Whats up race fans! We have something new for you. Pottbelly’s RC in Pittsgrove New Jersey is proud to present the East Coast 1/18th Scale Championships. October 28,29,30.

We plan on putting your 1/18th scale trucks and sedans to the test on our indoor off-road and indoor carpet track. You heard right Pottbelly’s R/C raceway houses both an indoor carpet track and an indoor dirt/clay race track. Its time to put these trucks on the dirt and test their metal on a ninety by forty foot race track with all the bumps and jumps you’d expect to find on a off road race track.

Let’s not forget all you on road micro fans, we will be gathering the fastest 1/18th scale sedans together for a competition on the carpet as well.

The East Coast 1/18th scale Championships sponsor’s will include Trinity, Castle Creations, Tekin, our very own One18th.com, UnitedRC, Nomadio and many more yet to be announced.

Below is an attachment that has the rules, facility layout and a few other details. The Race Guide is attached here for you to check out what is coming. The daily format will be released shortly but it’s a planned 3 day event Friday practice, Saturday practice and qualifying Sunday finals and some activities in between.

These things aren’t written in stone but if you have any questions please feel free to email me at the address indicated on the attachment.
Website: www.pottbellysrc.com (http://www.pottbellysrc.com/)
Email: EastCoastChamps@PottBellysRC.com
or call 856-207-2495 for more information
Rules and Info: http://www.pottbellysrc.com/champ/Intro1.doc
http://www.pottbellysrc.com/champ/Race%20Location1.doc

The sponsor list is growing...The official entry form will be posted in the very near future :)

Some big names are already on-board :D

Sponsor update:

Team Associated has officially joined the growing list of sponsors :D

Word has it, we are working on another special "major" sponsor :D

For registration info, visit http://www.pottbellysrc.com

or click here: http://www.pottbellysrc.com/ECC/EastCoastChamps1.pdf

Latest news

Hi Race fans. We're coming down to the 2 week mark.

First and foremost Early Registration Closes the 25th but if you want in on the Free GQ Micro Tires from Competition R/C Products I have to have registration post marked by the 15th. If you mail it on the 15th please e-mail me at EastCoastChamps@PottBellysRC.com

Also any of you not so local racers who feel like taking a drive. This saturday the 15th we are having the start of our Winter Champ Series Race 1. It's our Monthly in house 1/18th series. 6 races one drop there's info on our web site. We open at 3:00pm saturday and start at 6:30pm and usually wrap up by 10 to 10:30. Come get in some practice racing. We are also open sunday the 16th and sunday the 23rd for anyone who wants to come race and get track time before the event. I do have the layout down for the big race Setup there is what is going to be raced for the big day. ( No my locals can only get in on the track these days also :-) )

Rules Clarification

Actually I just updated this in the rules and will have the new version on the web site shortly. For all Sportsman classes. This is something I thought of after seeing all the wild things some of the Pro drivers do. LOL... the Handout Motors must remain unmodified, Cantabs, EndBell the whole motor. If you with to replace the brushes they must be replaced with stock replacements. to allow some tunability you may Drill, file or basically shape the brushes if you want but that is it. So there's a little tuning you can do.

I did hear from Kyosho and they are bringing Jeremy Kortz. Some of you have heard of him some may have not. If you look him up online he's quite a experienced racer. Rumors I heard he has been seen on TV, doing R/C in the Monster Garage. Raced and has beat some of the best we know in the industry. I hear he's quite a personality too. On top of all that he'll most likely hand it to most of us on the track...LOL.... I know he's running Half 8 but have not heard if he's jumping into other classes yet. I also got a crate from Kyosho yesterday of some awesome stuff on top of the 3 Mini Inferno ST's to give away and raffle off. Can't thank them enough.


Notes for Pit Prep

There's power at both ends of each row of tables. So you should pack a short extension cord. Also anyone Driving to help out with Chairs if you can bring a chair it will help make sure all those flying have chairs. A small pit light is recomended. The Cieling lights cast shadows a lot.

There's lots more to follow as we get closer to the Big Weekend. Thanks to All who have already got their registrations in. I'll post the Entry list after the Tire cut off.

OK Just over 30hrs till Practice starts... Man the Prizes and giveaway stuff is piling up... :-)

Can't thank all the sponsors enough for everything they've donated or supplied to make this all happen.

From the smallest in R/C to the Largest in R/C and everyone in between It's been a pleasure meeting and working with all of them.

Castle Creation, Kyosho America, Trinity, Associated, Nomadio, Competition R/C product/GQ Tires, R/C Car, R/C Driver, Tekin, United RC, One18th.com, AON, Team Scream, and still more.

Things to remember for the race

1. 8 to 10 ft extension cord or power strip. Power poles are at each end of the pit benches so the guy in the middle will need a cord.

2. Pit Light. All lighting is florescent overhead and gives off shadows so you will probably want a small pit light on your table.

3. Car, Radio, Batteries, chargers... :-) People forget this stuff...LOL

4. Those driving please bring a chair we are limited on chairs and we have a number of people flying in who can't bring their own. So all Help is appreciated on this one.

5. No Need for compressors. we'll have a airhose to blow vehicles off.

I think that covers it asside from tool boxes, soldering iron etc.... :-)

Entries will be accepted thru 10am on Saturday (for those who are into "last minute" things ;) )

Well how was the race?