WOW WOW WOW
What a day of racing and friends!.
First I want to thank every one that helped and cooked sons, daughters, wives, girl friends and cleaned and polished and traveled. And our SPONSORS ARE UNBELIEVEABLE WOW WOW WOW!! We had some of the best burgers chips dips and BROWNIES I think we every had. Friday eve we had open practice. There are some super fast cars for Sundays races & records have already starting to fall. In Spena fashion I will have to talk about my self in third party ha ha. One record that fell was a 12.96 lap on white in practice on the monster. On the oval orange lane Hiram ran 3.82 lap on orange. Thats just a few and I know there will be more.
Saturday started with racers showing up just before 8 am and practice starting again. All the racers were there by 10. We had 14 racers. At about 11am the drivers meeting started, numbers drawn for chassis and door prizes started to be drawn for WOW! what prizes!! After chassis picking the racers sat a their boxes, the timer was set and the build was on. It only took a few seconds till you heard motors whistling like dentist drills. The 30 min went by was to fast for some. Kevin was done in about the 20 min mark and started trying to help others that struggled a little bit as the bell rang the cars were impounded. Pix taken. Then all the racers lined up and voted on BEST OF SHOW. After votes were counted HIRAMS CAR WON HANDS DOWN!! What a cool car!! All the cars were gorgeous (this is what we had in mind when we decided to run fair gounds style cars). Pix to come.
Then qualifying started, grill was fired up and the MONSTERS OF THE SOUTH began!! WOW the cars were fast and smooth. A few had issues but every one had 2 mins to test on the track and after everyone was through there were a few that could not get their car to run right or remove front end bounce so we decided in the name of fun to allow extra time to get cars tuned. Rays car would just stop even though it was the fastest car in the straight it would just stop? There were 3 of us working on his car, Kevin working on brushes, Hiram working on shoes and TC on whatever he could lend a hand with. Alans car had a severe bounce we could not eliminate so his car bounced all day and he drove the wheels off it!! WOW!, good job Alan(sorry we could not make it better). Thats part of the fun with bag'o' parts races. You never know who's going to get THEE CAR.
On this day it was Kevin and it was fast, smooth and handled. Along with the driver, the complete package. With time spent on trying to make cars better we had to change our program a little so we ran a round robin style once through races.
We ran a 3 min qualifier that set the field for the rest of the day. It was on the MONSTER road course and there was shoe tweeking, body grinding with everyone trying to get their cars to run better.
RESULTS
laps
63 Kevin
56 TC
56 Gary
54 Chris
54 Mike
54 Hiram
53 Tony
52 Skylar
51 Dwayne
50 Andy
50 Alan
48 Ray
47 Damion
44 Ricky
Then we stepped of and ran 'GOLIATH the oval'. WOW!, there were some fast cars, lots of wild crashes and some very smooth cars. When the smoke cleared Kevin was on top for his first win of the day! The cars just looked so cool on that big oval.
RESULTS
laps
246 Kevin
224 Gary
219 Dwayne
217 Tony
216 TC
213 Mike
212 Ray-with a car that just stoped when it wanted
208 Skylar
204 Hiram
198 Damion
191 Chris
165 Andy
164 Alan
150 Ricky
Then we stepped up to the MONSTER for the final run of the day. By now there had been some tweeking and cars started to free up. What a freakin' race. Most of the positions were decided by track sections. TC, Dwayne and Chris were within about 1 foot apart for 4th place.
RESULTS
laps
63 Kevin
58 Gary
56 Hiram
55 TC
55 Dwayne
55 Chris
55 Mike
53 Tony
53 Skylar
50 Andy
48 Ricky
48 Ray
48 Alan
46 Damion
We decided not to run the drag strip due to time and some of the guys that traveled had 7 hour drives ahead of them.
So plaques were handed out and door prizes passed out. The greatest race in our short history was over. Those who stayed would return Sunday for the ECORRS INDY AND SS RACE. More on that later...
Again I want to thank Chris(Tonys' wife) and Tony for opening up their compound so we could come and play with toy cars.
THANK YOU THANK YOU
Kevin
PS more to come
After Saturdays race some of us went to easterbes to have a plate full of South Carolina shrimp good golly Miss Molly it was goooooood. Then on to my house for tuning session on my new TKO track. Most gave up at about 10pm but a few were playing till about 2 am and we had a ball!!
Up at 6 am, showered and off to Tonys by 9 am (thanks to Karen my wife for breakfast). Got to Tonys a little before 9, practiced for about an hour then off to the races. 1st race was ECHORS SS race on the MONSTER We had 10 drivers stay for this race. We ran a best of 3 lap qualifier which Hiram nailed tq with a 13.266 (remember this track is about 116 running feet) and Kevin was close behind at 13.316.
14.287 TC
14.549 Mike
14.707 Ray
14.880 Alan
15.017 Tony
15.036 Ricky
15.539 Damion
17.215 Kassie
We set up the main so 1 moved out of the c and 2 moved up from the b who would move up to the next main. The C main was a race to watch as they were all within a lap of each other 'til about the begining of the 3rd lane ----we ran on the 4 outside lanes so we could run marshalled races. The last 2 lanes was the Tony and Ricky Show as they battled to the very end with Tony getting to the lap counter 1st being only about 20 sections apart!!
45 Tony moved up
44 Ricky
40 Alan
38 Damiom
35 Kassie
With Tony moving up to the B main the stage was set. It was another lane to lane battle and I dont think Tony and TC were ever more than 6 inches from each other. What a race! These guys were flying and to tell the truth I do not know who won? It was that close. I just know they moved to the A main and the battle continued there. Mike and Ray ran amazing races also as they were right there the whole race. The red lane bit them both. I would love to see a replay of that race.
47 TC
47 Tony
45 Mike
44 Ray
NOW to the A main
It started with Kevin in blue and Hiram in red. Kevin took off to almost a full lap lead over the field
with Tony and TC continuing their battle band would remain very close. At then end of the 1st lane Kevin was in the lead, TC 2nd, Tony 3rd and Hiram 4th. But Hiram was done with the gutter lane and had 3 fast lanes to go.
At the end of 3 lanes Kevin still had about 3/4 of a lap lead over the other 3. The last lane saw Hiram in blue and Kevin in yellow the 2 fastest lanes on the track. It was Kevins' race to lose and he did that as about half way through the heat his car hit some thing in front straight and came off. From that point the car hit it 3 times in the closing laps and Hiram was on the prowl as he was running some of the fastest laps of the day and got by Kevin to take the win by 20 track sections.
Way to drive Hiram!! I don't think I have ever shook that bad. Congrats buddy. what a race!! Tony and TC just beat the dog out of each other with TC coming out on top. I think for the whole race, other than Kevins' problems, there were only 5 or 6 wrecks total by all 4 guys. WOW, what a race! Great job guys!
With an SS win 2 years in a row Hiram took home the gold.
49 Hiram
49 Kevin
47 TC
46 Tony
Now to the oval to race Indy Cars. Qualifing 1st. You talk about fast cars OMG!! TC set early time at a 4.1 but we had 10 fast Indys and again Hiram flying in with a 3.873. Kevins car sputtered, a few others crashed so they had to back off a little to get a lap in but in the end it was Hiram with a 3.873 lap that held on to the tq. TC was 2nd with a 4.174
4.325 Tony
4.453 Kevin
4.573 Alan
4.579 Mike
4.931 Damion
4.976 Ricky
5.850 Kassie
5.776 Ray
For this race we ran 2 mains with 2 moving up to the A. The B saw Mike and Alan battled for the #1 spot as both cars were flying low and puttin' some laps down in a hurry! This was a track call race which meant you crash or you take some one out whose ever car's not in the slot they lose a lap. You have to watch what you do because if you take some one out karma will come back to bite you!! Mike and Alan just kind of ran off and hid from the others with Mike winning and Alan 2nd for the move ups. 1 big note: The were less crashes in this race than in the A main.
214 Mike
200 Alan
190 Ricky
186 Damion
180 Ray
146 Kassie
Now the A main which was billed to be the fastest Indy Car race on the East Coast and it was THAT! Hiram and Kevin clicked off 3.7 sec laps as all the cars ran sub 4 sec laps. It was a great 1st lane but then all he_l broke out as wrecks were everywhere. TC went 3 lanes with out a crash 'til he and Kevin were battling and Kevin took them both out. Then some 10 laps later Mike got him. Shortly thereafter he got himself. Kevin's car was the fastest on all lanes 'til he got to white and his car would not pull any speed. Hiram would put 4 laps on him in 1 lane. Then it became the fastest Indy Race you'd ever see with Kevin on a mission to get laps back and Hiram and TC trying to hold him off. Tony, Mike and Alan were racing for 4th after that and battle they did 'til Alans' car got hot and Mike and Tony left him behind. Mike had to drive hard but a little too hard and crashes took their toll! When the race was over Kevin had made up 2 laps on Hiram but it was not enough. TC was right there but for the 2nd year in a row Hiram owned Sundays races taking both wins on this day. Way to run Hiram(I told you I hope you'd win(inside joke))
233 Hiram
231 Kevin
226 TC
215 Tony
206 Mike
198 Alan
Again thanks to everyone who came and raced with us and I hope you will all be back next year.
A couple of quick notes:
Ray: What a weekend as Ray just started racing with us just a few months a go way to run, nice performance.
Alan: I know you have not felt the best but way to run and thank you for being part of LCHORS. Could not do it without you buddy.
Mike & Ricky: Same to ya guys. Thanks for all your help and showing up every week!!
Tony & Chris--Damion and Kassie: For letting us in to your family to play with our toys.
Hiram, TC, Gary, Dwayne, Skylar, & Chris for traveling to race with us.
All you guys are what makes this so much fun and worth the time and energy to stay in this sport.
Again, thanks to everyone.
PS Next the SPONSORS SPOT LIGHT
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DONT FORGET HOTRACKS WILL HOST "MEAT IN THE MIDDLE" IN JULY HOPE SEE EVERYONE THERE
TONY,CHRIS,DAMION, AND KASSIE
For letting us krazy boys and our toys come and play for 3 days. What a blast! You are one of the best host in the sport. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
The biggest thank you needs to go to Chris. She spent many hours coming up with the plaques we were able to give to the winners.
And to all the racers wives, girl friends, dads and special others for letting us all get together and race.
To everyone who cooked, cleaned, bought and brought all the food and drink. We could not do this without you!
LCHORS wants to thank everyone who had any thing to do with the race or prepping for the race. THANK YOU THANK YOU