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[tonyp]

Feb 22 2020
The Race Place
South Daytona, FL

The Gas Man lets it rip again with a sweep in all three events.

What can you say, Danny Zona is one tough customer and beating him on his home track is a task few have had the privilege of achieving. A decent field showed up with the new guys who never raced on the track before getting up to speed pretty quick. Any reservations of running on a 4 laner were quickly forgotten.



CanAm was up first followed by GTC and then Stock Cars on the oval. IN GRRR we qualify for the CanAm class and use your finish in the race to determine your starting position for the other 2 classes.

Qualifying




B MAIN




Fast Eddie Hoffman 2nd, Niles Bailey 1st, Ray Lee Third

A MAIN



FINAL COMBINED RESULTS

1 Danny Zona 330 & Fastest Lap
2 Jay Guard 311
3 Terry Tawney 310
4 tonyp 308
5 Nile Bailey 302
6 Ed Hoffman 295
7 Ray Lee 289
8 Shreck 282
9 Marcus Ramos 281
10 Ed Bauers 277



Jay Guard 2nd, Danny Zona 1st, Terry Tawney 3rd


L-R Jays car, 111.8 grams, Parma TI-22 Guard paint, Guard Jackel Pro, 9-27, Red Fox Guide, F-JK, R-JK Hitman Controller

Dannys Car, 112.8 grams, Parma T-163 DZ Paint, Bartos Chassis, 9-28, Swiss Fox Guide, F-Bartos, R-JK, 3rd Eye Controller

Terrys car, 105.2 grams, Parma Ti22 Tawney Paint, Bartos Chassis, 9-28, Red Fox Guide, F-Bartos, R-Kelly, Difalco Controller.

Jay and Danny ran the same cars in GTC just with a change to the Parma Lola Body.

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[tonyp]

GTC Mai, (Round Robin format)



Danny and Jay ran the same cars as they did in Can-Am, but Terry did not, so here's his car.

 

110.1 grams, Parma Lola Tawney paint, Bartos chassis, 9/28, Red Fox guide, F-Bartos, R-Kelly, Difalco controller.

The final event of the day was Stock Car on the oval. After about a 5-minute change to the track we were ready to go.

STOCKCAR MAIN (round robin)





Jay Guard 2nd, Danny Zona 1st & fastest lap, Terry Tawney 3rd





L-R

Danny Zona, 144.0 grams, VHC Charger, Zona paint, tonyp Sex Drive chassis, 9/28, HP guide, F-Bartos, R-Kelly Third Eye controller.

Jay Guard, 133.3 grams, Red Fox Charger, Robinson chassis, 9/27, Red Fox guide, F-JK, R-RTR Yellow Jacket, Third Eye controller.

Terry Tawney, 144.4 grams, Red Fox Charger, Tawney paint, tonyp Sex Drive Chassis, 8/28, Red Fox guide, F-Bartos, R-Kelly, Difalco controller.

Well, another great GRRR race in the books. Thanks to Greg Walker for hosting us, and Phil for running the race.

Next up: Fast Eddie's, March 28. Can-Am on Hillclimb, F1 and Stock Car on the oval.

[Jay Guard]

This was another good day of racing for the GRRR group and thanks to track owner Greg Walker for providing us with a great track to race on and Phil for his outstanding race directing. The road course is challenging but once you get use to it it does have a good rhythm and is a lot of fun, definitely not just a punch and grab layout.

 

The quad-oval, which is designed to emulate Charlotte Motor Speedway, is really something different from your usual tri-oval layout. You really have to time your entry into the two quad-oval turns which are quite close together but definitely two separate turns, quite a challenge. Danny Zona and I had a super fender-to-fender battle in this one and even though he did beat me by four laps (about 10 seconds out of 24 minutes) it was pretty close throughout the race. I think this is the first time ever that at the end of the race Danny actually had ask "Did I win?" and I took that as quite a compliment. Of course I've got to give a lot of credit to my Bobby Robinson built Stock Car chassis which seems to work great at every track.

 

And finally, "Thanks!" to Tony P for setting up the GRRR schedule and putting out the race reports.