We did it. Both my Bear and Tiger got 1st place in their District race. It was a great day. Thank all of you that generously provide tips and advice.
My Bear got 2nd place as a Tiger and Wolf to the same guy. We were determined to try our best to win 1st this year. I found this site shortly after our race last year and together we applied as much as we could to build his ladder car this year (Creeper). As I posted earlier, he won his pack Bear and Overall race, so we had our eyes on achieving our goal at Districts. The first run had me quite concerned as we were 0.03 behind our nemesis (2.33 vs. 2.36). On our next run we improved to get what turned out to be the best track time of the day (2.32). The competitions 2nd run was 2.37, so we were in it. Our last run was again a disappointing 2.36. But our competitions 3rd was even worse, so we prevailed with a 1st place finish. It was also my son's birthday, so he got a nice 1st place trophy to celebrate. As you can see from the times, this is a short track. It is a wood track that is not very well maintained showing large variation lane to lane.
My Tiger's car (Spidy) is basically identical to the Bear car and they were within 0.001 in our pack races over 6 runs. He had little competition and easily took 1st place. He gets the benefit of our learning with his brother. But the best part is that two other tigers from our pack also took 2nd and 3rd .....sweep. I spent some time with them after our pack race and made a few suggestions. They made improvements and took home trophies. A very exciting day for my son and his buddies.
Our districts run 2 tracks. I used to run the 2nd track but they found someone with a 42' Best Track for this years race. My sons, unfortunately, did not race on it. I always wanted to know how our cars would do against the standard I hear about on this site. I could never know how close we were to the infamous 3.0 sec boundary. The guy running the track was nice enough to let me do a test run in between race groups. My Bears car did a 3.09 sec, which turned out to be the fastest time of the day on that track as well. It thrilled me to be this close to 3.00 sec. I know 0.09 is pretty far away but our rules require box parts, original slots and graphite, so thinking this was pretty good.
Time to re-prep, add fenders, switch to oil and submit to a Box Stock race!!!
My Bear got 2nd place as a Tiger and Wolf to the same guy. We were determined to try our best to win 1st this year. I found this site shortly after our race last year and together we applied as much as we could to build his ladder car this year (Creeper). As I posted earlier, he won his pack Bear and Overall race, so we had our eyes on achieving our goal at Districts. The first run had me quite concerned as we were 0.03 behind our nemesis (2.33 vs. 2.36). On our next run we improved to get what turned out to be the best track time of the day (2.32). The competitions 2nd run was 2.37, so we were in it. Our last run was again a disappointing 2.36. But our competitions 3rd was even worse, so we prevailed with a 1st place finish. It was also my son's birthday, so he got a nice 1st place trophy to celebrate. As you can see from the times, this is a short track. It is a wood track that is not very well maintained showing large variation lane to lane.
My Tiger's car (Spidy) is basically identical to the Bear car and they were within 0.001 in our pack races over 6 runs. He had little competition and easily took 1st place. He gets the benefit of our learning with his brother. But the best part is that two other tigers from our pack also took 2nd and 3rd .....sweep. I spent some time with them after our pack race and made a few suggestions. They made improvements and took home trophies. A very exciting day for my son and his buddies.
Our districts run 2 tracks. I used to run the 2nd track but they found someone with a 42' Best Track for this years race. My sons, unfortunately, did not race on it. I always wanted to know how our cars would do against the standard I hear about on this site. I could never know how close we were to the infamous 3.0 sec boundary. The guy running the track was nice enough to let me do a test run in between race groups. My Bears car did a 3.09 sec, which turned out to be the fastest time of the day on that track as well. It thrilled me to be this close to 3.00 sec. I know 0.09 is pretty far away but our rules require box parts, original slots and graphite, so thinking this was pretty good.
Time to re-prep, add fenders, switch to oil and submit to a Box Stock race!!!
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