RC Racing at HobbyTown, Gilbert

Saturday, March 22nd, 2014

Got in another round of racing down at HobbyTown in Gilbert AZ.  It was a great day, slight breeze for most of the day and a great group of people.  It was another good turnout, and I believe there was about 24 heats of racing.  For this day, I did VTA Oval and Sportsman Road Course.  I had my new VTA body mounted and ready for today's racing.  I still have not painted the new body for the Touring Car, I've had that new body since December, and its been sitting on the shelf daring me to paint it, lol.  Maybe next weekend I break out the paint and whip up a new paint scheme for the touring car.

Pits setup and ready for racing.

New VTA body, don;t have the stickers on it yet, but will for the next outing.

Vintage Road Course

Round 1
After round 1 is was very close racing, I was inline for the A-Main being shown 3rd overall after round 1.

Heat 1                    Heat 2
Driver   Laps   Time      Driver   Laps   Time  
Tony      32   4:03.25    Frank     31   4:05.19
Joe A     32   4:04.36    Freddie   31   4:06.49
Debra     31   4:05.84    Derek     31   4:06.73
Jeff      30   4:00.84    Dhavil    31   4:06.93
Mike J    30   4:01.06    R L       27   4:02.26
Norm      30   4:04.85                          

Round 2
Round 2 had a lot of racers in Heat 1 of round 2 breaking out, but with two other drivers hitting the 32 lap mark, and me only doing another 31 laps, it pushed me back to starting 1st in the B-Main.

Heat 1                    Heat 2
Driver   Laps   Time      Driver   Laps   Time  
Joe A     33   4:01.68    Derek     32   4:07.63
Mike J    33   4:05.13    Dhavil    32   4:07.64
Tony      33   4:05.41    Freddie   31   4:01.67
Jeff      33   4:06.01    Frank     31   4:02.24
Debra     32   4:00.11    R L       27   4:00.97
Norm      29   4:06.39                          

UPDATE! - 03/24/2014
Found the prints outs for the Mains

B-Main
Driver   Laps   Time  
Mike J    33   4:05.40
Jeff      33   4:06.06
Frank     33   4:06.58
Norm      30   4:00.38 - Norm gets the win
R L       27   4:00.99

A-Main
Driver   Laps   Time  
Dehavil   32   4:01.17
Joe A     32   4:01.90
Debra     32   4:02.70
Tony      32   4:03.34
Freddie   31   4:00.28
Derek      0   DNS

TC Sportsman - 17.5

Heat 1
Heat 1 was a blast, it was a very close race.  Once again it was Bill and I battling it out for the lead the entire race.  In the end Bill got me.

Driver   Laps   Time  
Bill      21   4:01.46
Frank     21   4:05.24
Bryan     19   4:06.86
Matt      18   4:01.08
Jerry     14   4:08.02
Riley     13   4:15.26
Mike S     0   DNS    
T J        0   DNS     

Heat 2
This heat, I did not do very good at all, but still managed to pull out a second place finish.

Driver   Laps   Time   
T J       21   4:11.35
Frank     20   4:03.29
Bill      20   4:07.13
Bryan     19   4:08.28
Matt      18   4:09.47
Jerry     15   4:11.22
Riley     13   4:14.22
Mike S     1   0:09.72

A-Main and Cancelled B-Main

The B-Main was cancelled because 3 out of the 4 drivers for the B-Main broke, and could not start the race, so they moved the one driver into the A-Main so there was 5 of us.

UPDATE! - 03/24/2014
Found the prints outs for the Mains

A-Main Results
Driver   Laps   Time   
Bill      21   4:04.14
T J       21   4:10.67
Frank     20   4:01.76
Bryan     19   4:06.43
Matt      19   4:08.12

Final Thoughts

Thanks for all the advice I received from Mike S. and Todd.  Overall it was a great day of racing, and really looking forward to my next outing.  Not sure if it will be next Saturday the 29th but will definitely be there on the 5th of April.