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Although they’re from last year’s event, they still are fun to look at!! 
Rarely do you see the driver of the Booble race car without a fire suit. Come to think of it, why do we even need to see the driver? The girlz will do just fine! 
The Booble race car intrigued NOPI fans at Gateway Int’l Raceway. With the bodywork off, car guys and girls got an up close look under the skin of the Booble Racing Nissan 200SX. Driver Peter Zekert talked with the fans about the performance of the Nissan race car.
A few of the girls (and one of questionable gender) tried out as Booble Racing Girls. You decide.
Homestead-Miami. The Booble racing team started early, racing the first three events of 2008 in Sunny Florida. Thanks to the efforts of Peter Shadowen’s Road n Race, Booble Racing driver Peter Zekert was able to drive one of the Road n Race cars in Booble Racing trim. It was an instant favorite in sunny Florida, especially with the stress boob restrained on the front grill in a kind of S&M fashion.
Booble Racing driver Peter Zekert was pleased with the results. “We came out of Florida with three races in the points and no damage to the car. As always, people love the Booble car and the stress boobs. Girls started flashing me with the stress boobs I had given them.”
St. Louis, MO. 2007 was a great season for the Zekert Booble Racing GTLite Nissan 200SX. 16 races with wins in half of the races entered. Fast at almost every race. Lots of fans stopping by to pick up a stress relief boob or just to say ‘hello’. Thousands of fans checking out the car (or where they checking out the Booble Girls?) at the St. Louis Gateway NOPI event. It was a great season….
It was a great season with the help of countless people on the crew. [Most of the Booble Racing crew are volunteers, dedicated to racing.] Russ, Richard, Susan, Marianne, Ryan, Brandon, Chris, and Dan. Thank you to all.
We need to thank the Sponsors at Booble. Thank You!! And Thanks to Nissan Motorsports, Goodyear Tires and the guys at Comp Tire West and to Red Line Oil. We couldn’t have done it without your support. Thanks to Mark and to Troy for the photos. Thanks to Booble Girls Laura, Mandy and Summer. [More people want to meet Laura, Mandy and Summer than want to meet our driver Peter. Go figure??]
What’s in store for 2008? Faster, stronger, and better. We will spend January, February and March in the shop preparing the Booble race car for the season, building a new transmission and finishing the 4th engine. In addition to the driveline improvements, we will also be fitting a second set of body work, including a lightweight roof, hoping to place more of the weight of the car lower to the ground. At this point in the development of the car, moving a mere 20 lbs from the front to the back of the car yields big gains on track.
Thank You One and All - Peter Zekert, driver of the #45 Booble Racing Nissan 200SX
Heres a sneak peak of the Booble Car owning at the runoffs. More to come soon!
GO TEAM BOOBLE!
TOPEKA, Kan. (Oct. 12, 2007) - Local driver Chris Bovis put on an impressive driving display in front of his hometown fans to win his first GT-Lite National Championship at the 2007 SCCA National Championship Runoffs Presented by AT&T at Heartland Park Topeka. Joe Kristensen, of London, Ontario, finished second, while Peter Zekert, of Maryland Heights, Mo., driving the controversial Booble Racing entry was third.
In the second race of the morning under overcast skies, Bovis grabbed the early lead from the polesitter Kristensen heading into Turn One, followed by Zekert. Driving the No. 18 Goodyear Honda CRX, Bovis used his home track knowledge to keep both Kristensen and Zekert
behind him early.
On lap four, Zekert motored his No. 45 BOOBLE/RedLine/Goodyear Nissan 200SX past Kristensen for second place, while Bovis opened up nearly two second lead. By lap six, the lead pack of Bovis, Zekert and Kristensen were more than 22 seconds ahead of the field.
For the next two laps, Zekert and Kristensen were locked in an intense battle for position until Kristensen drove his No. 24 Kristensen Auto Development Acura Integra deep into Turn Three retaking second place. Later it was discovered that Zekert’s transmission locked in 4th gear, allowing Kristensen to easily motor past.
With his sights set on the leader, Kristensen managed to cut Bovis’ lead to under a second with three laps left in the 18-lap race. Unfortunately for Kristensen, the first and only caution of the race came out on lap 17 to remove Dan Hall’s No. 77 Dan Hall & Auto Machine
Shop Nissan 200SX from the Turn 14 wall.
The race ended under caution giving Bovis his first SCCA National Championship.
“Our strategy was to push Joe and wear his tires out, but we got by him at the start and then Joe was pushing me trying to get me to wear my tires out,” Bovis said. “Things looked good in the mid part of the race, but towards the end, I was getting a little bit slower and we were going the same speed unfortunately. It got awful tight. The yellow flag came out and it is hard to say if I could have held him off. Joe was running awful fast and I want you to know that he raced me totally clean. I have to thank him for that.”
Zekert, who had run up front most of the race, fell off the pace late in the race due to a broken gear box leaving him with only fourth gear. “When the gearbox locked I THOUGHT it was in third. I called the crew on the radio to see how many laps were left and how far back to fourth place car. Luckily we had motored out past the field, so I had a 29 second lead over fourth place. Losing only a few seconds a lap, we determined that we could maintain third place…. until the caution came out! I had to leave large gaps between me and the lapped cars so that I could make it the next two laps at pace lap speed in FOURTH GEAR. If I stalled, I would lose third. Lucky for me it all worked.”
On the Podium, Zekert thanked his sponsors, including his main sponsor “whose name I am not allowed to use.” Zekert had been warned by Prroducer John Mullen that the use of any of Booble; Booble.Com; or The Adult Search Engine would result in the podium interview being deleted from the Speed TV airing of the race.
Four-time SCCA National Champion Jim Dentici, of Oconomowoc, Wis., was the Sunoco Hard Charger. He advanced 25 positions throughout the race, from 29th to fourth. William Pintaric, of Youngstown, Ohio, finished fifth.
The SCCA National Championship Runoffs® Presented by AT&T, The Pinnacle of American Motorsports, will crown Sports Car Club of America’s Club Racing National Champions for the 44th-consecutive year in 2007. The best amateur drivers from across North America convene on Heartland Park Topeka’s 2.5-mile road course each fall in what is considered the “Olympics” of motorsports. This year’s event begins with four days of qualifying, Oct. 8-11, and concludes with three days of racing, Oct. 12-14.
Peter Zekert and Team Booble Racing scored it’s third consecutive Midwest Division GTL Championship. According to a report in the Midwest Division Racing Report, “Peter Zekert (StL) maxed out at 72 points from 7 wins and remains the only MiDiv GT Lite champion there has ever been.” [GTL is the result of a GT4/GT5 merger in 2005. Zekert raced previously in GT5 from 1984-2004, finishing second in the Midwest Division race on several occasions.]
Second to Zekert in the Midwest Division point race was Chris Bovis of Lawrence, KS with 48 points; followed closely by Roy Lopshire (44 pts); Brad Lewis (43); R. Britton Brown (39); Ken Probst (21); and Keith Maloney (20).
“Winning the Midwest Division in one thing, but winning the National Championship is another”, said Zekert. The SCCA National Championship comes to Heartland Park Topeka Oct. 12-14. Driver’s from across the country in the top-10 in their Divisional Points are invited to the Inter-Divisional “One Race Winner Takes All” event. “I only ran twice at Heartland Park this year. Last year I ran 4-5 times. Luckily the car is good and we are going to test there the week before. That should help us stay close to the top.”
In 2006 Zekert and Team Booble surprised the racing community by posting a best qualifying time on day two and held on to a front row second place qualifying position. In the race, while comfortably running in second, Zekert’s engine let go in a cloud of smoke, ending his championship hopes.
Good Luck to the 2007 Booble Racing Nissan 200SX team!
