Scoob scoop: Snowflake 150, 2000

Scoob scoop: Snowflake 150, 2000

Got home late sunday night, great weekend. I guess it's always better when you take a first. We had 5 - class 3's show up but 1 of them, Mark Wright felt they had a chance in 8. First time racer Adam Crowley, One of the Fisher-Brown Crew purchased an ex SCORE CJ-8, And pulled 1st to start in the pill draw. Adam elected to start last, as this was his first race. So the line-up was AC-Scoob-Franklin (Swanson's 303 jeep)-Adam (CJ-8). Within 5 miles I had AC's dust in sight, and also had the 303 jeep in sight behind us. We battled out for about 5 more miles and after a really fast section (had it pinned in third gear) 303 stayed on my bumper easily. I thought I'd let him by to beat himself and to give AC a little to think about. 303 jeep caught AC relatively quick and passed him. About the same time the CJ-8 caught us, but we held him off in the tight/rough stuff and was able to put some distance between him. Had a hard time trying to get close enough in the dust to get by AC but his tranny stumbled on a steep climb on the power line road which allowed me to get in passing position, but we were in the trees and there was no where to pass. So we stayed on AC for a bit (1-truck length) It was easier to maintain this, in that little dust free window just behind another racecar. He hit a nice dip in the course and his Bronco did an impressive wheelie (all at race speed 1 truck length). Soon after the wheelie the course opened up into a meadow and he let me by. I totally blew a corner 300 yds later, the corner had a sloping down hill on the outside and I had to point it down the hill to keep from rolling. I got it under control and back on the course luckily I was far enough ahead of AC that he didn't get by. He said something on the radio about "thanks for all the dust".

The 303 jeep was really fast. We came around the first lap and he had like 8 minutes on us already, AC was a minute behind me and the CJ-8 was on his tail. The 303 Jeep was pulling away from us fast At one point we came through the pit he had 11 minutes on us. I gained a minute a lap on AC. On the 3rd lap we came upon the 303 Jeep on it's side gushing oil, their crew actually tried to stop me to pull them over. I slowed down enough to see that everybody was walking about and went around him. They went down in a pretty gnarly corner, a double down right 90 that pointed you at a "sucker tree" on the outside of an immediate 90 left. It looked like he was steering hard away from the tree and laid it over. The checkpoint was less than a half mile down course and we gestured to the crew that there was a rollover behind us, they waved that they knew. AC followed my tracks around the 303 jeep, but the CJ-8 stopped and put the jeep back on it's feet, doom.

While 303 was down I was able to put 20 minutes on him. AC had a drive line problem and had to stop in the pit. The 303 jeep caught and passed him on the last lap. On the lap the CJ-8 pulled the Jeep over, he snapped off his brake pedal trying to avoid a drunken man and his son on the racecourse. Adam called it quits, then walked down to school these individuals. As he was walking down there he saw the same thing happen to a 5/1600 car trying to avoid the idiots (except brake breakage).

If you look at the Lap times of Mark Wright, Tony's tips where right on the money. Scoob 1st, 303 jeep 2nd, AC 3rd, CJ-8 DNF, Mark Wright's lap times would have put him fourth with us. My race truck did not skip a beat, neither did the new Larry's Engine and Marine, Engine or the Art Carr transmission. Our BFGoodrich tires worked great with awesome performance and no flats. We did not stop at all during this race.

Whiplash put on an excellent race there was a huge showing; the two-race profile worked great and made it more fun. On the way home I told my co-driver Chad, "not a bad weekend" he said, "what are you talking about, that was an awesome weekend