Winter Racing 2024/2025

[Blake]

IROCC Winter 2024/2025 Race Season Information:

Welcome to IROCC's Winter 2024/2025 Carpet Season.

Dates in 2024 (Saturday evenings):
Oct 5
Oct 26
Nov 2
Nov 16
Nov 30
Dec 14

2025 dates TBA

Location:
Eagle Ridge Community Center Dry Arena
1089 Langford Pkwy, Victoria, BC V9B 0A5

Race Night Program:
4:00PM Doors open for track setup
4:45PM Practice
5:15PM Q1
6:25PM Q2
7:35PM Q3
8:45PM Mains
10:00PM Track teardown

Race Classes:
Touring Stock 21.5
12th Scale Stock 17.5
Novice

Race Fees:
Adult $30 flat fee
Child/Student $10 flat fee

Track:
100' x 48' CRC Black Carpet

Notes:
Limited tables provided
Chairs NOT provided
Bring an extension cord
SXT traction compound only


Blake

[Blake]

First Carpet Club Race, Saturday October 5th

Saturday October 5th evening is our first carpet club race.  Doors open at 4:00pm and track setup starts at 4:10pm.  All local racers are expected to help with track setup (reasonable exceptions are fine).  Some notes:

• New Track Setup: We'll be building a new track layout for the first night which will take extra time.  We'll then run an extended practice session, followed by two qualifiers and one main.  Future race nights will run three qualifiers and one main.
• Tables/Chairs: Eagle Ridge has some tables for our use, but not enough for everyone.  If you have a small table, it would be wise to bring it along.  You MUST bring your own chair.
• Payment: Cash and E-Transfers are accepted.
• TC Rubber Tires: The club will have touring car rubber tires on hand for purchase.  They are the same tires that most racers have used the last few years.
• Traction Compound: SXT is the only permitted traction compound.

Blake

[Blake]

First Club Race This Saturday October 5th
This Saturday evening is our first indoor club race.  Doors open at 4:00pm and track setup starts at 4:10pm.  All local racers are expected to help with track setup (reasonable exceptions are fine).


Important Quick Tips for Race #1
Follow these tips if you want to have fun at Race #1.  The car must be race ready, with the battery installed, before making these measurements:

Touring Car

• Ride height should be set somewhere between 5.0mm and 5.5mm.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNlS0PMEf2c

• Body height should be set to 10mm.  The video says 8mm, but 10mm is required for our carpet.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh8DTMXGg9o&t=455s

12th Scale Car

• Ride height should be set somewhere between 3.4mm and 3.8mm.

• Body height should be set to 8mm.

Front Tires

• CA glue the sidewalls of your FRONT tires as per this video:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb8p6z33z3A

• Same applies to 12th Scale front tires.

Blake

[Blake]

Excellent First Carpet Race!
Thanks to everyone who made it out for our first carpet race of the season on Saturday.  We had a good turnout and lots of strong performances.  Setup was a little slow due to laying out a new track.  It will be twice as fast next time now that the layout is chalked and all the corners are preassembled.  We will run 3x qualifiers next time.

Big shoutout to Phil C and Shawn Z for bringing along all the PA gear and the extra scaffold planks.  Much appreciated guys!

A few notable performances, especially from some of our new racers:

Rich F had never touched an RC car transmitter in his life and managed to run the loaner car to a D-Main win and a bump-up in the C-Main.  He was very consistent all evening, steadily getting faster with each lap.

Rain A ran the second club car, and although she didn't have a transponder, she also ran impressively well with zero RC experience.  Really awesome to see!

Another new racer Gavin A also caught on very quickly and ran some clean laps in qualifying.  Great work Gavin.

Matthew C had a career night qualifying 11th overall in TC earning a solid B-Main spot.  He also ran 12th Scale for the first time and did very well bumping out of the C-Main and getting some extra runtime in the B-Main.

Special mention to Dale S and Kevin M for doing really well in their first ever onroad carpet races!

And finally, awesome performance from Ryan P, making his first ever 12th Scale A-Main in the modern era of IROCC!

There are too many good performances to list as racing was quite competitive with lots of racers stepping up early in the season.  Let's keep it going.

Next Race is Saturday Oct 26
We have three weeks until the next race, Saturday Oct 26th.  Doors open at 4:00PM.  We will run a full race program with three qualifiers followed by the mains.

Results
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/12K1p6m3Uw1hful2hM0Jw-OapZk4qr0VZ


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