Congrats to the winner (it wasn't me! Lol) I'll let Patrick post the final standings. Great job to Patrick and Starc for running an excellent program. A HUGE thanks to the sponsors for the prize money and gift cards! Thank you! I had a blast racing with all of you great competitors this year. This is truly a great class and a great bunch of people in it! Well done everyone! Hope to see all of you back next year!
Thank you to all the BSA racers who came and made it a great class! Thank you to CARS, Molo Petroleum, John Csordas (for money and a great job running the whole event!), Ethan (Hugger) for his donation, Paul Ferry for donating and running the GSCA, Jim Rodgers for the prize belt and counsel and all the present and past racers who contributed financial and moral support! I’ll post all the qualifiers and info later, but… congrats to Phil Roitman for winning the class and Jim Rodgers for winning the Gessler show award! What a great year it was! Patrick
Congratulations on your win Phil! It’s great to see a 73 on top. Outstanding! Fitting for the 50th anniversary.
Thanks to EVERYONE who ran BSA, hung out with us, sponsored us and advised us. Here’s how this this year’s field qualified: 1. Keith Egan, black ‘70 GS, 12.09 2. Mike Psarchik, blue ‘69 GS, 12.15 3/4. Rob Holmes, brown ‘70 GS, 12.49 3/4. Bryan Woodworth, ‘68 Skylark, 12.49 5. Mitch Sias, gold ‘71 GS, 12.67 6. Phil Roitman, gold ‘73 GS, 12.80 7. Dave Hemker, white/green ‘70 GS, 12.81 8. Dan Zeimbo, white ‘70 GSX, 12.92 9. Jim Frankovitch, blue ‘66 Skylark, 13.24 10. Jim Rodgers, Titian Red ‘70 GS, 13.28 11. Josh Ballew, red ‘67 GS, 13.96 12. Steve Brisbois, red ‘78 LeSabre, 14.14 13. Jacob Williams, gold ‘67 GS, 14.17 14. Gary Laughlin, blue ‘67 GS, 14.20 15. Starc Traxler, red ‘65 Skylark GS, 14.35 16. Randy Hollister, silver ‘71 GSX, 14.88 17. John Carroll, gold ‘69 Skylark, 15.53 (I qualified at 12.91 but had mechanical trouble and couldn’t run.) Patrick
We were able to keep people in the loop with texts this year, which really helped. In the next week or two, will all you racers PM me your email addresses, car color/model and member numbers? It’ll help with updates this year and organization next year. (I also can’t remember whose cars are Stage 1s vs. GS 400/455s, etc.) Patrick
Our buddy Diego wrote a great article about the Nats and used my pictures for it. I sent it to the BSA guys but here it is for everyone… Patrick https://journal.classiccars.com/2023/05/30/2023-buick-gs-nationals/
Love it!!! (Among "present company," I hope than I can say that the the lack of "black cars" is refreshing... )
Anyone got a pic of my ugly pos RaSaber in the water box doing her burnout? Need a print for the wall of fame
