Fontana Pro Solo - Friday - Sunday

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Super Challenge is running. Tom Berry wins the first match-up ...

Top 32 qualifiers can be found here:

http://sololive.scca.com/OtherDir/SuperChalQual.html

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Jason Bucky over Stephen Yeoh
Kinch Reindl wins via RL  Maurice V
Chris Cox over Pete Loney (RL)
Brian Heikkotter over David Howdyshell
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Jim Harnish over Mitch Fugundes
Sammy Valafar over Ken Motonishi
Michael Parker over Marshall Grice
Doug Rowse wins over Brian Peters' red light
Ryan Clark over Tony Rivera by ten thousandths of a second with off-setting cones!!!  (haha....Ryan hangs in there by thousandths!!!!)
Paul Russell over Ron Bauer
Sean O'Boyle over Matt Gonzales  (Sean is originally from Vancouver, BC but lives in SFran these days ... for quite a few years now ... maybe 7-8?)
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Paul Brown over Mark Scroggs
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Scott McHugh over James Yom (that dang '13 Accord grocery-getter is doin' good! hahaha)
Eric Stolz over Chris Thorpe
Anthony Porta over Greg McCance end of first round.

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2nd Round!

1. Tom Berry over Jason Bucki
2. Chris Cox over Kinch Reindl
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timing reboot
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I think Ryan is going to run against Doug Rowse of Phoenix ... multi-time Nat'l Champ and has won many Pros in the past ... often in these rounds ... very experienced so he has his work cut out for him!  It'll be a good race!
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OK ... I was wrong ... Rowse went against Bryan Heitkotter ... and beat him.... I have lost the order somehow.

3. Rowse over Heikotter
4. Sammy Valafar over Jim Harnish
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uh, oh ... Ryan just got a cone on the rt. side....

He just did a 0.595 (?) light on the left but lost to Michael Parker by virtue of the cone on the rt. side ... too much to overcome a 2 second penalty.

So, Ryan is out in the 2nd round of the Super Challenge.   
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5.  Michael Parker over Ryan Clark (cone)

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6. Paul Russell over Sean O'Boyle
7. Scott McHugh over Paul Brown
8. Anthony Porta over Eric Stoltz's red light

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end of 2nd round!

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3rd round of eliminations!

1. Tom over Chris
2. Sammy over Doug
3. Paul over Michael (Paul is in a kart!  Shifter 125)
4. Anthony over Scott's red light (Damn, I was hoping Scott would bring that grocery-getter Accord home for the win! hahaha ... but his driving let us down ... not the car!    )

End of 3rd round ... now for the quarter finals!    1-4th places to be determined now!

The next two winners will duke it out for 1st and 2nd and the losers will run against each other to determine who gets 3rd (and, hence, 4th).

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4th round (quarter finals):

Something happened on Tom's and Sammy's first set. Starting them over but on opposite sites. Don't think there was a trip somewhere.

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1. Sammy over Tom
2.  Anthony over Paul's red light

end of 4th round.

Tom and Paul will run for 3rd place next and then the final round for 1st/2nd will be Anthony vs. Sammy.

They will give them a few minutes for cool-down time ... water the tires, set the tire pressures, screw on the head straight ...

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1.  Tom Berry (multi-time Pro and Nat'l Solo Champion - 8 jackets I think?) in his ASP Mitsu EVO vs. Paul Russell (San Diego - multi-time Nat'l KM - shifter 125 kart)

2.  Sammy V. in a 2002 ES Miata vs. Anthony Porta in his 2005 Mazdaspeed BSP Miata (Nat'l Champion).

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1.  Paul over Tom by .3 for third

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And for the Super Challenge win:

2.  Sammy over Anthony

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Trophy time!

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Ryan will bring back a 1st place trophy for BS and Jay got a 2nd place trophy for SS.

Good job guys!

[Mkelder]

Well done guys!

[MurrayPeterson]

Congrats!