If you're unfortunate enough to have to stay home from the Tire Rack® SCCA Spring Nationals, don't make it worse for yourself by not hitting up UStream or www.sololive.scca.com this weekend. There should be some really great battles starting on Friday and Saturday with the ProSolo and continuing onto Sunday and Monday for the Championship Tour.
Stating off the weekend with the Pro Solo there are a few classes you're not going to want to miss. It should keep you on the edge of your seat with some super tight battles that should mix up the results like lottery balls. Be sure you don't miss Street FWD with Trevor Jones piloting a Ford Focus ST and Greg Reno saddling up his 2013 Mini Cooper. Street Touring Compact with all EF Honda Civics always provides entertainment; should be really interesting to see what kind of show we'll see from Andrew Hahn, David Whitener, Kinch Reindl and Jeff Wong. The battle in Street Touring Roadster shouldn’t disappoint when David Rock and Geoff Walker take on Matthew Braun as he ventures into the world of street tires.
Don't let the L classes fool you. These ladies are fierce and they mean business. L1 include cars on sticky gum ball tires and some very talented ladies battling it out until the end. Beth McClure Strelnieks, Laurie Hyman and Su Brude will not let us down. In L2 are the Street cars and the story doesn't change here, these ladies are fast and entertaining. Jocelin Huang, Meredith Brown and Gwen Baake Habenict should provide an interesting battle. You guessed it; more great battles in Street Touring ladies (L3) have a lot of really great drivers and competition. Annie Gill, Kim Whitener and Nicole Wong will keep you on your seat throughout, so you better tune in on Saturday morning for the conclusion of this class!
The amount of talent attending this event means that a lot of classes will comes down to the last two runs of Day 2 competition. Once that’s over, it going to be the time for the head-to-head challenge rounds, which will include a who’s who of talent and should produce the some of the best matchups of the year!
Sunday and Monday bring on the fifth Championship Tour of the year and a warm-up for competition you might see at Solo Nationals later in the year.
You are going to want to tune in to see the battles in the Street Category to see how the new competition stacks up. A Street will slot James Yom in a Honda S2000 CR against Jeff Jacobs in his C5 Z06. C Street will feature Paul Brown in a Nissan 370Z taking on Chris Fenter behind the wheel of a Mazda MX-5. And G Street will feature the Ford Focus ST versus the Ford Fiesta ST.
Super Street R should provide exciting competition with Sam Strano in a C6 Z06 GS takes on the new blood of the class when both Andrew Pallotta and Vivek Goel pilot previous generation Corvette Z06s. Street Touring FWD boasts one of the largest classes of the weekend. Joesph Austin and David Hedderick should continue their close battle from Nationals. The C Street Prepared field is looking stacked with John Hunter, Bill Schenker, Matt McCabe and William Loring trying to prove who can hustle a Mazda Miata through a course the fastest.
The largest class at the Championship Tour for the second straight year is Street Touring Extreme (STX), it features nine different cars with FWD, RWD, and AWD all being represented. Tight battles, diverse car choice and fantastic talent make this class exciting. Ricky Crow and Lance Keeley in Subaru BRZs, Danny Kao in a Scion FRS, and Tom Reynolds in a RX-8 are driving to dethrone Craig Wilcox and his dominate run in STX this year.
Don't forget to tune-in at 9:00am EST to uStream to listen to all the action and follow all our live results @ sololive.scca.com. Better yet, come on out and see all the action for yourself; you won't leave disappointed!
