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Event Winner Bruce Williams
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This C6 Z06 just off the showroom click off an 11.86 ET
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Runner-up Gary Guest
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Event Winner Bruce Williams |
This C6 Z06 just off the showroom click off an 11.86 ET |
Runner-up Gary Guest |
Fourteen Corvettes made it out for the season finale. Two did not make first round however as Olivier Mader has a problem with his engine on the C3 and Rodney Campo had a problem with his clutch. With the Championship on the line, points leader Larry Beutlich was paired of with 2nd place Marc Fisher. Beutlich would leave first with a 13.08 and a .093 reaction time. Fisher would follow with an 11.13 dial and .094 light. At the tree they were nearly identical. Beutlich was dead-on with a 5 running 13.085 while Fisher took the stripe but broke out with an 11.094. It was a very close and exciting race. Beutlich had earned his second consecutive RevXtreme Corvette Challenge Championship. Congratulations to both drivers for a great season. Meanwhile Tracy Lewis, back in the saddle, went red against Ed Duff sending him to the second round. Gary Guest was better at he tree and the dial against Richard Martell moving his way into the second round. Bruce Williams cut a .031 light to make easy work of Mike Thorne whose light was fairly late and broke out trying to make up for it. Craig Gingerich was a winner in the round over Dick Swenson who took a little too much stripe and broke out running 13.079 on 13.09 dial. Bruce Littler also was a winner when Richard Aloy was both late on the tree and off on his dial.
In round 2, Several first round losers bought back in. Lewis this time was a little too conservative on the tree and Littler was able to take the win over our event coordinator. Richard Martell bought back and suffered his second loss this time the hands of our second soon to be finalist, Bruce Williams who cut a spectacular .024 reaction time. Newly crowned Champion cut a -.007 red light allowing Ed Duff to move on to the third round. Dick Swenson was again paired with Gingerich and this time he got the better of him with a dead on 13.079 on 13.07 dial but he did not need it as Gingerich was red. Gary Guest cut the best light of the round with a .001 over Marc Fisher who suffered his second loss of the event.
Round 3 Ed Duff would be victorious again, this time over Bruce Littler. Duff got the win and the free time trial, which he used to go just under his dial, when Littler went red. Bruce Williams, meanwhile, was scoring the best Reaction time of this round with a .004 and doubled that with a dead-on 13.443 on 13.44 dial for a total package of .007 good enough to eliminate Dick Swenson. Gary Guest got the bye run for this round.
In round four, Bruce Williams would get the bye in to the final and made a nice pass running just under his 13.44 dial by .01. Gary Guest would face Ed Duff and used a 13.195 on 13.15 dial to defeat him suing a better reaction time to help.
Both Williams and Guest had been living on the tree today and we were sure to see a great final. Williams left first with a 13.44 dial and another double ohh reaction time at .006. Just after Williams left, Guest would leave with his 13.16 dial. When he left, he took the tree with him and lit the red and the win light for Williams. It was a -.060 red giving Williams the win, his first in the Corvette Challenge.
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Our 2005 season is over and we hope to have the schedule for 2006 as soon as possible. Please join us in February in at the RevXtreme National Corvette Challenge in Jackson, SC on February 24 and 25. Please visit www.carolinacorvettechallenge.com/national/.
Thank to all the driver and if you can, we would love to have you at the Banqeut on January 7, 2005 at the Holiday Inn in St. Petursbury. For banquet details, click here.
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