Jason Farrell Scores Round One Win – Michelin Team Challenge at Roebling Road Bloomingdale, GA Calvin Martinez and Jason Farrell teamed up for the Round One overall victory and GTO top spot on their Martinez Farrell Motorsports Kawasaki ZX-10R. Martinez and Farrell fielded two entries, one with Calvin Martinez and Dustin Young sharing duties, but it was Farrell riding solo who out-paced 2011 Overall Champion Eric Helmbach’s Chester Auto Repair BMW and the BEI/Vesrah Endurance Suzuki GSX-R1000 entry of Billy Etheridge and Tim Bemisderfer. Farrell started from the third row behind Bemisderfer and BMW-mounted Nate Kern on the outside of row one. At the drop of the green flag Walt Sipp on the Thrashed Bike Racing Buell 1125 edged out Kern down the front straight. But by the entry to turn one Jimmy Cohrs muscled his way past the duo for the lead. By the middle of lap two Cohrs opened a two-second gap from Bemisderfer, Kern and Sipp. Farrell was missing from the lead pack as on the first lap a shifter bolt backed out forcing him to pit for a quick repair. As Cohrs and the field came around, Farrell rejoined a lap down but even with the leaders. By lap four Helmbach had moved up to second behind Cohrs with Bemisderfer trailing. Dan Heverly on the Angry Peaches GTU entry secured the GTU lead from the #62 RNR Repsol Kawasaki by lap four. RNR’s #4 Repsol entry was third in class. In GT Lights the GMB Now Racing Suzuki 650 of Clayton Fisk led from the start. Mark Gage on the DaytonaSportbikes.com SV ran second and G-Baby Racing’s Jim Doyle was third on another Suzuki 650. Bemisderfer passed Cohrs on lap eight for the lead. Helmbach, Kern & Sipp trailed the pair. Cohrs got back past Bemisderfer on lap nine but on lap 11 Cohrs pulled his GSXR behind the wall. On the following lap the order in GTO was Bemisderfer from Kern with Sipp turning one of his best laps a 1:14.747. Helmbach was fourth and Justin Neyra was fifth on a ZX10R. RNR’s #62 machine led GTU just ahead of Dan Heverly riding the Angry Peaches entry. Ray Hofman lay third in GTU on Christian Meekma’s XJR Racing. Fisk led from Doyle in GT Lights with Gage was third. On lap 48 Tim Bemisderfer pitted for his rider change and Jason Farrell had the chance he was looking for to take the lead. Said Farrell, “A bolt backed out on the first lap. I came in. We fixed it and when the field came around I was a lap down. The bike was good and we did the whole race on the same tires.” Farrell scored the win with Helmbach second and Bemisderfer and Etheridge rounding out the podium for the Overall and GTO. After the race Billy Etheridge said, “Tim started and went to lap 50 where the team took on a rear tire and fuel and then I took over and brought home.” Etheridge managed a third with Eric Helmbach taking the second slot for Chester Auto Repair. Walt Sipp finished fourth. Sipp said, “When the ignition problem went away we were doing some good times. Only the rear tire degradation kept us from bring it to the other guys today.” Kern and Alfredo Braca teamed on the BMW. Kern started the race from the front row and they switched riders on lap 38. Braca commented, “I took the bike from Nate. Everything was good, but I started to lose rear traction towards the end of the race. I pulled in to check the pressure, but there was nothing wrong so I continued. We had zero issues on the BMW.” In GTU Premier Racing’s Daniel Dougherty snagged the top step and finished sixth overall. Second in GTU went to Angry p Peaches’ riders Dan Heverly and Allison Fournier. Said Allison, “Dan started the race and with about 25 to go he handed off to me. The bike was good but the tire was starting to go off a little toward the end.” Third in GTU were Rick Beggs and Jason Ebbens on the #62 RNR Cycles Repsol Kawasaki. Nicole Ayers teamed up with Jim Doyle on the G-Baby SV. Nicole started the race and did 25 laps, her first time at Roebling. And they won GT Lights. The G-Baby team is going try and do at least five rounds in 2012 in their hunt for the GT Lights Michelin Team Challenge title. Bill Wissinger and Mark Gage ran the DaytonaSportbikes.com entry with Mark starting and handing off to Bill just over halfway. Other than Bill reporting he was 12″ taller than an SV rider should be there were no problems and they came home second in GT Lights behind G-Baby. Third in GT Lights, Clayton Fisk and Brad Faas shared the GMB Now SV650. Clayton started the race and handed of to Brad. When Brad put it into gear to leave the pits the clutch basket had failed. 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