2nd night of racing in the Stock Class was last night. Turn out was a little down, and there were only 2 Stock class trucks, so we raced with the Open Class Short Courses as well. It was quite a battle. I slowed myself down, just trying to put together clean runs, and my times clearly show that I started going slower.

What was encouraging, was that the other stock truck (driven by Evan) placed very well compared to the unlimited modification, unlimited power, unlimited budget trucks. Pretty impressive! 🙂

I spent some time in between rounds talking to a few of the really fast guys. All of them said. “If you want to get fast. If you want to get better, Race Buggy!“. Hm… really? Buggy? I’m going to have to look into that.

For now, here are the 3 rounds from last night, in graphic form. Even though I was slowing it down, I ran a few of the fasted laps ever in stock, and some of the slowest laps I’ve ever run too. I really need to work on my consistency!

Since Stock class racing is where I’m going to focus in the short term, I decided to get a second Stock ESC system. This one is a CLUB SPEC system to toss into one of the other fleet vehicles here. I saw a couple of good comments on RCTECH.NET about ordering from TQRacing, and as noted by them, the pricing was the best I’d found anywhere. Plus, I’m glad I checked RCTECH.NET and found out that you NEED a programming card for the thing! Well, TQ had it in stock, at 1/2 what A-Main was listing. All in all, I saved about 25% over the price at A-Main (and another 9% by getting free shipping). That’s a pretty big savings!

I’ll post a photo of what it’s going into later. 😀

Looking back at my race lap times… I ran my fasted in Novice. Maybe because I had a better chance at a clean run? In most of the stock races I’ve been taken out with great success in the first couple of laps. Once I had a 58 second first lap!

Here is a list of the fastest times since I started to keep track:

Here is a neat little graph of the available data:

The good news from all this, is that I’m staring to get back to the same times I was running with my big 7.5T motor compared to the new 17.T motor, which basically has 1/2 the power.

The old adage seems to be proving itself out in the numbers. It’s mostly the driver!

It was a full week of Short Course Racing. It started with my last Novice race on Monday night. Followed with my first real heads-up class racing in Short Course Mod. The week wrapped up tonight with heads-up class racing in Stock Short Course, after swapping out the massive 7.5T Novak + GTB open class power system, for a Tekin RS 17.5T stock class motor.

Monday Night Racing

It started out pretty quite, not may people showed up due to the weather, at least that’s the way it looked until race time was almost upon us, and a flood of people loaded up the racing classes, especially Novice!

Despite the huge class of racing, and being faced with the largest truck I’ve seen yet, a Traxxis REVO 4×4 monster truck (more than twice the mass of an SC10!), I dominated. Having won both the the qualifier heats with only one real competitor, a couple of the experienced guys pulled me aside and said that it was time for me to move out of Novice. I was getting the call up to the big league. 🙂

Here are the results!

Novice A Main Round# 3, Race# 2

________________________Driver___Car#____Laps____RaceTime____Fast Lap___Behind_
              Demartini, David    #2      19     8:05.113     23.670           
                   Clark, Mark    #3      18     8:02.379     25.008           
                 Metzger, Kyle    #6      17     8:29.142     26.673           
                Glivar, Tucker    #1      15     8:01.589     25.647           
             Stephens, Charter    #8      13     7:45.109     31.380           
                   Etue, Mason    #7      10     8:19.594     40.323           
                    Evans, Bob    #4       4     1:27.544     26.853           
                 Prier, Steven    #5       4     1:32.793     28.857      5.249

Wednesday Night Racing

It was a tough night of racing. Didn’t run very well, and it seems quite clear to me that I need to put a smaller power system in the truck, at least for the time being. There is more power in that truck, with it limited to 50% power, than I have the skill to drive.

Open Short Course A Main Round# 3, Race# 3

________________________Driver___Car#____Laps____RaceTime____Fast Lap___Behind_
              Schoening, Bryan    #6      23     8:15.376     18.071           
                  Steve, Smith    #4      23     8:15.551     20.455      0.175
                  Braget, Wade    #2      23     8:22.401     14.807      7.025
              demartine, david    #1      18     8:04.301     24.701           

Saturday Night Racing

First race night with the new Tekin system, made affordable by selling off a spare truck and power system.

I was not able to get the A-Mail from Saturday. I’ll work on that next time I’m down at the track. I was able to construct the data for the two heats (iPhone camera to the rescue) to create this graph:

Some Analysis

Comparing Monday to Wednesday night laps times shows a bit of consitancy between nights. In fact the last lap of each night was far off the pace, but nearly identical in time, and I ran the same number of laps in each of the races.