Hoosier FST Round 11 &12 - Mid Ohio
OK the championship may be decided by who can pass up on a chance to run Mid-Ohio. Get your entries in NOW!
Entries are up at
https://www.motorsportreg.com/index....4D06C5AA6EA78F
Entered:
Dave Blevins
Matt Gordon
Doug Seim
Chuck Singeltary
Rob Clark
Maybe:
Bill Bonow
Doug Sontag
Jim Nash
Dave Dawson
George Podgorski
Sam Farmiga
Doug Sharp
Butch Deer
Roll Call - Get your entries in....
Standing at 6....come on the rest of you get your entries in....
Entered:
Dave Blevins
Matt Gordon
Doug Seim
Chuck Singeltary
Rob Clark
Doug Sharp
Maybe:
Bill Bonow
Doug Sontag
Jim Nash
Dave Dawson
George Podgorski
Sam Farmiga
Butch Deer
Roll Call Update - Keep the entries coming....
Thanks to those that entered yesterday, with Doug Sontag's entry still to hit the system we stand at 9... still missing some key people...
What more could you want, great track, great weather, great people and some good racing....lets go....
Entered:
Dave Blevins
Matt Gordon
Doug Seim
Chuck Singeltary
Rob Clark
Doug Sharp
Doug Sontag
Sam Farmiga
Jim Nash
Maybe:
Bill Bonow
Dave Dawson
George Podgorski
Butch Deer
Gary Grubb
Steve Dunlop.
Another reason to be at Mid Ohio
Here is another reason to be at the Mid Ohio race. As mostly anyone who runs a race car with VW aircooled parts knows that many parts are totally suspect. So we are always looking for parts that are of the best quality. Most of what Scat sells is, for example, very high quality. But we have to test out new products usually with volunteers. Cylinder heads are one component we need to test. VW is phasing out their operations in places like Brazil and Mexico. So when we heard that a new premium product was coming out we asked the company to donate a set to the FFDA. (Note I’m not naming names here but I will on a separate post at the FFDA Forum)
They agreed and they sent them to Autowerks in New Jersey. Dave Carr arrived back from the Runoffs and has started the preparation phase and they will be ready for Mid Ohio. Current series Champion Doug Seim will be running them at Mid Ohio. It wasn’t easy to get Doug to separate his killer Autowerks motor but I did. I know Doug will do his best to test these heads. He’ll be glad to share some data about temperatures and overlay data for you. Everyone is welcome to come over and take a look. Doug will post some pictures of the heads when he receives them and after the race. The heads have ¾ reach spark plug holes so we’re expecting not to see cracks going toward the plug. More later.
See everyone at Mid Ohio—the FFDA test track!
I just can't make Mid-Ohio
I had to withdraw from Mid-Ohio as I just can't get all the details finished. Will be at Gateway. Also SCCA had their Tech people at the Runoffs and another was in a Motorcycle Crash and hurt so my homologation has not been done. They will return to office on the 30th. Bill good luck at Pueblo and I just can't get away that weekend to take advantage of you wonderful offer. Set the Track Record
More from the gossip king
Pst Just heard the following three things
Robert Clark will also be running a new set of heads from yet another supplier. These are very well priced and appear to be of VW origin. Thus we'll have more to evaluate. I'm sure Rob will do his best to torture these.
Larry Campbell claims something in the water at Menominee drags him to FST Series races. So Larry will be their lending his expertise to all in need. I'm hoping Penny has some of the macadamia nut cookies left.
Gary Grubb tells me he's testing his newly designed Vector leading arms at Nelson think weekend. If they pass the stern NLBT (Nelson Ledges Bump Test) he'll be at MO.
Rounds 11 & 12 at Mid Ohio
Well, The 2013 Hoosier Formula First Championship Series is now history. The Mid-Ohio weekend is completed and was a real soaker. Rained when the forecast was for dry and dry when the forecast was for wet, general craziness.
We share the track with the F600 series guys and found that solid axle cars don't work so well in the rain :eek:.
Saturday qualifying:
Bonow 2:21.204
Nash 2:34.406
Clark 2:34.480
Blevins 2:36.841
Sharp 2:39.370
Seim 2:47.149
Sontag 2:58.548
Gordon 3:00.574
Farmiga 3:01.174
Saturday Race:
Split Start with the F5/6 guys up front. Downpour as we roll out on the pace lap. No real story, lots of cars spinning off, no real major incidents, but the pace car came out for a clean up. Race ended under time with 9 laps in.
Bonow Fast Lap: 2:19.706
Seim
Blevins
Gordon
Sontag
Nash
Sharp
Farmiga
Clark
Sunday Qualifying:
Still have to sort this out. The host (OVR) like to run those "qualifying races" on Sunday morning and we don't do those. Will edit later with the whole grid. Here is the top 3.
Bonow
Seim
Gordon
Sunday Race:
Not going to go into the grid issue, but the letters "CF" come to mind and I'm not speaking of Club Ford. The first lap saw major carnage at the start finish due to slow FV's being placed in front of the entire FST pack. (4) DNF's resulted including Seim, Sharp and Nash. In addition, everyone was on rains waiting for the sky to open up. It never did, track was dry as a bone, but almost the entire grid (all group classes) were on rains. I was amazed that the rains weren't chewed up much worse.
Race Results
Clark Fast Lap 1:43.242
Bonow
Blevins
Gordon
Farmiga
Nash - DNF
Seim - DNF
Sharp - DNF
One thing that was very nice at Mid-Ohio this weekend, we awarded the newly renamed Randy Shinn Cup to this years Champion, Doug Seim. A great supporter of FST for many seasons, Randy will live on in our hearts and our Championship Cup.
Sometimes you're the windshield....
... sometimes you're the bug.
I'm sure there are many perspectives in this incident. I'll offer mine. This incident happened because a driver lost control of his car in front of a pack of cars. It doesn't matter if the guy was in a fast car or a slow car. If he stayed in control we wouldn't be having this conversation. That car slipped on a small puddle in the pavement. I slipped in the same puddle but caught the car.
In 2011 at the ARRC we were gridded according to qualifying speed only. In turn one I lost control of my car and did very substantial damage to another car as a result. I got a real nice view of the car tumbling into the gravel and losing its floor. Pretty scary stuff.
None of us are beyond making an error in challenging conditions. This was a racing incident of the kind we can all expect to experience from time to time.
Doug FST 5