MARC 2018 – 2019 – South Shore Speedway, December 08, 2018

A Tale of a new class and a lost car.

 

Hingham Massachusetts, December 8, 2018 – Sixteen drivers made the trip to South Shore Speedway to for another fun filled day of racing 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.

First up was the second race for the new Open Weighted class.  The field was a mix of

Practice underway at South Shore Speedway

Viper and BSRT chassis.  Most people were running 6-ohm arms, but there were a few 7-ohm BSRT arms out there.  Lots of experimenting as people work to dial in the cars for this class.   Fast lap times seem to be a half second or so faster than G-Jets.  After an hour and a half of practice, we were ready to race.

Sportsman and Pros run together in a Round-Robin for the first race of the day.  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 lap times just over 4 seconds.  The fast lap of 3.449 was set

Weighted Podium - Hal Pierce 1st, Don Hall 2nd, Jimmy Colligan 3rd and Terry Ayer 4th

by Ryan Archambault in the blue lane.  The next closest driver was the host Paul Ryer with a 3.717 in blue as well.   Ryan had a rocket ship, but it’s not always the fastest car that wins the race.  Well, in this case it was.  Ryan finished 27 laps ahead of second place.

In the Sportsman group 3 laps covered the top three drivers.  Hal Pierce has been having a great start to the season and he continued by taking down the win 2 laps ahead of Don

Weighted Pro Podium - Paul Ryer 4th, Rob Hayes 3rd, John Reimels 2nd and Ryan Archambault 1st

Hall in second.  “Oh Jimmy” was just a lap back to finish in third and Terry Ayer rounded out the podium in forth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sportsman Results

Drivers

Green

Blue

Yellow

Red

Total

Hal Pierce

59

65

63

56

243

Don Hall

54

64

64

59

241

Jimmy Colligan

58

60

62

60

240

Terry Ayer

51

61

63

56

231

Paul Crosby

52

57

59

59

227

Tom Smith

46

53

55

54

208

 

As mentioned above, Ryan not only had a fast car, but had a fantastic drive to take down the win in the Pro group.  John Reimels was second followed by new Telsa owner Rob Hayes (Rob is working on a way to power his car off the bus overheads in Cambridge, so watch out).  Paul Ryer filled out the podium 4 laps behind Rob.  Peter Lentros just missed the podium 2 laps behind Paul.


 

Pro Results

Drivers

Green

Blue

Yellow

Red

Total

Ryan Archambault

72

76

75

75

298

John Reimels

65

70

70

66

271

Rob Hayes

65

70

65

63

263

Paul Ryer

62

65

71

61

259

Peter Lentros

58

70

66

63

257

Tom Gray

56

66

67

53

242

Erik Eckhardt

55

62

63

58

238

Tom Jahl

52

57

59

59

227

Jim Macartney

51

58

59

53

221

Dave Muse

49

55

56

50

210

 

With the Open Weighted program wrapped up, it was time to start getting ready for Super Stock for the Sportsman and CMPM for the Pros.  Peter, Don and Tom had other commitments leaving us with thirteen for the afternoon program.  We alternated between Super Stock and CMPM practice sessions.  John Reimels found an interesting hiding place for his car somewhere in the shelves.  After some intense searching, it was abandoned to

SS Sportsman Podium - Terry Ayer 2nd, Paul Crosby 3rd, Jimmy Colligan 1st and Hal Pierce 4th

be found another day (Only took me an hour and half and dismantling of some storage to find it).  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.  First up were the Sportsman who ran a very clean race.

“Oh Jimmy” sent the fasted lap at 2.675 and mixed that with some very clean driving to take the top spot on the podium 16 laps ahead of second.  Terry Ayer took second with Paul Crosby 4 laps back in 3rd.  Hal Pierce rounded out the podium.

Sportsman Results

Drivers

Green

Blue

Yellow

Red

Total

Jimmy Colligan

83

94

95

92

364

Terry Ayer

80

89

94

85

348

Paul Crosby

77

94

88

85

344

Hal Pierce

73

87

92

81

333

Dave Muse

68

82

80

68

298

 

The Pros also ran a pretty clean race although there were still some heat issues.  A melted

CMPM Pro Podium - Paul Ryer 4th, Erik Eckhardt 3rd, John Reimels 2nd and Jim Macartney 1st

pinion took Rob Hayes out of contention and gremlins plagued Ryan during the race.  Quietly minding his own business Jim Macartney took the top spot with a great run.  12 laps back John Reimels was second followed by Erik Eckhardt in third and Paul Ryer in fourth.

 

 

 

Pro Results

Drivers

Green

Blue

Yellow

Red

Total

Jim Macartney

84

115

130

113

442

John Reimels

94

112

116

108

430

Erik Eckhardt

95

111

114

97

417

Paul Ryer

90

97

112

98

397

Tom Jahl

89

106

115

83

393

Rob Hayes

94

103

124

58

379.23

Tom Gray

94

80

110

95

379.07

Ryan Archambault

78

117

47

63

305

 

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 Purple Mile and CMPM for the Pros on the Viper.

The race report as recorded this day

December 31, 2018

Douglas C. Neidermeyer

Sergeant at Arms

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