There was a very good turnout with a full complement of ten
(10) cars were on hand for Points Race #1 the second race of the 2015 Season. The
temperature was fantastic in the upper 70’s.
Cliff Scales had a new driver ride with him to the track and
everyone welcomed Evan Bernard to the Lagoon Park Raceway. Evan had only ran
once before at the Winter Nationals and he got out on the track and ran in the
6.6 range in practice which is very fast for a limited experienced driver in ¼ Scale.
His fastest lap was 6.455 seconds in Heat #1 very respectable. Great Job Evan.
For the 2nd race we continued our preparation for the QSAC
NCS#1 on April 24th-25th and we ran a timed qualifying session. The upgraded
software has a great feature which will list the fastest lap of each driver LIVE
on one screen which is great and we found out one way to print the screen is to
use the “PRT SC” button which in Windows 8 autosaves the screen to the Pictures
Folder under This PC directory.
The top 3 in Timed Qualifying were 1st Scott Harper (TNT) @ 6.167
seconds (Bonus Point), 2nd David
Popham (Lightning) @ 6.207 and 3rd Jerry Evans (TNT) @ 6.314 seconds.
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Group 1 Heat #1 Racers were James Adamson, Cliff Scales, “Fast”
Eddie McCray, Wayne Rogers and Evan Bernard.
James Adamson would DNS.
Winner of the Heat was Wayne Rogers in a Lightning, 2nd Cliff
Scales, 3rd Eddie McCray, 4th Evan Bernard and 5th James Adamson.
Lap Leaders:
Cliff
Scales 1-12
Wayne Rogers 13-50
Fast Lap of the Heat – Cliff Scales (TNT) in 6.379 seconds.
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Group 2 Heat #1 Racers were Scott Harper, David Popham, Jerry
Evans, Mike Clark and Eddie Dunn.
Winner of the Heat was Scott Harper in a TNT, 2nd Jerry Evans,
3rd David Popham, 4th Eddie Dunn, and 5th Mike Clark.
Lap Leaders:
Scott
Harper 1-50
Fast Lap of the Heat – Scott Harper (TNT) in 6.189 seconds.
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Group 1 Heat #2 Racers were inverted and had Evan Bernard on
Pole.
Winner of the Heat was Wayne Rogers in a Lightning, 2nd James
Adamson, 3rd Eddie McCray, 4th Evan Bernard and 5th Cliff Scales.
Lap Leaders:
Evan
Bernard 1-4, 8-9
Cliff
Scales 5-7, 10-20
Wayne
Rogers 21-50
Fast Lap of the Heat – Wayne Rogers (Lightning) in 6.531
seconds.
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Group 2 Heat #2 Racers were inverted and had Eddie Dunn on
Pole.
Winner of the Heat was Scott Harper in a TNT, 2nd Jerry Evans,
3rd Mike Clark, 4th David Popham, and 5th Eddie Dunn.
Lap Leaders:
Eddie
Dunn 1-6
Jerry
Evans 7-17
Scott
Harper 18-50
Fast Lap of the Heat – Scott Harper (TNT) in 6.039 seconds.
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Group 1 Heat #3 Racers had James Adamson on Pole.
Winner of the Heat was Wayne Rogers in a Lightning, 2nd Cliff
Scales, 3rd Eddie McCray, 4th James Adamson and 5th Evan Bernard DNS.
Lap Leaders:
James
Adamson 1-2
Cliff
Scales 3-17
Wayne
Rogers 18-50
Fast Lap of the Heat – James Adamson (PRO1) in 6.421 seconds.
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Group 2 Heat #3 Racers had Scott Harper on Pole.
Winner of the Heat was Mike Clark in a TNT, 2nd Jerry Evans,
3rd David Popham, 4th Scott Harper and 5th Eddie Dunn.
Lap Leaders:
Scott
Harper 1-36
Cliff
Scales 37-50
Fast Lap of the Heat – Scott Harper (TNT) in 6.028 seconds.
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B Main Racers were David Popham on Pole, James Adamson, Evan
Bernard and Eddie Dunn. Three (3) of the drivers would Bump Up to the A Main.
James Adamson would drop out on Lap 19 leaving the other
drivers in the Bump Up positions.
Winner of the B Main was David Popham in a Lightning, 2nd Eddie
Dunn, 3rd Evan Bernard, and 4th James Adamson.
Lap Leaders:
David
Popham 1-75
Fast Lap of the Heat – Eddie Dunn (Lightning) in 6.271
seconds.
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A
Main lineup
1st
– Wayne Rogers (Bonus Point for TQ)
2nd
– Scott Harper
3rd
– Jerry Evans
4th
– Mike Clark
5th
– Cliff Scales
6th
– Eddie McCray
7th
– David Popham (Bump Up)
8th
– Eddie Dunn (Bump Up)
9th
– Evan Bernard (Bump Up)
Wayne
Rogers would lead the 1st Lap but got out of the grove and dropped back with
Scott Harper taking the Lead.
Scott
Harper pulled his car off the track on Lap 36 with servo issues finishing 9th and
Jerry Evans would now be in 1st.
Eddie
McCray would drop out on Lap 46 finishing 8th.
Jerry
Evans would hold the lead at the hallway fuel stop at Lap 75, 2nd was Mike Clark,
3rd Cliff Scales, 4th David Popham, 5th Eddie Dunn, 6th Wayne Rogers, 7th Evan
Bernard of the cars still on the track.
Biggest
movers was David Popham 7th to 4th.
Jerry
Evans would lead until Lap 93 where Cliff Scales took over 1st.
On
Lap 100 there was a big shakeup and Mike Clark was 1st, David Popham 2nd, Eddie
Dunn 3rd, Wayne Rogers 4th, Jerry Evans 5th, Cliff Scales 6th, and Evan Bernard
7th.
By
Lap 110 Jerry Evans had moved back up to 2nd and started pushing hard to catch
Mike Clark. Jerry pushed a little too hard and brought out the caution on 146.
There
would be a Green – White – Checker Flag for the Win of the A Main.
The
tension was high as there were still 5 Cars on the Lead Lap.
Mike
Clark (TNT) held on for the Win of the Points Race #1 along with the Bonus Point for the Win by .333 seconds
over 2nd Place David Popham (Lightning), 3rd was Eddie Dunn (Lightning) .821
back, 4th was Cliff Scales 1.810 back, 5th Jerry Evans 2.238 back, 6th Wayne
Rogers, 7th Evan Bernard, 8th Eddie McCray, and 9th Scott Harper.
Biggest
mover of the A Main was both David Popham 7th to 2nd, and Eddie Dunn 8th to
3rd.
Lap
Leaders:
Wayne
Rogers 1
Scott
Harper 2-36
Jerry
Evans 37-92
Cliff
Scales 93-99
Mike
Clark 100-150
Fast
Lap of the A Main was Jerry Evans (TNT) in a time of 6.458 seconds.
Points
Race #2 is 3/28/15 and is a Night Race with Qualifying set for 4:00 PM.
