Mother Nature made her presence known at Camden. Consistent rain forced most of Saturday’s racing to be run in wet conditions. Teams pulled out and mounted their Bridgestone rain tires and made the appropriate setup changes to get their mounts handling in the rain. For many Gold Cup racers, it marked the first time they ever competed in the rain. Georgia racers Tanner Lee and Dylan Murry led the way with four and three feature wins, respectively, but arguably the best weekend belonged to New York’s Michael Fauci, who made his return to the Gold Cup Series after an extended break and swept the Senior Pro Gas Animal main events to take home the $500 prize to the best overall Senior Pro Gas finisher on the weekend. We’ll start with Fauci’s wins in Senior Pro Gas. The class has continued to gain popularity in its inaugural season on the RLV Gold Cup circuit, and at Camden 13 drivers entered included a number of new faces to the Gold Cup. On Saturday, Fauci wheeled his No. 95 Coyote to wins in the heat and feature after a second-place qualifying effort to fellow Coyote racer Josh Stiefel. au g u st 2 0 1 3 - ka rt i n g s c e n e
Fauci won the heat by several kart-lengths over 2-cycle regular Cal Stewart, who was making his second Gold Cup appearance of the season. Fauci dominated the main event, winning by a huge 11-second margin over another 2-cycle regular who’s been racing 4-cycles recently, Kyle Prokup. Dylan Zobkiw crossed the stripe third with Florida’s Patrick O’Neal and Michigan’s Jeffrey Beatty rounding out the top five. Fauci got the broom out Sunday in Senior Pro Gas Animal, sponsored by Coyote / Razor and Margay chassis. The New Yorker took the pole at a 42.204, won the heat over Stewart and went on triumph in the main event by a 0.494-second margin over Stewart. Zobkiw took third for the second day in a row. The pair of third-place runs was good enough to net Zobkiw a cool $250 for the second-best overall result of the weekend. Michael Prokup Jr., another 2-cycle racer who’s now trying his hand at 4-cycle racing, was fourth. Chris Osgood rounded out the top five. Razor Chassis driver Tanner Lee added another four wins to his growing total in the Gold Cup Series. Lee’s biggest win came in Junior Medium,
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