2008 WFRCCC location ideas?

[parnelli97]

Is the next one going to be held at the same place as last year? What are the chances of holding a WFRCCC event on the east coast, I have some contacts at a few drag tracks and could probably book a track for a weekend in the ATL area.

[ajlovering12345]

Shawn Palmer of Schumacher Racing is looking at arranging an east coast event. If everything goes as planned we will have an east coast, a west coast and an event in the UK all on the same day with pooled results.

Cheers

[parnelli97]

That would be AWESOME!!! Do you happen to know what locations are being considered for east coast?

[Promod]

Glad to hear there will be an East Coast event!!!!!

Thank you,
Promod

[ajlovering12345]

That would be AWESOME!!! Do you happen to know what locations are being considered for east coast?


No but i'll send a messdage to Shawn and see if he has anything lined up

Cheers

[ElectricThunder]

IIRC, Schumacher's U.S. headquarters are in Miami, FL? PLEASE let it go down at Moroso Motorsports Park. That'd be sweet (ok, so I'm biased).:D

[ajlovering12345]

Drag strips are not the best venues for RC cars. The surface is slippery for foam tyres and the barriers are not forgiving if you go offline. Airstrips would be a lot better

[Billy W]

Gee i guess my interest in doing one on my own got people thinking...lol...

i got a great central east coast location..... smooth as glass.. and extrememly fast.....

Billy

[ajlovering12345]

We are going to need some standards for measuring speed and some rules on the location. I see a number of people claiming speeds but for somebody to claim they are faster than the next guy there has to be some continuity.

The AGM of the BRCA is coming up soon. I think I will try to include a section for speed runs and get a set of rules included in their handbook. It might not get in this year but next will be ok

Cheers

[porra]

Gee i guess my interest in doing one on my own got people thinking...lol...

i got a great central east coast location..... smooth as glass.. and extrememly fast.....

Billy

Billy,

Your idea is awesome man. I was hoping for an East Coast event. Lots of places in the East Coast as well. English town, Moroso, Daytona and the tracks you mentioned Billy. Lets get a poll going if it doesn't get any where, talk to some manufacturers in sponsoring the event in the East Coast. Picture this, Trinity and Megatech (Mega is about 20mins from me) are all here in NJ, I'll bet they would like to host a speed contest.

[trailranger]

I'm still pulling for Las Vegas Motor Speedway!!! Just about any airport with commercial flights goes to Las Vegas. Not to mention you can book some good deals on hotels. So Fed Ex your cars, then fly out there.

For all of you that have Google Earth, look up Las Vegas Motor Speeway on the search box. That place has several places to run r/c cars at stpuid fast speeds. 4 Square miles of parking lots, 2.5mi Superspeedway, 1/2 mile asphalt oval, 1/4 mile drag stip(Grandstand), 1/4 mile drag strip(pratice), circut tracks(four I think)

[Shawn Palmer]

I've got some friends in real estate and government here in Central Florida (Tampa and areas North) working on finding locations. I've scouted a few, but haven't found "the one" just yet.

There are several abandoned airports around, and also quite a few unbuilt residential areas with good long streets and low angle curbs in the general area too.

The search continues...
Shawn

[ajlovering12345]

We just got the forum up for fast-rc. There is a post on the event on 23rd September 07.

The website will be up and running soon and will have detials of the events next year

http://www.fast-rc.co.uk/forum/index.php
http://www.fast-rc.co.uk/

Cheers

[Billy W]

an improperly prepared drag strip is no good for an r/c car with foam tires... but we have preped and ran on the strip hear with great sucess... some airports have grooves in them that wil play havock...

i believe we have a great place here.... smooth.. the track crew has preped for r/c cars so they know what is needed.... and we are half way down and half way up I-95 and only 45 min off it.. plus not to far form the Concord / Mooresville area.... so plenty of site seeing.

Billy

[ajlovering12345]

How is the track prepared for foam tyres? I think you also need to prepare the tyres for the track such as traction compound

[Billy W]

its in the consistancy of how you spray.. not to over spray the track with surface prep and the proper form of dragging the track....our way of prep has to be seen to understand it... we have done the same prep work to raw un-seasoned asphalt for the r/c drag cars and produced record setting runs as well....even in a misting rain....lol

yes preping the tires.. is key for the take off or begining of the run.. and improper balance between tires will effect how they perform as well... more compound in one tire compared to another could cause one tire to loose grip before the other and cause a spin or worse.... also over prep of the tires will add to drag and a lack of top end speed....

i would figure that a rubber or rubber capped tire would be better for a speed run.. less rolling resistance..

[trailranger]

i'm Still pulling for Las Vegas...

Billy, you are right about the aiports. Some have lateral groves for water drainage. Also things to consider are State Fair Grounds, Theme Parks, Malls ect. Many of these falicties have large parking lots that could be barricaded with straw bales, cones and rope.

[watsong1]

Ok here it is i live in South Dakota and have been reading RCCA mag for several months now and i would love to see this World's Fastest Car Chllange but it does not sound like you guys know where it is going to be held. because when the place is chosen i am buying a ticked their. i think this would be so cool to see in action instead of just reading about it so please find a place and post it

[ajlovering12345]

As far as I know the west coast event is always held at the California Speedway in Fontana. Thats where it was the last 2 years.

There is a chance of an East Coast event as well and this has not been sorted yet. I am trying to get Schumacher to deal with this

Cheers

[watsong1]

is this just a one day thing or is it a couple day event. just trying to schedgual my time for this. i know it if for the fastest but will their be other interests like On and Off road exibits something for all

[ajlovering12345]

Last year was a 1 day event and there are different classes.

[trailranger]

I would still like to see vegas


i'm Still pulling for Las Vegas...

Billy, you are right about the aiports. Some have lateral groves for water drainage. Also things to consider are State Fair Grounds, Theme Parks, Malls ect. Many of these falicties have large parking lots that could be barricaded with straw bales, cones and rope.

[MiamizFinest]

IIRC, Schumacher's U.S. headquarters are in Miami, FL? PLEASE let it go down at Moroso Motorsports Park. That'd be sweet (ok, so I'm biased).:D

I gotta agree there is so many places it could be done around here, also we got great weather almost all year long there is so many resons to come out to miami!!! even tho i think the contest is great i dont see it fair that its so far away i myself have no bein impressed by the speeds shown(for the most part) i personally could and would break records in 2 catagories and i know alot of people here localy that would break practicaly every record set in the events high speed is all we do around here the turn out would be huge just on a little hang out spots we always have huge crouds with fast cars and its not even a ORGONIZED thing its just a sport we go out to hang out 3 times aweek the only thing catagoy i know we wouldnt take home would be anything NIC CASE would build becuase honestly the guy is in a lege of his own

[trailranger]

You say Florida, I say Saint Louis!

Because I live close by!!!!

The reason why I suggested Las Vegas was due to the ease of access for anyone from anywhere.

[MiamizFinest]

The reson i sugjested miami is becuase high speed is all we do around here, there is kinda a lack of RC tracks so weve basicaly just hit the street with what ever we have i personally know atleast 20 people that have hit 100 MPH with the hpi RS4's we got something for every class so we could provide lots of action locally we could pull in over 100 people, i work at a LHS called MICRO MOTOR SPORTS we'd be glad to help in anyway if the event was done here in miami we could do huge promotions to bring everyone we know, everyone in the country has access to MIAMI theres hotels everywhere,almost everything is open 24hours, the weather is great and the drag strip where the even could be held is about 20 miles from the airport and there is hotels very close to the drag strip where it could be held, our drag strip is actually a airport run way it was comistioned by the city some time last year to be turned into a drag strip to cut down on the illegal street raceing its a great spot here is a link to the site of the drag strip in case anyone would like to check it out

http://www.countylinedragwayinc.com


i just hope that it wont be held in CALI again i see that kinda unfair to the rest of the country

[ajlovering12345]

MiamizFinest. I have sent you a PM about organising the east coast event. Let me know what you think.

Basically I am looking for somebody to help organise the event. I agree with you that there will probably be more interest in the east coast event. If they are on different weekends people could go to both!!

[trailranger]

maybe someone should step up and charter a R/C landspeed record organization and have rotating events or multiple events evach year. This way the classes get better defined. The event planning better and maybe even some better coverage of the event. RCCA only looks after one thing, subscription sales. They know all they need is 2~3 cars to shoot the moon with 100+ speeds and they can take some photos and sell a story.

I mentioned the need for this two years ago, this year I decided just to build the car and go for broke. I may even show up with some RCDriver and XrC stickers all over the car.:eek:

[ajlovering12345]

This is what I'm trying to do. I have tried to ensure the rules for the USA event and the UK event are the same and that the results are pooled from all events but I'm having real trouble getting anybody to even answer their emails. At least Me and Nic agree (well nearly!) so we have a start

[MiamizFinest]

Well just to throw some ideas around i thought id post a few things here is a link to a list of HOTELS in the area of MIA airport there are some basicaly across the street at good prices check out the link

http://www.orbitz.com/App/ViewHotelSearchResults?null&retrieveParams=true&z=7d20&r=28&z=7d22&r=2a&lastPage=interstitial


also in the early post i took a wild guess on how far the drag strip is from the airport my guess was 20 miles turns out i almost hit the nail on the head its actually 19 point miles away here are directions to show how easy it would be to get there
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p12/miazfinest187/MIAtoTRACK.jpg

lastly here is a idea how big the strip actually is here is a pic useing GOOGLE earth from about 3500 feet above the ground this is ofcourse before the whole drag strip was set up since google earth is delayed by about a year

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p12/miazfinest187/MiamiDragStrip.jpg

[ajlovering12345]

Another guy on this forum is also arranging a speed meeting is South Cal somewhere in April. I'll let him post the info but it will be on a closed road about a mile long.

Nic and Brian. A chance to do some testing!

Cheers

[fasterthanspeed]

Sounds pretty shweet to me. i was hoping to do alot of practicing
i need info! My car has been on a hand hold for a lil bit cuz of family issues. Tony go on msn messanger!

[wqqdster]

Man, you've got the site, the hotels and the entrants...why don't you just put a national type event on yourself?

[MiamizFinest]

Man, you've got the site, the hotels and the entrants...why don't you just put a national type event on yourself?



Plus i got my own people and my own cars, whats missing??? means of paying for it LOL

[ajlovering12345]

We can sort that one out Miami !

[wqqdster]

Don't you belong to a club? If you have that much local interest they should be willing to front the money for expenses if there's any chance of getting it back. The other requirement would be insurance but your club should also be able to provide that through ROAR or other organizations.

[MiamizFinest]

Don't you belong to a club? If you have that much local interest they should be willing to front the money for expenses if there's any chance of getting it back. The other requirement would be insurance but your club should also be able to provide that through ROAR or other organizations.

Club??? LOL no way i personally em gonig to sign up for ROAR so i cant officaly race at the offroad track (i liek going there alot) but as far as everyone esle most of the people i know have no idea what ROAR is we are not organized in anyway we jsut have all agreed on MEET days and times to hook up with one another and just hang out and run our cars

[speedracer1129]

So is this happening or what?? I have a few cars ready to be finished but still waiting on the update for the possible MIA location:cool:

[ajlovering12345]

Hi

I cant seem to get hold of the Schumacher guy to organise it and I am waiting from a response from Miamizfinest. I'll let you know

Cheers

[ajlovering12345]

Hi

I just spoke to Shawn Palmer of Schumacher USA and he says he has been busy for the last 2-3 months so hasn't had a chance to organise anything yet. He is looking for a location within 2 hrs drive of Tampa and if anybody knows a suitable place please post it here and I will pass on the info.

As soon as he gets a suitable place its pretty automatic that the event will go ahead. Shawn suggested that October-November is the best time for that area so he will have an advantage as he will know what the records are from the other 2 events.

He also said he has done a few mods to a standard Fusion 28 and has clocked right at 100 mph!!!

[MiamizFinest]

AJLovering sorry i havent gotten back to to you or to this site ive honestly bein real busy on the weekends and no i have not gone to the strip yet, the people i talked to are real nice guys tho the only thing they asked me for was to please bring a car for them to see run on the drag strip witch would work great for us becuase ill personaly know and let YOU know how much traction we can really get, with my girl friends huge family there is always something going on on the weekends so i havent bein able to stop by and talk to them in person

honestly im very fed up with everyone always harrasing me personally about our speeds and basicaly that we are makeing this up, let me tell u IF the drag strip owners are happy and we can REALLY set this up TRUST ME EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE FULL SPEED FROM OUR PART FROM THIS POINT ON

SPEEDRACER is actually a friend of mine AND and works at the same shop i do and he is also very willing to help out set this thing up, i still have all ur contact info saturday afternoon ull be geting a phone call from me

we are going to put miami on the map even if i die trying

[ajlovering12345]

That's the spirit! I'm sure we will see some really fast times from you guys.

For speed gear I can loan you my gear as long as I get it back. I have a this speed trap

http://www.trackmateracing.com/shopexd.asp?id=122

And a radar gun as backup. It works perfectly. You should look at getting a set.

best of luk.

Brian, remember to take some video!!

[aqwut]

Let's have it in Detroit, MI...

[Billy W]

How about Rockingham NC..October the 4th?.... anyone interested?

e-mail me.... strghx@yahoo.com

Billy

[ajlovering12345]

This forum is just about dead. We are all over at www.fast-rc.co.uk. I will post all the info on the front page when I receive it all from Nic

Cheers

[Craps]

Congrats to Billy W on getting the World Record event at Rockingham Dragway on October 4th, 2008 in Hamlet, NC!!!!

Your hard work is going to pay off and I know this event will be the best one yet!

I might even put something together for it too!

The supercar was dismantled and sold!
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c264/Dice193/RCCAR2006013.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c264/Dice193/RCCAR2006008.jpg

This time it will be something electric!

[ajlovering12345]

Hiya Craps!

We have an active forum for speed cars and to discuss the speed comps here

www.fast-rc.co.uk

Post some pics of your latest project on the site. I hope its as wiked as the go cart!

Cheers

[Billy W]

Craps... come on down.. i already got some of the guys from Hobby Stop heading down...and one or two from some of the Cup shops as well....

Billy