From a Kid’s Race To a Little Something Different

Well, the plan was to get a bunch of Junior drivers and their parents together to do some team racing and head-to-head Junior racing. Instead, we ended up with an all-star cast of Sportsman and Experts, and two of the hottest Junior drivers in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

We tried a couple of new things with this event. The first was using qualifying to seed drivers in a bit of a gaming spin on racing. The idea was to assign each driver a number based on their qualifying position, using the same car! Participants in the gaming activity put up $1 each before each race. After each completed race, somebody rolls a dice (or a pair of dice).

The value of the dice decides who wins the pot. For example, if the dice come up a 2, the driver who qualified 2nd fastest wins the pot. Rinse and repeat. Of course, there are a lot of things you can do with this, but that’s what we did with one race, just to see how it played.

We also tried a different fueling allocation in, I think, the first race. We set the laps for each segment and the fuel allocation to the same number. This created an interesting dilemma: you can’t just finish a segment, because you’ll start the next segment out of fuel. There were some interesting refueling strategies during the race. Many drivers, quickly realizing that starting the subsequent segments out of fuel wasn’t a great idea, refueled at various times during each segment to ensure that they could finish the segment with as many points as they could muster and also enough fuel to start the next segment and get to the pits without much drama.

Short Story

Place	Name	Laps	Points	Total Time
1	Steve Stewart	300	223	2839.475
2	Dustin Jolley	296	196	2873.401
3	Dean Donaldson	277	165	2921.355
4	Ramsey Wright	223	96	2892.258
5	Jerry Pearson	96	51	1471.646
6	Eric Lane	86	38	1465.319
7	Shaylin Maddox	78	32	766.539

Qualifying:

I think every driver ran qualifying in the Orange lane. Dustin Jolley had a great 3-lap average speed and easily took the pole. Expert driver, Jerry Pearson (Hairball Racing), clicked off the fastest lap in qualifying with a 5.669 in the Orange lane.

Track: SR3 Road Course Bus Stop Layout
Date: Feb-22-2026 13:24
Class: MegaG GT-40 Hardbody (All qualified driving the same car!)
Name	Lap Time	Speed (Mph)	Place
Dustin Jolley	5.901	559	1
Steve Stewart	5.978	551	2
Dean Donaldson	6.044	545	3
Eric Lane	7.337	449	4
Jerry Pearson	7.717	427	5
Ramsey Wright	8.440	390	6

Race 1: Scooby Doo Vans MG+ 1.7 w/ Resin Van Bodies (Eric “Fast” Lane” IROC Set

Eric “Fast” Lane clicked off the fastest lap of 7.860 in the Blue lane. Details

Place	Name	Laps	Points	Total Time
1	Steve Stewart	120	90	1475.187
2	Dustin Jolley	116	73	1486.752
3	Dean Donaldson	106	61	1494.816
4	Jerry Pearson	96	51	1471.646
5	Eric Lane	86	38	1465.319
6	Ramsey Wright	86	35	1490.414

Race 2: Jag Hobbies Augoran (i) 15v

Sportsman driver, Dustin Jolley 9Team Jolley), clicked off the fastest lap in this one with a 5.557 in the Orange lane. Details

Place	Name	Laps	Points	Total Time
1	Steve Stewart	100	77	734.430
2	Dustin Jolley	100	68	744.468
3	Dean Donaldson	93	55	739.628
4	Ramsey Wright	76	33	741.895
5	Shaylin Maddox	78	32	766.539

Race 3: MegaG+ 1.7 Lites (Support Class)

Dean Donaldson (Team Full-Speed) clicked off the fastest lap in this one with a 5.809 in the Orange lane. Details

Place	Name	Laps	Points	Total Time
1	Steve Stewart	80	56	629.858
2	Dustin Jolley	80	55	642.181
3	Dean Donaldson	78	49	686.911
4	Ramsey Wright	61	28	659.949

Race 4: Fray T-Jet Slip-ons  (i)

Our newest Sportsman driver, Ramsey Wright, clicked off the fastest lap in this truncated race of only two segments. Ramsey put down a blistering 9.617 in the Green lane. This one didn’t go the full rotation due to running out of time. Details