June 1, 2003 Old Town Hobby

What a day, was windy about 3/4 of the day, temps got to the low 70's

Started off with me trying to get my plastic truck to run, but it didn't want to turn to the left when I was at the end of the parking lot, so I went to the Aluminum truck.

Some guy from Hobby Hanger was on my 84 channel, so I went to 78, took the receiver box off my plastic truck as it had the personnel transponder mounted to it. I got a new transponder for both trucks, just didn't have it mounted yet. Need to make holes in some way to get to the receiver to make it easier to change channels.

First heat found the chrome TRC wheels were so wollowed out that I had to go to my Maximizer wheels, and the gas tank that had crack leaked, so I had to take one off plastic truck. Second heat I ran 17 laps which was a tie for the highest, truck felt good, but when I brought it in hit Shirley kid in rear as he slowed down at finish line, and broke front tie rod,(sheered off right where they had threaded the aluminum) so will just go to stainless, or the titanium ones I have, not really sure the tie rod broke then, but think it did, as it steered ok until that time, then found that I had a broke shock and the other on the left rear had pulled apart. So I put the Integy shocks which are 1" shorter on one side and ran the main. Ran slow, but finished 4th with 24 laps, leader had 27, so I should have sped up and might have done better, but truck was a handful to handle.

What a day, but this was the end of the Spring Season and will be off for the next 2 weeks, so have some time to work on it.

Think I ended up in first in the points which was good for my first year.

Well, when all came out in the wash, I ended up second, since they took 2 of your lowest scores off. We only got 4 real races since Seng knocked the timing tower down on the 2nd or third race. Cars all got 5 races out of the 8. If this would have been so, I would have won the points series, but Robert Spencer ended up winning with 2 100 wins and a 1 point bonus. He only came 2 times, but that was enough. I guess I am taking things far too series and need to do it for fun more.