Hello! I am looking for drag rules and clubs/ sakation bodies. We are start a small group southeast of Pittsburgh Pa.. We like to do some draging with cars and trucks. The trucks a mostly monster, and standam trucks. I do NR/CTPA now. But like to do some striaght line racing too for fun.
Thank you
Johnny

www.rcrods.com is one of the sanctioning bodies that governs R/C drag racing... plenty of links to strips and drag info sites...

should be able to help you out...

PLus look for a Ad in R/C Driver for the RODS events....

Billy

Thank you Billy

Where At In Pa?

slaz, we are looking in the Westmorland County area. Looking at Mount Pleasant Pa. The place is call Hot Shots Indoor Arena. It is beside the YMCA. I will know more what is going on next week.
Johnny

Talking about rules.....I know track measurements would be around 130ft. for drag lines does it need as much for the deceleration or ''brake zone'' ?Stephane Courchesne

Stephane.... track length is 132 ft and most tracks have the same amount of room when they can for sut down.. some go up too 300ft total......

Billy

You can go to http://www.imdra.com/ to get rules and information for laying out a track.

Also you will find others in your area in the forum section under divisions.



A/Fuel

Ok. From what I read so far I need 132 X 2 +15 more feet, for track and shout down area. I the place I am looking at and like to do a event is not 300ft. long. I am looking to run indoors. On a dek hockey rink. It is 180X90. Was thinking of 61 feet drag race. I can put up foam to help stop at the far end. Why I ask, is. Not far from me in Wv. there is a 1/8 mile drag strip. and 35 mins is a 1/4 mile drag strip.
Johnny

Johnny call me or stop over at the track friday later john

Ok. From what I read so far I need 132 X 2 +15 more feet, for track and shout down area. I the place I am looking at and like to do a event is not 300ft. long. I am looking to run indoors. On a dek hockey rink. It is 180X90. Was thinking of 61 feet drag race. I can put up foam to help stop at the far end. Why I ask, is. Not far from me in Wv. there is a 1/8 mile drag strip. and 35 mins is a 1/4 mile drag strip.
Johnny


Johnny

RC drag racers have run scale 1/8th mile in the past for various reasons, like failed timing sensors or not enough track lighting. The more shutdown area you have the better and foam works the best, using 12" of heavy foam will stop a car without damaging it too bad if at all...

Timing systems can be purchased and setup to run any scale you want as long. If the system is computer based it makes it much simpler to change lengths/scales for calculating MPH, etc.

Check out IMDRA.com on their Forum for racing in your area...

Good luck

If anyone runs scale 1/8 mile drag track does it mean cars could be powered by 6 cells instead of 8? And I suppose some E.T. bracket- type system would be popular for such short strips?

Stephane Courchesne

Stephane.. we run 6 and 8 and 10 and 20 cells in electric no matter what we ... full 1/10th quarter or 1/10th 1/8 strip.. just a different gearing some times....

Billy