ROCCK (Knoxville)
So many people came up to me and asked if I was from FL and did I come up just to race at ROCCK. I sure felt at home!! Didn't have a table, a racer lent me his and told me to hook into his power tap with my extention cord.
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Practice
GT2SC
Sure was GREAT to have this truck on a track after almost two years. Picco motor was just SWEET. As I was trying to make the BIG jump landed belly centered that the top of the jump and took the idler out in the trans! :-)
SC10
This is the first LARGE non-red clay clay track in three years! Just trying to remember how to setup a RC for this kind of clay hurt my brain!!! Didn't have any setup sheets from other track either!!!!! :-(
Changed from Proline Calibers 2.0 M3 to AKA Cityblock Soft on the rear for the first qual.
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1st Qual
SC10 would slide out in the rear of some turns and slide out in the front on others. This wasn't a push, thr front would slide out then jump back in!!!!!
Qual 5th :-(
2nd Qual
Changed back to Proline Calibers 2.0 M3 on the back. This was better BUT I still could NOT power around the big turns. On the long striaght the back end of the SC was twichy, Was faster every where but when being marshaled so I was two second slower!!!
3rd Qual
Took the front and rear sway bars off, change the camber to -1.5 from -1 Now the SC is getting better, the front and rear isn't sliding in the corners. As I'm just here for one race, I'm not going to test camber/caster options with swap bars.
Qual 6th in the B-main :-(
Changed rear shock towers, to place the shock mounts at the "0" hole, ajusted the toe in a 1/4 turn in on each side.
Da' Race
Go at the tone!!!! :-)
Was in 3rd by the 2nd turn, in 2nd at that turn on lap two. Passed 1st in the air over the BIG jump on lap three and started to pull away UNTIL the BIG JUMP on lap four!!! Touched a pipe with the right front wheel as I was landing, which remove it from the SC!!!!!
Still finished 7 of 9,
The SC was just hooked up like on carpet after the two changes made after the 3 qual!!! I thought, during the first three laps of the B-main that I had a chance in looking good in the A-main. So much for thinking!!!!!!!!!
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