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 need to get Bryan to fix my name!
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:
| Fast Lap | Fast-10 Average | Power | Class | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23.67 (16) | 25.31 | 7.5T Novak | Novice | 21-FEB |
| 24.7 (10) | 26.76 | 7.5T Novak | Open Short Course | 23-FEB |
| 24.73 (11) | 26.72 | 17.5T Tekin | Stock Short Course | 26-FEB |
| 25.38 (7) | 27.76 | 17.5T Tekin | Stock Short Course | 26-FEB |
| 23.97 (5) | 26.02 | 17.5T Tekin | Stock Short Course | 28-FEB |
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!
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