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camcojb
01-09-2013, 02:46 PM
Goodguys 2013 AutoCross Finals Shootout will be held at the 16th Southwest Nationals event in Scottsdale AZ on November 15-17, 2013. This will be the first time Goodguys has a yearend shootout with prize money and national bragging rights for the winner. Below is information on how you can be part of the AutoCross Shootout.
There will be a total of 24 cars with 24 drivers for the finals shootout.
Three ways to get into the Finals are; be the fastest at a National event, be in the top of the PRO class or race your way in at AZ.
The fastest time of the event classes by Saturday for each of the eleven National events before November 2013 will automatically be entered into the finals. At the time of the competition ending the fastest time winner will be asked if he or she wants to be in the finals. The car that they are driving will be the car they must drive in the finals. If they do not want to be part of the finals or if they do not want to drive the car of that event they can decline. The next eligible fastest time will then get the invite and must go through the same Final process. They must then sign the AutoCross Finals Shootout Agreement stating that they will take part in the shootout with the car they ran at the event. If someone is the fast time at more than one event the next fastest time eligible will be entered so we have eleven entries from the events. Once a car and or driver are in the Finals that driver and car cannot get into the finals a second time.
We will have the top nine from the PRO class that are not already entered into the finals to increase the field to twenty cars. This will be combined points of all classes to get the top nine. The nine will need to drive a car they received points with during the season for the Finals Shootout. They can also decline and we will take the next eligible racer to fill the field to twenty car.
Four spots will be open for someone to run fast time at Scottsdale on Friday to get into the field, we will take the top four times that are eligible to make a twenty-four car field for Saturdays action packed shootout. Friday will be reserved for the top 20 to practice and for fast cars to race their way into the finals.

The top twenty cars will get a free entry for their car and two weekend people passes to the event in Scottsdale. Goodguys will be paying the top four places of the Shootout, 1st $3000.00 2nd $1250.00 3rd $500.00 and 4th $250.00. BF Goodrich will also have Gift Certificates for a set of tires to the top four racers. There will be a feature in the Goodguys Gazette on the winner of the Finals and a Billet Award presented during the awards on Sunday. The winner will also receive the following: A Snap-On Tool Box (Valued at $7000.00) with the AutoCross Logo and become one of the Goodguys Terrific Twelve of the year winners at Scottsdale. This event maybe filmed for later broadcast.
The format for the event will be as follows: Friday there will be twenty pit spots for the people already in the finals and they will run with anyone trying to race into the finals. Friday we will take the top four not already in, to set the twenty-four car field for Saturday. Saturday from 9am to noon we will let the twenty-four cars run as many laps as they want to get their fastest time for qualifying for the Shootout. At 1:30pm we will start the elimations on a 24 car PRO ladder. By the end of the day we will have the winner of the first Goodguys AutoCross Shootout presented by BFGoodrich Tires.
Any questions please contact Ed Capen [email protected] 925-218-9139

Ed.Capen
08-05-2013, 04:54 PM
With $10,000.00 up for the winner in cash and prizes this is shaping up to be a big event.

Well we are down to the last four events that you can earn PRO points to get into the Finals in Scottsdale AZ. Goodguys will be taking the top 9 PRO Class points leaders that are not already in the Finals.
Remember you have three events left to qualify and four to gain points to be in the finals.

Here are the top eleven not into the finals at this time:
Mike Maiers-----43 points-----66 Mustang
Kyle Tucker------32 Points-----70 Camaro
Josh Leisinger---31 Points-----68 Camaro
Bret Voelkel-----29 Points-----33 Ford
Stacy Tucker-----27 Points-----69 Camaro
Brett Campbell—18 Points----67 Camaro
Chris Smith-------15 Points----68 C-10
Tim McGilton----14 Points----70 Camaro
Jimi Day, Jeff Schwartz and Ryan Mathews all tied at 11 points.

We still have the fast time winner at the last three events that will get in automatically so this is going to come down to the wire and there is also the four open spots at Scottsdale that will be raced into on Friday.

Here's who's already in the finals:
Roger Burman----70 Camaro
Rob MacGregor---67 C-10
Brian Hobaugh---66 Vette
Brian Finch-------70 Camaro
Mary Pozzi-------72 Camaro
Kevin Miller------69 Camaro
Larry Woo-------67 Camaro
Tom McBride----68 Camaro

No Ford's or Mopar's????????

This is going to get interesting for sure.

Let us know who you think is going to win or your top four????

Ed.Capen
08-09-2013, 04:37 PM
OK here is the schedule for the Finals Weekend. If you have any questions please e-mail me. [email protected]

Goodguys AutoCross Finals Shootout 2013 Presented by BFGoodrich Tires

Friday November 15th.
9:00 am practice and runs to get fast times of the day. Break for lunch from noon to 1:00pm. Continue runs for fast time and practice until 4:00pm.
(This will be all participants and the cars already in the finals for practice)
At 4:15pm we will announce the top ten fast times that will be in the run off on Saturday Morning.

Saturday November 16th.
8:30 am Drivers meeting....
9:00 am we will have the ten last chance participants run two laps to get their fastest time to win one of the four remaining spots for the finals. (If time remains we will let the 20 cars in the finals run a practice run before 11:00am)
Once the top four are decided the 24 car field will be ready to qualify.
11:00 am we will start the first two rounds of qualifying, each of the 24 cars will get two runs before lunch and two runs after lunch. (lunch will be from noon to 1:00 pm)This will set the 24 car ladder for the finals.
2:30 pm we will start the eliminations. The #24 qualifier will start and work our way up to the #1 qualifier, always starting from the bottom of the ladder. (If you do not make it to the starting line with-in two minute of your time to run you will be disqualified and we will not go out of order or skip a group). At the end of round 3 we will have our top three moving forward to round 4 and three participants that will run a mini shootout for the fourth position since at that point they would not of raced against each other. This will decide the fourth place winner.
Round four and five will be run right after the fourth place winner is decided.
By 5:00 PM we should have the 2013 AutoCrosser of the Year and the winner of the Finals Shootout.

Sunday November 17th.
All American Sunday Late model AutoCross from 8:00 am to noon.

All of the 24 participants will be required to run the Goodguys AutoCross Finals Decal for the full event and in the winner’s circle.

There will be NO passengers on Saturday of the event for the Autocross.
All Goodguys AutoCross rules will be enforced for the event.
Helmets are NOT required for Goodguys AutoCross.
All times subject to change.

Here is the ladder we will be using for the finals.

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As you can see there will be a mini ladder for the fourth place spot. (R3 Losers)

Hope this helps with planning your event weekend, this is going to be great!!!!!

Goodguy Ed

Ed.Capen
10-16-2013, 01:01 PM
Vintage Vettes Face off at Goodguys Finals Shootout
Scottsdale, AZ - Back in 1970s and 80s SCCA and NCCC AutoCross competition, the families of Ohio’s Herb Popp and California’s Steve Hobaugh lived thousands of miles apart but traveled similar paths. Both ran vintage Corvette’s, both were fast and both were always at the top of the field in Solo competition. Between them, they won a bunch of division and regional titles. Always at their sides were their young sons Brian (Hobaugh) and Danny (Popp).

The cars (Hobaugh’s red ’65 ‘Vette and Popp’s blue ’72) were eventually mothballed as both families pursued newer AutoCross machinery and other interests. As the decades went by, those two young boys who grew up spending their weekends in cone-strewn parking lots honed their fathers’ bygone craft becoming AutoCross titans in their own right. As interest in vintage Muscle Cars and Pro-Touring machines heightened in the new millennium along with the emergence of the Goodguys AutoCross program, both Popp and Hobaugh remade their father’s machines into modern day menaces.

Both Corvettes were unearthed from their respective garages. Suspensions were updated, motors tuned and freshened and paint was rubbed out as the two second generation hot shoes sought to continue the family legacy in original iron, or in this case, fiberglass.

On November 16th atop a smooth parking lot at Westworld in Scottsdale, Arizona, the original Hobaugh and Popp family Corvettes will lock horns for the first time in nearly 20 years, going toe to toe as they seek to beat out a national field of the country’s quickest Muscle Cars.

The occasion? The 1st annual Goodguys AutoCross Finals Shootout. The Shootout’s 24-car field is deep and contentious, featuring the quickest cars from every Goodguys National AutoCross event of the year, plus the 9-quickest PRO class drivers.

“He and I are friends,” Danny Popp said of his cross-country Corvette rival Brian Hobaugh. “It’s a special thing that our two Corvettes are getting back together after nearly 20 years. He and I have been doing this for a long time. We’re both fierce competitors.” In their one and only head to head meeting in their father’s Corvettes (during the SCCA Solo National Championships event in 1996), Popp was fortunate enough to come out on top with Hobaugh finishing a close second.

The Goodguys Shootout field is full of hard chargers. Popp admitted both he and Hobaugh will have their hands more than full. “This event is going to be a full-on dogfight, one the fans won’t soon forget” he said. “You’ve got 11-time SCCA Solo Champion Mary Pozzi and 6-time Champion Mike Maier who also raced midgets. Then you’ve got all these Goodguys Champions – guys like Brett Voekel of Ridetech, Rob McGregor of No Limit Engineering , Ryan Matthews of Detroit Speed along event winners and fast guys like Larry Woo and so many others. Collectively between Mary Pozzi, Mike Maier, Brian Hobaugh and myself, there are nearly 25 SCCA Solo National Championships. It’s going to be the biggest AutoCross Shootout I can remember.”

The action gets started Friday, November 15th as practice runs commence for the entire field. Four slots in the 24-car field will be available for competitors to race their way into Saturday’s Shootout. Goodguys will pay the top four finishers in the ‘Shootout with $3000.00 going to the winner, $1250.00 going to the runner-up, $500.00 going to 3rd place and $250.00 going to 4th place. The winner will also receive a customized Snap-on Tool Box (Valued at $7000.00), a gorgeous billet aluminum trophy as well as being named one of the year-end Goodguys Terrific Twelve award winners. BF Goodrich will also hand out gift certificates for a set of new tires to the top four finishers.

The Goodguys AutoCross Finals Shootout starts Saturday, November 16th @ 9am. For a complete list of entrants, event rules and schedule

The Goodguys AutoCross Finals Shootout starts Saturday, November 16th @ 9am. For a complete list of entrants, event rules and schedule, click here: https://www.good-guys.com/autocross-finals


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Hope you can come and watch this exciting event.
Goodguy Ed