... anyone knows a witch ?, im cursed !!

Well guys, this is the race report from my last race, helded 14th and 15th March 2009 at "Team Talca" Track :




Saturday 14th. Activities started about 14hrs, i put together my stuff, charged batteries and went to try out the track. My idea was to test couple tires to decide what to use on qualies first. I ended choosing VP PRO 803 Strikers for the first 2 qualies. On the first 10 minutes run i did sort of good but i was getting too much traction so couple traction rolls during my run, for the second 10 minutes qualy i decided to cut the outer and inner pins of the tire, great results very fast but still a little uncomfortable with too much traction and as i felt comfortable with the rest of the setup i decided to give a try to VP PRO 802 Cutoffs and was a very good idea. End of the day about 21.00hrs and 4th position for A-Main as qualy result, i was very very happy and worked couple hours on the car checking everything. Remember that im racing the Matrix R2 "RTR" so i prefer to double check everything before each race.

Sunday morning, finals. The A-Main on my country championship its 40 minutes long. During the pre-race practice i noted the track was a little more loose and i was using a very agressive diff setup (7-7-3) so i was feeling a little understeer and just a tab loose on the rear, i just adjusted the suspension to seat the car lower and there we went !. I started on 4th position, drifted a little too much on the start but i managed to at least not get stuck on heavy traffic on the first curve, too sad couple guys cut the track and race director didnt paid attention (will see on the video). All was very good up to minute 9 or 10 aprox and by that point i was leading the race by 1/4 of track lenght or so when suddenly while a landing on the big triple jump my engine stops, GO Engines are very reliable so first thing in mind was loose clutchbell or something like that. After a slow run of marshal to the pits my pitman checked everything, couple minutes later all was "checked" but the engine didnt start yet ... changed glow plug and nothing and suddenly my pitman see that the pipe holder was loose, and the pipe was pressing the fuel line arrrghhh !!, he loosed the fuel line and the engine came alive again. Almost 6 minutes on the pits was a very bad situation, but i continued racing from last position and managed to end 7th by the end of the a-main. Hope to do it better next time after a sould cleaning by a witch lol !!! to kill bad luck !!.

All my equipment worked great, 802 VP PRO Tires were great and almost no wear after 10 minute qualy + 40 minutes a-main and the engine did it great piting at 8 1/2 - 9 minutes with a full runtime of 10 minutes and 37 seconds on 6.5mm restrictor and 0801 GO Pipe and as fast (and faster) as any other engine at the track.


This is how the a-main ended :




You can watch the video here : http://www.vimeo.com/3759989

cya !