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The 2008 Season
Events, Race Reports, Results Etc.

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Saturday August 23th Dells Raceway Park

Grant comes back with a sweep!

17 cars made it to the track 10 Formula Indy & 7 Rascal Outlaws. We are very pleased to note that 3 racers had towed all the way from Michigan, a drive of almost 14 hours around that big pond, These guys are real RACERS!
Also, our newest member Denny Dutton came out for his first race. Unfortunately we understand that one of the Michigan cars lost an engine in practice and Denny suffered a drive line failure while qualifing which side lined both cars for the night. WR

Reports and box scores are NOT official until recorded by the Treasurer or Secretary.

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Time Trials

Time

Heat

P=

Feature

1

Grant Greenfield

14.075

Grant Greenfield

1

Grant Greenfield

2

Vern Brown

14.319

Tim Roach

2

Vern Brown

3

John Zeilinga

14.432

Lyle Phillips

3

Tim Roach

4

Tim Roach

14.498

Vern Brown

4

Rich Kossak

5

Lyle Phillips

14.859

John Zeilinga

5

Lyle Phillips

6

Denny Dutton

17.359

Rich Kossak

6

John Zeilinga

Friday August 9th Columbus 151

For FIRA it was Grant Greenfield setting fast time and winning the heat race Friday night. But it was #38 Vern Brown at the finish line taking the Feature. WR

Time Trials
1 37 - 12.921
2 38 - 13.205

3 17 - 13.453

4 1 - 13.492

5 35 - DNQ

Heat

1 37

2 38

3 17

4 35

5 1 DNF

Feature

1 38

2 37

3 17

4 35

5 1 DNS

Saturday July 19th Dells Raceway Park

Grant Greenfield swept the Formula Indy Racing Assoc. portions of the 20 & 15 lap Features along with setting fast time at: 14.25. Tim Roach took second with Vern Brown in third in the 20 lapper, and they swapped positions with Vern second & Tim third in the 15 lap feature. Lyle Phillips had an unfortunate meeting with the wall & wasn't able to start the second feature & John Zeilinga the defending champion suffered mechanical problems. Rich Kossak running his second race after a prolonged absences qualified fourth and finished 4th & 5th respectively in the features.WR

Photos by Lyle Phillips
Lyle had a little more time on his hands after his meeting with the wall
(see last photo above) Lyle and his car did end up in the winners circle! ..
......... unfortunately the race wasn't over yet.

Friday July 4th Rockford Speedway

Rockford Report by Kevin Ramsell < link

The Formula Indy’s and Rascal Outlaws ran a combined 20 lap feature as well on the busy July 4th card. “Rambo” Rick Corso from McHenry took the lead from 16 year old Kyle Lynn on lap 6 of the event with a dirt-track style slide job and ran off to the win. Lynn would finish second and Jason Mahoney would go home third. The above three drivers were all Rascal Outlaws. The top finishing FIRA machine was Dale Aikman, who travels to Rockford from Rocky Ride, OH. to take part in the night of racing.

Time Trial -- 1. John Zeilinga, West Chicago; 2. Dale Aikman; Rocky Ride, Ohio; 3. Tim Roach, Janesville, Wis; 4. Michael Del Favero, Hawthorn Woods; 5. Lyle Phillips, Edgerton, Wis

Heat 01 -- 1. John Zeilinga, West Chicago; 2. Dale Aikman;; 3. Lyle Phillips, Edgerton, Wis; 4. Michael Del Favero, Hawthorn Woods; 5. Tim Roach, Janesville, Wis.

A-Main 01 -- 1. Dale Aikman; 2. John Zeilinga, West Chicago; 3. Lyle Phillips, Edgerton, Wis; 4. Tim Roach, Janesville, Wis; 5. Michael Del Favero, Hawthorn Woods.

Friday, June 20 Columbus 151

Grant Greenfield 1st Tim Roach 2nd Lyle Phillips 3rd

Saturday June 14 The Milwaukee

John Zeilinga Sweeped with #14 Kai McNulty in the 2nd position in the heats followed by Gary Cooper's #44 in third in the first heat & #35 Lyle Phillips taking 3rd in the second. But Kai had to settle for 3rd in the Feature as the #44 Gary Cooper, out for the first time this season was able to take over the number 2 spot from Kai followed by #17 Tim Roach 4th & Lyle Phillips 5th.
It was also good to have Rich Kossak make it out for his first race this year, he had some mechanical gremlins, but his sprits were high since his Wife & son Richard came along to cheer him on.

Gary Cooper tried on Rich Kossak's car for size?
Decided a large shoe horn or possibly a PortaPower would be required!

Photos by John Wiedemann
Many more at: http://www.racingwisconsin.smugmug.com:80/

Sunday June 1st Rockford Speedway

#1 John Zeilinga takes the FIRA Feature and Heat wins and #17 Tim Roach gets both the number two spots.

Saturday May 24th Milwaukee Mini Mile

The Milwaukee Mini Mile track was fast and fun for FIRA and the Rascal Outlaw cars #30 Jason Mahoney & #43 Mark Findley who made the race. Two 10 lap heats and one 15 lap feature were completed on Saturday with perfect weather.

The first heat race had John Zeilinga (JZ) winning with Grant Greenfield in second and Kai McNulty third. Lyle Phillips was not able to make the first heat race due to a broken wire. John took the lead early and Grant fought a battle with Rascal Outlaw #30 Jason Mahoney which Grant eventually won. Kai was fighting understeer throughout the race.

The second heat race was wild and exciting!! Grant won the race with JZ coming in second followed by Lyle and then Kia. John was very fast and took the early lead. However, he spun three times starting way back in the pack and fighting to his second place finish. While Grant ran a flawless race earning the top spot.

The feature race was won by JZ with Grant coming in second followed by Kai then Lyle. John took a commanding lead and was never challenged. Grant fought hard to catch JZ but John did not make a single mistake even though his brakes were beginning to fade toward the end of the race. Kai still had trouble with severe understeer and Lyle was not able to dial his car in because of missing the two practice sessions.

FIRA’s next race is at Rockford on Sunday June 1st then back to Milwaukee on June 14th

Pictures from the Milwaukee MINI Mile by Jeff Tomashek

Sunday May 18th Rockford Speedway
Lyle Phillips takes the Heat, the Feature
and the point lead.

Saturday May 17th SlingerSpeedway
Grant Greenfield takes the Feature
and Lyle Phillips scores the Heat win

Pictures from Slinger Speedway by Gary Cooper

Saturday April 26th Rockford Speedway
John Zeilinga takes the Feature.

Rockford Report by Kevin Ramsell < link to full report

John Zellinga worked his way past early leader Jim Thiel on lap 6 to take home the win in the FIRA/Rascal Outlaw 15-lap feature event. Thiel and Lyle Phillips put on a great battle for second. At the checkers it was Thiel holding off Phillips for the position while Zellinga took home another win at Rockford.

#1 Sunday April 20th Rockford Speedway

Sweeps in the 1st - 2nd & 3rd positions marked the FIRA opener at Rockford Speedway hosted by Burris Go Kart.
Sweeping the number one position, was the #1, Driven by John Zeilinga then Lyle Phillips at the wheel of the the #35 held on to second with the #17 of Tim Roach in third making them the current point leaders. WR.

The 2008 Seasons
Has BEGUN!

Saturday, March 8th , 2008
FIRA participated in the Wisconsin Racers Expo. Members present to represent FIRA where Dick Heath, Keith and Grant Greenfield, David Lemmenes, Lyle Phillips, Jeff Tomashek,
Charles Augustine, Dennis Murack, and Lou Burmiester of Vintage Open wheel racing,

The members spent the day telling the 3000+ visitors to the expo about FIRA.

Most of the local tracks where represented and we also had a visit from FASTRAX News which included FIRA being invited to submit our articles and Racing Stats to them. FASTRAX Racing News is published twice a Month. Check it out at: http://www.fastraxnews.net:

Dick Heath, FIRA PR Dept.

The hardworking FIRA Crew and a few of the 3000+ visitors.