The Art of Racing: Strategies and Challenges at Vandemere Speedway

As we observe the talented drivers and their teams at Vandemere Speedway, it's clear that they have managed to pack an impressive amount of power into their vehicles. The 91-octane fuel is a testament to their dedication to performance, and the resulting horsepower numbers are nothing short of astonishing. With eleven pounds of boost, these cars are capable of producing over a thousand horsepower, a feat that requires precise tuning and expert handling.

The teams at Vandemere Speedway are no strangers to the challenges of racing at high altitudes. The elevation can be unforgiving, and even the most seasoned drivers must adapt their strategies to compensate for the reduced air pressure. In this environment, every bit of power is crucial, and the slightest miscalculation can result in a car that's struggling to keep up with its competitors.

Despite the challenges, the drivers at Vandemere Speedway are undeterred. They're a determined bunch, and they'll stop at nothing to ensure their teams are running at their best. For Cletus, who's currently leading the pack in the six-class category, the key to success lies in the clutch. His team has been working tirelessly to identify the issue, and it seems that a new clutch may be just what the doctor ordered.

The clutch is a critical component of any racing vehicle, and its performance can make all the difference between victory and defeat. In Cletus' case, the problem has been causing him to struggle with shifting, and his team is determined to get to the bottom of it. By breaking down the beam, they're able to assess the situation and identify the root cause of the issue. It's a painstaking process, but one that's essential if they're going to get Cletus back on the podium.

As we wait for the next round of racing, we're treated to a glimpse into the teams' strategy sessions. The pit crews are busy making adjustments, fine-tuning their cars to ensure they have the edge over their competitors. Meanwhile, the drivers are taking it one lap at a time, navigating the treacherous track with precision and skill.

For now, the focus is on getting through the day's racing without any further issues. The rain is starting to fall, casting a gloomy shadow over the proceedings. But even in the face of adversity, the teams remain optimistic. They know that a little delay could be just what they need to get their cars sorted out and back up to speed.

As we head into the final hour of racing, it's clear that the competition is fierce. The drivers are pushing themselves to the limit, executing flawless passes and dodging hazards with ease. And yet, despite the intensity of the racing, there's a sense of camaraderie among the competitors. They're all in this together, each one determined to emerge victorious.

As we take a break from the action, we get a glimpse into the pit lane. Cletus' team is hard at work, tinkering with his car and making adjustments on the fly. Meanwhile, Megan's crew is struggling to find their footing. Despite their best efforts, they're unable to shake off the lag that's holding them back.

Just as it seems like things are starting to settle down, disaster strikes. A car makes a mistake on the track, spinning out of control and forcing the pit crews into action. The chaos is palpable, with drivers scrambling to avoid the wreckage and make their way to safety.

As we watch the drama unfold, it's clear that this is what racing is all about. It's not just about winning or losing – it's about the thrill of the ride, the rush of adrenaline that comes with pushing yourself to the limit. And at Vandemere Speedway, where the drivers are already giving it their all, we can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.

The teams will be taking a break from racing until tomorrow, when they'll head off to Kearney Raceway Park in Nebraska. It's a 400-mile drive, one that will take them through some of the most scenic landscapes in the country. And while some competitors may choose to leave early, we'll be following along on the route, giving you an insider's look at what it takes to make it to the track.

As we hit the road, we'll see firsthand what it takes to drive a racing car over long distances. We'll witness the camaraderie among the drivers, the banter between pit crews, and the sheer skill required to navigate the twists and turns of the track. It's going to be an eventful journey, one that will leave us breathless and eager for more.

The next stage of our adventure begins now, as we embark on the drive to Kearney Raceway Park. We'll take you along with us, sharing every twist and turn, every triumph and setback. And when we arrive at the track, we'll be ready to go, bringing you all the action from the world of racing. It's going to be a wild ride, and we can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome to Vandermeer Speedway home to the second race day of Rocky Mountain race week and our third day of the event because yesterday we drove through the Rocky Mountains all day and it was beautiful we got to fall all these 200 race cars I'm sorry street cars through the mountains on their first drive day of four they've got over a thousand miles to drive and all the cars here at the track that you see have made it through that first drive and that was the roughest one going up in elevation hit a bunch of rainstorms and we followed the racers all day so we're gonna get right to that and then we're gonna check in with the racers and see how the drive was to get here Wow what a glorious look I'll show you yeah that's not Mountain Dew believe me a little stronger yeah stronger yeah yeah that's oh good thing the jacks up front no not well so every day we drive there's a checkpoint or two checkpoints at three checkpoints today because it's Rocky Mountains it's challenging enough they're only doing one and we're here the Royal Gorge Park it is amazing time it throwed leave the world gorge and I see some dark clouds over here a little bit of rain so the boys are getting their roots ready we sure are what's the water resistance rating on this recked opinion bracket bro oh really yeah we smell wires Barnidge wires when the whole nation start burning which are that yeah we found that fuel lying around so maybe paper lock here in a little bit looks like they're back in business it's pretty common on this trips the fields get so warm that paper locks that's right all the tricks you can keep your fuel pool we're gonna hit the road looks like these guys gonna be okay they're gonna make a bracket for Fred's car and we'll see you also get all we decided to break off from the path for a second and stop by bill Armstrong his house whose I think second place and stick shift right behind Cletus so I'm just gonna stop by hang out for a little bit apparently a fixing a car there right now number one we gotta pull mine - oh really well I got a vibration coming but I didn't lose gear like him well that's right you said you were having issues on how much yeah you figure out what's going on here it sheared the gear off they welded it so this sheared off this is the syncro you know how to work that so we welded this back on and then had to grind it so no we're just trying to get that as I play the pieces so now the GTO has reverse Phil is bringing his car and to get started taking that apart fix it never fibration and so they're gonna long night here big THANK YOU to Bill for feeding us dinner tonight letting us hang out here relax for a little bit before racing tomorrow will be at vandemere tomorrow morning start racing at 9:00 a.m. mother nature was nice enough to dry up and we've got the track driver ready to start racing the racers have packed the lanes because there's a chance of rain all day today so we're gonna hit the track and show you the highlights from today right now 10:47 136 for the hearse pass number two down yeah you're gonna call it good are you gonna make another one I'm good with it I mean for being a brand-new car low tens on a 22 foot long car its 22 feet I didn't know that bumper to bumper is 22 feet not even counting the shoe we're gonna call it and see what races down the road sweet I want to I want to meet you guys on the road sometime this week I want to see this thing go down the road I thought that was you guys when we came out of the Royal gorgeous it might have been friends the minivan oh yeah it is is the van we'll enjoy the drive tomorrow 862 for Alex Taylor much easier day for you today no thinking I'm still gonna make another pass so I did white as well yeah so think I got time let it cool down and all that but I just ran the numbers and averaging out my crappy Monday I still have I'll have an 8 89 l serial h with you ever to her tits that's good if I can get an 85 did they I'd be happy but not too far off turn in how many passes you make Saturday fire by the time I got my last three they were like within an hour and the track was just gone yeah exactly okay you got figured out I had to come ask you about this before you leave no I've never seen one before oh it's a narrow body Callaway are Barney one of two Carroll Callaway Aero body really it's a grand sport number 114 it's got twin turbos and 100 shot of nos Oh what nitrous did oh yeah give a second to the hetero oh yes how many huge Corvette nuts oh it's always fun to see something unique yeah it's a little dirty right now how they crammed a lot in there I love that that's cool how much how much powers are put down you know right now 91 octane it's probably right around seven something to the wheels that's some good power and that's you know I'm about eleven pounds of boost you could boost it up to probably around a thousand horsepower but you're gonna start breaking things you're probably gonna have to run close to 20 pounds of boost he's loving life damn boats running eights not bad at all that's not good Cletus is currently in first place for six at plas they're thinking maybe the clutch might be having its weekend and said something that was weird on the road it's kinda like an on/off switch it just didn't want to slip that's part of the before the don't think about rocket boundaries because the road is really tough on these cars you find your weaklings pretty quick plan we're just gonna break the beam so before we tear it apart little insurance Franky's new clutch it is or to figure out what the problem is they're gonna break the beams right now push it up there yes to start it and roll through the beams under zon power you get a 20 second pass which is horrible for the average but at least you can continue on for the next three days and finished race week so maybe you can get it swapped out and fixed before we're done racing if it rains a little bit that could be the best thing it could happen for them because they'll probably delay racing a little bit later in the afternoon give them some time so we've gotten assault two hours of racing and so far Vandermeer and the rain is starting to sprinkle down the clouds are get a little dark we might get lucky but I don't know there's there's only a handful of cars that haven't gotten a pass there might be feeling the pits ahead issues on the road they're still trying to fix their cars so they're crossing their fingers that we'll get some more racing and I know Cletus is really hoping for a little bit of a delay so you can get the clutch fixed and get back up here for real pass I can already tell by your face you're not exactly excited I already tell by your face you're not exactly excited right now we just damn Gators like you leave the line it's it doesn't leave parted on than to suit 60-foot which comes in it's going down once they light up it goes to fell on its face exactly picked up we're trying to get to know we root for that seven good luck man it's been about an hour since I checked in with Cletus yeah Leroy's doing looks like we got a Bible study over here all the fans are watching open to see and make a pass hopefully are putting it back together now back in that's a good sign it bolts back down for the bushing spinning that's what that's speaking lies yep there's self clearance the only material took off yeah it took up a good bit was it the bush no no it was a metal-on-metal the bolts all the bolts were yes so the torque - wasn't bolted to the input up for the transmission just first then while I was still moving a little bit was because this was catching the bolts shaven material I saw the pile of material down there yeah yeah you got a new one yeah it's already gonna heck did you find that like 25 minutes down the street there's a Corvette like scrapyard and we just got a tour - that's conveniently torque to that of a 2030 feet zo6 head on the head you're kidding when you say they're gonna turn it up full better a little better 60 book we can visit looking real again everyone's having problems up here in elevation a 60-vote the nice fast maybe you can get even quicker one when we're not at 7,000 feet best one please Lee just has some dedicated fans that is awesome they all hung around just waiting for Megan's car fixed and they're all up here they want to see a run oh man it was on a pass Levin Oh on that sure but we got what about men so we have a dip all right is they ready to leave it so we can graceful perfect jack stands well it looks like that's it for day two of racing here at vandemere Speedway we're gonna be hitting the road to Kearney Nebraska tomorrow Kearney Raceway Park we have all day tomorrow to drive there some competitors are going to leave in the morning some really early some competitors are gonna leave tonight to get a head start on the drive cuz it's almost 400 miles somebody leave in the morning we'll be following them along the route to show you what happens there and then racing in Kearney on Wednesday we'll see thatwelcome to Vandermeer Speedway home to the second race day of Rocky Mountain race week and our third day of the event because yesterday we drove through the Rocky Mountains all day and it was beautiful we got to fall all these 200 race cars I'm sorry street cars through the mountains on their first drive day of four they've got over a thousand miles to drive and all the cars here at the track that you see have made it through that first drive and that was the roughest one going up in elevation hit a bunch of rainstorms and we followed the racers all day so we're gonna get right to that and then we're gonna check in with the racers and see how the drive was to get here Wow what a glorious look I'll show you yeah that's not Mountain Dew believe me a little stronger yeah stronger yeah yeah that's oh good thing the jacks up front no not well so every day we drive there's a checkpoint or two checkpoints at three checkpoints today because it's Rocky Mountains it's challenging enough they're only doing one and we're here the Royal Gorge Park it is amazing time it throwed leave the world gorge and I see some dark clouds over here a little bit of rain so the boys are getting their roots ready we sure are what's the water resistance rating on this recked opinion bracket bro oh really yeah we smell wires Barnidge wires when the whole nation start burning which are that yeah we found that fuel lying around so maybe paper lock here in a little bit looks like they're back in business it's pretty common on this trips the fields get so warm that paper locks that's right all the tricks you can keep your fuel pool we're gonna hit the road looks like these guys gonna be okay they're gonna make a bracket for Fred's car and we'll see you also get all we decided to break off from the path for a second and stop by bill Armstrong his house whose I think second place and stick shift right behind Cletus so I'm just gonna stop by hang out for a little bit apparently a fixing a car there right now number one we gotta pull mine - oh really well I got a vibration coming but I didn't lose gear like him well that's right you said you were having issues on how much yeah you figure out what's going on here it sheared the gear off they welded it so this sheared off this is the syncro you know how to work that so we welded this back on and then had to grind it so no we're just trying to get that as I play the pieces so now the GTO has reverse Phil is bringing his car and to get started taking that apart fix it never fibration and so they're gonna long night here big THANK YOU to Bill for feeding us dinner tonight letting us hang out here relax for a little bit before racing tomorrow will be at vandemere tomorrow morning start racing at 9:00 a.m. mother nature was nice enough to dry up and we've got the track driver ready to start racing the racers have packed the lanes because there's a chance of rain all day today so we're gonna hit the track and show you the highlights from today right now 10:47 136 for the hearse pass number two down yeah you're gonna call it good are you gonna make another one I'm good with it I mean for being a brand-new car low tens on a 22 foot long car its 22 feet I didn't know that bumper to bumper is 22 feet not even counting the shoe we're gonna call it and see what races down the road sweet I want to I want to meet you guys on the road sometime this week I want to see this thing go down the road I thought that was you guys when we came out of the Royal gorgeous it might have been friends the minivan oh yeah it is is the van we'll enjoy the drive tomorrow 862 for Alex Taylor much easier day for you today no thinking I'm still gonna make another pass so I did white as well yeah so think I got time let it cool down and all that but I just ran the numbers and averaging out my crappy Monday I still have I'll have an 8 89 l serial h with you ever to her tits that's good if I can get an 85 did they I'd be happy but not too far off turn in how many passes you make Saturday fire by the time I got my last three they were like within an hour and the track was just gone yeah exactly okay you got figured out I had to come ask you about this before you leave no I've never seen one before oh it's a narrow body Callaway are Barney one of two Carroll Callaway Aero body really it's a grand sport number 114 it's got twin turbos and 100 shot of nos Oh what nitrous did oh yeah give a second to the hetero oh yes how many huge Corvette nuts oh it's always fun to see something unique yeah it's a little dirty right now how they crammed a lot in there I love that that's cool how much how much powers are put down you know right now 91 octane it's probably right around seven something to the wheels that's some good power and that's you know I'm about eleven pounds of boost you could boost it up to probably around a thousand horsepower but you're gonna start breaking things you're probably gonna have to run close to 20 pounds of boost he's loving life damn boats running eights not bad at all that's not good Cletus is currently in first place for six at plas they're thinking maybe the clutch might be having its weekend and said something that was weird on the road it's kinda like an on/off switch it just didn't want to slip that's part of the before the don't think about rocket boundaries because the road is really tough on these cars you find your weaklings pretty quick plan we're just gonna break the beam so before we tear it apart little insurance Franky's new clutch it is or to figure out what the problem is they're gonna break the beams right now push it up there yes to start it and roll through the beams under zon power you get a 20 second pass which is horrible for the average but at least you can continue on for the next three days and finished race week so maybe you can get it swapped out and fixed before we're done racing if it rains a little bit that could be the best thing it could happen for them because they'll probably delay racing a little bit later in the afternoon give them some time so we've gotten assault two hours of racing and so far Vandermeer and the rain is starting to sprinkle down the clouds are get a little dark we might get lucky but I don't know there's there's only a handful of cars that haven't gotten a pass there might be feeling the pits ahead issues on the road they're still trying to fix their cars so they're crossing their fingers that we'll get some more racing and I know Cletus is really hoping for a little bit of a delay so you can get the clutch fixed and get back up here for real pass I can already tell by your face you're not exactly excited I already tell by your face you're not exactly excited right now we just damn Gators like you leave the line it's it doesn't leave parted on than to suit 60-foot which comes in it's going down once they light up it goes to fell on its face exactly picked up we're trying to get to know we root for that seven good luck man it's been about an hour since I checked in with Cletus yeah Leroy's doing looks like we got a Bible study over here all the fans are watching open to see and make a pass hopefully are putting it back together now back in that's a good sign it bolts back down for the bushing spinning that's what that's speaking lies yep there's self clearance the only material took off yeah it took up a good bit was it the bush no no it was a metal-on-metal the bolts all the bolts were yes so the torque - wasn't bolted to the input up for the transmission just first then while I was still moving a little bit was because this was catching the bolts shaven material I saw the pile of material down there yeah yeah you got a new one yeah it's already gonna heck did you find that like 25 minutes down the street there's a Corvette like scrapyard and we just got a tour - that's conveniently torque to that of a 2030 feet zo6 head on the head you're kidding when you say they're gonna turn it up full better a little better 60 book we can visit looking real again everyone's having problems up here in elevation a 60-vote the nice fast maybe you can get even quicker one when we're not at 7,000 feet best one please Lee just has some dedicated fans that is awesome they all hung around just waiting for Megan's car fixed and they're all up here they want to see a run oh man it was on a pass Levin Oh on that sure but we got what about men so we have a dip all right is they ready to leave it so we can graceful perfect jack stands well it looks like that's it for day two of racing here at vandemere Speedway we're gonna be hitting the road to Kearney Nebraska tomorrow Kearney Raceway Park we have all day tomorrow to drive there some competitors are going to leave in the morning some really early some competitors are gonna leave tonight to get a head start on the drive cuz it's almost 400 miles somebody leave in the morning we'll be following them along the route to show you what happens there and then racing in Kearney on Wednesday we'll see that\n"