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[Jamz14]

Pay attention to mike Fornetti in the white 1.6 car. When he gets a few more races under his belt, he will be a force to reconned with.

 

Looks like the best drag race motor at the start was Sagar.

 

Dave

Is sagers car the fushia and black stripped car in front of tyler in sundays video?

[davew]

Sagar= black with dark red stripe

[Bench Racer]

Pay attention to mike (dad) Fornetti  in the white 1.6 car. When he gets a few more races under his belt, he will be a force to reconned with.

Dave

Hmm, Anthony J. Fornetti, more commonly known as Tony. Have known the dude since Karting in 1991. With his quick hands he will be another to be another pointy end guy in a 1.6.

 

Tyler, didn't care to tick a position for Tony until I'd seen him drive a car. From T2 I observed a couple one time items for his race craft bag.

 

Tommy Sager, looken good.

 

Giggs (Mike Gagliardo), another comer and fast.

[Tom Sager]

Pay attention to mike Fornetti in the white 1.6 car. When he gets a few more races under his belt, he will be a force to reconned with.

 

Looks like the best drag race motor at the start was Sagar.

 

Dave

 

Yes, Fornetti did well as the weekend progressed.  I had help and more gears in the start drag race on Saturday.  Voytek used 3rd gear and the rev limiter from green to the braking zone for turn 1.  I used 2nd, 3rd and 4th gears and got a little push from Mike Gagliardo (than you very much). 

 

For much of the weekend this was the best the '01 drove for me since I bought it last year. LF bearing failure ended the race for me Saturday and Sunday AM the low voltage light came on for most of the morning Q session. This was a problem for the last 2 events last year and we did what we thought would fix it over the winter (a suspected cabling problem, alternator is fine).  Dynoed the car several weeks ago and it was fine on the dyno, nice stable voltage.  It was fine Saturday as well.  There's a bug in there that still needs fixing.  I knew when we went to the grid that my chances of finishing the race were slim.  Didn't have time or the hardware to install a 2nd battery in the trunk .

 

It was great seeing many people after the long winter layoff up here and like other parts of the country we have some talented young drivers pushing and beating the old farts and the not as old farts. 

 

The rollover that Dave Wheelar mentioned (intentionally misspelled  ) was not good.  That should never happen on a start like that.  Very happy the driver is fine.  I thought the early green flags were an improvement over the late greens we often get there as it allows the field to separate just a bit more entering turn 1 and we had pretty clean turn 1's this weekend compared to what we often see there.  

 

Gotta hand it to Voytek and his crew for another double win.  He's led more laps and piled up more wins there in recent years than anyone and if anyone does get by him at this track it's usually not for long .