Firebird Motorsports Park Regional (5 Viewers)

[tb]

Congratulations to Tobin Gasparrelli on his Top Alcohol Funny Car win at Firebird today

 

[Butch]

What's Tobins position on the family tree?

 

[You!]

Steve's son.

 

[Cliff]

He is 3rd Gen F/C racer. I used to see his grandfather, Lou, run TA/FC & he won a lot of races.

 

[Cliff]

By the way, Shawn Cowie ran a killer #1 Q pass, 5.147 280.25. Wow....

 

[glofria]

I saw In-n Out's Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson made it to the finals in the Top Sportsman class.

 

[J. S.]

I saw In-n Out's Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson made it to the finals in the Top Sportsman class.

That's interesting. With all her business responsibilities, she doesn't get much seat-time that I know of. I didn't know she ran any of the Divisional races.

She keeps a real low profile at the Pomona races. You wouldn't know by looking at her car that this is a car driven by a Billionaire. It doesn't have any In-N-Out signage on it.

 

[glofria]

The last heard from my old friend Jeff Utterback, he was like one of three fulltime employees working on Lynsi car/racing programs.

For those who doesn't recognize Jeff's name, he is a licensed nitro FC driver who mostly runs N/FCs, a BMX hall of famer and drummer in several surf music bands her is So. Cal.

 

[mick]

..... Jeff Utterback ....... a BMX hall of famer .....

holy cow. i'm an old bmx'r and definitely remember jeff's name. i think he was part of the SE factory team?
i'm aware of a couple drag racers with a bmx past

 

[Nunz]

holy cow. i'm an old bmx'r and definitely remember jeff's name. i think he was part of the SE factory team?
when i was a teenager, i raced an SE PK Ripper frame w/torker forks ..... i'm aware of a couple drag racers with
a bmx past

That's what Del Worsham did before drag racing.

 

[Cliff]

Didn't Tom McEwen own Mongoose bicycles? I think that brand was used by a lot of BMX folks. Anyone know if that brand is still around?

 

[Randy]

Gary Turner, former TAD and NFC car owner, started GT Bicycles in his garage in Huntington Beach. Years later, he sold it for 9 fugures and is living happily ever after.

 

[glofria]

HA HA, speaking about Gary Turner, he has the N/FC "The Pedaler" driven by Cory Lee (still I think).

don't know about McEwen and the "Mongoose" bikes being connected though.

Being my father's son, for bikes I always had whatever I could piece together. Nowadays, thanks to Eric Christensen all my mountain bikes and beach cruiser are from Giant. Eric was the regional sales manager for Giant before they realigned and forced him out a few years ago. He races in the Stock class with a '64 Falcon and before that a '64 Ranchero with a tequila sponsor.