2025 AX #2
NER AUTOCROSS SERIES EVENT #2
NER’s 2025 Season continued on Saturday June 7th at Moore Airfield and was sponsored by our new Autocross sponsor SSA European Auto Repair. With the prospect of rain looming, we had a relatively low turnout. But we made a good day out of it with Ernie Grasso setting up a great up and back course with a fairly open design for rain. We opted to try a parade-style drive-through instead of our usual course walk (as employed by SVT and other Clubs). This served the purpose of giving us a relatively early start and with only 25 drivers, we were able to clock 6 runs by only 11:30. And the good news was the rain held off in the morning so that Ernie’s open course was especially fun for everyone. With rain approaching around lunchtime as projected, after lunch we did 3 more runs for a total of 9 and called it a day before the monsoons moved in mid-afternoon.
In the older air-cooled class, Adam Small in his ‘84 911 was able to get a win with a 54.42 over Chris Darminio’s 55.58 in his ‘76 914 beating him by only 1.1 seconds. Class 2 saw Bob Canter take the medal with a 59.71 after deciding not to challenge Adam and driving his 2017 Macan. In Class 3, Lev Tabenkin posted a 52.37 driving his 1996 993 – beating out two Boxsters driven by Alan Donkin (53.11) in his 2003 Boxster S and Chris Tuck who posted a 553.19. Mark Skala prevailed in Class 4 with a 49.47 driving his 2014 Cayman S, followed by Chris Ryan posting a 52.18 for 2nd and Brian Szeremata in his 2013 911 with a 54.68. Mark’s time was Porsche FTD. Ernie Grasso in a 2024 Cayman GTS posted a 51.68 to take Class 5 over Jeff Johnson (2018 Cayman GTS) with a 53.36 and Shawn Anderson in his 2016 Spyder who put up a 55.50. Alan Davis ran unopposed in Class 6 and posted a 52.82; In the two paxed non-Porsche Classes, Yu-Chi Chen (2003 BMW M240) took first in Class 8 with a pax time of 44.09 followed closely by Matt Nieman in his 2023 Corvette (44.547) and Jason Costello in a 2018 Porsche Panamera Hybrid (he elected to run with the non-Porsches) with a 47.74. Chris Lindquist ran unopposed in Class 9 posting 40.918 (pax). His raw time of 48.945 was non-Porsche FTD.
In the Novice Classes, Joshua Reed posted a 56.24 in Class 10 (Porsche Novice) driving his 2021 Carrera S to take first and get himself booted out of the Novice class. Denis Shield took 2nd driving a 2023 Boxster posting a 1:006. C=In Class 11 (non-Porsche Novice), Sims Simeonov posted a 58.002 in his 2024 Toyota GR Corolla.
Full results can be seen on our Live Timing/Archive site by going to https://porschenet.com/ax, scrolling down to the date of Autocross #2 (June 7, 2025), then selecting “Results”.
Thanks again to our sponsor, SSA European Auto Repair. Our next event will be on Saturday July 26th and registration is open on motorsportreg.com.
