NickS Posted April 30, 2002 Posted April 30, 2002 The CMC race weekend number three of the 2002 season was held once again at Buttonwillow raceway but the change to a new configuration proved to be a handful of new twists and turns for everyone. The technical bus stop section was replaced by a long fast straight after the famed Taladega sweeper. The attendance was excellent, with 14 drivers showing up for some fun filled door to door racing, among those in attendance were rookies Adams, Kincy, Graves and newcomer Greg Robinson. Saturdays qualifying showed Campbell, Littleton, Steel, D.Trask, Guaglione, Ducharme, Lee/Brietenbach, setting times in the 2:01-2:04 range. Saturday's race saw a three row inversion at the front which put Littleton on the pole and Guaglione on the outside of the front row. Trask, Steel, Campbell, Lee, followed closed out the front three rows. The green flag dropped earlier than expected and Guaglione wasted no time and took the lead with Steel glued to his back bumper. Despite his best efforts, Steel wasn’t able to put a pass on Guaglione. Campbell had an amazing drive. After recovering from a bad start, he charged through the field to finish in a solid third. The final results were Guaglione taking the checkered with Steel in second, then hard charging Campbell in third, with Brietenbach closing out the top four. Littleton, Ducharme, Trask, Adams, Robinson, Bergman, Kincy, Graves and Stowel rounded out the field. Sunday qualifying saw the grid set with: Campbell, Littleton, Don Trask, Steel, Ducharme, Lee, Almieda/Stowell, Kincy, Bergman, Graves and Robinson. Due to a blown headgasket suffered during Saturday's race, a sidelined Guaglione was the official flag waver for the start of Sunday's race. Boy did he have a bird’s eye view of the of the entire race. At the start, it was Campbell jumping off to the lead with Trask, Littleton and Steel in hot pursuit. Trask, in his 1995 Camaro, did an excellent job of holding Littleton and Steel at bay. About halfway into the race, Littleton finally got around Trask, but that was it for the change in order. The end result was Campbell taking the flag, with Littleton, Trask, Steel, Ducharme, Lee, Graves, Kincy, Robinson, Bergman,and Almieda. Bergman made some great passes during the race to come up to a mid field position, but a late spin unfortunately made her lose ground on some of the guys. A special thanks to Brian Lee who drove all the way from the Portland Oregon area to come and race with us! Other items of note, this past weekend was the first race for Steve Graves and newcomer Greg Robinson! We'll be seeing more of these guys throughout the year! Our next race takes us to Thunderhill Raceway on May11/12th. If you have not been there then you must come and race here, it's a CMC favorite and sure to draw some old familiar faces as well as a few new ones! The 2002 CMC season points are available at: http://www.camaromustangchallenge.com/points.html - Nick Steel - Tony Guaglione CMC Directors Quote
Greg R. Posted May 2, 2002 Posted May 2, 2002 A big THANK YOU to all in the CMC family for a great weekend. I received a warm welcome from all and the encouragement was appreciated. I look forward to racing again with all of you soon. Perhaps I will have more than 185hp/262 next time! Greg Robinson, #12 Mustang Byron Mathieu, Crew Chief Quote
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