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> great weekend at Hastings, Nebraska, the birth of a brand new track!
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post Aug 22 2006, 02:52 PM
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Just had a great race weekend at Hastings Nebraska..

I know its in nebraska, but it was still pretty impressive.
A bunch of enthusiasts banded together to do the impossible and it came out well.

we were the very first ever race to be held on the track and they rolled out the red carpet. The town was great, the racing was great, the track is great...
hmmm... I had a pretty great time overall.

Have some pictures and links.
first off here is the Hastings website

followed by a bunch of other people's pictures

and also a bunch of Professional photo's


I didn't finish as high as I had hoped.
but the racing was superb. I still had a blast.
I only finished in 10th overall

I really had fun dicing it out with bob dent
we were neck and neck for about 6-7 laps and he beat me by .294 seconds at the finish.

here is bob dent's car:


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post Aug 22 2006, 03:02 PM
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We rolled into Hastings on friday and were practically knocked over by the humidity...

luckily it was cloudy and overcast much of the rest of the weekend.
no rain... no unbearable heat.. and no significant humidity.

truely a perfect weekend weather wise with just a touch of cool breeze and 80some degree temp...

the Track grass hasn't been planted yet
it was surrounded by mud due to construction delays
but even though I had 2 spins, I never ended up leaving the pavement!

here is a picture of the mud:


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post Aug 22 2006, 03:07 PM
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more pics...
track:


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post Aug 22 2006, 03:08 PM
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paddock:


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post Aug 22 2006, 03:16 PM
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LOL farm implements in the background.

Looks like our new track (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

(looks like fun!)
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post Aug 22 2006, 03:20 PM
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was your impression that the track could be a "pretty fast" track? I saw the arial photo of the track and it looks like it has two nice, long straights and the area between the straights looked pretty high speed with a little dogleg to it.

But arial photos can be deceiving, however looking at the construction equipment in the photo to try to get scale made me think they are nice and long.

I ask because if I end up moving to Denver area, I will need a track that I can go to with a car that can hit 160-ish, or I will never really be able to hang it out with my current configuration (why I like Willow Springs out here so much v. other tracks I have been to so far). I ran Willow - a "fast" track by most people's standards, in 3rd gear only last time the car was together. I could have gone to 4th and over 140, but didn't have a cage and the car just wasn't safe at that speed, let alone more. Now I want to be able to hammer it.
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post Aug 22 2006, 03:23 PM
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QUOTE(Eric_Shea @ Aug 22 2006, 03:16 PM) *

LOL farm implements in the background.

Looks like our new track (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

(looks like fun!)



guess who designed it?
yep.. same fellow!
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post Aug 22 2006, 03:24 PM
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Its pretty fast...
not 160mph fast though

most 911's were in 4/5th on every corner
with my new box I was 3rd and 4th on all but 1 corner.

its pretty fast.

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post Aug 22 2006, 03:25 PM
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In all fairness it wasn't really very wet
(it rained friday night, and I took most of these pictures first thing saturday am before it dried out)



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post Aug 22 2006, 03:32 PM
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teener's stuck together
(in order to reduce the amount of time we would of spent walking around trying to borrow parts... ha)

so these were my paddock neighbors:


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post Aug 22 2006, 03:34 PM
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Track principal owns a motor shop that also is liscensed as a manufacturer...

they build these monsters with 427's:


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post Aug 22 2006, 03:34 PM
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run's on snake oil:


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post Aug 22 2006, 03:57 PM
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2nd fastest car of the weekend (beaten by a quick formula car):


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post Aug 22 2006, 04:09 PM
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more cars from my run group:


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post Aug 22 2006, 04:10 PM
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post Aug 22 2006, 04:11 PM
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post Aug 22 2006, 04:12 PM
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and, Robert Ames' extremely well driven 2.0:


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post Aug 22 2006, 04:13 PM
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post Aug 22 2006, 04:18 PM
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all of these so far (not the cobra) were in my group.

This is george mcdonalds....
unfortunately he punched a small hole in the case on the last lap of race #2

I was holding off a bmw for most of that race and had 4-5 car lengths coming into the last corner. Luckily I judged that I could go slow and safe, yet hold onto the lead.

I went around the final corner and no oil flag was out... suddenly the car wouldn't turn... I managed to shut it down and come practically to a stop without going off road. I thought to myself.. "shi**t, I've lost it to the bimmer now" and put it into first gear and go for the checker.

I checked my mirrors to see which side the bimmer would pass me on.

he on the other hand was making a bonzai corner to try and catch me.
he hit the oil and apparently had no reserves.
I saw him in my mirror as he shot straight through the corner exit into the mud.

whew.....


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post Aug 22 2006, 04:18 PM
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The bimmer from the above story.
I beat him all 3 races:


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