Oh No, Snow!

 

Hingham Massachusetts, December 9, 2015 – The threat of snow did not scare off the MARC faithful.  Arriving from across Connecticut, New York, New Hampshire, and

Massachusetts, sixteen drivers showed up rub fenders on the Elvis road course.  Coffee and donuts greeted the drivers as they arrived and set up shop.  The track was ready and so were the drivers.

Vintage NASCAR was the theme for the G-Jet race and once again Peter Lentros made sure there were bodies for everyone with a shipment of freshly painted bodies from Terry Flynn at Harden Creek.  Peter could not attend so Paul Crosby delivered bodies and tires.  Those, along with the bodies by Reimels and others made for an authentic looking NASCAR field.  You could almost see the driver smoking a butt while their cars were being refueled.  An hour and half of G-Jet practice got pretty much everyone under 5 seconds with some drivers flirting with the 4 second barrier.  We were ready to race.

This year Sportsman and Pros run together in a Round-Robin.  All in all, the racing was clean with some of the Sportsman right behind the Pros.  Race pace was fast with many drivers turning in sub-5 second laps.  In 2015 we were happy to get a lap under 5 seconds.  This year the fast lap of 4.045 was set by Ryan Archambault in the blue lane closely followed by Stez with a 4.085 in the yellow lane.  The top drivers all fast laps times under 4.5 seconds a lap in all lanes.

Sportsman G-Jets

In the Sportsman group 10 laps covered the top four drivers.  “Oh Jimmy” took the top spot followed by Tom Jahl in second, Mike Tiffany in third and Paul Crosby in fourth.  Not a bad showing by Paul who was at his first MARC race of the season.  A recent Stez recruit, Bob Jones had a good showing.  Unfortunately, an incorrect hookup in red blew a fuse and cost Bob a better finish.  Lesson learned, he checked carefully on the remaining lanes in the race.

Sportsman Results

Drivers	Green	Blue	Yellow	Red	Total	Avg
Jim Colligan	53	56	60	56	225	56.25
Tom Jahl	53	58	58	52	221	55.25
Mike Tiffany	51	57	57	54	219	54.75
Paul Crosby	53	52	58	51	214	53.5
Hal Pierce	53	55	51	45	204	51
Terry Ayer	46	54	51	46	197	49.25
Bob Jones	51	50	56	39	196	49
Matt Patrick	41	48	53	50	192	48

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pro G-Jets

Stez once again showed why he is King of the G-Jets taking down the win four laps ahead of second place.  Rob Hayes rolled in second closely followed by John Reimels in third and Ryan Archambault in fourth.  Only seven sections separated 3^rd and fourth place.

 

Pro Results

Drivers	Green	Blue	Yellow	Red	Total	Avg
John Stezelecki	63	63	66	62	254	63.5
Rob Hayes	60	64	65	61	250	62.5
John Reimels	61	62	64	62	249.25	62.25
Ryan Archambault	60	62	64	63	249.18	62.25
Dan Decosmo	61	62	62	58	243	60.75
Paul Ryer	54	60	58	58	230	57.5
Tom Gray	50	52	52	54	208	52
Jim Macartney	42	47	46	41	176	44

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sportsman Super Stock

With the G-Jet program wrapped up, it was time to start getting ready for Super Stock.  Stez and Bob Jones decided they had had enough racing for the day and Dan Decosmo need to tend to some train business so that left us with thirteen drivers for Super Stock.  Given the weather, we ran the Pros and Sportsman together.  After some lunch and two hours of practice most people were ready to race and the rest resigned themselves that they would have to make do with what they had.  The big question when running on Elvis is how low to go.  Jim Mac and Tom Gray ran into heat issues and cooked before the end.  Everyone else seemed to find a setup that kept the smoke in the cars and there was some close racing.  Fast laps were just under 3 seconds.  Once again Ryan was the fast guy on the track with a fastest lap of 2.751 seconds in yellow.  Tom Jahl set fastest lap for the Sportsman with a 2.741 second lap in blue just a tick off the time set by Ryan.  Once again racing was close and pretty clean with a minimal number of track calls.

“Oh Jimmy” swept the day in Sportsman with his win in Super Stock.  Great drive in both races by Jim with clean consistent laps.  Tom Jahl rolled into second  5 laps behind Jimmy.  Paul Crosby was a lap behind Tom to take third and reformed T-Jet racer Matt Patrick was 4 laps behind Paul to take fourth.  Terry, Hal, and Mike rounded out the field.  Great clean racing by the Sportsmen.

Sportsman Results

Drivers	Green	Blue	Yellow	Red	Total	Avg
Jim Colligan	74	87	92	79	332	83
Tom Jahl	70	90	95	72	327	81.75
Paul Crosby	77	83	84	82	326	81.5
Matt Patrick	67	89	92	74	322	80.5
Terry Ayer	71	87	90	69	317	79.25
Hal Pierce	72	80	83	75	310	77.5
Mike Tiffany	70	74	80	82	306	76.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pro Super Stock

The top four Pros were also closely grouped.  Rob Hayes took the win with a high lap total in the green lane of 91 laps proving  once again  Green is the lane to master.  John Reimels finished second just 3 laps behind Rob.  7 laps behind John were third place finisher Paul Ryer and fourth place finisher Ryan Archambault.  Once again Ryan was cheated out of a third place finish by sections.  This time by only 3 sections.  Tom and Jim suffered motor and pinion problems and were off the pace.

Pro Results

Drivers	Green	Blue	Yellow	Red	Total	Avg
Rob Hayes	91	93	98	88	370	92.5
John Reimels	87	97	98	85	367	91.75
Paul Ryer	85	98	93	84	360.18	90
Ryan Archambault	84	94	90	92	360.15	90
Tom Gray	36	0	87	45	168	42
Jim Macartney	59	0	41	0	100	25

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ribbons were awarded, hands were shook and everyone packed up and headed out.  Thank you to everyone who showed up for another great day of racing.  See you at the next MARC race in January at Modelville/Lenjet where the classes will be MARC Spec Stock on the Purple Mile, Modified for the Sportsman on the Scorpion and CMPM for the Pros on a track to be named later.

The race report as recorded this day

December 19, 2017

Douglas C. Neidermeyer

Sergeant at Arms