C5pilot
05-11-08, 11:37 PM
I'm back home from the Nationals in Virginia. The drive down was insane. It started out in the pouring rain, but that was ok, at least I was moving. Got south of DC about 90 miles to Richmond and RT95 became one big parking lot. Long story short, it took 8 hrs to arrive.
The weather held together for the most part for Saturdays event. It was chillier than expected, overcast most of the day, twice the sun peaked out just to throw our dials off.
The top end of the track was even worse than I remembered it. I took the right whenever I could because the left was total patch work between the 1/8-1/4. We got 3 time shots in each class. My very first time shot the car in the left lane crosses into my lane. Ummm, that's EXACTLY what happened to me last year!
Anyway, my car wasn't running quite as consistant as the last event but within reason. And once we started hot lapping I kept getting faster too. I made it to the quarter finals and went up against the eventual winner, Jeter. I took his daughter out in round 4 and I don't mean we dated. She has a 78 pace car running low 12's. She dialed a 12.20 and ran a 12.12 trying to catch up, claiming that was a PB for that car, yeah right.
Her dad was another story, running 9.816 on a 9.81. I handed him the race with a red light but I knew he was going to be tough so I pushed it. Rob Farley went up against Jeter in the finals but couldn't take him out. The jury is still out on whether Jeter was using electronics during brackets.
All in all, I feel pretty good being the only 12 sec car making it that far against all index racers. Sorry I couldn't bring CCDV home a win but the competition was tough. Congrats to Rob for representing ECSCC in the finals.
The weather held together for the most part for Saturdays event. It was chillier than expected, overcast most of the day, twice the sun peaked out just to throw our dials off.
The top end of the track was even worse than I remembered it. I took the right whenever I could because the left was total patch work between the 1/8-1/4. We got 3 time shots in each class. My very first time shot the car in the left lane crosses into my lane. Ummm, that's EXACTLY what happened to me last year!
Anyway, my car wasn't running quite as consistant as the last event but within reason. And once we started hot lapping I kept getting faster too. I made it to the quarter finals and went up against the eventual winner, Jeter. I took his daughter out in round 4 and I don't mean we dated. She has a 78 pace car running low 12's. She dialed a 12.20 and ran a 12.12 trying to catch up, claiming that was a PB for that car, yeah right.
Her dad was another story, running 9.816 on a 9.81. I handed him the race with a red light but I knew he was going to be tough so I pushed it. Rob Farley went up against Jeter in the finals but couldn't take him out. The jury is still out on whether Jeter was using electronics during brackets.
All in all, I feel pretty good being the only 12 sec car making it that far against all index racers. Sorry I couldn't bring CCDV home a win but the competition was tough. Congrats to Rob for representing ECSCC in the finals.