Racing at Timezone

jarrodH · March 24, 2011, 01:41:54 AM

Bruce your room is 105, go to the front desk and ask for a key..

Just back at the hotel..a solid 13-14 hours of open practice.. Tomarrow is more practice

so another 12 or so hrs..grip levels are already (after 1 day) are at the point of there is no real need to use traction wash, walked the track after it was closed,, and we left tracks into the resturant we went to for dinner..

Wgt tires tomarrow will be tried down to 52 mm 12th scale is more of the same story.. Both my cars were traction riling at 11 this morning.. Track opened at 8am..

I'd put up a few pics but I forgot the cord for my camera

jarrodH · March 24, 2011, 01:50:06 AM

Jody.. Frank didn't make.. Apparently to much to do at the shot.. Bryan wynn (super nice guy) and Paul ? Are here.. Paul lemeux(sp?) is also..

freddie · March 24, 2011, 01:55:42 AM

it 10:45pm just got back from the track lots of fast cars traction is awesome bought new 12 scale tires and cut down to 42ml that was good for the day track opens at 7am tomorrow we had motor tec today they made us take our motor apart in front on roar tecs they tested and made us put them back together and they sealed it and labeled it.thats all for today ha jody no frank

Blake · March 24, 2011, 02:24:09 AM

Quote from: haddow on March 23, 2011, 11:45:23 AM
Have fun and hopefully you car doesnt feel perfect in practice.

Jody

Amen to that... my car sucked in practice so that should mean I'm on the way to an A-Main win! The only Rome representation is Dumper, but there are a few other CRC drivers from other areas here. Frank would not function well here because his "Thomas style" pit space wouldn't really work with the 32"x16" spaces we have to work with.

There are a LOT of Canadians down here which is really cool. Some top not drivers from Ontario and Quebec, as well as Alberta and of course Van/Vic. Probably 15 Canadians in total.

12th 13.5 is quick, and layout loves this class. It's intricate enough to make you work a bit and there are some gambles you can take to make a couple tenths if needed. WGT 13.5 feels a little slow. Tops out half-way down the straight, so you get bored while you're waiting to to get through the sweeper and into the infield. The cars are easy to drive, but hard to turn really fast laps. Rob's right about the tires: if you're not on small tires, you might as well go home.

Controlled practice tomorrow will be nice so you don't have to worry about getting run down by a 3.5 motor on the straight.

Blake

jarrodH · March 24, 2011, 02:51:27 AM

And if you haven't seen a stuck-like-glue 12th scale car running a 3.5 turn brushless motor.. They ate stupid fast.. Never seen cars look so stuck to the track, and goin that fast..

Don't worry I'll be takin some video this weekend

jarrodH · March 24, 2011, 02:54:08 AM

Quote from: jarrodH on March 24, 2011, 02:51:27 AM
And if you haven't seen a stuck-like-glue 12th scale car running a 3.5 turn brushless motor.. They ate stupid fast.. Never seen cars look so stuck to the track, and goin that fast..

Don't worry I'll be takin some video this weekend

and if you guys back home there want to see wats goin on here, I've herd a rumor that it's sapposed to have a love feed on liverc.com

gotnitro · March 24, 2011, 10:39:25 AM

Im sorry but i dont want to see no lovers feed during racing. As J-rod says. kick some but guys

haddow · March 24, 2011, 12:00:38 PM

LOL, i was actually looking forward to the lovers feed. I think J-Rod mixed-up his webcam in his hotel room with the webcam at the racetrack.

rcshadow · March 24, 2011, 06:31:09 PM

So watching Live Rc and got to listen to Blake, Rob, Jamie & Darrell race but when it was Jarrods time to race he didnt make it same thing with John.. what the heck man get it together time to represent. I thought I was listening to a race from here....hahaha..

Good luck boys give 'em hell

Shawn68z · March 24, 2011, 11:20:40 PM

John was probably still looking for king pins.

Shawn.

jarrodH · March 24, 2011, 11:28:45 PM

Oops wrong speling.. My phone has a auto spell check it always just makes thing worse

ya I didn't make the race because I hadn't had a chance to true down my 12th tires yet and a hole in the outside wall had already claimed 2 or my old used rear tires

Man is it tough taking brand new 60mm tires down to 52mm me and rob were both shedding tears on the truer .. Lol

Shawn68z · March 24, 2011, 11:33:07 PM

Quote from: rcshadow on March 24, 2011, 06:31:09 PM
So watching Live Rc and got to listen to Blake, Rob, Jamie & Darrell race but when it was Jarrods time to race he didnt make it same thing with John.. what the heck man get it together time to represent. I thought I was listening to a race from here....hahaha.. Good luck boys give 'em hell

Found John.
non boosted 17.5
4 Bowker, John 10 30 8:07.002 15.322 10
Didnt make his WGT

What is J-Rod supposed to be running? WGT and 13.5 right?

Looks like Rob had a pretty good WGT run, but his 1/12 was a few laps long, must have had a problem. Blake is running well in both 1/12 and WGT.

Shawn

dajracer · March 25, 2011, 01:38:57 AM

Roar races suck. They have to tech everything.
1-Motors, they make you break them down so they can check them, then put them back together so they can seal the can.
2- Tires- other than 1/12, they have to be spec tires and all tagged.
3- Bodies- have to be ROAR approved. Hobby Shop has run out of approved bodies and there are a few people looking for bodies.
4- Batteries- ROAR approved.
All have to be OKed and ROAR stamps put on them.
This is all before we even get to run qualifiers. Time lost to all the teching has probably been 11/2-2 hours so far. By the time this race is over, we will have probably spent a total of 4 hours in tech. More time teching than racing.

BCbud · March 25, 2011, 01:53:40 AM

Good day!

I am glad we don't do that at our races, it takes some of the fun out of it. I hope you all do well and take some pictures!

Neil

Shawn68z · March 25, 2011, 11:56:27 AM

Quote from: BCbud on March 25, 2011, 01:53:40 AM
Good day!

I am glad we don't do that at our races, it takes some of the fun out of it. I hope you all do well and take some pictures!

Neil

I dont know. Everyone wants to spec tires to save money (Which is wronge btw), you could issue everyone in TC 2 sets of tires that have the IROCC stamp on it. That would be an effective way to reduce the one run sets that everyone is worried about.

At the european championships this last year, there is 2 Practice Runs, 3 Qualifiers and 3 Mains (Triple A, and Triple B). So you coud run upto 8 races. Normally tires werent monitored, this last year, they limited each driver/car to 3 sets of tires to use as they please. Made for some interesting stratagy.

Shawn