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Well, the monthly races were upon us here in Orlando, FL this weekend, and what a wild time it was. Thought to myself, I am going to get 1st in the B Main this month! I mean, shoot, I got 1st in the C Main last month, with a broken car. Well, Saturday is practice, and man, my car is dialed!!!! Here I am, perfect drifts around corners, shifting great, brakes working like a champ, running cool. I mean, all day at practice i was hanging with the best.
Then Comes Sunday, Race Day..........
Get there at 7am......Test fire the NTC3.......idles crazy......and low and behold, the screw that holds the carb together is missing, so not only do i have a huge airleak, but i cannot open and close the carb! Thats okay, i can fix it, i an extra one! uh-oh, gotta pull the engine to get to it.....so apart it comes....but i fix it. Car is now running great! Go out to practice, and......SLAM! get broadsided into the boards......no steering.. DAMN! Get it back into the pits....steering saver broke, and all the gears inside my Hitec 625 servo are stripped. Apart it comes again....for all of you who have an NTC3, you know what a pain it is to replace that ackerman servo saver. So i fix that......durning the race i am supposed to be in. After its done, goto the hobby shop on site, and get metal gear replacements for my servo....fix it. Do a test, and all is well. second qual race comes up....and I go to apply the brakes at the end of the straight, BLAM! hit the board, no brakes, zero. I have no idea why, (later find out end of control arm broke off), but enve with no brakes, i manage to get first place! Okay, I'm still in it....that gets me into the C main, and if i get first place again in the c, i can get bumped to the B, which is where i should be.
C Main comes up......and off we go....running great, in first place by a mile, on the FRIGGING LAST LAP OF THE RACE I STALL!!!! dammit, but thats okay, i still have about a 40second lead.....but of course, my pit man is a bumbling idiot trying to start my car.....gets it started........finally.....and i finish in second place.....by 4 seconds. grrrrr. Not a good day. But at least i had fun, and only spent about 25.00 in broken parts. ohwell, always next month.
They are having a regional ROAR race in 2 weeks, but i dont think i am good enough yet, to enter that one.
Then Comes Sunday, Race Day..........
Get there at 7am......Test fire the NTC3.......idles crazy......and low and behold, the screw that holds the carb together is missing, so not only do i have a huge airleak, but i cannot open and close the carb! Thats okay, i can fix it, i an extra one! uh-oh, gotta pull the engine to get to it.....so apart it comes....but i fix it. Car is now running great! Go out to practice, and......SLAM! get broadsided into the boards......no steering.. DAMN! Get it back into the pits....steering saver broke, and all the gears inside my Hitec 625 servo are stripped. Apart it comes again....for all of you who have an NTC3, you know what a pain it is to replace that ackerman servo saver. So i fix that......durning the race i am supposed to be in. After its done, goto the hobby shop on site, and get metal gear replacements for my servo....fix it. Do a test, and all is well. second qual race comes up....and I go to apply the brakes at the end of the straight, BLAM! hit the board, no brakes, zero. I have no idea why, (later find out end of control arm broke off), but enve with no brakes, i manage to get first place! Okay, I'm still in it....that gets me into the C main, and if i get first place again in the c, i can get bumped to the B, which is where i should be.
C Main comes up......and off we go....running great, in first place by a mile, on the FRIGGING LAST LAP OF THE RACE I STALL!!!! dammit, but thats okay, i still have about a 40second lead.....but of course, my pit man is a bumbling idiot trying to start my car.....gets it started........finally.....and i finish in second place.....by 4 seconds. grrrrr. Not a good day. But at least i had fun, and only spent about 25.00 in broken parts. ohwell, always next month.
They are having a regional ROAR race in 2 weeks, but i dont think i am good enough yet, to enter that one.
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just kidding man. At least you can race. I've been waiting 3+ weeks for a weekend that wasn't a wash out. I think I'm going to bribe the wife this saturday and head to the track weather permitting. 
