Lee Cycle’s Jeremy Toye won his second WSMC Toyota Cup Formula One race of 2007 Sunday, March 18 at Willow Springs International Raceway. After suffering a mechanical issue with his Kawasaki ZX-6R in the 650cc Superbike race, Toye came back to run away with the win in Formula One, leading every lap and winning by seven seconds over Rojo Racing’s Jason Perez. “I kind of went into the race racing for second,” Perez said. “Because I knew there was no way I could hang out with Jeremy’s raw horse power. I was having to really get the bike sideways off the turns and really used up a lot of tire. I did that for three laps and was satisfied, so I backed it off and just conserved it for the rest of the race.” Perez led most of the first lap, but Toye powered past Perez on the front straight to take the lead and held it for the remainder of the race. After a few laps, Toye also backed off the pace to conserve his tire. “I knew that Jason was going to conserve his tire and I thought that was a pretty good idea,” Toye said. “I saw that I had a little gap and was like, ‘Alright, let’s conserve this and bring it all the way home.'” While Toye and Perez were in conservation mode, Advanced Kawasaki’s Dowie was sitting behind Jack Pfeifer waiting to see if Pfeifer would use up his tire. “I knew in the [Open] Superstock race [Pfeifer] eased up a lot after halfway, like his grip went off,” said third-place Dowie. “So I thought the smartest thing to do was to just kind of sit on Jack and watch him.” Dowie took over third position from Pfeifer on the 10th lap of the 12-lap race. Pfeifer fought back and repassed Dowie later on the same lap, but Dowie led across the start/finish line and beat Pfeifer to the line by just under 0.2 second. More, from a press release issued by Kenny Kopecky: March 18, 2007 WSMC Willow Springs Round 3 Rosamond, CA San Diego racer Kenny Kopecky returned to WSMC racing after a layoff of seven months to win a pair of twins based classes at the club’s monthly meet at Willow Springs Raceway Sunday. Riding his 2005 WSMC Championship winning Ducati 999R-05 Kopecky overcame 3rd and 4th row grid positions to lead both of his events by the exit of turn 1 and led every lap in both Formula Twins Heavyweight and BOTT Heavyweight on a warm and windy day in the Southern California desert. “I’m really happy with the results, but more importantly pleased to be close to my full race pace after so much time away from the racing.” Kenny said after the event. “We’ve only ridden the bike twice the last half year at some TrackDaz events, and in my first race start to be within a second of some of our class lap record times from 2005…the Moto Forza prepped Ducati is strong as ever, and the good feelings around the track came back within my first few laps of practice on Saturday. We put some new Dunlops on for the races, and off we went!” Kopecky has been spending time in family pursuits for a number of months, as well as recently soloing a small Cessna while taking private pilot flying lessons in San Diego. “Ya, we’re having a great time! David (Kenny’s step-son) had a great season with his high-school marching band and we went to many fine performances, and everything is going really well at home. We’ll be back for several more WSMC events this season, in similar fashion to our limited schedule last year”. Asked many times over the event weekend if he’ll be switching to the new Ducati 1098, Kenny replied “If we were racing full-time that would for sure be our choice, but as a part-time participant and with the fine set-up we have the 999R-05 is plenty of machine for me, and still a proven race winner. We are going to try something different though! We’ll be giving our little Husqvarna SMR-510 single a run over at the new Streets of Willow series that WSMC is starting in two weeks, and are looking forward to some good relaxing fun with it.”