What a great track night! Six drivers showed up for an evening of fun and speed on both Stewart Raceway tracks.
This is an older picture of SR2’s “straight” road course layout as a screen background on its RMS system.
After an hour or so of hot laps on SR3’s oval course, we ran a fuel race using MegaG+ 1.7 F1/Indy “Lite” cars.Milo hanging out in the SR2 paddock.
| Place | Name | Laps | Points | Total Time |
| 1 | Steve Stewart | 117 | 16 | 306.499 |
| 2 | George Peters | 113 | 15 | 313.98 |
| 3 | Joe Vargas | 110 | 13 | 315.069 |
| 4 | Oxana Che | 106 | 8 | 325.79 |
| 5 | Dean Donaldson | 105 | 8 | 309.884 |
| 6 | Kevin Webster | 102 | 6 | 331.667 |
Team Hummingbird’s Joe Vargas is on the podium on just his third visit to Stewart Raceway.
We again ran Race 2 on SR2 with the MegaG+ “Lite” cars. Joe bagged another podium in this one, just one lap off the pace of Home Cook’n.
| Place | Name | Laps | Points | Total Time |
| 1 | Steve Stewart | 99 | 61 | 506.044 |
| 2 | Joe Vargas | 98 | 56 | 491.132 |
| 3 | George Peters | 98 | 53 | 494.965 |
| 4 | Dean Donaldson | 86 | 42 | 498.826 |
| 5 | Oxana Che | 91 | 36 | 511.277 |
| 6 | Kevin Webster | 83 | 34 | 532.675 |
Race 3 was on SR2 again, but this time with Viper-built Super 7 cars with Tyco NASCAR hardbodies. Joe bagged yet another podium finish with these fine IROC cars donated by Eric’s Fast Lane Racing fame. Another new driver, Dean Donaldson was sitting in 2nd place after completing his rotations with 91 laps at the start of the final segment. Joe Vargas would end his rotation on the Red Lane but just slightly behind Dean in points. In the end, Joe knocked Dean off the last podium spot with a nice 3rd place in the final segment and 3rd overall.
| Place | Name | Laps | Points | Total Time |
| 1 | George Peters | 100 | 61 | 470.639 |
| 2 | Steve Stewart | 98 | 55 | 459.415 |
| 3 | Joe Vargas | 92 | 49 | 474.536 |
| 4 | Dean Donaldson | 91 | 42 | 491.275 |
| 5 | Kevin Webster | 81 | 28 | 477.341 |
George Peters, Home Cook’n, and Joe Vargas
Overall Results of Three Fuel Races On Two Different Tracks
| Place | Name | Laps | Points | Total Time |
| 1 | Steve Stewart | 314 | 132 | 1271.958 |
| 2 | George Peters | 311 | 129 | 1279.584 |
| 3 | Joe Vargas | 300 | 118 | 1280.737 |
| 4 | Dean Donaldson | 282 | 92 | 1299.985 |
| 5 | Kevin Webster | 266 | 68 | 1341.683 |
| 6* | Oxana Che | 197 | 44 | 837.067 |
* Oxana did not participate in the final race but did a great job marshaling.
Overall, it was a great night of racing, and the new drivers all did well. Oxana did a fantastic job adjusting to the different cars and tracks, but running on an oval for the first time and then switching to the smaller but very fast SR2 road course was just too stressful after a long work week, so Oxana decided to skip the final race with even faster cars.
Dean Donaldson had a great night, with one segment win in the oval race and at least two second-place segments in the last two races on the SR2 road course.
Joe Vargas had a phenomenal night, with three segment wins, several second-place segment finishes, a second overall, and two third-place podium visits.
Of course, these were all “unofficial” race results, but our newest drivers showed they can best these results and win races as they progress.
While not an “official” race event, SR2 saw a couple of notable track record benchmarks set in Race 2: George Peters set the bar for the MegaG+ 1.7 Lites with a 3.910 in the White Lane, and Joe Vargas set the bar for the Blue Lane with a 3.927 lap.
George and Dean Donaldson also set new benchmarks for the Eric “Fast” Lane Super 7 NASCAR IROC set in Race 3: George clicked off a 3.745 in the Blue Lane, and Dean clicked off a 3.753 in the Yellow Lane.
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It was a fun night of racing and good exercise to run on two different tracks for an event. It’s challenging to go from one road course to another, but going from an oval to a road course is way more challenging. I did get video action on both tracks and will post that ASAP.
Thanks to everyone who showed up for our first-ever Friday Night event! I hope everyone enjoyed it; I know I did.
Okay, shut up and drive!
