Nackers: MWC Round 2 US Air DD26

Man... that event was AWESOME!

26 drivers

7 hours of driving

Nice weather

Loads of tires

... it was the perfect day!

So it started out they said if you haven't been to the venue before you had to goto the doughnut pit to prove yourself. I was first in line at the gate but when Simba went to open it, it was locked. He told everyone to go around so now I'm last. But instead, he tells me to goto the intermediate course right off the bat. Cool.

So my first run I dominated the course minus the last corner, but it's a very tight slow turn after top of second and the fat ass Z just got away a bit.

Second run, second corner I did a little spin going just a bit too fast and the car got high centered on an apron and was sitting on its frame:

So after a truck pulled me off I cruised around the course and parked the car to check it out and since I felt bad for taking up a lot of time, getting the hell out of the way.

So after about 20 min. I went back out and dominated the course again. On my way back to the start line Keith (event photographer from Kaizo Photo) told me to goto the advanced course. AWESOME!

So over there I had a lot of troubles. The elevation changes, blind entries, off camber turns, and decreasing speed corners were a lot to deal with. Eventually though, I got it down:

So after a while of driving I started getting used to the course. Along with help from the starters (I can't remember their names), Mike Pollard, and Mike Mattalia riding with me.

The car was doing awesome all day but it was too low. I was scraping the car in a few different places on the course including the first initiation. One time going into the first corner I initiated so hard that the rear fender mud guard broke off and flew about 15ft. in the air (from what I heard).

Besides for the frame and the mud guard, the rear bumper nearly got torn off holding a gangster line by the hay bails, the front bumper has a crack in it because of bottoming out on some of the aprons, and the windshield washer reservoir got a crack in it. Nothing serious.

So qualifying started. My first run was going alright until I spun. The second run went really well and I was pretty happy with it. My final run went awesome until the final corner when I spun. Allwell, it was sufficient to get me 5th place.

So tandem started. I had to go against John Johnson (JJ). He was leading first and had been doing great all day. I was following him a little far away in sections (mostly due to the power difference) but I felt I was winning until the final corner when I spun out right before the finish. FUCK!!!

Second run I was leading. I have no idea what would have happened because I spun on the 3rd corner giving him the easy win.

I'm not that mad about losing though because this is only my 2nd event and I'm getting experience. I had never run tandem before besides with my good friend Danny. This time around I was a lot more calm and collective.

Anyway, Mike Pollard ended up getting the win with JJ in a close 2nd and Doug Artus getting 3rd.

So I ended up 5th and now overall I'm sitting in 4th place! I'm so happy!

Midwest Cup Round 2

Qualification

CODE

Mike Pollard     16
Doug Artus       15
Juan Marquez     14
Jonathan Johnson 13
Brian Vrchoticky 12
Simba Nyemba     11
Kris Hackenson   10
Dustin Doherty   9

Tandem Rounds

CODE

Mike Pollard 100
Jonathan Johnson 90
Doug Artus 81
Juan Marquez 73
Brian Vrchoticky 66
Simba Nyemba 59
Kris Hackenson 54
Dustin Doherty 48

Total Points

CODE

Mike Pollard 116
Jonathan Johnson 103
Doug Artus 96
Juan Marquez 87
Brian Vrchoticky 78
Simba Nyemba 70
Kris Hackenson 64
Dustin Doherty 57

Total Points

CODE

Mike Pollard 222
Juan Marquez 181
Simba Nyemba 141
Brian Vrchoticky 134
Jonathan Johnson 131
Brian Peter 114
Doug Artus 96
Kris Hackenson 89
Mike Ellington 82
Tyler Cox 81
Charles Litterst 65
Dustin Doherty 57
Charlie Quatmann 53
Alex Roto 46
Dan Sommer 41
Mike Omera 36
Leigh Roto 32
Daniel Dondzik 22

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