9th Annual KP Tuned Vw Nationals

After a lot of preparation, planning and grunt work, we just pulled off VW Nationals #9 in grand fashion! This was definitely the best one yet with our most spectators, show cars and only 5 tech cards shy of our racer record.

First off, this would not be feasible without my family. My wife for dealing with the year-round head in the phone for messages, calls, setting things up and general nonsense. Her willingness to pack up for four days, drive to middle of nowhere Maryland with the kids in tow and our second home become a racetrack is unwavering.

The amount of people who helped out on the day of the event is amazing. We had absolutely ZERO parking issues with swap or show. Cecil had the swap meet high and tight while the Filthy Bugger crew held the car show down. All registration and voting were done efficiently, swiftly and mistake free.

If you bought a t shirt or asked for once after we sold out, you probably talked to my mom or sister. They also came down to help out and sling merchandise. We even had my brother in charge of racer pairing while my dad cooked. Legit whole family there.

To all of the racers, show cars, vendors and spectators who showed up…thank you. You are the show. You are the reason people drive through the gate and roast in the sun. I really appreciate you all who could do anything else, but you chose to attend an event I promote. Thank you.

We had a mountain motor pro stock car. Gave away a turnkey engine. A racer and car all the way from Austria! He set low ET of the event with a 4.80 and got the win in Pro Outlaw! Funny side story is that this was his event win ever. Apparently over the pond they just kind of run test and tune. He scored a first career win at the little old VW Nationals.

I hope all the race winners enjoyed the big checks and winners’ stickers. You show car guys got nice plaques and stickers also. For our 10-year anniversary next year, we will work on some specialty awards. I am trying to keep this short but it’s not really working.

See you guys in 2024 for the 10th anniversary show!! Sponsors, please inquire as we are always looking to add to our existing list. Without these company’s and people, there is no event. It is that simple.

WINNERS
Pro Outlaw - Hubert Strengberger
Super Pro - Tim Norwood
Pro - Bren Hartman
Super Stock - Jesse Farquhar
Hard Tire - Mark Spires
All Motor - Ben Zarpentine
Limited Street - Franky Criner
ASA - James Carroll

8th Annual KP Tuned Vw Nationals

Friday started off with the High Roller race. The winner was Jesse Farquhar all the way from Massachusetts in his stick shift Jetta. Runner up was veteran VW racer Paul Langlois.

We also for the first time ran a “bogey” race for anyone that bought a tech card. Tim Norwood was the winner here in his beautiful altered. Second best package went to James Boone in the sandrail.

Saturday I got to the track at 6:55AM and I was all ready greeted by a swap meet vendor. I kind of had a feeling that it was going to be big.

We wound up with over 30 vendors which is amazing since our highest before that was 12!

The car show was headed up by Cecil Affleck and his buddy. Even though we had expanded the car show area, it wasn’t enough. We had 112 registered show cars and there were plenty parked in the grass without a card on the window.

Our racers showed up strong again with another great mix of air cooled and water cooled cars. WE had 76 racers on the property which is down due to a lot of people waiting on parts but everyone who came to race, did a hell of a job.

In Pro Outlaw it was Brad McBride in his front engine type 3 taking the victory over John La Spisa in the GTI. Brad had been on kill and was .008 in the semi finals on the tree.

Limited Street had their largest field in event history with 11 making the qualifying sheet. However, I am sorry that these guys had the track screw up the ladder round 1. Surviving that and making it to the finals was Paolo Santos in his vr6 Jetta versus Drew in his GTI. Paolo was able to put down enough power to stay out front and win.

ASA is where the mighty 1641 of Kevin Bartelson came up against the hammer of Brad Robertson. Brad saved his best for last and went 6.01 to secure victory.

All Motor competed quarter mile and heads up. This was another air vs water final as Jonathan Abrams took out Anthony Frassetto in his GTI. These two had smack talked before the event and ran a grudge match in Q1. There, Abrams was able to beat him also.

Super Pro came to the lanes with 20 cars round one and the battle was on! When it was all over, Todd Chicklo in Hot Chocolate was the winner over Jimmy Boone.

An interesting side note was that we have Pro Stick race with us here too. Their class is all manually shifted V8s, also ran on the 1/8th mile. We decided to run the winner of Pro Stick versus the super pro winner for an additional $400 to the winner and $100 runner up. On this day, the VWs reigned supreme when Todd took out a red lighting 5 second chevelle. They were the last pair down the track of the weekend.

Pro VW came down to Nelson Rodriguez Jr and Troy Mcnair in a pair of street cars. After three years of not racing, Nelson was able to come with the big win.

Super Stock came down to Anderson Ward and Jesse Farquhar in his second final of the weekend. Two finals and two big checks for the Monson Mafia as Jesse yet again would turn on the win light. It is also to note he had a perfect .000 light during the weekend.

Some interesting side stories are—

Dave Fisher entering white lightning and his v8 bug and going rounds in both cars.

The return of Gelber Blitz to the race track.

Joe rule getting his 90s styled race car out of moth balls after 20 years idle.

Hot Chocolates big win at their home track.

The Panty Dropper special award for the car show from Seth was a hit.

Kevin Grimes bringing out his off road Manx and becoming wheelie king of the weekend.

Amber Zent came all the way from California to hang out and meet new people. Plus she got to race Arthur Neary car in Pro.

Erick Negron won the dune buggy raffle

We will do another run on t shirts.

Thank you to everyone who supports the events. Wether you sponsor, show up, share a social media post. If you want to get involved or sponsor in 2023, let me know.

Special thank you to all of my family who helps out. It’s not east to drag two trailers full of stuff and cars almost 5 hours from home along with seven people. This wouldn’t happen with out them.

Scott Pocaro

7th Annual KP Tuned Vw Nationals

You folks better sit down and buckle up if you expect to get to the end of this post. The VW Nationals #7....where do I begin. Holy friggen cow. I know for some established shows and promotors like Farmington they are used to this....but not I! Cars and people just kept coming and coming....ending with 862 spectators, 65 show cars and a bunch of vendors. But 104....that is where I will hang my hat. 104 VW tech cards sold for racing is incredible. I was so busy during the day parking cars, teching cars, solving issues, handing out trophies and trying to race...I really didn't sink in the day of!

It starts with guys like Paul Kiernan and KP Tuned .Com who was the big Kahuna sponsor and Scott Sayers of Deutschwurx the presenting sponsor. Without these corner stones I would not have even thought about putting on an event. Add in all the other sponsors and we were on our way.

I had the easy part...promote it! The pieces were there and all I had to do was beat the drum.

Rain toyed with us all day and gave us some downtime, but everyone did great racing. No oil downs, no crashes...but a whole lot of wheel stands and fast cars.

Thank you to Cecil Affleck and company for taking care of the show car area. It is good to know I can go take care of other stuff and the show car area is NOT a disaster.

My mom and sister for selling t-shirts, counting show votes and holding down the home base all day.

My wife and kids for coming along on "vacation" and my wife for making most of the race trophies. Other promotors like Scott Sain and Kathy Jacobs Sevwa . We all talk to each other and even sponsor each other's events/series.

The team of people who helped me thrash on my own car so I could get it to the track. Only made 1 pass but learned a lot and now its time to refine the package and get competitive. Making 1 pass was my choice, I just drove it off the trailer.

Thank you to Thomas McCracken and Dave Fisher for bringing White Lightning out to display. I will reserve you a spot any day!

All of the winners like Chris Schaefer, Clint Woolard, Adam Dwayne Dalton, Brad Robertson, Jesse Farquhar, Jonathan Abrams ,Paolo Santos,

I know this post is more scattered than a FWD axle on the starting line but....

Let's get it on for 2022!!!