11/3/2012
B&B (Hudson,FL)
Drove to Mike's house, transferred the SC10, GT2SC, two trunks, table, chair and one tool box into the back of his truck. THEN loaded his stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
Planed to race the GT2SC and the SC10. B&B didn't have a class for the GT2SC, so they put me in OpenSC which is the same class that I had planed to race the SC10!!!!!
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GT2SC
Did most of my track time with the GT2SC, I knew how the SC10 would race.
Moved the rear shocks in one hole on the a-arms, had noticed the the front bounce a bit, didn't want to change the front shocks so I just un-screwed the front shock lower mount eyes out 1 and a half turns. MUCH better, made note to self to remove one .030 spacer before I race the GT2SC again.
A racer stated "someone racing a nitro in ele SC class", I answered YES Me!!!
Go at the tone! Started last as I didn't know how the GT2SC would race. By lap three the GT2SC was in first AND was pulling away!!!! Then about four laps from the end of the qual, the sound of the grinding the teeth off the gears in the trans!!! Was able to finish the qual, for a 2nd in that qual and a 3rd over all for the a-main.
Inspected the trans, it was finished for the day! :-(
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SC10
Race the SC10 in the 2nd qual, it seemed that the SC10 was faster than the GT2SC from the drivers stand. NEVER TRUST your feeling about your lap times check the results sheet. The GT2SC was 1 to 2 seconds faster a lap then the SC10!
Qual'd 4th, was in 4th as I came out of turn one, as I finished coming out of turn one I was 7th!!!!
By lap 4 I was behind 3rd by 4 feet and was closing fast. Then, the sound of the spur gear getting it's teeth ground off, finished one more lap before all the teeth were gone. Still had enough of a lead on the pack that I finished 6th of the 9 racers in the a-main.
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