March 12, 2018 | john The Show Must Go On! Ashland Massachusetts, February 24, 2018 – The Godfather of Gravity racing in the North East was unable to make the event, but the racing continued. Johnny Brasscar had to sit out the event, but his cars still made up most of the field for a day of T-Jet and Gravity racing at LenJet. Ten drivers made the show to get some track time on the tracks that will be used at the 2018 HOPRA Nats. A full field of T-Jets First up was Vintage T-Jet. We had lots of practice, tuning, and swapping of tech tips to get the day going. The MaxTrax Python is a blast with these cars. “Little” Greg Burstein has really developed into a top-notch builder as well as a hot shoe driver. Greg had high lap total or tied for high lap total in every lane. Yours truly finished in second 4 laps behind with Peter “The Mayor” Lentros rounding out the podium. T-Jet Results Drivers Yellow Blue White Red Total Avg Greg Burstein 25 28 27 25 105 26.2 Paul Ryer 24 26 26 25 101 25.2 Peter Lentros 24 25 25 24 98 24.5 Rob Hayes 23 24 24 24 95 23.8 Dave Muse 24 23 25 23 95 23.8 Tom Gray 22 25 24 23 94 23.5 Don Hall 23 24 23 23 93 23.2 Tom Smith 17 21 19 20 77 19.2 After a stroll over to the sub shop to get some lunch, Gravity practice started in earnest. Lots of controller tuning and a bit of tuning on the cars and everyone was pretty much Ten Gravity Cars - Top View ready to take to the track. The field was made up of a an early Joel Pennigton sidewinder, three Landshark cars (one was an inline and the others were anglewinders). The rest of the field were Reimels cars consisting of 5 center hinge cars and an earlier straight rail car. Racing was fast and close with three drivers finishing with the same lap total (sorry I left the sheet with sections at LenJet so the results are based on what came up on the computer screen). Once again Greg took the win, but only by a Ten Gravity Cars - Bottom View lap over Rob Hayes who was very quick as well. Ryer took third to round out the podium. Fast lap of the race was 7.324 seconds by Greg in the blue lane. In fact, Greg had fast lap in all the lanes for the race. Gravity Results Drivers Yellow Blue White Red Total Avg Greg Burstein 24 23 20 22 89 22.2 Rob Hayes 22 22 21 23 88 22 Paul Ryer 21 20 21 20 82 20.5 Tom Gray 20 18 20 19 77 19.2 Dave Muse 18 21 20 18 77 19.2 Peter Lentros 19 20 19 10 77 19.2 Stez 20 19 19 17 75 18.8 Don Hall 18 19 19 17 72 18.2 Tom Smith 18 19 17 15 69 17.2 Jim Macartney 16 17 17 16 66 16.5 And that wrapped up another great day of T-Jet and Gravity racing. Thanks to Peter for hosting and thanks to everyone who came out to race. Next race will be back at LenJet April 28th. Hope to see you there! The race report as recorded this day March 11, 2018 Douglas C. Neidermeyer Sergeant at Arms