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National Auto Sport Association Northern California Certified Instructors (click on pictures for larger view) |
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Jonathan Alexander |
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Rick Anderson |
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Carl Balsillie |
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Jim Black started in SCCA racing Formula V's in early 70's. He moved on to Formula C with an air-cooled SuperVee and then ran several different Sports 2000's until priced out of the market. Jim stepped back to the new Renault-powered Spec Racer class winning the Regional Championship in 1985. He left racing for almost 10 years while competing with horses in show jumping. He returned to racing in the mid-90’s, running his 94 Firehawk in the NASA CHERIOT class winning several events. Next he ran the Open Road Race series in Nevada up to the 155 mph class! Now a days, Jim stays tuned up by running HPDE Group 4 and enjoys helping others learn in Group. |
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Gerie Bledsoe raced a BMW 2002 in the BWM Club and ITE for many years. Now he races in the Camaro-Mustang Challenge. Gerie is also the Northern American Coordinator of La Carrera Panamericana, the fabled 2000 mile Mexican Road Race. He won his class in the race in a 1964 Nova SS in 2002. His daily driver is a M3, and his collection includes a C5 convertible and two motorcycles. www.PanAmRace.com |
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Tim Bringman |
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Dave Brown is a Home-grown NASA driver from day one. Graduated HPDE in 1992. Winner of 13 NASA Championships including Pro-Sedan, SU, ES, ASC. Track records at Laguna, Infineon, Buttonwillow, Thunderhill and more. Third place 2003 NASCAR SouthWest Tour @ Infineon. Current points leader in USTCC and winner of inaugural San Jose Grand Prix. Experience in Formula cars, Sprint cars, Karts, Sedans, and Stock Cars. |
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Stephen Brunell's unofficial high performance driving education as a Volkswagen enthusiast started in the backroad mountain and coastal highways of California during surf, ski, boating, rock concert, and otherwise general road trip safari's while driving a 77 VW Scirrocco, 74 VW Camper Bus, 79 VW Rabbit, and eventually an 89 VW Jetta GLI which is his current track car. He joined NASA in 1999 and rapidly worked his way up through the HPDE ranks from Group 1 to Group 4 then started doing HPDE Instruction in August of 2004 and has also raced with Southern California's Touring Car Club. |
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Robert Buoncristiani
started out racing motorcycles.
Racing motocross in the late 80's Then road racing motorcycles
in early 90's. Then did some drag Racing with NHRA for two
years. In late 90's started my road racing with NASA. Achieved
two 3rd place championship's racing a 240z in super unlimited
class. started as an instructor with NASA in 2004 up to current
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Jeff Cavano |
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Daryl Chan |
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Margaret Cheng |
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Tony Clifford. After Bondurant, started racing G Prod Sprite in '79; then IMSA Renault Cup. Moved to SCCA SpecRacer (Sports Renault) - NorPac Div & PCRRC Champs '93. Instructor @ Skip Barber '95-'96 & Russell '96-'97. Instructor/Owner Artesian Motorsports '98 to pres. |
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Larry Colen "I don't know if I'll have a chance to do a bio, but you might like the photos at: http://www.red4est.com/lrc/racer_html/schoolpix.html" |
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Morgan Combes |
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Pierre Demartines |
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Bill Dockery |
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Bob Evans |
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Ralph Fallant |
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Mike Gerhard |
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Brian Geyer |
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Dennis Golden |
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Marty Guericke
-Racing history: Russell
3 day school '96, NASA PS-1 '97-'02, SCCA ITS '01-'03
-Instructing: NASA '00 -
present
-Other
interests: volleyball, travel, scuba, and camping
-Current street car: '03
350z blue
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Woody Harris began competition driving in Europe at the age of 14, and became, at the time, one of the youngest full F.I.A. International drivers ever licensed. Earning championships in both Europe and the US, while racing on over 50 circuits in the US, UK, and Europe. He is a lap record holder at over 12 tracks in the US and UK. Other work and interested are customer driver development, US Sailing licensed junior sailing coach, coaching assistant - US Olympic Sailing, and junior cycling. |
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Ahren Hartzel |
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Tony Heyer |
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David Hyman |
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Dion Johnson |
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Ann Koch |
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Jerold Kunzman has spent lots of money and time to achieve a documented history of high speed driving. He is well known through out the state of California for his unique high performance driving style. Although not an attorney on TV, he does play one in real life; once cross-examining a traffic officer for over 30 minutes on the witness stand! |
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Tommy Lo |
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Scott Lucas |
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Roger Martin |
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Jeff Mohler |
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Richard Norgrove |
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Robert Orcutt has raced in: The American LeMans Series (GT), FIA GT Series, Grand Am (GT2), Indy Lights, Toyota Atlantic, STAR Mazda, VARA (vintage F1), HMSA (GTP), SCCA (formula Mazda, spec Miata). Robert was also the 1997 250cc Superkart National Champion. Robert is a professional driving coach (PRO Coaching), and also works for the Jim Russell Racing School. www.robertorcutt.com |
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Chris Pane |
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Gordon Pun’s hobbies including “RACING ANYTHING THAT HAS A MOTOR IN IT!!” as he puts it. He has a great passion for road racing with cars and motorcycles and has been in the auto part business for over 20 years. Gordon has been instructing for NASA since 2002. He started racing in 1999. His accomplishments include the 2004 Honda Challenge H2 Championship, 2000 PCTCC Championship, 1998 PCTCC 3rd place Championship. Race teams include GoGoGear.com and Speedy Motorsports. |
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Dick Ryan has been racing for about 35 years now. A year or two of autocrossing lead to racing a D Production Datsun 2000 roadster in Northern California for a number of years. A few years of Formula Vee were next. Then, a few years of racing a Datsun 1200 in the dirt perfected his four wheel drifts. A short boat brake was ended by more Formula Vees. His focus is now on vintage racing. Dick's goals include mooching drives in other peoples cars at various tracks across the USA. |
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Derek Ryan |
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Jake Schumacher has officially been involved in high-speed driving for the past four years. Unofficially he began sliding tires and at-the-limit driving at 16 years old in his Mom's Dodge Caravan minivan. He moved from Boston to San Francisco because the track season in the Northeast was too short, and the days he did get to the track it either rained or snowed! He enjoys instructing for the smiles -- or fear -- on his students' faces. |
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Steve Sherwood |
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Jeff Stowe |
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Chris Strom |
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Terry Swartz |
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Yang Tang comes to NASA with 3 years of go kart racing experience and 5 years of high performance driving. The most important lesson he can teach a student is the difference between a fast driver and a fast car. When Yang is not driving fast he enjoys snow boarding, weight training and hiking, |
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Don Templeton |
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Eileen "ET" Thomas |
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Barry Thompson |
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Anthony Ward |
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Mark Wieber This man is not a gynecologist. |
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Richard Woo |
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Assistant Instructors |
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Bonni Weatherwax |
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Karen Salvaggio |
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