RENO, NV (Nov. 3) — Light weekend due to no racing in this region but there were some meets on both days. The cool weather helped to keep the turnouts a bit on the low side but still there were enough that showed up.
• Sunday began with Reno Jeeps and Coffee meeting by the Human Bean Coffee stand at the corner of Longley Lane and South McCarran. Seven regulars were on hand to start the day and visit with each other.
One owner Daye Sloope, is a traveling nurse that’s spending some time in Reno before the receives her next 30-day contract. After all her traveling Sloope mentioned she’d like to stay in Reno and make it her home base.
She brought a pretty tricked out Jeep. Asked about it she said, “This is a 2020 Gladiator Sport, I bought in 2020 knowing nothing about operating a Jeep and I have slowly built it up over the years.”
Building it up is somewhat of an understatement.
“ So she’s now on a four and a half inch lift NS she’s on a long arm on the front and the rear. We’re at Fox 3.0 Reservoir Shocks, I put anti-rock in the rear for the sway bar and I upgraded the front axel to RCB’s.
“ I upgraded my ball joints to Metal Cloak baller joints, rebuilt my front and rear drive shaft, re-geared to 5:13s, and she’s currently sitting on 37’s but hopefully to 40’s when these tires wear out. The fenders and hood are upgraded, bumpers, winch, front and rear lockers as well as on board air.”
She explained with all her traveling some of the work was contracted out to some qualifying people. Over all she’s pleased with the results and mentioned that she had no problem
driving through last year’s bad weather.
• Not far away, by the Human Bean Coffee Stand close to the corner of Moana and Keitzke Lanes, it was the month’s first meet for Reno Cars & Coffee.
As usual there was a mix of old and new. Despite the cool weather there was a decent amount of cars on hand even though it was less than normal.
There is usually a pretty good mix of cars and one of them was a bit unusual. That one is owned by Guido Rietdyk, who is Dutch.
Asked about his car he said, “This is a Dutch made Donkervoort, and it’s their newest and latest Hypercar and this design is called the F22. They have been making cars since the 70’s and essentially they were the earliest Lotus importer in the Netherlands.
“Then decided they could do a better job and so they started making their own cars. Joop Donkervoort is now retired and this car is the brainchild of his son Denis. He has made the prior version of this car called the GTO and that’s been around for about 10 years so their latest car, the F22 just came out last year.”
The design indicates power and speed, which it has.
“It’s powered by a 500 horsepower Audi 2.5 liter twin-turbo so it’s 500 horsepower and the car is 750 Kilos so it is extremely light as well as extremely powerful. It’s very low, it’s very wide, great center of gravity, rear wheel drive, a 5-speed manual so these cars will be extremely raw.
“And that’s really the essence of this car company. They want to make cars that are really pure and authentic so it will always be devoid of any creature comforts. I have heated seats but normally you won’t have any of that. It’s just a go fast car.”
Looking into the interior it is plain with a different style dashboard.
“It’s like a race digital display so it’s got a lap timer in that and all that stuff. So you’re really supposed to take these things to the track once and a while. So I actually keep one of these cars in Europe that I do racing with and track time so I go to Spa,” he said.
Of course the next question was how it drivers.
This brought a smile to Rietdyk and he said, “It’s an extremely sticky car so it set the world record for the highest lateral acceleration at 2.3 G’s So this thing sticks even with these tires, that aren’t even slicks.
“It sticks to the road like nothing else. The fact that it doesn’t weigh anything coupled with a huge amount of power is a hoot. It’s really is an amazing car as it’s really a track car on the road but in the wrong hands could be troublesome I could imagine.”
The reason why no one has seen it before he said was, “this is this the only one in the U.S.”
In the mix there were were two other unusual vehicles parked side-by-side on one end of a row. Both are short wheelbase SUV and were imported from Japan so they are right hand drive.
Next week Sparks Cars & Coffee will have its first meet of the month. Hopefully it will be a bit warmer.
• There were two meets on Saturday. At the north part of Spanish Springs the Nevada Jeep Club had a bonfire. It was a great time for those that attended to visit where they could just enjoy themselves,
– Saturday night, at the GSR, the Reno EVO Club had its last meet of the year. Some of the cars had lights under them and the club will probably resume meetings in the spring when the weather is better.
OTHER RACING NEWS:
• Trucks and Tacos of Northern Nevada meets at 6:30 on Tuesday evening. Location this week is Costa Vida Fresh Mexican Grill at 4965 South Virginia.
• If you still have candy from Halloween how about donating it to a group that sends it in care packages to our troops overseas. Blue Star Mothers are doing just that and they have two places to drop off the candy.
• Next weekend is the final event this year for the BBMX series. Location is at the Fernley Sandbox MX track and signups are now open.
– Saturday is for practice and in the afternoon they’ll run the popular Stacyc race and Sunday is race day when class championships are known.
• Next weekend is the annual Fern 45, an event to benefit veterans happens at the Speedway south of town. Things start Thursday with the Off-Road Poker run happening on Saturday.
• This coming Saturday evening Rattlesnake Raceway hosts its annual awards banquet. Location is west of town, on the Reno Highway, at the Eagles Hall.
• This year the AMA Arenacross Championship begins in Reno at the Reno-Sparks Livestock Center. Now is the time to save money on the tickets. The series will have a second visit in the New Year.
• Davey’s American Racing is found on Face Book. His focus is on western oval tracks as well as national series.
He recently started his broadcasts so check Face Book around 6 p.m. Wednesday. He also posts during the week.
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