Also saw a few of those Slash Late Models. Some guys from Battle Creek came up to run. A couple years ago, there were at least eight regulars from BC coming up to run mini late models. Hopefully, a few more will start turning out. I've got a couple of mini's ready to bring out if they ever do show up. The current BFG layout is perfect for them. Larry, Matt Rugg, and Curt Garret can make those things fly.
Slapped the Sprint car together and it worked pretty good. Not rocket ship fast, but it handled well. My front tires were just about worn out so I pulled out the Dremmel and grooved my Street Tracs so that they could make it through the night. Seemed to work out ok. Managed to get TQ and win the main, but a lot of that had to do with others having bad luck than having a super fast ride.
I'm planning to swap out the chasis to stand the battery up and pick up a seven inch wing as well as swap out the old GTB I've been running in my sprint. I've always run the sprint as a second class, so I never really worried too much about what I had in it. The competition is pretty stout so I think I'm going to step it up and upgrade the speedo as well.
My Late Model picked up where it left off last week. My crazy ass setup seems to give me all kinds of turn in and I was able to power off the corners with a lot of juice. The only problem I see with the setup is that the chasis still kind of flops, which makes it a little unpredictable at times right in the apex of the corner. I haven't turned track record number of laps, but my car has been as fast as anybody out there. I'm going to stick with it.
The Late Model racing was a little rough on Saturday. The heat races left a couple of the fast guys on the outside looking in because they couldn't get a clean run in. I didn't have any steller runs, but got one good one in to make the A.
It was unfortunate that we had to drop to 5 with a bump for the main, but you can't argue with how great the bump up is. RC legend Butch Beebe laid down a track record in the B to bump to the A in a clean feature where the second place car would have won the A main.
The A main was rougher than our normal racing. Maybe it was the points, maybe it was just that everyone was trying to get that last little bit out of their car (you don't know where the line is until you cross it sometimes). I had a fast car and managed to win, however, that was probably more a product of hitting one less car than the other guys. There definitely was some contact out there:
If anyone knows where Rich is, I need a new body painted stat
John said that he was dragging the track today which will set everything back to zero as far as setups go. I'm planning to stick with mine for right now until the track comes back in. Should be good.
On the other side of racing, my carpet car is finally just about done. Probably take a few weeks off from dirt racing to give that a go. I keep hearing about how fun it is and how much it's going to help me in dirt car racing. We'll see about that. Looking forward to the change of pace.
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