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Page 1 of 2 90-100 degree weather and visiting racers from Arizona and SoCal made for some hot racing action at the June 27-28 event at Infineon raceway. 
We had nine starters on Saturday with great battles thru out the grid. I like to thank our guys for always stepping up to help and that includes writing race reports. This months race report features Richard Lofgren and Jerry Whitteridge. Saturday's race
by Richard Lofgren Charlie Buzzetti, Jim Foxx, Richard Lofgren, and Sydney Lee spread out in qualifying order after a green flag that confused everybody but Lee. 1st and 2nd place pulled out a gap over Lofgren, but Foxx was hounding Buzzetti, allowing Lofgren to catch back up. Lee faded back. 
Lofgren got a run out of the carousel and tried the outbraking into 7, but Foxx was having none of it and after giving room for the move, came out of 7 first. 
Foxx kept the pressure on Buzzetti, then Lofgren pressuring Foxx. Lofgren and Foxx then stopped battling for a couple of corners to catch Buzzetti. Then they started getting lapped by faster cars. 
After the traffic, Foxx was back to business, putting the #12 inside of Buzzetti's #999 wherever he could. Buzzetti was unfazed. Then there were more fast 911s coming through. Jim tried a late braking move into turn 11 while being approached by a car lapping and managed to get by the #999. Buzzetti put the pressure back on Foxx, trying an outside approach to turn 7 which turned into an inside pass in the corner when Foxx outbraked himself going in. Then Jim went around the outside of Charlie through 11 and they were side by side going by start finish. Foxx had the advantage in turn 1 and took the lead in turn 2. 
Charlie wasn't done though and got next to Jim when Jim went off in 4, a local yellow came out and Jim had to yield. Back to racing 2 corners later with Buzzetti in 1st, Foxx in 2nd, and Lofgren acting as the cameraman documenting the race for 1st. More faster traffic came through and Foxx pulled off the outside pass through 11 again 
Lofgren got a good run through 10, right on Buzzetti's tail and managed to pull off a classic outbraking on the inside move into 11. Then Foxx went wide in 2 allowing Lofgren to catch him and almost spin trying to avoid ramming him going into turn 3. Buzzetti got by while Lofgren was sideways and went after Foxx again. In turn 11 on the white flag lap, Buzzetti got way out of shape and Lofgren managed to get 2nd by a hair. 
The top three finishers survived a late Saturday race with 102 degree weather in California wine country on a greasy track to finish: Jim Foxx, Richard Lofgren, Charles Buzzetti. by Jerry Whitteridge In the mid pack group we qualified in 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 order Aubie, Dave Hauck, Jerry and Dan Lofgren. 
The start went little awry as the starter showed the flag before waving it. Some of us started on the show and others the wave - resulting is a nice mix of acceleration and braking up to turn 2. 
Aubie and Dave had a good close race going as they pulled away from Dan and myself but in lap 4 coming out of the carousel they managed to come together and spin up the hill on the left. I had noticed dust as I came down the carousel and as I exited saw them up on the left. This was my chance and I made sure that I didn't let up as I suspected they would be back on the track as soon as they could. As I went through the esses I saw something yellow moving in the periphial vision so knew Dave was moving again - no chance to rest I would have to keep pushing. On the next lap we could see that Aubie was still on the hill but Dave was gone, I knew he would be pushing to get back his place so continued to to push watching my mirrors. In the next few laps We saw Aubie with a rescue vehicle by his 944 and later just the car there. A local yellow was all that was deployed so the pack never bunched and I never saw Dave behind. Dan kept himself in sight - once he has his confidence in the car he will be another force to be reckoned with. Congratulation to Saturday's Top 5 - Jim Foxx, Richard Lofgren, Charles Buzzetti, Sid Lee and Jerry Whitteridge. 
Dave had some wrenching to do after the Saturday evening B.B.Q. but was able to get his car running again with some front end suspension work. 
Aubie's car had the front end pushed in by the radiator supports when he went up the embankment after the contact with Dave. There were no leaks and the car was driveable but the main water hose was partially crimped against a support structure. Aubie decided to sit Sunday out rather than risk overheating the car in a unsually hot NorCal weekend. 
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