Gundragon
RCTalk Qualifier
Ok, I went to the track this weekend and as many of you have read in the past postings of mine I love racing my Slash with the "Big Boys". I never expect anything higher then possibly last place when I do race being that I am against Nitro's and brushless cars. Well, as they say the sun shines on a dogs backside every once in a while and Saturday I must have been the dog.
I started out coming to the track keep a promise to a little boy that I had meet the previous Saturday. He was about 5 maybe 6 years old and had asked his dad for a slash for his birthday, well apparently money was tight that week and he did not get that as his gift. I was talking to his dad and let him run my truck in the parking lot due to the track was muddy as heck that weekend and I could not get the slash on the track without the mud getting the truck stuck. So he was racing this around the parking lot and the batteries I had (both packs) were now ran down. So I told him that the following week I would allow him to race on the track for me during the qualifying races.
Saturday came and the father and child were not there. So I went ahead and raced the truck on the track. I came in second overall for the B-Main but that was because during the race a lot of problems happened to a lot of the trucks out on the track. Arms broke, engines flame out and possibly other issues. So I go into the B-Main as a second position knowing that the top two finishers will be bumped into the 15 minute A-Main race. Now, I have no pretense to think that I will be any of the top two because there is 8 racers all Nitro's and Brushless systems. My chances are about as good as me finding a 4 leaf clover in a Clover field about 20 yards long. So I am up there smiling and just waiting for the flag to drop and off I go. 8 cars start out on the track. I am just a stock car using 6 cell batteries and nothing special about my Slash. I am running a pretty good race if I do say so myself and that’s when I noticed...there are only two cars on the track and I am one of those two!! Well, I wish I had a recording for the announcer laughs at all the racers and the audience we had out there rooting me and my little slash on! I mean I am 37 years old and I am feeling like I am a kid being cheered for by your parents in a long sprint! I have a grin on my face that is ear to ear. My battery is dyeing about 9 minutes in the race and I know it wont be long before I am not able to run any more. I still keep pushing it. I get to a hill and did not have the juice any more to go any further up. It starts rolling down and the Marshall there grabs it and pushed it over the last hill. 10 minutes goes by and I finish the race with a smile so big. People are laughing and having a good time about it. Well, you would think that is the end of the story right? I came in second out of 8 cars that had raced in the B-Main and am now in the A-Main...Nope...
I get the battery out and start charging it. The A-Main is 15 minutes. I would need a pit stop to change out the battery so I can get going. I throw the other battery wait for the kids that are there to race their A-Main race. I am still laughing with a couple of the guys there about that "little Slash that could" and the kid’s race is only 5 minutes! Well, I get out on the track and was told by the ref that I would be able to swap out the battery and it would count as my mandatory pit stop due to I would not finish the race that was 15 minutes with the 6-cell battery I was using. No problem there for me except I do not have anyone there that will Pit stop for me. Joe, one of the guys that has been helping me with the slash shocks and other settings, tells me he has me covered. I go up into the tower and off to the race I go. At this point and time there is still 8 cars for the A-Main. As luck has it again...Not only did I get to finish this race but because cars broke or flamed out I ended up in 4th over all in the A-Main.
Who said you had to be the fastest car on the track if you are the most persistent! I am not trying to toot my own horn or anything like that, but thought that I would share this with everyone.
I started out coming to the track keep a promise to a little boy that I had meet the previous Saturday. He was about 5 maybe 6 years old and had asked his dad for a slash for his birthday, well apparently money was tight that week and he did not get that as his gift. I was talking to his dad and let him run my truck in the parking lot due to the track was muddy as heck that weekend and I could not get the slash on the track without the mud getting the truck stuck. So he was racing this around the parking lot and the batteries I had (both packs) were now ran down. So I told him that the following week I would allow him to race on the track for me during the qualifying races.
Saturday came and the father and child were not there. So I went ahead and raced the truck on the track. I came in second overall for the B-Main but that was because during the race a lot of problems happened to a lot of the trucks out on the track. Arms broke, engines flame out and possibly other issues. So I go into the B-Main as a second position knowing that the top two finishers will be bumped into the 15 minute A-Main race. Now, I have no pretense to think that I will be any of the top two because there is 8 racers all Nitro's and Brushless systems. My chances are about as good as me finding a 4 leaf clover in a Clover field about 20 yards long. So I am up there smiling and just waiting for the flag to drop and off I go. 8 cars start out on the track. I am just a stock car using 6 cell batteries and nothing special about my Slash. I am running a pretty good race if I do say so myself and that’s when I noticed...there are only two cars on the track and I am one of those two!! Well, I wish I had a recording for the announcer laughs at all the racers and the audience we had out there rooting me and my little slash on! I mean I am 37 years old and I am feeling like I am a kid being cheered for by your parents in a long sprint! I have a grin on my face that is ear to ear. My battery is dyeing about 9 minutes in the race and I know it wont be long before I am not able to run any more. I still keep pushing it. I get to a hill and did not have the juice any more to go any further up. It starts rolling down and the Marshall there grabs it and pushed it over the last hill. 10 minutes goes by and I finish the race with a smile so big. People are laughing and having a good time about it. Well, you would think that is the end of the story right? I came in second out of 8 cars that had raced in the B-Main and am now in the A-Main...Nope...
I get the battery out and start charging it. The A-Main is 15 minutes. I would need a pit stop to change out the battery so I can get going. I throw the other battery wait for the kids that are there to race their A-Main race. I am still laughing with a couple of the guys there about that "little Slash that could" and the kid’s race is only 5 minutes! Well, I get out on the track and was told by the ref that I would be able to swap out the battery and it would count as my mandatory pit stop due to I would not finish the race that was 15 minutes with the 6-cell battery I was using. No problem there for me except I do not have anyone there that will Pit stop for me. Joe, one of the guys that has been helping me with the slash shocks and other settings, tells me he has me covered. I go up into the tower and off to the race I go. At this point and time there is still 8 cars for the A-Main. As luck has it again...Not only did I get to finish this race but because cars broke or flamed out I ended up in 4th over all in the A-Main.
Who said you had to be the fastest car on the track if you are the most persistent! I am not trying to toot my own horn or anything like that, but thought that I would share this with everyone.
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Great story man... Been thinking about racing mine as well but it would be a bit of a distance if I do.
