This past weekend I was able to travel to Omaha. NE for the PWD National Championships. I arrived Thursday afternoon and headed straight to the venue to see some old friends and to see if they needed any help setting up. Thursday was nice because there was no racing and it gave all of us live racers a lot of time to just sit around and talk. So many great stories were told and a lot of laughs shared between all the racers.
My Thursday night ended by going to dinner with my buddy Alphonso, his son, Marciano and my old buddy Chief.
Friday was race day! A lot of great cars to see. Hurricrane pretty much owned every class(shocker i know). The track could have been a little better. I know everyone has to run the same lanes but the difference from The white lane to all the others was HUGE! Most tracks have a lane that's faster but not like this was. If you screwed up in the white lane you were done. It cost Joel(Derby Evolution) 2nd place because of a small wiggle. Not sure of the future of this race but I think that is 1 thing that must be corrected in the future.
The Unlimited race, the whole reason I travel to races, was the biggest class of the day. 25 total cars going for the national title. Pretty much every top Unlimited racer was represented in this race. It was pretty clear early on that Super Fast Racing was going to be the car to beat. He was laying down some very fast times in most every lane. At the end of the finals we had a new 2019 National Unlimited champion, Super Fast Racing! Congrats Matt! I was able to squeak by Joel by .0001 to secure the 2nd spot. Great job by all and Unlimited just keeps getting better!
I want to say thank you to each and every person that helped out this weekend. John, thanks for having this race for us. I know it's a lot of work but it makes the hobby so fun when we can travel to an event like this. Thanks to Joel, Brian(Crane), Alphonso and Marciano, Chief, Greg for the help running the races. Thanks to all Greg's helpers that also played a big part in running the event.
Ian
My Thursday night ended by going to dinner with my buddy Alphonso, his son, Marciano and my old buddy Chief.
Friday was race day! A lot of great cars to see. Hurricrane pretty much owned every class(shocker i know). The track could have been a little better. I know everyone has to run the same lanes but the difference from The white lane to all the others was HUGE! Most tracks have a lane that's faster but not like this was. If you screwed up in the white lane you were done. It cost Joel(Derby Evolution) 2nd place because of a small wiggle. Not sure of the future of this race but I think that is 1 thing that must be corrected in the future.
The Unlimited race, the whole reason I travel to races, was the biggest class of the day. 25 total cars going for the national title. Pretty much every top Unlimited racer was represented in this race. It was pretty clear early on that Super Fast Racing was going to be the car to beat. He was laying down some very fast times in most every lane. At the end of the finals we had a new 2019 National Unlimited champion, Super Fast Racing! Congrats Matt! I was able to squeak by Joel by .0001 to secure the 2nd spot. Great job by all and Unlimited just keeps getting better!
I want to say thank you to each and every person that helped out this weekend. John, thanks for having this race for us. I know it's a lot of work but it makes the hobby so fun when we can travel to an event like this. Thanks to Joel, Brian(Crane), Alphonso and Marciano, Chief, Greg for the help running the races. Thanks to all Greg's helpers that also played a big part in running the event.
Ian
