2012 Az Winter Warmups VIII Feb 24th-26th

[Bullwink]

Hi Darin,

I ran an Impulse31 here that I got used (without motor or esc) from here on OSE forum. I put a UL-1 motor in it. I got it a week before the race. The day after I got it I put a M545 prop on it and GPSd it at 41.0mph, but I lost the prop and shaft out of the coupler later that day. I am new to the hobby (5 months) and this was only the second time I had ever raced. The boat performed great! The driver - well, not so much. I only finished 3 races lol! But, I LOVE THIS BOAT! It was competitive and I actually was winning a heat for two laps before I lost control. I ran a CNC X444 during the races. Afterwards, I put my GPS in it and it was running 38.9MPH. WHen I get everything tuned and have the right prop on it, I think I can compete quite well in P-LTD Mono with it. Thanks for the great design.

[namba688]

Video #1: P-Offshore from Friday---- I was shooting video with a new Canon Vixia HD camcorder and the camera was picking up a portion of the Lens hood at times. Sorry guys for the black in the corners at times. I finally got it fixed on Sunday. LOL I am uploading the videos now and here is the first one:

Thanks Jay! I thought I asked you to burn this video! LOL Bounced off the point and kept on tickin!

Ted

[stonerracing]

@Ted - no way! That was one of the awesome moments of the weekend! LOL

Here is a video from Sport Hydro on Day 1:

[Darin Jordan]

Thanks for the great design.

Believe me... it's my pleasure. I LOVE having these boat out there and available. I hope it's helped the hobby.

I will be racing one of these in P-Limited Mono, most likely, and in P-Mono perhaps as well, so if I can get the setup figured out, I'll try to post some info to help.

Killer pics and Videos, guys!

[cordecker]

Hats off to Dave and Lenny and all. I had a great time got to learn alot and met a bunch of great guys who enjoy a great hobby. Put me down for next
year. Thanks for the help Jay and great Camera work .

J C

[stonerracing]

Day 1 - P Spec Mono:

[D. Newland]

Fantastic doesn’t even come close to describing the racing we had this weekend! The water was fast, the sun was shining and the fried chicken is still stickin’ to my fingers!

We run 6 rounds of the most popular FE classes over the weekend. 3 rounds each day. It really helps you get intimate with your setups so you’re ready for the racing season and we’ve got the schedule down to a science. Coffee and donuts in the morning, race all day, tear down with a cold one in hand, have dinner with the group, then repeat.

P-Ltd Offshore. It was amazing to see so many drivers get into a rhythm in this class, and it takes so much concentration to make a good heat. Tony Heller was the only one running a cat and his goal was to just turn laps and he did very well. Kim McKay, same thing. She turned laps with the best of them. Unfortunately, I didn’t locktite the set screw on her collet, and it wiggled loose twice, stopping her in her tracks. It was a complete bummer as she was on pace for a podium finish, too. Many…no, all of the guys there were thoroughly impressed with her driving and composure on the race course.

To give you an idea of the competition, Howard Tucker ran 6 solid rounds without 1 mistake, and it only netted him 3rd place with 64 ¼ laps. 2nd place was Pete Wijatyk with 66 ½ laps, and I was able to turn 68 ¼ laps for 1st place. All 3 top boats were Cyberstorms, too, so hats off to Delta Force for making a solid performing boat.

P-Ltd OPC. There were 3 ML 295’s at our event, and that is one impressive running tunnel. Dan Proulx just built his and our race was the first time he had it on the water. You would have never known it, either. It was fast, stable and almost as silent as Red October’s caterpillar propulsion system. He got a perfect 2400 points! Pete Wijatyk was able to hang on for 2nd place after a little DQ incident in round 1. And Dave Zelinka pulled off a 3rd place finish with his VS-1.

LSH: Yet another no B.S. class! There was nothing Sean Cordova, Dan Proulx or I could do to get into Doug Peterson’s head. He took his Whip and whipped up on all of us, getting a perfect 2400 points. He just would not accept the rope we were giving him to hang himself. Sean showed up this year with a brand new Whip as well, and it has a ton of potential once he tunes it a bit more. I was able to hold on to 2nd place, and Proulx took 3rd. Howard may have benefited if he would have looked at the point totals before the 6th round, because he may have changed his race strategy. But, that’s always a crap shoot. Do you really want to know what all you need to do is get 2nd place in the 6th round to podium…??

P Mono: it was great to see 3 Titan’s entered this year. It’s my personal favorite, and I was stoked to learn that Dave Zelinka rebuilt Pete Boyle’s/Kelly Brooks’ Budweiser Titan so it can get back on the race circuit. Doug Peterson also has a very nice Titan build. Tony Heller and Dick Roberts are running Insane 34’s, and they are also a top notch performer, right up there with the Titan’s and Cyberstorms that were driven by Ted McKay and Pete Wijatyk. Dave Z had Saturday locked down with 3 solid finishes, while the rest of us were trying to recover from a DNF. But, Sunday was a different day! Peterson and I had our sites set on Dave, (and each other…) and Dave Z appeared to have his race strategy well organized. I don’t like changing race setups mid-race, but I needed to do something for Sunday. My Saturday runs were good, but Peterson would pull me at turn 1 even with me on the inside and I couldn’t get back to his rooster tail until lap 4 or 5 5 and only because he was peddling. I was running my Hyperion 25C packs that I bought for the ’09 Winter Warmups, making this the start of the 4th season for those packs. They held well during P-Offshore on Friday, but the punch just wasn’t there. So, 45C packs and a slight prop change awaited Peterson early morning on Sunday. We milled as we did on Saturday, him allowing me lane 1. But, this time my boat hit ludicrous speed in turn 1 and it was finally me that had 10 lengths on him by the center of the back stretch.
Throughout the day, DNF’s started to take their toll on Doug and Dave Z. That allowed Ted McKay and Pete Wijatyk, with their Cyberstorms, to get into the podium hunt. Once the dust settled, I was sitting in 1st place with 1925 pts, Ted McKay in 2nd with 1519 pts and Pete in 3rd with 1475 pts. Hats off to Dick Roberts and his Insane 34 as he ended up in 4th place with 1400 pts. The boat runs very well and Dick still has what it takes to lay down a terrific P mono heat.

1/10th Scale: There are some great shots that Jay took of the 1/10th scales going around the course. They are fun to watch and a little bit challenging to get going counter-clockwise around our course. Leonard Feeback was having multiple motor issues on Saturday, but he got his setup figured out and started to clean everyone’s clock. But, his DNF damage from Saturday was too much to overcome and Dick Roberts was consistent enough to get 1st place with 1450 pts and Gary Rose too 2nd with 1275 points.

Crackerbox: We were short a boat on Saturday, so they didn’t run until Sunday. Dick Roberts again pulls a 1st place with 1500 pts. Gary Rose was 2nd with 725 pts and Kim McKay had a somewhat borrowed boat that just wasn’t acting right, so 3rd place is what she was able to lock down with 250 pts.

Jersey Skiff: The comedy class of the event. Tony Heller has been on the forums for a number of months now beating the Skiff drum, and I could tell that he didn’t sleep the night before racing due to his excitement. I made the mistake of not specifying “1/6th Scale Jersey Skiff” on the race flyer, so Dick took advantage of that and showed up with a gas-sized Skiff, complete with a Neu 2215 motor running 10S. It made Tony and Pat McDonald’s skiffs look like bath toys. Well, Tony was doing a great job holding off the big boat in the first heat, but Dick got the heat 1 win. During heat 2, the magic smoke came out of Dicks boat, smoking through the scale vents and all. Pat and Tony then ended up the weekend with some nice heats, trying to figure out how, if possible, to control these boats around the course. But, as out of control as they seem to be, they each only had 1 DNF out of 6 rounds. Tony took 1st place with 1750 pts, and Pat was 2nd with 1725 pts.

I hope you enjoyed the write ups, photos and videos of our event, and a very special thank you to Jay Stone for providing most of the documentation for our event! Please come back next year! Thank you to Lenny Blake, Jay Stone and Leonard Feeback for handling CD duties. Trust me, as much fun as it looks like we were having in the photos/videos, times that by 10.

More of the same will be happening at the 2012 FE Nationals, to be held at Legg Lake June 19th-23rd. Some of the best drivers in the country, including many top gas/nitro drivers from NAMBA District 19 that now have FE boats in their fleet, will be there. Make the commitment. I promise you won’t regret it. If there is anything you need or any questions you have, please contact me. I will do anything within my power to make that event happen for you.

[D. Newland]

A little commentary. This is P-Sport Hydro on Friday, but only a few were running open motors. Most had UL-1's.

This is a heat where Ted (red boat) and I (orange boat) had a great start. Both UL-1 powered. One of these days he's going to fire me as his crew chief.

@Ted - no way! That was one of the awesome moments of the weekend! LOL

Here is a video from Sport Hydro on Day 1:

[D. Newland]

This is great video of P-Ltd mono. That is Dan Proulx's Delta 26 that is screaming down the course, but he had some DNF trouble. The red boat is Howards Cyberstorm. It's great to see the performance difference between these two boats, but it comes with a risk! I also ran my Delta 26 and had 2 wins and a DNF...I was deck to deck with Peterson when it happened and I don't quite know if it's because I was running a smaller boat or not. We were inches from each other going down the backstretch when it happened. I've got some thinking to do before June.

Day 1 - P Spec Mono:

[stonerracing]

Day 1 - P-Spec Mono Heat B:

[D. Newland]

Keep them coming, Jay! This is another great heat. That's my little orange Delta Force racing with Peterson's white mono. I just couldn't get around him but at about 1:34 in that video, Doug caught a wierd wake and barrel rolled over my boat and landed perfectly. I thought I had that heat in the bag, but 4 seconds later he's on my ass again, and I chunk it in the back stretch!

Day 1 - P-Spec Mono Heat B:

[properchopper]

P-Mono Heat. Dave SMOKIN" ; Pete got a late start but was driving like he stole it to catch up; Dick had the big power but drove a conservative race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUbUFKXHG5U

[dana]

What kinda hull is dave Using here?

[stonerracing]

Day 1 - P-Spec Rigger --- this is video of Howard Tucker having a boat spin out in front of him and his Eagle SG launching about 25 feet in the air:

[cybercrxt]

I would like to personally thank Dan and Pete for making the ps295's look so good this weekend! CONGRATULATIONS GUYS! I hope you are enjoying them as much as I enjoy building them. Who had the 3rd 295? Does anyone know how they faired? Mike Luszcz, www.ml-boatworks.com