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Jeff

ABOUT ME

Jeff Westphal started his racing career with no prior experience when he got hired at a local indoor go-cart track in 2004. From impressing the staff at that facility, his boss sponsored him in the 2004 Redbull® Driver Search Runoffs. Jeff made the semi finals at Infinion Raceway in Sonoma, California, and finished 26th out of 121 participants, most of whom had already been competitivly go-carting for years. Although the RedBull door closed, Jeff saw that he had potential in racing with a little more seat time and experience.

The two options were to go-cart nationally or to get into a race car series, and due to Jeff being 18 at the time, the car route looked more beneficial with his age being in the upper end of the spectrum for go-carts…

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Miller MotorSports Park in Tooele, Utah
August 1st & 2nd, 2008

August 1st and 2nd was the penultimate event of the Pacific F2000 Championship took place at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah. Championship leader Jeff Westphal from San Carlos, Ca had a 19 point lead heading in, which grew to a 57 point advantage by way of a perfect sweep. Westphal scored max points both days capturing the pole position, race win and fastest race lap each day.

Friday’s qualifying was separated by only .08 hundredths of a second over defending series champion Robert Podlesni.

Qualifying this year has never been an easy task, as it should never be. Robert is a great competitor and it almost always comes down to less than a tenth between us two”

said Westphal. Come race time, the two Californians both led some laps during the race, but it was the #39 Molecule Labs, Cacci Construction car of Westphal that lead from lap 5 till the end to score the win and make it count with a 5.5 second lead.

Saturday’s qualifying was an entertaining one with Westphal re-setting the previously broken track record the day before to a 1.51.357 around the 3.08 mile circuit, which puts the F2000 Zetec car roughly 5 seconds a lap faster than the NASCAR feature race that weekend. When the green flag dropped neither Podlesni nor Westphal wanted to give an inch and ran side by side all the way through turn 5, with Podlesni gaining the advantage before turn 6. But that didn’t stop Westphal from charging back and challenging for the lead. “Robert has been extremely quick out of the box, but seems to fall off part way through and come back to me around the second half of the race when my car starts to come in” described Westphal. On lap 5 the 2 second advantage that Podlesni had built up was shrinking rapidly until turn 3 where he pushed too hard and went off track, damaging the car and having to sit the remainder of the race out. With Podlesni now out, Westphal extended almost a 10 second lead over second place team mate Nicky Freytag in 7 laps, claimed the fastest lap of the race as well as the win, polishing off his perfect sweep of the weekend. “It was just what we needed, ever since the first race of the season when we had our electrical gremlin on the pregrid of the race, we’ve been fighting to gain the points back we lost there, and this was just the type of weekend we needed.” elated Westphal. The points are heavily favoring Jeff Westphal heading in to the final two races at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on October 18th and 19th.

Pacific F2000 Series Leader Jeff Westphal was putting in some hours on a simulator compliments of long time Friend/Sponsor Go Pro Hero Cameras. Jeff was training to keep his skills sharp during the 6 week break between the previous round at Infineon Raceway and the upcoming, challenging Miller Motorsports Park.

“Racing Simulators today are incredibly accurate these days, so when Nick gave me a call and invited me down to try out his new sim set up, i could not turn him down”

Jeff is not the only driver that looks to computers for a more cost effective way to get some seat time, pro’s from all aspects of motorsports are looking to get free (or close to it) laps of a track prior to a competition. “I know Scott Pruett does some Simulator Training at Infineon Raceway before he arrives with his team in their Daytona Prototype.”

Let’s Wait and find out if the Sim helped Jeff with a competitive edge!

Saturday & Sunday July 5th and 6th
Infineon Raceway
Sonoma, CA

This past weekend, rounds 7 & 8 took place of the Pacific F2000 Championship at the infamous Infineon Raceway.  Going in to the weekend, series leader Jeff Westphal had a narrow 1 point margin, but was dominant all weekend and extended his lead to 19. 

Saturday qualifying was a narrow split between hometown favorite Westphal and Robert Podlesni, with Westphal on pole by a close .163 margin, and the remainder of the top 5 within a second.  Once the green flag fell later that afternoon, it was Westphal who led flag to flag establishing a 4.3 second margin at the end of the 18 laps.  “It was a great day for us, qualifying went relatively smoothly, and we were successful through the end of the day.  I look forward to keeping this momentum rolling through tomorrow!” elated Westphal. 

Sunday morning the cars were on the track at 8:30 am, establishing an order for the race later that day at 1 pm.  Again, it was Westphal who made his presence felt with a 1.33.4, two tenths faster than his competition and his best lap in Saturday’s race.  At the start the field was tight all the way to turn 3 before finally assimilating into a single file line, and Westphal managed to pull a near 3 second lead in 7 laps until a full course caution came out and bunched up the field.  On the restart, after a Pace Car interference it was Podlesni who got the jump, and found a way by Westphal in turn 4.  But not loosing focus, Westphal re-challenged for the lead one lap later in turn 11 and made it stick.  “It was extremely close after the restart, we were running so close you couldn’t let your guard down anywhere, which made it tough to establish any sort of lead” said Westphal.  After 10laps of a close fought battle, it was Westphal who remained dominant and came out .695 seconds ahead of Podlesni, finishing off the sweep of the weekend with both Poles, fast laps and race wins.  “It was a great weekend, I am extremely happy with the result!” exclaimed Westphal.

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