Final Race '06

Oct 14th Open Comp Results...Final 2006 Event

Despite the cool and windy conditions there were about 80 cars on hand for the day and 9 who decided to try their hand at some ProTree racing.
As the cool weather and sticky race track came together there were alot of personal bests posted throughout the day and the Track Prep-man Kenny 'I Killed Another-One' Heoppner did claim another one as one racer had a transmission bite the dust.
The previous weeks traction capabilities claimed no less than four axles during the event.
Qualifying began with six cars entered and had Corey Herman grabbing the number one slot with a .004 reaction time and that would hold through all three rounds for the top spot. Jay Roeder, Tim Kroneman, and Tom VanTassel jumped in during the second and, or third qualifying sessions to claim the number three, five, and six spots respectively to mix it up with the rest of the field: Ed Stettin (7), David Hensche (9), Eric Sloan (8), Jim Winters Sr (4), and Gene Hinders (2).

Final Qualifying
1. Corey Herman--------79 MonteCarlo---------.004
2. Gene Hinders---------79 Fairmont------------.014
3. Jay Roeder------------89 Mustang------------.033
4. Jim Winters-----------65 Falcon--------------.037
5. Tim Kroneman-------72 Pinto-----------------.077
6. Tom VanTassel------88 Mustang--------------.112
7. Ed Stettin--------------92 Mustang------------.124
8. Eric Sloan-------------86 Mustang-------------.210
9. David Hensche-------67 Mustang--------------.223

Round One
Name......................Car...........RT..... ..Index........ET...........MPH
Jay Roeder--------88 Mustang----.020----11.27----11.399-----90.39--W
Ed Stettin---------92 Mustang----.127-----10.64----10.940----125.23--L

Tim Kroneman-----72 Pinto--------.050----10.50----10.499----125.92--W
David Hensche----67 Stang------(-.017)----10.11----10.206----129.69--L

Eric Sloan--------85 Stang--------.030-----13.34----13.503----100.47--W
Jim Winters-------65 Falcon-------.005-----12.00----12.219----106.95--L

Gene Hinders-----79 Fairmont-----.126-----10.48----10.557----108.73--W
Tom VanTassel---88 Stang--------.057-----11.77----13.092------75.99--L

Corey Herman----79 MonteCarlo---.034----10.20----10.165----130.90--W
Bye-Run

Jay put down a great reaction time to end Ed's day of racing to start things off.
The next pair had David's 427 powered Mustang fouling away his chances against Tim's alky powered Pinto.
After that came Eric's win after getting holeshotted by Jim as Eric was able to get closer to his index.
The last pair to run (Corey had a bye-run due to his #1 qualifying spot and ran a great .034 intitiated pass of a 10.16 on his 10.20 index) was Gene surviving a holeshot bound Tom VanTassel pass when Tom missed a gear going down track.

Round Two
Name.................Car...................RT.. ....Index.....ET...........MPH
Corey Herman----79 MonteCarlo----.008----10.20---10.781-----93.80--W
Eric Sloan--------85 Stang------------.171----13.39---14.017-----96.14--L

Tim Kroneman----72 Pinto----------.071----10.50---10.442----128.90--W
Jay Roeder-------89 Stang--------(-.006)---11.27---11.069----118.02--L

Gene Hinders-----79 Fairmont-----(-.006)---10.48---10.487---120.13--W
Bye-Run

Corey's fantastic start was able to hold off Eric's slowing pass, Jay redlit away his shot as Tim cruised along to the next round, and Gene had the bye this round and ran right on the number.

Semi-Finals
Name..................Car...................RT... ....Index........ET........MPH
Corey Herman----79 MonteCarlo----.018----10.20-----10.313----125.18--W
Gene Hinders-----79 Fairmaont-----.133----10.48-----10.453----125.18--L

Tim Kroneman----72 Pinto----------.237----10.50-----BROKE-----BROKE--W
Bye-Run

Corey nailed the tree on this one and forced Gene to break-out at the finish...Tim decided to just 'take-the-green' at the start and save his equipment for the final round.

FINALS
Name......................Car.............RT.......INDEX........ET...........MPH
Corey Herman----79 MonteCarlo--.012-----10.20-----10.111-----131.32--W
Tim Kroneman----72 Pinto---------.021-----10.50-----10.379-----129.45--L

The Final Round was a good one as both drivers were ready for the lights and in a double breakout affair it was Corey in his MeanGreen MonteCarlo taking the win light despite Tim actually getting to finish line first.