2012 NAMBA FE Nationals - Getting Excited about the Nats, Thread...

[TheShaughnessy]

I was the real.winner of the event. Walked away with a new, shiny yellow FE 30. Real exited about getting it rigged up. Had a great time and can't wait to do it again.

[properchopper]

Did you remove the Annette Funicello mask before donning the lampshade? I don't remember much after the mask.....

Not sure either - 'Tho was shocked to find out I made a peculiar offer to Steve L. of Team Insane thinking he was the bass player from Foghat

[CHIEFY_44]

Just want to say we all had a great time at the nats everyone helped everyone, but a big thxs goes to lenny for coming and calling the races for the four days, another big thxs goes to all the manufacturers that sent the great prizes for the raffle.
This was my first national and loved it racing was tight and in the most part clean, made some new friends and some met some real characters one who will stick in my mind was pags, was a pleasure to meet you and thxs for picking up the bar tab. Also thxs to brad for getting the doughnuts every morning and for the use of the generator.

[R.J.S]

CONGRATULATIONS to Jason Sims,the 2012 FE High Points National Champion!
Congrats also to Jason, Ken and Wilmer of Team WaveBlasters for claiming 2nd in Team Points.
Now Jason and Ken have that long drive back to FL.Drive safely guys!

JS
WBoF

[T.S.Davis]

Isn't that back to back championships for Jason?

[D. Newland]

Mr. Offshore Award goes to (drum roll, please...)

Mike Paganelli with 180.75 total laps for the day!

Running 5 boats for 4 rounds each really tests ones ability to, well, have their crap together. Pags pulled through, even with an exploded driveline in his T Offshore cat that ripped out a section of the hull. It needed serious surgery...all while he's running 4 other classes. The guy can hustle, both on and off the water!

Congratulations, Pags! Don't worry, I'll keep the 1st Place Q Offshore plate highly visible in my garage for the next year.

[D. Newland]

Jason and Dougie tied in 2011 for High Points. The kid is on fire!

[T.S.Davis]

It's great to see a new name on the list of real high points contenders. Plus he's a good kid as far as I can tell.

PAGS got beat in Q offshore? He must have been mortified.

[RaceMechaniX]

Here is the group shot, I'll add a bunch more tonight.

Tyler

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[properchopper]

Sponsor thank-you photos - Thanks to Pat McDonald

Delta Force Racing

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Aquacraft

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Dynogy Batteries { Mark F. ; performanceRCLipos.com}

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Insane Boats

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Group Photo

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[D. Newland]

PAGS got beat in Q offshore? He must have been mortified.

He's still texting me about it! But, he's rubbing my nose in the P Mono loss.

Here are the top 5 High Points racers:

5th Place: Ted McKay at 52 points

4th Place: Brian Buaas at 54 points

3rd Place: Ken Haines at 58 points

2nd Place: David Newland at 76 points

1st Place: Jason Sims at 78 points

Point totals were derived by finding the best 6 classes of each racer. You get points based on how many racers are in the class. For instance, if there are 20 racers in LSH and you win the class, you get 20 points. If you take 2nd place, you get 19 points, and so on. It's a formula I use that helps take the wallet out of the High Points award, and puts emphasis on the more popular FE classes. You're rewarded handsomely if you win the highest participated classes.

Pags would have been in the hunt, but he missed the first round on Wednesday (literally flew in that morning), and he didn't run Saturday. He raced better than I've ever seen...just didn't race the full event.

[LuckyDuc]

What was the class count starting with the most popular class on down?

[D. Newland]

LSH: 18
P-Ltd O/S 17
P-Ltd Mono 16
P Sport Hydro 14
P Mono 13
P O/S 10
P-Ltd Hydro 10
N-2 Mono, P Hydro, P-Ltd Cat, N-2 O/S all had 9
OPC 7

Those are the bigger classes.

Just got off the phone with Haines. He had a trailer tire blow out on the way here, and the other 3 let go on his return trip...still driving.

[Doug Smock]

Just got off the phone with Haines. He had a trailer tire blow out on the way here, and the other 3 let go on his return trip...still driving.

Man that sucks!! I wonder if he still has fenders on the trailer?

[T.C.]

That does suck, but why do I have this vision of a Pinsky pit crew coming out of nowhere jacking that sucker up and changing his tires .

T.C.