Sergio Hexsel wins TPS race

[NeilTPS]

Sergio Hexsel wins TPS race at THR

 

Thunder Hill Raceway, Kyle, Texas (September 2, 2006)

 

By: Neil Upchurch, Texas Pro Sedans – Race Director

 

Sergio Hexsel, the defending TPS Champion, won his second Texas Pro Sedans feature race of the 2006 season at Thunder Hill Raceway on Saturday evening. In putting his

VW Rabbit into the THR winner’s circle, Hexsel of Live Oak, Texas said, “we have turned the corner on a season of bad luck”. Current point leader Donnie Moore had a bad luck race night dropping out of his Qualifying Heat with distributor trouble which would also sideline his VW Scirocco for the Feature Race.

 

In the Qualifying Heat Races, Lalo Leal returned to TPS racing with his Ford Mustang equipped with an arca head. Leal was in top form and won the first Qualifying Heat. TPS Rookie point leader Joshua Tuttle won the second Qualifying Heat in his Chevrolet Cobalt. Their wins earned them front row starting positions for the 20 lap TPS Feature Race.

 

The 20 lap feature race was highlighted by three significant happenings. Joshua Tuttle took the lead and held it from the first to the seventh lap. Then Lalo Leal passed Tuttle and led the TPS pack for seven laps until on lap 15 when Sergio Hexsel appropriated the lead which he held to the checkered flag. His margin of victory was only 1.39 seconds ahead of Lalo Leal.

 

A total of seven cars completed race on the lead lap. Following Hexsel, Leal and Tuttle in the lead lap serial were Mike Knotts in 4th. 5th and 6th went to Candi Hogan and John Miesen in their air cooled VW’s. Rick Dawdy brought his VW Rabbit home to another good finish in 7th place.

 

Of the 19 car field who signed in at THR, several Texas Pro Sedans had serious technical problems in addition to Donnie Moore’s Scirocco. Tom Johnson’s #15 VW Rabbit had a blown engine in his heat race, John Wasek’ s #74 VW Scirocco had a transmission fail in practice and Ozzie Osburn’s #22 Mustang was unable to practice due to engine problems.

 

The San Antonio based Texas Pro Sedans touring series will conduct the 11th race of it’s 12 race 2006 season at San Antonio Speedway on Saturday night October 7th Time Trials and a 30 lap Feature Race are scheduled to be presented by the four cylinder TPS stock car series in support of all three USRA classes, the USRA Super Late Models, USRA Modifieds and USRA Truck Series as part of the annual “Octoberfast” SAS event..

 

TPS will return to Thunder Hill Raceway on Saturday night, October 28 as part of the annual “Texas Stock Car Spectacular” presented by THR. That event will mark the end of the Texas Pro Sedans 2006 season and will complete TPS’s 31st consecutive racing season.

 

Further details about this event are contained in the Official Race Results and 2006 Driver Championship Point Standings.

 

 

OFFICIAL RACE RESULTS

 

Thunder Hill Raceway - Race # 10 - September 2, 2006

Finish… Car # r Driver/Hometown…… Car Type/Engine CC… Heat # 1… Heat #2… Laps

 

1 20 Sergio Hexsel/Live Oak, TX VW Rabbit/1984 > 2 … 20 Laps

2 29L Lalo Leal/Corpus Christi, TX Ford Mustang/2338-arca > 1 … 20 Laps

3 4 r Joshua Tuttle/San Antonio, TX Chevrolet Cobalt/2000 > > 1 … 20 Laps

4 48 Mike Knotts/Universal City, TX VW Scirocco/1648 > > 4 … 20 Laps

5 72 Candi Hogan/Cedar Park, TX VW Sedan/2160 > 2 … 20 Laps

6 55 r John Miesen/Marion, TX VW Sedan/1835 > 3 … 20 Laps

7 50 r Rick Dawdy/San Antonio, TX VW Rabbit/1870 > 7 … 20 Laps

8 3 r Jesse Sandoval Jr/Corpus Christi, TX Ford Pinto/2338 > 6 … 19 Laps

9 89 L John Leonard/Universal City, TX VW Rabbit/1870 > 5 … 16 Laps

10 38 Dave Parks/San Antonio, TX 2001 VW Sedan/1588 > 9 … 16 Laps

11 18 Lanny Young/Kingsland, TX VW Karmen Ghia/2275 > 4 … 15 Laps

12 94 Harlon Hatcher/Converse, TX VW Rabbit/1784 >10 … 12 Laps

13 19 Lloyd Hart/San Antonio, TX Honda CRX/1798/4-valve > 3 … 11 Laps

14 15 Tom Johnson/Kingsland, TX VW Rabbit/1816 > 5 … 0 Laps

15 71 Bruce Mabrito/San Antonio, TX VW Scirocco/1648 > 6 … 0 Laps

16 78 r Adam McCosh/Cibolo, TX VW Sedan/1835 > 8 … 0 Laps

17 70 Donnie Moore/Hutto, TX VW Scirocco/1690 > 7 … 0 Laps

18 74 John Wasek/Austin, TX VW Scirocco/1628 > dns … 0 Laps

19 22 Harry Osburn Jr./San Antonio, TX Ford Mustang/2338 > dns … 0 Laps

dna 33 Jamie Garner/San Antonio, TX 2005 VW Sedan/1715

dna 2 Jack Dishman/Devine, TX Ford Mustang/2060-svo

dna 1 Bryce Dishman/Devine, TX Ford Mustang/2349-svo

dna 66 Ariel Arredondo/Kingsville, TX Ford Taurus/2030

dna 23 r Harry J.J. Osburn III/San Antonio, TX Ford Pinto/2338

dna 84 r D. J. Roggenkamp/Lumberton, TX Ford Taurus/2030

dna 1 Jesse Sandoval/Corpus Christi, TX Ford Pinto/2338-arca

dna 97 Kevin Hallman/Cibolo, TX Ford Mustang/2338

dna 07 Mike O'Connor/Weatherford, TX Pontiac Sunfire/2360-r&d

 

Feature Race - Margin of Victory 1.39 seconds. Race leaders: Car #4 led laps 1-7, #29 L laps 8-14, #20 laps 15-20

dna-did not arrive ... dns-did not start

r-eligible 2006 TPS "Rookie Of The Year" Award.

Penalty notes: No driving or technical inspection penalties were issued.

TPS thanks sponsors of Race #10: Instant Imprints of San Antonio thru Larry Willis, Emerald Garden Nursery thru Luke Hogan

TPS thanks THR for hosting this race & sponsoring pit pass coupon to the winner & David Mackey for donating a radio to TPS.

 

TEXAS PRO SEDANS 2006 REMAINING SCHEDULE (Subject to Change, Additions, Deletions)

Oct 7 San Antonio Speedway Time Trials, 30 Lap Feature Race - SAS "Octobertfast"

Oct 28 Thunder Hill Raceway Time Trials, 30 Lap Feature Race - THR Stock Car "Spectacular"

Nov 11 2006 Awards Dinner - 6:30pm Carlos Kelly's Restaurant, Highway 87 East of San Antonio

 

 

Official race results certified by:

Neil Upchurch

Race & Administrative Director

Texas Pro Sedans

 

 

TPS Point Standings thru: Race # 10 - September 2, 2006

 

Position Car # r Driver Hometown Total

 

1 70 Donnie Moore/Hutto, TX … 148 points

2 20 Sergio Hexsel/Live Oak, TX … 106 points

3 15 Tom Johnson/Kingsland, TX … 89 points

4 4 r Joshua Tuttle/San Antonio, TX … 82 points

5 48 Mike Knotts/Universal City, TX … 76 points

6 74 John Wasek/Austin, TX … 69 points

7 33 Jamie Garner/San Antonio, TX … 52 points

8 53 Randy Larsen/Wimberley, TX … 51 points

9 2 Jack Dishman/Devine, TX … 50 points

10 1 Bryce Dishman/Devine, TX … 48 points

11 22 Harry Osburn Jr./San Antonio, TX … 47 points

12 19 Lloyd Hart/San Antonio, TX … 44 points

13 71 Bruce Mabrito/San Antonio, TX … 39 points

14 66 Ariel Arredondo/Kingsville, TX … 36 points

15 29L Lalo Leal/Corpus Christi, TX … 34 points

16 72 Candi Hogan/Cedar Park, TX … 33 points

17 55 r John Miesen/Marion, TX … 33 points

18 94 Harlon Hatcher/Converse, TX … 33 points

19 78 r Adam McCosh/Cibolo, TX … 30 points

20 84 r D. J. Roggenkamp/Lumberton, TX … 29 points

21 29 G Rico Gutierrez/Corpus Christi, TX … 26 points

22 38 Dave Parks/San Antonio, TX … 23 points

23 50 r Rick Dawdy/San Antonio, TX … 19 points

24 1 Jesse Sandoval/Corpus Christi, TX … 18 points

25 23 r Harry J.J. Osburn III/San Antonio, TX … 16 points

26 18 Lanny Young/Kingsland, TX … 11 points

27 27 F Todd Farris/College Station, TX … 11 points

28 11 Chip Harmon/Portland, TX … 9 points

29 89 L John Leonard/Universal City, TX … 8 points

30 97 Kevin Hallman/Cibolo, TX … 8 points

31 27 E r Frank Eggers/College Station, TX … 5 points

32 3 r Jesse Sandoval Jr/Corpus Christi, TX … 4 points

33 07 Mike O'Connor/Weatherford, TX … 2 points

34 01 Eddie Orr/Weatherford, TX … 0 points

 

r - eligible for 2006 TPS "Rookie Of The Year" Award

 

Official point standings certified by:

Neil Upchurch

Race & Administrative Director

Texas Pro Sedans

[Tps_55]

congratulations sergio. Good run. Hopefully we (the bettles) will have something for yall in the next two races.

[NickHolt]

Those air-cooled bugs are coming on strong. Candy Hogan and John Miesen ran strong races as did Lanny Young in the Karmen Ghia - until something broke on the 16th lap.

 

And that Chevy was right there the whole race.

 

Lalo Leal had one of the fastest TPS cars (probably the fastest), but his car was very loose on cool tires - people were able to get by him until they warmed up a bit.

 

Points leader Donnie Moore missed both his heat and feature due to electical problems.

 

Nick

[HiTech]

sergio has gotten alittle surge kicking butt at kyle lately got his act together .way to go .i quess he.s the king of the hill now at THUNDER HILL .congrats cant happen to a nicer guy except for us lalo had a great run seeing the first time in that car at kyle .sorry about the bad luck to the other drivers .we been there . really good run for jessie jr for his first race at kyle in a car that not set up for there . so sergio looks like i have to get out my secret weapon . what kind of beatlejuice are they putting in those bugs .well we see you in october . had to work toshaime toshaime .

[97car]

Good job to all wish I could have been there,You know it was the work thing again.I plan on making the next 2 races though,they should be real interesting.I hope to have something for ya'll there,maybe they will need to widen the tracks.

[HiTech]

How did hart 19 run did he get that overheating fixed .hey mike nice to see you got a good finish .

[NickHolt]

OT - The 19 ran cool all night. Looks like he's fixed the overheating problem. I'm pretty sure he was running a new radiator.

 

Nick

[HiTech]

OT -  The 19 ran cool all night.  Looks like he's fixed the overheating problem.  I'm pretty sure he was running a new radiator.

 

Nick

thanks nick g lad to here that im sure he feels alot better now . dam there goes the rice cooking .now its time to start sweating . going to have to keep an eye on him now .

[top dog]

DID NOT HAVE ANY RICE LAST NIGHT, BUT HAD SOME BAR-B.Q.

[HiTech]

DID NOT HAVE ANY RICE LAST NIGHT, BUT HAD SOME BAR-B.Q.

19 was suppose to cook rice .owell he didnt get the memo i quess

[adam78]

Those air-cooled bugs are coming on strong. Candy Hogan and John Miesen ran strong races as did Lanny Young in the Karmen Ghia - until something broke on the 16th lap.

 

And that Chevy was right there the whole race.

 

Lalo Leal had one of the fastest TPS cars (probably the fastest), but his car was very loose on cool tires - people were able to get by him until they warmed up a bit.

 

Points leader Donnie Moore missed both his heat and feature due to electical problems.

 

Nick

Well it'll be next year before the 78 gets anywhere close to winning. The engine's just about had it. Hopefully, I can get something out of it in 2007. Congrats Sergio. I have to thank Dennis, he found my steering box was loose, and that apparently there was about 2 inches of tow-in on the right front. We'll see y'all at SAS. (By the way, great BBQ Lalo.)

[AARC67]

Great job Lalo, It goes to show you still have something for those foreigners(cars). You got a few more tries to bring home the feature checker. I really think you have a shot at it. If my brother gets to feeling better, I guess i'll have to make the long ride to Kyle to support yall guys. I'll just drive home with one eye closed(lol)Good job and good luck on your next few races. FRED ARREDONDO

[KISS_Racing]

Great job again TPS drivers... Neil, thanks as usual for the great race!

[EVOLUTION]

CONGRATS TO #20 SERGIO!!! GREAT RUN LALO I SEE YOUR GETTING READY FOR THE FINAL TWO RACES OF THE YEAR LOOKIG FOWARD TO BEING OUT THERE HELPING OUT .

[Crazyhorse]

the living legend strikes again! j/k surge.................congrats.

nice run lalo i was impressed. plenty of motor and awhole lot of loose.

[NeilTPS]

Crazyhorse: Lalo told me he was loose toward the end of the race because his locked rear end broke. Those final few laps were run with the #29 rear end performing like a differential on a street car.

 

Sean Paul - I want to thank you for your interest in and support of the Texas Pro Sedan series.

 

See you at the THR "Spectacular" on October 28th.

 

 

Neil Upchurch

[HiTech]

they dont handle very well that way .have to give nooooodles to lalo hanging on to it .not fun .these little short wheel base cars are a hand full to drive without that rear end breaking . you have to be good to hang on to one of these cars with the power they put out now .i found out the hard way .

[adam78]

they dont handle very well that way .have to give nooooodles to lalo hanging on to it .not fun .these little short wheel base cars are a hand full to drive without that rear end breaking . you have to be good to hang on to one of these cars with the power they put out now .i found out the hard way .

Yeah, the differential wasn't locked on my car at the beginning of the year, and....yeah.....it was REAL LOOSE.

[Brazilnut 20]

Thanks everybody, it was a great race.

I was very lucky to win, Joshua and Lalo were very fast.

It is good to be in the right place at the right time.

A lot of damage to the #20 front and rear, bent rear beam, axel, rims,

lower arm and right spindle.

 

Lalo, great food like always!

Good job Jesse Jr, and all the TPS drivers.

 

Sergio

[HiTech]

Thanks everybody, it was a great race.

I was very lucky to win, Joshua and Lalo were very fast.

It is good to be in the right place at the right time.

A lot of damage to the #20 front and rear, bent rear beam, axel, rims,

lower arm and right spindle.

 

Lalo, great food like always!

Good job Jesse Jr, and all the TPS drivers.

 

Sergio

dang i did not know that serg could read and type .i knew he could drive . so now sergio are ready for us .

[Tps_55]

hey lalo nice run and also very good b-b-q hope everyone had fun racin me. see yall at san antonio

[Hartracn19]

How did hart 19 run did he get that overheating fixed .hey mike nice to see you got a good finish .

Hey OldTimer - Missed seeing you at the THR. Jessie said you had to work...Now where are your priorities??

 

I think we have the overheating licked. We changed the Radiator, flushed the system, re-routed all the hoses, swapped back to a restrictor, added a second restrictor on the other side, and said lots of prayers!! She didn’t get past 200 in practice, and stayed at 180 through the main!!!! It was running pretty good, and we got a podium finish in the heat. The main results do not reflect how she ran, so we will just have to try again at the next two!!

[Hartracn19]

DID NOT HAVE ANY RICE LAST NIGHT,  BUT HAD SOME BAR-B.Q.

19 was suppose to cook rice .owell he didnt get the memo i quess

Talked it over with Lalo, the rice would have fallen through the grill, so we decided to hold off

[Hartracn19]

Thanks everybody, it was a great race.

I was very lucky to win, Joshua and Lalo were very fast.

It is good to be in the right place at the right time.

A lot of damage to the #20 front and rear, bent rear beam, axel, rims,

lower arm and right spindle.

 

Lalo, great food like always!

Good job Jesse Jr, and all the TPS drivers.

 

Sergio

Great job on the win Sergio!!!

 

What happened that you got so much damage??

[Hartracn19]

Lalo - Great BBQ, as always!! My children say you need to open up a restaurant. I must say I agree!!

 

Also - Great run Lalo, and by Joshua in the 4!!

 

And how about Candi. after our on track incident, sent to the back and make it all the way back up to 5th!!

 

In fact, great race to all the TPS drivers!!

 

Jessie Jr. in the 3 car - This is the second time (that I can remember) racing you. I like the way you drive. You hold your line. You don't block, but you do not just move over!! That is racing, and you have earned my trust!! Come race with us more often!