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Danny Popp Wins the Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge 2011
The DSE Test Cars at the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational
The DSE 1969 and 1970 Camaro Test Cars at the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational.

Update: The 2011 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational will be re-airing 3/11 @2:30 PM, 3/12 @12:00 PM, 3/18 @6:00 PM and 3/24 @11:00 AM. All times are EST and all airings will be on the SPEED channel.

Mooresville, NC - Danny Popp came out victorious over Mark Stielow in a tightly contested Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational held November 5th in Pahrump, NV at the Spring Mountain Raceway. After a virtual tie in points after all the events, organizers had to go to their tie-breaker rule which was the fastest road course lap. Danny Popp had a slight advantage so he and his Corvette owned by Todd Rumpke were crowned champion.

The Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational takes place the first week of November after the SEMA show. The Detroit Speed Road Rally took place Friday afternoon with all of the contestants getting in their cars for a drive from Las Vegas to the Raceway. The Invitational also includes the BFGoodrich Hot Lap Challenge, the Ridetech Autocross Challenge, the Wilwood Brakes Speed Stop Challenge, and the Raybestos Performance and Design Challenge. And for the first time ever, fans were able to attend the event.

What started out as a beautiful morning quickly got heated up when the individual events started. Some of the best performance cars in the world competed at this event and every driver wanted to put their name on the overall trophy. This was, eventual winner, Danny Popp's first time to Spring
Mountain and he drove incredibly on the road course for not having any practice. There were also
many Detroit Speed Equipped vehicles out at the event including Mark Stielow's 2nd place finishing
1969 Red Devil Camaro, Brian Finch finishing near the top in Mark Turners 1969 Camaro, Wanda
Goldberg and her fully DSE Equipped 1970 Trans Am, Terry Neuville in his 1968 Camaro, Mark
Wetterau in his 1969 Camaro, and of course the Detroit Speed 1969 and 1970 Camaro Test Cars.

Kyle performed very well in the DSE 1970 Camaro Test Car finishing in the top half in all the
individual competitions. Stacy was thrilled to have her 1969 Camaro back on track and showed that by running great in all of the competitions as well.

This is a fantastic event put on by Optima, Stacy and Kyle hope to see DSE Equipped Camaros in this event for years to come.

See page 2 for images from the event.

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Final Standings
Top 10 overall participants listed below, 110 points possible

Danny Popp, #14 (80)
Mark Stielow, #01 (80)
Brian Hobaugh, #47 (72)
Gary Rubio, #34 (63)
Mary Pozzi, #15 (62)

Brian Finch, #11 (58)
Mike Maier, #50 (57)
Pete Callaway, #45 (50)
Filip Trojanek, #44 (49)
Kyle Tucker, #13 (42)

Detroit Speed & Engineering Road Rally
Participants listed below earned all 10 Road Rally points

Mark Stielow, #01
Bruce Scherman, #02
Chris Jacobs, #03
Dan Weishaar, #04
James Shipka, #07
Brian Finch, #11
Vincent Allegretta, #12
Kyle Tucker, #13
Danny Popp, #14
Mary Pozzi, #15
Bret Voelkel, #16
Wanda Goldberg, #17
Mike Musto, #18
Dan Oliver, #19
Erik Cederberg, #21
JF Launier, #22
Dan Livezey, #23
Harmut Feyhl, #25
Zeke Peterson, #26

Bob Michaels, #27
Terry Neuville, #28
Randy Johnson, #29
Kevin Miller, #30
Curt Ukasic, #31
Scott Hoag, #32
Gary Rubio, #34
Allan Miller, #37
Jason Childress, #38
Stephen Wetterau, #39
David Mikels, #42
Filip Trojanek, #44
Pete Callaway, #45
Brian Hobaugh, #47
Mike Maier, #50
Stacy Tucker, #51
Bret Barrett, #52
Jay Reynolds, #57
Amber Alberta, #59

Raybestos Performance Design Challenge
Top 10 participants listed below, 25 points possible

Phil Gerber, #24 (25)
Curt Ukasic, #31 (22)
JF Launier, #22 (20)
Brian Hobaugh, #47 (18)
Mike Langford, #05 (16)
Kurt Grimes, #58 (15)
Mark Stielow, #01 (14)
Stephen Wetterau, #39 (13)
Randy Johnson, #29 (12)
Filip Trojanek, #44 (11)

B.F. Goodrich Hot Lap Challenge
Top 10 participants listed below, 25 points possible

Danny Popp, #14 01:42.208 (25)
Pete Callaway, #45 01:44.749 (22)
Mark Stielow, #01 01:45.410 (20)
Kyle Tucker, #13 01:48.430 (18)
Gary Rubio, #34 01:48.441 (16)
Mike Maier, #50 01:48.721 (15)
Brian Hobaugh, #47 01:48.879 (14)
Filip Trojanek, #44 01:50.265 (13)
David Mikels, #42 01:51.319 (12)
Vincent Allegretta, #12 01:51.584 (11)

RideTech Street Challenge Autocross
Top 10 participants listed below, 25 points possible

Danny Popp, #14 00:38.251 (25)
Mary Pozzi, #15 00:39.414 (22)
Brian Hobaugh, #47 00:39.502 (20)
Pete Callaway, #45 00:39.626 (18)
Mike Maier, #50 00:39.654 (16)
Brian Finch, #11 00:39.658 (15)
Mark Stielow, #01 00:40.017 (14)
Kyle Tucker, #13 00:40.031 (13)
Gary Rubio, #34 00:40.117 (12)
Mark Rife, #53 00:40.167 (11)

Wilwood Disc Brakes Speed Stop Challenge
Top 10 participants listed below, 25 points possible

Gary Rubio, #34 00:06.541 (25)
Mark Stielow, #01 00:07.096 (22)
Danny Popp, #14 00:07.378 (20)
Mary Pozzi, #15 00:07.413 (18)
Mike Maier, #50 00:07.425 (16)
Brian Finch, #11, 00:07.479 (15)
Terry Neuville, #28 00:07.491 (14)
Filip Trojanek, #44 00:07.530 (13)
James Shipka, #07 00:07.545 (12)
Joe Shown, #46 00:07.568 (11)