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Jesus Villarreal
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Hello my southern friends and family, I just registered with your forum, I will be trying to come down there a few times this year to run at El Toro and Auto Club Raceway. Right now I'm looking at the June "No Bucks" event at Fontana. I'll keep an eye open for when pre-registration opens for those days.

See ya soon

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Welcome Jesus! We'd love to have you come down, which car do you plan to bring? (I'm hoping Europa)... :thumbup:
I'll make sure to look for you and say hi.
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Hi Sebastian

I'm planning to take the CP Camaro to Lincoln, so that will be the car I'll be bringing. The Europa is a fun car, but it's not as competitive in class as the CP car

Jesus
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Jesus Villarreal wrote:Hi Sebastian

I'm planning to take the CP Camaro to Lincoln, so that will be the car I'll be bringing. The Europa is a fun car, but it's not as competitive in class as the CP car

Jesus
It'll be nice to have more Prepared folks. Most of us are in PAX class this year.
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Hi Aaron

I don't have a points card, so I'm not going to be in the points, where should I run to least affect the guys that are in the points chase??

Should I just run in CP?? I don't think you guys have many cars that run there, do you??

Jesus
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Jesus Villarreal wrote:Hi Aaron

I don't have a points card, so I'm not going to be in the points, where should I run to least affect the guys that are in the points chase??

Should I just run in CP?? I don't think you guys have many cars that run there, do you??

Jesus
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If you want in the practice day (Saturday) of the championship weekend, be sure to contact Mike Simanyi our region chair ASAP when the details of the practice get posted. He might be able to ask the weekends chair for some priority for out of town national level types. They can be tough to get in sometimes and No$ may or may not know who you are.

Always entertaining to see the Camaro run. See you this summer.
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Jesus Villarreal wrote:I don't have a points card, so I'm not going to be in the points, where should I run to least affect the guys that are in the points chase??
Welcome!
Without a points card you wont effect local points so you can run wherever it is convient for you. F125 might be fun in a CP car :P
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don't people without points cards get weeded out of the local points chase?

dang my slow typing skilz ^^^ :lol:
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Eric Clements wrote:Without a points card you wont effect local points so you can run wherever it is convient for you.
Chuck Fowler wrote:don't people without points cards get weeded out of the local points chase?

dang my slow typing skilz ^^^ :lol:
While non-points card holders don't earn points, they can have an effect if they win since points are calculated based on the class winner, PCH or not. However, while you may get less points, so do the others in the class.
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Run Pax class... They can take it.
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Rick Brown wrote: While non-points card holders don't earn points, they can have an effect if they win since points are calculated based on the class winner, PCH or not. However, while you may get less points, so do the others in the class.
ie, PAX is where you would be least likely to effect the points race, though if you do beat Tom i'd say you DESERVE to effect the points race, haha. Marshall was just .004 off effecting pax last event :lol:
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PAX may be easiest and most fun for you. Either way, can't wait to see the beast down here :thumbup:
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Aaron Goldsmith wrote: Marshall was just .004 off effecting pax last event :lol:
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It's all under control... I'm sure Tom was busy with his sandbags. ;)
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"ie, PAX is where you would be least likely to effect the points race, though if you do beat Tom i'd say you DESERVE to effect the points race, haha. Marshall was just .004 off effecting pax last event "

:D Yeah, right...... I won't be holding my breath for that to happen.

Jesus
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