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| October 31, 2004 News |
| EKN Trackside - SuperNats 8 - ICC "Last Chance" Qualifier |
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 | Darren Elliott
(Photo: Blaney - SKI) |
If this race weren’t the SuperNationals Last Chance Qualifier, it could have passed as a main event at any other venue with names like Boswell, Elliott, Hinchcliffe, Noud and Rudolph filling the grid. In total, there were four former SuperNats winners on the hot pit lane before the start of the dice. Thirteen drivers lined-up for the final ten starting spots on the ICC grid for today’s final with three competitors looking like they were heading home.
Many eyes were on fast qualifier Tad Funakoshi, who was shipped to the LCQ after he was DQ’d from the Group A Prefinal for being underweight after dominating the moto. The Energy driver was starting dead last in the LCQ field and needed to make up ground in a hurry.
Off the line, veteran Darren Elliot jumped to the lead after schooling Nick Halen (Van Kart) at the entrance to the third corner. As should be the case in an LCQ, little hard racing went on at the front as Elliott put his CRG into cruise control to take the win. Boswell slotted into second with RBI Racing teammates AJ Noud and Alan Rudolph rolling in third and fourth.
 | The end to a tough day.
(Photo: SKI) |
Funakoshi looked strong during the opening laps but he pushed a bit too hard, clipping the barriers heading in the third turn, ending his day, and what he thought was his weekend. On the bubble spot gaining the final transfer spot was Bermuda’s Scott Barnes (Intrepid).
Thirty minutes after the checkers flew, SKUSA officials made the announcement that all of the LCQ starters would take the green in the Final, ending a great tradition of exclusivity for the SuperNationals’ top class.
Missing from the proceedings all day were MRP’s Josh Schreiber and Tony Kart’s Tomas Scheckter. Schreiber used the Thursday practice session as a testing day for the upcoming Stars of Karting Finale while Scheckter was feeling the often painful effects of the kart seats in his ribs and opted to concentrate his efforts on the TaG Senior where he would start from the front row.
| Pos. | No. | Name | Team | Chassis/ Motor | Laps | Diff. Time | Best Laptime | In Lap| 1 | 71c | Darren Elliott | SSC Racing | CRG/Maxter | 8 | | 00:51.194 | 7 | | 2 | 84y | Wesley Boswell | MRP Motorsport | Birel/SRA TM | 8 | 2.943 | 00:51.143 | 8 | | 3 | N3 | A.J. Noud | RBI Racing | RBI/Hi-Tech Pavesi | 8 | 3.561 | 00:50.930 | 8 | | 4 | N2 | Alan Rudolph | RBI Racing | RBI/Hi-Tech Pavesi | 8 | 4.543 | 00:51.343 | 8 | | 5 | 9o | Chris Jackson | Champion Racing | Intrepid/ Champion TM | 8 | 6.641 | 00:51.492 | 6 | | 6 | 25u | Mike Beeny | Msquared Karting | Tony Kart/ Vortex | 8 | 7.06 | 00:51.747 | 6 | | 7 | 7y | Nicholas Halen | Genesis Racing | Van Kart/SGM | 8 | 8.645 | 00:51.787 | 8 | | 8 | 17y | Joe White II | RC-20 Racing | CRG/SwedeTech Pavesi | 8 | 14.708 | 00:51.065 | 7 | | 9 | 56r | James Hinchcliffe | First Kart North America | First Kart/ CRS | 8 | 15.228 | 00:52.049 | 8 | | 10 | 9b | Scott Michael Barnes | PG Racing | Intrepid/ SwedeTechTM | 8 | 18.549 | 00:52.735 | 5 | | 11 | 18j | Ron Joynt | RC-20 Racing | CRG/SwedeTech Pavesi | 8 | 28.262 | 00:51.578 | 7 | | 12 | 26c | Michael Rossi | Empire Karting | Top Kart/ SwedeTech Pavesi | 8 | 29.028 | 00:51.318 | 3 | | 13 | 23y | Tad Funakoshi | Energy USA | Energy/ SwedeTech Pavesi | 3 | -- 5 laps -- | 00:52.958 | 3 | | DNS | 4 | Tomas Scheckter | CompCor Tony Kart US | Tony Kart/ Vortex | 0 | -- 8 laps -- | --:--:--.--- | - | |
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