UTRCRC Rock Crawling Competition #3 Results (NOW WITH PICS)

[PinchFlat]

UTRCRC Rumble on the Rocks 3 Results. July 17th 2004

Course 1 (The Waterfall):
1 Martha Stewart/Jason Craig – 6
(6 gate marker penalties)
2 The Furless Yeti/Brett Thorne – 7
(7 gate marker penalties)
3 The Dust Guppy/Matt Davis - 16
(penalties: 1 reverse, 6 rollover, 4 gate marker, 1 by-pass(5pts.))
4 Decko/Dean Farrington – 18
(penalties: 5 rollover, 2 reposition, 6 gate marker, 1 by-pass)
5 El Capitan/Andy Heyd – 20
(penalties: 2 rollover, 1 reposition, 7 gate marker, 2 by-pass)
6 Sleepless/Jason Kallas – 29
(penalties: 7 rollover, 2 reposition, 5 gate marker, 3 by-pass)
7 Grinder/Troy Benton – 33
(penalties: 1 rollover, 1 reposition, 11 gate marker, 4 by-pass)
8 The Duke/Chris Ladd – 37
(penalties: 1 reverse, 2 reposition, 14 gate marker, 4 by-pass)
9 Luke Duke/Steven Wykoff – 43
(penalties: 1 reverse, 4 rollover, 1 reposition, 10 gate marker, 5 by-pass, 2 time penalty)
10 Necko/Nic Farrington – 51
(penalties: 5 reverse, 1 rollover, 3 reposition, 17 gate marker, 4 by-pass, 1(+1+1) time penalty)
11 Just-a-MAXX/Scott Okelberry – 57
(penalties: 5 reverse, 6 rollover, 1 reposition, 6 gate marker, 7 by-pass. 1(+1+1) time penalty)

Oh boy… Course 1 was a tough one. The key to this course turned out to be a long wheelbase and grippy tires. At about a 45deg up-hill pitch this course just ate up the crawlers with short wheelbases and lower traction tires. Combine the steep, constant climb, with the fact that the course was set-up on a river run-off with VERY slick and polished rocks, made The Waterfall an extreme challenge.


Course 2 (The Suicide Razor):
1 Martha Stewart/Jason Craig – 8
(penalties: 2 rollover, 3 reposition, 3 gate marker)
1 The Dust Guppy/Matt Davis - 8
(penalties: 4 rollover, 4 gate marker)
3 The Furless Yeti/Brett Thorne – 9
(penalties: 2 rollover, 7 gate marker)
4 Decko/Dean Farrington – 14
(penalties: 4 rollover, 3 reposition, 7 gate marker)
5 El Capitan/Andy Heyd – 16
(penalties: 7 rollover, 1 reposition, 3 gate marker, 1 by-pass)
6 Necko/Nic Farrington – 17
(penalties: 1 reverse, 3 rollover, 4 reposition, 4 gate marker, 1 by-pass)
7 Sleepless/Jason Kallas – 26
(penalties: 2 reverse, 4 rollover, 7 reposition, 8 gate marker, 1 by-pass)
8 Luke Duke/Steven Wykoff – 27
(penalties: 1 reverse, 5 rollover, 5 reposition, 3 by-pass, 1 time penalty)
9 The Duke/Chris Ladd – 28
(penalties: 1 reverse, 9 rollover, 2 reposition, 1 gate marker, 3 by-pass)
Scott Okelberry and Troy Benton had to leave early so we had no course 2 score for them.

Course 2, The Suicide Razor, had it’s own challenges that had to be overcome. The course didn’t really favor a particular wheelbase or any special tire. But with combination of off-camber sections, numerous wheel-sucker holes and precarious cliff edges (scale cliffs of course), made this course a ”drivers course”. Although we soon learned that a lower center of gravity (CG), wider tires and wider tracks did let you drive a little sloppier. Crawlers with these configurations helped them to better to hang on to the off-camber faces and straddle those wicked wheel-suckers. Those with higher CGs, narrower tracks and narrower tire widths suffered a bit on The Suicide Razor.


Overall for the day :
1 Martha Stewart/Jason Craig – 14
2 The Furless Yeti/Brett Thorne – 16
3 The Dust Guppy/Matt Davis - 24
4 Decko/Dean Farrington – 32
5 El Capitan/Andy Heyd – 36
6 Sleepless/Jason Kallas – 55
7 The Duke/Chris Ladd – 55
8 Necko/Nic Farrington – 68
9 Luke Duke/Steven Wykoff – 70

The UTRCRC Rumble in the Rocks 3 was our biggest turn out yet with 11 crawlers competing (and the hottest). We did have a couple more crawlers show up but they chose to support us instead of compete, which is great too, maybe next time. We had a great time and really appreciate everyone that showed up to compete and support this event. Also we want to give a special Thank you to Steven Wykroff, Chris Ladd and Andy Heyd for foregoing sleep and making the trek from Colorado. It was great to meet Steve and see Andy and Chris again. It wouldn’t have been the same with out you guys.

Congratulation to Jason Craig for winning the top spot. Although he was using for the first time, that cheater radio, the Futaba 3pj Super. We all could see the great advantage you can have with 4 wheel independent steering. Friendly complaints were numerous that using that radio was cheating. Of course when we all get one it won’t be cheating, it will be the best thing ever. It’s funny how that works.

Pictures will be up soon. We also shot a lot of video for the upcoming UTRCRC DVD. Our next event is set for August 21 st. We would love for you all to come and crawl in Utah.

-PF

"BITCHES "

[Ace]

Man what a blast, thanks again guys!

Not a better bunch of guys anywhere.

[bustedcrawler]

Sweet, I might just be able to make the next meet!!! Just need to buy books, move into an apartment, and then go out and crawl with you guys. Sounds fun and hella tough, my kinda crawlin'!

[DirkDigler]

Man I wish I would have been there!!!

Next one is mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PinchFlat]

Originally Posted by DirkDigler

Man I wish I would have been there!!!

Next one is mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It would be great to have you come out... I think the diggler would have RULED Course 1 - The Waterfall.

BTW... Chris has the 14min/102.7 MB Colorado .wmv video on disc.... make sure you get a copy from him. Brett did a great job putting together both of our footage. I'd forgotten how freaking cool the Diggler is, then I watched the video.

[Grizzly4x4]

Man, what a tough day. The Duke received a severe asswhoppin by the Utah boys for sure. Congrats to them on the courses and their drivin skills. I loved being out there, especially with a/c in the RV.
I knew The Duke was not set up for your courses just from the pictures of ROTR 2 so I prepared my ego for some humiliation, 8 hours of drivin is plenty of time for that.

Look for some changes to The Duke, that I learned from you guys, before the August event . I'll be lookin for some payback BITCHES!

[Fishmaxx]

Could post the type of truck in order of finish

[PinchFlat]

Originally Posted by Fishmaxx

Could post the type of truck in order of finish

Overall for the day :
1 Martha Stewart/Jason Craig – 14 (Custom Chassis/Clod Axel)
2 The Furless Yeti/Brett Thorne – 16 (Custom Chassis/Clod Axel)
3 The Dust Guppy/Matt Davis - 24 (Custom Chassis/Clod Axel)
4 Decko/Dean Farrington – 32 (Modified Gecko2/Clod Axel)
5 El Capitan/Andy Heyd – 36 (Custom Chassis/Custom Shafty)
6 Sleepless/Jason Kallas – 55 (Custom Chassis/Clod Axel)
7 The Duke/Chris Ladd – 55 (Custom Chassis/Clod Axel)
8 Necko/Nic Farrington – 68 (Modified Gecko2/Clod Axel)
9 Luke Duke/Steven Wykoff – 70 (Custom Chassis/Clod Axel)
-the other 2 that had to leave were a clod axel/wierd old chassis and an emaxx.[/b]

[Fishmaxx]

The 3pjs is discontinued at Tower/Futaba sites

Any other suggestions 8O

[PinchFlat]

PICS PICS YAH PICS!

for more goto:
http://www.utrcrc.com/rumble3/index.html




















-PF

[kevinlongisland]

hey, who stole my truck, ran the competition, and then returned it to my car trunk?








mine:

[Fishmaxx]

Originally Posted by PinchFlat

Congratulation to Jason Craig for winning the top spot. Although he was using for the first time, that cheater radio, the Futaba 3pj Super. We all could see the great advantage you can have with 4 wheel independent steering. Friendly complaints were numerous that using that radio was cheating. Of course when we all get one it won’t be cheating, it will be the best thing ever. It’s funny how that works.

Tower /Futaba site show this radio as discountined Any suggestions

[Fishmaxx]

Originally Posted by PinchFlat

Congratulation to Jason Craig for winning the top spot. Although he was using for the first time, that cheater radio, the Futaba 3pj Super. We all could see the great advantage you can have with 4 wheel independent steering. Friendly complaints were numerous that using that radio was cheating. Of course when we all get one it won’t be cheating, it will be the best thing ever. It’s funny how that works.

Tower /Futaba site show this radio as discountined Any suggestions

[TwistedCreations]

9 The Duke/Chris Ladd – 28
(penalties: 1 reverse, 9 rollover, 2 reposition, 1 gate marker, 3 by-pass)


9 rollovers???




cmon now guys, 8 out of the 9 trucks were clod axled. somebody out there needs to stick up for the shafted guys

[PinchFlat]

Originally Posted by Fishmaxx

Tower /Futaba site show this radio as discountined Any suggestions

Futaba 3pk.... I think some of the Ausies are useing them.

[TwistedCreations]

why would the 3PK be a cheater radio? because you can control your 4ws seperately?

if that's the only reason why, then my traxxas controller would be cheating then too

[PinchFlat]

Originally Posted by Toyotafourwheeln

why would the 3PK be a cheater radio? because you can control your 4ws seperately?

if that's the only reason why, then my traxxas controller would be cheating then too

Oh... Martha Stewart was the only one running that radio Saturday and he was all excited about it... So we all were harassing him and calling him a cheater. He was hitting the "Cheater Buttons" all day. We were hoping to make him cry. Hell I have a 1/2 cheater radio the 3pj and I can switch from 4ws to crab to front wheel steer and control the rear steer at anytime (but I rarely use it that way-just full time 4ws)... it's just not as convenient as the 3pjs or the 3pk.

[Grizzly4x4]

Originally Posted by Toyotafourwheeln

9 The Duke/Chris Ladd – 28
(penalties: 1 reverse, 9 rollover, 2 reposition, 1 gate marker, 3 by-pass)


9 rollovers???

Yea yea, not my best day. I learned that my CG was too high and I was too narrow.

1 gate marker: Narrow is good for something.
The Utah crew has some INSANE courses.