ArmsUp Motorsports has solid weekend in Three Divisions at Road America
ELKHART LAKE, Wis. – ArmsUp Motorsports had a solid weekend at Road America this past weekend. The Elkhart Lake based squad competed in three different categories with Jose Paredes running in Formula Atlantic (FA), John Dickmann and Jeff Pietz in Formula Continental (FC) and Rick Balsley running the F2000 Championship Series. Paredes would claim two FA wins in the SCCA Double Regional with Dickmann adding a podium finish in Saturday’s FC race. Balsley, whose pace has been improving steadily, made his second career F2000 Championship Series start and claimed an 11th and 15th in the stout pro field.
Jeff Pietz claimed two top-ten’s at Road America. (Photo Courtesy ArmsUpMotorsport.com)
ArmsUp Motorsports Scores Four Wins in Two Weeks
SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis. – ArmsUp Motorsports drivers scored victories in consecutive weekends at two different race tracks. Rick Balsley and Jose Paredes scored SCCA Regional victories at the Susie Bonneau Memorial Double Regional. Balsley’s win was his first career SCCA Formula Continental victory. One week later Pat Mc Ginnis added two wins to the column at the Gateway International Raceway SCCA Regional / National event.
Rick Balsley took his first Formula Continental Victory at the Susie Bonneau Memorial Double Regional (Photo Courtesy ArmsUpMotorsport.com)
ArmsUp Motorsports Scores Two Victories at the Kohler International Challenge
ELKHART LAKE, Wis. – ArmsUp Motorsports campaigned two cars at this year’s Kohler International Challenge Vintage Festival held at the historic Road America. New ArmsUp Motorsports driver Peter Stolz drove his 1973 Porsche 911 RSR to victory in the GTO category. Walter Vollrath, who was making his first race start since 2008, drove his 1978 Lola T497 to the win in the CSR class.
Walter Vollrath’s Lola T497 CSR racecar on display at the Concourse d’ Elegance (Photo Courtesy ArmsUpMotorsport.com)
Kirk Kindsfater Scores Double Podium at High Plains Raceway
BYERS, Colorado – ArmsUp Motorsports driver Kirk Kindsfater made his second start of the 2010 season during the SCCA RMR National at the High Plains Raceway. Racing in his home state of Colorado, Kindsfater scored and third in race one on the High Plains short course. Sunday’s race two was run on the two and a half mile full course with Kindsfater taking the pole and a second place finish to close out the event with a double podium.
Kirk Kindsfater scored a double podium finish at the SCCA RMR National. (Photo Courtesy Jacques-O-Lot Photography)
ArmsUp Motorsports suffers Heartbreak at June Sprints
ELKHART LAKE, Wis. – ArmsUp Motorsports driver Revere Greist suffered a heartbreaking defeat in the SCCA June Sprints held last weekend at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Greist had the car to beat all weekend taking the pole position in the twenty-five car Formula Continental field. After leading the race well past the halfway point; Greist was knocked out of contention after cutting a tire down from debris left on the track by an accident. With Greist out Kirk Kindsfater carried the torch for the seven car strong ArmsUp team scoring a sixth place result in Formula Continental.
Revere Greist lead early only to have his shot at victory robbed by a piece of debris.
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ArmsUp Motorsports Dominates SCCA Cat National with 1-2 Finish in Formula Continental
ELKHART LAKE, Wis. – Revere Greist and Pat Mc Ginnis established ArmsUp Motorsports as the Formula Continental team to beat at Road America in 2010. The pair dominated this weekend’s SCCA Cat National at Road America by sweeping the top two positions in the FC class for qualifying and both races one and two. The double win capped off an extremely successful weekend for the ArmsUp team that saw John Greist score two top fives and Rick Balsley come home with a pair of eighth place finishes in the 20 car FC field.
Revere Greist went two for two at the SCCA Cat National.
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ArmsUp Motorsports Driver Revere Greist Claims Third Victory of Season
SOUTH BELOIT, Ill. – Revere Greist scored his third victory of the season at the SCCA May National at Blackhawk Farms in South Beloit, Illinois. Greist claimed both poles for the double race weekend, finishing second in race one and leading every lap from pole in race two. Jim Victor joined Greist on the weekend scoring a fifth place result in a hard fought race one.
Jim Victor claimed his first top five of the season during the SCCA May National at Blackhawk Farms
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ArmsUp Motorsports Driver Revere Greist Dominates SCCA Oak Tree National
ALTON, Va. – ArmsUp Motorsports driver Revere Greist dominated the SCCA Oak Tree National in the Formula Continental (FC) division. The Madison, Wisconsin driver topped all six official sessions en route to a double race victory and setting a new FC lap record at the historic 3.2 mile Virginia International Raceway (VIR). Rick Balsley and Jeff Pietz were able to celebrate with their teammate as both drivers took home two top-fives a piece with Balsley scoring a podium finish in race one.
Greist (center) and Rick Balsley (right) share the podium at Virginia International Raceway.
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ArmsUp Motorsports Scores Double Podium at Gateway International Raceway
MADISON, Ill. - ArmsUp Motorsports got their season into full swing last weekend at the SCCA St Louis Region's March Wins National. The event was split into a regional race on Saturday and a national race on Sunday for the ArmsUp drivers of Pat Mc Ginnis and Jim Victor. Both days the duo of ArmsUp drivers came home with podium results. Mc Ginnis scored the win in the regional and was second in the national event with Victor bringing home a pair of third places in the Formula Continental (FC) division.
Pat Mc Ginnis took a win and second place in front of his home crowd at Gateway International Raceway.
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ArmsUp Motorsports Gets Early Jump on the 2010 Season at Sebring International Raceway
SEBRING, Florida. - ArmsUp Motorsports was able to escape the cold and snow of the Wisconsin winter and travel south to what was supposed to be sunshine and warmth of Central Florida. Unfortunately the weather had other ideas in mind as it greeted ArmsUp drivers' Pat Mc Ginnis and Jim Victor with cold temperature as well as rain for the SCCA Southeast Region Double National. Both drivers came away with solid finishes with Mc Ginnis bringing home a fourth place in Sunday's race two while Victor claimed two top-10 finishes to start the new year.
Pat McGinnis claimed a fourth place finish in his first trip to Sebring International.
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