New Season: Monolith Championship - Race 1 - Winter Showdown - 100-lap Endurance Race

After trying all day to get a race in with all the life going on around me, I was finally able to do it. Not the 200-lap monster I had planned, but a shorter, yet still long 100-lap endurance race. This should help show what these cars are made of.

Each car got an opportunity to do a 20-lap warm up before the race after being prepped yesterday. I also reset the banking in Turn 3, as cars were coming off there during warmups. I used the controller settings for each car that I programmed the other day.

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RESULTS

Car    Time    [25]    [50]   [75]   [100]   Offs   Lap   Points

LH   8:23.22  2:07   2:06   2:02   2:07              5.03    10
#11  8:28.95  N/A    N/A   2:07   2:06              5.08     8
#5    8:30.32  2:05   2:07   2:07   2:09      1      5.10     6
#8    8:32.47  2:11   2:07   2:07   2:06              5.12     4
#2    8:41.99  2:08   2:07   2:05   2:19      2      5.21     2

That was interesting.

Not really surprised the LH won.

The Leyton House Porsche got off to a great start and got better as the race went on. This thing rocks endurance racing. The way it runs really allows you to find a groove with it, much easier than the GT40's. Somewhere near the 80th lap it started to wiggle, and I let off a little, which still made it race the magic number of 2:07.
This is a sweet race car. I'm loving it more each day.

Now this one is a bit of a surprise.

Nice run today for the #11. It got the best start of anybody and didn't let up. As I was racing at the 25-lap mark, I forgot to set the Split Time, and didn't reactivate it until the third split. Not sure what it ran the first two splits, but probably somewhere around 2:06 or faster. This makes me very happy that this car is doing so well, as this is my wife's car and had suffered miserably in last during last year's championship.

CRASH!!

The #5 got off to the fastest start, only to come crashing to earth on the 96th lap on Turn 2. It wasn't a big crash either....I reached over and put it on the track within two seconds. But it was enough to drop it to third. As I was driving it it felt like it was the clear winner. Toward the end I might have pushed a little hard.

The #8 started really rough, and only got as good as average. It didn't go off or anything...it just didn't make good time. Kinda funny since it's got the urethanes on it.

MEGA-CRASH

The #2. Where do I begin? On short tracks, it dominates. I could kind of make up for that on the hillclimb, but that's only so much speed. It really doesn't go as fast as the other cars through the fast section of the course. It kind of lumbers around the sweeper, and it doesn't have that raging top speed it needs to keep up. After finally pushing it hard, it ran a great 3rd split, only to crash on the very next turn. And it was a big crash....one of those hillclimb crashes where the car ends up under the track supports. Took what seemed like forever to retrieve it and get running again, but by then it was way too late.
On top of all that it crashed again. While not much of a crash, it was enough that I didn't get the racing groove back.


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I makes me really happy that I have FIVE competitive slot cars. These things are a blast and I can''t leave them alone. I've got an idea for my next race. Just gotta work out the details and I'll do it.