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Last weekend i participated on the last stage of
the Mexican Offroad 2006 Championship (MT-Open and Buggy 1/8th
classes). The event was held on the "Speed Hobbies"
store track in Guadalajara City - Mexico.
Started Friday 15.00hrs with open track for practice
and learn the layout, the track was very loose on the sides with
medium grip on the middle of its line of driving, very dry on
the surface and humid after the first 2-3 cm of dirt. The weather
was very hot and humid but we had information of rain coming during
the weekend (i was very exited about this, being my first time
of racing under raining conditions).
Saturday morning all the heavy activity started,
free practices until 12.00m, and after that the 3 rounds of 10
minutes qualifying started in MT and Buggy classes. We had rain
the prior night so we had a different track than the day before,
having more traction in some points of it. After couple of tanks
of practicing we started to comment with other pilots about strategy
to get good lap times and all pointed to a very conservative driving
cause even when the track was not a car-killer, it had a lot of
small jumps/bumps that didnt permit you to be very agressive all
the time. By the end of the day i ended qualifying in 8th position
in Buggy (that means that i was the 1st position on B-Main for
sunday) and TQ'ed on the Monster Truck Class.
Sunday, full racing day. Sunday was a VERY different
story, started to rain the night before and the track was very
very wet with some small lagoons on some points of it, the rain
was getting hard so the organization cancelled the original plan
(2 more heats prior to the finals) so ended runing just one more
10 minutes heat in each class. As a surprise for the pilots, with
the exception of the "mini lagoon" sections, all the
track improved its grip by 50% or more, and at least in my case
i was fighting againts traction roll on one of the curves of the
track, same section were the previus day permitted me to slam
the throttle hard without any problem. For MT i ended using 28mm
offset OFNA wheels with Proline Crimefighter MT Tires and on the
buggy the best choice was going with Panther Tires Komodo Dragon
II on Panther gray Wheels.
Monster Truck A-Main. Not too much to say, just
problems. Being TQ'ed i was very happy and confident on doing
well on the finals, i prepared the truck and my pitman took it
to the pit section, trying to start my engine (pullstart) and
WOW, the pullstart cord cut itself !!, he worked on it for about
8 minutes and i had a running engine, too much laps to recover
but under heavy rain maybe i have a chance so my pitman put me
on the driving line and here we go !!, one lap after, my truck
went absolutely crazy, my receiver received water (even when i
sealed very well !!, i dont understand !!) so that was my A-Main
participation, at least i did 1 lap lol !!.
Buggy B-Main. This was a classis 90% pitman work
race !! ... rain was very heavy and after 3 flameouts and couple
of laps having my engine spitting water and not reving at all,
my pitman called me every 2 minutes to take out my airfilter foams,
squeeze them and put them again (even with that i felt my engine
not having power at all, as i saw a pilots flaming out or having
dead electronics). After 30 minutes of eternal racing, i ended
3rd place and very happy with the results and more than grateful
about my pitman work, wich i think did 85% of the race for me
(way to go Gonzalo !!).
Buggy A-Main. I was very nervous about this run
after "survive" the B-Main. I changed the filter header
for a ofna 180º one (the ones that point to the back of the
car, over the radio tray), and put 2 prefilter foams over the
main filter, all with more oil than im used to use (Power Save
Racing airfilters and oil, the best i know). After a very ugly
start (i touched another car on the air on the double by the end
of the straight) i managed myself to get 4th position and after
a couple of laps i was on 3rd, just got one flameout due to water
shoot directly to the engine cooling head, my pitman re-started
me very fast so i was in the game again. After 40 minutes of racing
and very hard fighting against a mexican good friend and pilot
(Fabrizio Moniet) i ended winning the race and with a smile that
i cant erase even after 3 days now.
Here you can see the ending positions of the Buggy
1/8th A-Main :
The machines that took the podium on the Buggy 1/8th
class were :
- 1st Place : Jammin FTE / STS .21 Team Edition
- 2nd Place : XRAY XB8 TQ / Novarossi Top P5
- 3rd Place : Mugen MBX5 / RB WS7 II
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English Version
Mi nombre es Patricio Concha (alias : "Pato Concha")
y
soy de Chile (América del Sur). He estado
compitiendo en modalidad onroad por los últimos 5 años
hasta Diciembre 2005 cuando mi esposa me diera en
navidades una Camioneta Monster Tamiya TNX PRO y a
partir de ese momento me "enamoré" de la tierra.
Tengo además dos "hobbies dentro del hobby",
los
cuales son ayudar a gente en las pistas donde estoy y
participar de foros de discusión de RC alrededor del
mundo (me puedes encontrar como "PatoConcha" o
"Tabushi" en internet).
Acabo de recibir el auspicio de Racernine.com con el
STS .21T y de Maxys Fuel con el chassis de Buggy 1/8
Jammin X1-CR FTE, así es que comenzaré a correr
buggies en las nacionales de México los días 26,
27 y
28 de Mayo 2006. Debido a mi trabajo siempre estoy
con un pié en un avión así es que he tenido
oportunidad de competir en varios países durante mi
fiebre de onroad (Brasil, Venezuela, Colombia, Puerto
Rico, España y ahora México) ... así es
que espero que
con el bicho que me ha picado ahora de offroad,
consiga nuevamente buenos resultados en pista. Tengo
experiencia con los motores STS cuando competía en
onroad, por lo que espero obtener la misma alta
calidad y potencia de este motor STS .21T de cabeza
verde.
Muchas gracias a los amigos de Racernine.com ... nos
vemos en la pista !!
Patricio "Pato" Concha
Chile - América del Sur
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Hi,
My name is Patricio Concha (aka : "Pato Concha") and
im from Chile - Southamerica. I've been racing
onroad for the last 5 years until December 2005, when
my wife gave me a Tamiya TNX PRO Monster Truck and i
became in-love with "dirt". I have 2 additional
"hobbies inside the hobby" and thats is helping people
at the track and participate in different RC forums
around the globe (you can find me as "PatoConcha"
or
"Tabushi" on the net).
I just received sponsorship from Racernine.com with
the STS .21T engine and from Maxys Fuel with the
Jammin X1-CR FTE buggy chassis, so i will start
buggies starting at the Mexican Nationals by May 26th,
27th and 28th - 2006. Because of my job im always
with one foot on an airplane so i had the chance to
live and race in various countries during my onroad-rc
fever (Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Spain
and now Mexico) ... i just hope now with the offroad
racing bug i got, i can get good results on the track
again. I have experience with STS engine in onroad
racing so i hope to get the same high quality and
power from this green-head .21T STS engine.
Thanks a lot Racernine.com guys ... see you all at the
track !!
Patricio "Pato" Concha
Chile - Southamerica
Mexican Nationals
2nd Stage by Pato
Hi guys,
Well, already finished the second stage of the Mexican Offroad
Championship 2006 (MT's, Truggy and Buggy) at Tampico City (north
of Mexico). I will try to do a little article about my experience
there ... after 10 hours of bus for get the city event and 10
hours to get back to the city im working in Mexico i have a lot
to talk about hehehehe.
Old Yesterday, 05:55 PM Default Mexican Nationals
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Hi guys,
Well, already finished the second stage of the Mexican
Offroad Championship 2006 (MT's, Truggy and Buggy) at Tampico
City (north of Mexico). I will try to do a little article about
my experience there ... after 10 hours of bus for get the city
event and 10 hours to get back to the city im working in Mexico
i have a lot to talk about hehehehe.
Saturday :
- First day of the event. 11.00hrs as starting time
so rapidly started to prepare myself for everything. 08.30hrs
i was at the track and charged all my batteries for the day. Walked
around the track 2 complete laps trying to know where do the best
lines for racing. This is my first time in offroading as a pure
racer on Monster Truck and Buggy (specially in Buggy, being my
first time with a buggy on a track). There was about 20 Monsters
and 30 Buggies from all over Mexico (Tampico as city of the event,
Guadalajara, Pachuca, Monterrey, Queretaro, etc.).
- First MT and Buggy heat were merely to know the
track better after the practices and know how fast the other pilots
were. In MT my main concerns were 2 guys, one Savage X and one
Revo higly modified with .18TM engine. In buggy the story was
different cause i droped on a group with a couple of top mexican
drivers that for sure will get the A-Main so i tried to look at
them as they practiced in order to try to learn something.
- Second and third heats. In MT i tried to do my
best with a Faster Tamiya TNX PRO + .18TZ engine that gave me
the pole position with 14 laps in 10 minutes and 07 seconds. The
fight was hard specially against a yellow and green Revo with
.18TM engine that turned my life into a nightmare, very fast pilot
indeed. In Buggy i was pushing my self hard to try to at least
reach the B-Main, as i was starting to see the overall positions
with almost all the top 7 pilots doing same number of laps within
just seconds of difference between them ... at least in
Buggy my Jammin was doing a good job and the STS .21T engine showed
to be a real contender against engines with 2 or 3 times its price.
- By the end of the day i was very happy with my
results but preocupied cause all the pilots were getting better
and better after each heat (the race its based on 4 x 10 minutes
heats for qualifying).
Sunday :
- Second day. Arrived to the track at 08.00hrs and
prepared all the stuff for a very stressing day.
- I was dediced of not to run the last heat due
that i already had the pole and was hard to somebody to get it
over. But talking with the fast revo pilot we decided to race
each other on the last heat just to try ourselves (mistake !!!)
... the heat began and we were fighting each other for the whole
10 minutes, changing the lead about 8 to 10 times ... but i pushed
him very hard and he ended killing my pole by 3 1/2 seconds ...
damn !!! ... was a beautiful fight on the track, good job Jorge
!!.
- In buggy i took the advice (by
MSN) of my chassis and fuel sponsor (Maxy Velazco from Maxy's
Fuel) and i modified some little things on the Jammin, which let
me put 15 laps on 10 minutes and 1 second. At that time i was
on firt place for B-Main, man i was so nervous getting such a
great result for my buggy debut, so i was trying to put in my
head to run a calm and easy race in order to maintain myself at
least on the 3rd place to jump to the A-Main.
- Monster Truck A-Main (30 minutos).
Little to nothing to tell here, i was hoping to eat the race and
get first place as many Buggy and MT drivers were telling me how
fast at the track my TNX was ... bad luck i had a great start
and was in first place for a couple of laps when a screw of the
rear suspension links came off and my pitmant worked fast to put
another one back, 3 laps later, same thing and again, 1 lap later
again same stuff ... finally i ended doing a lot of pit time and
my pitman ended puting some looong screw with a lock nut on the
other side so it will stay there, but was too late, i went back
on the race behind the 9th for 3 laps so my pitman started to
yell "come on Pato, fly !" ehehehehe ... i did a very
good race after that nut just finished in 6th place and the fast
yellow Revo pilot had some technical problems too and ended 3rd.
- B-Main, Buggy 1/8 (30 minutes).
Behing at the first place for the start i was very very nervous
but lucky me i ended doing a very good race with just a few mistakes
and finished 1st place, so nervous that when the race director
spoke by microphone "congrats Pato Concha for the first place"
about 1/4 lap before crossing the finish line, i crashed my buggy
2 times hehehehe just because of the stress i had !!!. I was very
happy and soooo nervous about having the chance to race an A-Main
on my offroad debut.
- A-Main, Buggy 1/8 (40 minutes).
Behing first place on B-Main, i started the A-Main in 8th place.
The only changes i made to the buggy for this A-Main was changing
the clutch bearings, throw some WD40 over all the other ball bearing
areas of the buggy and checked everything (air filter, pipe support,
etc) and added 2mm to the front and rear spring as preload, just
to be sure that on that hot weather the suspension not end feeling
so soft on 40 minutes of racing (and i was right !!). This was
the longest 40 minutes of my entire life, in onroad racing i had
the chance to race 1 hour mains many times, but offroading is
sooo different with the track changing its conditions lap by lap.
My start was almost perfect, my pit man instead of puting myself
looking on the same direction as track goes, he left me looking
90º to the track so i crossed it and accelerated fast on
the free outside part of the straight and ended after the first
turn puting myself on the 3rd place. I maintained myself on third
place for a couple of laps and then got the second position. I
must be honest and say that i had the perfect car and perfect
engine, but was my lack of experience on offroad racing that started
after some 10 to 15 minutes of racing to make stupid mistakes.
Hope to do better next time at the 3rd stage in July 29th and
30th in Monterrey City - México.
Thanks a lot to :
- All the Mexican guys, they know how to give you
friendship inside and outside of the track, great group of friends
!!.
- My Chassis and Fuel sponsor, Maxy Velazco from Maxy's Fuel for
the excellent adviced he gave me prior to the race from USA, the
Jammin performed flawless and got all the beating i gave without
a single broken or bended part.
- My Buggy engine sponsor, Racernine.com, the STS .21
Team Edition engine + STS Pipe showed to be on par with other
engines that double or triple its price and my engine never passed
98ºC barrier. I was passing over JP's, RB's, OS's and others
... great combination of bottom and top end.
- Not my sponsor but a great help, thanks to David Joor from Avid
RC bearings for the bearing pack he sent me as emergency package,
without those surely my car was not as free as he felt even after
the hard 40 minutes of racing.
Here are the list of Chassis and engines for the Buggy A-Main
:
** Daniel Ornelas made the TQ, Maxy's Fuel Pilot.
1 Beto Gutierrez Mugen MBX 5 Prospec
2 Melecio Perez Mugen MBX5 Prospec
3 Pato Concha Jammin STS .21T (Maxy's Fuel)
4 Ramon Sigrist CL-1
5 Humberto Gutierrez Mugen MBX5
6 Daniel Ornelas Xray XB8 JP FX8T (Maxy's Fuel)
7 Israel Perez Mugen RB
8 Jorge Elizondo Mugen RB
9 Said Segura Kyosho Kanai 2 OS RZ (Maxy's Fuel)
10 Alejandro Molina Mugen
And here are the videos that were taken by a couple of guys with
my camera :
1.- Last 7 minutes of the Buggy B-Main where
i got first place :
http://images.domino.org/d/58859-1/...s_BuggBMain.wmv
2.- Start of the 40 minutes A-Main Buggy :
http://images.domino.org/d/58863-1/...yAMainStart.wmv
3.- 3rd Heat of Group number 2 of MT's :
http://images.domino.org/d/58943-1/..._3rdHeat_MT.wmv
4.- 4th Heat of Group number 2 of MT's :
http://images.domino.org/d/58946-1/..._4thHeat_MT.wmv
5.- 2nd Heat of Goup number 1 of Buggy :
http://images.domino.org/d/58949-1/...dHeatGroup1.wmv
6.- 2nd Heat of Buggy goupr 3 :
http://images.domino.org/d/58952-1/...dHeatGroup3.wmv
Note
by RacerNine:
Pato has been burning up the tracks in Mexico and Chile. His accomplishments
have earned him a Tier One sponsorship from RacerNine.com. Congratulations
Pato. Read Below.
R9
July 2006 Pato writes:
Well guys, just came back from a 2 week vacation in my
country (Chile) ...
I participated on a local championship stage on
a very
big-jump-style track and wow, ended 2nd behind of one
of the best 1/8th pilots in my country, cant be more
happier with the engine ... its on its 4th gallon of
fuel and strong as ever ...
Here is a link to the picture at the end of the
race,
im the one in the middle :
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/1876/dscn1598editado5oj.jpg
and
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/3050/untitled1xx3ik.jpg
Cya and thanks !!, i will be racing the 3rd stage
of
the nats in Mexico by the end of the month, still
undecided on go with my same engine or buy another STS
.21T (im short on money right now due to apartment new
furniture, you know, wife desitions heheheh) ... |
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