 141 on lap lead over Team MRT while Team GSL was 183 laps behind and Jordan's Team getting those most important laps in.

The second two hours of racing say the Denver Boys adding to their lead over Team MRT by another 140 laps giving them a lead of 281 laps and Team GSL had some car issues and lost some 200 laps while Jordan's Team just keep putting in those all important laps.

The third two hours say in the first half the Denver Boys increasing their total lead to 426 laps but they began to have car problems and Team MRT ended up leading this segment by 4 laps gaining 145 laps in the segment with an overall gain of 4 laps for the heat.

In the last segment, Team MRT with the momentum from the last segment continued to knock off laps from the Denver boys lead and by the last hour had decrease their lead to under 200 laps and were closing in at a fast rate since the Denver Boys were on the slowest and most difficult lane.
It was so much fun to watch Pete V. get on the track and run the last 10 minutes of the race to break the old record, he had so much fun and 
the whole group applauded as he passed the record, he was grinning from ear to ear!!!!!!
 

 But  there just was not enough time to catch all the laps from the first two segment and THE DENVER BOY'S WON THE RACE BY 131 LAPS over Team MRT and 864 laps over Team GSL with Jordan's Team have a total of 5167 laps.

Glenn held a wonderful race and thanked all the Racers for attending. The award plagues were beautiful!!! WE MUST GIVE A SPECIAL THANKS TO LARRY FOR MAKING BEAUTIFUL T-SHIRTS FOR THE RACE AND EVERYONE GOT ONE AND SEVERAL WERE SOLD TO GIVE MONEY TO THE CLUB FUNDS.

THANKS LARRY FOR THE AWESOME SHIRTS AND DECALS!!!!!

What was so Great was the wonderful food that Cathy prepared and the many long conversation between the racers during the event. I must say the track was in perfect condition and we all had a wonderful time, CAN'T WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!

Two more races in our series with the next race being at MRT Raceway in and April and Tom's Raceway in May.

With that being said several of our club members will be attending the HOPRA Nats in June!!!!!!!

TEAMS  BEST LAP LANE1   LANE2  LANE3  LANE4  TOTAL  Old Record Beat By
Denver Boys  2.902  2002  2057  1850  1796  7705  7390  315 
Team MRT  3.040  1861  1917   1854 1942  7574   131 
Team GSL  2.980  1818  1694   1571 1818   6901    
Team Jordan  2.819  1274  1182  1340  1371  5167     


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Race at Eddies


All of us from Arizona would like to thank Eddie for putting on a well run race, we started racing at 1pm and finished about 6:15 and with running three classes of cars that was fantastic!!! The track was a blast to run it was very fast considering that it is 20 feet longer than the normal Scorpion track.

The SuperStock class has 18 entries and ran three heats of 6 to come up with the 6 main races, you can see the individuals in the pictures below on how they did on each lane. The podium consisted of Mark MacVittie, Scott Dunlop and Rich Jocham. All three cars were Storms and built by Mark with his preped arms.

The Modified class had 14 entries and ran two heats with sit outs to come up the the 6 main racers which you can see below on how each person did on each lane in the main. The podium consisted of Mark MacVittie, Ben Vasquez and Mike Stewart. Mike and Mark ran Storms and Ben ran a T1.

The Neo class had 8 entries which was run as one race round robin. The podium consisted of Glenn Gordon, Ben Vasques and Gary Morgan. Glenn ran a P2, Ben a T1 and Gary a G. Glenn's car was one he had got from Scott Dunlop the night before. Mark ran a RO car and finished 5th.

Again thanks for and EXCELLENT EVENT EDDIE!!!!!!!

, we started racing at 1pm and finished about 6:15 and with running three classes of cars that was fantastic!!! The track was a blast to run it was very fast considering that it is 20 feet longer than the normal Scorpion track.The SuperStock class has 18 entries and ran three heats of 6 to come up with the 6 main races, you can see the individuals in the pictures below on how they did on each lane. The podium consisted of Mark MacVittie, Scott Dunlop and Rich Jocham. All three cars were Storms and built by Mark with his preped arms.The Modified class had 14 entries and ran two heats with sit outs to come up the the 6 main racers which you can see below on how each person did on each lane in the main. The podium consisted of Mark MacVittie, Ben Vasquez and Mike Stewart. Mike and Mark ran Storms and Ben ran a T1.The Neo class had 8 entries which was run as one race round robin. The podium consisted of Glenn Gordon, Ben Vasques and Gary Morgan. Glenn ran a P2, Ben a T1 and Gary a G. Glenn's car was one he had got from Scott Dunlop the night before. Mark ran a RO car and finished 5th.Again thanks for and EXCELLENT EVENT EDDIE!!!!!!!
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