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Garden Isle Racing Association
NEWSLETTER July 2006

Snap-On Tools 33rd Annual Independence Day Races
The Garden Isle Racing Association welcomes the Jr. Dragster drivers and their families from Oahu for the Snap-On Tools 33rd Annual Independence Day Drag Races at Kauai Raceway Park, to be held July 1 and 2. Classes are sponsored by Destination Autoworks – PRO-ET; Auto Stylin’ and Performance/Island Image Embroidery - MUSCLE V8; Suzuki Kauai – BIKE; PS&D Napa - Jr. DRAGSTER; Kevin's Repair - QUICK-8. Manny’s Repair Service, Kauai Fire Protection Inc., Pioneer Seed, Business Support Services and George Nitta of Ohau.

Snap-On Contingency Program

In addition to our regular trophies and cash prizes, Snap-On is providing the following:

PRO-ET winner: $150 certificate, runner up: $75 certificate or tools.
QUICK-8 winner: $150 certificate, runner up: $75 certificate or tools.
MUSCLE V8 winner: $75 certificate, runner up: $38 certificate or tools.
SPORT COMPACT winner: $75 certificate, runner up: $38 certificate or tools.
STREET ET winner: $75 certificate, runner up: $38 certificate or tools.
BIKE winner: $50 certificate, runner up: $25 certificate or tools.
JR. DRAGSTER All: event medal and prize to be determined.

GIRA Payouts:

STREET ET: winner $150, runner up $75.
MUSCLE V8: winner $150, runner up $75.
PRO ET: winner$300, runner up $150.
Jr. DRAGSTER: trophies & medals.
BIKE: winner $100, runner up $50.
COMPACT SPORT: winner $150, runner up $75.
QUICK 8: winner $300, runner up $150.

Lucky number drawings: Snap-On logo merchandise or tools. Be sure to hold on to your ticket, given out at the gate, for prize drawings from Snap-On and others.

Car numbers

Reminder racers, car numbers must be at least 4” high, on the right side windshield, right side window, be clear and legible from the tower day and night. If the tower can’t read your numbers you will have to go back to the pits and make corrections. One-use vinyl stick-on numbers, which can be purchased at the gate for $.50 each.

CALENDAR

Mary Kealoha will be putting together a 2007 calendar with your car as one of the featured months. All proceeds of this calendar will be put toward the purchase and installation of new fencing at the track. Our insurance carrier requires that we maintain and regularly repair the fence around the track. At one of our last insurance inspections, it was brought to our attention that our fence may not meet minimum safety requirements, and our insurance company may choose to not cover our policy - no insurance, no racing!

The calendar will be the standard 12-month, full color, 8 1/2 x 11 on 80# gloss paper. Each month will feature a full color picture of one of your cars. The cost of one full color page is $150.00, the printer will allow up (2) two cars per page. We are also working with the printer to have the car driver and the car’s ET printed on the bottom corner of the page. We are hoping to print (2) two separate calendars, as such we have (24) twenty four spaces available, which are filling up already. We are looking to order about 500 calendars for sale at about $5.00 each. Ron Ceridono has offered to take the pictures for the calendar and we are
hoping this can be done at the 4th of July races, or if you prefer, you may submit your favorite picture.

Checks may be made payable to Mary Kealoha or Gary Long and sent to 4937 Nonou Rd., Kapaa, HI 96746. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact Mary at 652-0091 or e-mail at kealoha3@hotmail.com.

July 1 and 2 SCHEDULE

The schedule will be the same for both days.

11 am gate opens. Jrs will be given preference to go to the head of the line to get in first if possible.

12:30 – 2:00 pm Jrs will have exclusive use of the track for their testing and qualifying. The blocks may or may not be removed to allow a shorter turn around. To expedite the racing, chase vehicles will NOT BE ALLOWED ON THE TRACK but can go up the return road to meet their racers.

5:00 pm dial-in slips due for Jrs.

2:00 – 6:30 pm time trials for everyone else. The cones go up to block the access to staging at 6:00 pm so it will take another 30 minutes or so to run out all the cars in staging.

6:15 pm Jrs make their way to staging to prepare for round one of their competition

6:30 pm Jrs round one IMMEDIATELY after the track clears from the last round of time trials.

We will run the successive rounds APPROXIMATELY every 45 – 60 minutes.

6:45 pm Dial-in slips due for all racers

7:15 pm (time approximate) Exactly 30 minutes after the end of Jr’s round one, Jr’s round two will begin

7:30 pm (time approximate) ladders are posted for competition and drivers’ meeting

7:45 pm (time approximate) racing begins with Quick 8 round one , followed by Pro ET round one.

8:30 pm Round three for Jrs with all successive rounds approximately 1 hour apart.

Signup for buy-back ladder will be closed 15 minutes after the completion of the last class runs completing round one.

June RACE RESULTS

The PS&D NAPA sponsored Jr. Dragsters class was won by dragster #2357 driven by Klifton Gomes, leaving with a 1.003 light, runs a 9.691 on a 9.22 dial-in. to a second place #1667 Timothi LaBombard driving a McGee 5HP 2cycle Jr Dragster Alcohol car, leaving with a 0.78 light, runs a 34.228 on a 8.15 dial-in.

The BIKE class, sponsored by Suzuki Kauai was won by #1083 Steve Motard driving a Suzuki 400 leaving with a 0.548 light, running 14.465 on a 14.21 dial-in at 85.39 MPH. Runner up # 1051 David Alisna driving a 2005 Honda Motorcycle 1000 cc V-twin leaving with a 0.783 light, runs a 11.26 on a 10.9 dial-in at 125.7 MPH.

In the Auto Stylin’ and Performance/Island Image Embroidery sponsored MUSCLE V8 class, winner by 4.9 feet # 5028 Shandon Takayama driving a 1969 Chevy Camaro 355 sponsored by Matsuda Brothers, Auto Value, leaving with a 0.605 light, runs a 12.368 on a 12.34 dial-in at 111.66 MPH; runner up # 7411 Calvin Costa driving a 1988 Toyota P/U.

Destination Autoworks sponsored PRO ET class was won by Destination owner #7540 Marc Perales driving his beautiful 1969 Ford Mustang 540 ci V8, leaving with a 0.623 light, running a 12.123 on a 10.6 dial-in at 74.5 MPH to second place # 7113 Wayne Costa driving a 1968 Chevy Camaro Small Block who red lights. Marc’s usually faster speed was slowed tonight because the engine and transmission let go just after the 1/8th mile marker.

In the SPORT COMPACT class # 4074 Ricky Uemura driving his 1.8L 1993 Honda Civic bested Brandon Fujishige, leaving with a 0.52 light, ran a 12.029 on a 11.92 dial-in at 110.57 MPH to # 4201 Brandon’s 1992 Honda Civic 1.8L Type R, who red lighted.





POINTS STANDINGS

Report any errors to Walt Barnes. Results are final after one month.
Auto Stylin' / Islandstyle
Embroidery Muscle V8 Car # Total June
Calvin Costa 7411 240 65 4
Shandon Takayama 5028 220 115 4
Jon Nakmura 5046 195 45 2
Walt Barnes 5429 170 55 3
Roy Higa 5501 150 35 1


Destination Car # Total June
Autoworks Pro ET P R
Marc Perales 7540 260 125 5
Dave Onodera 7821 210 25 0
Chris Loew 7069 200 35 1
Rudy Ramos 7058 180 45 2
Randy Lawrence 7557 150 35 1
Sport Compact Car # Total June
P R
Brandon Fujishige 4201 240 65 4
Ricky Uemura 4074 170 ## 4
Elena Kealoha 4125 160 35 1
Dennis Jose 4674 160 55 3
Robert Wheelock, Jr. 4101 140 45 2
PS&D NAPA Jr. ET Car # Total June
P R
Sheldon Costa 7493 210 45 2
Klifton Gomes 2357 200 105 3
Tristyn Tadaki 2736 165 35 1
Courtney Brock 2116 130 35 1
Timothi LaBombard 1667 115 55 3
Suzuki Kauai Car # Total June
Bike ET P R
David Alisna 1051 175 55 3
Steve Motard 1083 175 105 3
Matt Kaleiohi 1313 150 35 1
Mike Hawkes 1131 140 35 1
John Hirada 1038 130
Street ET Car # Total June
P R
Nestor Cabatan 3021 320 45 2
Craig Fujimoto 3663 185 125 5
Steve Corbin 3003 170 75 5
Derrek Brock 3300 170 35 1
Bryon Ponte 3305 170 65 4