Thursday Night Racing @ HobbyTown in Gilbert, AZ

Thursday; July 18th, 2013

Missed racing last week, but didn't want to miss this week, so I headed on down to HobbyTown Gilbert, for the weekly Thursday night racing.  My friend Dean could not make it, so I picked up his son Dragi (Wolfpak Racing blog), and the two of us headed down for some RC action.  I love racing on Thursdays because its a smaller crowd, and a lot less hectic then Saturday night racing.  I had made some major changes to the car, almost completely changed the setup from when I bought the car.  I will attach the current setup to the setup tab of the blog tonight.

All setup in the pits, ready to race.

Tonight was going to be a quick racing night with only 11 heats of racing for all the classes.  Once again, I was racing my Associated TC6.1 in the Sportsman Sedan - Road Course class.  And I was dying to get my car out on the track to test the new setup.

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Qualifying: Round 1:

Sportsman Sedan - Road Course

There was only 4 of us tonight, usually we have a crowd of 6-7, this would be a good night for testing my cars new setup.

Driver:  Laps   Time   
 Dustin   20   4:03.41
 Frank    20   4:07.97
 Dylan    18   4:06.77
 Dragi    17   4:01.42

The car felt great, and it wasn't for my bad driving and hitting the corners wrong a few times, I feel I would have been able to pull home the win in this round.

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Mains:

Sportsman Sedan - Road Course

So, after the round of qualifying, I would be starting second on the A-Main.  I decided not to make any adjustments to the car, just to see if it would be consistent from the first round of action.

A-Main:

Driver:  Laps   Time   
 Frank    21   4:09.20
 Dustin   21   4:11.94
 Dylan    19   4:13.01
 Dragi    18   4:05.37

The care felt great again, and was really hooking up.  We started the first couple of laps right how we qualifying, but after the 3rd lap, I was able to get around Dustin, and there was no looking back.  After a mid-race crash with some lap traffic, Dustin was right on my bumper, but I was able to hold him off until the end to put myself on top of the podium, with a personal best of 21 laps.

All-in-All, the car felt great, and the new setup was matching my driving skills perfectly.  I will be racing this Sunday for the third round of the Carpet Point series at Competition Hobbies in Tuscon, and I will post the results of that race probably on Monday or Tuesday of next week.

Dragi in the pits, ready for some racing.