2008 Half Year Result Summary

June 2008 ~ HALFWAY THERE


The Team Allstars STS Civic has just completed a great first half of 2008. With its 2 drivers Jason Flores and Stephen Yeoh at the wheel the car has been driven to top finishes at both local national events as well as numerous top finishes at local events. The year is just reaching its climax with the help from Lucas Oil and Nish Designs, in the second half of the year look for an unveiling of a new look for the car and the drivers at the up and coming divisionals. The drivers and the car are also scheduled for a National level race at Heartland Park in Topeka, Kansas. So in the next few weeks look for the final paint touches to be put on the car that should mimic the look for the other Allstar race cars, and look for a continued effort from the the drivers and its crew to make the car finish first at every race that it is at.











Below is a summary of all of our finishes for this year. With competing, instructing, and marketing the car and its sponsors its been a busy half year and the team does not plan on slowing down.


JAN 2008 ~ CAL SPEEDWAY, FONTANA CA ~ 1ST AND 3RD PLACE




FEB 2008 ~ QUALCOMM, SAN DIEGO CA ~ 1ST PLACE



MARCH 2008 ~ QUALCOMM, SAN DIEGO CA ~ 1ST PLACE



MARCH 2008 ~ QUALCOMM, SAN DIEGO CA ~ 1ST PLACE



MARCH 2008 ~ EL TORO, IRVINE CA ~ 3RD PLACE



APRIL 2008 ~ CAL SPEEDWAY, FONTANA CA ~ 1ST AND 2ND PLACE




MAY 2008 ~ CAL SPEEDWAY, FONTANA CA ~ 1ST AND 2ND PLACE




JUNE 2008 ~ CAL SPEEDWAY, FONTANA CA ~ 1ST PLACE

Chalk up another win for Team Allstars

On Fathers Day, we have a Championship race scheduled. Jason takes the time off to spend a quality day with his father. I figure it's just me by myself. Given that I had to drop my family off at the airport before the race, I headed straight to the Speedway to make sure that I'd have time to walk the course before going to pick up the Civic.

While I'm there, Sebastian doesn't have a car and asks if he and Shauna can drive the car. Since Jason isn't here, it's an opportunity for me to go head to head against Sebastian, so I say yes and I make it very clear that he's not to hold back. If he can win, he is to go for it.

I do my walk with a couple of people tagging along for the course analysis. Then I head off to pick up the Civic. After that, I return to 'chill' in the heat and try to study for my mid term on Monday night.

Just before lunch, Tom Berry comes to see if Lisa can drive the civic also. Both Ken and Ekstrand are no-shows, so she doesn't have a ride. With the heat and potential competition with Sebastian, I was concerned about the tires overheating. I said it would be fine if she didn't mind taking her runs after both of us were done. That was fine, so now we have three drivers in the same heat.

We go out for the lunch break course walk and Chuck Fowler comes along for the walk. I've been looking to walk with him for a while now. We go through the course and discuss lines. Hopefully he is all set.

Finally, it's time to run. Tom Berry's family comes to serve as pit crew to water the tires for us. We have a group of people around the car - Tom, Lisa, Marshall, Christine, and Shauna. It's nice having a group of people around, but I miss Jason not being around.

Sebastian goes out first and comes in with a 69+. I take my first run and come in with a 67.2 +1 and I didn't see the finish line, so I didn't brake until way past the finish line and lock up sliding between cones after the finish - but I don't hit any! I chuckle to myself because I think I got away with it, but later they announce that I have a cone on the first run.

Sebastian doesn't go any faster on the second run and it looks ugly. I make another run and come back dirty again. I'm still in second place after second runs. Now we are up for third runs and Sebastian stays in the 69's. All I have to do is stay clean and I can win. I go make my run with an emphasis on staying clean. I start to get late in the slalom and back off to keep the car under control. I already know this run is going to be slower. It looks like Sebastian didn't bring his A game today and I end up managing an ugly 68.0 to win the class, putting me 1.1 seconds in front of Sebastian.

It looks like Chuck also manages to place 2nd in class. I think that's the highest he has placed to date.

This is a good day to celebrate - 17 years of marraige, Father's Day, a win in STS, buddies doing well as a result of help with the course walk.

Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there that may read this.


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Mazda Spec SCCA Club Racing @ Cal Speedway ~ Fontana ca

A quick look at Drew on of our fellow drivers from the Allstars.

Allstars go to ExtemeAutoFest in San Diego

So what an ironic weekend it was... I woke up the time I usually do for a race, I drove down to Qualcomm as I usually do, I even had the uniform I usually have on when we race. But I wasn't going for a race!!!

I went to be a judge for the ExtremeAutoFest show, I also went to help set up the Allstar Drift cars and booth. Same lot, different event, lots of fast looking cars but no fast moving in them. Rather then people changing tires and putting air in the tires, people were taking their rims off to clean their suspension and the inside of the rim. The air was filled with the sweet smell of Meguier's Car cleaning product.

Overall the day was fun, a little known fact about me is that I have been a judge for these types of shows in the later half of the 90's and early 2000's so it was like a long flashback for me all day. Definitely an experience to see how the scene has changed and how a lot of things are the same.

Thanks to the Allstars for the experience and it felt good to give back to the marketing company that works so hard for our race car. Not to mention it was lots of fun to hang with the Allstar Marketing Queens all day.

Jason
p.s. look hard, the drift cars are in the pictures too