The Return of Hear The Thunder!

What an AWESOME race! As good or better than the originals!

Ron Constantin was the perfect host! His track is beautiful, smooth, and challenging! Thanks to him for opening up his home to all us racers! Here's Ron's Viper track:

Dave Smith put together another interesting race format with lots of door to door racing. The IROC races were all heads up 10 lap heat races where beating the other cars on the track with you was the goal. It made for some very close racing! The cars themselves were all smooth and perfectly tuned for this event, typical Dave Smith style!

There were three different sets of IROC cars, the first of which were a tribute to the cars of the original Hear The Thunder races. The first Hear The Thunder races of the 1990's were Aurora Thunderjet chassis with Lionel Corvette Stingray bodies. For this race Dave again prepared original Aurora Thunderjet chassis but chose Johnny Lightning Grand Sport Corvette bodies. These chassis were equipped with narrow tires but had a wider stance which was an improvement in handling over the originals.

Here are the results of the first IROC Corvette Challenge Race:

The final IROC race was with the Hot Rod Hardtops. These cars were RTR after market T-Jet replica (sort of) chassis with resin bodies. These chassis are fantastic! The cars were very fast and extremely smooth!

Here's how that race finished up:

Overall Results from the IROC Races:

Although I did have to leave early, I was able to get some random photos throughout the day.

Great report Bill.  Looks like a fun time was had.  Mr. Phillis sure gets around. 

Not knowing much of the crowd, was that also a bunch of Ron's racers?

That green Vette looks to have hard a hard life.