2014 Mint 400 Race Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from the 2014 Mint 400. Robby Gordon will drive the #77 Toyo Tires/SPEED Energy/Traxxas Racing TT #77. Qualifying is on Thursday, March 13th and raceday is on Saturday, March 15th. Live chat will be available on Saturday during the Mint 400.

Those attending the race in person, the SPEED Energy Souvenir hauler WILL be located in downtown Las Vegas. ( 6th street aka Raptor Lane ) - across from the Traxxas display.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on March 19, 2014 at 10:26am

yes it's better to add video's in the video section and tag them accordingly.It will get more views there.

Permalink Reply by Martin Calderwood on March 20, 2014 at 11:16am

Is this Trophy truck prepared by the crew in Anaheim or South Carolina? Just wondering, because it appears to me that the cars built in Anaheim never finish, in fact they seem to continually fail within the first 30 minutes.

Permalink Reply by TOG on March 20, 2014 at 12:11pm

prepped in NC

Baja 1000 - finished 6th

Parker 425 - DNF due to wreck ( where it was prepped had nothing to do with it )

Mint 400 - DNF due to transmission ( 5 albins transmissions in other trucks had the same issue, Manufacturer malfunction - where TT was prepped had nothing to do with it )

Thats racing!

Up next: Baja 500

Permalink Reply by Michael Martinez on March 20, 2014 at 3:45pm

Same issue...........I'm not being a D%&K...really i'm not. If the actual facts are known and it is okay to say specifics on what part failed in relation to the units layout that would be awsome. You know the "we had an engine failure". That's playground talk compared to "we had a rocker spring crack and the keeper popped which let the valve get sucked into the combustion chamber and the piston rammed that frigger into a little ball before shattering itself in to a puzzle".............then a wise ass could chime in and say "It's a valve spring..not a rocker spring" and we can all squeeze more use out of this thread with some real gearhead talk while we wait for the ...(while I wait) for the Clair Lang interview.

Permalink Reply by JIGGY JAY on March 20, 2014 at 6:42pm
Never gonna happen. Gonna have to find out what failed on the other 5 albins racers and see if u can squeeze it outta them. I'm curious to find out too. Cause he was cruising then just coasted off track and sounded like he couldn't get it into gear or outta neutral. No idea about that high end sequential trans so I'm not even gonna guess.
Permalink Reply by Murfdogg73 on March 20, 2014 at 7:02pm
Dondel had same tranny . At PARKER was bearing in converter. This race was valve stuck open motor not tranny. So probably 5 dollar part is my suspect. Even worse just 500 more yards to where I was . Everybody thought he rolled it cause orange coming down mountain in second was flying then never came out of dust.I was pissed everybody was waiting and on radio 77 out tranny. Tell you what dondel gets bugs worked out could win a lot of races.
Permalink Reply by J.R. Sands on March 21, 2014 at 10:44am

From an article Judy Smith :It was breezy and chilly and still dark when the first race went off the line. Classes in this one included the smaller, less powerful vehicles, and the biggest group was the Side by Sides, with 41 entries. There were 39 of the Class 1000 cars also, and interestingly, 29 entries in the “Prerunner” class, (numbered in the 1800s) a nice way for drivers in the second event to get a look at the course legally. We watched Robby Gordon pile into the back seat of one of the four-seaters, which had Ricky Johnson at the wheel. Can just imagine Gordon as a back-seat driver. Most of them did only one lap.

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