Who Will Win 06'

[Dave Hopple]

It's that time of year again, the SCCA National season is over and it's time to make the picks for the 2006 Formula Ford National Championship at Heartland Park. Lots of questions to be answered, is there a home track advantage? Will it rain? What will running two qualifying sessions with F-500 do to the grid? Who will be spending too much time at Baby Dolls and not thinking about running more rebound in the front?

Entry list is here, http://www.dlbracing.com/clubs/scca/...ventID=2102#FF over
35 cars are entered with a interesting mix of chassis and new faces should make this a interesting runoffs! (It should be noted that FF is so far the second biggest formula group entry list behind FV this year) -Dave

Podium:
1.Cliff Johnson
2.John Robinson II
3.Thomas Schwietz

Sleeper:
Russell Ruedisueli

Wild Card:
Mike Sauce

Hard Charger:
Wes Allen

[M.L.Sauce]

Dave- You are really close on the podium spots.Cliff will race well always does.John will as well,Schwietz will be tough as well.Kephart will challenge for the pole for sure.There are some west coast guys who will do well also.Stan Townes,James Hakewill.It will be a really interesting year.The home track advantage has to be with Cliff J.and Bill K..Too bad you don't have your Piper anymore.

[cliff]

Geez Dave, thanks for the jinx. Right now Kephart is the man as he has at least a second on everyone that has been on the track. I just want to get thru turn 1 on the first lap.

[Dave Hopple]

Jinx...no way Cliff, a lot of serious scientific research went into that pick! I hear ya on the getting thru T1.

Mike, thanks I didn't really miss driving my old car until I was at Elkhart Lake a couple of weeks ago working on the Pro Mazda... who knows, I might get the urge again and buy a Club Ford or something next year Oh by the way Mike, my sleeper pick last year won..

OK, a 170+ views and nobody else has the sack to make any predictions or what? -Hop

[RoadHazard]

Podium:
1. James Hakewill
2. Stan Townes
3. John Robinson II

Wild Card:
Mike Sauce

[Lee Racing 8]

1. John Robinson II
2. James Lee (underestimated by many)
3. Tommy Schwietz

[M.L.Sauce]

Hey Dave the jinx is real. Guess who was picked by Sportscar Magazine in 92-93? Me and guess how many Championships I have? 0 ,thats not one, that's none! I am content to be a wild card.

[bryancohnracing]

1. Cliff Johnson
2. Tom Schweitz
3. John Robinson II

Pole:
Bill Kephart

Dark Horse:
James Lee

Wild Cards:
Russ Ruedisueli
Harry Sauce

Hard Luck:
Mike Sauce (sorry Mike, I hope your luck at HPT improves, really I do)

Hop, of course if you and I were racing the results would be very different.

bryan

[M.L.Sauce]

Thanks Bryan! I don't have that kind of luck anywhere but the Runoffs.

[Curtis Boggs]

I'm rooting for James Hakewill, . .. in the ex-RFD Van Diemen, ..
and one of my best cylinder heads ever, . !!

Curtis

[PRS56]

I'm going to wade in with a real dark horse who is probably not on peoples radar. Steve Maxwell is a NE driver who I think has the wherewithall to most certainly contend for a spot on the podium. He's fast and has youth on his side. Also, if memory serves, he may have one of Justin Pritchards winning Pipers underneath him. Of course the car did get balled up at Pocono in Aug, but if everything comes back together as new, I'd wouldn't lay odds against him.
Regards,


Greg Kokolus
NCF #56

[ccambern]

1. Schweitz
2. Robinson
3. Lee

-Clark

[Steve Maxwell]

Greg,
Thanks for the kind words. I appreciate your rooting for me. I just would like to clarify for a second if I may. The Piper didn't really get balled up. Balled up would imply that the chassis was bent. It was not. Don Sievenpiper recieved the bare chassis and immediately put it on his flat table, and, guess what, it jigged up perfectly. The only damage was to the roll hoop, which, was, not even deformed. The roll hoop was dented and ground down but not at all out of shape on any axis. The rest is just bolt on stuff like a-arms and such.

As for the Runoffs, the Piper and I are going. I am very much looking foreward to racing and representing well all of the people and companies who have helped me get there. I also look foreward to meeting a bunch of people from this site.

Steve Maxwell

[se7en]

And if it should rain on the parade? Don't overlook those from the wetter climes.
.02 worth,
Ken

[johnd]

Steve:

While you were looking up the skirts of the pretty nurses at the hospital, there was a bunch of us helping Gibby work on your car. Gibby did all the work to take off the damaged rear corner. Once that was off, the car was loaded on to your trailer.

Tom Schwietz was there as well and said that he had all the suspension pieces to get your car ready for Sunday's race. The only thing that killed this idea, was the dented and scrapped roll hoop. In hindsight I'm not even sure that you would have done the second race even if the car got fixed then and there.

Anyway I am glad that it wasn't as bad as it could have been, and we will be routing for you and the others from NED to do well.


John D.

[Steve Maxwell]

Thanks John,
I think the soreness from the "incident" was enough to keep me out of the car for Sunday's race. But at the time I may have just done it! I appreciate your rooting for me and I'll do my best to bring the FF National Championship back to the NE.

BTW, rain will only help.

Steve

[SStadel]

Sportscar lists:

1. John Robinson
2. John LaRue
3. Tom Schwietz

Mentioned:

MWDiv

Cliff Johnson

NEDiv

Arthur Foster

CENDiv

Mark Davison
Mark Blanc

(Where's Russell?)

SOPAC

Stan Townes

NORPAC

James Hakewell
Mark Keller


Anti-jinx, left out, no mention

Mike Sauce!

[M.L.Sauce]

Sportscar magazine-You think the writer even did any research?They didn't even know Larue has not run anything except the Sprints.What a joke.

[John Robinson II]

Thanks, Mike. The only thing that picks me and you think it is a joke. I dont have my issue yet, are they still listing me in a Royale??lol

See ya in a few weeks,
John

[johnd]

John:

No not the Royale, but the picture that is in the mag is of the Swift and it looks like you're doing some trimming of the track with your belly pan. Lots of grip bursting from the LR as well.

Actually a real nice shot of the car / driver in action.


John D.

[M.L.Sauce]

John -I think you know what I mean. Larue does not even own a FF right now.It never ceases to amaze me. You are the current champion you will always have my respect and I believe you are the only person that can have a repeat win. So good luck.I hope to be a little lighter and more competitive by the Runoffs.A DB6 is a excellent car for this track in my opinion and you have proven yours is quick.See you there.

[jim morgan]

My vote is fo "Super Chicken" you know who you are.

[jmz]

john , your the man ! john z

[jim morgan]

john z how did you find the secret id of "Super Chicken" so fast

[jmz]

jim, i've said all along, i had a good teacher ! john z

[M.L.Sauce]

Looks like we lost 2 competitors.I am disappointed that Mike Koltoff could not make it.Oh well it should still be a solid field.