The biggest news of the weekend was the triumphant returns of two of the sport’s greats, Dean Sapp and Mark Daddio. Sapp and long time co-driver and friend, Jeff Fields ventured into uncharted territory, entering G-Stock in a Hyundai Genises. Daddio, on the other hand returned to F-Stock in the Mustang of Ron Bistrais. With the return of Sapp and Daddio, there were seven drivers this weekend that had won Solo National Championships in F Stock with a total of 15 championships between them. In addition to those two, there was also Sam Strano, Paul Kozlak, Mike Johnson, Pat Salerno and Jason Burns. Lynne Rothney-Kozlak never won an F-Stock Solo championship but she won two in ProSolo. After this weekend, she may be on her way to adding a B-Stock championship to the list. Lynne came from the 2nd driver grid to take the win over husband Paul in their Solstice GXP. This result contributed to the widely held belief that in the ProSolo format, whichever Kozlak goes last finishes first. Jeff Hurst took the win in CSP on the strength of his final two runs after battling cones and redlights all weekend. Hurst is a local, from Bay Shore NY, who stole the glory from west coaster and perennial Mr. Second Place, Bill Schenker. On Friday, Schenker had been the best man at Sho Torii and Keiko Tsuzuro's wedding in grid, during the practice starts. They, the Torii's, did practice starts with the CSP car together equipped with cans hanging from the back of the car. There were several examples of sportsmanship over the weekend. When Cy Lee’s BSP Evo broke the transmission, it threatened to end Corey Ridgick’s weekend in Street Modified as well. Fortunately for Corey, Mike Feinberg offered his BSP car. In the end, however, it was not enough to overcome the class winning drive of PJ Corales in a 240SX. Jake Namer took the Super Street Modified win by 1.6 seconds, but the surprise was Brian Karwan. Karwan's SMF Solo Nationals winning Honda broke prior to the event, so Jason Becker, let him co-drive his BMW M Coupe. Brian's never driven it, and finishes 2nd in class, violating the “thou shall not beat thy car owner” autocross law. Kudos to Jason, for a real class act! On Sunday morning during course walks, Aaron Buckley approached Chief Steward, Jeff Jacobs and reported that while reviewing video tape of his Saturday afternoon runs, he noticed that he went off course on both left side runs. The corner workers had not reported it. He asked that both his afternoon left side runs be scored a DNF. This negated a seven-tenths improvement and moved him out of the B-Stock trophies. Unfortunately for Buckley, he was unable to take his Sunday runs, meaning he did not have an opportunity to reclaim the trophy position. Jacob’s noted, “I think Aaron self-reporting his DNFs costing him a trophy and points demonstrates a high standard of sportsmanship.” Agreed. In all, 18 drivers in F125 ensured that the entire stadium complex was sufficiently fogged for mosquitoes, and as a result nobody suffered an itchy bite all weekend. Co-drivers Jeremiah McClintock and Alan Scheilder each laid down a pair of blistering 27-second runs on their final attempts at each course to move themselves ahead of Saturday leader Brian Garfield with McClintock taking the win. Sam Strano continues his winning ways in 2011, but this time in an E-Street Prepared battle with former Eagle Talon driver Sam Krauss. Krauss co-drove with Karen Kraus, no relation or spelling errors. Sam Krauss, held the lead on Saturday over Strano, but Sammy came out with “guns a blazin'” on Sunday, and took the lead on his first two runs. Strano went even faster on his final runs to take a .382 win in ESP in the 2011 Mustang 5.0. Another note, with the loss of Greg McCance from the class this year, there seems to be much less mechanical work going on in the ESP paddock area in 2011. The Gumout Super Challenge saw a new mark in the record book in New Jersey with the first ever tie. Allen Kugler and Jeff Jacobs ran a dead heat on total time after both drivers cycled through both courses. As fate would have it, during their rematch, there was a false trip resulting in a rerun. They ended up running each other 3 times, with Jacobs eventually came out on top. Jets football team coach, Rex Ryan watched a little of the B Stock action, along Jets team owner Woody Johnson. They were doing a charity walk for Lupus while the event was running. The two got a quick overview of the event, to which Ryan commented that he might have “troubles getting his dualie through the course.” It is rumored that Ryan was able to get a photo of himself with eventual challenge winner, Matt Murray. Photos 1, 2 and 5 provided by Perry Aidelbaum Photos 3 and 4 provided by Steve Seguis Photo 6 provided by Matt Murray