This past weekend was the first stop on the BRL tour at Tri-State Hobbies. With over 80 racers in attendance there was a lot of close racing. With the switch to 1S for most of the classes for the BRL this was going to be the first race to see how everything would shake down.
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Well, back from the BRL in Cinci and I must say I was definatly impressed at how close the racing was but mostly as how many drivers were running CEFX and running so well.
In 10.5, Dusty Dean switched over to his CEFX car from last year for Sunday's racing and ended up bringing home the win!! He had a great run in the main which was a super close run down to the last 2-3 laps.
In 7.5, it was pretty crazy to see that the Lithium took the top 4 spots in qualifying plus 8 out of the top 10 spots overall. Hays Reeling Jr. lead the way in qualifying followed closely by Adam Leihr, Corey Heft and Terry Zinser. Mike Makus and Eli Ezrow bumped up from the B Main making it 6 out of 8 for the final. In the final, Hays was able to pull away up front and looked to have the race under control when there was a crash about a 15 laps from the end that also collected Corey. Before the wreck, we had a 1-6 sweep of the final going but in the shuffle both Adam and Mike pulled off with damaged race cars. Terry Zinser snuck through and got out front to finish out the race with I believe his first BRL win!! Hays finished up second, Corey 3rd and Eli was 4th.
Overall it was a great weeked. Mr. Filo gave us lots of time at the track to practice and work on our cars after racing (thank you for the extra testing time Sunday sir!!) so thanks to him and the Tri-State crew!! Thanks to Chuck for keeping the BRL going strong!! Congrats to all the winners and hopefully I'll see everyone again soon at another BRL event!!