Well, once again I have been remiss in my reporting...:HMMM: As I predicted above, I had a schedule conflict and missed the April race at the Hillsborough State Fairgrounds. Everybody said I should be glad I missed it; the track was horribly rough and beat the cars up pretty badly. Then the final race of the year at Florida Solar Energy Center was cancelled because of a delay in getting liability insurance for the event.:eek: So.., the last race I ran was the one described on the previous page. I race-prepped the cars, as usual, and put them away for the summer.
September 26th brought the opening of this year's season at Hillsborough Community College. My son was not available, so I only took one car, my red & white #94. I won my class handily and finished only 5 laps shy of the winner in the Experimental Battery class. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Electrathon, the Exp Bat class uses Lithium Ion or Lithium Polymer batteries which are 50+ pounds lighter than my Optima batteries and have a different discharge cycle. Finishing only 5 laps behind the winner of that class is remarkable.:3dSMILE:
One of the college engineering clubs from USF was tired of me thrashing them at every event, so two weeks after that September race they bought my #94 car.:rolleyes: I am currently building a replacement; this one is a sort of hybrid design. I am using my tried and true "Silver Bullet" style chassis (like my black #13 car), but I am enclosing the rear with the tapered body like the red car I just sold. This one will be lime green and white. I'll post pics when it's done.