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Santee Slotcar Raceway, Santee,
CA. Aug. 2, 2003
 It's
back onto the 5 Freeway south to the San Diego suburbs and Santee
Slotcar Raceway. This was to be an extra race in our schedule this
year to make up for an earlier change in plans. At the request of
the local racers and raceway owners we would make a small change
to our regular program with some interesting results.
Spray Glue G-12
 We
had 10 entries for the race and after the computer set up the lanes
it was race time. The early players were the 2 sitouts. Earl Wilson
was in for heat 2 and Joe Chevy was in for heat 3. These 2 pulled
out a big lead on the average with Earl leading until he hit purple
and black. Then it was Joe leading ahead of SoCal's fearless leader
Chris Radisich and Hector Cuadras going into the final stages of
the race. Chris made it close, but Joe held him off with Chris settling
for 2nd spot only 2 laps back. Hector took 3rd with Earl hanging
onto 4th ahead of Bill Taylor, Western States Winner-JB Barnett,
Monty Ohren, Bob Johannis, Daniel and Kenny Rodger.
Cobalt 12
  At
the request of the track owner, we ran this as a sprayglue race
to encourage his locals to enter. With only 4 racers, we passed
on qualifying and lined them up to start the race. Bill Taylor jumped
out to a 4 lap lead in the first heat and except for a loose lead
wire in heat 6 Bill Led all the way. Joe Chevy took 2nd, Hector
Cuadras (who bought his car just that morning and was driving a
C-12 car for the first time) was 3rd with Rick Elting 4th.
Group 12
  Once
again the locals stayed away in droves and it was left to Joe Chevy
to defend their honor. With only 4 racers, they decided to pass
on qualifying and let the fastest race lap stand for the points.
This would eventually go to local Joe Chevy with a 2.68 lap on green
in heat 1. Joe led the first 4 heats, but Chris Radisich got past
in heat 5 and led the rest of the way to finish 5 laps up on Joe
with Dale Garcia and Monty Ohren rounding out the field.
Track Calls
There were
some very interesting results to the C-12 race when you compare
the totals with the Western States race on this same track just
3 months ago. None of the 4 racers in this month's event had anything
like the type of horsepower available to those at the Western States.
If you look at the numbers, the guys at the WS were turning laps
just a bit more that .1 sec faster than we were and our lap totals
stood up quite well to the race run in glue. Don't be fooled by
the short field, there were only 6 at the Western States. The difference
was we were able to run consistent heats with very few track calls,
no move me backs and no popping in the glue. We only had one motor
slow down and that was eventually diagnosed as a hung motor brush.
The other 3 racers ran the same motor for the whole race. As for
track conditions, we practiced after the Spray Glue G-12 race and
raced on it as it was. Larry Blanton won the WS with 554 laps; Bill
Taylor won the spray glue race with 543 laps after losing 17 laps
on black with a lead wire off the motor. Both events had the same
percentage of heats turning 70+ laps.
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It's
back onto the 5 Freeway south to the San Diego suburbs and Santee
Slotcar Raceway. This was to be an extra race in our schedule this
year to make up for an earlier change in plans. At the request of
the local racers and raceway owners we would make a small change
to our regular program with some interesting results.
