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A
weekly report
on the icerace activities on and off track
covering the season in "Mindenhammer"
(Minden Ontario)
Study
the
disclaimer
first if you are prone to
believing everything you read.
I only wrote one weekend report for 2013 - call me lazy -
and that was for the BEMC weekend. So instead here's a brief
summary of the entire season. I raced a full season in Rubber To Ice
(RTI) resulting in winning the championship in rear wheel drive class 1
- something which has eluded me in 16 (?) years of ice racing - driving
the 1986 Ovlov. Results for all three classes I ran this weekend (yep,
that's 16 races! - won 15 of them and got a second) are linked to your
right.
I gave up on Street Studs on the 1988 Toyota MR2 when after the first
day of the first weekend the stud loss from the new spec tire/stud
choice forced me to remember that I am only here for fun and not to
experience frustration from a bad spec tire/stud choice. I did however
return halfway through the season to successfully win several races, at
first on a set of newer 14" street stud tires loaned to me by Andrey
car #03 (thanks Andrey) and later on a used set 14" street stud tires that
had been used since the beginning of the season by Andrey and
subsequently restudded a several times before I restudded using a black
polyurethane adhesive used to keep windshields in place. The resulting
stud retention was pretty amazing considering many of the stud pockets
had been either split or torn completely through the tread block. I
believe for that one weekend (5 races and 2 practices) there were 2 to 3
studs missing in the drive tires (mostly from the completely destroyed
pockets) and I still won all the races in the street stud class.
And finally the last weekend of the season saw the Menards (full stud)
class run for the first time in 2 seasons! This was an absolute blast and
is one of the main reasons I keep coming back. I raced in the 1988
white Toyota MR2 car #24. Here's a couple video examples of our Stud
races ...
1)
Shot from car behind me (Courtesy Andrey, Car #03)
2)
In car Two Up (Rear video/data courtesy Tim)
There was even a feature race after the last race on Sunday. Amazingly we
never saw dirt this year as has been the case for most last weekends
other years. All video from the 2013 season shot from my in-car cam has
been posted to my Youtube Channel ...
https://www.youtube.com/user/angusmacsac/playlists
Although numbers were down significantly this year (up to 30% fewer
entries) a full 6 consecutive weekends were run and a big thanks to all
the clubs that made that happen, the Minden Kinsmen and related people
helping make and maintain the track, people shooting and posting photos
(Jimmy
McGlade) and to those posting video. This sport will survive. We
need to keep new people coming and getting interested and then involved.
Everyone has a
responsibility to this sport to spread the ice racing word! If you know
how, then please, make use
of any/all the plethora of social media now available to market our
sport ! If you're reading this and want to
go ice racing the
CASC (Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs) ice racing website is a good
place to start with several informative articles that will answer most
of your "newbie" questions. You'll also find there a link to the
2013 Rules and Regulations (PDF File) for ice racing which detail
all you need to know to prepare yourself and your car for a season of
ice racing.
I need to thank my sponsors for helping make this season possible
specifically our gracious hosts Gord and Leslie Elliott proprietors of
The Minden House B&B where we stay in one of the cottages just 3 blocks
from the track and 1 block from downtown - so convenient - I highly
recommend them! Also, thanks to my friend Mike Evans for helping me for each and
every one of these past 6 weekends as my mechanic/engineer/tire
changer/technical advisor etc. ! Finally, this event would never happen
if it were not for the hundreds of hours of work that goes into building
and maintaining the track and facilities, the clubs that host and
organize each weekends event - big thanks to all involved.
SACEWE! - see you next year!
There are loads of in-car
video from this season available on my
Youtube Channel and you can access prior year's reports in the
archives below ....
Ice Race Report Archives:
| 2013
| 2012
| 2011
| 2010
| 2009
| 2008
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| 2007
| 2006
| 2005 |
2004 | 2003 |
2002 |
| 2001 |
2000 | 1999 |
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