What a weekend!

It was good to see some familiar faces and meet some new people. I had a blast, didnt place as well as I would have liked, but the competition was tough! There are some things I would have done different, but its crazy that most of the runs we split by few seconds....a back up here or there and it killed your time. I have some more tweaking I really need to do to be competitive in tight turning events like this, but overall I had a GREAT time and look forward to wheeling with the other competitors again, without the stop watch.
Even though I am a part of the Clay County club that put on the event, I tried to stay out of the rule making and judging decisions. I will agree that some of the rules and how they were interpreted were a little hard to grasp for some people, but the basics were there and some people tried to exploit some of the down falls of them. Last year we learned some things and implemented them into the rules this year and we learned ALOT this year and next year should be even better. I am not sure why we didnt have a tech inspection before the event on Friday, that was something that was discussed last year but it never happened. Next year the rules should be written out and there will be no bending or changing them, what the judges say, goes. I also think the scoring was a bit overcomplicated as well, but that is something that is a learning process as well. This event was not a technical rock crawl, nor was it a XRRA race, wanted the competitors to go fast, without going outta control...thats what the tape and cones were for. with the lack of staff that was there, the ones that were there were kinda over taxed with watching and doing more than one thing at time. I am not sure what happened to the staff that was supposed to be there, but they just never showed or contacted Joe to say they would not be there, it was a bad position.
Jimmy, thanks for bringing me into your argument about flopping. I am not sure how you can compare mine with yours. I was on my side, not leaking ANY fluids on the ground (proper catch cans and and vents help with that) or on fire. No one helped me but my spotter and a snatch block. I was able to winch over on my tires, safely and was able to start back up and continue..........even though I ultimately didnt finish that course. In my eyes, along with about 99% of the wheeling community, if you catch on fire, you are done. You can check the majority of sanctioning events about fires. I think they should have said what to do in case of a fire and what will happen. It would have kept what happened from happening.
with some tweaking and better rule lists, next year should be even better....I cant wait!
John, congrats again on the win, you did great and stayed consistent.....I actually didnt realize your buggy could throw rooster tails!
Brian