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The Bill Scott and Grant Reynolds Formula Vee Championship
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Sponsored by Paul Meis, the FV championship was
originally named in honor of Grant
Reynolds at the 2006 VIR Driver's Meeting. Grant is a long-time
SCCA member and Steward who was honored in 2006 by being inducted into
the SCCA Hall of Fame for his work with Solo events.
In 2009 Paul
added the name of Bill Scott to honor him also in the title of the
Championship. Bill passed away in 2009 after fighting cancer for several
years. Bill has been known to us as the owner of Summit Point Raceway and a
good friend of vintage racing. Bill was also a national FV champion, and he
won the world FV championship in 1970 at the Nurburgring. Thus, the VDCA FV
Championship is now the Bill Scott and Grant Reynolds FV Championship.
Once
again, the season championship came down to the Season Finale. Mike Ennis, who
finished first in 2010, and Duke Waldrup who finished second last
year, battled it out once again for the title.
Mike Ennis spun on the back
of the track in the first lap of Sunday's race and had to make up the
position loss throughout the race. It was exciting Vee racing to watch him
work his way back up the line, finally catching Paul Meis. The margin of
victory for third place over all between Paul Meis and Mike Ennis was 0.006
sec. Visually, it looked like a dead heat, but the fourth place finish was
not enough to top first place finisher Waldrup in the points battle.
2011 FV Championship
Points Challenge
see below for the point system
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Road
Atlanta |
VIR |
RRR |
PBIR |
Season Finale |
Championship |
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Duke Waldrup |
85 |
115 |
83 |
85 |
115 |
483 |
#1 |
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Mike Ennis |
63 |
82 |
84 |
79 |
109 |
417 |
#2 |
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John Fuchs |
79 |
75 |
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75 |
229 |
#3 |
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John White |
78 |
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75 |
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75 |
228 |
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Bo Lemmon |
75 |
75 |
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75 |
225 |
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Doug White |
60 |
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75 |
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75 |
210 |
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Hank Giffin |
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75 |
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75 |
150 |
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Gary Barnhart |
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75 |
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75 |
150 |
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Dan Chesanow |
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45 |
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120 |
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Paul Butrose |
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82 |
30 |
112 |
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Carl Zoroski |
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75 |
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75 |
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John Harkness |
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75 |
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75 |
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Rod Bolhouse |
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75 |
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75 |
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OliverTolksdorf |
75 |
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75 |
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Neil Sullivan |
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75 |
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75 |
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Bob Shedd |
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75 |
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75 |
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Michael Daly |
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75 |
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75 |
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Bob Clarke |
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30 |
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45 |
75 |
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Harry Sroka |
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45 |
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45 |
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Marcus Jones |
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40 |
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40 |
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*In 2011 VDCA Race Director Mike Jackson and Statistician Paul Meis have once again ruled
themselves ineligible
for trophy competition.

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The Charlie Gibson H-Production Championship
Both series are bookkept and finalized by Paul Meis who says,
"We encourage more drivers and more competition for these championships in
2011, and remember, you can score 30 extra points by sponsoring a track
party!"
see below for the point system |
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This
Championship is named in honor of the late Charlie Gibson who began an
illustrious racing career in a Bugeye Sprite. Since Charlie's Sprite was
actually a G-Prod car, we hope he doesn't mind if we take a little creative
license there. In its fifth year, the championship has been well supported and very
competitive.
Eleven drivers scored points in 2010, with
Gary Barnhart repeating as series champion with 198 points. The competition
for second place was remarkably close. Jim Hofer and John Daniels were tied
in points going into the final race at Roebling Road. They ran together
during the race and John finished just ahead of Jim to win second place in
the championship by one point, with Jim finishing third.
Sadly, 2011 has not
seen that much participation, but Gary Barnhart established the lead early
on and maintained it throughout the season, challenged only by Buzz
Merchlewitz. Paul has decided to retire the competition at the
end of 2011 so the trophy, awarded in April at VIR, will stay permanently
with Gary.

2011 HP Championship
Points Challenge
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Road Atlanta |
VIR |
Season Finale |
Championship |
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Gary Barnhart |
81 |
83 |
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164 |
#1 |
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Buzz Merchlewitz |
85 |
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40 |
125 |
#2 |
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Chris Gross |
85 |
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85 |
#3 |
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Brian McEachern |
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85 |
85 |
#3 |
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Kevin Shorter |
83 |
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83 |
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John Daniels |
30 |
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49 |
79 |
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Jim Hofer |
30 |
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30 |
30 |
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-- The 2010 Season --
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During
Friday’s drivers meeting at VIR 2011, Paul Meis, as is his tradition, took the
opportunity to award his trophies for the 2010 Group 1 Formula Vee and HP
Challenges. The HP Award is named for Charlie Gibson, and eleven drivers
scored points in 2010 with Gary Barnhart repeating as series champion with
198 points. The competition for second place was remarkably close. Jim Hofer
and John Daniels were tied in points going into the final race at Roebling
Road. They ran together during the race with John finishing just ahead of
Jim to win second place in the championship by one point.

Twenty-one drivers competed for the Bill Scott and Grant
Reynolds Formula Vee Championship. Series champion was Mike Ennis, who was
consistent in finishing and consistently fast. Mike scored 385 out of a
possible 425 points. Second place went to Duke Waldrup with 256 points and
third was last year’s champion, Paul Buttrose with 260 points.
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The points system for the Vee and HP Race series are as follows:
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Race
entry:
Starting Qualifying Race:
Finishing Qualifying Race:
1st in Qualifying/Feature Races:
2nd in Qualifying/Feature Races:
3rd in Qualifying/Feature Racse:
Starting Feature Race:
Finishing Feature Race:
Maximun points for
any event
HOSTING
TRACK PARTY! |
30
points
10
points
5 points
5 points
4 points
3 points
20 points
10 points
85 points
30
points |
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