Although not truly the
first event at Glen Arden Speedway, this was the biggest, and
really the first competitive event here.
We started the day at
1PM by running some O-scale Tjets! The MaxTrax has lanes that
are spaced wider apart, so that you can run the larger Tjets side-by-side
- at least on the straights - it still gets tight in the hairpins!
With the entertainment
out of the way, we ran 2 race events, the first being a VHORS-style
event, and the second was a "24 minutes of LeMans" race
for stock lighted Tjets.
The first race was run
as a round-robin, with 2-minute heats:
First Race, First Round
Results
|
Driver Name |
Laps/Sections |
Finishing Order |
|
Kevin McEvoy |
52/11 |
1 |
|
Guy Graziano |
50/25 |
2 |
|
Paul Graziano |
50/19 |
3 |
|
Andy Meyer |
47/16 |
4 |
|
Rob Maul Jr. |
45/11 |
5 |
|
Rich |
45/10 |
6 |
|
Rob Maul Sr. |
44/26 |
7 |
|
Joe Rinn |
43/25 |
8 |
|
Mario Pisano |
43/9 |
9 |
|
Brian Kaplun |
43/5 |
10 |
|
Joe Corea |
42/16 |
11 |
|
Brian Corea |
40/25 |
12 |
|
Dennis Moore |
40/16 |
13 |
After the first race, the four
top racers advanced to the MAIN.
First Race, MAIN Results
|
Driver Name |
Laps/Sections |
Finishing Order |
|
Kevin McEvoy |
54/12 |
1 |
|
Andy Meyer |
53/16 |
2 |
|
Guy Graziano |
51/22 |
3 |
|
Paul Graziano |
51/16 |
4 |
A few racers had to
leave after the first race, but the 8 that stayed ran a lighted
Tjet "24 Minutes of Lemans". We've run this race format
at New Jersey Nostalgia
Hobby for years. In a nutshell, each driver runs a 6 minute
heat in each of the 4 lanes (24 minutes total). For each heat,
we start in the "daylight", and then 1.5 minutes into
the heat, the lights are dimmed to near-total-darkness. We then
run 3 minutes in the dark (except for the lights on the cars,
of course) and finally, for the last 1.5 minutes of the heat,
the lights come back up. The idea is to simulate the daylight-nighttime-daylight
effect of running a 24-hour endurance race.
24 Minutes of Glen
Arden
|
Driver Name |
Laps/Sections |
Finishing Order |
|
Rich |
129/17 |
1 |
|
Andy Meyer |
128/24 |
2 |
|
Paul Graziano |
127/10 |
3 |
|
Dennis Moore |
125/19 |
4 |
|
Brian Kaplun |
124/25 |
5 |
|
Joe Corea |
119/2 |
6 |
|
Rob Maul Jr. |
110/0 |
7 |
|
Brian Corea |
100/4 |
8 |
Big thanks to Joe Corea,
owner of New Jersey
Nostalgia Hobby, for buying a round of Pizza for all in between
races!
Most of all, thanks
to my wife Nancy for her hard work on the lap counter modules
and for providing us with food and drink throughout the day!
Click Here for
a few pictures from the days activities, taken by Andy Meyer
Click below for pictures
taken by Kevin McEvoy
