Nine Hours of Runoffs Programming on SPEED This Week
TOPEKA, Kan. (Nov. 27, 2006) - Put down that turkey sandwich and turn on
SPEED, where five rounds of Runoffs racing await you this week.
Starting on Tuesday, Nov. 28, catch the first Touring 3 National
Championship race in SCCA history at 12 p.m. (EST). Watch as teammates
Rick Gilhart, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Scott Shelton, of Los Angeles,
Calif., put on a clinic for the rest of the field in their Mazda RX8s.
When the checkered flag flies, one of them will have earned his first
National title.
Then stay tuned for Formula Ford action at 1 p.m. (EST). Three-time
National Champion Thomas Schwietz, of Winchester, Va. leads the field to
the green flag, but will have his hands full with James Hakewill, of San
Jose, Calif., and John Robinson II, of St. Cloud, Fla. Could a Formula
Ford title be the latest addition to Schwietz' impressive Runoffs
resume?
If you miss Tuesday's airings of the Touring 3 and Formula Ford races on
SPEED, you can catch them again Wednesday morning at 3 a.m. and 4 a.m.
(EST) respectively.
The show continues on Thursday, Nov. 30, at 12 p.m. (EST) with GT-3.
John Saurino, of Tulsa, Okla., seeks to defend his GT3 title against
former champions Collin Jackson, of Langley, British Columbia and John
Black, of Olympic Valley, Calif., all piloting Nissan 240SXs. The winner
will cross the finish line over 16 seconds ahead of his nearest
competitor, but which previous Runoffs champ has what it takes to master
the new Heartland Park Topeka circuit?
Stay put for a wild Formula 500 race at 1 p.m. (EST), where a lap two
incident shakes up the leader board and promotes Clint McMahan, of
Covington, Ga., and Bryan Golay, of Avon, Ohio, to the head of the field
after starting 12th and eighth respectively. Golay appears to have
McMahan's number, but mechanical problems for Golay make for an
unpredictable race to say the least.
This week's Runoffs broadcast comes to a close with the Touring 2 race
at 2 p.m. (EST). He may start fourth, but defending T2 Champion Chuck
Hemmingson, of Des Moines, Iowa, wastes no time leapfrogging his Subaru
Imprezza WRX STi into the lead, leaving Kristian Skavnes, of Sparta,
N.J., Will Turner, of Amesbury, Mass., and Robert Schader, of Boulder,
Colo., to battle for second, a fight likely to distract you from
Hemmingson's dominating performance.
The Formula 500 and Touring 2 races will also be rebroadcast the
following morning, Friday, Dec. 1, at 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. (EST).
Visit the Runoffs event page at SCCA.com or log onto SPEEDTV.com for the
full Runoffs TV schedule.
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