8/28 Tinley Park

[RCDad]

Well today was alot of fun! Talked to Nexus quite abit about racing, setting up my cars and various other things. My wife got a big kick out of the fact that he never practiced, he just went up and kicked ass in the a-mains

I was doing so much better with the Super Nitro during practice, then, as things always do, I broke a rear drive belt. Had to switch to the NTC3 right before I was due to race, just before the race I discovered the receiver batt. was dead, switched that, then I asked Nexus where the transponder went, well he grabbed a bore real quick and made a hole in the body for me (thanks man!), I then got it started and for some strange reason my trim settings were all off, ok so by this time my race has started. I finnaly get my shit together and ran out there to get in the race. Well the NTC3 handles so much differently than the Super Nitro and even the b-main guys were running me over (literally!). It wasen't long before I was out of commission with a busted rear a-arm and a bent hinge pin.

Nexus was marshalling during that race and saw that I have a severe overstearing problem and gave some excellent advise to adjust my Tx to fix it.

So, we sat through a couple more races than packed up since both my cars were out of commission. My kids had a blast, my 6 yo actually marshalled one car during practice and sat out in the chair with me when I had to marshall.

I can tell you, I was not alone in broken pieces. I marshalled at the end of the long strait away and cars were breaking, and between two of us down there we were chasing after flying tires and more.

Here is a shot down to the right of where we were sitting, that guy in the white hat turned backward is Nexus


A shot of Nexus and his partner, these guys have quite a reputation. I actually heard one guy say, "Here's the two fastest qualifiers right here!", talking about them.


[b]Here are some shots of my Super Nitro








Here are some shots I took down where I was marshalling


These are a-main nitros and they were insane flying around this turn at the end of the main straitaway