The 2011 / 2012 Season Is Over…
The 2011/ 2012 Season has drawn to a close, those struggling this year might even say it’s finally drawn to close. What did we learn that we didn’t know 8 months ago? The most
Super Stock Extraordinaire
obvious is that John Pileggi has really figured out Super Stocks (although, in truth, we already knew that – JR). After a tough start to the season (bent axle at MVH), he rallied for six straight wins totally dominating the class. Coupled with last season, Dr P has won eleven of the past 14 Super Stock races that he’s entered. Maybe it’s time for MARC to drop this class!!! (just kidding – JR). Paul Ryer also had a great season in Super Stocks with six wins in the Amateur Championship division including one overall win at Tom Bussmann’s Schlitzerland Raceway on March 17th (luck of the Irish…). He might be the only one capable of challenging Dr P next season.… Paul also won the tightly contested Amateur Production division moving him to Pros next season. In the Amateur Production division, there were a total of seven different winners with no one winning more than twice – that’s some TIGHT racing! In the Pro Production division, yours truly took advantage of an early season victory streak of 4 wins to take the championship (five straight if you include the US G-Jet GP…) but once the rest of the field got used to the feel of slip-on tires, the remaining victories were split amongst 5 other racers. Our champions for the 2011 / 2012 Season are:
Championship Division (Super Stocks and CMPM Modifieds):
Pro Amateur
1st John Pileggi Paul Ryer
2nd John Reimels Dave Muse
3rd Rob Hayes Vince Tamburo
4th Tom Gray Eric Handel
Production Division (G-Jets and 902 F1):
Pro Amateur
1st John Reimels Paul Ryer
2nd John Stezelecki Vince Tamburo
3rd John Pileggi Dave Muse
4th Rob Hayes Tom Bussmann
Paul Ryer and Tom Gray get perfect attendance awards, both making all ten races. John Stezelecki and I get the near perfect attendance award, each making 9 races. We had 11
Newest Addition to the Pro ranks - Paul Ryer
Pro members attend at least one race with 18 Amateur members doing likewise. In addition we had 11 non-members join us for at least one race; that brings the season total to 40 racers having attended at least one race! Last year we had 16 Amateurs, 8 Pros and 14 non-members for a total of 38 so we’re up 2 racers this year – Bravo!!!! We averaged 15.5 racers per event with the season high being 23 racers at Rob Hayes’ Catfish International on November 5th. In comparison we had an average of 14 racers last year. The attendance tapered down toward season’s end with the last four races only averaging 11.5 racers per event. Me thinks the exceptionally warm spring hampered our attendance.
Speaking of warm weather, our season isn’t over quite yet, we still have the Rules Meeting
Our Fearless Director - Tom Gray
scheduled for Saturday, August 11th at Peter Lentros’ Magic Barn (the real magic is in finding the place…). There are lots of rumors in the air about rule changes, please take note, while all members are invited to attend the rules meeting, only those having attended four races are eligible to vote. For consideration, all rule proposals MUST be sent to Tom Gray by July 18th - so be forewarned, no last minute submissions. We’ll also be selecting officers for next season – if anyone is interested in an officer position, I suggest taking two aspirins and reconsider – they really are thankless jobs. In an effort to correct that fact, I personally would like to thank Tom Gray, he’s performed yeomen service as Director of the club for the past two seasons – well played sir!
Thanks to everyone involved in making this season such a success and congratulations to the champions in all four divisions. Nicely Done All!
John Reimels
MARC Communication Director
Member since 2009
Race Results – Thompson Raceway Park
The points have been tallied and posted as has the race report. For those missing this
The very challenging Thompson Raceway Park - elevation changes and all...
event, the weather was perfect allowing the garage door to the pit area to be left open – a refreshing change from our mid-winter events! Durf has developed a very challenging circuit with the elevation changes creating a unique racing experience.
The choice of CanAm bodies for G-Jets was, at least for me, the highlight of the event. Be forewarned, I’m going to
CanAm Bodies - Life is Good...
make a push at the rules meeting for more special events like this; vintage NASCAR, TransAm, CanAm – let’s shake things up a bit!
Race Results – TajMaHO
The race report from the April 14th event at Dan DiCosmo’s TajMaHO has been posted
902 ready for action in the Production class
and the point standings have been updated. I would like to thank Dan for stepping in at the last minute to host this event as the originally scheduled venue (TK’s Motorsport Park) had cat damage… Next up, Durf Hyson’s Thompson Motorsports Park (see below for more details)
Race Results – Schlitzerland Raceway
The race report from Tom Bussmann’s event has been posted as have the updated point standings and race results. We had 14 racers at Schlitzerland Raceway despite the holiday
The Motley Crew
conflict and the wonderful weather. We have two races to go in the season, there’s a lot of championship podium positions still undecided. Don’t forget the rules meeting requirement, to be eligible to vote, you must be a member in good standing and have participated in at least four events.
The next race will be at Tom Kanan’s TK Motorsport Park in Middletown, NY on April 14th. We’ll be racing Super Stocks and F1 902 Production cars.
Wednesday Night Racing
Technically, the Wednesday night series run by John Stezelecki is not part of the MARC series, however I’ve been asked by numerous folks to post the monthly rotation here so folks are aware of the schedule. Before heading out, do yourself a favor and confirm with John Stezelecki or John Reimels the exact location, sometimes we’re forced to swap venues due to conflicts.
1st Wednesday of the month – Paul Ryer’s South Shore Speedway – Hingham
2nd Wednesday – Peter Lentros’ LenJet Raceway in Modelville Hobby – Ashland
3rd Wednesday – Rob Hayes’ Catfish International – Cambridge
4th Wednesday – John Stezelecki’s Nantasket Beach Speedway – Hull
5th Wednesday - default is Nantasket Beach but it moves around…
2011-2012 Officials:
- Club Director: Tom Gray
- Tech Inspectors: Bill Craven, Jonathan Reimels, Paul Ryer
- Alternate: John Reimels
- Communications Director: John Reimels
- Scribe: Paul Ryer