June 2023

Setting up the month of June with a clean slate, our journey began in Springfield MO, where the King of Springfield is held by MAP Motorsports. The track was set up with dirt jumps sprinkled about the black top surface. The asphalt hindered the trucks performance during racing due to the tires hooking. We did not want to push racing the truck too hard, and risk more parts be broken. Overall, the team placed 6th out of the 12 trucks that competed.

A couple hours from Springfield was our next event that located in Miami OK. During one of the rounds of racing, both our truck and Dozer, the truck we were competing against, came off the jump crooked enough to jar them off course at the exact same time. The two were catty corner from each other. As they were both backing up, Dozer was heading towards the pits as RJ re-positioned to finish the race. As he crossed the finish line, the announcer had demanded a re-run. We refused to race again because RJ had crossed the finish line, granting him the win. Because of this, the venue took this as a forfeit and advanced Dozer in racing.

Hickory NC is where things start to head south for the month. In the middle of our first freestyle of the weekend, RJ pits the truck due a valve dropping in the motor. On top of this, we were fighting with a constantly leaking tire that had dropped down to 13 PSI during intermission. We made the executive decision to swap the new motor out with ole Frankenstein, causing us to stay up until 3 in the morning. We oped out of racing because we weren’t too entirely sure about how the motor would preform after not running for a few months, but we still participated in the wheelies competition and freestyle. Almost running the truck for 4 consecutive minutes, RJ had fans chanting his name as he walked to collect his trophies for wheelies and freestyle.