F1000 Championship East West scuttle butt.
The East Series starts in less than 60 days.
East: Road Atlanta March 22
West: Thunderhill April 12
So who wants to announce their plans?
JR Osborn in his Citation was blistering quick at the ARRC in November and also set a new track record at the Sebring winter nationals in John Paul's borrowed Citation.
Jason Bell purchased John Paul's Citation after Sebring. Brandon and Wren (the Citation guru's) rebuilt this car for Brandon to drive at the Runoffs so it should be on pace.
Jason Bell has very new Stohr that may be for sale and he has a teammate (Dore) coming on board with his Stohr as well.
Is Alex Mayer and dad Nick coming back after selling their car that did very well in 2013.
Thielmann came out of Go Karts and now has the taste of F1000 with his Van Diemen debut in 2013. I think he is in a new JDR for this year. His Van Diemen is for sale at a steal. Jeremy Hill has put his Van Diemen on the front row qualifying for the Runoffs the last 2 or 3 years and is always quick. Marchand is installing BMW power in his VD. Us Van Diemen guys will hopefully show what we can do in 2014.
Cooper will probably have the latest and greatest Firman stuff since he basically wrote his car off at the Runoffs. Glen is always quick.
I hear Lavertys Citation recently went to Virginia. It was in F1000 trim so we may have a new entry???
Loshack will surely have an incentive to make some appearances or do the whole season after an incredible debut into F1000 last year by winning it all.
Jake Latham in his Stohr may have new Kawasaki power and all the Stohr developments. Wayne Felch of Stohr I am sure has been making a lot of new go fast stuff for the Stohr. Lucian was quick at the Runoffs in his Stohr with some new development pieces. I drove Stohr WF-1's for several years and Wayne Felch builds incredible cars and aero pieces. Stohrs will only get quicker with his developments.
Dan Robinson has been on medical leave and we hope he gets back in the seat of his Van Diemen in 2014. I have some of his development aero parts on my car that we hope will take the Van Diemen to a new level.
Jason Slahor and dad Gary found new speed secrets at the ARRC in November in their Van Diemen. With the Mike Devins HRP Van Diemen aero package they are on pace.
Alastair in his Phoenix won at the Winter Palm Beach National and Brett Lane in his Van Diemen showed up after taking over a year off and won as well.
I hear Jerry Hodges may have sold 5 or more JDR's after the Runoffs. I know Roger Cook ran his new JDR at the Fontana nationals in California recently. Thielmann's are in. Who else?
I think their are a few Citations under some percentage of construction? We have JRO, Bell. Who else?
I hear a Mygale F1000 conversion is coming.
Phoenix builds a great car and have a new car? Who is in?
RFR has a new improved car with several cars already on track. Nicholas has some nice cars that are available for sale.
What other cars are coming out and who will be new to F1000?
Then we have the engine war which looks to be the tried and true GSXR and the Kawasaki package. The BMW rumor mill is always there and a few capable people have tried to outsmart the stock ECU. Past efforts were all abandoned. But someone may get lucky.
There are many drivers in different chassis that are capable of winning in any event in 2014.