The final race of the COMMA season was an emotional rollercoaster for 13-year-old race driver Crispin Beaver, whose crew had to thrash for nearly twelve hours to replace the engine in his car after a problem during testing.

While practicing at Hallett Motor Racing Circuit the afternoon before the race, debris was caught inside the engine of Crispin's Mazda RX-7 causing complete motor failure. While the crew chief drove back across Oklahoma to the team's Missouri shop to retrieve the spare engine, the rest of the crew and a number of volunteers helped pull the damaged engine out. The spare engine was at the track by 6 pm and the car was ready to go at 1:30 am on the morning of the championship race.

The crew's overnight heroics allowed Crispin to qualify on the pole for the title race. Still unsure of the new engine's reliability for an entire race, the team decided to keep the car in the top three but run it as gently as possible. Crispin drove the car moderately but since it was shod with a fresh set of Goodyear racing slicks it remained fast despite having less horsepower. No challenge came from any other cars in his class and in spite of some minor body damage on the front right quarter panel, Crispin cruised to victory in GT-2 by finishing a strong fourth overall out of twenty-two cars in the field.

The win was Crispin's fourth of the season to go along with a trio of runner-up finishes. With the exception of a single DNF he never finished out of the top three all season. Beaver also becomes the youngest driver in COMMA history to win the GT-2 championship.

Crispin will spend the off-season gathering trophies at the COMMA banquet in December and planning his 2007 campaign. Funding is now being assembled for next year in an effort to take Beaver to the next level of his career.