Eric Anderson reports of his recent victory at the 2013 PNB… The Psycho Nitro Blast is an annual race held in Unadilla, Georgia each March. It truly test both man and machine as the practice starts at 8AM on Thursday and doesn’t stop until 3PM on Friday! The track usually starts out very good and hard packed but quickly turns into a track that makes 8th scale truggies disappear in some holes that form!! This year it was slightly different as they also had a 10th scale track for 2wd Open and 4wd open buggies. Practice for it followed a similar schedule with 2 qualifiers Friday and one qualifier and the mains on Saturday.
I decided to just run 4wd open buggy with my XB4 this year as the track was so extreme it was going to be too much work for 2 10th scale classes. The track was made up of huge jumps everywhere and started off hard packed but the surface quickly broke down and turned to a lot of loose sand in most areas. There were huge wooden jumps around the track but dirt downsides except for the triple/double in the middle of the track. This area proved to be the most challenging area on the track as the lead jumps of the triple double really blew out badly and caused a lot of issues. There were about 125 people signed up for the 10th scale classes when practice started on Thursday but by the time the qualifiers rolled around on Friday there were only about 60 entires left as the brutal track took its toll on cars and equipment and many drivers simply ran out of parts for their cars. To add to the racing all qualifiers and triple A mains were 10 minutes each! A true test of the durability of the buggies! Read more here.