Going Solo, Western Style, The 2nd annual ASN Canada FIA Canadian Autoslalom Campionship takes place in Red Deer Alberta on August 19, 20 and 21, 2005 The Canadian National Autoslalom Championship (CNAC) have been taking place, off and on, over the years since the early 70’s. Last year ASN Canada FIA, the governing body of motorsport in Canada, began sanctioning Solo 2 or Autoslalom National level events starting with the 2004 event which was held at Sanair, Quebec and hosted by CADL from Montreal. The 2005 instalment of the Canadian Autoslalom Championships (CAC) took place at Westerner Fair Grounds in Red Deer Alberta on August 20-21st. The organizing clubs were Calgary Sport Car Club (CSCC) and Vancouver’s VCMC Motorsport Club with the Organizing Chairmen for the weekend long event were CSCC’s Reijo Silvennoinen and VCMC’s Henry Ho. ASN SoloSport Rep Cliff Loh during the Day 1 Driver’s Meeting On the Wednesday preceding the event, pre-event scrutineering took place at Eau Claire Market in downtown Calgary. The idea was to get as many of the local competitors through scrutineering before the event to speed up the scrutineering process. Ironically enough the first competitor through pre-tech was Toronto Ontario’s Jason Drummond as part of his “One Lap Of Canada” tour where he attended Solo 2 events in as many places he could across Canada, from Toronto to Prince Edward Island to Alberta and back, in 31 days. Friday August 19th began with a SCCA EVO 1 half day Autoslalom School. The event organizers made arrangements for 3 SCCA National Champions to come up to Red Deer and lead a school for some 27 interested competitors. A Test and Tune took place at Westerner Fair Grounds following the EVO school. This is where competitors got their vehicles into "solo trim" to get a few runs at speed on the surface that will be used for the weekend. Jason Drummond’s Crew Chief and little brother Rob hard at work preparing for the event ahead After the Test and Tune was completed the organizing club set up the Day 1 course allowing people to remain on site to get a few course walks so the next morning could be spent with final event preparations. August 20 Canadian Autoslalom Championship Day 1 - Red Deer, Alberta The ASN Canada FIA sanctioned national Canadian Autoslalom Championships consists of a two separate days of competition on two similar courses. Both days would be run as separate events and at the end of the second day the quickest times from each day would be taken and added together giving each competitor an event time. Then the combined event times would determine the two day event class winners. Waiting on the Grid to be scanned and getting ready to run All of the competitors would also have there two day event times PAX’d (a performance indexing system used to “level” the entire field so each vehicle can be compared to all other vehicles, regardless of car or prep level) to determine an Overall Event Winner or a National Autoslalom Champion. The first day of competition was a busy and hectic day. Almost everyone had been pre-registered and pre-event scrutineered, either on Wednesday or sometime on Friday. Most competitors also had a chance to do the course walks the night before but now came the time for final course walks and sizing up the competition. Since the event was held in Central Alberta, there weren’t a large number of competitors from the eastern part of the country. Five of Ontario's competitors had made the trek out to Red Deer including; Tony Kloosterman, Jason Drummond, Trung and Anna Do and Wes Tanney, all made the trip. Jason had previously made the trip to Red Deer for the 2003 CNAC event as well as last year's CAC event in Sanair Quebec. Both Tony and Wes were defending their National Class Championships from last year and Trung and Anna were in their first national level event. There were also a number of competitors from Manitoba and Saskatchewan, but the bulk of the 125 competitors were from British Columbia and Alberta. The announcer added a lot to the event, this one even had a Cowboy hat on to remind us we were in Alberta…. VCMC Motorsport Club provided their timing system for the event, complete with a big display and bar code scanner. Each car would pull up to the pre-grid where they were scanned into the system and shuffled back in line on the run grid. After completing the run, the display immediately flashed up the competitor's time so each competitor knew where they stood after the run. Commentary was also provided through out both days so the casual spectator and marshals would have an idea of what was going on with the event. Everyone was broken up into run groups which were determined by class. Each competitor did all four of their runs almost one after another. This proved to be a challenge for some of the two driver vehicles, specifically those running the new Kumho V710's as these tires like to run at fairly low temperatures. The first driver had the advantage during their first two runs, but then the tires seem to go off with all of the heat build up. Most drivers using the Kuhmo's could be seen either spraying their tires down with ice water or wrapping them in cool wet towels trying to soak some of the heat out of the tires. Don Nimi’s 500hp Nissan 240 SX There were some great class battles through out the day and the weekend. Day 1's closest battle was in B Stock where Calgary's Ambrose Fung and Greenwich Connecticut’s SCCA EVO School instructor Ken Frey, both driving Fung's Toyoto MR2 Turbo, were a mere 0.002 seconds apart. D Stock had Winnipeg's Mike Florence in a Nissan Sentra SER Spec V out in front by 0.539 seconds, but second, third and fourth in class were only separated by 0.218 seconds and fifth not far behind. G Stock had Calgary's Anthony Lo in an Acura RXS Type S narrowly edging Langley British Columbia's Neil Armstrong in a Toyota Celica by 0.122 seconds with another four competitors nipping at their heels. SCCA’s Kevin Dietz getting used to the Miata C Super Stock saw Winnipeg's Cory Dyck just edging Seattle Washington's Kevin Dietz, another SCCA EVO School instructor, by 0.128 seconds, both drivers in Mazda Miata's. Another battle that was shaping up was in D Super Stock. Day 1 had Patrick Smith and his VW Jetta 1.8T out in front of Ryan Warrington's Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS by 0.158 seconds. F Super Stock was also a close class with Scott Wolff from St. Albert, Alberta in his Mazda Protege just sneaking ahead of Toronto's Jason Drummond and his Honda Civic by 0.033 of a second and third place Robert Brigham and his Ford Focus ZX3 from Calgary was only 0.086 back from the leader. C Street Prepared, pretty much a Miata class, had Westbank British Columbia's Jim McLaughlan ahead of Calgary's Rodney Brassard by 0.108 seconds and Vancouver's Yarko Petriw was only 0.417 seconds off the class lead. Tom Kotzian lifting a front wheel in the Saleen E Street Prepared had last year's Class Champion, London Ontario's Tony Kloosterman and his Subaru WRX just 0.182 seconds behind Gladstone Oregon's SCCA EVO Instructor Tom Kotzian and a borrowed Ford Saleen. D Modified was another close one with Calgary's Warren Hope in a Toyota MR2 edging Spruce Grove British Columbia's Jerry Wood in his Corvette by 0.211 seconds. After the PAX adjustment is made to each competitor’s run times, C Super Stock competitor Corey Dyck was on top of the Overall Championship with H Stock’s Nuno Ferreira in a close second and SCCA’s Kevin Dietz in third. 2005 CANADIAN AUTOSLALOM CHAMPIONSHIP DAY 1 INDEX RESULTS VCMC MOTORSPORT CLUB & CALGARY SPORTS CAR CLUB AUG 19~20, 2005 CAC.SPEEDRACER.CA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- POS CLS N DRIVER NAME CLUB YR MAKE MODEL SPONSOR TIRES BEST IDX ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. CSS COREY DYCK WSCC 90 MAZDA MIATA WWW.WPG-AUTOX.ORG KUMHO 36.516 2. HS NUNO FERREIRA CSCC 02 MINI COPPER SHADOWTINTING KUMHO 36.579 3. CSS KEVIN DIETZ SCCA 90 MAZDA MIATA EVO SCHOOL,THANKS LAWRENCE KUMHO 36.622 4. FSP SHANE JENSEN VCMC 94 HONDA CIVIC KUMHO 36.741 5. CSS BRUNO WALTER UBC 91 MAZDA MIATA KUMHO 36.870 6. DSP DON NIMI VCMC 91 NISSAN 240SX PDM RACING KUMHO 36.874 7. AS REIJO SILVENNOINEN CSCC 03 HONDA S2000 MYTIRES.CA HOOSIER 36.882 8. ESS MARK BRAND ASA 04 SUBARU WRX STI TOYO 36.903 9. GS ANTHONY LO CSCC 02 ACURA RSX-S KUMHO 36.925 10. GS NEIL ARMSTRONG VCMC 03 TOYOTA CELICA KUMHO 37.021 Of course all of these classes, other classes and the Overall Championship battles had to carry over to the second day....... Lots of good food and company, not to mention door prizes were to be had at the Saturday evening banquet. The day was capped off with an awesome banquet held on site in the Westerner Fair Ground’s Frontier Room. This is where the real activities happened with lots of if only’s, bench racing, delicious roast beef and great company.
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