Viper Days Results up on the web page!

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See how everyone did at the Willow Springs event.

www.viperdays.com

Thanks to all of the drivers that made the event such a success. We hope to see all of you and many other at our next evetn at Buttonwillow Feb 22 & 23

Here are the results!

Unlimited Time Points

Jim Stout 1:28.778 1000
Fred Lee 1:30.967 976
Rob Bowman 1:41.173 877

Competition Coupe Unlimited Time Points

Russ Oasis 1:35.869 1000

Super Modified Time Points

John Dearing 1:28.310 1000
John Weigel 1:29.280 989
Lance Watkins 1:30.372 978
Ken Adelberg 1:30.536 975
Renan Bayar 1:31.822 962
Bob Griffith 1:33.341 946
Michael Greenberg 1:35.815 922
Roger Morgan 1:36.200 918
Ed Robertson 1:37.216 908
Al Lewis 1:39.459 888
Tom Fewell 1:39.986 883
Bernard Barker 1:41.853 867
Greg Baxter 1:44.161 848

Modified Time Points

Ron Wasserman 1:37.389 1000
Joe Kramer 1:50.944 878

Prepared Time Points

Joe Bregante 1:38.815 1000
Michael Fullerton 1:39.158 997
Denny Straub 1:39.802 990
Chuck Clanton 1:42.203 967
Walter Keating 1:42.465 964
Ken Melgoza 1:44.478 946
David Koenig 1:44.869 942
Jon Secrist 1:48.106 914
Art Irvin 1:49.245 905
Jared Keating 1:51.955 883

Super Stock Time Points

Terry Rossi 1:31.860 1000
Lauren Levine 1:39.546 923
Bill Lamb 1:39.692 921
John Martinez 1:41.310 907
Marko Radosavljevic 1:41.758 903
Zuzana Kukol 2:08.781 713


Stock Time Points

Reeves Little 1:37.618 1000
Ted May 1:38.492 991
Stephanie May 1:41.138 965
Susan Schoen 1:47.325 910
Doug Schoen 1:47.467 908


Neon Time Points
Kathy Stout 1:50.255 1000

Viper Racing League Race - Saturday
Best Time
of Weekend
1. Sonny Whelen - 1st GT-1 1:24.811
2. Skip Cummins - 2nd GT-1 1:25.091
3. Ritch Marziale - 3rd GT-1 1:25.495
4. Paul Schley - 4th GT-1 01:27.190
5. Steve Westlund - 5th GT-1 1:29.688
6. Al Becerra - 6th GT-1 1:29.531
7. Scot Kenney - 7th GT-1 1:32.800
8. John Grieco - DNS 1:225.746


VRL Race - Sunday
1. Sonny Whelen- 1st GT-1
2. Skip Cummins - 2nd GT-1
3. John Grieco - 3rd GT-1
4. Al Becerra - 4th GT-1
5. Ritch Marziale - 5th GT-1
6. Paul Schley - DNS

 

[Larry Macedo]

Good to see Sonny Whelen kicking asp! I'm guessing John Grieco was a little rusty?

 

[SoCal Rebell]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MacedoMS:
Good to see Sonny Whelen kicking asp! I'm guessing John Grieco was a little rusty?

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John was runnin' good, he absolutely grenaded his front passanger side wheel bearing. I saw the car afterward everything in the wheelwell was destroyed, hub, rotor, caliper not to mention it caught fire. When I last saw him Sat. he thought it might be fixable, I guess not.

 

[Sonny 00 GTS ACR]

John certainly did have car problems! As you stiffen the suspension, use stickier tires, and drive harder, you will bring about problems with wheel hubs.

The stock part uses ball bearings and is not something you can service or inspect. I lost a hub at Mid-Ohio last year and was very lucky to have been at a spot on the track where I had some room.

We worked with a hub manufacturer to come up with a design similar to what is used in NASCAR. We are now using a front hub that is fully serviceable with two sets of roller bearings and we have not had a failure. The hub is a direct bolt-on replacement for a non-ABS Viper front hub. We are still working on a modification to include the targets for ABS as well as come up with a rear hub design.

John Grieco lost his hub during practice on Saturday, and it took him some time to find a replacement for his front brake caliper. He missed qualifying and the race. He was ready to qualify on Sunday, but his car got stuck on a lift! He had to start at the back of the field (six cars) and with Skip Cummings on my bumper I wasn't going to wait around for him! I'm sure John would have been a huge factor in the race if he had had the time necessary to get his car set up properly. He's a great competitor.

Incidentally, another great competitor, Ritch Marziale (Muzzy) lost a front hub during the race Sunday which put him out of the contest.

The replacement hubs don't make you go faster, but they're safer and more reliable. They are available exclusively from our ViperDays supplier - John Archer at Archer Racing.

 

[Sonny 00 GTS ACR]

Thanks for the words Larry, I hope you're doing well!