Southwest Vintage Cup 2007 debuts at Firebird West this past weekend CCS Affiliate, RoadRace Southwest (www.roadracesw.com) played host to the first round of the Southwest Vintage Cup 2007 races at Firebird West on Feb 18th. The Southwest Vintage Cup 2007 is a grassroots series run by the racers themselves. They will have three additional rounds in the coming months. SMRI (www.smri-racing.org) will be the host club when the series moves to Albuquerque for the July and August rounds (July 14-15 and Aug 4-5). The series will wrap up in Phoenix again with races at Firebird Main on November 4th. The series has three Historic Vintage classes (lightweight, middleweight and Heavyweight) which are for bikes built prior to the 1979 model year. Modifications must be “Period type and style”. The series also has a SuperVintage class for newer machines (up through the 1983 model year) and allows basically unlimited engine, brake, wheel and suspension modifications. Dennis Parrish of Rio Rancho NM was the big winner this weekend, placing first in both SuperVintage and Historic Vintage HW. Dennis races both a 1982 Honda CB900F and a 1975 Kawasaki KZ900. Other first place finishers were: Mitch Smith of Rio Rancho NM on his XS650 Yamaha taking top honors in the Historic Vintage MW division and Troy Runck took first in the Lightweight class on a 1975 Honda CB400F. Here are the complete finishing results: Historic Vintage Heavyweight 1 Dennis Parrish Kaw 1015 01:10.500 2 Dave Turner Suz GS1000 01:13.00 3 Jean Paul Otto Yam 400 01:13.162 4 Tracy Riffe Suz GS1000 01:11.894 Historic Vintage Middleweight 1 Mitch Smith Yam 650 01:12.908 2 Richard Haas Duc 750 01:13.793 3 Mark Weiss BMW 01:22.994 4 Billy Pedro 01:27.266 Historic Vintage Lightweight 1 Troy Runck Hon 400 01:14.929 2 Chris Frei Hon 350 01:15.655 3 Jason Lindquist Hon 175 01:15.499 4 Paul Piskor Brid 175 01:15.670 5 Steve Gillen Hon 160 01:19.080 6 Davie Chrone 01:23.715 7 Charles Stark Kaw 250 01:23.183 8 Rene Cusamano Hon 350 01:27.880 SuperVintage 1 Dennis Parrish Hon 985 01:08.479 2 Tracy Riffe Suz 1000 01:10.929 3 Mitch Smith Yam 650 01:14.041 4 Dave Turner Suz 1000 01:14.610 5 Ray Hymer Kaw 500 01:13.259 6 Troy Runck Hon 400 01:15.129 7 Rene Cusamano Hon 350