It was January 6th, C4 race committee had planed for two races. One would be the "Bow-tie" battle and the other was an invite only race. The invite only race, is for all people that do customs. This will be explained in more detail later in the post.
For the Bow-tie battle, we had a total of 70 entrees, the most we've had in a while. Also, because we had 70 entrees, we had to do a "Race-in" to 64 cars to complete the bracket. What I mean is that we took the last person to sign up to race, which was me, and we took their cars and "raced" them in.
We used a random number generator to pull out 6 random cars, each car would then go up against my cars to decide which was entered in the bracket. Out of all of my cars that competed in the race-in, only two stayed. Fortunately, the bracket allowed me to enter 4 of my other cars.
I won a couple in the eliminator portion of the race, but when we reached quarter finals no one could beat the blue Chevelle, Alex had brought one and someone else had brought one. My Chevy Stockar couldn't keep up. Therefore I was eliminated before the semi-finals.
In the end, another Chevy Stockar had won, another Stockar took second, and Alex's blue Chevelle took third. Next would be the custom invite-only race.
Anyone who participated in the custom race brought their cars and was able to test them, not many people had prepared for the race, I didn't prepare either... In the end we ended up rescheduling the race until next month because we didnt have enough people to run the race...
I had a great time today and i cant wait to work on my custom for the race next month, and i will be getting cars ready for the stock race as well...
Thursday, January 18, 2018
GRI Jr's December C4 Experience
The day was December 2nd, there would be only one race today and it was a special one... Today we would be running the Treasure Hunt Challenge, a "winner-takes-all" race where if you lose, you lose your car too. That previous weekend my dad and I had gone to the PA Toy show and scoped out a few hunts for the race.
From a Cadillac to a Way To Fast, we had a total of ten cars on our side enter the race. In total there were 62 cars entered, almost an entire bracket of cars to race. There were many races where the same cars raced each other, mostly because we had an over abundance of that type of car, or because of some odd luck.
Alex had brought only four cars to race, with price tags of five to fifteen dollars each. She had believed that her four cars were enough to take home the prize. But one of the cars had a bent axle and couldn't even make it to the finish line... Even though she lost one of her cars, the other three did do some damage to the other entries. Alex must have went home with at least fifteen cars and if I recall correctly she had won the overall race.
I, myself had won about 6 to 9 races and took some other cars with me. During the race we had a pretty big audience, well big in a sense that most people only come to sell then we had a little more then usual which was pretty cool. I was actually able to start the cars and launch them which was different and fun.
Another big event that occurred this month was our Christmas themed custom build-off. We only had four entries but they really out did the last build-off we had. For this build-off we also decided to have a silent auction for these pieces. The overall theme of the contest was Christmas but there were deeper rules then that, your finished piece must be two chopped/combined vehicles to create one finished piece.
Mike Catron had put up a red van, I cant even explain the combination of vehicles. It was a tree delivery with Santa as the driver. Justin did three different vehicles transporting trees. Rob had done a pickup truck with a tree and decals that looked great and on top of all of that he gave it a glass casing with lighting around it. Marcus had done a snow board truck that almost resembled a transformer that I thought it was really cool.
Overall the meet was pretty simple but it was still really cool. No matter what every month I look forward to going and I always have a good time. My favorite part of every meet is the races but today was one of my favorite. Now on to January and I wish you all a good holiday season.
From a Cadillac to a Way To Fast, we had a total of ten cars on our side enter the race. In total there were 62 cars entered, almost an entire bracket of cars to race. There were many races where the same cars raced each other, mostly because we had an over abundance of that type of car, or because of some odd luck.
Alex had brought only four cars to race, with price tags of five to fifteen dollars each. She had believed that her four cars were enough to take home the prize. But one of the cars had a bent axle and couldn't even make it to the finish line... Even though she lost one of her cars, the other three did do some damage to the other entries. Alex must have went home with at least fifteen cars and if I recall correctly she had won the overall race.
I, myself had won about 6 to 9 races and took some other cars with me. During the race we had a pretty big audience, well big in a sense that most people only come to sell then we had a little more then usual which was pretty cool. I was actually able to start the cars and launch them which was different and fun.
Another big event that occurred this month was our Christmas themed custom build-off. We only had four entries but they really out did the last build-off we had. For this build-off we also decided to have a silent auction for these pieces. The overall theme of the contest was Christmas but there were deeper rules then that, your finished piece must be two chopped/combined vehicles to create one finished piece.
Mike Catron had put up a red van, I cant even explain the combination of vehicles. It was a tree delivery with Santa as the driver. Justin did three different vehicles transporting trees. Rob had done a pickup truck with a tree and decals that looked great and on top of all of that he gave it a glass casing with lighting around it. Marcus had done a snow board truck that almost resembled a transformer that I thought it was really cool.
Overall the meet was pretty simple but it was still really cool. No matter what every month I look forward to going and I always have a good time. My favorite part of every meet is the races but today was one of my favorite. Now on to January and I wish you all a good holiday season.
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