On The Track
by Christopher Kidder-Mostrom
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new king has been crowned at Race Mountain. It’s not Steven King, the three-time DRC Champion, although he will be seen on the mountain in the not-toodistant future, as the end of the year event will feature the DRC all-stars on the regular 3DBotMaker road course. No, it isn’t even Terry Hill, the winner of the first KotM tournament. At the end of
Tournament 2, the winner got to take on Hill for the Mountain’s most prestigious title. And that head-tohead match-up was one for the ages! The KotM Finals featured cars that had done exceptionally well in the earlier rounds. The first-seeded Kong, driven by the FGC Family managed to advance to the finals despite some very erratic driving in the earlier rounds. Garbanzo MacElroy drove Dynamo through the same exact bracket in a more reliable manner, and one could argue that he deserved to be the favorite coming into the final race. From the other side of the bracket, Timmy Vincent drove Audihouse consistently well and hoped to continue on theme in this event.
some time. The rules for the final were somewhat different than they had been in earlier rounds. The first four laps would be done exactly as they had been for the rest of the tournament, but after that, the top two drivers would face off head-tohead to earn the right to face off against Terry Hill’s Dollar General Evo. Lap 1 saw Garbanzo MacElroy and the FGC Family neck & neck through turn 3. Coming out of the turn, Dynamo led Kong by about a car length as they went down the final stretch. Lap 2 was taken by Audihouse and the Executioner, in first and second, respectively. Kong flipped in turn two. In lap 3 FGC pinballed about and let both T-Lamont and Garbanzo MacElroy pass for a one-two finish.
T-Lamont returned to the track in The Executioner. This car was dominant through the lower rounds of the tournament.
All of the cars were in contention until the last lap. Only the highest seed in the tournament hadn’t won a lap outright up to that point. And the FGC family looked like they would be missing out on a chance to become “King” Kong.
The cars were well matched, and this Final round was probably the most anticipated set of races in quite
But, the fates had other ideas, as Kong was the only car to finish the fourth lap. The other three cars’ DNF altered the point standings greatly, and T-Lamont and the FGC Family were slated as the two cars November 17, 2020 | 27
