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On The Track: 3DBotMaker by Christopher Kidder-Mostrom
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he past fortnight has been a busy one in the 3DBotMaker Diecast Racing League. The Camaro Summer Tournament has come to a close, three King of the Mountain qualifiers were held, and the Diecast Rally Championship has just started it’s fourth and final event of 2020. First off, let’s congratulate Mad4Robots who became the newest champion crowned at Race Mountain. For much of the final round it appeared that Maya Bailey was in line to become Race Mountain’s first-ever female champion. But it wasn’t to be. Mad4Robots beat her in a head-tohead Camaro showdown, as well as in claiming the title of first female champ. Most, if not all, viewers assumed Mad4Robots’ identity to be male, but that led to a very satisfying reveal at the very end of the series. The after-hours races in the KotM qualifying rounds have recently been competing for the fifth place in the rankings. That means that the times have been average, at best. First up was the Hot Rod race, which featured two ‘57 Chevys, and a 1940’s Woody. But, none of those cars carried the day. Instead, it was CJ in “Jerry Rigged” who took a gasser station wagon all the way to a berth in the second King of the Mountain 22 | Diecast Racing Report
Tournament. CJ bumped That Van Guy out of the 5th place ranking, which the Limelight van had just claimed in the previous qualifier. The next qualifier featured four 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolutions. Longtime viewers will know that the Evo is a very Equal Evos – Quite possibly the closest photo-finish of 2020, the popular car for outcome of this race determined the overall winner. modders. King of the Mountain legend Terry Hill before him, took over the fifth seeded drove a James Kleman Customs built spot for the tournament. Evo to the title in the last KotM tourney. The casting has a lot of Now, I know. Fifth place isn’t bad at interior room for adding weight, a all. In a field of 16, fifth is a great wide stance, and a pretty long place to be, but these cars that we’ve wheelbase. It’s almost a perfect been talking about so far are fifth out racing machine for this sport. of 8, 9, and 10. That’s pretty much exactly in the middle of the pack. So, one might be forgiven for being a little gleeful about the prospects of It is possible that the cars that have only one Evo advancing thanks to yet to qualify will run slower times, them facing off against each other and that Bobby Padgett will hold on prior to the actual tournament. to the number 5 spot, but... Padgett’s Surely these were some fast cars that ride, “Spider King”, posted a time of were only going to be knocked out 17.502, which is slower than the by others of their ilk. But... Surprise! entire field’s average from the first These were not the speedy Lancers tournament (17.423). It stands to we are used to. With some very reason that there are some faster cars close racing between two of the four out there that will soon be taking cars, Bobby Padgett eventually came over the top spots in the upcoming out on top, and like the two winners tournament bracket.
