WCHC Socal H4 ButtonWillow Season Finale 11/06 EdoMoto Race Report/VIDEO/PICS

UltimateTSI · #1 11-15-2006, 12:15 PM

Edik Stepanyan of Edo Motorsports defends his H4 champoinship title for the second year in a row and wins his third Championship in three years.

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Saturday:
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Sunday:
320x240 75MB http://edomoto.com/racing/vide...l.wmv
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Race Report:
With only 10 points separating first place Edik Stepanyan in the #78 Integra and Jeremy Croiset in the #25 CRX, the Championship was still up for grabs.

Saturday:
The first practice session did not go well for Edik as he slid off at Magic Mountain due to dirt and gravel on the track. This caused the bottom part of the splitter to rip off and was left on the track. After the first practice session, rain droplets appeared which made the track wet. The second practice session went well with no wing as Edik was passing many cars. Qualifying came around and a dry line appeared on the track. But we had already changed the shaved tires to the rain tires and disconnected the rear sway bar and qualified in 2nd place with Sam Rothschild in the # CRX and Jeremy in 3rd. We changed the rain tires back to the shaved tires but left the wing off and left the rear sway bar disconnected while Jeremy changed back to the dry setup. The green flag dropped and Edik and Jeremy were able to get by Sam. Jeremy attempted to pass Edik several times but was unsuccessful. After the first lap, it started to rain. Edik was able to keep the lead. The race was under double yellow after several laps due to people going off track. After the yellow flags didn’t stop the spins, the race was red flagged and given the checkered. Edik pulled another 10 points on Jeremy in the standings by finishing 1st with Jeremy second and Sam 3rd. This meant that Edik had to finish only 20 points behind Jeremy in the last race of the year to win the championship.

Sunday:
The weather cleared up and it was sunny all day long. Therefore we reconnected the rear sway bar. Edik went out for the practice to make sure everything was fine. He went out to the qualifying session and took pole position with Sam and Jeremy behind him. The pole position was bitter sweet as the field was inverted and Edik had to start dead last out of 12 cars. The green flag was waved as the last few cars were still coming out of the last turn onto the straightaway. Jeremy was able to jump into 2nd place after the first turn while Edik was blocked out and had nowhere to go except stay behind and wait. Edik followed Sam in passing all of the cars one by one. Jeremy passed Stan for 1st place and held the lead to win the race. Edik was able to get close to Sam and pass him to go into 2nd place. Sam stayed right behind Edik while going through a lot of traffic. Edik held his position and finished in 2nd place to win the 2006 WCHC Socal H4 Championship.

Edo Motorsports would like to thank all the sponsors and everybody who helped and supported us in winning 3 consecutive championships. Also a big thanks to our Crew.

Sav-On Driving & Traffic School
Glendale, CA

Mirage Auto Body and Paint
Canoga Park, CA

SpeedVision Motorsports
Glendale, CA

Generation 2 Integra Club
http://www.G2IC.com

IStoreParts
http://www.istoreparts.com

Innovative Mounts
http://www.innovativemounts.com

ASR Swaybars
http://www.asrparts.com

HONDATA
http://www.hondata.com

Pictures: Thanks to Thomas Kusunoki for Sunday's pictures

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