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I spent more time in the pits yesterday than I did ALL of last season!

Open Track Day on Monday November 29th. We had seven racers participate in the Womp race. We are still using the 20 lap heat race format with point scoring to determine the winner. Normally we use a 5.5 second lap break-out in an effort to keep the field close. I wanted to try and validate the break-out time during these races because in the previous race we had experienced quite a few break-out penalties. So, for this race we ran three rounds of round robin races and eliminated the break-out spec for the first two rounds. The third round was raced with the break-out of 5.5 seconds in place.

Here's what we found out. In the first round of racing one driver had one break-out penalty in the red lane, and three in the blue lane. During the second round of racing two drivers experienced break-out penalties. One driver had one penalty lap in the white lane, and the other driver experienced a total of seventeen penalty laps, nine in the blue lane and eight in the yellow lane.

During the testing one driver had a fastest lap of 5.408 seconds, and another driver had a fastest lap of 5.393 seconds. With that documented I will say that both of the cars posting those fastest laps appeared to me to have more straight line speed than my car. My car is fitted with a Professor Motor 25k motor, but I will say it is getting old and has slowed significantly. As set up, my car handles very well but is short on straight line speed. I can push it as hard as I possibly can and stay within the 5.5 second break-out. Every once in awhile my car will break-out, but it is pretty rare. I had no beak-outs in this particular race. I will replace the motor with a new one and do some testing on my own. All this leads me to the conclusion that the 5.5 second break-out time seems appropriate to me for the Womp class of cars under the current rule set. We can revisit this break-out rule as the racing progresses if needed.

In the end Doc took the win in the Womp Class, followed by John.

Here's the results:
1st Doc = 41 points
2nd John = 39
3rd Bill = 38
4th Dave = 29
5th Rob = 25
6th Al = 19
7th Mitch = 18

What I like about the 20 lap format we use for the Womp races is; 1. Each heat race is an individual race between the four cars on the track. The points for each finish position are tallied to determine an overall winner. If you have a bad heat or even two you still have a good chance of coming back and competing for an overall win. 2. The break-out penalty evens out the field, keeping the car's performance levels in check without the need of a thorough tech inspection or more detailed rules.

Yes the track was really hooked up on Monday after all the rubber put down in Saturday's Northwest True Scale Race. Although we didn't have a big crowd we did get in some great Womp racing!

Here are the results from the final four:

Doc got another fence post!

Yeah, me too....I'm going to miss those head-ons!!!!

After the completion of the Classic NASCAR race ten racers took to the track with their Can Am class cars. I got photos of just a few of the cars.

Howie's Can Am entry.

Al's Can Am entry.

Bart's Can Am car.

Today was mostly testing and tuning, but we did get in one Womp race. I was able to get my first fence post!

Doc, I found something for you!

Some of the local racers included:

Stuart

Mitch

Zack

John

Track host Bob

Of course this is the track it all took place on, Springwater Raceway in Gresham Oregon:

There is plenty of pit space at Springwater:

There was a nice field of entries for the race that included just over an hour of on track racing for each car!

I think I might have a Camaro body Mitch.

Results from the November 11th Odd Thursday Night Races:

I'm really enjoying the Open Track Mondays! We don't usually get a big turn out at any one race, but it does seem to give a lot of my friends a chance to stop by, check in, and get in a little racing. It's not always the same group and I get to see a lot of different friends.

Yesterday we got in some testing and tuning for the upcoming OSCAR Trans Am race at Springwater Raceway this Saturday. We also held a Womp race and a Flexi race, each with 7 entries.

Womp race results:

1st John
2nd Doc
3rd Dave
4th Stuart
5th Beau
6th Bill
7th Mitch

In the end it was John Gill with a clean sweep for the day adding two fence posts to his signature on the prestigious PASER WEENER CUP! Nicely done John!