Our northernmost track, Thunderhill, played host to this year’s third race for the combined NorCal and SoCal AI/AIX/CMC/CMC2 2010 season!

It was great to see so many racers returning for the season – Plum, Wildride, Bergman, Smith!  And, it was nice to have a bit of a later start than usual as we warmed up Saturday morning and the track conditions were just about ideal.

SATURDAY RACE #1 – It was a beautiful clear afternoon when the 34 cars rolled out for the first race of the weekend.  Everyone got off to a nice clean flying start and settled in.  Shortly into the race it was once again proven that NASA’s safety rules ROCK!  Fowler lost his brakes coming into turn 15 and his beautiful AI car smacked the k-rails, but safety gear being as good as can be meant he was unscathed.  Thanks again to Blaine Fabrication for building a beautiful cage…  racers appreciate all those hard-working guys out there looking out for them.  The CMC2 battle was pretty exciting from the stands until Steel spun and did a little outfield mowing in turn 6, things happen fast out there on the track!  The 25 minute session wrapped up with Steyn (AIX), Wheeler (AI) and Team Lifes Good Racing (CMC2) taking firsts.

Sunday dawned a bit windy, with a few canopies taking flight in the paddock, but the racers took it in stride as they prepared for Sundays challenges.

SUNDAY RACE – 34 cars rolled out for the Sunday main event with Wheeler (AI), Team Life’s Good Racing (CMC2) and Tsinger (CMC) in pole positions for the flying start.  It was a good hard race, with Wheeler holding his lead, Steel fighting hard to catch Team Life is Good and Tsinger holding his own.  Lots of excitement as racers battled traffic, a few light “off’s” and a couple broken machines, but in the end, the pole sitters held on and finished in first.  In the American Iron group Dewell took second and Hall a third.  For CMC2 Steel fought from a 4th position start to take second and Bua got third.

CONCLUSION -  Many thanks to NASA, the officials, the safety crew and all the builders for making racing fun and SAFE!  It’s a good reminder to us all that the rules exist to keep racing good for us all.

Huge congradulations to Dennis “Smitty” Smith for taking his first ever CMC win!!  We look forward to more fast action from Smitty soon!

The next event is May 22/23 2010 at Willow Springs in the high dessert of Rosamond, CA. Come out and watch the American Iron and Camaro Mustang Challenge V8 racers take on the altitude challenge!