Club Racing
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2007 The Longest Day of Nelson

Several CKR members participated in the 2007 The Longest Day of Nelson event.  This was a 24 hour endurance race on August 25th/26th at the Nelson Ledges race track.  Click here (Word, PDF) for a detailed recap of this incredible event!  For pictures of the event, visit Lee Wells' site here.

2007 Annual Tech Day scheduled with SR Racing/RaceCarSupply.com

SR / RaceCarSupply.com will be having it's Annual Tech Day at the shop on Saturday March 10.
Cincinnati Tech inspectors will be here to do your annual tech. We will also be doing reduced rate dyno runs ($45).
More info here. http://sracing.com/techday.htm

Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona

Once again, our very own Wes Allen is a co-driver at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, driving a Porsche GT3, car no. 14.  Click here to read more about the team and this event.

Report from CKR member and sponsor, Win Smith, September 26th, 2006

Central Ky region member Jared Smith won the final round of the Formula First Challenge Cup at Nelson Ledges race course on September 24. Jared qualified 2nd and came out on top of a fierce 4 car battle in which the lead was swapped numerous times. Smith's margin of victory was 0.15 second over runner up Greg Seim. Greg Rice, Bill Bonow and last years champ Guy Bellingham who rounded out the top 5. Jared's Jacer race car is powered by a SR Racing engine.

Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona

Our very own Wes Allen is a co-driver at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona.  Check it out! January 29th, 2006

If you go to www.grandamerican.com you can see live updates on where everyone is. You'll see that the 43 car (Wes') is back in 43 overall, 21 in GT. Yesterday afternoon the third driver spun on his second lap, damaging the car. The wreck was shown on SPEED, but they followed the DP car that he hit. They changed the clutch twice trying to get back out, but realized it needed a new master and slave cylinder. They finally got back out at about 9:00 pm last night, so their goal of a top 10 finish was pretty shot. Wes was in good spirits last night though... knowing he was going to get to drive some more eventually. Overnight it looks like they made up a lot of laps and will probably work up a few more spots, anyway.

More from Wes! January 31st, 2006

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Report from CKR member, Dwight Sontag, November 29th, 2005

Long time member Doug Sontag earned an invitation and competed in the SCCA National Championship Runoffs at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course this year in the Formula V class. He spent a week there practicing, qualifying, and racing.

Monday, in practice on new tires, Doug ran his fastest time ever at Mid-Ohio, a 1:42.424. Tuesday and Wednesday qualifying times were a bit slower, 1:43.067 and 1:43.058, due to tires that were not as good as we thought. A decision was made to go back to Monday's new tires for Thursdays final qualifying. But on the second lap an off-course excursion resulted in a broken rear suspension part which made the car un-drivable, and produced an even slower time of 1:44.069. This placed Doug 40th out of 44 competitors. Needless to say, he wasn't happy, this isn't a good place to start.

The car was repaired and ready for Sunday's 11:00 am start time. Not knowing how much damage was done to the tires, Doug had another set of new tires brought to the track by Jim and Greg Sching of SR Racing. SR build the engines in Doug's car and are always working to make all of us faster and more competitive.

With the help of a set of radios in the hands of nephew Cameron, who was sitting in the stands at the end of the backstretch, Doug was able to hear that the green flag was out before him and his fellow competitors at the back could see it. As usual things are busy at the back with cars getting together and going off course. Doug made a bold move on the outside and left his foot down, not slowing. At the end of lap one he had passed 12 cars. By the end of lap 7, he had passed 18. Through the middle part of the race Doug reached competitors running comparable speeds to his (he ran a personal best of 1:42.060). 7 cars in his pack diced for what would ultimately be 13th place. In Vee racing drafting is a key part, most laps they were three wide, some times 4 wide, going into the Keyhole and turn 7 at the end of the backstretch. The cars in Doug's pack changed position several times per lap. Such close racing created opportunities for some dramatic moves, like Doug passing 3 cars on the outside at the top of the hill in turn 8.

Between hard driving and attrition Doug improved from 40th to 13th, a total of 27 places.

This earned him the Sunoco Hard Charger Award for Formula Vee.

Doug's car was designed by him, and built by him and Jeff O'Brien at Jeff's machine shop, JOMCO, in Versailles.

All 23 races are being shown on the SPEED Channel. You can catch the V race December 17th at 1:00.

Report from CKR member and sponsor, Win Smith, November 1st, 2005

Report from CKR member and sponsor, Jim Schings, SR Racing, May 10th, 2005

Report from CKR member and sponsor, Jim Schings, SR Racing, May 2nd, 2005

Report from CKR member and sponsor, Jim Schings, SR Racing, April 11th, 2005

Jared Smith (Son of Win Smith) has signed up to do a season with SR Racing of Lexington. Jared is a Junior at Danville HS. He has a substantial background in Carts and some Sprint car seat time and now wants to try his hard at Open Wheel FV Road Racing. His first test was the March 11-13 St. Louis Gateway International School and Regional Race.