Well, so much for testing, driver development, and working on cars. We raced all day!
We had eight races total, nearly all IROC, ending with a Viper SPEC STOCK tuner’s race. I think we ran four races on the SR3 Fast Esses road course and four races on SR2’s Straight road course.
Sadly, we didn’t get to run any fuel races since a monitor was failing on SR3 and some sort of bug on SR2. Both problems are resolved and we’re good to go for the next event. Bug fixed on SR2 and new 50″ monitor on SR3. Now the monitors on SR3 are the same size.
Summary Of All Races
| Place | Name | Laps | Points | Total Time |
| 1 | Kevin Webster | 822 | 170 | 8456.623 |
| 2 | Aaron Castro | 781 | 165 | 7399.218 |
| 3 | George Peters | 337 | 144 | 2695.61 |
| 4 | Jordan Walker | 316 | 127 | 2738.839 |
| 5 | Eric Lane | 217 | 91 | 1838.66 |
| 6 | Jerry Pearson | 218 | 82 | 1875.337 |
| 7 | Brad Sandahl | 117 | 49 | 1097.331 |
| 8 | Carrie Sandahl | 95 | 34 | 1051.222 |
| 9 | Steve Stewart | 951 | 238 | 8313.851 |
Of course, the above is just a summary of points for all races run. Not all drivers ran every race. Only Kevin, Aaron, and Home Cook’n competed in all the races.
It was a fabulous day, and it was finally great to get back to slot car action at Stewart Raceway. We raced on SR3, about four races, and finished the final four on SR2.
A couple of notable races: The first was an IROC race utilizing Jag Hobbies NC2 chassis with AutoWorld Mustang hard bodies. I screwed that one up and didn’t get the minimum lap time set correctly. As a results, a few drivers were exceeding the minimum lap time and not scoring laps. Oh well, in the end, the two fastest drivers could not keep their lap times under the minimum and handed that race to Aaron, who was way down on laps with a lousy car but managed to win the race.
The second notable race was when Aaron, running on SR2, hooked up in the wrong lane for a heat. There were just three of us racing, and Aaron was supposed to be in the White lane but mistakenly hooked up in the Blue lane. Aaron actually led that heat from start to finish but did not log any laps or points—oops! Kevin bagged second in that one!
All in all, it was a fun day of pretty much all racing. Aaron finally got to run on SR2, which he adapted to extremely well.
Hopefully, we can get back to our routine now. I’m hoping to have another open track day this coming weekend and start a new racing series the following weekend.
Stay tuned for details.
Another great IROC set to prepare for the day’s finale, the Viper V-SPEC “Spec Stock” class. Sportsman driver Eric “Fast” Lane graciously donated these cars to Stewart Raceway. How many tracks have you visited that have Viper V-SPEC IROC sets? This mainly was a fast and furious battle between the three Experts, but Eric Lane put in a great effort in Segment 1, placing second to Home Cook’n just one lap down and very close on total run time–Nice driving, Eric! Aaron Castro would win two segments but came up short of Home Cook’n despite a perfect 30 laps in the final segment.