Race For Relief
For the victims of the Earthquake and Tsunami

January 22, 2005
Washtenaw RC Raceway
For the thousands of people who have lost loved ones and friends, for the injured and sick......

Washtenaw RC Raceway and RC Product Designs
Invites you to attend the Race for Relief on January 22, 2005 in conjunction with our regularly scheduled Electric Radio Controlled points race.

100% of PROFITS WILL BE DONATED to the RED CROSS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF FUND and be specifically directed to this disaster relief operation.

We call on the RC Community in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana to join forces to come and donate a day of racing for this worthy cause.
Thousands and thousands have died, Many more will die from hunger, lack of medical care, lack of shelter and normally preventable diseases.

Please arrange your schedules to attend and do what we can to help these people in their time of need.
We are inviting ALL RC Racers,
Lazer Speedway, Dirt Burners, Downriver,
RCPlanet, RC Screwz Halo Hobbies, R&L, Columbus.
Detroit RC Club, Sandhill, and all others!!

Doors will open at 7 am, Racing starts at 10 am. Come early to get a table or bring your own. Electricity provided and hobby shop onsite, $13 1st entry $10 each additional
Off Roaders, Join us!!! On Roaders, Borrow a buggy or Truck!! Nitro Racers, Dig out your electric vehicles!! Come out and join us for a worthy cause.

Hankster, I can't commit as of this moment since it is the week after Columbus.
But shoot me an email with directions and what tires work there for buggy.I'll try to make it.
Dayton
losi1@comcast.net

You can find directions in the Washtenaw RC Raceway post in this Off Road Forum.

Track is located at 5055 Ann Arbor Saline Rd. Ann Arbor, MI

For additional Information call 313-565-2815 after 4pm.

Tires - IFMAR pins, X patterns, Holeshots (M3 & R3), Step Pins. (depends on the track)

Basically the same for truck.

Hi guys I am thinking of coming from gr to race.I will have a friend that will be meeting me there he is going to run my old truck and I will be running a MF2.Do you have a Novice class?My buddy has only race onroad a few times and never off road.Whats your track surface?Is there a snack bar ?If not is there anuff time between heats to go get somthing?What time do you guys finsh up?I had a blast at the nite race with you guys and cant wait to play in some dirt my MF2 has only seen carpet :rolleyes: I have been wanting to try it in the dirt.Thanks for the info.Ed

Large Novice class at every race, Last race had 3 heats of Novice. Washtenaw offers competition for everybody, no matter what your skill level or what you race (as long as it's electric!). Classes are Novice, Mod & Stock buggy, Mod & Stock Truck, 4wd Open, Mini (Mini-T, RC18T, TLT-1, Etc.), and E-Maxx (2 Heats!).

We have averaged 135 entries this season,
There are tables if you get there early enough. Bring your own table just in case.
Plenty of electric power for every one.
There is Hot food available on site, but with 19 heats of racing, there is time between rounds to go out and eat is you want or need to.
Riders Hobby in Ann Arbor sets up a small hobby shop with an excellent selection of parts.
Hope to see you there!!
Dan

See ya guys in a few weeks :thumbsup: There will be 3 of us now and hopfully more.

Thanks for your support and We hope you will be able to make it out.
Dan

We have recieved tons of support for this event!!!
We now have some hobby shops on board as sponsors and will have a few door prizes. As they confirm their commitment, I will post so you can say thanks to them when you are at their stores.
The stores that have confirmed so far are,

Riders Hobby in Ann Arbor
Larry's
Hobby Stop West In Toledo

Be sure to thank them for their support!
Dan

I think its Great you guys are doing this :thumbsup: I hope to get a few more racers from the west side to come over! I know its going to be a fun day.Just like the Nite race was I had a blast then.Later.Ed

Track Pic

[QUOTE=tommckay]Large Novice class at every race, Last race had 3 heats of Novice.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< big time novice racer

im trying to see how many west bound racer might go if not then i dont know how many 6 maybe or less

We have averaged 135 entries this season,
There are tables if you get there early enough. Bring your own table just in case.
Plenty of electric power for every one.
There is Hot food available on site, but with 19 heats of racing, there is time between rounds to go out and eat is you want or need to.
Riders Hobby in Ann Arbor sets up a small hobby shop with an excellent selection of parts.
Hope to see you there!!
Dan
i hope that you have a big sletion of parts for ed and me if i go

If the Hobby shop don't have a part, I'm sure someone there will.

Yes, everyone there is super friendly. We will help you out the best we can. Stop by the pimp lounge and say hi.

this race sounds like alot of fun, would i be able to run a brushless motor in mod truck? can i run an amb personal transponder? and what tires are working good for trucks?

this race sounds like alot of fun, would i be able to run a brushless motor in mod truck? can i run an amb personal transponder? and what tires are working good for trucks?Jason it would be great if you can make it! If its the same system they used before when I raced with them we cant use are personal transponders:cry: .They always put on a good race.As to tires???If you are going LMK as we are.I want to try te MF2 out on some dirt :dude:

You can run brushless in Mod Truck.

Truck tires are going to be M3 & R3 Holeshots, M3 Fuzzie T's, Red IFMAR pins, Red King Pins. But sometimes Step pins work good & some people are having good results with others as well.

thanks tommckay i have some holeshots
hey ed yeah were planning on going, the improvements they made on the matt francis should make it a real good in the dirt are tim & tj going too?
see you there, jason

thanks tommckay i have some holeshots
hey ed yeah were planning on going, the improvements they made on the matt francis should make it a real good in the dirt are tim & tj going too?
see you there, jasonTim wont run his truck in the dirt :rolleyes: .It may get dirty :cry: :drunk:

[QUOTE=wreckscuba]Tim wont run his truck in the dirt .It may get QUOTE]
Thats what the T-Maxxs and my 1/8th scales are for, electric is for indoor carpet LOL :tongue: :thumbsup: :tongue:

Sorry Our timing system does not use personal transponders

The race is tomarrow! Forcast has some snow coming overnight and thru tomorrow, possibly 4-6" or so, so for all you coming out, PLEASE DRIVE CAREFUL & LEAVE EARLIER to allow for all the people out driving around that shouldn't be.

I would like to Thank everyone for the door prizes yesterday! We had a great time.If you guys do this agian we will make the trip over.

You guys made it? WOW! I wish I had known who you were, I'd have thanked you in person for coming out. I assume by the post you made it home safely? I know my drive in and back to Pontiac was a PITA!

You guys made it? WOW! I wish I had known who you were, I'd have thanked you in person for coming out. I assume by the post you made it home safely? I know my drive in and back to Pontiac was a PITA! Ya we made it!:thumbsup: We got about twice as much snow in Gr then what was in AnnArbor:freak: .I had a great time even with my ill handling truck just could not get it to hook up.It was fun watching my brother and budy race for the first time .They kept me busy.I would like to thank Dave for the help(If I rember right he is OSD on the pimp)Ed

I would personally like to thank all that braved the weather and attended the Race for Relief at Washtenaw

Despite one of the worse snow storms that we have had in a LONG time.

We had over 180 entries. Tons of volunteers to help the program go smoothly.
Dave did a great job keeping the program moving quickly and smoothly.
Thanks to Craig and John for helping with the announcing. They did a great job!!
Thanks to all who helped with transponder distribution.

And as always to all who helped track repair go smoothly and fast!!!!

We also would like to that all who donated door prizes.
Ypsi Riders
Taylor Riders
Dirt Burners
FST Hobby Shop
Otec Batteries
Fat Juice Batteries
Splat Graphics
Gearhead Warpaint
Surreal Designs
Ford Motor Sport Enthusiasts
Donna Raupp
Washtenaw County Farm Counsel Grounds
Hobby Talk
Bechlers Food Service.

Tons of GREAT Door prizes were donated and helped make the day even more fun!!!

In Addition, We donated all the profits from the entry fees to the fund. We will finish up the tally and post the results of your generousity tomorrow!!!!

I am really proud to be @5&ociated with such a fine group of people who showed they cared so much and stepped up the help those less fortunate than us.

Thanks again,
Dan

We are happy to announce the results of the Race for Relief day

Even with the worst snow storm of the year the computer showed around 180 entries. I am not sure if that includes the preregistered racers. Some of those, did not make it to the race due to weather. By the entry form count I counted 165 entries.

With the entry fees, the donation from Riders of $538 dollars, a cash donation from Bechlers in addition to the prizes that He gave away, Donations from Fat Juice Batteries and Gary from their sales on race day, plus all the people who told me to keep the change when they registered and some who came up and just handed me cash saying add it to the donations. In addition to the waiving of the rental of the building by the Washtenaw Board of Directors.

We will be donating
$1954.00
to the American Red Cross Internation Emergency Relief Fund for the Indonesia Disaster Relief.

Again, thank you all for your attendance, for your help with running the program and encouragement. It is all of you that made this a sucessful event.

Sincerely,
Dan