Chesapeake Region
Autocross Year End Wrap-Up By: Greg Hartke Happy New Year to all! I hope you had a great holiday and that 2024 is everything you hope it would be! Even though it‘s the off-season, it‘s been hopping here at Autocross Central. There’s always plenty to do, planning for the next season and getting equipment problems straightened out. First things first, though. The final results for the 2023 season Class championships were compiled as soon as the season was ended. There are 15 awards for 2023 to be given out for various 1 st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners in Classes with sufficient standing to warrant awards. (The number of awards for a given Class is determined by how many eligible entrants there were in the Class for the season.) Many of these awards were presented to the winners at the Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon on Saturday Nov 11 th at Kelsey’s Irish Pub in Ellicott City. The remaining awards will be given to the winners when I see them at an AX race early in the 2024 season. The 2023 award winners are shown in the accompanying table.
Place 1 Place 2nd Place
Class Driver Class S3 Michael Press Class S3 Randy Bruscup
Car 2014 Boxster 2005 Boxster S
Chapter POT CHS
1 Place nd 2 Place rd 3 Place
Class S4 Mark Hubley Class S4 Dan Ruddick Class S4 Greg Hartke
2015 Cayman GTS 2015 Cayman GTS 2014 Cayman S
CHS CHS CHS
1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place
Class S5 David Critcher Class S5 Michael Tavenner Class S5 Howard Leikin
2016 GT3 2017 718 Cayman S 2021 718 Boxster GTS
CHS POT POT
st
Class P1 Darrell Pope
1989 944
CHS
st
Class P3 Chris Markwood Class P3 Phong Nguyen
2007 997 Carrera 2005 Boxster S
POT CHS
st
Class P4 Greg Whitehead
2014 Cayman S
CHS
st
Class P5 Tom Divilio Class P5 Doug Slocum
2019 Turbo Cabriolet 2019 911 4GTS
CHS CHS
st
Class I
2002 996 C4S
POT
st
st
1 Place 1 Place 2nd Place 1 Place 1 Place 2nd Place 1 Place
John Cho
The 2023 racing season went very well. Attendance was the best I’ve ever seen, so thanks to everyone for supporting us. We had a user-friendly schedule in 2023 with AX starting in April (which has more moderate weather than March) and ending in early October (which I like because it can get mighty cold in late October). In addition, we had great event spacing throughout the season. It’s hard to get through 9 events (AX School, Test & Tune, plus 7 races) without some rain, but 2023 was OK in that regard. We lost the second heat of the AX School to lightning and drenching rain (I was very disappointed for the students!) and it rained for AX#7. Other than that, the weather really cooperated for us and (somehow or other) we actually avoided blistering heat during the summer. I’ll take that!
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