Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

C'mon Tony, the list for TBD is quite long and ya need to get it squared away. A man could lose out cause he talked funny or something ???

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

Haha I know - I promise I'm working out all the details as we speak....I've definitely put this off to the last minute....literally, since we are leaving early in the morning to head up.

until then the suspense is building....

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

Bernie,

Come on mate thought there were no worries, Tony thanks for putting this on.
Also a huge Thank you to all that have given support.

Scott

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

By way of a public service announcement, I spoke with Mike at M&M Fuels this morning. He won't be at the track tomorrow but will be out there by 7:00 Saturday morning.

Meanwhile, instead of being at the track myself Friday, I'll be in trial. Boo work!

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

Unfortunately the test'n'tune session hasn't started yet. Wind keeps blowing dirt around and onto the track.

On the bright side - the wind settles down for the Saturday race and the Sunday race so we should be free and clear. Have about 16 cars here already and expecting quite a bit more to come in overnight and in the morning.

For those coming - there will be some extra runs tomorrow either before the race or after the race to make up for some if the missed runs today.

If you're on the fence about coming - jump on over! The weather is looking great for the weekend!

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

Depending on the amount of cars that we get the payout structure will change slightly. The prizes listed below will be ON TOP OF the calculated round money!

Winner
$ Calculated Round Money
$125 from PMR
$125 from Performance Speed
$250 Racepak Gift Certificate
$200 Lamb Contingency**
$100 XS Power Gift Certificate**
$150 Blue Streak Converters Gift Certificate**
$100 Mazzolini Racing Gift Certificate
Cagles Appliance Center Prize Pack
K&N Certificate

Runner-Up
$ Calculated Round Money
$50 from PMR
$50 from Performance Speed
Cagles Appliance Center Prize Pack
K&N Certificate

#1 Qualifier
$100 from REMAC
K&N Certificate

Best Package During Event
California Car Cover (Saturday Race)
Golden Shine Car Care Gift Pack (Sunday Race)

Best Winning Package During 1st Round
$50 from Doug Gibson
DJ Safety “free latch belts” Certificate

Worst Light During 1st Round
Practice Tree Software from PMR

#7 Qualifier on Saturday & #12 Qualifier on Sunday
$50 Richard’s Specialty Detail Service Certificate

Closest Race During 1st Round (Smallest MOV)
(1) K&N Certificate to Winner
(1) K&N Certificate to Loser

Best R/T During 1st Round (Win or Lose)
$100 from Bridgewater & Rotolo Chevrolet
K&N Certificate

Best Losing Package During 1st Round
$100 from Stein & Loge Racing Team

Bounty Hunter
*whoever beats Robert Aceves on Saturday
*whoever beats the Saturday Winner on Sunday
$50 from Wilson & Bell Automotive
K&N Certificate

Winningest Chevy
$50 from KV Racing

Winningest Pontiac
$50 from Lindy Lindholm

Winningest Mopar
$50 from Culbertson Jordan, CPA’s

1st Loser of Each Race
$50 from Lindy Lindholm

1st Red Light of Event
K&N Certificate

Worst Breakout of Event
K&N Certificate

Worst Qualifier
K&N Certificate

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

Woohoo, my boy won today!!

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

Yes he did Julie he had a great day Congrats Jared you kicked some tail today. !

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

Congrats Julie. Your boy did a great job driving but while talking to him earlier he sounded defeated with his driving skills. What happens next, he's a winner and since he's a local the cheering squad was fun to watch. Good deal.
The payouts at this deal are great, thanks to all the company's and fellows that chipped in.

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

A great day today! The track was great!
A big congrats to Jared and the entire Jordan family!
I'm sure grandpa is proud!

Julie
Congrats !

We'll see you tommorow!

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

And again thanks to all that supported this race and to Tony and Phil Mandela
For gettin this done!

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

Thanks to all the folks that have congratulated me either via ClassRacer or Facebook. It's been 4 hours and my feet haven't touched ground yet. As my grandfather likes to say: "even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in awhile." I wasn't feeling too good after a couple of .050's and a -.023 in qualifying. Got my act together as the race went on though! The Volare, while not the quickest thing in the world, is awful consistent and did its part.

Special thanks to Tony Mandella for putting this deal together for all of the racers. For those of you guys that couldn't make it out here, we had great weather, a great track surface, and some good racing. Top that off with a pretty solid payday and it was definitely worth the price of admission!

P.S.
Bernie...I know what you liked about the cheering squad! LOL ;-)

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

I'll hopefully have some pictures of the event in a couple days - maybe some video. I've listed out the winners below of all the prizes and a little detail too here and there.

Thanks again to all the sponsors and supporters. Thanks to the racers who could make it out and for those who couldn't we missed you and hopefully can get more racers out the next time!

Wicked Stitches was a huge help in contributing extra round money to really help make this a great event. Now onto Sunday's event!!!

Huge Congratz to JARED JORDAN for putting together some killer packages and literally "cleaning house" and taking home some good money and prizes!

Winner - JARED JORDAN
$1000 Cash Calculated Round Money
$125 from PMR
$125 from Performance Speed
$250 Racepak Gift Certificate
$200 Lamb Contingency**
$100 XS Power Gift Certificate**
$150 Blue Streak Converters Gift Certificate**
$100 Mazzolini Racing Gift Certificate
Cagles Appliance Center Prize Pack
K&N Certificate

Runner-Up - LEO GLASBRENNER
$500 Calculated Round Money
$50 from PMR
$50 from Performance Speed
Cagles Appliance Center Prize Pack
K&N Certificate

#1 Qualifier - FRANK GROSSI (.000 Perfect R/T)
$100 from REMAC
K&N Certificate

Best Package During Event
California Car Cover (Saturday Race) - JARED JORDAN
Golden Shine Car Care Gift Pack (Sunday Race)

Best Winning Package During 1st Round - JARED JORDAN (.025 package)
$50 from Doug Gibson
DJ Safety “free latch belts” Certificate

Worst Light During 1st Round - DAVE BELLI
Practice Tree Software from PMR

#7 Qualifier on Saturday - CHARLIE ALLEN
#12 Qualifier on Sunday
$50 Richard’s Specialty Detail Service Certificate

Closest Race During 1st Round (Smallest MOV)
(1) K&N Certificate to Winner - SCOTT LOGE
(1) K&N Certificate to Loser - TONY MANDELLA
**Lamb brakes worked too good - gave stripe back to SCOTT by .0015**
**All I could see in my head afterwards was Richard Sherman giving me the choke symbol...haha - great job today SCOTT - semi final finish is a great outing!**

Best R/T During 1st Round (Win or Lose) - JOE GHYSELINCK
$100 from Bridgewater & Rotolo Chevrolet
K&N Certificate
**funny note here - JOE raced Dave Bridgewater 1st Round and beat him with a .000 R/T**

Best Losing Package During 1st Round - CHAD LOGE
$100 from Stein & Loge Racing Team

Bounty Hunter
*whoever beats Robert Aceves on Saturday - CHARLIE ALLEN
*whoever beats the Saturday Winner on Sunday
$50 from Wilson & Bell Automotive
K&N Certificate

Winningest Chevy - DOUG GIBSON & DJ HOUMARD (split) (3rd round)
$50 from KV Racing

Winningest Pontiac - LEO GLASBRENNER (runner-up)
$50 from Lindy Lindholm

Winningest Mopar - JARED JORDAN (winner)
$50 from Culbertson Jordan, CPA’s

1st Loser of Each Race - CHAD LOGE
$50 from Lindy Lindholm

1st Red Light of Event - FRANK GROSSI
K&N Certificate

Worst Breakout of Event - FRANK GROSSI
K&N Certificate

Worst Qualifier - JOE GHYSELINCK
K&N Certificate
$100 Gift Certificate to Wicked Stitches

Best Winning Package During 2nd Round - LEO GLASBRENNER (.032 package)
$100 Gift Certificate to Wicked Stitches

Best Losing Package During 2nd Round - JIM MEADOR (.033 package)
$100 Gift Certificate to Wicked Stitches

**by the way JIM MEADOR and LEO GLASBRENNER raced each other in the second round MOV was .0011 - great racing!**

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

Tony........Many thanks for all of your hard work to put this race together. Big time thanks to all of the sponsors and racers who supported this.

Jared Jordan is my hero...............after he kicked my butt in rd 2, I told him to go "win the event" and win he did!!!!!!!!!! Very nice job!!

Sorry I could not stay for the Sunday race, best of luck to all of the racers.
..............Will Jared double up???
Thanks for a great day of racing.
See all of you in a couple weeks in Pomona.

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

Hey what kind of car count did you guys get and who is there? Tony what's your secret to getting your sponsors it seems you do really well at getting people to support your races. We are going to have a couple of races in Seattle again this year but we don't do as well as you with the sponsors.

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

Congratulations Jared, from your East Coast friends, hope you had fun.

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

Congratulations to TAYLOR MCLAUGHLIN - mowing down the competition out here in Division 7 - thanks for making the long trip for our combo race - it was a great please to meet you and your dad, JOHN - its great to have great people like yourselves show up and support these races. Hope it was worth the trip for you and we look forward to seeing you guys soon!

Here are all of the prize winners for the Sunday race:

Winner - TAYLOR MCLAUGHLIN
$760 Cash Calculated Round Money
$125 from PMR
$125 from Performance Speed
$250 Racepak Gift Certificate
$200 Lamb Contingency**
$100 XS Power Gift Certificate**
$150 Blue Streak Converters Gift Certificate**
$100 Mazzolini Racing Gift Certificate
Cagles Appliance Center Prize Pack
K&N Certificate

Runner-Up - LEO GLASBRENNER ....again
$380 Calculated Round Money
$50 from PMR
$50 from Performance Speed
Cagles Appliance Center Prize Pack
K&N Certificate

#1 Qualifier - JARED JORDAN (.001 R/T)
$100 from REMAC
K&N Certificate

Best Package During Event
California Car Cover (Saturday Race) - JARED JORDAN
Golden Shine Car Care Gift Pack (Sunday Race) - DOUG GIBSON (.012 package)

Best Winning Package During 1st Round - DOUG GIBSON (.012 package)
$50 from Doug Gibson
DJ Safety “free latch belts” Certificate

Worst Light During 1st Round - DJ HOUMARD (.112 R/T)
Practice Tree Software from PMR

#7 Qualifier on Saturday - CHARLIE ALLEN
#12 Qualifier on Sunday - DOUG GIBSON
$50 Richard’s Specialty Detail Service Certificate

Closest Race During 1st Round (Smallest MOV)
(1) K&N Certificate to Winner - LEO GLASBRENNER
(1) K&N Certificate to Loser - TONY MANDELLA
**I Managed to win this award....again....on the losing side breaking out this time by .0041 and having LEO go dead on zero his dial-in - great job LEO!!!**

Best R/T During 1st Round (Win or Lose) - JIM MEADOR (.001 R/T)
$100 from Bridgewater & Rotolo Chevrolet
K&N Certificate

Best Losing Package During 1st Round - ANDY DURHAM (.048 package)
$100 from Stein & Loge Racing Team

Bounty Hunter
*whoever beats ROBERT ACEVES on Saturday - CHARLIE ALLEN
*whoever beats the JARED JORDAN on Sunday - LEO GLASBRENNER
$50 from Wilson & Bell Automotive
K&N Certificate

Winningest Chevy - DOUG GIBSON & JOHN RODERICK (split) (3rd round)
$50 from KV Racing

Winningest Pontiac - LEO GLASBRENNER (runner-up....again!)
$50 from Lindy Lindholm

Winningest Mopar - TAYLOR MCLAUGHLIN (winner)
$50 from Culbertson Jordan, CPA’s

1st Loser of Each Race - SCOTT LOGE
$50 from Lindy Lindholm

1st Red Light of Event - JOE GHYSELINCK
K&N Certificate

Worst Breakout of Event - TIM HALL
K&N Certificate

Worst Qualifier - BRAD ROUNDS
K&N Certificate
$100 Gift Certificate to Wicked Stitches

Best Winning Package During 2nd Round - DOUG GIBSON (.027 package)
$100 Gift Certificate to Wicked Stitches

Best Losing Package During 2nd Round - DJ HOUMARD (.068 package)
$100 Gift Certificate to Wicked Stitches

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

Tony ~ From everyone I talked to it sounds like this was a very fun race and the track was well-prepped. I'm sure it was a lot of work but your efforts are very much appreciated. If I can help out again in the future, please let me know.

P.S. Congrats on your "closest race" awards. What's a guy to do, huh? ;-)

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

The main thing I want to know is whether the Bridesmaid has to wear one of those awful pastel foofy bridesmaid dresses. If so, will he show up wearing it at Pomona? No kidding, it would be worth the price of the ticket just to see it.

What do you think Leo? Should I call my tailor to see if he can get you in for a fitting?

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

Well thanks to everyone who has called, texted, facebooked, class racered, smoke signaled whatever to offer their congrats, thank you! Thanks to all the west coast folks that made us feel welcome. Hopefully I'll have a bunch of pics to post shortly as Jay had his camera clicking all day. I would like to offer my congrats to my son Taylor, he layed down a killer string of lights. I of course am a very proud papa! There is nothing better than seeing your kids excel and "get" the sport your passionate about. Look forward to racing more out here in Div. 7... Look out here we come!:D

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

Here are a few pictures of the winners and runner-up. Unfortunately, my digital camera was taken on Saturday or Sunday during the race so I lost a handful of great pictures and videos.

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

Bob Johnson was kind enough to put a quick story together about the Combo race - you can check it out here:

http://etdragracing.com/magazine/201...k-combo-titles

Thanks Bob!

Re: West Coast S/SS Combo Jan 24 25 26 2014 ?
 

Nice story and awesome pictures. Too bad he left out one of the sponsors.