Results

Saturday Results


Sunday Results

• A Double South Atlantic Road Racing Championship (SARRC) event (one SARRC qualifying and race on Saturday, one on Sunday). SARRC is Southeast Division SCCA’s regional racing series, and is open to all SCCA classes under the General Competition Rules (GCR), as well as all Southeast Division Regional Classes.
• A Double Carolina Cup Pro Series (CCPS) event (one qualifying and race on Saturday, one on Sunday). CCPS is a 45-minute endurance race restricted to Spec Miata, Spec MX5, Improved Touring, Spec Racer Ford, Showroom Stock, T3, NASA Spec E30, and NASA Honda Challenge cars. CCPS races feature prize money payouts for top finishers in both individual events and season points.

Discounted entries are available for drivers who wish to participate in both SARRC and CCPS.

Event Information

Information and Online Registration
Supplemental Regulations (PDF)
Event Schedule (PDF)
Entry List

Volunteers

Volunteers are needed for this event. Please register online at MotorsportReg.com (same link as driver registration above) if you would like to volunteer. Volunteers have a choice of the following reimbursements for expenses:

• Hotel room (double occupancy) for Friday and Saturday nights
• Hotel room (single occupancy) – region pays for half
• $30 cash reimbursement for each day worked
• $30 off South Carolina Region PDX/Time Trial entry for each day worked
• Free South Carolina Region Solo entry for each day worked

Contact Information

Please contact our Race Chairman, Melanie Murray, ( melanie@scsportscar.com, 843-224-2449) with any questions, or if you are having trouble registering contact our Registrar, Betsy Speed (bspeeding@hotmail.com, 704-575-5960 ).

A valid SCCA SCR membership number is required. You can only vote once, duplicate votes from the same membership number will be deleted.

Voting will be open until 11:59 PM on November 30th, 2012.

You can see a list of candidates with a picture and summary statement here.

Positions that you can nominate someone for:
Regional Executive
Assistant Regional Executive
Secretary
Treasurer
Member at Large (there will be 4 of these positions).

An email will be going out to registrants very soon regarding the cancellation and refunds.

On behalf SCR, I would like to apologize for the cancellation, especially to those of you who have already made travel and accommodation plans.

The Charles Bifano Memorial is a two day weekend of Driver’s Education and Time Trial hosted by South Carolina Region SCCA, consisting of the following events on September 15-16, 2012, at Carolina Motorsports Park in Kershaw, SC:

PDX – “Performance Driving Experience” – also known as a HPDE or Track Day, this is an educational event designed to let you take your street car on the Carolina Motorsports Park race course at speed, with an in-car instructor who will teach you the basics of handling your car on a race track. Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced groups are available.

Club Trial – a 2-day time trial event for licensed Time Trial/Club Racing drivers, or drivers with equivalent track experience to PDX Advanced.

EVENT INFO AND ONLINE REGISTRATION: Here

Questions? Contact membership@scsportscar.com or call us at 803-386-7727.

Regarding sites we can use – we certainly don’t want to be picky, but there are a couple of key factors that need to be kept in mind so that we don’t waste anyone’s time:

surface condition
size of lot (approx 300 feet x 700 feet) we could give a little either way
location – generally Columbia, Charleston, Myrtle Beach and surrounding areas

Thanks in advance for your help!

Regional Executive – Joe Oliveira
Assistant Regional Executive – Melanie Murray
Secretary – Jocelyn Locascio
Treasurer – Patrick Blume
Board members at large – Daniel Blakeney, Roy Lowder, Nick Hallman, Donna Littlejohn

Email:  scrboard@scsportscar.com

Gamecock Chapter

Chapter Coordinator – Ian Ray-Smith
Assistant Coordinator – Brian Daraz
Chapter Secretary – Bridget Cate
Chapter Treasurer – Medwyn McClelland

Coastal Carolina (Myrtle Beach):

Chapter Coordinator – C.D. Rozsa
Assistant Coordinator – Gary Bennett Jr.
Chapter Secretary – Mike Vaughan

Swamp Fox (Charleston):

Chapter Coordinator – Melanie Murray

Garrett Molzer and Bryan Hayes (pictured) piloted Frankenstook to 4th place and 7th place finishes against a tough F Prepared field, and showed they have what it takes to challenge for a championship.

This week, 9 South Carolina Region members were on course for the 2011 Tire Rack SCCA Solo National Championships in Lincoln, Nebraska. It took 4 days to run nearly 1,200 competitors through 3 runs on each of 2 different courses at the Lincoln Airpark. Our drivers faced the best talent and car preparation the world of autocross has to offer, and came out looking good!  Thanks to everyone who followed your fellow SCR members this week.  Here’s how they did!

Tuesday/Wednesday Drivers

Congratulations to our Tuesday/Wednesday drivers on an excellent showing against some tough competition, bringing home two trophies!

• Bryan Hayes (F Prepared, Honda S2000) – 7th place (trophy finish) out of 25
• Garrett Molzer (F Prepared, Honda S2000) – 4th place (trophy finish) out of 25
• Chuck Pyanowski (Super Street Modified, Nissan 300ZX) – 11th out of 24

Thursday/Friday Drivers

Our Thursday/Friday drivers put on an excellent showing in some of the toughest classes in SCCA Solo… and one of them is now wearing a championship jacket!

• Andrea Feay (F Street Prepared Ladies, Volkswagen Rabbit) – 3rd place (trophy finish) out of 9
• Aimee Fincher (F Street Prepared Ladies, Volkswagen Rabbit) – 5th place out of 9
• Jon Nwanagu (Street Touring R, Honda S2000) – 35th place out of 64
• Matt Palombi (F Street Prepared, Volkswagen Rabbit) – 10th place out of 24
• Jadrice Toussaint (B Stock, Honda S2000) – 1st place out of 33, NATIONAL CHAMP!
• Geoff Zimmer (F Street Prepared, Volkswagen Rabbit) – 6th place (trophy finish) out of 24

Bryan Hayes is now a Nationals trophy winner both as a driver and as an engineer, having developed Frankenstook into a competitive car against some of the best builders Solo competition has to offer.

Post-Solo Nationals Party

Our monthly Columbia Member Meeting will be a party in honor of our Nationals competitors at My Mechanic Auto Center in West Columbia:

Tuesday, September 6
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
My Mechanic Auto Center
900 Williams Street
West Columbia, SC

We’ll throw some burgers and hot dogs on the grill, and have plenty of beverages available.

So that we can get some great food and drink, we’re asking that everyone bring $5 to throw in the pot for this event. We’ll make sure to get you more than your money’s worth, we promise!

And so we can get a rough idea of how much to buy, please take a quick second to sign up online here:

http://tinyurl.com/2011scrparty

We hope to see lots of you there! We have a busymeeting – not only will we be reviewing Solo Nationals, but we’ll also be previewing the upcoming PDX/Time Trial/CCPS/ECR at Carolina Motorsports Park on September 17-18, as well as our next Solo at the Black Lake (Michelin Proving Grounds) on September 24.

Complete Solo Nationals Coverage and Results

You can review all of the Solo Nationals coverage here:

• Live Blogging of SCR Competitors – Facebook
• Solo Nationals Recap on SCCA.com
• Final Results

Congratulations to our SCR drivers… we’re proud of you!

The weather was predictably hot in Florence as 67 drivers braved the 93° heat and humidity to battle each other and the course in Round 6 of the 2011 Folger Subaru South Carolina Autocross Championship.  In spite of the absence of many top competitors from this weekend’s event, the action turned out to be even hotter than the weather, with many close class battles and more than a few surprise winners.

With the light turnout and the aforementioned heat sure to bear down later in the day, Solo Chair Thom Mezzapelle made the call to offer six official runs, but divide them into two sets of three.  Each of the two heats ran three times in the morning, took a brief lunch break, and resumed competition in the afternoon with another set of three runs.  As a result, both heats enjoyed the faster course conditions of the morning, and both struggled to match their earlier times in the afternoon when the sealed asphalt surface began to absorb more heat and refused to offer the same grip it had before.

In B Stock, Jeff McClain squeaked out a win over Joe Halford by .172 seconds.  Joe dropped half a second off of his morning times in his final two runs – making him one of the few to do so on Saturday – but was unable to squeeze out those extra 2 tenths needed to best Jeff.  Meanwhile, Dan Lackore struggled through four cone-heavy runs before finally putting together a clean 49.943 to best a steadily-improving Derek Blanton.  Derek, who purchased a 2011 VW GTI at the beginning of the season to replace his H Stock MINI Cooper, has evidently found the new ride to his liking.  Derek has been putting increased pressure on the G Stock leaders as the season progresses.

B Street Prepared had one of its best showings this year, with five cars in class, but everyone was looking at the (decal-covered) rear bumper of Adam Benaway, who ran away with the class on his very first run of 46.665.  Even though his worn-out tires were unable to propel him any faster in subsequent runs, that run was good enough for the 4th fastest raw time of the day.

The always-competitive Street Touring did not disappoint, with nine cars in class and an epic battle that saw the top five cars in class finish in the top 12 in PAX and qualify for the Folger Subaru Shootout.  Robby Mundo’s Subaru Impreza came out on top, on the strength of a 47.840 in Robby’s second run.  In the afternoon session, Jarret Cox inched closer and closer as Robby struggled with cones, but ultimately came up a scant .032 seconds short on his 6th and final run.  Street Touring S only had three cars in class, but all three battled within .472 seconds of each other.  Kelly Mezzapelle was over 2 seconds back of leader John Byrd with three runs left to go, but John was unable to improve his time in the afternoon.  Kelly charged hard in the ’97 Mazda Miata she shares with husband Thom, and her fourth run brought her within .069 seconds of the lead.  However, the cone bug bit her on her final two attempts, handing the win to John.

Street Touring X was missing several top contenders, including Heath Olinger, David Delli-Gatti, and Gary Heidebrecht.  They may all have been bested anyway by a stellar performance from Masayuki Todoroki in his Honda Civic Si.  Masayuki, a graduate of the Solo Novice School hosted by South Carolina Region in February, showed he has learned much in the last six months by ripping off a 48.713 to take the win over Michael Delli-Gatti.  Street Touring U brought us another close battle as Dave Jenkins sneaked past Jon Davis by just .167 seconds, as did Street Modified FWD, where Chad Matthews and his MINI Cooper S beat co-driver Roy Lowder by .121 seconds.

Nine Novice class drivers took to the cones on Saturday, with several first-timers getting bitten by the autocross bug.  Medwyn McClelland, one of the members of our new Gamecock Chapter for USC students, made the trip from Columbia in his new-to-him BMW 540i, turning in a time of 57.705.  Shaun Durant, the manager of the nearby Residence Inn by Marriott, brought his Mustang V6 out to play and had a blast.  “I’m hooked,” he said.  “I don’t know how I missed this before, but I’ll definitely be back.” All three of the Marriott hotels next door to Florence Civic Center – the Courtyard, SpringHill, and Residence Inn – are owned by Raines Development Group and are the official hotels for South Carolina Region events in the Florence area.  In addition to supporting SCR events, the Raines group now supplies SCR with two competitors in the form of Shaun and long time member Grey Raines.

On the course, another brand-new autocrosser, Toyo Phongprija, piloted his Honda S2000 to a time of 52.483 and the Novice class win.  In Pro class, all of SCR’s Solo Nationals hopefuls were missing in action, except for one (Chuck Pyanowski).  In their absence, Nick Hallman drove the borrowed Subaru STi of Jon Davis to his first Pro class win and the fastest PAX time of the day overall, with a 46.587 (39.039 PAX).

When the day’s official runs were done, the Top 12 PAX finishers were rounded up and sent out for a final set of runs in the Folger Subaru Shootout.  The Shootout allows the fastest 12 to take one additional run.  Times from that run are compared using the PAX index, a multiplier designed to handicap times amongst all the various Solo classes.  From there, the fastest 6 go out for one more run, then the fastest three to finally determine one winner.

In Round 1, Michael Vaughan and his Subaru STi seized a ticket to the second round, turning in a 47.046 (39.424 PAX), .4 seconds better than anything he ran in during official runs.  He wasn’t finished, either.  William Bostic climbed up from 8th in official runs to 4th in Round 1 on the strength of a 47.309 (39.928 PAX) in his Mazdaspeed 3, eliminating Chuck Pyanowski, who was 6th in PAX during the day, from the competition.

In Round 2, the upsets came raining down.  Don Bruner, Jr., Vaughan, and Jarret Cox went 1-2-3, eliminating PAX winner Hallman, who was unable to match his earlier times after a crucial bobble in the slalom.  Bruner’s run to the final round was particularly impressive given that the PAX index for F125 shifter karts is a mammoth 0.952, meaning that he must run raw times that are almost as fast as everyone else’s PAX times.  Bruner did just that, seizing the Round 2 win with a ridiculously fast raw time of 40.742 (38.786 PAX).  Vaughan proved his Round 1 heroics were no fluke by turning a 46.455 (38.929 PAX), a better time than Hallman’s top time in official runs and just .143 behind Bruner.

In Round 3, Vaughan and Bruner both knew they had to go for broke, and Cox was lurking, hoping for both to make a key mistake to give him the win.  Bruner nearly matched his Round 2 time, turning in a 40.980, but that just set the table for Vaughan, who obliterated his earlier time with a 45.914 (38.475), easily the best PAX time of the day and more than enough to give him the victory in the Folger Subaru Shootout.

When all was said and done, Round 6 of the Folger Subaru South Carolina Autocross Championship turned out to be well worth enduring the sunny weather, with a safe and fun event and intense competition to be found everywhere.  If you missed us, we hope to catch you next month, when South Carolina Region runs The Endless Summer – a PDX, Time Trial, and Club Racing weekend at Carolina Motorsports Park on September 17-18; and Round 7 of the Folger Subaru South Carolina Autocross Championship returns to the Michelin Proving Grounds (the “Black Lake”) in Laurens, SC on September 24.

Results

• Final Results
• Raw Results
• PAX Results
• Summary Results
• Folger Subaru Shootout – Round 1
• Folger Subaru Shootout – Round 2
• Folger Subaru Shootout – Round 3