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Sept 23rd 2011 - Spec Miata Runoffs Update

SEDiv National Champion Danny Steyn pulled out the qualifying lap he needed to put his Rossini powered Spec Miata into 5th place for Saturdays Runoffs. Alex Bolanos got caught up in a mid session incident and was unable to improve his time and slipped back to 10th place behind the 2010 Runoffs Champion Andrew Charbonneau. Tom Fowler got held up in traffic and ended up in 16th place.

Rossini race Chip Van Vurst will be there for the race and while he will start from the back of the grid, expect to see him move to the front at a rapid pace.

Tom Fowler leads Danny Steyn in Qualifying

Photo Credit:- Doug Morrissey

Sept 22nd 2011 - Spec Miata Runoffs Update

Rossini powered driver Alex Bolanos powered his Spec Miata to 4th place on the provisional grid on Wednesdays 3rd Qualifying Session. He is now only 0.32 seconds off provisional pole sitter Jim Drago. Steve Gorriaran sits in 2nd with last years champion Andrew Charbonneau in 3rd spot. Rossini powered drivers Danny Steyn and Tom Fowler slid back to P11 and P12.

Rossini powered racer, Alex Bolanos

2011 SCCA Runoffs - Spec Miata Q3

2011 SCCA Runoffs - Spec Miata Q2

Sept 19th 2011 - Spec Miata Runoffs Update

Rossini driver Danny Steyn nailed down provisional pole in the Q1 session at Road America today. Q1 was run in wet conditions and many contenders did not go out as the times will not hold when the sessions are run in the dry. Steve Gorriaran was 2nd and Jerret Gerber 3rd. There are three more qualifying sessions before Saturday's race.

2011 SCCA Runoffs - SM Q1 Results

Sept 17th 2011

After switching to Rossini Racing Engines for the 2011 season, Jedd Fahnestock is currently holding down 2nd place in the ultra competitive  MARRS Championship.

Jedd's two 2nd place finishes at Summit Point over the Labor Say weekend illustrates his speed and consistency.

2011 MARRS Championship Points

Jedd Fahnestock out front in MARRS

Sept 12th 2011

Alex Bolanos and Adam Molaver represented Rossini Racing Engines at the 2011 NASA Championships held at the challenging Mid Ohio track this past weekend.

Unfortunately Alex arrived late for the Thursday Qualifier and was given last place. Adam was consistently in the top 6 drivers most of the weekend leading to Fridays Qualifying Race

Racing in Chip Van Vurst’s ’99, Alex surprised himself and the field in Friday’s Qualifying, laying down the fastest time to edge out Nate Sparks for the pole. Adam Molaver took the bull by the horns and put his ’99 into 9th place.

In Saturdays warm up session, Alex demonstrated his consistency, nailing he pole again. Adam slipped a bit but still pulled down a very respectable 13th place time. Alex's results moved him up to 6th on the grid for Saturday's race.

Saturday’s race turned out to be a real challenge. Everyone gridded on the bald Toyos that Mid Ohio likes, but on the out lap the rain started to fall, lightly at first but by mid race it was really coming down. Cars were slipping and sliding around.

Alex took his 6th place start and started cautiously, but was unfortunately knocked off in the Carousel and restarted in 15th place. By the end of the race he had moved back up into 5th place, an amazing achievement, getting by all those cars on a one-line wet track!!!

Adam had a decent start, but lost a few places falling back to 8th, but made it back up to 7th. Unfortunately he was caught out when Charlie Hayes spun in front of him and he had nowhere to go. Alex retired on lap 7. Here is the video of the incident.

Nate Sparks drove a superb race, and despite going into the tire wall, managed to recover and drive his way to the Championship Win.

Rossini salutes Nate Sparks and all the drivers who overcome the treacherous conditions to put on one of the best races of the weekend

Click here for the 2011 NASA Championships Spec Miata Results

Click here to see the SpeedCast TV Race Coverage of the entire race – drag your cursor to 151 minutes to see the Spec Miata Race

Bolanos' ride for the NASA Championships

July 8th 2011

Rossini powered drivers, Chip Van Vurst and Alex Bolanos netted podium finishes in both races at Daytona this past weekend.

On Saturday, in a really deep field of 43 Spec Miata drivers, Alex and Chip started from the back of the field, and were able to drive to the front.

And on Sunday in sweltering heat, Alex took home the first place trophy and Chip finished 3rd, and in the process Chip set a new lap record.

What makes these results so outstanding is that Chip was driving his '99 Rossini powered SM, and Alex was racing Chips '94 Rossini powered SM. To have two completely different engines at the very front of the filed was a remarkable achievement.

Full results from Daytona

Alex Bolanos at the SCCA Runoffs in 2010

July 25th 2011

At the Mosports ALMS series race, Rossini driver Chip Van Vurst was named an "SCCA Star Performer" after his Sprints performance...

Chip blew and engine in practice, rolled his car in qualifying, was sent to back of the grid in error and ran from dead last to finish 4th. What an achievement.

Read the full SCCA article 

Chip Van Vurst' Spec Miata after rolling in T12

July 25th 2011

Ken Quartuccio has come a long way in a short time in Spec Miata. In only his 5th race and his first appearance at Watkins Glen, Ken finished an impressive 5th place. Watch for Ken to be a serious podium contender in the near future

Click here to see his videos on Vimeo

Ken's race video - Part 1

Kens race video - Part 2

Amy Mills drove her Rossini powered Spec Miata to a very respectable 10th place in a deep field of 28 cars

June 20th 2011

In a bizarre race that saw serious gridding errors by the marshals, a full course yellow and black flag, as well as a rain shortened race, defending June Sprints Champion, Danny Steyn finished 2nd behind Jim Drago, and ahead of David Bednarz.

Click here for the GoRacingTV coverage of the 2011 June Sprints Spec Miata Race

Danny Steyn leads Tom Fowler at 2011 June Sprints

Chip Van Vurst drove the race of the weekend. Chip rolled his car in Canada Corner in qualifying but rebuilt it for the race and was able to bring his badly battered Spec Miata from dead last (another gridding error) to 4th place in one of the toughest National races on the calendar.

Chip Van Vurst' Spec Miata after rolling in T12

Tom Fowler driving a Rossini powered car went wide in T3 while in 4th place, restarted in last position and was able to make it back to 13th place at the finish.

June 20th 2011

Last weekend Rossini powered driver Ken Quartuccio double dipped at the double regional race at Limerock Race Park in Ct.

Rossini powered driver, Ken Quartuccio

There were 42 cars in both STL and SM race groups. For the first set of races, Ken qualified in P3 for STL and on Pole for SM, and after hard fought battles, brought home a 2nd place finish in STL and a 3rd place finish in SM.

For the 2nd set of races Ken started in P4 for STL, and in P4 for SM. Ken had his break through achievement winning the STL race! In the SM race he got spun out while running in 4th place with 2 laps to go!

Congrats Ken - great to see you standing on the top step of the podium. Expect to see more of this in the future!

June 13th 2011

OPM Autosports made the long trek from Atlanta to Mid Ohio for the The BF Goodrich Tires SCCA Super Tour at the Mid-Ohio track.

Steyn and Fowler lowered their lap times significantly as they learned the track and improved the car car setup as the weekend progressed.

Danny Steyn ended the weekend with a respectable 5th place in Race 1 and a 3rd place podium finish for Race 2.

Tom Fowler had an eventful weekend in both races and despite on track skirmishes and set backs, Tom  finished 7th in Race 1 and 5th in Race 2, setting the 2nd fastest race lap in the process. 

> Mid Ohio Spec Miata National Results Race 1

> Mid Ohio Spec Miata National Results Race 2

June 13th 2011

Rossini Racing Products had a great weekend at Summit Point during the WDC Region SCCA MARRS 4 event. In Spec Miata RRP placed 3 motors in the top 10 in the Sunday feature race. 

Jedd Fahnestock drove his 1999 RRP powered Spec Miata to a second place finish, just 3 seconds behind the winner. Jedd also posted the second fastest lap of the race.  Louis Interdonato finished 7th, and Danyel Torres finished 9th.

> MARRS 4 Spec Miata Results

In SSM both of the RRP powered Miata's finished in the top 10 out of 39 starters.  Mark Thill finished 4th, 11 seconds behind the winner, and Jim Thill finished 7th. 

> MARRS 4 SSM Results 

RRP has recently entered the ITA class and is experiencing early success in a 1.6L 1991 Miata driven by Alex Ratcliff.  Alex finished 2nd out of 15 starters, just 6 seconds off the pace. Alex also posted the second fastest lap of the race, less than one tenth of a second off the fastest lap.

> MARRS 4 ITA Results

May 23 2011

On the same weekend Rossini powered drivers stepped onto the podiums at both highly competitive North East and South East Divisions, at the Road Atlanta and Summit Point Nationals.

At Summit Point Rossini powered Jonathon Boxwell finished 2nd in a dry/wet/dry race that saw 2010 National Champion Steve Gorriaran go off course. Alan Olson won the race and Mike Collins finished 3rd.

At Road Atlanta in an incredibly deep field, Rossini powered 2010 June Sprints Champ Danny Steyn led several laps before going off course in Turn 1. Tom Fowler debuted his new custom painted helmet and drove his Rossini powered Spec Miata into 3rd place from 6th place on the grid. 2010 National Champion Andrew Charbonneau won the race, 2010 ARRC winner Jamie Tucker was 2nd, and 2009 June Sprints winner Jim Drago was 4th.

Steyn kept it together and handily won the Pro-IT race by 5 seconds over Cliff Brown and Robert Spence.

> Road Atlanta National Spec Miata Results

May 9th 2011

Chip van Vurst, Matt Van Vurst and Steven Hickham showed just how powerful and reliable this years Spec Miata engines are.In the 1-1/2 hour enduro, Rossini powered drivers took all three steps on the podium with Matt in first, Chip in 2nd and Steven in 3rd.

In the first SARRC race, Chip finished first, Matt was 4th and Steven finished 6th.

In the 2nd SARRC race, Steven took top honors, Matt finished 4th and Chip finished 11th.

Click here for the 2011 SARRC Championship Points

Matt Van Vurst leads Chip Van Vurst @ Daytona
 

April 30th 2011

Congratulations to Joe Plunkett and co-drivers Pete Smith and Mark Crum with the number 41 Team Subway car for winning the SSM class at the 12 hour Devil in the Dark Enduro At New Jersey Motorsports Park.

Joe Plunket's SSM gets tuned on the Dyno before the 12hour "Devil in the Dark" Enduro

Two weeks prior to the event, Joe brought the Team Subway SSM to Rossini Racing for dyno tuning. Even though the engine was not a Rossini engine, Mike was able to tune the AFM and timing on the portable DynoJet, and was able to extract very competitive horsepower and torque. Mike also replaced the gearbox.

We at Rossini Racing are proud to be associated with Team Subway.

April 18th 2011

Rossini Racing's Chip Van Vurst scored an impressive win in the 2nd National at Virginia International Raceway. His 15/1,000ths victory over Andrew Charbonneau and fellow Rossini driver Danny Steyn, was one of the best races of the season with the lead changing more than 15 times during the race. Watch video of Last Lap.

In the first National, both Van Vurst and Steyn made mistakes while occupying 2nd place. Steve Goriaran went on to win the race with Steyn finishing 4th and Van Vurst in 6th.

Rossini powered drivers were out in full force for the Double National  and included Van Vurst, Steyn, Manny Dasilva, Jonathan Boxwell, Steven Hickham Jr, Mike Rossini, Amy Mills, and Ken Quartuccio.

Chip van Vurst leads Danny Steyn in Race 2 at the VIR Double National - April 2011

April 11th 2011

RRP powered drivers Adam Molaver, Brian Coates, Lois Interdonato, Manny Dasilva, Stephan Tisseront, Mike Rossini and Jimmy Myers had a great weekend at Summit Point Spring Showdown.

In Race 1 the Rossini drivers took 4 of the top 7 places, and repeated this in Race 2, where Molaver and Interdonato finished 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Jim Thill finished 3rd on Sunday in SSM

March 28th 2011

Rossini powered driver Adam Molaver had a stellar weekend at the NASA Mach Madness event at VIR March 26 and 27, winning both SM race. Full results here 2011 NASA March Madness VIR

Adam Molaver

March 21st 2011

Rossini Racing driver Danny Steyn started on pole but slipped back to finish 3rd behind Brown and Clements in Race 1 at the March Double National at Road Atlanta. In Race 2 Steyn finished 9th. Chip Van Vurst finished the weekend with  5th and 11th place finishes. Results Race 1 and Race 2

Blake Clements leads Cliff Brown and Danny Steyn in Race 1

March 14th 2011

Manny Dasilva wins his first SARRC and Mike Rossini joins him on the podium. Rossini powered racer Stephan Tisseront finishes 5th

Full results here 2011 March Memories SCCA VIR

Manny Dasilva (1st), Mike Rossini (2nd), Nash Lawson (3rd)

March 7th 2011

Rossini powered drivers, Danny Steyn and Chip Van Vurst are leading the 2011 SCCA National Spec Miata Championship. Follow their progress on the National Spec Miata Points Standings

March 7th 2011

Rossini engine drivers finish 1-2 again!

DejaVu all over again. Chip van Vurst held of Danny Steyn for the win by a hair at the Roebling Road National, on a damp but drying track. Video below shows the last 5 laps of the close race between Van Vurst and Steyn.

January 17th 2011

Rossini powered drivers finish 1-2 in both races.

Race 1.  Chip Van Vurst held off Danny Steyn in one of the closest finishes in Spec Miata racing history. The winning margin was 15/1,000ths of a second. Both drivers are using Rossini Engines.

Race 2.  Danny Steyn turned the tables and just managed to slingshot past Chip on the line in yet another close finish, this time the winning margin was 84/1,000ths!

January 10th 2011

Danny Steyn and Chip Van Vurst post strong finishes in the first race of the 2011 Spec Miata National Series.

Race 1. Andrew Charbonneau, the 2010 Spec Miata National champion had an exciting ding dong race with Rossini powered driver Danny Steyn, with the lead changing several times. Coming into the final turn, Steyn tried to pass Charbonneau on the outside in Turn 17 but was unable to complete the pass. Charbonneau won the first National of the 2011 season by 0.188 seconds.

Race 2. The start of Race 2 was a disaster taking out Andrew Charbonneau, Jim Drago and several other top National contenders. Rossini powered drivers Chip van Vurst and Danny Steyn led the early laps, until Van Vurst had an off-course excursion. Steyn went on to win comfortably with a 7.6 sec margin over van Vurst.

Click to see video of the Turn 1 Havoc

 

spec Miata is the most competitive class and provides the closest racing in scca

November 2010

Spec Miata is now the largest and most competitive class in all of SCCA, taking over the title from the ever popular SRF class whose popularity is on the wane.

The close racing the makes the Spec Miata so much fun to drive and watch

Action from Roebling Road 2010