Schimmel and Woodyard won Thunder Alley season opener

0 March 16, 2018, 7:58 a.m.

By Aaron Waldron
LiveRC.com

Race report from XRAY:
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Race report by Brennan Schimmel

My family and I headed to Thunder Alley in Wilson NC. Shout out to Luis Diego on the killer track layout. I ran nitro buggy nitro truggy and e buggy. During practice we got all 3 XRAY cars set up and ready for qualifying. Qualifying went great as I TQed nitro buggy and nitro truggy, and qualified 3rd in e buggy. First up was nitro buggy. In the start of the race Austin Woodyard and I moves away from the pack and I made a small bobble and Austin took the corner. I kept in touch for part of the race but had to do a extra pit, but at the end I would take 2nd overall.

Second main was nitro truggy and In the start of the race i clipped a pipe and dropped to about 5th I worked my way back up and battled with Michael Kramer for a few minutes and started to check out and go on the lap the field to take the overall win. Last up was e buggy and when the tone went off I immediately jumped to first and had a 2 corner lead on the rest of the pack. 2 minutes in and the computer software glitched so we had to restart. So once again I got out front quickly and was uncontested the rest of the race having about half a lap on the rest of the field.

My XRAY XB8, XB8E, and XT8 were dialed all day long.