Photos courtesy of Akron Sports CCar Club, used with permission
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2020 ASCC Autocross Results:
AUTOCROSS AT DRAGWAY 42 – SEPT 20, 2020
Our times won’t impress anybody, but we all were able to keep our times dropping for each of the five runs that we had. Our best times for the day were; Rich Velardo; 89.128 seconds Miata #8 in Class SSM, Tom Walden; 96.383 secs Miata #17 in Class CS, Kevin Jones; 104.083 secs Miata #8 in class CS and Len Kozak; 104.185 secs Miata #11 in Class CS
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The 2020 autocross season started out as well planned with lots of events, but then covid-19 restrictions hit and plans had to be remade on the fly. The events are drivers only so far due to the restrictions. A couple of former autocross team members did not compete this year but we added a new member, Len Kozak, in his first year autocrossing and Rich Velardo moved up to a different class after adding a turbo to his car.
The table below shows the finishing position for each team member for each event and for the season to date. Note that the results shown are based on all drivers in that class – not just the Competition Team Members.
| Event # | #1 | #2 |
#3 |
#4 |
#5 |
#6 |
#7 |
YTD points* |
YTD Class position* |
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| Rich Velardo | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | – | – | 446 | 3 |
| CS | |||||||||
| Tom Walden | 6 | – | 7 | – | 5 | 12 | 11 | 430 | 6 |
| Len Kozak | 9 | 5 | – | 7 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 396 | 7 |
| Kevin Jones | – | – | – | – | 6 | – | – | 78 | 20 |
| Steve Laitinen | 13 | 12 | 157 | 15 |
Event #6 & 7 11/8 A “doubleheader” held at Dragway 42 with 137 drivers in Event 6 and 146 drivers in Event 7. Event 6 was run in the morning and Event 7 was run in the afternoon as the morning course reversed which made for some interesting runs. Rich Velardo did not compete due to an oil leak in his new turbo but still held on to 3rd place for the season. Steve Laitinen came out for his first time to try his hand and will be back and Kevin Jones was able to make one event. Note the YTD points are based on the best 5 events for each driver thus Tom Walden ended up 6th overall and Len Kozak was 7th overall out of the 20 drivers in the class.
Event #5 9/20 Held at Dragway 42 with 138 drivers competing. Rich Velardo slipped to 3rd for the season among 11 drivers in SSM class. Len Kozak moved up to 4th for the season in CS class among 15 drivers with Tom Walden at 7th and Keven Jones in his first event of the year at 15th.
Event #4 8/23 Held at Dragway 42 with 134 drivers competing with team members Rich Velardo, moving up to 2nd in season point in the SSM class of 11, and Len Kozak, moving up to 5th in season points in CS class of 13 with Tom Walden 8th.
Event #3 8/9 Held at Dragway 42 with 167 drivers competing, but only 2 team members. It was a warm but great day for racing despite the huge turnout. YTD Rich is 5th in his class of 9 and in the CS class of 12, Tom is 5th and Len is 7th.
Event #2 6/27 Held at Dragway 42 under threat of rain which did not materialize. There were 105 drivers, including 2 team members, competing with Rich finishing 3rd and Len 5th in their respective classes
Event 1 5/24 Held at Dragway 42 with 125 drivers competing (number limited by covid -19 restrictions and three team members including Len Kozak in his first autocross.
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ASCC Autocross Final Results by Team Member by Year:
| Class |
Name |
2017 Position* | 2017 Events run |
2018 Position* | 2018 Events run |
2019 Position |
2019 Events run |
2020 Position |
2020 Events run |
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| CS | Tony Oriti | – | – | 2 | 6 | – | – | |||||
| CS | Tom Walden | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 6 |
5 |
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| CS | Len Kosak |
7 |
6 |
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| CS | Kevin Jones | 7 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 1 |
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| CS | Steve Laitinen | 15 |
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| CS | Joe Hatala | 10 | 2 | 13 | 1 | – | – | |||||
| CS | Nancy Hatala | 12 | 2 | – | – | – | – | |||||
| CSP | Rich Velardo | 2 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | |||||
| SSM | Rich Velardo | 3 | 5 | |||||||||
| ES | Bob Palmer | 11 | 2 | 9 | 1 | – | – | |||||
| STS | Gabe Gertz | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
Click here for the 2020 season detail
Click here for the 2019 season detail
Click here for the 2018 Season detail.
*Note: The season results are determined by total points earned during the season based on the driver’s best events (normally best 8 events but best 5 for 2020) . A driver gets points for each event based on how well he/she places in that event. So, if a driver races each event & does fairly well, he/she can finish the season in a higher position than a driver who races only a few times but finishes higher in those individual events.