2013 FE Nats

[madmikepags]

Hey allen you NEED to put next years Nats on your radar!!!!!! It will be the FE event of the century!!!!!!!

[RandyatBBY]

okay back brace is on and now trying to get back to work...
Besides allen, randy and david who else needs shirts i am placing an order for them this week.
David a medium...randy a triple...allen ?

cool!

[modtruck69]

Allen.....I need a 2X.....I will pay you when I see you!

[skiking1739]

Here's a pretty good Amateur Video of P-Mono that I shot while on vacation at Lake Minden,

A perfectly good start
Two Blow-overs on lap one
A bouy cut
An inside/outside move
A couple of dipsy dos
And a 1,2,3 finish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0MEmYQpbB8

Enjoy,

SkiKing

[namba98]

Thank You for the vid Hope we can get some more for the archives
it was a good race.

[D. Newland]

SkiKing-thanks for posting that video.

Ted McKay had the blow over @ that start, which we all were wayyyy too aggressive. That's Pags' "High Plains Drifter" orange Delta Force in the lead for a bit, with my red Titan 40 getting past him mid-race.

[ron1950]

Very smooth driving dave

[namba98]

David I just want to thank everyone again for coming and having a great race here at Lake Minden. Thanks also to Steve for his sponsorship and to Venom & Atomx for theirs. At our next district race we have a good turnout in pl hydro and pl offshore both offset and heat racing. We are growing. The drivers stand has now got a judges stand above it and an awning above the drivers. For all the drivers and sponsors Thank You Thank You Thank You. We are all looking forward to the 2014 FE NATS.

[RandyatBBY]

Ya know I had a blast thanks Dave your hot headed old friend.

[Jim Osborne]

Found this picture of the "High Plains Drifter" leaving town after that heat of P Mono when Newland took him to school. What's up with the bag.Pags with girl bagy.jpg

[skiking1739]

Another P-Mono Heat from the 2013 FE Nationals

Some dialog please. Orange boat was class of the field. Good job.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQfCBMm7l-U&feature=c4-overview&list=UUBjGiglucyupdSelIqSh9tQ

Thanks,

Skiking

[madmikepags]

oh boy, I was the orange boat, it was all over the place, i must have cut everyone off at least 3 times, I was ready to call it quits w that boat and in Mi 3 weeks later it ran incredible with a couple of small changes. I think dave was just laying back in that heat, all he needed was a finish for the title.

[madmikepags]

Ok jim yes he "took me to school" too bad I was riding the short bus with my helmet on an a zip loc baggie of broken crayons. At least thats the way it looked like I was driving!!!! He's lucky my boat didn't spear him when he made that pass, I know it almost looked intentional but my boat kept doing that bow-steer thing at the exit of every turn!!!!! Hope to see all you guys in Mi next year we will have a great time and some great racing!!!

[skiking1739]

oh boy, I was the orange boat, it was all over the place, i must have cut everyone off at least 3 times, I was ready to call it quits w that boat and in Mi 3 weeks later it ran incredible with a couple of small changes. I think dave was just laying back in that heat, all he needed was a finish for the title.

Okay, I got that. I was curIous about that studder/jitter or bow steer exit at 2 and 4. What causes that and how did you correct it?

Thanks,

SkiKing

[madmikepags]

it wasn't a single thing to fix probably tested 8-10 differnt props, moved the weight back, raised the strut a bit and a little less right tab and a little more left tab, prob about 12-14 practice runs before I got it right, but it's a completely different boat now, I might not be able to beat dave but the boat is so much more consistent now that if I got the start like I did in that first race I would be much harder to catch and pass. MInd you now that dave is one of the best drivers in the country and has probably the best P-mono I've ever seen, so I don't feel bad being "taken to school" by him like Jim "broken boat" Osborne said!!!!! And BTW "The High Plains Drifter" is the moniker I got at the Nats this year, Partly because my Orange boat would unexpectedly "drift" into others lanes, but probably more because my P-Lim mono (black CF Titan 40) that going down the back stretch would "drift???" (OK I did it) to lane 1/2 or 1/3 and consequently shutting the door on Jim and Dave and Ted (who were all coming hard in one race or another). I really had a blast racing w/ all those guys, there wasn't a Lot of competition there but the drivers that were there were all fierce competitors!!! Oh and for the record the picture of me leaving w/ my (girly) bag was a little skewed, the polka-dots were white not PINK!!! nice photo shop job JIM!!!