ArmsUp Motorsports Drivers Score Two Victories at Road America
ELKHART LAKE, Wis. - The first SCCA race of the season at Road America proved to be a successful one for the ArmsUp Motorsports group. Revere Greist and Jim Victor each scored a Formula Continental victory during the Susie Bonneau Double Regional. Greist would have the most success of the ArmsUp lineup, earning Buckeyes for two poles and Saturday's win with Victor earning Sunday's win. Jose Paredes, John Dickmann and John Greist also saw action for the first time this season, with each driver putting in solid performances.
Revere Greist scored his first SCCA race win for ArmsUp Motorsports last weekend at Road America.
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ArmsUp Motorsports Scores Triple Top Five at Blackhawk Farms
SOUTH BELOIT, Ill. - ArmsUp Motorsports competed in their second SCCA National of the season at Blackhawk Farms last weekend. Coming into the weekend the ArmsUp team's focus was to improve on the previous trip two weeks earlier. That goal was accomplished with drivers Jim Victor, Revere Greist, and Kirk Kindsfater all coming away with top-five finishes at the end of the event.
Jim Victor scored his first podium of the season at the Carl Mueller National.
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ArmsUp Motorsports Opens Race Season with Double Top Five
SOUTH BELOIT, Ill. - After a long and cold Wisconsin winter ArmsUp Motorsports returned to the Blackhawk Farms racetrack this past weekend for the opening SCCA Central Division national race. Returning ArmsUp drivers Jim Victor and Kirk Kindsfater were joined by the team's newest driver Revere Greist at the twisty two-mile track. At the end of the weekend Kindsfater would score a third place result with Greist scoring a fifth for an ArmsUp Motorsports double top-five in the competitive Formula Continental class.
Kirk Kindsfater leads ArmsUp Motorsports Teammates Revere Greist and Jim Victor at Blackhawk Farms.
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ArmsUp Motorsports Prepares for 2008 Season
SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis. - ArmsUp Motorsports is in the final stages of preparation for the 2008 racing season. Excitement is high after a successful 2007 season which saw the ArmsUp squad claim a fourth place finish in the Formula Continental class at the SCCA National Championships. Over the winter break ArmsUp Motorsports added two new drivers to its FC contingent with John and Revere Greist coming on-board. The Sheboygan Falls team also completed restoration on Walter Vollrath's beautiful 1978 Lola 497 C Sports Racer.
Revere Greist puts his new Van Diemen through its paces at a recent test in Savannah, Ga.
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ArmsUp Motorsports at the Runoffs - Race Report
TOPEKA, Ks. - Kirk Kindsfater claimed his first top-five finish at the SCCA National Championship Runoffs, finishing fourth in the Formula Continental class. Kirk's ArmsUp Motorsports teammate, Jim Victor, took home an 11th place finish moving up three spots from his 14th place starting position. The race topped what was a successful week for the ArmsUp Motorsports team that saw both of their cars run strong throughout the entire National Championships at the Heartland Park Topeka circuit.
Kirk Kindsfater claimed his and ArmsUp Motorsports best Runoffs result with a fourth place finish.
ArmsUp Motorsports at the Runoffs - Thursday Qualifying & Race Preview
TOPEKA, Kansas - Kirk Kindsfater will roll off of the grid for the SCCA National Championships from the seventh position, his ArmsUp Motorsports teammate Jim Victor will start from the 14th position. The story of the race may be rain though, as scattered storms are predicted in the Topeka area all day.
Gregg Borland and Kirk Kindsfater discuss Thursday's qualifying session where Kindsfater posted the seventh quickest time.
ArmsUp Motorsports at the Runoffs - Wednesday Qualifying
TOPEKA, Kansas - Kirk Kindsfater will be forced to wait till the last day of qualifying to lay down a time for the SCCA National Championship Runoffs. Wednesday's qualifying session was scheduled to be a 10-minute session, but the entire FC field spent that time in pit-lane. Just after the FC field took the green a car went off in the high speed turn 1-2 complex which brought out the black flag.
Kirk Kindsfater was forced to wait till the final qualifying session to set a time because of the black flag.
ArmsUp Motorsports at the Runoffs - Tuesday Qualifying
TOPEKA, Kansas - Jim Victor was able to post his first official laps of the SCCA National Championship Runoffs this morning. With the rain clouds from Monday morning all but a memory, Victor took his number 01 Van Diemen to track for his first qualifying session of the week.
Jim Victor just missed the top 10 in his first day of qualifying.
ArmsUp Motorsports at the Runoffs - Monday Qualifying
TOPEKA, Kansas - In what was supposed to be the first official on-track day for the ArmsUp Motorsports team at the SCCA National Championship Runoffs turned out to be a day off. As the team arrived at the track this morning they were greeted by what remained of overnight showers. Qualifying for the ArmsUp duo of Jim Victor and Kirk Kindsfater was scheduled for 9:50 in the morning and it was apparent the track would still be wet for the session.
Both ArmsUp Motorsports cars sat idle today as the rains fell on the Heartland Park Track this morning
ArmsUp Motorsports at the Runoffs - Testing
TOPEKA, Kansas - ArmsUp Motorsports drivers Jim Victor and Kirk Kindsfater began their quest for the SCCA National Championship at the Heartland Park Topeka racetrack. The week long event, which pits the best drivers from each of the SCCA regions together for a winner-take-all National Championship, started over the weekend with testing Saturday and Sunday.
Kindsfater and Victor put their ArmsUp Motorsports prepared cars through their paces over the two days of testing.