Wyoming Race 2011

Wyoming Winter Carnival 2011 Race wrap up.

We arrived on Friday afternoon and helped setup the track, we hung out and did some care tuning until about 10pm.

My Stock car was great, I didn’t make any changes to it the whole weekend. My F1 was pretty good, I ran the first 2 qualifiers with it, it was good but not great. I decided to put some fresh rubber on it. After the tire change the car had a lot more front end than I typically like, I could handle it, but it got better and better as the races went. The front scuffed in and it was probably my best handling car of the whole weekend. My pan car was OK at first not really great. The back end wasn’t very planted and it got worse throughout the first race, after the race I went back and looked at it. The preload on the top shock had backed off and was allowing the car to bottom out and causing me to spin. I reset the preload and used some blue locktite on it so it wouldn’t move. I also adjusted the preload on my side shocks, changed my front shocks to a softer shock and finally went with some Kyosho 20 rear tires. This was the ticket. The car was very good, nice smooth and fast. I didn’t really get to push it hard in the main as we combined the entire class of 9 cars for the main. There was lots of traffic and wrecks. I went as fast as I could with the traffic but the car was excellent.

Jace qualified in the B Main in stock. He won the B main flex

and was bumped to the A Main. Great results for his first big Mini-Z Race.

The Salt Lake Gang as a whole had great results, We took home all the first place trophies, and a few others as well.

Stock – Brian 1st place
Nascar – Russ 1st. place
Stock Kyosho – Cygen 1st. place
F1 – Brian 1st place, Russ 3rd place
Pan – Brian 1st Place

We had great final results but it was far from trouble free, Cygen had board problems with his F1 and wasn’t able to run it. Chad had some really bad handling issues with his F1, but we got them sorted out (eventually). Luke was having issued with his steering on his racer and handling problems with his F1. Chad had a dirty servo and while taking it apart to clean lost a part. He amazingly managed to find it and we got it back together in time to make the A-main and finished 5th.

Here are the results from the mains.

A Main Stock
B Main Stock
C Main Stock
F1 A Main
Pan A Main
Nascar A Main

As always this is a great race to attend it’s lots of racing, and most of all it is a lot of fun. This is a first class event and they always do a great job with it.

A special thanks goes out to Julie Watts for running the event and keeping everything moving smoothly. We really appreciate your hard work.

I’d also like to publically thank PN Racing for providing some great prizes for the raffle, everyone came home with some great PN items.

Also Team Scream Racing provided some Matched AAA’s for the raffle, I believe they were the first items to go from the raffle table. The TSR Batteries were the biggest winner this weekend. Every car that placed 1st. was running the TSR Matched batteries. Simply the best batteries out there for your Z in my opinion.

For all those that didn’t make this race, Hopefully you can make it out next year. It’s well worth the trip.