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aww. mechanical failure is what god made to give not as good drivers a chance

Here's my quote MXH. From Mr Sochiro Honda.
"Sucess is 99% failure" Thanks for caring MXH!

I wrote an article on the Autism Society of America website. Here's the link.
My article

I am coming back from a four day vacation after the timezone grand prix. I will work on the race report tomorrow.

I am 59% done with the race report. I will finish it tonight.

Good evening or Good morning on wherever you are living. Here is my race report.


Timezone Grand Prix, Battle Ground, Washington USA. July 22-24 2011

My dad and I arrived in Portland and drove 20 minutes across the border to Vancouver, WA USA to check in to our hotel. We then headed to the track to get a glimpse of it then we headed back to our hotel to get a good night rest. The next day we spent the entire day practicing and getting our car tuned up. On Saturday was the beginning of qualifying, I was feeling a little nervous but I still was focused on having fun.

Qualifying.

The first round of qualifying, my main competition was either breaking down or running out of gas, this gave me an opportunity get in a clean run and place a decent 5th overall. The next qualifier, every was on their A game this time and there was very little breakdowns, I ran out of gas on the final lap which was not good enough to best my fastest time which placed me 8th overall. The final qualifier was my best run, my engine was tuned to run faster and make runtime, which placed me, 6th overall.

A main

There was a racer who volunteered to take my dad’s place as fuel man, and he also was much faster with pit stops. When the race was about ready to start, I was waiting in anticipation and was excited to be racing against some of the best racers in the country and even in the world. The race started off with me moving my way up to 5th but I got a little loose coming in front of the drivers stand and I gave up my 5th place position. As the race progressed I was able to move my way up to 4th and I was feeling pretty good. With ten minutes into the race the leader was coming up on me and as I moved to make room for him, he went a little wide and we collided and into wreck down the backstretch and I had to be pulled out of the grass. I dropped down to 9th place but I still was not giving up. Halfway through the race my car was beginning to slow down and I was stabbing the throttle more and more but the car was getting slower and slower until it came to a complete stop even with the throttle pegged. My pit crew tried to figure out what the problem was and they could not get the car fixed so I had to retire for the race. I later found out that one of my electronics, that helped power the engine, went bust. I felt bummed, but I felt pretty good on how well I qualified that weekend. After the race I thanked all the people who helped me and I thanked my dad who helped me as well that weekend.

Thank you for reading my race report of the Timezone Grand Prix. My next race is the Round 2 of the Golden State Nitro Series in Sacramento, CA USA. Which will be August 20th-21st

Next weekend is round 2 of the California Nitro Series I will keep you updated.

I am in Roseville, CA USA for round 2 of the Golden State Nitro Series. I just had some practice today and my car was handling well. Tommorow is qualifying.

Qualifying didn't go well today, my battery became unplugged and I had no steering or brakes and my car went 45mph into the wall, luckly it was ok to keep running but the battery became unplugged again two more times and I had to retire. There are two more qualifiers and the finals. I will keep you updated.

Good news I qualified 3rd and finished third. My car was working right this time. The race report will follow.

I have begun work on the race report. I am 15% done. The reason why i haven't worked on it soon is that school just started up for me right now.

Hey guys, thought I give you an update, i haven't worked on the race report as much because i was bust this weekend helping my fellow racers at the Tamiya North American Finals. I did not race but I did help one guy make the podium which he never did at this race. I will continue to work on the report tomorrow.

right now I am 51% done with the race report. I will continue to work on the report tonight.

I am 60% done with the race report. I will finish it tomorrow.

The race report is finished, here it is.


California State Nitro Series, Round 2, Sacramento, CA 8/20-22/2011


My dad and my friends Christian and Alex arrived at the track to get some practice in for the upcoming race the day before we settled into our hotel that night to get some sleep. The next day Saturday, was practice then qualifying, I got tot the track around 10 AM and practiced till 3 PM, After that we got ready for our first round of Qualifying

Round 1

As I took my first lap, my car went straight into the wall, going left when I turned right. My dad and I found out that our battery was dead, and we had to put a charged one in, we were allowed to run in thee next heat but problems didn’t get any better. While going down the backstretch, I lost steering, then went right through the wall at nearly 50 MPH, what happened was that the battery became unplugged while going down the backstretch. The car was actually ok, there was just a little bit of a crack on the top plate of the bumper but everything was operational. We tried to finish the qualifier but the battery plug fell out two more times. My dad and I pulled it in and called it a day, we were contemplating getting out of nitro sedan.

Round 2-3

We gave our faulty battery to the track owner last night and he fixed the battery plug for us and our car was operational again. During the second qualifier, my cars was handling good and I was able to take the TQ position only tenths of a second, the TQ was later beat two heats later and I ended up qualifying 3rd overall at the end of round 3 before the A main.

A main

Before the main, there was a brief drivers introduction, then everyone fired up their car and were walked over to the starting grid, the cars were filled up and the flag was waved and the race was on. The leader got off to a bad start. I was now in second place. For two laps, the top qualifier and me battled it out for the second place position. Just past the start/finish line, the top qualifier hit me from the rear end and tucked my body shell under my right rear tire and it took me five seconds to get my body untucked which dropped me to 5th place. As the race progressed, I moved my way up to 4th place, then 3rd, and focused on driving calm. With 13 minutes into the race, I was coming up on three slower cars. I tried to make a pas on all of them, which was a childish move. I hit one the plow disks and flipped my car over on my lid and stalled the engine and I had to have my car run back to the pits and started up again. Luckily I did not lose a position but I loss two laps to the racer in second place. At the 5 minutes, I caught up to second place and we came out of the pits at the same time. I got loose and he got under me but on the second to last lap I passed him on the inside to make me myself one lap down on second. I end up placing third at the end of the A main which places me in second in the Golden State series only 2 points behind 1st.

Thank you for reading my Round 2 Golden State Series race report. My next race will be the 5th Scale nationals at GLARCRC in Gardena, CA USA, September 10-11. I will keep you updated on the next race.

Today was practice of the 1/5th scale nationals, I did very well today and got a hang of the car. Tomorrow is qualifying. I will let you know how that goes.