Welcome to NHRA Jr Dragster Racing with DRE Motorsports
Another great year of Junior Dragster Racing at DRE Motorsports, at just past the half way point of the 2010 season at Bandimere and Richelle sits 7th in the JD2 class (10-12 yr old) and 2 points out of first in the JR Racecar Titan Fast 16, 330 Racing Series. Richelle also had a great showing at the NHRA Western Conference Finals this July when she won the JR Racecar Shootout for the 12 year olds and then later that week she Runner-Up in the 12 year group of the Western Conference Finals. Then in August 1st Titan Fast 16 Race she won her first 330 race, taking out the current points leaders and some of the best racers in the 330 program, she seems to really like the pro tree racing and we've been qualifying in the middle of the field which has been helping our pursuit of a championship in these series.
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Ready to go Green Racing! Check out DRE Motorsports peek into the future of Junior Drag Racing! In 2010 NHRA changed the rule allowing Electric Junior Dragster to now compete with their I.C.E counter part, which really limited ones racing fun, but we believe the electrics may have an advantage over its widely accepted brother, especially in the crazy weather and racing conditions we have in Colorado.
July 25th 2009 Entry.
Reprint from NHRA Jr Drag Racing League.
Racers and their families can help build a house at the
Western Conference Finals
Bandimere Speedway is working with Racers For Christ (RFC), and Missions
Ministries to build a house for a family in Juarez, Mexico, and those
attending the 2009 NHRA Jr. Drag Racing League Western Conference Finals
presented by JR Race Car can help with the cause. The family is now living
in a house built of pallets, which Bandimere Speedway, RFC, and Missions
Ministries will try to correct. Throughout the week of the NHRA Western
Conference Finals, the groups are going to work on building the family’s
new home in the pit area, and individuals, families, and teams attending
the event are welcome to help in this building process. The whole family
can pound nails and share in this experience of helping others in need.
RFC and Missions Ministries will also need to raise $10,000 to pay for
the materials and cost of shipping the house back to Juarez for the family.
Volunteers who wish to coordinate in advance with their time, expertise,
or monetarily may contact the NHRA Division 5 and Bandimere Speedway track
Chaplin, Ken Webb at KenWebbRFC@aol.com.
June 6th Entry.
This was Bandimere's NHRA Jr Challenge Race and was it a great day of racing, after all the rain we've had at the begininng of the season it was nice to finally finish a full race. This day we ran two classes, our standard points class JD2 and the 8.90 Index class which runs on a Pro Tree and Richelle really liked the Pro Tree. She had great light until the Semi Finals, but it got her her first trophy of the season. Getting past first round in JD2 also kept her in the hunt for JD2 as she moved up to 15th but in a 4 way tie for 11th place. Next race the 11th our make up race from the last rain out.
May 24th Entry.
Rain, rain, go away....Third race this year called because of...that's right, you guessed it, Rain! Prayers for the June 6th race as it's our Jr Challenge Race and we need to get one in the books and we are as ready as we can be at this point, so let the big dog run!
May 12th Entry.
Slick Test Day is here and time to try out the new parts. Colin at Gartnermotorsports new restrictor plates worked good, 8.56 was the first pass and now to add some weight, 12 lbs, 8.70, 20 lbs, 8.76, 25 lbs, 8.80, so looks like 10-12 more pounds should get us in the show! The data pulled down is looking much better, and Richelle's lights improved greatly all under .089. We also met with John from Mission Ministries and Ken from Racers for Christ on some upcoming events this summer, so stay tuned for more info to come on that. Next race May 24th.
May 2 Entry.
The season finally starts but not under the best of conditions, 45deg high and rain on and off thru the day, but hey we got a couple of rounds of racing in. Off the trailer she was a little fast 8.52, the track was good for the first time trial, but that was was about it. Richelle's .036 Reaction time was good enough to qualify 7th, but the -.039 red light made quick end of racing, so on to consolation and a .-020 Red light quickly finished that, but a few minutes later the rain finished off the day. Well fortunately we won't get too far back in points as the rain helped us out there.
April 17th Entry.
Snow much for the Season opener for Bandimere's Jr Dragster Series. The lovely thing about Colorado is she never wants to give up on her winter! After an extremely mild winter here in Denver, we had to have just one more spring snow storm before we can call it spring. Predicted highs for Monday and Tuesday, back in the 70's, Spring racing Go Figure!
April 10th Entry.
Welcome to our 2009 Racing Season! Well it been a long and busy winter in the DRE Motorsports camp, we decided to terminate our Blockzilla program in lue of the JR Racercar Titan Motor and boy does she sing! The 10th was Bandimere first Test/Tune on the 2009 Season for the Junior Dragsters and other then being a little cool by the end of the night (about 50) the cars were running good. The track was a little slick but due to the fact there's been no big cars laying down any rubber, some of the launches once we got down in the 9.0 range were less then stellar. But it was a fun night any how and good to catch up with our friends.
Winter Projects.
Over the winter we added a JR Racecar 3 3/4 Titan Motor with a Shockwave Overdrive Clutch along with a MyChron 4 660 Tach to help get the car dialed in and with the Datakey it makes it a breeze to download the data now. No more worrying about the laptop falling off the rollcage when downloading your data! Also over the winter DRE Motorsports help put together a couple of websites for our fellow racers. Special thanks goes out to Colin Gartner for all their help last year with loaning us their backup motor, so heres a link to their new website, www.gartnermotorsports.com. We also designed a new eCommerce site for Ken at Cramsey Motorsports the local Jr Dragster parts dealer at the track. Ken and his family have produced some of the most winningest cars in the west and have a living room and garage full of trophies to prove it, along with a few championships as well! Check out Ken's new site at www.cramseymotorsportsonline.com.
See ya all at the track!
Randy
