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A field of eight racers showed up for the second race in the new Penguin Point Lifetime Points Series.  The cars of choice were Fly Classics.  The heats were 2 minutes in length.

Basically drivers earn points in each heat:

1st: 5 points
2nd: 3 points
3rd: 1 point

This was the first race where the new urethane hand-out tires were available.  Rico generously used his tire truer to make a nice set of tires for each racer in attendance.  I can say that for my car, first it reduced the hop that I was getting from the NSR and Slot.It tires that I was using, but by the end of the race they were absolutely smooth with no hop at all.  The grip was just about perfect.  I was extremely pleased and plan to continue to run them.  A big thanks to John Mitchell who donated the tires.  He considers them to be a Shore 40A compound for those that might be curious.

On a special note, Victoria was seen absolutely flying in a few of her heats, at one point I looked up and I was trailing her.  Go girl, go!

Three rounds were run this afternoon with a perfect score being 45.  Though all tried, no one was able to achieve the full 45 points.  Congrats to all on a fine effort and especially Victoria for really getting her lunch on as well as all the other contributors.  As usual, food outnumbered racers by a tremendous margin and all seemed pretty well fed by the end of the afternoon.  It was a fun day of racing and thanks to all of you that came out.

Here are the official results:
Monte Saager - 43
AJ Locati - 37
Rico Locati - 35
George Vriese - 25
Mike Lombardi - 25
Victoria Saager - 21
Tim Booze - 19
Sean Vriese - 11

Due to the Easter holiday there will be no race the first Sunday in April but we will return the first Sunday in May for more exciting racing action at the Pen.

Fly Classics:

163  Rico Locati
158  AJ Locati
157  Monte Saager
94  Victoria Saager
61  Mike Lombardi
47  Greg Petrolati
43  George Vriese
32  Dennis Hart
33  Kelly Locati
30  Tim Booze
24  Dominic Locati
20  Gabby Locati
16  David Harburg
15  Randy Stumman
14  Jack Gabbert
14  Bryan O'Malley
13  Thomas Cross
12  CeCe Locati
12  Mac O'Malley
11 Sean Vriese
9  Myrna Stumman
8  Jimmie Jones
3  Bryan Ellis

Penguin Point Lifetime Points are awarded at each race the format applies.

Last update:August 1, 2010

Those of you that were at the First Sunday race noticed a few "rough" edges on the track, notably where the cars crossed over the connection areas.  In fact crossed over is just about the fate that faced some of those cars.  Head-on collisions caused by rough track was unacceptable.  So we decided to do something...

On Friday night I got out some sandpaper and a few sanding blocks and went to work.

After a hard evening of sanding the supervisors show up promptly on Saturday morning to check progress.  Finding no code violations, we were allowed to proceed.

The Spackle-Master at work!

Sunday
Spackled and sanded.

Making those creases go away...  But what to do to make those sections blend?

Monday
Tape, tape and more tape.  I got these corners down!

Monday Evening
A huge thanks to Victoria for her help in this project.

The paint is Ralph Lauren River Rock and it honestly feels about like sandpaper.  Grip should be tremendous!

So what did you do this weekend?