10/26/2013

SS Hobbies and Raceway (Tampa, FL)

Saturday night under da' lights!!!

Steve did a nice layout on the track, lot of FAST area's and a lot of slow area's very balanced.

SC10

Same everything as Yupers last week, except the front top shock mounts, moved them out to hole #2.

TQ'd for the main, lost my mind at the tone and spun the SC10 going into the first turn. Had a 3 foot lead going into the turn, braked to much!!!! Came out in last!!! By lap four I was 20 foot behind 1st, lap 6 I was on him. Touched a pipe and it took three more laps to be on his tail again. As we lapped the 6th place racer, 1st got by him, I was pushed into a pipe!!! Finished 10 foot behind 1st!!!

T4

TQ'd first qual, so I thought race the GT2-E in the 2nd qual, tq'd that qual also.

Looked at the rear tires on the GT2-E after the 2nd qual, this is the 2nd race for these tires. They are GONE!!!! This is NOT a good thing at $20 a set, gone in 12 minutes!!!

After the problem with the SC10 at the tone I was a bit to careful and Kenny got by me as we went into turn two. Took my time making up the 10 foot lead he had on me. As we come up to 3rd place, I started to make my move, took one more lap to cleanly get by Kenny. Two turns later Kenny piped his truck and I was driving away. Lapped Kenny with two laps to go.

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10/20/2013

Yupers (Winter Heaven, FL)

Final race of FL State Sportsman's Series with AWARDS after the days racn'.

SC10

Ken (series leader) and I traded 1st, time wise, every lap during the 1st qual. That was the MOST fun I've had during this series!!!

Still finished 2nd in every qual and the main for a 2nd over all.

The SC10 was just SWEEEEET every qual and every main!!

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Seems I'm now part of Team FZRC!

How the regular racers from FZRC finished in the series. 

2wd Stock SC
3. Paul Boyce

2wd Mod SC
2. Terrance Wilson

4wd SC
3. Josh Boyce

1/10 Buggy Mod
2. Matt Kepple

1/10 Buggy Stock
1. Eric Everett
2. Paul Boyce

1/10 4wd Buggy
1. Eric Everett
3. Bruce Bennet

1/8 E Buggy
1. Nick Lewis
2. Jim Hess


10 of 21 top 3 (almost 50%!!!)

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10/13/13

SS Hobbies and Raceway (Tampa, FL)

GT2-SC

Race in both qual's very HAPPY with how the engine ran and the truck handled. BUT!

SC10

Raced the 8 minute main lipo powered instead of Nitro powered!! Managed to finish 5th of 10.

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Steve (a Team Holy Rollers member) asked to race the GT2-E. He TQ'd and finished 1st!!!!

I was racn' the T4 and had hopes to make Steve sweat for 8 minutes. Qual'd in 3rd, muscled my way by 2nd in the first turn and was just five feet behind Steve 1/4 into lap two when a MIP pin disappeared from the left axle!!!!

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10/6/2013

FZRC (Sarasota, FL)

SC10

Had problems in 1st qual only finished 2nd!!!

As I was prepping for the 2nd qual noticed that the front was still set to SS tracks spec's!!!!!!

And the left front shock was a bit low on oil. Changed oil in both front shocks, moved the shock top mounts to "0" hole from "2" hole. Put a set of BarCodes (Gold) and I was ready to race.

Marty choose to run three qual's << SWEEEEEET!!!!!!!!!!!

Still started 2nd!!!!!!

After 8 minutes of racn' in the main finished 2nd!!!!

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9/29/2013

SS Hobby and Raceway (Tampa, FL)

Ronnie did ANOTHER track redesign!!!  SWEEEET!!

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RC10T4

Replaced the steering servo to a Savöx 0125. Didn't change anything else from last weeks race. Same results!!! Alan is getting to be a FOUR letter word!! :-)  Finished 2nd!!

SC10

Goosebumps were THE tires last week, this week it was M3 Proline Calibers on the rear.

Finished 4th behind racers that I've never beat unless they broke!!!

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Will have to race the last race of the FLRS at Yupers after I found out the the racer in 3rd can take 2nd from me with attendance points!!!!!!

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