February 11, 2020 | john 2nd Annual GRoNE Hog’s Day Event Ashland, MA February 01, 2020 We had 12 participants at our second annual GRoNE Racing on the Tubbie - Such memories... Hog’s Day event hosted by Peter Lentros at his awesome LenJet Raceway. LenJet tends to draw the crowd, in part because it’s centrally located within New England but also because it’s just an awesome place to race. We dusted off Peter’s 5-lane Tubbie track for the T-Jet race (we really need to use this track more often, it’s so much fun to drive – JR) followed by an IROC Dire Wolf race and the Gravity race on Peter’s fast Viper track. T-Jet Race: T-Jet Podium - Rob Hayes 1st, Paul Ryer 2nd, Peter Lentros 3rd and John Reimels 4th As usual at a GRoNE event, the first race of the day was the T-Jets, this time on Peter’s Tubbie. Peter’s Tubbie is a bit unique in that it’s surfaced with a 5 lane track made by Brad Bowman, the 5 lane configuration increases the lane spacing allowing for some nice side-by-side racing. Rob Hayes once again showed his T-Jet prowess by beating Paul Ryer to the finish by 3 laps. Track owner Peter Lentros finished third followed by John Reimels in fourth. Racing T-Jets on this track brings back memories of Friday nights at the commercial raceway in Quincy, MA; 48 years later, the rhythm is still the same, but the cars are just so much faster. T-Jets Results Driver Red White Green Orange Blue Total Rob Hayes 33 32 34 33 35 167 Paul Ryer 32 33 33 32 34 164 Peter Lentros 31 33 32 33 31 160 John Reimels 30 31 32 29 31 153 Donny Hall 28 30 31 30 31 151 Mike Tiffany 29 31 32 31 25 148 Tom Smith 27 29 29 28 30 143 Jim Macartney 28 30 29 28 27 140 Tom Gray 30 25 28 30 27 140 Tom Bussmann 29 29 30 25 26 139 Cody Pare 23 29 26 27 28 133.35 Dave Muse 30 26 27 26 24 133.06 IROC Race: Nice looking Dire Wolves We’re getting close to creating our third class for GRoNE events, Dire Wolves. Most members have taken advantage of Peter’s efforts to kick off this class and purchased the kits he bought from RPMS. By our next event, we should have enough cars so most racers can run their own car or borrow one from folks that have built more than one. For this race, we ran the event IROC style with three cars built with the N20 motor out of an AFX Mega G+ car, the 4th car using an M20 motor. Racing was extremely close with the top eight finishing within three laps – now that’s racing! Peter Lentros took down the victory followed in close succession by Donny Hall, Dave Muse, John Reimels, Tommy Gray, Paul Ryer, Mike Tiffany and Rob Hayes. I really look forward to growing this class as an easy way for folks to experience the wonderful world of gravity racing. Dire Wolf IROC Results Driver White Green Orange Blue Total Peter Lentros 18 18 16 20 72 Donny Hall 17 18 17 19 71.33 Dave Muse 19 17 17 18 71.10 John Reimels 18 18 16 18 70.40 Tommy Gray 17 19 15 19 70.06 Paul Ryer 18 17 16 18 69.24 Mike Tiffany 19 19 15 16 69.23 Rob Hayes 18 18 15 18 69.10 Tom Smith 15 18 15 17 65 Cody Pare 17 17 15 15 64.11 Tom Bussmann 17 16 14 17 64.10 Jim Macartney 13 17 15 16 61 Gravity Race: Gravity Podium - Donny Hall 1st, Paul Ryer 2nd, Tommy Gray 3rd and Dave Muse 4th Saving the best for last, Gravity cars were up next on the Viper track. With Rob opting out of the event, we were down to 11 racers, but still enough to run all six lanes. Donny Hall ran a masterful race beating the field to the finish by 4 laps. Paul Ryer finished second in a tight scrap with Tom Gray. Dave Muse finished a very clean fourth. It’s GREAT to see Donny, Tom and Dave at the top of the field, they’ve been solid members of the GRoNE graviteers since the Gravity Podium - Dave Muse 4th, Tommy Gray 3rd, Paul Ryer 2nd and Donny Hall 1st group’s inception; for all three to be on the podium is just awesome – racing is getting tighter, as we all get a handle on Gravity Racing. Mike Tiffany nipped John Reimels for 5th with track owner Peter Lentros in 7th. Gravity Results Driver Red White Green Orange Blue Yellow Total Donny Hall 20 22 22 23 22 21 130 Paul Ryer 18 21 20 22 23 22 126.32 Tom Gray 20 19 24 22 20 21 126.05 Dave Muse 20 22 21 22 21 18 124 Mike Tiffany 18 19 22 23 21 20 123.31 John Reimels 17 20 20 23 21 20 123.13 Peter Lentros 20 19 19 21 20 21 120 Tom Bussmann 17 19 20 22 19 20 117 Cody Pare 17 20 19 19 18 19 112 Tom Smith 16 19 18 20 19 17 109.18 Jim Macartney 18 20 19 20 18 14 109.17 Thanks to Peter Lentros for hosting and thanks to all participants for spending their Saturday racing brass cars. I’ll put out feelers for a race the end of March / early April – anyone interested in hosting, let me know. John Reimels GRoNE Master of Ceremonies Brass Car Enthusiast