Hi John:

Our last message to you was in June 2009. Since then Eric Boghossian & I have completed the regional race season. Eric attended almost all the regional races for the year, about eleven weekends and I got in six last year. We have refined and sorted our cars and both of us have two excellent engines each after much work by our engine builder.

We only two cars and this year we hope to attract more folks to our class. It is no secret there is a recession on and working together with your group to create larger fields is in everyone’s interest. Arizona Region and Calclub is within SCCA’s Southern Pacific Division. This past year Calclub extended recognition to VARA (Vintage Automobile Racing Association) racing licenses for regional racing to encourage larger car counts at their events. I am confident that I could get Calclub and perhaps VARA as well to accept ASA drivers on the same basis.

We have one other driver with a First in San Francisco region who may join us for races. Adding up to three cars to your group would be a significant boost to your past car counts. We need to get together to conform rules for us west coast people. Lets start talking before another year is upon us.

Lou LeBlanc  (818) 399-3802

A couple of weeks ago, I spent the weekend at the KRG Race shop. Geno and I worked on his car and made some good progress. The dash is fabricated as well as the mounting of all switches, Aims system, comm system and controls. I had a blast working with Geno and look forward to getting him back on the race track! His car will be a bit more high tech than the rest of ours, and I expect it to be highly competitive as well.  Here are a few pics of the “FK2″ (still curious as to what the FK stands for). 

 Aside from the Aims system, the car will also have a brake bias adjustment on the dash and Radio communication to his crew chief, C.K. . He has also removed the charging system, and fan. The motor will be cooled by air ducts (yet to be worked out). The chassis designed and built by Terry Murray, is even more refined than previous cars. My favorite part is the extra room between the firewall and motor, this will be a very easy car to work on, even at the track, pulling the motor should be quick and easy ( I am considering a new car for myself, but we’ll see how this one performs, I am sure it will do quite well).

The KRG Race shop had every amenity, including the most important part of any well stocked race garage…..

-Fitz

It’s been more than year since team geno has fielded a car in the Pro Autosports Formula group.  During that time the Swift Formula Ford has been sold and a new Formula First has been in the works.  The decision to make the move to Formula First was easy; highly competitive, robust cars that are less expensive to campaign than Formula Fords.  “Inexpensive Racing” is an oxymoron….. I don’t believe there are any inexpensive forms of racing but there are forms of racing that have a very high fun to expense ratio; Formula First offers a great fun to expense ratio. 

The decision became to buy or build…….. Formula First is a builders class, however after examining my welding skills at the time I decided that I would prefer not to ride in something that I built while I was learning to weld (survival instinct kicked in).  I decided to buy a roller, and build the rest of the car of the car through the Kochert racing Group (KRG) shop.  The chassis is the latest Terry Murray design; the FK2.  KRG spec’d the engine and it was built by Ron Grider.  The header system was designed and built by Roxannes.  Most of the components have arrived and the true build will begin this weekend.  Next up:  Build pictures, on-going progress updates and some of the history of KRG.

cheers, geno

Just a note to say thanks to the fine folks at Formula-First.org, they were nice enough to post a link to our site, We have also posted a link directly to their site.

Formula First.org is a great source for all things Formula First, They have a huge amount of information on this class. And a great Forum! Not to mention some great Videos and photos!!

Please take some time and browse the Formula-First.org site. It is a great site!!!

JKfitz

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Formula First Driver’s Association

After being talked about last year, Robert Guhde took the iniative and has started a Formula First Driver’s Association. The goal is to have a unified voice to be able to speak and lobby various sanctioning bodies on the U.S. Formula First movement. The FSTDA will give us an ongoing list of drivers so that we can alert everyone of technical bulletins, upcoming events, as well as asking for input on issues that affect the class. If you are a Formula First Driver and have not joined, contact Robert Guhde for information.

You can contact Robert at fst@rochester.rr.com

This was originally posted on the Formula-First.org website, I apologize for the blatant plagerism, but I feel this is a very important topic, and I urge all Formula First drivers to join.