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Crandon, June 16th or something like that:
Took 7th out of 9 trucks on saturday. It was alex's first race, so he wasnt pushing the truck much. After the race, we noticed a small miss resulting in him having to feather the throttle out of corners. Also discovered that the reverse band was smoked out of the C4. Who cares, dont need any reverse anyway. Sunday in Crandon the bronco took another 7th place. Pushing a little harder.
Alex Suits up for the first race.
Little pep talk from brother Eric in staging
Antigo: July 6th and 7th
Super muddy track conditions most of the weekend. Very rutted too. Saturday Alex took a 5th, pushing the truck pretty hard. Blew a tire on the last 3 laps, lost a door skin, and a drive shaft loop, blew a radius arm bushing out, resulting in tweaking the bump can. On Sunday, he took an official 5th, but should have had 3rd. He was a lap down when the competition yellow came out, so he passed to make the lap up and to get in order, which is frowned upon, so they took his lap away. Blew a tire the last 2 laps too. Both tires blown were fronts being rolled off the beads from the ruts. Time for beadlocks. The miss was cured though, and the truck ran great.
The heavy clay/mud literally broke body hoops and crushed panels.
We are now prepping for Bark River, August 10th weekend. Ill be making my Stock Truck debut at Bark River. I'm pretty jacked about that. I'll try to get some more buiild pics up of it soon.
Top plates from Bear Cat Fab for the stock truck...
Bark River prep is upon us... Like our huge shop?!
Tough weekend for DSR in Bark River. Saturday in Stock Truck, the 505 Ford had a severe suspension issues in the rear, which in turn destroyed a shock and the rear shock mounts and down tubes. The crew worked all night and rebuilt the whole back half of the cage, and had her going for sunday, only to be plagued by motor issues. In the end, two DNF's for the 505's debut race.
On Saturday, the Formula 4 Bronco, 400, was running strong in 3rd place, when he was hit in the rear half way through the moguls and rolled over. The 400 was airborne the first roll, as he landed hard on his roof, and rolled once more onto her side. The truck that hit the 400 stayed on the gas and ran the Bronco over mid roll, and sky rocketed into the air and landed on its roof. Driver Alex Hinze was okay.
On a side note, Dale Off Road had a rough weekend in Stock Truck, with driveshaft issues. In Super Stock, they made 2 solid runs.
Like to thank the crew of DSR and DOR for helping and wrenching, and a huge thank you goes out to Curry Custom Fab & Welding for the portable welder and torches. Couldnt have done it with out you guys!
Here's some pictures and a video link to alex's rollover.
The Bronco on the road to recovery for Crandon
Our buddy Matt Dale getting sideways in the super stock, he also drove the 577 stock truck.
If you guys feel the urge to get a Dent Side Racing shirt, PM me. We should still have all sizes left...
Next race is Fall Crandon. The Bronco will be there, but the Stock Truck is still up in the air with funds, and me starting college on monday.
Hey guys,
I guess I never updated about Fall Crandon!
We left the #505 home, just because the motor was toast and I was straight up out of funds.
The #400 Did well on saturday. Hinze was holding well in 3rd, until he got gathered up with two supertrucks in the corner before the finish line. He spent the rest of the race trying to catch up to the 3rd place jeep, and had the pass in the gravel pit corner on the last lap, where he bit hard and biked it up hard and had to save it. Took a respectable 4th place finish.
Sunday, we were staged up ready to go when we discovered that the Bronco had no rear wheel drive. Instead of racing and risking another set of front gears, we put her on the trailer. Diagnosed it as a broken output shaft on the T-case.
Here's some pictures.
Off season plans include quite a bit. In the Formula class, a 4-link with coilover rule went through, so we could be possibly 4-linking the rear of the bronco. If we do, expect this bored to be tapped dry of 4-link knowledge. Plans for the bronco also include extended radius arms and coilovers in the front.
Plans for the Stock Truck include a stronger Windsor, rebuilt trans, new gears and spool, redesign of the back half of the cage, and more. Just a good clean up of all the rush mistakes we made on the truck. We should have a strong team next year, and we hope to gather up some wins. We are also excited to bring on a new sponsor, Yoopershirts and the new energy drink, Drink U.P. If your from michigan, you'll understand.
Here's some more pictures from fall crandon..
Our buddy Matt Dale in Super Stock
Me with Matt in staging. Lots of super rad trucks in Super Stock. These guy's scream.
Jerry suffered a broken back from this wicked roll in Super Truck. Happened in the infamous Corner 1 at Crandon. They cut the cage off with the jaws of life and had to chopper him out from the track to the hospital. He's recovering and will race again.
It was fun to read this post. It's great to see young blood get their start. I was particularly interested in your Formula 4x4 efforts as it is a class that I help start after coming back to the Midwest from running my first Baja 1000 in 1998. You race with a couple of Jeeps driven by the Holtz's. They have been coming out to Baja now for years to crew for me. One of these days I may get my Blazer back to Crandon. There is nothing like racing into Turn 1 at Crandon on the start. Good luck to you guys in 2013.
It was fun to read this post. It's great to see young blood get their start. I was particularly interested in your Formula 4x4 efforts as it is a class that I help start after coming back to the Midwest from running my first Baja 1000 in 1998. You race with a couple of Jeeps driven by the Holtz's. They have been coming out to Baja now for years to crew for me. One of these days I may get my Blazer back to Crandon. There is nothing like racing into Turn 1 at Crandon on the start. Good luck to you guys in 2013.
This is a cool grass roots racing thread. Some of the cage design work is kind of scary and I would be concerned with the safety of the drivers. On one of the cage failures, it's good they did not have a Nav guy like we have in desert racing. The mud flaps are a bit over the top but I assume they are a class requirement. Some of the Fab work is kind of funny. Thanks for the look into your race efforts.
David Wright - Wrightracing.net - Complete-fab.com
Originally Posted by FlyHiFlyLo
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