Well what a bust this weekend was, seems, Cody qualified 2nd both days but on Saturday he sheared the clevis off the end of his Gear One steering rack while running 2nd then today, Sunday, Cody lead the first seven laps when Doug Mittag caught him racing his brand new Teryx ZX10/SR1, the battle that was coming next didn’t happen, all the bolts that held Codes steering rack on pulled the threads out of the frame tabs causing a second dnf in as many days.
Dan Kelly was untouchable Saturday only to have his chain break on last lap. He rolled across the finish line .2 seconds ahead of Corry Weller for the win which made it exciting. Dan then performed one of the most frightening endos Ive ever seen on Sunday morning during qualifying.. At one point his car was what looked 5 plus feet in the air, very scary but he walked away very unharmed and managed to make the main.
The new Utah track was very hard on cars this weekend, two other SR1’s suffered the same clevis shearing we did, all three ZX10’s broke chains Saturday, two unlimited’s folded shocks, and one unlimited sheared the splines off the rear drive hub then twisted them on their back up, one car blew out a new set of wheel bearings taking the brake with it, and one shattered a spindle. Oh, and two cars were protested but were found to be legal. That’s all that I know of but I’m sure there was more. All the teams were very helpful with each other, parts and tools were shared by everyone.
With podium winners winning then dnf’ing Corry Weller further advanced her points lead with two solid 2nd place finishes. Its going to be tough to catch her.
Even with our failures we have had a blast, the Utah fans were so awesome, we talked to so many people about the cars, the class, the new track, the up coming Regional Race Series, there was a lot of excitement about all of it. One of the COOLEST things that happened, last year Cody threw it away in the whoops and no one got a photo of it. My wife is talking to a family in the stands and the husband tells her he took something like 700 pictures last year, she asks if he has any of a silver car and he comes back about 9:00pm with this…very cool, thanks.
That’s it, we left tonight for the South Point in Vegas, the Mittags and Winburys will arrive tomorrow, its going to be as fun as the go karts.
Dan Kelly was untouchable Saturday only to have his chain break on last lap. He rolled across the finish line .2 seconds ahead of Corry Weller for the win which made it exciting. Dan then performed one of the most frightening endos Ive ever seen on Sunday morning during qualifying.. At one point his car was what looked 5 plus feet in the air, very scary but he walked away very unharmed and managed to make the main.
The new Utah track was very hard on cars this weekend, two other SR1’s suffered the same clevis shearing we did, all three ZX10’s broke chains Saturday, two unlimited’s folded shocks, and one unlimited sheared the splines off the rear drive hub then twisted them on their back up, one car blew out a new set of wheel bearings taking the brake with it, and one shattered a spindle. Oh, and two cars were protested but were found to be legal. That’s all that I know of but I’m sure there was more. All the teams were very helpful with each other, parts and tools were shared by everyone.
With podium winners winning then dnf’ing Corry Weller further advanced her points lead with two solid 2nd place finishes. Its going to be tough to catch her.
Even with our failures we have had a blast, the Utah fans were so awesome, we talked to so many people about the cars, the class, the new track, the up coming Regional Race Series, there was a lot of excitement about all of it. One of the COOLEST things that happened, last year Cody threw it away in the whoops and no one got a photo of it. My wife is talking to a family in the stands and the husband tells her he took something like 700 pictures last year, she asks if he has any of a silver car and he comes back about 9:00pm with this…very cool, thanks.
That’s it, we left tonight for the South Point in Vegas, the Mittags and Winburys will arrive tomorrow, its going to be as fun as the go karts.
