We had the #1 start position but lost it early in the speed zone as 4 cars said screw it and blew past us. I guess it's a strategy that paid off.....have to think about that one. It was the first race in the new car Eric at Rockstar Customz did an absolute amazing job. It had everything you want or need in a race car. Still this was the first race and hardly any rest time on it....literally 2-3 hrs on everything. The plan was to get the car to rm 200 in a decent position for the Rock Star Lacrecia to take it to the front at least to RM 360if not to the finish line which I was confident she would do given a decent car.
This tracking was accurate.....that was the roughest 200 miles ever in difficult conditions. I never had a decent car to race till this one. We ran into 1985 stopped on the Mtn before Summit and bent front shock over. Ran it to rm 70 then passed a bunch of 12 and 1600 cars I wasn't sure what was going on never saw utvs I expected. We had issues on the front end that hindered steering and clutch was hammered early limiting speed to 60-63 but the car is so amazing it just pushed on and I can honestly say we didn't scrub much speed except on top. We ran almost the whole race in 2wd. Not sure what's up w the diff but the car didn't seem to mind. I would never drive the pink car in 2wd I'd roll it for sure...We had a great crew and I never got out of the car for all the mayhem which is a rare thing.
My favorite part of the race was being one of the first ones to pull the big dick move of cutting to the front thru the brush and watching all the other utvs including the normally polite Jagged car doing the same. For the record it was only a dick move to the buggies cuz I let Jagged in front of me out of a sense of UTV comraderie. Can't say that about some of the other competitors. No names but one car was adamant not to let me in and forced me behind 5-6 buggies....we were racing close all day and I thought she might have been a little more gracious but it was a free for all I guess. However, several of the utvs banded together in a impromptu way and jointly pushed up.
Final thought goes out to the family of the injured and deceased. I talked to a chase truck at RM 185 that had their buddy dead in the bed of the truck. Was devastating reality check.
I'm just sorry I couldn't deliver the car to Lacrecia to let her work over the front runners but I did my best and just too many gremlins and support considerations late in the race. Next time she will run first and the pressure will be on her...
This tracking was accurate.....that was the roughest 200 miles ever in difficult conditions. I never had a decent car to race till this one. We ran into 1985 stopped on the Mtn before Summit and bent front shock over. Ran it to rm 70 then passed a bunch of 12 and 1600 cars I wasn't sure what was going on never saw utvs I expected. We had issues on the front end that hindered steering and clutch was hammered early limiting speed to 60-63 but the car is so amazing it just pushed on and I can honestly say we didn't scrub much speed except on top. We ran almost the whole race in 2wd. Not sure what's up w the diff but the car didn't seem to mind. I would never drive the pink car in 2wd I'd roll it for sure...We had a great crew and I never got out of the car for all the mayhem which is a rare thing.
My favorite part of the race was being one of the first ones to pull the big dick move of cutting to the front thru the brush and watching all the other utvs including the normally polite Jagged car doing the same. For the record it was only a dick move to the buggies cuz I let Jagged in front of me out of a sense of UTV comraderie. Can't say that about some of the other competitors. No names but one car was adamant not to let me in and forced me behind 5-6 buggies....we were racing close all day and I thought she might have been a little more gracious but it was a free for all I guess. However, several of the utvs banded together in a impromptu way and jointly pushed up.
Final thought goes out to the family of the injured and deceased. I talked to a chase truck at RM 185 that had their buddy dead in the bed of the truck. Was devastating reality check.
I'm just sorry I couldn't deliver the car to Lacrecia to let her work over the front runners but I did my best and just too many gremlins and support considerations late in the race. Next time she will run first and the pressure will be on her...
