Minus 32 Celcius Saturday morning. Once again I didn't find much grip except after stud races. Had a great weekend, met a few new people, took Jeff Wenzel's dad, Gord, out after a stud race (I think he was nervous but thouroughly enjoyed the experience). I also took a friend of Dan Bucknam's (Ali Abbass More... ) out for a run after front wheel drive race and after studs, which he much preferred, very fast and we took the checkered as well ( More... ).

I had the pleasure of Stef Haas (S/\C#14) as ballast during one race. He started navigating for me from fake rally pace notes ("right over crest into 5 left, slippy, widens on exit....") during the race! Very annoying. At one point, the race was so boring him, he was contentedly reading the new CASC marketing pamphlet.

Last weekend Terry Dalton (S/\Csty) took first place in all class 1 races, nice job on a clean sweep Terry, looks like you are going for the S/\Ctrophy (again)!

Steff Hass (S/\C#14) and Susan (S/\C#47) his "co-driver" did well but suffered electrical failure last race Sat. On Sunday it turned out lame fuses were to blame, problem solved.

One really bad accident occured on the cool down lap during a rear wheel drive class race on Saturday. The white Cressida owned by Larry Kovaks (used to belong to Glenn McKay) and being rental driven by someone I don't know, a young guy, apparently didn't know that the race was done and everyone was on their cool down lap. He came barrelling down the straight slamming head-on into the passenger side of the blue Subaru driven by Brad Clarke (who was exiting the track) totally demolishing the front of the Cressida and punching in the side of the Subaru and bending the front control arm etc. No one was hurt but all shaken up. The Cressida is a write-off according to Larry and the Subaru continued to race but was a handful according to Brad.

I mounted a homemade steel tripod camera mount to the inside roof of the Ovlov this weekend and took in-car video of all races on Saturady. There is a 1 minute 2MB vid at the bottom of this page. I have plenty of footage at home if anyone wants any
( scoty@rogers,com).

Also there was some helmet cam footage of a T-Bone incident from a front wheel race this weekend sent in by Jeff Cumin ( More... ).

Results:

Class one I finished 3,3,1,3,3 Results Class 1

Class 11 I finished 2,3,3,3,2 Results Class 11

Track Conditions/ Weather:

Track was extremely hard due to -32C temps. This resulted in very little grip, even after stud races as the studs churned out what resembled ice "pellets" that didn't seem to provide as much grip as usual after studs.
Not a good weekend to spectate.

Sunday warmed up to -16C, still slippery. Lot's of sunshine.

Racing:

Saturday:

Very Cold, Very Slippery!
Lots of towing around up and down the pit row of dead race cars. I had trouble starting the Ovlov but got a propane heater under the car on the intake side and after 1/2 an hour of heating it turned over slow but still no kick. So I used the...
"ETHER I.V."
What the heck is that???!!! While preparing the Ovlov this fall, I slit open the plastic 3" air intake tubing and inserted a 1/4" rubber tube up and into the opening just before the throttle plate. I then applied a liberal amount of S/\Ctape to seal up the incision. The other end was long enough to extend into the cockpit where I could attach it to the nozzle on a can of ether. Well, one quick squirt while cranking and the "Ov" fired right up! The "Ether I.V." proved it's worth!

Sunday:

I put on new Blizzaks on the back. Nor sure that helped at all. Pretty boring but consistent racing.

Highlite(s):

I received the award (a nice sweatshirt) for most improved in class from Rising Sun supporters of this weekend.

Pics & Videos:

A 1.9MB video clip of Scott Miller going from 4th place start to win in 1st lap.

Click the pic for the WMV video clip or right click and choose "Save Target As" then open using Windows Media Player. This was a class 1 race following a stud race so there was good grip. I get a slow start and wind up in fourth place into the first turn. Then pass Larry Kovaks in the blue Skoda back on the exit of the first turn (you can just see him in the rear view mirror as I pass him). Then on through the "kink" to catch Terry Dalton in the tan Corolla in turn 3 (again check for the pass in the rear mirror). Exiting onto the straight, I set my sights on Tom Prentice in the black Skoda and pass him on the outside out-braking him into turn one. From there on it was a clean win. All other cars are 4 wheel drive and do not race against our rear wheel drive class but they do run in the same race with us.

Helmet cam footage of a T-Bone incident from a front wheel race this weekend sent in by Jeff Cumin ( More... ).

Scoty@rogers.com