Kevin Roberts back in the Winners Circle in Event 6

Glen Cottrill

Event Winner Kevin Roberts gets plaque from Event coordinator Tracy Roberts

Runner-up Tracy Lewis

Though not a Corvette Challenge participant, this Vette was hot!

of the 3 first-timers we had in July, only R.J. Gordon returned (one of the other recent newbie’s had his car crashed-into on the street after the last race, while the 3rd racer didn't risk traveling 3+ hours with a chance of rain in the area), and frequent competitor Marc Fisher chose to make time-only runs in his quick C5, testing a new motor combination, instead of racing with us, so we could've had an even-larger field.

Defending Champion Larry Beutlich showed why he's won before, earning the odd-lot 1st Round bye with a stellar RT in the final time-session, and backed that up with a .017 to advance into Round #2, while 1st-timer Chuck Davis moved into the next round when most-recent Winner Ollie Mader fouled-out, another rookie, Robert Shiels Sr. won when Swenson had an uncharacteristic poor RT:

other 1st Round pairings were James McHale over Chip Levick, Gary Guest taking-advantage of rookie Rob Shiels Jr.'s foul, Larry Broadly winning the 'Battle of C6s' against Robin Wahler, Gordon holding-off Rudy Szilagyi's '03 ZO6, Gingerich capitalizing on Swenson's bad-luck by beating 1st-timer John Kauffman, Tracy Lewis defeating Kevin Roberts, and Dan Warren running 14.291 on his 14.29 dial-in (with a .026 RT) to get-by Dan Bouldry.

In the 2nd Round, Davis' previously-consistent '01 ZO6 (12.98, 12.97, 12.97) spun the tires and couldn't cover his dial-in against Gordon, Shiels Sr.'s '91 ran .024 under in losing to Gingerich, but Shiels Jr. advanced when Beutlich ran just .002 too-quick, Warren's C4 ran .09 under, handing the win to Broadly, Wahler ended McHale's day on a double-breakout, Roberts beat Guest, and Lewis ran just .001-under his dial, but won when Bouldry's C3 turned-on the Big Red Eye.

while the BMP Staff prepped the track before the next round, storm clouds began to appear, while lightning on the horizon, so we hurried to get-in the 3rd Round of competition, with Gordon getting the starting-line advantage against Shiels Jr to win, Lewis beating Wahler, Roberts advancing despite Broadly having a slight RT-advantage, and Gingerich having the solo into the Semi-Finals:

the winning Reaction Times of this round, respectively, were .037, .018, .040, and .036

The skies opened-up before we could begin the Semi-Finals, and the Lewis' graciously offered all remaining Corvette-racers to stay-dry in their large motor home near our staging-area:

all 4 remaining Semi-Finalists were there, in-addition to myself, Wahler, and various friends and racers, discussing strategies, including deep-staging, dial-in, dumping, etc., except one racer who shall remain nameless, who spoke ad-nauseum about wanting to eat B-B-Q at Sonny's.....

After more than 2 hours, BMP Personnel had the track ready for action again, and Lewis knocked-off Gingerich, and Gordon's day ended with an rare foul-start (he'd gone .025, .036, and .037 in his 2nd-ever race with the car) to place Roberts, who earlier this season 'won-the-Wally', into another Final round:

with both racers having identical RT in the Semis, Lewis was awarded lane-choice by his better Reaction Time in the previous quarterfinal-round, and choose the Right Lane, but it didn't matter as Roberts gained a starting-line advantage of .015, then ran less-under, 13.253 on his 13.30 to Lewis' 11.634 on his 11.72 dial-in, as both racers were 'guessing' after the long rain-delay and changing atmospheric conditions.

Once-again, Dan Bouldry had Low-ET and Top-Speed of the event with a 9.677 / 138.71 blast, and Gingerich had not-only the Best RT of the day with his .001 in Round #2, but he also had the 'closest-miss' with his -.009 in the Semis against Lewis.

The Track had problems printing-out the updated Points Standings after this race due to electrical glitches after the storm, so they couldn't be forwarded to Redgar at this time, but the track DOES have them recorded, and they will be sent to Tracy Lewis @ RevXtreme, then onto Redgar for the web-site. REDGAR EDIT, Points have been calculated and updated!

Our last race of the 2007 season is Saturday morning 8 September, and we'd like to have the largest turnout of the year to-date for that event:

because of the long rain-delay, our planned gathering at Sonny's BBQ was aborted, but we can meet-up after the season-finale for a bench-racing/lie-telling session!

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