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Sun and heat were the order of the weekend and just to insure the events unique- ness, thrown in was a late afternoon solar eclipse. The SoPac National Challenge use the accumulat- ed time of twelve runs, six on Saturday and six on Sunday to determine the winners. In the PA class winners! Stock Front Wheel Drive class, Bill Martin and Danny Downey battled closely through the first day. On the second day Bill Martin more than made up his 5 second deficit, dominating in the Sunday morning muddy conditions. First year RallyCrossers fill the Stock Rear Wheel drive class where the two leaders Tom Kwasniak and Ken Lord traded individual runs. Small gains turned into a big win for the Bradipo RallySport MR2 of Tom Kwasniak taking the top spot. Similar outcome was had in Stock All Wheel Drive where 16 drivers vied for the lead. Brent Smith in his Burnt Dirt Subaru squeaking out a lead on each PR class winners! day to build a comfortable 11 second win over the hard stretch his first day 5 second making up large gains. A hard charging Pete Landry. lead into a 20 second victory. charging new comer Jared Volz Alex Orozco and Randy Prepared Rear Wheel Drive made up much of Saturday’s Gallman shared the Speed was full to brim with Mazda deficit but fell 5 seconds short Energy/Stilo Suzuki Swift to products, 6 drivers in all. First to Jayson’s Miata sponsored by take the top two spots in day’s results showed Jayson JayComServices. Prepared Front Wheel Drive. Woodruff taking a large lead The most dynamic class of Alex showing marked improve- over the field, but second day’s the weekend had to be ment on the second day to racing had the rest of the field continued on next page P a g e 4 C a l C l u b N e w s J u n e - 2 0 1 2 PF class winners. Prepared All Wheel Drive. After day one Brent Blakely had found himself at the top MF class winners. with Thomas Bloess just two tenths behind and a second might just have given us a fastest in class both days and very tight battle for third glimpse into the future as managed to straight time Mod through fifth 15 seconds out. young driver Brent Hercelinsky AWD on Sunday. One large gain on Sunday put convincingly took out both past For the first time Modified Brent’s Pom Speed Racing national champions, Ken Rear Wheel drive cars were ’02 WRX permanently in the Cashion and local mainstay given their own class at an lead by three seconds. Eric Martin. Hercelinsky’s SCCA National event and nine Modified Front Wheel drive Suzukird/Stilo Suzuki Swift was driver’s took advantage of this J u n e - 2 0 1 2 C a l C l u b N e w s P a g e 5 new opportunity. Michael Cadwell made the most of his 325 BMW by winning all twelve rounds over the rest of the class. Never more than a cou- ple seconds down per lap Omar Cardenas’ retrofitted RWD Subaru Impreza Wagon finished second. The largest field of the weekend was found in Modified All Wheel drive where 16 Subaru’s and one Mitsubishi competed in the quickest class. After a three tenths deficit on the first day Andrew Holman charged for- ward in his STi Wagon to take the win over John Chabot by almost two seconds. For more info on the RallyCross National Challenge Series visit: SCCA.com/Rally SA class winners! Results - Rally X Glen Helen SoPac National Challenge May 18- 20, 2012 SF Run 1 Run 3 Run 5 Run 7 Run 9 Run 11 Run 2 Run 4 Run 6 Run 8 Run 10 Run 12 Total 1 Bill Martin 74 73.715 74.437 73.036 90.841 79.451 82.255 962.181 91 Nissan Sentra - 73.802 78.988 79.047 87.495 93.506 75.608 2 Danny Downey 71 74.623 74.520 72.378 97.521 78.964 85.849 981.571 91 Dodge Stealth - 75.122 78.171 73.732 96.224 97.507 76.960 3 Carol Janes 195 91.215 85.077 84.370 125.084 100.251 106.243 1173.894 90 Honda Civic - 86.199 90.933 83.340 111.808 115.551 93.823 4 Ian Ragsdale 93 85.962 81.403 78.849 999.000 999.000 999.000 6502.265 93 Subaru Impreza Wagon 85.615 88.105 88.331 999.000 999.000 999.000 SR Run 1 Run 3 Run 5 Run 7 Run 9 Run 11 Run 2 Run 4 Run 6 Run 8 Run 10 Run 12 Total 1 Tom Kwasniak 75 83.215 77.982 77.402 95.610 88.048 86.933 1026.061 85 Toyota MR2 78.854 80.733 77.501 98.717 102.675 78.391 2 Ken Lord 150 87.142 80.403 78.125 101.174 85.320 91.473 1040.763 94 Mazda Miata - JayCom 77.452 80.611 76.418 102.761 101.932 77.952 3 Damon Pipenberg 575 999.000 999.000 999.000 104.209 86.678 96.051 6567.886 85 Toyota MR2 - Bradipo 999.000 999.000 999.000 99.699 94.259 92.990 SA Run 1 Run 3 Run 5 Run 7 Run 9 Run 11 Run 2 Run 4 Run 6 Run 8 Run 10 Run 12 Total 1 Brent Smith 433 73.084 69.846 69.338 90.590 93.480 81.061 950.874 09 Subaru Impreza STi - 72.234 71.370 71.446 97.787 90.859 69.779 2 Pete Landry 303 73.508 70.963 70.949 87.800 94.844 82.732 961.942 08