April 18, 2004 at Olde Towne
What a day. Summer got here all at once, it was in the mid 80's and track
temps were nearly 130. Lots of traction. They had to move track down and it was
a drivers course, real technical which was good.
I started out with the TC3 but every time it would get to a certain point on the
track it would go nuts and out of control. I think there has to be something
wrong with the Futaba HRS receiver, as everything else I have the Novak in works
fine, so will put one in it for next week and try again. Need to go down in
gearing also, as it felt real flat and I went from a 25 to a 26, so will go back
down.
The E-Maxx with the new Gorilla Chassis wasn't bad. Handled pretty good for a
first time out. Ran 12 laps, which was 4th best and Tony had 14. His truck was
handling well today. I ran a 18/66 gear and motor was about 200 and ran the full
5 minutes on junk 3000 packs. changed to a 20/66 and thought I would try running
in low gear, but it was in high, very fast, but thermalled out at about 4 minute
mark, 230 on motor temp, and stripped a rear wheel out, so had only front wheel
drive.
I ended up running my T-Maxx with the Picco 21 in it, and it only qualified with
11 laps. When it came time to start the Mains Mark was helping me and it
wouldn't keep running, just wouldn't clean out kept sounding like it was loading
up. Finally about 7 laps into the race I got started and was catching up, but
was way to far back. Then towards the end it kept having problems like it had a
fuel delivery problem, or something was wrong with it. So I ended up finishing
5th place, with
1 - Tony Matusic
2 - Josh Spence
3 -
4 - Thomas Hahn
5 - Jeff Fischer
6 - Robert Spence
7 - Lee Rader
and so on
Was a good day, and learn more each time, and hope to get the Nitro truck fixed
this week so it will run right.