If the Saturday night Karaoke was entertaining, the close battles across the board at this event were down right thrilling. The Karaoke session was won by an amazing performance of Psi’s Gangom Style, with back up dancing by Danny Kao, Van Townsen, Trey White and John Li. Thanks to everyone that put this together and made it happen.

Competitors enjoyed two days of beautiful sunny weather and a challenging course setup, with rather significant differences between the two courses. Designer Lee Picone threw us all a curve ball making the courses have a cross over at the top of the hill. This element, along with challenging site lines threw more than one driver out in the AM session on Saturday. The AM sessions were full of off course calls, which now, are not a DNF, but a 10 second penalty for each element missed. If you miss 3, then you earn that DNF.

The finishes were challenging and very different from left to right. On the right course you finished in a left hand turn, falling down hill forcing you to be incredibly patient. Failing to do so would result in a spin or taking out the finish cones. I fell victim to the later in my first super challenge runs, woops. The left gave you a more open finish to put the power down, but bumps leading up to the final right hand turn often un-settled cars causing drivers to over correct and spin or hold a relatively severe drift angle into the finish. Spins were common on both sides!

Ladies competition was predicted to be a good battle and it did not let anyone down. In the 3 L classes, winners were decided on last runs.

L2 and L3 tied on margin of victory for the top 3. L2 had Shelly Monfort (Stranoparts.com, GS Ford Focus ST) taking the win by .020 over Jennifer Bedell (Atomic Empire & Solo Pro, ES Toyota MR2 Spyder) with Jocelin Huang (The Alingment Guy, Porsche SS 911 GT3) another .011 back.

L3 had Kathry Grunenwald (T-Bones Home for Wayward Women, STC Honda Civic SI) took the win by .011 over Victoria Benya (OSGiken/Honda Racing, STR S2000) who came from way down the standings with 2 smoking fast final runs with Mina Ingrahm (STU Subaru WRX Sti) .019 back in 3rd.

L1 had a lot of action on Saturday with Rachel Baker (Pixie Pose Racing, ASR BMW 1M) and Stephanie Reeve (Iracing.com / G-Fab, SSR Corvette Z06) going back and forth for the lead while Leric Cramer (SSR Porsche 911 GT3) was dealing with cones and red light's. Cramer's final PM left hand run was smoking fast and let the ladies know she had figured out the car. Cramer would clean up the right on Sunday morning and take the class, followed by Reeve and then Baker.

The ladies challenge was shaken up early as Cramer coned her first run giving Chris Peterson who qualified even though she was 4th in L3, an open door to take the win. Victoria Benya defeated Jennifer Bedell and Chris would defeat Victoria moving here to the final round. On the other side Shelly Monfort would move past Jocelin Huang to face Kathy Grunenwal who defeated Mina Ingraham. Monfort and Peterson would have a close battle. Monfort, in her Stranoparts.com GS Ford Focus ST on Hankook tires would take the overall ladies win.

The bonus challenge, for those lucky enough to get there name drawn from the pants, was represented by an array of classes. Dawn Ammirata out of L3 in her Scion FRS in STX trim would go on to take the overall win over Marshall Cone in his HS Mini Cooper. Dawn wasn't even interested in competing when her name was drawn, but you can bet she's happy with the win!

Open competition had its largest classes in the Street Touring subset. STR, with over 30 drivers was the largest class by some 12 competitors over STX with 18. STR overall winner Nick Barbato (Honda S2000 CR) struggled with car setup and tires for the first 2 sessions, but would switch to Yokohama's and make a few other changes on the road to taking the class over Brian Karwan (Karcepts, Honda S2000) by just .176. Only .004 behind Karwan was Shane Chinonn-Rhode (Agile Auto, Mazda MX-5).

STX 2013 national champion Jeff Hurst (ANZE Suspension, Mazda RX8) would continue his winning streak, beating Jeff Anderson (BMW 325is) by .196 followed by Anderson's co-driver Bob Davis. All top drivers in STX would be on Hankook tires by final runs.

SSR would be decided by the slimmest margin of victory at the event, Jason Burns (Strano Performance, SSC Tine & Graphics, Chevrolet Covette) would edge out Grant Reeve (iRacing.com / G-Fab, Chevrolet Corvette) by .003 seconds on his last right side run. The lead changed between the two of them each run. Epic battle! STU boost buggy competition was close, with a Subaru/Mitsubishi battle at the top between David Wampler (IAG Performance, OSGiken Subaru STi) and John Willemin (project:BDR / Andrewtech / CBRD, Mitsubishi Evolution). Wampler would get the win, but by the slimmest of margins, .042.

ESP was well represented with 12 drivers and furious Ford, Chevy and Subaru competition at the top. Adam George (Stranoparts.com, Carfax Ford Mustang) would edge out Pat Griffith (Racerwraps.com, Matco Tools Chevrolet Camaro) by just .027 with the boosted Subaru of Karen Kraus (IAG Performance, Kartboy, Turnin Concepts, Subaru WRX) only .011 back. Big time competition from wildly different packages.

Street Mod was a battle of the boost buggies, with Aaron Shoe (JSCSpeed.com, Office Furniture Solutions Mitsubishi Evo MR) able to edge out Frank Gaus (Jestr Tuning/Stranopoarts Mistubishi Evo). Shoe's co-driver Michael Fineberg was charging to get ahead of Gaus, but couldn't get a left side run to get it done. There was no all Mazda podium in Super Street Mod, but Jake Namer (HamfistRacing/SJF/Speed1/Autox4u, Mazda RX7) took the class by the slimmest of margins, .065, on his last run over Martin Valent (TM Racing, Toyota MR2 Turbo). Both these guys were flying all weekend!

Sam Strano decided to play in Street index FWD index in his Ford Focus ST showing that he can do well on street tires and front wheels drive. He finished 3rd in a highly competitive class up against winner Michael Moran (teamziptie.com, Toyota Celica GT) and co-driver Andy Thomas. All top drivers were on Hankook tires.

Street index RWD, Race had Tony Savini (Stranoparts.com/Evo School, Chevrolet Corvette) winning by just under half a second over co-driver Jeff Jacobs.

SPB became a great battle between two incredibly different cars. Eric Campbell (Campbell Disaster Keenup, BMW 330ci, DSP) was leading handily, but Brian Kuehl (Big Budget Racing, Honda CRX SMF) who suffered an exhaust failure Saturday afternoon on his first run, put down two very fast final runs to take the class by .365. Watching Campbell on course he looked to be getting every last thing out of the car, so it took some great driving by Kuehl to catch him.

Formula Junior B had only 2 drivers, but the battle was tight. Kimsoo Gopnik took the win over Tyler Cormier with both drivers getting fastest runs on Sunday morning. Kimsoo RL her final right side, but she was able to put down a smoking fast left side to take the win.

Super Challenge quarter finals had Tony Savini SRR vs Eric Peterson SR and Aaron Shoe SM vs James Feinberg Bump (DS Audi TT). Savini would get past Peterson and Feinberg would move past Shoe. The battle for 3rd place between Shoe and Peterson came down to the wire with both drivers breaking out on the final runs. Shoe was the victor by a little over 1 second in a well deserved podium position in the challenge. Savini and Feinberg had a good battle, but it was the Audi TT, SoloPro Driving School of James Feinberg who would take the overall win.