Racing down at Warehouse 3

Friday, Dec. 23rd, 2011

Its been awhile (Sept) since I have been down to Warehouse 3, and the track is now different from when I was here last.  The layout looked great, and I looked forward to a great night of racing.  There was a good sized crowd down there, including my friends from Wolfpak Racing (Dean and Dragi).

I entered into the Pro-Lite class with my HPI Blitz, after getting in a few practice sessions, I was getting used to the track.

Round 1:
18 Laps

Round 2:
18 Laps

B-Main:

17 Laps - 7th place

Here is the video my friend took of me racing in the B-Main, I am the Orange and Black Blitz starting in seventh spot.  I had a complete meltdown on the first lap, and crashed three times.  The remainder of the main did see some improvements, but I could not catch up after that, and the crashing continued, lol.

KBRL Round 4 at Competition Hobbies

Saturday December 17th, 2011

Round 4 of the KBRL series has come and gone, and this round like the three previous was a blast.  Once again I was able to trek down to Tucson by hitching a ride with my friends from Wolfpak Racing, Dean and Dragi.  It was a nice drive down, and we arrived just before 8am.  Since this is an indoor facility, there was plenty of pit tables when we arrived, and we were setup in no time.

The pit table were nice.

Dragi on the the left and Dean from Wolfpak Racing setting up

Round 1: Qualifier (5 min. heat):

During the warm up laps, I miss calculated a jump and landed hard on some of the bricks that are on the sides of the tracks, and I ended up breaking the outdrive off my MIP Ball diff.  This was kind up upsetting, this was a brand new diff and I only had run one race prior to this, so this part breaking this early was very disappointing.

Broken outdrive, sigh

Pro Lite - Round# 1
Driver Car# #Laps RaceTime Fast Lap Frank Lilly #5 0 0.000 0.000

Round 2: Qualifier (5 min. heat):

Before round 2 I was able to replace the broken Ball Diff with my old Gear Diff, this was not in the best condition, but it seemed like it was holding.  So after rebuilding my transmission I was set for round two.  I did not do as great as I wanted to for this round, I ended up with 9 laps, which put me in the D-Main.


Pro Lite - Round# 2
Driver Car# #Laps RaceTime Fast Lap Frank Lilly #5 9 5:11.614 31.600



Mains

D-Main (5 min. Race):

For the D-Main, I was expecting to do a little better then I did in round 2 of the heats.  But I could not get the truck to hook-up, and after a major wreck in the first lap, I was starting from last place and playing catch up the entire race.  I was able to go from 9th to 8th place, and was in 8th until the last lap, where I had one of the worst laps of the day, I think I crashed about 5 times, and unfortunately, the 9th place driver had one of the best laps of his day, and ended up passing me half-way through the last lap.

Overall I had a great time racing, and was able to hangout with some fun people.