Rounds 3 & 4 of the Formula Car Challenge Presented by Goodyear - Southwest were held at Texas World Speedway in College Station, Texas March 4-7. It was an SCCA Double National.

We had 2 very fast visiting drivers (Jamie Slone from Tucson, Arizona and Russ Lindemann from Longmont, Colorado) who graciously joined our Series and provided our drivers with good competition and camaraderie. We would like to thank them for coming down to play with us and would like to invite others outside our region to do the same.

The Texas World Speedway 2.9 course is a very fast and technical race track. Fortunately, there was a Thursday test day with lots of sessions in addition to the Friday test day provided by SCCA.

For Saturday's race, Darryl Wills got the pole on his home track with Jamie Slone and Russ Lindemann qualifying 2nd and 3rd. Davis Parr, Dallas Texas, showed his knowledge of the track by passing Lindemann early on for 3rd position. However, with only 4 laps to go, Parr missed a gear and gave up his Podium Spot to Russ Lindemann. The real battle was for 6th between Rookie Stuart Rettie and long time Series driver Walter Gragert making his return after a racing hiatus. Rettie held the spot for most of the race with Gragert getting around him on Lap 12. But Rettie didn’t give up and re-passed Gragert with 2 laps to go.

Sunday's race started even before the green flag as a light rain started to fall about 30 minutes before race time. Some drivers showed up at the grid in Slicks, some in Rains, and some in Rains mounted backwards. Although the rain stopped before the end of the race, it was a little too late for those who chose Slicks. Darryl Wills demonstrated how many years of Sprint Car racing helps with rain driving by not only winning the FM race but also the Overall (beating FA, FB, FC, CSR, DSR, S2000) John Hugon was the hard charger of the day moving up from 9th to 4th on his new Goodyear Rains. Jamie Slone and Russ Lindemann finished 2nd and 3rd.

Goodyear Tire Drawings for the weekend went to Russ Hillenburg, Russ Lindemann, Jamie Slone, and Davis Parr. There were 11 FM's participating at this event.

Our next event will be an SCCA Reg/Nat to be held at Eagles Canyon in Decatur, Tx on March 26, 27, 28.