Our little meeting space continues to
fill up each and every month. The C4
Trade show had over a dozen vendors on hand, a full 32 entries filled the
Downhill Racing Hot Wheels Stock Class, and 18 entries battled in the Downhill
Racing Run Whatcha’ Brung Class. There was
a raffle and a ton of prizes given away and the race winners took away more
than bragging rights. The Winner of the
RWBC received a Hot Wheels Five Pack, a Free Race Token, and a $10 Gift Card
for Toys R Us, while the Winner of the HWSC received a automatic entry into the
RWBC, a 2015 Classic Cars Calendar, a Hot Wheels Five Pack, a Free Race Token,
and a $10 Gift Card for Toys R Us.
The Downhill Racing Hot Wheels Stock
Class was packed with a full field of 32 entries and one of those entries
dominated the field. Semi-Finalist James
Goolsbee Jr. and his Cadillac Escalade with FTEs breezed by Nathan Talbert’s
HyperTruck in the Qualifier, dusted off Dustin Barker’s Firebird Funny Car in
the Heats with a small chuckle, and shrieked by Autumn Florendo’s Screamin’
Hauler in the Quarterfinals. Owen
Nesslage’s Black Firebird Funny Car saw similar results clearing away Tim Raley’s
Porsche Carrera in the Qualifier, then showing Gavin Sleeth’s Hershey’s Ford
Probe Funny Car the end of the road in the Heat Round, and hammered another
Porsche Carrera, entered by James Goolsbee Sr., to move into the Semifinals in
the top part of the bracket. The bottom
of the bracket pitted Funny Car versus Funny Car. Tim Raley’s Firebird Funny Car bested Nathan
Talbert’s Two Timer in the Qualifier, his son, Cole Raley’s Porsche 911 in the
Heats and then James Fortenberry’s Ferrari F40 in the Quarterfinals to get to
the Semifinals. The other Funny Car to
make the Semifinals in this part of the bracket was the Side Splitter, another
entry from the Owen Nesslage Stable.
Owen’s Side Splitter made short work of Ken Nozka’s VW Beatle in the
Qualifier, Stopped Nathan Zubalik’s Two timer in its tracks in the Heats and
simply crushed the Porsche Carrara entered by Eric Florendo in the Quarterfinals. In the top bracket, Owen’s Firebird Funny Car
proved to be faster than James’ Cadillac and Owen’s other entry, the Side
Splitter, also beat out its opponent, the Firebird Funny Car of Tim Raley. Either way, Owen was going home with the top
spot and some goodies for his win. We
still needed to see which of his entries was the fastest of the day. After the first two runs tied up the entries
at one apiece, the Firebird Funny Car took the last two in a row to become
January’s Hot Wheels Stock Winner and receive the HWSC Provisional Spot for the
Run Whatcha’ Brung Race.
The 18 entries for the Run Whatcha’ Brung
Class were made up of varying types of die-cast from stock Hot Wheels and
Johnny Lightning’s to full custom creations with some extra weight added to
help speed them down the drop. In the
top section of the bracket, Owen Nessalage’s HWS Class Winner from December
made a great showing beating Tim Raley’s Chevy Silverado in the Heats and
moving passed Ismail Rashada’s Ferrari F40 in the Quarterfinals. Both of those entries were stock Hot Wheels,
but unfortunately for Ismail, his remaining entry would go no further. James Fortenberry’s new creation, which he
dubbed the Supervan, weighed in at 180.0 grams and absolutely dominated in the
Heats laying to waste Tim Raley’s Wraith and squashing Cameron Daly’s Spiderman
Van in the Quarterfinals. The lower
portion of the bracket saw Cameron Daly’s second entry, which some of the race
fans called the “Hippie Van”, demolished James Goolsbee Jr’s Dodge Pick-up in
the Heats and crushed Cole Raley’s Hulk entry in the Quarterfinals. Also in action in the lower section was James
Fortenberry’s proven winner, the Ford Pick-up… this modified beast has won this
event in the past two previous times.
The Fortenberry Ford mauled Tim Raley’s “SuperVan” in the Heats then
ending Owen Nesslage’s Firebird Funny Car’s chances of reaching the
Finals. The Semifinals were set… James
Fotenberry’s “SuperVan” versus Owen Nesslage’s Ford Probe Funny Car and Cameron
Daly’s “Hippie Van” versus the Fortenberry Ford Pick-up. Disappointingly, for Owen and Cameron, both
Fortenberry Creations prevailed and there would be a Fortenberry Final. This final would be no different than the
previous outings for the Fortenberry Pick-up winning back to back runs and the
top spot in the Run Whatcha’ Brung Final!
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| Owen - DRHWSC Winner |
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| James - DRRWBC Winner |
Check out the racing on our YouTube Channel... C4 Downhill Racing
Also, special thanks to Nick Sickle for running and donating prizes for the first ever C4 Pick a Prize Raffle.
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