Bill Pemberton
0ld Ford Automotive Racing Terror
First off I talked to a ton of Mustang Conecarvers and if I miss posting your achievements on this Forum it is only because I don't know all of your actual names or monikers, so my apologies up front.
I wanted to give a shout out to Al Hermans, whose track and autocross cars have both been down this year, but Chris Miller ( Iowa driver ) let Al be his official C Prepared tirewarmer and Mr. Hermans did his job well , helping Chris trophy at the 50th Anniversary Event. Al ended a respectable 16th out of 35 drivers in a car he had never driven before ----- a Turbo 4 in the land of ground thumping V8s!
CAMC found Mr. Solo Performance , Dave Whitworth ( DaveW ) running strong both days and even standing in 2nd for awhile on day one, and he finished the event with the 6th place trophy in the massive field of 48 CAM( tire )Corders! The other great story was the father and son duo from New York , Jon and Elliott Weiss. Many of you have followed Jon's pylon travelogue that he voiced as " Shooting his Shot at CAMC, " with his huge monster motor 3.7 Liter Veeeee Six! The boy can drive because he took his lack of horsepower and added his abundant reflexes to end up 16th in his first " National Championship. " Few drivers do that well the first time at the big event, let alone with an underpowered Pony and he was only 3 spots out of the trophies! Both DaveW and I were both quite impressed. His dad , Elliott, ended up in 38th and he and I both discussed what excellent tire warmers we were for our sons, ha!
CAMT saw one of our TMO Trackstars, Emery Seaton, sitting down in 7th on Thursday, and the entire CAMT group was shocked to see the 2022 National Champion this far back in the standings. Another proud father , Brent Seaton, followed Elliott and my lead , warming those rubber donuts up so that our sons could wiggle through the orange upright rubber like devices and with Dad's heated lap Emery came roaring back to vault into the Silver trophy position. Second place was not his first choice , but after his cone killing day on Thursday it was a dramatic resurgence. Dad ended up a bit out of the trophies in 15th , but watching Emery vault so far forward dad's smile showed that was all the trophy he needed.
Last surprise of the event was not the win for TMO member Sam Strano, that was predicted, though he had to come back this Friday after hitting cones and being out of contention for a brief moment. No, the fantastic news I found out just a bit ago, was the sterling comeback from way out of the trophies by Brian Meyer in his GT 350. He had the Mustang galloping at a breakneck pace, barrel racing around the pylons, knowing it was do our die, and he captured the 8th trophy. Great news as Brian got a trophy at last year's Nationals , but his one was more dramatic and in a field of 36 F Street cars, a great way to finish a year where he won some solid PAX wins in the Nebraska Region events.
Great event and I will post some pictures later ----- may do an entire thread of just fun and crazy shots!
I wanted to give a shout out to Al Hermans, whose track and autocross cars have both been down this year, but Chris Miller ( Iowa driver ) let Al be his official C Prepared tirewarmer and Mr. Hermans did his job well , helping Chris trophy at the 50th Anniversary Event. Al ended a respectable 16th out of 35 drivers in a car he had never driven before ----- a Turbo 4 in the land of ground thumping V8s!
CAMC found Mr. Solo Performance , Dave Whitworth ( DaveW ) running strong both days and even standing in 2nd for awhile on day one, and he finished the event with the 6th place trophy in the massive field of 48 CAM( tire )Corders! The other great story was the father and son duo from New York , Jon and Elliott Weiss. Many of you have followed Jon's pylon travelogue that he voiced as " Shooting his Shot at CAMC, " with his huge monster motor 3.7 Liter Veeeee Six! The boy can drive because he took his lack of horsepower and added his abundant reflexes to end up 16th in his first " National Championship. " Few drivers do that well the first time at the big event, let alone with an underpowered Pony and he was only 3 spots out of the trophies! Both DaveW and I were both quite impressed. His dad , Elliott, ended up in 38th and he and I both discussed what excellent tire warmers we were for our sons, ha!
CAMT saw one of our TMO Trackstars, Emery Seaton, sitting down in 7th on Thursday, and the entire CAMT group was shocked to see the 2022 National Champion this far back in the standings. Another proud father , Brent Seaton, followed Elliott and my lead , warming those rubber donuts up so that our sons could wiggle through the orange upright rubber like devices and with Dad's heated lap Emery came roaring back to vault into the Silver trophy position. Second place was not his first choice , but after his cone killing day on Thursday it was a dramatic resurgence. Dad ended up a bit out of the trophies in 15th , but watching Emery vault so far forward dad's smile showed that was all the trophy he needed.
Last surprise of the event was not the win for TMO member Sam Strano, that was predicted, though he had to come back this Friday after hitting cones and being out of contention for a brief moment. No, the fantastic news I found out just a bit ago, was the sterling comeback from way out of the trophies by Brian Meyer in his GT 350. He had the Mustang galloping at a breakneck pace, barrel racing around the pylons, knowing it was do our die, and he captured the 8th trophy. Great news as Brian got a trophy at last year's Nationals , but his one was more dramatic and in a field of 36 F Street cars, a great way to finish a year where he won some solid PAX wins in the Nebraska Region events.
Great event and I will post some pictures later ----- may do an entire thread of just fun and crazy shots!
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