Josh competed in round 3 of the Minnesota Off Roads Series at Loosenuts Raceway over the weekend. The layouts are always on the technical side.
In 1/8 Buggy, Josh had good qualifying runs with a 3rd, 1st and 2nd. So he started 2nd on the grid with his Mugen MBX7. He was using the Mugen Beat 4 that Neal Clocked and he had plenty of pop for all the tight corners and jumps out of the corners. He was worried about fuel consumption in the main as it was more humid and traction was high along with his heavy trigger finger. So we decided to do 6 minute stops in the 30 minute main. He battled for 2-4 all race and in the end took 2nd. Engine was just a touch rich from the weather change and the rain moving in as it started sprinkling the last 2 minutes, then within 5 minutes after the race a downpour for an hour..ending the race day.
In Truggy, he used his trusty Clocked Bonito with a 86 pipe. First races on his Mugen MBX7T, he was 2nd first round, made some set up changes and a restricter change for round 2, was on TQ run turning 32 second laps which only 1 other driver had been able to also do, but with a minute left, he flamed out, very strange, upon examination, his clunk had gotten caught and was about half way up the tank. For round 3, we replaced the tank with a non clunk tank, but started late because of a tough starting engine. Plain and simple, forgot to retune from the longer fuel line with that tank. He still took 4th over all that round even though he was force started by 12 seconds. Was to start 5th in the main but the rains washed out the rest of the day.
Can't thank Neal and John enough for the engine work, powerful engines that run great on the Bones Brew fuel.. Josh like his engines to be a brute on the bottom but them go smooth to the top, tough combo but Neal does it..