6/15/2013
B&B Hobby (Hudson, FL.)
This is my 3rd time to visit B&B, this visit was very diff!!!
My normal traveling racn' buddy couldn't go, his wife had broken an ankle a few weeks ago, so he's a stay at home hubby taking care of his sweety!
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GT2-SC
Track looked like "stuff"!!! After a couple hours of practice it was worse. About 6 minutes into practice the idler gear in the tranny let go. This is the RC that I went to B&B to race, it's nitro powered and B&B is the closest track that races nitro classes. 86 mile drive and no racing for this RC. :-(
GT2-E
Hoped that there would be enough ST's for a class, I had the only one!
SC10
So I'm down to "Old Faithful", with a new (to me) Reedy 5500 lipo. With this lipo I had way to much power for the track, started at 140% on the radio, finished at 120% and even that was to much!!!
By the end of the 7 minute main I had a good 3 place finish.
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The way the track team prepped the track was real ODD!
They blew the track off then water the edges for both qual's, During the 2nd qual's the track was starting to take a groove. I thought SWEEEET the track should be good for the main.
Not to be, they hosed the track!!! Why would you water the complete track when it's starting to "Blue Groove". They ran the 1/8 ele buggy b-main first which dug up all the wet places and scattered the sand/clay all over the track surface. The track was worse then it was during practice!!!!
Told my race buddy, NOT going back there!!!!
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