2014 Namba Fast Electric Nationals. Results, pictures and videos.

[T.S.Davis]

Received a pic of my favorite racer from one of the Elks guys.

Not the fat guy. The other one.

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[Lorraine Vaccaro]

What was the logo on all the orange shirts?

[Steven Vaccaro]

Sorry my mother was logged into facebook which auto-logged me into the forum.

What was the logo on all the orange shirts?

[Ken Haines]

What a Great Event !!!

Thanks to all of the MMEU Club for putting on a truely great event.
Special thanks to Fred Siewart and Terry Davies for their hospitality.
They hooked me up with a good transmission repair shop to heal my
travel scars. Terry even loaned me his wheels for the week so I did
not even have to rent a car during those unexpected repairs.

This was the first time that I had met Al Waters in person. What a
gentleman and a wonderful ambassador to our sport. Thanks Al ...great job.
Congrats to Dave Newland for his high Points Championship.....he truely earned it.
and thanks for all the hard work that you do as the FE Chairman that
goes hand and hand with each years nationals.
Congrats to the West Coast Racing Team, Brian Buass, Tyler Girard, Dave Newland
for their Team Points victory again holding Jason, Terry and I in that all too familiar
2nd place position
Congrats to Dougie Twaits for the Mr. Offshore Award....well done.
And what an intense match race we had in the final P-Mono heat.
I obviously have more work to be done on my driving skills, but it was fun.
Thanks to Dougie Twaits, Brian Buass, Mike Paganelli and Jason Sims for the
many boat and prop set-up tips.....they all made a huge difference.
Thank you Darin Jordan for building me that stellar OPC. Thank you Terry Cowger Sr.
for building such a fast N-2 Sport and P-sport Hydro.....2 of the very best in the field.

My biggest thanks goes to Jason Sims for making the trip with me, fixing the trailer,
spelling me on the long drive, pitting almost every heat, keeping my head in the game,
coaching me on driving lines, and giving me the best chance I could ever have at my
failed attempt at the high points. He did everything thing a team-mate and friend could ever
do.....even holding the cup.....

I am sure I missed thanking someone as I hand such a good time and help by so many people.
Sorry for any ommisions.
This was the biggest FE Nats in quite a long time despite some last minute dropouts.
My hope is that we all continue to support and grow the FE Nat's each and every year.
Not sure if I will be running as big a program as I have been in the past, but I still plan
to try to attend every year if at all possible. After the final remnants of the travel coma
wear off I plan to post some additional pictures too.
Thanks Again,
Ken Haines

[T.S.Davis]

Steven, our club shirts are orange and so were some Mojo shirts that Bob was handing out here and there. There were a number of us running the GP batteries. If you did well he gave ya a short.

Our club shirts have our names and namba numbers on them with our MMEU logo on there. They're actually pretty sweet.

Then there were nats shirts too. White with the nats logo on the back. We have some left and will likely sell some once we've recovered from the coma. This one has been particularly hard to recover from. No idea why that is.

[ray schrauwen]

We have some left and will likely sell some once we've recovered from the coma. This one has been particularly hard to recover from. No idea why that is.

Coma.... That's a great way to describe how we feel after the week. It's like a weeks worth of adrenaline just drained out from Sunday morning until today. I'm finally feeling fairly normal with some equilibrium. Getting to bed by 1am to be up by about 5-6am and racing by 8:30am'ish is a major rush of adrenaline and now, it's gone.

I wore orange t-Shirts just because it's my fav. color... trying to blend in with the MMEU's. Orange is also the color of Holland's sports team etc... it's part of my parents heritage that I like to remind myself of.

[ron1950]

nice job Ray on the third place finish.

[Shooter]

Some friendly chat before the race.... ?!?!

Ray - Your boat is clearly faster than everyone else in this class. You'll have to PM me your secret. Sorry I didn't give you that lane coming out of turn 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJiH8szjp8k&feature=youtu.be

[Ksheren]

Brian Buaas P limited Record Run

Here is a video I shot with my new ION pro2 camera with the head band mount.


Brian's boat is smoking fast.

Kevin

[Apophis]

Hey guys,

I am lucky enough that I only live about 25 minutes or so from the race and drove over to check it out on Saturday. I got to meet some very cool guys and see the craziness that racing is all about lol. I recorded a video on my phone just to show the Wife (proof I'm not the only crazy one) and a bit of one of the kids races to show my son, so not the best quality but figured I'd share them. First is 1/8 scale? And then a bit of the kids running..

Shawn

[Apophis]

Kids...

[T.S.Davis]

Some friendly chat before the race.... ?!?!
Ray - Your boat is clearly faster than everyone else in this class. You'll have to PM me your secret. Sorry I didn't give you that lane coming out of turn 4.

Is that the heat where I stuffed it all the way into the mud?

[Shooter]

Is that the heat where I stuffed it all the way into the mud?

Yes sir! You can see it bubbling in the front straight for a few laps. I think it was still running down there.

[T.S.Davis]

That thing was down for a half hour. Thanks to Todd! Still owe you a speed controller.

Only missed one heat.

[RHDWA]

Did anyone get any pictures of Thriftway Too?