Well every year in the first week of December S & N Trackside has there annual off road race. This year it was sponsored by Spektrum radios and Horizon hobbies. The first race day was held on Friday December 4th with one round of qualifying on Friday and 2 on Saturday and another one on Sunday with the finals on Sunday. I got there on wed to help set up and clean up the track and get things ready for racing. The expected turn out was first going to be 100 people coming but by Thursday the final number of pre registered people came in and it was around about 150 people, with more to come on Friday that haven’t signed up yet. So we had to take some of the sedan track apart and lay down some protective carpeting and put up some pit paces.
Some of the people who showed up to the track were Ryan Cavalieri Associated driver. We also had some big names from Losi Dakota Phend, Matt Chambers, and Dustin Evens. I got to pit next to them out on our carpet track. They showed up on Thursday during the day. By then end of the day most of the pro drivers were there and setting up there pits and working on there cars. The biggest thing I noticed was I haven’t raced or practiced with me off road stuff in almost like 7 months. And the couple times I got out on the track man did I notice I need a lot of practice. For the last couple of months I have been practicing sedan racing so my off road skills are way down. I also had to do a lot of work on my stuff my shocks were leaking (as do most associated shocks). And I also forgot what shock oil I currently had in them lol. So I spent most of Thursday rebuilding shocks and changing oil and helping around the track.
When Friday came I was ready to do something what I don’t know. I checked everything from ride height to balanced tires. I have never balanced tires before but I thought I would give it a shot. I went out and did some more practice and was remembering some of the stuff but I was still lacking what I used to have. Friday night we had our first qualifier. My first class was stock buggy I went out and ran the best I could. But when I grabbed my buggy to get in line for my qualifier I grabbed it by the front shock tower and felt something weird on the shock tower itself. When I was in line I looked a little closer and there was a hair line crack it was so clean that I couldn’t see it unless I moved the shock tower and saw that it was broken. I didn’t have time to fix it before I ran. I had to run how it was so I had to take it slow try not to push it too bad or hard. I ran and did ok but not as good as I would have liked. I next ran my truck I was running in the stock truck class. I didn’t do too well in this run I had to get used to the track and the tires I had on my truck. I was not running what everyone else was running I had pink tapper pins front and rear but everyone was running barcodes. I did what I could I got around the track but I was sliding in all the corners so I had to get used to it. Last year the track was watered during rounds and practice and we were using pink tapper pins ground down to slicks. The hook up was great. This year they didn’t water the track they just blew the dust off the track and then you run. This is a new driving style I had to get used too.
Well more about the weekend in my next post but like I always say always have fun and keep the rubber side down.
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