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Club Spring Mountain Race Series sees intense competition in Light Sport Race, Miata divisions

Thursday, 01 March 2018




604 Shares The 2018 Club Spring Mountain Race Series is under way, and after two rounds, it's anyone's guess who will prevail. Ten more rounds are on the cards over the rest of the year at Spring Mountain Motor Resort and Country Club, 55 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip.
Open to all club members, the Club Spring Mountain Race Series offers categories for two types of racecars. The Light Sport Race (LSR), which is further subdivided into four classes, and a Miata Division where any current Miata, Mazda MX-5 or MX-5 Cup car is eligible. All four of the LSR classes race together separate from the combined Miata classes. The LSR1 Class is an unlimited spec class with the Wolf GB08SM Turbo being the most typical. LSR2 is mostly comprised of the Wolf GB08SM and Radical SR8. LSR3 strictly features the Radical SR3 and the LSRR class is restricted to series rookies. All cars must be approved by Spring Mountain Racing prior to entering competition.
Whether the LSR or Miata classes, club members own their own cars. LSR drivers also have the benefit of getting their vehicles prepped and serviced by Spring Mountain Racing's own crew to ensure quality of prep and performance parity. Spring Mountain is proud to offer club members the best mechanical service as authorized technicians of both Radical Sportscars and Wolf Racing cars, with the engine shop, Powertec America, recently being named the only Radical authorized service center in North America. It's a best of both worlds arrive-and-drive system with the pride of ownership and other benefits of having your own car supported by a turn-key operation that looks after every last detail.


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Spring Mountain boasts 6.1 miles of racing surface from which more than 50 different configurations can be used. So, despite the entire racing series taking place at the club, drivers continuously face an abundant variation of circuit layouts to ensure that every race weekend presents a new set of challenges.
Thus far the Club Spring Mountain Race Series has produced some ultra-competitive racing over the first two rounds. In the LSR1 Class, Denis O'Leary and John Melsom were tied atop the points table after January's races.
Then in February, Todd Slusher emerged with a pair of wins, two poles and two fastest laps to vault into third overall, nine points adrift of second place.
But, it was O'Leary who consolidated a second- and fourth-place finish to open an 18-point gap ahead of Melsom who scored a second place in one race, but finished out of the top five in the other.
In LSR2, Ron Eckhardt scored his third win in four starts to lead the other LSR2 class winner Bruce Jones by a sizable 58 points.
Ron Fletcher also holds a 35-point advantage over a surging Mitch Bishop, who scored a win and a second place to leap from sixth in points to second place. There are four drivers in the LSR Rookie Class, first and fourth separated by a slim 12 points after four races.
The Miata Division has seen Ron Fletcher in the Miata Class and Teddy Landau in the MX-5 Class with more than 30-point advantages. Surely, the others will look to claw back those deficits during the March rounds. Fletcher has swept all four Miata Class races while Landau has been victorious in three of the four.
The March rounds are set to take place on the weekend of the 16th and 17th, followed by the weekend of the 20th and 21st in April, and the mid-point season arrives on the weekend of May 18 and 19. As the lowest four-point scoring finishes are discarded at the conclusion of the season, no lead is yet safe.

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To learn more about the Club Spring Mountain Race Series, visit racespringmountain.com and click on the Club Spring Mtn tab.
Club Spring Mountain Race Series LSR Points After Race 4
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1. Denis O’Leary - 93
2. John Melsom - 75
3. Todd Slusher - 64
4. Chip Romer - 44
5. Miguel Grillo - 34
6. Patrick Liddy - 32
7. Indy Al Miller - 26
8. Ken Melgoza - 16
9. Brandon Rambo - 1
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1. Ron Eckhardt - 114
2. Bruce Jones - 56
3. Mark Rohrwasser - 44
3. John Morris - 44
5. Chris Morse - 34
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Spring Mountain: House call

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emailBy RACER Staff | 17 hours ago

When Dr. Alain Derzie comes to Spring Mountain, it’s to answer his own addiction to racing.

What are the similarities between racing and performing surgery? There’s a hesitation before Dr. Alain Derzie replies, ”You know, I’ve never really thought about it.”

Derzie is a general and trauma surgeon in New York City and among one of the earliest members at Spring Mountain Motor Resort and Country Club outside of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Soon after completing his medical residency, Derzie bought a Chevrolet Corvette and took it to a club gathering at Englishtown Raceway Park in New Jersey. The plan was walk around the show, but when he saw the autocross course, everything changed.

“I don’t think I ever went to the rest of the show,” says Derzie. “They loaned me a helmet and I just kept going back to run the autocross over and over. I was hooked and signed up for the Corvette school near Las Vegas. It wasn’t even called Spring Mountain then.”

In between the time Derzie signed up for the course and when he arrived, Spring Mountain founders John Morris and Brad Rambo had purchased the facility and renamed it. At the time it was rough ribbon of asphalt without a single amenity beyond a Portajohn and two tents with folding chairs in the middle of the desert.

“That was in 2004 and I’m not sure if it’s an obsession or an addiction, but I have it,” continues Derzie. “I went back as often as I could to take the next level course.”

By 2012, Derzie bought his first Radical SR3 and began competing in Spring Mountain’s Race Series. He’s now on his third Radical and also competes in the Blue Marble Cocktails Radical Cup North America series as well.

“I’m fortunate in that as a surgeon I have flexibility to manage my cases and surgeries around the race schedule,” he continues, adding that it takes him out to Spring Mountain eight to 10 times a year, typically staying Wednesday to Monday.

Like many at Spring Mountain, Derzie will rattle off the bounty of amenities that have been developed since that first visit back in 2004. There’s the club house, the garages, the lake, the swimming pools. karting track, shooting range, off-road trails and now over six miles of race track with 50 different configurations – all of which Derzie routinely takes advantage of. As fabulous as all of that is, Derzie says it’s the people that make it what it is.

“Together with this group of people, we’ve been a part of this community that’s been built just for us around our passion for cars and racing,” says Derzie who now also has his own home on the property overlooking the track. “Many of them are a big deal in their field, but at the track, there’s no pretenses, just enthusiasm.”

Among those that Derzie has become close with is former IndyCar and sports car driver Jeff Bucknum. He coached Derzie early on and now Derzie is helping to return the favor. Bucknum’s son Spencer is beginning his own racing career, debuting this year in the F4 United States Championship. It was in Derzie’s Radical that Spencer had the opportunity to show he could be a third-generation Bucknum racer like his father and grandfather, Ronnie.

Back to the question of racing and surgery, Derzie has an answer.

“I think in both cases it’s easy to say they are both are about the adrenalin rush, but in reality it’s anything but,” he concludes. “Racing and surgery are the same in that whether it’s getting through turn 1 at the start of a race or treating a gunshot wound to the abdomen, the ability to react effectively and under control is the result of both training and experience, knowing that there is always more to learn.”



The ultimate motorsports community

Spring Mountain offers on-property and track-side lots to build the home of your dreams, creating the ultimate community for motorsports enthusiasts.

“I’m super lucky to have been able to build a home in such a beautiful place literally on the race track,” says Dr. Derzie. “On a recent weekend I wasn’t able to attend the race, but invited all the coaches, spotters and spectators to watch from my roof deck as it was the best view for that layout. I got to watch the race from New York via my roof cam!

“I think the super interesting thing about the Spring Mountain Estates is that it’s a place where a bunch of friends and fellow racers got together and built a neighborhood. Usually, you buy a house, move in and then meet your neighbors. We did it the other way around!”

Home sites are going fast. Contact Mike Weeks at (800) 391-6891 for lot pricing and availability.

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