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[Bill Howell]

I will spend much more time with all the results, etc here later but just wanted to start a thread about this years event and some of the winners.
Besides the regular autocross and dragracing event winners this year, Larry and I decided to crown a "King of the Hill" winner which we feel would best represent the genuine, best of the best Protouring Car at the event. There were several factors and a point system that we planned to use to determine the winner. First, points would be given for driving your car at least 75 miles to the event. Sure, that was a pain for some, however, to me, Protouring is about just that, touring, so, you gotta drive it to be a "TOURER" to me. Second, you had to drive your car on the cruise if you wanted to be in the running for KOTH. Again, Touring being a key factor to being a true Protouring car. Then there was a points system for the autocross and drag racings elements. Later we added a "Fit and Finish" element just to round out the KOTH.
After we set this up, Larry and I discussed the "what if" about a tie. That turned out to be what determined the winner,and for those wondering, the tie breaker, as per the rules written back in the thread about rules, would be the driver with the best autocross time.
After all was said and done, three hard days of racing, thrashing on cars, a hard luck award, and a first ever beauty contest that many had questioned, Kyle Tucker in his second gen camaro and Vinnie in his first gen camaro tied with 23 points each.........
Kyle was crowned King Of the Hill simply because he had the better time at the autocross, congratulations Kyle for a prize well deserved.
There is so much more to the story, like the fact that Vinnie's best drag strip time was ran 2 seconds before the cut off for scoring ETs and he missed being the winner of best ET by .01
Had he won best ET, he would be the King of the Hill.
I swear folks, you can not make this up, it was hard to believe it came down this close.
Add in all the thrashing at the shop on broken parts on several cars, all the bs sections at the Toy Box, all the great friendships renewed and made and this just could not have been a better event IMO.
Thanks to everyone that helped, especially those that went over and above to make things go so smooth. Most here barely know Danny and Yancy, but they both live here in Pigeon Forge, and were so much help getting things ready and working behind the scenes this weekend, Thanks guys.