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Florida Region at 2008 NASA Nats

By Billy Stacey
Published: September 17, 2008
Updated: September 17, 2008

FLORIDA REGION SHOWED BIG AT 2008 NASA NATIONALS!!

Eight Time Trial Competitors from the Florida Region competed at the 2008 Nationals. They all did great! Florida's Team BDR took the podium in every class we entered.

Our Team BDR Florida Representatives were Jared McGillicuddy - Black 02' Corvette Z06 in TTS; Cliff Blanchard - Black 00' S2000 in TTB; Jimmy Platis - 06' Gray Evo in TTB; Dennis Malevanyi - 02' Gray M3 in TTB; Rene Badia, Jr. - 07' Blue S2000 in TTC; Mike Blanchard - 99 Red Miata in TTE; Alex Bolanos 95' Green Miata in TTE; and, Eric Wirgin - 97' Silver Miata in TTE.

Jared McGillicuddy started out way in front and it looked like a First was in the bag. However, after beating the record, then beating his own record, J-rod ended up taking second in TTS. Danny Popp (local to Mid-Ohio), edged out Jared for First by about 7/10ths. Jared was lucky enough to arrive and drive (Rock Star), but ended up with his share of work to do changing wheel bearings and trying to knock off a few more tenths to get back at Popp.

Jimmy Platis came in First Place in TTB edging out year long nemesis Dennis Malevyani who took Second and Cliff Blanchard who took Third. Jimmy had to overcome a lot to get to the track and even a broken wheel during the event. Dennis had to drive an hour to pick up a new suspension and install it so he could try to beat Jimmy. If Cliff would have gotten the set up on his car as good as it was at the last session, we might have seen him further up the podium.

Rene Badia, Jr., our only TTC entrant took First Place and the Mid-Ohio Track Record! Rene spent the whole event at the front of the crowd. The only traffic I believe he ever saw was lap traffic.

Rounding out the field, Michael (NASA Program Poster Child) Blanchard, took Fist in TTE. I am not sure if he took the record, but last news was he was about half a second off. Alex Bolanos (pronounced Bolanyos), took Second and Eric Wirign was running Fourth. The last TT session was pretty exciting for TTE. After running Third most of the week, Alex ran a great last race and even gave Mikey a hard time and took Second Place.

I know Florida also had several racers come up to Nats but I did not keep good track of them. I believe our racers also made a great showing.

It took a lot of time, money , and effort for our drivers to get up here and do so well. Team BDR helped out significantly with this. So, if you have their emails or telephone numbers, or the next time you see them, please congratulate Team BDR and all our Time Trial Drivers on a job well done!

PLEASE GO TO THE FLORIDA TIME TRIAL PHOTO GALLERY TO SEE PODIUM PICTURES

2006 Season Champions

By Billy Stacey
Published: December 19, 2006

OFFICIAL 2006 TIME TRIAL CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS!

At the begining of this, Florida Region's inaugrual season, we began with just eleven competitors at the first event. However, by last November and the final 2006 event, the NASA Florida Time Trials group more than doubled with over thirty drivers that competed in one or more Time Trial event.

Only five drivers participated in enough Regional Time Trial events to qualify for the Regional Championship. To be eligible for Championship Status, a competitor must have competed in at least one half of the region's events that season. This season a driver must have competed in at least eight events.

This years Official Season Champions are:

TTR None Eligible

TTU 1^ST PLACE = Steven Nix in Car Number 771 - 2001 Corvette Z06 with 970 Points

2^ND PLACE = None Eligible

3^RD PLACE = None Eligible

TTA None Eligible

TTB None Eligible

TTC 1^ST PLACE = Luis Jimenez in Car Number 117 – 2003 Nissan 350Z with 960 Points

2^ND PLACE = Thomas Leslie in Car Number 677 – 1995 Porsche 968 with 530 Points

3^RD PLACE = None Eligible

TTD 1^ST PLACE = William Stacey in Car Number 119 – 1972 Datsun 240Z with 1055 Points

2^ND PLACE = Jay Goldfarb in Car Number 408 – 2004 Mazda RX8 with 760 Points

3^RD PLACE = None Eligible

TTE None Eligible

TTF None Eligible

TTG None Eligible

Although they did not attend enough events to qualify for the Championship, Steve Rosenthal; Neil Fairman; and, Flavio Quesada held the most points respectively in TTR. Patrick O’Brien had the second most points in TTU with Robert Crook following. In TTA, Patrick O’Brien and Liam O’Brien, father & son, held the most points with Guy Covington and new comer Jared McGullicuddy in a tie after them. In TTC, Manny Platis deserves honorable mention for having the third most points in class. Although he only attended five events, he took first place in each of those. Nick Riefner accumulated the third most points in TTC, but only attended four events. However, he placed first in three out of those four.

Thanks to everyone for a great first season. We look forward to seeing all of you beginning with the first event of the 2007 season on December 30, 2006 at Homestead Motor Speedway.

Final Event of Inaugural Florida Region Time Trial Championship Season

By Billy Stacey
Published: December 18, 2006

Florida Region News

By Billy Stacey
Published: October 22, 2006

Summer News 2006

HOMESTEAD EVENT WAS GREAT SUCCESS!

By Billy Stacey
Published: May 1, 2006

Homestead, April 29 & 30, 2006

By Billy Stacey
Published: April 24, 2006

Rule Revision April 24, 2006

By Billy Stacey
Published: April 21, 2006

By Billy Stacey
Published: April 19, 2006

Email

NASA TT drivers can submit a digital racing photograph to be posted on the NASA Time Trials Website. Just go to http://nasa-tt.com/ then click REGIONAL INFO/RESULTS, (which is just under the right side of the digital stop watch), then click on FLORIDA, (which on the light grey bar just under the middle of the stop watch), then click on PHOTO GALLERIES, which is in red and fourth over from the right, and check out the photos we have.

Then, after realizing the gallery is sorely missing a picture of you and/or your track car, pick out a cool NASA Time Trial/Race/HPDE related photograph of your own to submit. Then go down under the photos to where you see Click here to submit an image to this section! , click on that link and follow the instructions. If you have any questions contact me at mailto:ttdirectornasafl@yahoo.com .

We hope to see your photos soon!

Billy Stacey, Florida Regional Time Trial Director

Sebring International Raceway - April 2, 2006

By Billy Stacey
Published: April 4, 2006

Sebring April 2, 2006

By Billy Stacey
Published: April 3, 2006

NASA Florida Region held its inaugrual Time Trials Competition on March 4 & 5 at Moroso Motorsports Park in West Palm beach, Florida.