Anthony Takes WERA West Formula One Wins At Willow Springs
By Michael Gougis
David “Aussie Dave” Anthony rolled his ADR big rig
out to Willow Springs and took five wins in six starts, including both of the
headline Formula One races in the Lucas Oil WERA West Sportsman Series
double-header.
Soaring temperatures and strong, steady winds greeted racers
who showed up for WERA’s first visit in 2019 to the wicked-fast 2.5-mile main
circuit. But the less-than-ideal conditions did little to slow Anthony, who
turned a best lap of 1:21.837 during Sunday’s Formula One race on his
Pirelli-shod, Fly Racing-backed Kawasaki ZX-10R.
Bradley Ward was second on his Dunlop-shod, Fly
Racing-backed ZX-10R, 3.429 seconds back of Anthony, barely ahead of Mexico
City’s Adolfo Delgado, pole sitter at the KTM RC Cup World Final back in 2016.
Delgado shone as he adapted to a literbike, turning a best lap of 1:23.096 on a
Yamaha YZF-R1.
Chris Duran, regularly a front-running competitor in the
Open class races with Willow Springs Motorcycle Club, brought out his BMW
S1000RR and finished second in Saturday’s Formula One race, comfortably ahead
of Delgado but well behind Anthony. However, Duran did win the A Superbike race
on Saturday after Anthony pulled out, and backed that up with second in the A
Superstock race.
In all, Anthony won Formula One and A Superstock on Saturday
and took the Formula One, A Superbike and A Superstock victories on Sunday.
MotoAmerica 2018 Junior Cup Champion and current Twins Cup
competitor and race winner Alex Dumas showed up at Willow Springs for the first
time at the track and his first time racing a 600. Riding a stock-engined,
Dunlop-equipped Suzuki GSX-R600 fitted with suspension, used bodywork, an M4
pipe and a flashed ECU, Dumas steadily improved in each session, racing the
Willow regulars at the front and winning the B Superstock race on Saturday and
the C Superbike race on Sunday. His quickest lap of the weekend was a 1:25.12
while chasing Connor Funk, who beat Dumas in C Superbike and C Superstock on
Saturday but crashed while running second to Dumas late in B Superstock on
Saturday. Besides winning in C Superbike on Sunday, Dumas finished second in C
Superstock to Yamaha pilot Bradley Ward, who weaved on the straightaway as
Dumas pulled up to his bike’s swingarm during the run to the finish line.
Former AFM and AMA Pro Whitney Blakeslee returned from a
36-year hiatus from racing and, at the age of 73, ripped his Yamaha YZF-R6
around the circuit at 1:32.857 en route to seventh in Sunday’s C Superbike
race.
RESULTS:
SATURDAY:
MINI 50:
1. Owen Williams (Hon 50)
2. Andrew Kenefick (Hon 50)
FORMULA ONE EXPERT:
1. David Anthony (Kaw ZX-10R)
2. Chris Duran (BMW S1000RR)
3. Adolfo Delgado (Yam YZF-R1)
4. David Price (Suz GSX-R1000)
5. Nicholas Ciling (Kaw ZX-10R)
6. Wes Farnsworth (Kaw ZX-10R)
FORMULA ONE NOVICE:
1. Thomas Asseo (Yam YZF-R1)
2. Anthony Norton (Kaw ZX-10R)
3. Bo Bin (BMW S1000RR)
4. Joshua Hunt (BMW S1000RR)
5. Tony Lam (Yam YZF-R1)
6. David Anderson (BMW S1000RR)
V8 HEAVYWEIGHT :
1. John Miles (Kaw ZX-7R)
2. John James (Hon CBR600RR)
C SUPERBIKE EXPERT:
1. Connor Funk (Yam YZF-R6)
2. Alex Dumas (Suz GSX-R600)
3. Max Zeronian (Yam YZF-R6)
4. Eric Anderson (Yam YZF-R6)
5. David Henderson (Yam YZF-R6)
6. Keir Leonhardt (Yam YZF-R6)
C SUPERBIKE NOVICE:
1. Conner Brown (Yam YZF-R6)
2. Demond Wilson (Duc 848)
3. Edgar Dominguez (Yam YZF-R6)
4. Guy Madar (Yam YZF-R6)
D SUPERBIKE EXPERT:
1. John Knowles (Kaw 400R)
D SUPERBIKE NOVICE:
1. Owen Williams (Mor 250)
E SUPERSTOCK EXPERT:
1. Christine Padilla (Kaw 300R)
2. Roni Schuetrum (Kaw 300R)
E SUPERSTOCK NOVICE:
1. John Sosebee (Yam YZF-R3)
2. Christopher Newman (Yam YZF-R3)
3. Tarun Tyagi (Yam YZF-R3)
LIGHTWEIGHT TWINS SUPERSTOCK EXPERT:
1. JC Gibbs (Yam 700)
2. Ed Guzman (Suz SV650)
3. Christopher De La Torre (Suz SV650)
V6 MEDIUMWEIGHT:
1. Lloyd Johnson (Duc 900)
A SUPERBIKE EXPERT:
1. Chris Duran (BMW S1000RR)
2. Adolfo Delgado (Yam YZF-R1)
3. David Price (Suz GSX-R1000)
4. Nicholas Ciling (Kaw ZX-10R)
5. Christopher Carron (Suz GSX-R1000)
6. Wes Farnsworth (Kaw ZX-10R)
A SUPERBIKE NOVICE:
1. Thomas Asseo (Yam YZF-R1)
2. Rigoberto Soto (Suz GSX-R1000)
3. Anthony Norton (Kaw ZX-10R)
4. Bo Bin (BMW S1000RR)
5. Tom Luby (Hon CBR1000RR)
6. Ryan Soliman (Suz GSX-R1000)
D SUPERSTOCK EXPERT:
1. Hunter Dunham (Kaw 400R)
2. John Knowles (Kaw 400R)
3. Hunter Ciling (Kaw 400R)
4. Christine Padilla (Kaw 300R)
D SUPERSTOCK NOVICE:
1. Christopher Newman (Yam YZF-R3)
2. John Sosebee (Yam YZF-R3)
LIGHTWEIGHT TWINS SUPERBIKE EXPERT:
1. Lance Lewman (Suz SV650)
2. Lloyd Johnson (Duc 900)
3. JC Gibbs (Yam 700)
4. Michael Gougis (Suz SV650)
5. Jim Dobson (Yam 700)
6. Anthony Morrison (Suz SV650)
B SUPERBIKE EXPERT:
1. Connor Funk (Yam YZF-R6)
2. Cesar Popper Meza (Yam YZF-R6)
3. Keir Leonhardt (Suz GSX-R750)
4. Max Zeronian (Yam YZF-R6)
5. Bryan Kovarick (Yam YZF-R6)
6. Gilbert Silva (Kaw ZX-6R)
B SUPERBIKE NOVICE:
1. Conner Brown (Yam YZF-R6)
2. Wayne Gann (Yam YZF-R6)
3. Edgar Dominguez (Yam YZF-R6)
4. Guy Madar (Yam YZF-R6)
CLUBMAN EXPERT:
1. Hunter Ciling (Kaw 400R)
2. Christine Padilla (Kaw 400R)
3. Kurt Storck (Hus 576)
CLUBMAN NOVICE:
1. Tarun Tyagi (Yam YZF-R3)
F SUPERSTOCK EXPERT:
1. Tony Serra (Kaw 250R)
2. Roni Schuetrum (Kaw 250R)
3. Ed Sorbo (Kaw 250)
A SUPERSTOCK EXPERT:
1. David Anthony (Kaw ZX-10R)
2. Chris Duran (BMW S1000RR)
3. Cesar Meza (BMW S1000RR)
4. Christopher Carron (Suz GSX-R1000)
5. Nicholas Ciling (Kaw ZX-10R)
6. Sahar Zvik (Kaw ZX-10R)
A SUPERSTOCK NOVICE:
1. Steve Luckert (Kaw ZX-10R)
2. Anthony Norton (Kaw ZX-10R)
3. Rigoberto Soto (Suz GSX-R1000)
4. Bo Bin (BMW S1000RR)
5. Joshua Hunt (BMW S1000RR)
6. Jacob Kennedy (Hon CBR1000RR)
C SUPERSTOCK EXPERT:
1. Connor Funk (Yam YZF-R6)
2. Alex Dumas (Suz GSX-R600)
3. Keir Leonhardt (Yam YZF-R6)
4. David Henderson (Yam YZF-R6)
5. Nick Zaan (Suz GSX-R600)
C SUPERSTOCK NOVICE:
1. Steve Luckert (Suz GSX-R600)
2. Conner Brown (Yam YZF-R6)
3. Demond Wilson (Duc 848)
4. Edgar Dominguez (Yam YZF-R6)
5. Guy Madar (Yam YZF-R6)
FORMULA TWO EXPERT:
1. Lance Lewman (Suz SV650)
2. JC Gibbs (Yam 700)
3. Jim Dobson (Yam 700)
4. Michael Gougis (Suz SV650)
5. David Raffo (Suz SV650)
6. Cody Burton (Suz SV650)
SENIOR SUPERBIKE HEAVYWEIGHT EXPERT:
1. Cesar Meza (BMW S1000RR)
2. David Price (Suz GSX-R1000)
3. Wes Farnsworth (Kaw ZX-10R)
4. Terry Heard (Kaw ZX-10R)
5. Don McClary (BMW S1000RR)
6. Travis Westermeyer (Kaw ZX-10R)
SENIOR SUPERBIKE HEAVYWEIGHT NOVICE:
1. Jacob Kennedy (Hon CBR1000RR)
2. Eric Gray (Kaw ZX-10R)
3. John Miles (Yam YZF-R1)
4. Cliff Coglietti (BMW S1000RR)
SENIOR SUPERBIKE MEDIUMWEIGHT EXPERT:
1. Eric Anderson (Yam YZF-R6)
2. Bryan Kovarick (Yam YZF-R6)
3. David Henderson (Yam YZF-R6)
4. Moises Castaneda (Yam YZF-R6)
5. Whitney Blakeslee (Yam YZF-R6)
SENIOR SUPERBIKE MEDIUMWEIGHT NOVICE:
1. Wayne Gann (Yam YZF-R6)
2. Edward Hearn (Kaw ZX-6R)
3. Jimmy Salters (Kaw ZX-6R)
B SUPERSTOCK EXPERT:
1. Alex Dumas (Suz GSX-R600)
2. Cesar Popper Meza (Yam YZF-R6)
V8 MEDIUMWEIGHT:
1. Moises Castaneda (Yam YZF-R6)
2. John James (Hon CBR600RR)
3. Ed Sorbo (Hon CBR600F2)
4. Edward Hearn (Kaw ZX-6R)
SUNDAY:
MINI 50:
1. Owen Williams (Hon 50)
2. Andrew Kenefick (Hon 50)
FORMULA ONE EXPERT:
1. David Anthony (Kaw ZX-10R)
2. Bradley Ward (Kaw ZX-10R)
3. Adolfo Delgado (Yam YZF-R1)
4. Travis Wyman (BMW S1000RR)
5. Nicholas Ciling (Kaw ZX-10R)
6. Sahar Zvik (Kaw ZX-10R)
FORMULA ONE NOVICE:
1. Thomas Asseo (Yam YZF-R1)
2. Bo Bin (BMW S1000RR)
3. Anthony Norton (Kaw ZX-10R)
4. Tony Lam (Yam YZF-R1)
V8 HEAVYWEIGHT :
1. John James (Hon CBR600RR)
C SUPERBIKE EXPERT:
1. Alex Dumas (Suz GSX-R600)
2. Cesar Popper Meza (Yam YZF-R6)
3. Eric Anderson (Yam YZF-R6)
4. Max Zeronian (Yam YZF-R6)
5. Moises Castaneda (Yam YZF-R6)
6. Michael Angeles (Kaw ZX-6R)
C SUPERBIKE NOVICE:
1. Steve Luckert (Suz GSX-R600)
2. Conner Brown (Yam YZF-R6)
3. Demond Wilson (Duc 848)
4. Edgar Dominguez (Yam YZF-R6)
5. David Carlson (Yam YZF-R6)
6. Arnold Munoz (Suz GSX-R600)
D SUPERBIKE EXPERT:
1. John Knowles (Kaw 400R)
D SUPERBIKE NOVICE:
1. Owen Williams (Mor 250)
E SUPERSTOCK EXPERT:
1. Christine Padilla (Kaw 300R)
2. Roni Schuetrum (Kaw 300R)
E SUPERSTOCK NOVICE:
1. John Sosebee (Yam YZF-R3)
2. Steven Greenwalt (KTM 390)
3. Tarun Tyagi (Yam YZF-R3)
LIGHTWEIGHT TWINS SUPERSTOCK EXPERT:
1. JC Gibbs (Suz SV650)
A SUPERBIKE EXPERT:
1. David Anthony (Kaw ZX-10R)
2. Bradley Ward (Kaw ZX-10R)
3. Adolfo Delgado (Yam YZF-R1)
4. Travis Wyman (BMW S1000RR)
5. Nicholas Ciling (Kaw ZX-10R)
6. Cesar Meza (BMW S1000RR)
A SUPERBIKE NOVICE:
1. Steve Luckert (Kaw ZX-10R)
2. Thomas Asseo (Yam YZF-R1)
3. Tom Luby (Hon CBR1000RR)
4. Bo Bin (BMW S1000RR)
5. Rigoberto Soto (Suz GSX-R1000)
D SUPERSTOCK EXPERT:
1. John Knowles (Kaw 400R)
2. Hunter Ciling (Kaw 400R)
3. Christine Padilla (Kaw 300R)
D SUPERSTOCK NOVICE:
1. John Sosebee (Yam YZF-R3)
2. Steven Greenwalt (KTM 390)
F SUPERSTOCK EXPERT:
1. Tony Serra (Kaw 250R)
2. Roni Schuetrum (Kaw 250R)
LIGHTWEIGHT TWINS SUPERBIKE EXPERT:
1. Lance Lewman (Suz SV650)
2. JC Gibbs (Yam 700)
3. Jim Dobson (Yam 700)
4. Michael Gougis (Suz SV650)
5. Anthony Morrison (Suz SV650)
6. David Raffo (Suz SV650)
B SUPERBIKE EXPERT:
1. Keir Leonhardt (Suz GSX-R750)
2. Max Zeronian (Yam YZF-R6)
3. Gilbert Silva (Kaw ZX-6R)
4. Niccole Cox (Yam YZF-R6)
5. Michael Angeles (Kaw ZX-6R)
B SUPERBIKE NOVICE:
1. Conner Brown (Yam YZF-R6)
2. Edgar Dominguez (Yam YZF-R6)
3. Arnold Munoz (Suz GSX-R600)
SRA WEST SIDECARS:
1. Bernard Juchli
2. Wade Boyd
3. Steven Stull
4. Randy Weller
5. William Becker
6. Larry Coleman
CLUBMAN EXPERT:
1. Hunter Ciling (Kaw 400R)
2. Christine Padilla (Kaw 300R)
3. Kurt Storck (Hus 576)
CLUBMAN NOVICE:
1. Owen Williams (Mor 250)
2. Tarun Tyagi (Yam YZF-R3)
A SUPERSTOCK EXPERT:
1. David Anthony (Kaw ZX-10R)
2. Nicholas Ciling (Kaw ZX-10R)
3. Bradley Ward (Kaw ZX-10R)
4. Cesar Meza (BMW S1000RR)
5. Sahar Zvik (Kaw ZX-10R)
6. Richard Findlay (Suz GSX-R1000)
A SUPERSTOCK NOVICE:
1. Rigoberto Soto (Suz GSX-R1000)
2. Bo Bin (BMW S1000RR)
3. Steve Luckert (Kaw ZX-10R)
C SUPERSTOCK EXPERT:
1. Bradley Ward (Yam YZF-R6)
2. Alex Dumas (Suz GSX-R600)
3. Keir Leonhardt (Yam YZF-R6)
4. David Henderson (Yam YZF-R6)
5. Niccole Cox (Yam YZF-R6)
C SUPERSTOCK NOVICE:
1. Conner Brown (Yam YZF-R6)
2. Steve Luckert (Suz GSX-R600)
3. Demond Wilson (Duc 848)
4. Edgar Dominguez (Yam YZF-R6)
FORMULA TWO EXPERT:
1. Lance Lewman (Suz SV650)
2. JC Gibbs (Yam 700)
3. Anthony Morrison (Suz SV650)
4. David Raffo (Suz SV650)
5. John Ulrich (Yam TZ250)
6. Cody Burton (Suz SV650)
HEAVYWEIGHT TWINS SUPERBIKE EXPERT:
1. Michael Gougis (Suz SV650)
SENIOR SUPERBIKE HEAVYWEIGHT EXPERT:
1. Cesar Meza (BMW S1000RR)
SENIOR SUPERBIKE HEAVYWEIGHT NOVICE:
1. Eric Gray (Kaw ZX-10R)
SENIOR SUPERBIKE MEDIUMWEIGHT EXPERT:
1. Eric Anderson (Yam YZF-R6)
2. David Henderson (Yam YZF-R6)
3. Moises Castaneda (Yam YZF-R6)
SENIOR SUPERBIKE MEDIUMWEIGHT NOVICE:
1. Wayne Gann (Yam YZF-R6)
2. Jimmy Salters (Kaw ZX-6R)
B SUPERSTOCK EXPERT:
1. Cesar Popper Meza (Yam YZF-R6)
B SUPERSTOCK NOVICE:
1. Conner Brown (Yam YZF-R6)
2. Wayne Gann (Yam YZF-R6)
3. Demond Wilson (Duc 848)
4. Edgar Dominguez (Yam YZF-R6)
5. David Carlson (Yam YZF-R6)
6. Jimmy Salters (Kaw ZX-6R)
V8 MEDIUMWEIGHT:
1. Moises Castaneda (Yam YZF-R6)
2. John James (Hon CBR600RR)
3. Edward Hearn (Kaw ZX-6R)