It was a mad scramble to build trucks. Monday dawned with not one screw in one truck, plan was to leave Wed night (ended up being Thurs night for a Fri PM arrival.)

I intended to run 5 trucks. #5 never got quite finished. #4 (the smallblock) got finished and run for the first time for a minute or so in the last qual Saturday. We did a little practice with it that night, seemed to run good. It was entered in the Sun AM qual and got 2nd qualifier just barely behind Greg. Special thanks to Dace & crew & the guys over at Crispy Critter for motors and parts.

In the small block A main it was passing lapped traffic before it’s first fuel stop. Walking away from the crowd for what looked like an easy win. Unfortunately an unsecured pipe was sticking out in the track right at the max speed point in the backstretch, it reached out and grabbed the rear wheel and literally removed half the rear suspension. That’s racing. We ran it back to the pits and began repairs. I was able to do a band aid repair in ~8 minutes and get it back on the track where Rob (the driver) let it all hang out for the rest of the 30 minute main. He came back from 9th place to finish 4th. Way to go Rob. Stop blaming yourself for the crash, you did a great job.

The other 3 big block trucks qualified for the A-main as well, w/ one of them TQ. Bubber Jones driving DeereRazor came out from his cave (where he’s not driven for 8 months) and looked good running the truck, he qualified for the A and was running well, sadly blown clutch bearings took him out of the running a few minutes before the end. Rob had his hands full with the .15 Razorback and some fierce competition, he pulled off 3rd place. Way to go Rob. Greg made driving the C5 look easy and really laid it down. Once he had lapped the field he started goofing and showing off for the crowd. Repeated triple jumps at the egging of the announcer – not all of them successful. He certainly gave it the abuse test, and it took it and came back for more easily winning the big block A-main. Very nice driving Greg.

We had fun. Big thanks to RC Madness & RCCA.