NORTH AMERICAN MINI CHAMPIONSHIPS

[scootr117]

Originally Posted by scootr117

I'm still going......I drove thirty seven miles to work this morning on a sheet of ICE. It's bound to be better tomarrow.

Well I was wrong about that ...drifting at 65mph is never fun....I made it there and home Sunday , but it wasn't easy. Bad luck with the toy car made for an even longer day. Thanks to Duneland for the parts and holding the race.

side note
Decatur ,In has a place called El Camino Real....great food and wicked hot sauce.... I highly recommend

[jaejw1]

is anyone gonna discuss the race.....

what was vehicle of choice?

what was tire of choice?

what was track layout.... pics??

what was motor of choice?

what was most spectacular crash and win?

what classes were run?

what sponsored racers showed up?

what was upcoming new product that showed up on track?

who won?? what were they driving?? what motor set up they use??

were there any close races,, or impossible placing,,, for instance last qualifier finishing in top3?

soon and so on

[jaejw1]

oops,,, double post

[tyreguy]

Originally Posted by jaejw1

is anyone gonna discuss the race.....

what was vehicle of choice?

what was tire of choice?

what was track layout.... pics??

what was motor of choice?

what was most spectacular crash and win?

what classes were run?

what sponsored racers showed up?

what was upcoming new product that showed up on track?

who won?? what were they driving?? what motor set up they use??

were there any close races,, or impossible placing,,, for instance last qualifier finishing in top3?

soon and so on

Ditto on the above. Results, number of racers sponsors.......

[duneland]

Thank you to those that braved the weather and made the trip! Many decided to turn around or not even start on their way to Portage, MI. As much as I would have liked a large turn-out, I would not like it if someone were killed trying to get there. Wesley, we missed you! But, there will be another race.. See you then
Thanks to our sponsors; Castle Creations, Parma/PSE, Duratrax, and Hobby-Sports.com for all the goddies! Everyone went away with at least one door prize! Thanks to Hobby-Sports for allowing us to invade their facillity!
The trials and tribulations were many... I went up on thursday to put the finishing touches on the track and make sure my computer was set-up properly with there amb hardware. When we left, the track looked great and the computer was working great. On Friday, they had 2 bithday parties complete with Traxxas Slash trucks and apparently no supervision. My co-conspiritor, Jayson, was supposed to arrive in the afternoon to re-touch the track and put the jumps in place. A bearing failure on the trailer (containing many of the jumps) and a major storm made for an 8 hour white knuckled journey, putting him in well after closing hours. I got up a 4 am to finish throwing things in a vehicle to head up to MI. When we converged on site, we found the entire track in shambles! No sign of the original layout and much of our stuff piled up for the trucks to scrable over. I suppose it is a good thing that few people showed up for Saturdays off-road event. It took us a couple of hours to get the track back together and the jumps in place.
We opened the track for practice and got the board set to start racing.
All we had was open class buggy and Wayne George running stock. We put him in with the open and scored sepperately. Top 3 in open were; Kris Paloncak 1st (Vendetta, Mongoose powered, RATFactor Vendetta foams), Ron Trobaugh 2nd (Vendetta, Multiplex motor, RATFactor Vendetta foams, and RATFactor front shock tower), Bob Swartz 3rd (Vendetta, Golden Horizons Airpower bl motor, RATFactor Vendetta foams)
Sunday's on-road went better, as we had a track to begin with! We had a few more arrive and had classes for Open and stock 1/18 4wd and open 1/14.
Kris continued his winning ways on Sunday with TQ for both 1/18 open and 1/14 open. TQ in stock 1/18 went to Phillip Neiswinger.
The top 5 in 1/14 open were all driving Recoils equipped with RATFactor chassis. 1st went to Kris Paloncak, followed by Scott Sanders, Ron Trobaugh, Jayson Malone, Bob Swartz, Phillip Neiswinger and Jason Neff.
In 1/18 open (my fave), we had another sweep for RATFactor chassis. It was not a trouble free race though. The pole sitter (Kris), had tire issues right from the start. He made a quick change right befor the race got under way, but still had problems. This gave me (Ron) the lead on the first few corners, but a self induced mishap put me in the rear. I was the only one turning 11 second laps though, and soon made it to the front. Didn't last long though as a front drive shaft let go, turning the car into a 3 wheel drive.
Scott took the win with Kris 2nd and me 3rd.
There was a good 3 way battle up front during the early minutes of the stock race, between John Davis, Phillip Neiswinger and Eric Wells. Eric braved the elements to make the trip from Ohio. John took the win and Phillip 2nd.

[jaejw1]

who had the fastest lap time in the offroad race..

[duneland]

Originally Posted by jaejw1

who had the fastest lap time in the offroad race..

Kris had a 15.155, I had a 15.421, Jayson had a 15.735 and Bob had a 15.9.
Kris had good corner speed and very consistant on the jump sections (they were very tricky). I had the speed on the straight and sweeper, but more brain farts on the jumps. Jayson was pretty fast everywhere, but broke something.

[jaejw1]

did the NEU make a good competitive showing,,,, or was it all mongoose systems,,,,,??


was there a ruling on 2s lipos and 3s lipos

[tyreguy]

Can you post a list/chart of the classes/winners with the top5 and what they ran. How many entrants total?

[geeunit1014]

My one question about the results: How close was the 1/18 sedan stock tq to the mod tq? with a 370 motor as "stock", it should have been very close

[rswartz]

Duratrax Vendetta ST(buggy body)
-Mamba ESC
-Golden Horizon motor
-Trackpower LiPo
-Hitec servo
-RATFactor Racing Products foam tires and front shock tower
-buggy itself has several DTX upgrades and some of my own.

Sportwerks Recoil spashett edition
-Mamba esc
-Losi motor
-Tackpower LiPo
-Airtronics servo
-RATFactor Racing Products chassis
-car itself has a few upgrades.

If you have any questions about set up or mods or anything just ask.

[duneland]

Originally Posted by jaejw1

did the NEU make a good competitive showing,,,, or was it all mongoose systems,,,,,??


was there a ruling on 2s lipos and 3s lipos

Only Kris was running the goose. No Neu motors that I know of. I was running the Permax 4d/2 cell Lipo. So was Jayson. Kris had his fingers crossed that his goose would not go into thermal shutdown. The Permax was faster and ran cold. No need for more power, it would accellerate at the limit of flipping over backward. and that was with a WHOLE bunch of anti-squat added. Kris won through superior throttle/jump timing.

[duneland]

Originally Posted by geeunit1014

My one question about the results: How close was the 1/18 sedan stock tq to the mod tq? with a 370 motor as "stock", it should have been very close

The difference was quite large. The Stock guys were restricted to 5 cell and the Losi Frenzy (which they liked by the way-we usually run the fireball for stock). TQ for open was 29 laps, stock was 23. Some of that can be chalked up to driving skill and some to pure speed. None of our faster guys were running stock. The VERY poor turn-out meant there would be far too much rushing about to run too many classes. I was running 11 and 12 second laps and the best stock was in the mid 14s.

TYREGUY- my previous post pretty much covers it. Most people decided their lives were more important than attending this race. We are very disapointed more did not show, but I would not want someone dying on the road trying to get there.

[jaejw1]

dang it,, no neus on the track,,, how did jayson do in offroad..

[geeunit1014]

I lied, I have another question any pics of the on road layout?