The major event in CenDiv for July has to be the Cat National at Road America, but just like Brian’s feline, I was missing in action during the event. The family spent the last 10 days of July touring the East Coast rather than buzzing around Wisconsin moraine country. Considerable data for this column was furnished by: Dave Hopple, Dave Bowman, Art Jaworski, Chuck Snyder and Jerry Szykulski, so of course it favors the open wheel racers. In the FC/FF race local drivers did not fare too well. Steve Thomson’s plan to continue his dominance of Road America hit (or was hit by) a snag in the second corner after the race began. The overall polesitter was in front when rival Scott Rubenzer reportedly headed towards the apex with 4 tires alight. Contact put Steve out on the spot with a rear corner knocked off, while Scott stumbled on for 4 laps before parking his Carbir. In the absence of these 1-2 finishers from the Sprints, Tonis Kasemets took an easy win, while Gerry Kraut finished third. Steve Beck again had problems in qualifying, but moved up from 35th overall to 17th/13th FC. Steve must just like to pass people at R/A. A point of controversy in the race was the lack of a split start, apparently because in the ’99 race one driver jumped the FF start after being informed via radio that the FC’s had			already taken the green (always a potential problem with the split format). For the FF troops, Dave Hopple qualified third but fell back to finish 6th, after breaking a carb secondary spring and getting caught up behind a FC who wanted to race with Fords. Dan Bruggeman finished 14th in FF. Jerry Szykulski had another motor go south during qualifying, while both Jeff Lewis (in his first outing in a brand new Van Diemen) and Jerrod Lindquist wound up hitting the turn 5 barriers hard, and all three did not start. Jim Nash did not get his engine back from Tom Andresen and was a no-show. Spec Racer has gained a huge number of LOL competitors among the 39 car Cat field. Results as follow: 4-Scott Goolsby; 8-Dave Kennedy; 11-Justin Elder; 12-Reid Johnson; 13-David Watson; 15-Michael Gorman; 21-H. Neil Lund; 24-Tim Gray; 25-Steve Anastasi; 27-Brian Kennedy; 28-D. Eric Wheeler; and Gary Jensen DNFed. Two LOL drivers won races: Charles Mack (GT-2) and Steve Pommer (HP) with three second place finishers: Jon Brakke (GT-3), Wally Butler (CSR) and Matt Lawson (ITS). My apologies to Mr. Butler for omitting him from the June Sprints listing where he finished a fine 2nd in CSR. Lynn Anderson introduced me to Wally last fall at the RUNOFFs, and I was aware he was running out of our Region, but somehow missed the boat last month. He campaigns a Lola/Toyota out of Winnipeg and is currently the CSR points leader with 3 wins and 2 seconds out of 5 starts. Heck, I even speak some Canadian (as in "hey hoser, how ‘bout a couple Molsons eh?") Check out Milwaukee Region’s website for nice photos of Wally and some other LOL drivers at this year’s Sprints. John Glowaski was 4th in ITB; Steve  FUBAR, continued on page 4		LOL Board of Directors Regional Exceutive Greg Youngdahl Home (507) 332-0297 gregy@deskmedia.com Assistant Regional Executive Shannon Murphy Home:(612) 798-3575 blueflagger@yahoo.com Co-secretaries Steve Gingras Home: (612) 263-0739 T3sgingras@GVMF.com Norm Johnson Home: (612) 870-9503 NJohnson@EEAEngineers.com Treasurer Mark LaBarre Home: (651) 407-7293 mlabarre@telepool.com Members at Large Doug Dill Home: (612) 925-1731 dougd@edsonline.com Chad Lemmons Home: (651) 688-7976 John Niemi Home: (651) 766-8027 captmayday@aol.com LOL Web Page: http://www.scca-lol.org LOL Hotline: 612-885-6888

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