Friends of Triumph

The 2024 Kastner Cup : April 26-28, 2024 : Sonoma Raceway

For all the details, visit kastnercup.com


Tony Drews wins the 2023 Kastner Cup

On July 16, 2023 the 21st annual Kastner Cup was run at Road America. The race was won by Tony Garmey at the helm of the infamous TR250K, he was followed by a pair of fast GT6’s piloted by Dan Gehweiler and Alex Amys.

Tony Drews was awarded the Cup immediately following the race. Tony has a reputation of running strong all weekend in his meticulously prepared TR4, and this event was no exception. After putting down some great qualifying times, Tony raced his way in the feature to 10th place. Tony has the most experience driving the Kastner Cup events than anybody, since the inception of the Kastner Cup Tony has raced in every one except one! Also worthy of note, Tony’s father Jack won the inaugural Kastner Cup event at Mosport in 2003. Congratulations on a well deserved win, Tony!

Group-13-Kastner-Cup-Feature-Race-Results


Rocky Entriken takes home SCCA’s prestigious Woolf Bernado Award and is inducted into the SCCA Hall of Fame on the same day!

Rocky has been contributing to the FOT since the early days and has run 38 Solo Nationals with his Spitfire. Rocky’s commitment to the sport was recognized by the SCCA at their 2023 National Convention. The following writeups are from SCCA.com.

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Woolf Barnato Award
Sports Car Club of America’s highest honor, the Woolf Barnato Award, is presented annually to a member who has made the most outstanding long-term contribution to the Club. First presented in 1948, past recipients include SCCA legends such as Mark Donohue, Bob Sharp and Carl Haas. Joining that illustrious list of luminaries is 2022 Woolf Barnato Award winner Rocky Entriken of SCCA’s Salina Region.

Rich Bireta, the previous Woolf Barnato Award winner, introduced this year’s recipient by noting how impactful Rocky has been on the Solo community. And those words meant much to Rocky, who is also a member of the 2023 Hall of Fame inductee class.

“It is just overwhelming to realize that two different committees of awards selectors gathered to choose recipients for two of SCCA’s most prestigious awards, and both of them landed on me at the same time,” Rocky said. “From deep in my four-cylinder heart, thank you. It is an incredible and utterly unexpected honor.”

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2023 Hall of Fame Inductee
Better known simply as “Rocky,” Robert Entriken Jr. has been a force of nature for the SCCA. Starting as an autocrosser at a non-SCCA event in New York, Rocky returned home to Kansas the following year with a 1964 Triumph Spitfire he purchased from an SCCA member – the same blue and yellow Spitfire he still owns.

Joining the SCCA in 1971, Rocky immediately became involved in the administration of the Club, earning the title of Regional Executive in 1974 and then Chair of the 1975 Solo National Championships. In 1990, he helped found SCCA’s Salina Region. He’s been the Midwest Division Mid-Am points keeper and the National Divisional Championship points keeper; in addition, he received his National Timing and Scoring license in the early 1970s, and his National Pit and Grid license in 2006.

In 1973, Rocky was assigned to cover the inaugural Solo National Championships for SportsCar magazine, and has covered the event every year since, with the exception of 1975 when he was the event Chair.

Rocky has garnered many Regional, Divisional, and National awards including the Solo Cup, England-Stipe (Midwest Division’s highest award), many Best Story awards from SportsCar magazine, and the Vern Jaques Award, SportsCar’s highest award for contributions to the magazine. His competition awards include a National Solo I championship, plus multiple Midwest Division Solo Series and Solo II Championships.

Rocky is also the creator and keeper of the invaluable Solo Stats book, which contains not only the history of the Solo National Championships, but also a log of every competitor who has ever competed in the event since its inception in 1973, as well as all of the records that have been set along the way.

It’s no understatement to say that through Rocky’s dedication to the sport, the history of SCCA’s Solo program has been recorded for the ages.


Kastner Cup 2022

The 20th running of the Kastner Cup was held at the Historics at PittRace on July 16, 2022. Race results follow. For more details, go to kastnercup.com.

Photo Credit – Katherine  Kurkov / AutoAbstracts

Steve Sargis wins HP at the 2021 Runoffs

Steve Sargis brought his Spitfire to the Runoffs and dominated in the HP feature. He led flag to flag, winning the HP crown two years in a row. Steve is now an 8 time SCCA champ, way to go Steve!

Just another example how we continue to show the world that Triumphs are still competitive.

https://www.scca.com/articles/2015507-sargis-wins-hp-for-back-to-back-crowns


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