Lakeridge road about 15 minutes north of 401 |
Lots of
"roadkill" on the way up to
Mindenhammer on Friday. Clear vision with sunny
skies but there was just a bit of a wind blowing
(75kph) and drfting packed sections on the road.
Apparently these people could have benefited from
a bit of ice racing experience. |
Just north
of Manilla |
Durham 46 just
south of hwy 47 |
1/2 minute west
of Kirkfield |
Pic courtesy
of Bart Hilhorst |
Didn't
have much to do Friday to the cars but made up
for it socializing in the Cliffe. The guy who
took this aerial photo of the track has a 3 piece
rock band that had a gig at the Dominion Hotel
Saturday nite. The gig was great according to
Doug Liddell SAC#28 and Sonia Wallis SAC#140 who
were up for the weekend as volunteer marshals and
staying at the Dominion. Well done guys! Sonia
won a trophy "Best Slippery Slide done by
a Female" courtesy of BARC. |
Doug and Sonia |
SAC flag
Ol Thistlebutt |
The
SAC flag was returned to Mindenhammer this
weekend after an extended stay in California with
Dave Watson SAC#10 (hope you washed it Dave).
Dave flew into Pearson Friday? where he was
picked up by the MPU (Mobile Porn Unit) of Mike
Jensen SAC#3 and Torsen (Torsen, why aren't you a
SAC member?). |
Oh yeah, almost forgot...
Terry Dalton got out of his car on the mock grid
(probably to wave to his fans) where he was gridded in
first position Saturday and took his keys out of the
ignition. When it was time to go he belted in, helmet on
but no keys? Where were they? He frantically looked
everywhere, the grid was called out onto the track and
still no keys. I drove as slow as I dared on the
formation lap to give him time. We are all grided up
ready to go when out he comes and is grided dead last .
He had found the keys stuck to the side of his seat.
Terry went from last to win that race! Well done lad.
Results:
Results Class 1 Qualifier: 1st
Races: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 2nd
Results Class 11
Sorry but they did not have them available when I was
leaving the track
See CASC ice race site and hit F5 key for latest
standings (may not be posted till later in week).
Track
Conditions/ Weather:
Saturday:
 Track
was much narrowed due to attempt to move the stud car
line furthur out. Shown is a picture of the eastern-most
corner. This made for a fairly tight racing line as one
did not dare to step beyond the line for fear of hitting
the "weeds" where no cars run (very slippery,
never-been-run-on ice with snow and ice granuals on top
of it). The track remained very slippery all day, we have
yet to experience a mild weekend although long range for
this weekend coming looks milder.
Sunday:
Minus 28C this morning but up to -8C at noon and
-12C by 4PM. Class 1 went out after three rubber to ice
races so there was hardly any grip. Track was flooded
over nite to fill in massive trough and bare patches from
Sat. stud racing.
Both Sat and Sun sunny and mainly clear.
Racing:
Saturday:
Clockwise direction today. Drove the "new" 740
Ovlov racer all weekend. No cold starting problems (Yeah!
). Gridded 12th (about 6th place in my class 1) and
finished 1st in the 10 lap qualifier. It seemed like I
had the car sorted pretty well. Started 1st in the 1st
class one race after a stud race and again, like almost
every other time, did not get a good start. I was gridded
on the inside where you are just off the studded line
down the straight. Studded tire cars leave the track very
rough and therefore lots of grip after they race. Terry
Dalton and Larry Kovaks both passed me as they were
grided on the outside on the stud line. I got back past
Larry on the 1st lap and was 1/2 way through the second
lap with Terry lined up in my sights for a pass when a
red flag was shown. George Burnham's 4x4 wagon did an end
over end as it clipped the bank at the end of the
straight. I believe William Stubbs (SAC#123) was piloting
the car. Since this was under 2 laps completed of a 15
lap race we were gridded again under original formation
and would race the full 15 laps. But the hole left by
Burnham's car in the grid meant that cars gridded after
him shifted up one position. I now found myself gridded
on the outside right on the stud line and Terry now on
the inside! :-) Awesome start right off the green and by
the 4th lap I could see neither Terry nor Larry in my
rearview at the end of the straight and continued on to
finish 1st.
Second race Sat saw me get
a lousy start again and have to claw my way up for a 2nd
place finish in class one.
In class 11 after stud
start on sat. I was pushed out into the weeds while going
around the pack on the outside into the first turn (doin
pretty good too) but Terry got shoved and turned out in
front of me I decided to abort and headed into the weeds.
I just sat there for a couple of seconds thinking this is
an insane way to race and let the whole field go by. Then
I got mad, tucked in behind Tom Prentice and proceeded to
cut and slash my way to a 2nd place finish right on Terry
Dalton's back bumper! Sometimes a little bit of
motivation is a good thing.
Sunday:
Very cold AM very sunny, cars started fine. Started 2nd
in class 1 and finished 3rd (bad start again) then had
the best race maybe ever in the very last race of the day
in class one with Terry Dalton (See "Highlites"
below for details)
BARC did a great job this
weekend Thank you to all!!!
Highlites:
Getting whiplash in a race
Saturday as some cowboy who didn't like getting passed up
the inside of turn 3 rearended me (twice) so hard that my
rearview mirror tilted to the nightvision setting. I
probably should have seen Dr. John about it my neck but
by Sunday morning the tightened neck muscles had subsided
to a dull ache.
Last race Sunday after 3
front wheel drive races had polished the ice to a sheen
and I again got behind Larry and Terry on the start. Got
back Larry and closed right up on Terry, rattling his
cage enough to get him a little wide on last corner
before straight and I get by down the straight but not
without a lot of paint being traded (I was just too
estatic not to want to rub him up a bit!). Can't remember
all of what happened next but do remember we traded
places a couple of times ? with him drag racing me on the
outside down the straight and me winding up bein pushed
into the weeds. I did recover and finished 2nd. But now I
know - I can race with the champ!!! Best most
exciting race probably to date (except maybe once last
year with Larry).
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