Brian Robertson of the Ohio Valley region put together one of the weekends stand out performances in STU.  Over this off season, he converted his Evo from SM to  STU and found that he was suddenly at the top of PAX at local events. Toledo was his first National Tour in the car, taking the win over some stout competition.   BSP saw a new name at the top of the sheet as well, with Alex Jones taking the win in his Solstice despite having some mechanical difficulties late in the weekend.  More impressive, not only that he won, but that he did it by 1.2 seconds over some of the top AWD competition in the class on a course that rewarded both horsepower and traction..   In D Stock, there were 5 cars for 5 trophy positions; the winning MINI, a WRX, an ITR, a VW R32, and a '11 V6 Mustang. On top of the diversity, there was a lot of movement from Saturday to Sunday with John Ma coming from behind for the win.  This is defiantly shaping up to be a fun class to watch for Nationals. Of special note was Terry Baker taking the top time on Sunday to move himself up to 4th in a 2011 Mustang, a new car to the class.   ESP had a 1st time winner at any National event, Shawn Alexander in his "old" Grey Mare despite two brand new Boss 302's chasing him down.  The newer cars are still seeing some teething issues though, as the 302 driven by Marcus and Jen Meredith had front swaybar issues.  Marcus spent all day Friday and Saturday under the car trying a dozen different brackets/spacers that would hold the big bar in place.     HS was a good battle at the top and the rumor is that Joe Austin sourced some new springs due to a recent clarification about port installed options on the MINI.  None of the other competitors got their upgrades in time and Joe almost made that advantage work for him as he fell just .145 short of Jacobs.   SSM saw Carter Thompson's car break a front suspension part, which also took out a good deal of bodywork.  He was able to cobble together a fix in order to take Sunday's runs and managed the TTOD in the class with his visibly injured car.   Holly Schwedler gets the “against all odds award for the weekend.  She and Jason Huepenbecker dropped off Lee Piccione's car and trailer at Jason's parent's house in Ohio after Oscoda.  Holly and Jason drove back to pick it up on Wednesday, and they were going to take his dad's RV to Toledo with the Mustang in tow.  They left the house, and the rear brakes on the RV locked up.  So they took the car off the trailer and were going to drive it to the event site on Hoosiers with Holly driving her Mini Cooper.  But Holly ran over a pothole and bent a rim.  Put on a spare, got to Toledo.  Then the Mustang broke a wheel stud.  They got that fixed.  Saturday, Holly lost her phone presumably on the event site.  She couldn't find it and was using another phone walking around the event site dialing her number to see if she could hear her phone ringing.  Still couldn't find it.  Then after all this on Sunday, after going into the day leading FSL, she coned her first run and DNF'ed her second and, needless to say, wasn't leading FSL anymore.  But she came through on her final run to win the class by 0.069.   Probably the best drive of someone who didn't win this weekend was Jeff Colegrove in F Modified.  He started Sunday in third place and, on a course that was pretty difficult to make up time, took the overall lead from Paul Magee on his second run of the day.  Paul re-took the lead on his last run, and although Jeff didn't catch him, he did improve to have the fastest time in class for the day on his final run and finished second by just 0.081.