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.