Saturday, October 1, 2016
Today I ran my first practice run, but had some rear diff issues that made my car hard to drive, like when I would get on the throttle it would spin out.
Sunday October 2, 2016
Today I ran my 2nd and 3rd practice run. In my 2nd practice round I broke a front camber link early on. My third practice run my car was really good, I changed shock pistons, fluid and raised the chamber links to help my car go through the ruts.
Monday October 3, 2016
Today was the first and second round of seeding, your best 3 consecutive laps count toward what heat you were in for qualifying. In my 1st seeding round I had a lead break off my battery and ended my 1st seeding round with a 108.421. In my 2nd round of seeding I had no failures and finished with a 108.386.
Tuesday October 4, 2016
Today was the 1st and 2nd round of qualifying. In my first qualifier started out good until dirt got stuck under my front left a arm. That next lap I came into the pits and my pit guys fixed my car and I was back under way with a full tank of gas to last me the rest of my 10-minute qualifier. After that I finished 12th in my heat and 121 overall for the round. In my 2nd qualifier my car felt really good and I was doing good, until the rear diff locked up and made it hard to drive but I pushed through it to finish 8th in my heat and 113th overall for the round.
Wednesday October 5, 2016
The 3rd and 4th round of qualifying is today. The 3rd round of qualifying I had a good run just had some little mistakes but finished 5th in my heat and 35th for the round. In my 4th round of qualifying I had a good run and again finished 5th in my heat but 70th overall for this round.
Thursday October 6, 2016
The last 2 rounds of qualifying was today. I had decent last 2 qualifiers, I finished 99th overall in the 5th round and 45th in the 6th round of qualifying. After my best 4 out of 6 rounds of qualifying I was 80th overall going into finals.
Friday October 7, 2016
I qualified into the 1/32 even final starting 8th. The start of my 1/32 even final, I hit the pipe after the first turn then bounced back into oncoming traffic and someone hit my car and broke the front chamber link. , About 10-minutes later we get my car back on the track and I finished my final in 13th and 134th overall at my first 1:8 worlds.
I would like to thank my amazing step-dad, amazing Mom, amazing family and everyone else for helping me get this far. As well all my amazing sponsors that have helped me get this far as well thank you, HB Racing, A Main, Pro-Line, Hobbywing, Protekrc, Vp Racing Fuels, Ogio, Mattox Designs, and Reds Air Brush Designs.
– CJ Jelin
