by VenturaAlfa » Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:39 am
OK, well, both suspense and surprise after qualifying here. My son saw the cars coming out of the box and couldn't believe how great looking they all are. I would be happy to take any of them. They all ran great on the plastic Revell track; actually quite a bit better than I expected.
The set up went like this: cleaned the track, checked the cars, fluffed the braids, used a slightly damp towel on the tires of each car. All cars arrived in very good shape.
Qualified them in the order they came out of the box. Looked at the qualifying times and decided that there must have been something with the track (you'll understand why I say that in a second) so ran a second round of qualifying which is the order they will start the race in tonight.
Qualifying was set up as three laps to get used to the car then 10 laps with fastest time of the ten laps being the time for that round. After looking at that round I decided to run a second round of 5 laps starting with the bottom cars first and ending with the top.
so here we go.
Qualifier fastest 10 lap time fastest 5 lap time
1st up ..... #61 arroldn ..... .....8.70 ..... 7.65 ..... really smooth car nicely prepared
2nd up .....#71 Tusco Todd ......9.17 ..... 7.67 ..... another great car
3rd up .....#106 Ember .. .........8.28 .....7.62 ..... car purred around the track one of the quietest
4th up .....#123 Buford .......... 8.93 .....9.10 .....hard tires hurt it but nice car
5th up .....#72 Reek 455 .........7.93 ..... 7.61 ..... boy is everybody close on time, these cars are great
6th up ...... #8 bibster .......... 7.77 ...... 7.48 ..... Really easy car to drive, liked the graphics
7th up ..... #17 Vegas racer .....8.12 ..... 7.62 ..... nice car but a little twitchy on the tight turns
8th up ......#4 Czar .............. 7.77 ..... 7.60 ..... Likin' that BMW, it hauls the mail
9th up .....#007 Burrell ..........7.72 ..... 7.64 ..... That Aston Martin is my favorite car of the bunch
10th up ...#23 Ventura Alfa .....7.38 ..... 7.42 ..... Look at that first time. no way is that car that fast
so looking at the time for my car in the first run I came to the conclusion that the track got cleaner or something because no way was that car that much faster than the other cars. As a result I reversed the order and ran a 5 lap qualifier.
Qualifying is done on to the race. :music-rockout: