credit to LMRacing for the photo
It’s finally here! As of today, Turtle Trax is officially open! Even though today was just a “shake down” race, we still managed a healthy 24 car field with 13 2wd buggies and 11 Slashes. The competition was tight all day, and there were many fierce battles. Thanks to everyone who came out and made today a huge success! A more detailed race report is soon to follow, so keep checking back througout the week.
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On the pole is the green Alpha of Chad Sharp, 2nd is the blue and silver Alpha of Andy Wallace, 3rd is the Red MLP F103 of Richard Hall, 4th is Keith Fitzgerald in the blue and yellow CRC, and 5th is Kent Ball in the red F201.
At the start it seemed like a sure win for Chad Sharp, but after catching the inside of the first corner and collecting Keith Fitzgerald he had to push hard to catch up. Meanwhile Richard Hall and Andy Wallace battled hard for the top spot until a collision between Andy and Kent let Richard retain a commanding lead with Chad sharp following closely in second. While recovering from the collision, Andy went wide and allowed Keith to slip by and take third place. Chad was closing in on the leader when a costly mistake forced him to retire his TQ ride due to mechanical trouble.
With Chad out of the running, the pressure was off Richard and allowed him to turn some of the fastest laps of the race. Unfortunately, while coming around to lap third place driver Andy, the two got together and allowed second place driver Keith Fitzgerald to close in on the leader. With about two minutes to go, Keith was right on Richard’s wing and knocking hard on the back door. The back and forth battle continued until Richard went a little wide in the second corner allowing Keith to slip into the lead. However it would not last long as Richard unintentionally tagged Keith in the rear sending both cars off line. Richard, being the good sportsman that he is, let Keith continue on in the lead and the two battled the rest of the way to the buzzer.
12th Scale Stock A Main
USVTA A Main
Touring Stock A Main
Touring Mod
Videos by Mike Outlaw of Waltuo Productions
Joe Jenkins battling hard with Danny Sawyer
After the official announcement was made in June that Nexus Racing would be moving to a new location, the exitement began to build. In the months that followed, updates were few and far between as the crew was busy with the big move. Then slowly but surely the news started pouring in. It started with a few pictures and then a full blown teaser video courtesy of Mike Outlaw of Waltuo productions.
Then came the big announcement that on October 11th the first race would be held. With 12 cars in the 13.5 touring rubber class, 9 1/12th scale stock, 3 Vintage Trans Am, and 3 Touring Mod, it was a great turn out for the first race. There was great racing throughout the day in every class. The racers had to chase constantly changing track conditions due to the new carpet picking up grip. But as expected, most everyone had their cars sorted out by the end of the day. Easilly the most exiting race of the day was in the Touring Mod class between 2 of the Nexus Racing crew: Kumpol and Melvin.
Results:
Keith Sawyer TQ’s but strips out a spur gear on the 3rd corner and is out of the race early. This leaves Robert Dirla in the lead with Danny Sawyer chasing close behind. Robert slowly begins to put some distance between himself and Danny. And by the four minute mark, Robert has stretched out a comfortable lead and there is a close battle between Chad Sharp and Myron for the 4th spot. Robert continues to stretch out his lead and has his sights set on Danny to put the whole field down a lap. Coming into the last corner, Robert closes the gap on Danny and drives straight through his door to complete the pass. However, Danny comes back on the inside and it’s a drag race to the finish.
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