Here is the lowdown on the 1st MACC race on May 3rd!
By Steve Oyer
Even though it was Mothers’ day Weekend, we worked with the track to get 4 dates, and this Saturday afternoon event was one of them. It was a warm/humid day, but no rain around for a change!………..the DA was:
- +1999 2:54 pm 84 degrees
- +1933 3:54 pm 83 degrees
- +1828 4:54 pm 81 degrees
- +1719 5:54 pm 79 degrees
- +1554 6:54 pm 76 degrees
- +1428 7:54pm 74 degrees
- +1151 8:54pm 70 degrees
The Race:
With 7 cars, R. Jeter led the class during our 2 run qualifiers with a 9.8x at 130+mph. We let the track pick who got the bye........7 CARD Draw! Lucky Mr. Robertson picked the lone Ace!
In the first round:
On a double tree cut down it went to Claytor who was closer on his dial running a 10.14 on a 10..09 vs Carlton running uncharacteristically off his by 2/10th slower. S Jeter took the win against car #104 with him breaking out by 1/2 a 10th. Not bad for a 1st time drag racer!
R Jeter cut a .016 light on me to advance as I slept and spun to a 10th off my dial Robertson strolled down the track on his bye run. to a 10.4@137+ Carlton & I bought back to have some more racing fun in the 2nd round.
2nd round:
Card picks again! And its almost a repeat race of the 1st round......except S Jeter taking out Robertson on the hole shot with a .09 light vs a .53. Oyer took out R Jeter with a 12.42 on a 12.40 and a .06 light to a 9.91 on a 9.85 with an .03 light......it was dam close at the stripe and we had to look at the bulb to see who took it. Claytor ran a 10.16 on a 10.09 with both near a .07 tree....Carlton still off by a 1/10th slower on his dial cost him again!
3rd round Semi-finals:
Claytor raced S Jeter with another close race but a double break-out!......Claytor cut down the tree with a .0191 with a 10.088 on a 10.10 dial to a .066 with a 12.30 on a 12.32. Oyer get the comp bye with a better R/T in the last round by .0023!
4th round Finals:
Oyer squeaks out his 1st MACC win with a 12.3796 on a 12.37 dial with a .1013 vs Claytors 10.1159 on a 10.08 with a .0962 tree..... .0308 at the stripe!!!!!!
Here are links to our CF threads, and a few of my pics with detailed round by round sheets, comments and pictures:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/showthread.php?t=1979727
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/showgallery.php/cat/1408
FINAL THOUGHTS
Congratulations to Me (AT&NB on the CF) for his dialing in skill and 1st win along with Roger for the runner up spot!
I also want to thank our sponsors, The HP Factory & Carolina Auto Masters.
Next race is scheduled for Saturday May 24th
POINTS:
- Claytor 42 Race #1 r/u
- Oyer, 36 Race #1 Winner & best package
- Jeter S. 30
- Jeter R. 21 Race #1 best r/t
- Carlton 10
- Robertson 20
- Car #104 11 #1 distance
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