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After 8 hours of racing the Fall Nationals at RPM Speedway are over for 2011. With 230 cars in the pit area for the final day once again you have to give a big thanks to the crew at RPM for just getting the job done.
Racing got started a little late at 4:30 and we left the building at 12:30. As you might have thought, for a day race things went pretty good. They watered the track on the outer edge several times I think to keep the dust down even if the wind was coming out of the South and blowing across the track from turn one to turn four.
The main events got started around tenish or so. Passing was a luxury especially in the later races, they reworked the track before the B-mains and by A-mains time it was already showing a black slick surface, the winner in the Hobby Stock race passed several cars to win the race.
The winners of the the last two mains won green to checkered. This really is a big time event with a lot of big names in IMCA racing with drivers from 11 states and Canada, two IMCA national champions.
If you are on a racing budget and cherry picking your races to utilize what money you have to get the most bang for your buck, put this race on your calender for next year, I don't think you will go home disappointed. Enjoy.
Thanks to the announcing crew at RPM, Matt Kracik, Scott Haskell, Buddy Hess, and a legend in his own right, Mike Hughes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTMwNuY2LUc
Racing got started a little late at 4:30 and we left the building at 12:30. As you might have thought, for a day race things went pretty good. They watered the track on the outer edge several times I think to keep the dust down even if the wind was coming out of the South and blowing across the track from turn one to turn four.
The main events got started around tenish or so. Passing was a luxury especially in the later races, they reworked the track before the B-mains and by A-mains time it was already showing a black slick surface, the winner in the Hobby Stock race passed several cars to win the race.
The winners of the the last two mains won green to checkered. This really is a big time event with a lot of big names in IMCA racing with drivers from 11 states and Canada, two IMCA national champions.
If you are on a racing budget and cherry picking your races to utilize what money you have to get the most bang for your buck, put this race on your calender for next year, I don't think you will go home disappointed. Enjoy.
Thanks to the announcing crew at RPM, Matt Kracik, Scott Haskell, Buddy Hess, and a legend in his own right, Mike Hughes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTMwNuY2LUc