Weaver, Williams, and Perrin Win Rounds 7 and 8 at Sonoma Raceway
July 6th, 2017
Sonoma, CA
This past weekend the Formula Car Challenge presented by Goodyear returned home to where the series was born. Racing inside of the San Francisco Region's group two class that featured over 40 cars was a challenge for all the drivers. "Many of our race events feature exclusive time, and smaller fields," noted Series Official Ben Hettema. "Events like this one make the teams work harder on strategy, and the drivers work harder on their passing skills. A lot of lessons were learned and a lot were taught this weekend." Getting clean laps during qualifying was one of the hurdles presented, but some of the usual suspects still ended up on the top of the time charts.
SATURDAY (ROUND 7) POLE POSITIONS
PFM - Gregory Perrin 1:34.602
FS - Carter Williams 1:35.509
FM - Bill Weaver 1:36.967
The race was good Saturday, but an incident towards the end caused the race to finish under caution. This left the drivers revved up for more action.
SATURDAY PODIUMS
1st Carter Williams - FormulaSPEED
2nd Colin Mullan - FormulaSPEED
3rd Courtney Crone - FormulaSPEED
1st Gregory Perrin - Pro Formula Mazda
2nd Howard Sklar - Pro Formula Mazda
3rd Jim Mali - - Pro Formula Mazda
1st Bill Weaver - Formula Mazda
2nd Stew Tabak - Formula Mazda
3rd Brad Drew - Formula Mazda
SUNDAY (ROUND 8) POLE POSITIONS
PFM - Gregory Perrin 1:36.643
FS - Carter Williams 1:35.823
FM - Bill Weaver 1:37.774
Sunday's race was much more exciting with lots of position changes in all three classes. FormulaSPEED driver Colin Mullan was able to slip past Carter Williams at the start and held the lead for a few laps before Carter timed a perfect pass to secure the first position. Bill Weaver held the lead in FM wire-to-wire, but Dutch Shultz and Brad Drew battled the entire 30 minutes for second. Brad secured second at the checkered flag followed closely by Drew. Gregory Perrin scored a perfect weekend with two poles, and two wins in the Pro Formula Mazda class.
SUNDAY PODIUMS
1st Carter Williams - FormulaSPEED
2nd Colin Mullan - FormulaSPEED
3rd Courtney Crone - FormulaSPEED
1st Gregory Perrin - Pro Formula Mazda
2nd Howard Sklar - Pro Formula Mazda
3rd Jim Mali - - Pro Formula Mazda
1st Bill Weaver - Formula Mazda
2nd Brad Drew - Formula Mazda
3rd Dutch Shultz - Formula Mazda
At every Formula Car Challenge event series partners provide additional awards to the competitors. Select drivers were awarded complimentary Goodyear Racing tires. Pole sitters were each presented with The Molecule Pole Award. The Molecule Pole Award is given to the fastest qualifier in each class. The award includes a selection of Molecule suit care products. Next up on the FCC schedule is the double-header at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on July 28th - 30th. This is the first race weekend of the Triple Crown.
The Formula Car Challenge presented by Goodyear is part of the Mazda Road to Indy USF2000 $200K Scholarship Shootout, which will see the champions of select junior open-wheel and karting series from around the world vie for a scholarship to enter the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship Powered by Mazda in 2018.
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