We are ready for another awesome race on International Drive in Orlando, Florida. Short track asphalt oval racing at it's best! Classes for everyone! Check out all the past exciting races here along with race information:

http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/thunder.htm

Oval racing is alive and well. Come be a part of the competition and fun!

http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/racerockchamps7.htm

Some believe that the best asphalt oval racers in the country live in the South. Can anyone beat them?? It would be awesome to see some new faces to add to the competition! 19 turn Ultabird oval is the NEXTEL CUP. Come join the action!

http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/newthunder/allstarwinner2.jpg

Chris Lawson winning in 2004 below and Billy Bruce winning in 2005 above! The best of the best duke it out short track style on I-Drive!

http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/images/victory2.jpg

Man the big annual race is just under 2 months away! Practice Saturday with racing Sunday.

Saturday night at Lakeland hear Kenny Holmes and Gene Crane announce the Hooter's Pro Cup race!!! Practice Saturday at the Rock then hit some real car racing Saturday night. It doesn't get any better. They are working on some great deals for racers maybe also to get in.

5 weeks away!

All day practice Saturday
Racing Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

The best of the best meet in the middle.

Wow! Billy was really taller than those two hotties? Why was Lawson's Face red?

Wow! Billy was really taller than those two hotties?

its all camera angle

http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/videos/RaceRock.wmv


Will anyone be able to BEAT the best asphalt oval racers in the south???

4 weeks! Man it is going to be a good weekend of racing.

3 new classes at the Rock: Brushless - Electric Sprint - Nitro Sprints!!

Plus the Classics and more. Don't miss it. Awesome times in O'Town on I-Drive.

http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/thunder

I would like to thanks these sponsoring companies for sending us prizes for the Race Rock raffle:

EA MOTORS / DARKSIDE / SILVA / SLICKZERO / TEKIN / HYPERDRIVE / COMPETITION ELECTRONICS / BSR

We would like to thank JBR cells for a bunch of packs for the raffle and racers!!!

Heard that team Custom Works might be heading south!! WOW! They are adding to the prizes to so thanks a ton to them also!

We added a Pro Stock class, our BUSCH class, and renamed the new brushless class to IROC. Check out the updated flyer below!

We will have live scoring and a live webcam Saturday/Sunday of the race.

Saturday night is the 3rd ever Thunder 100 team enduro racing for cash!

http://snowbirdnationals.com/racerockpics/june2006finalentry.jpg

BTW Happy Hour at Race Rock is all day.

Hotel info: I just check expedia.com and most rooms are 50 bucks for Race Rock weekend! Awesome!!!

Here is a great deal close to the race:

Days Inn International Drive
5858 International Drive
Corner Int'l Drive/Kirkman Rd
Orlando , Florida 32819
United States
407-351-4410
$41.65 (on the Days Inn Website!)

Just booked at the Masters Inn for $53.00. It's just over a mile from Race Rock. There are still great deals out there, thanks to the internet.

Ready to finally run a Race Rock event!

Saturday night - the last time the cars hit the track at DUSK - is the 3rd ever Thunder 100. It is a 100 lap stock car race where you have 2 pit men and you have to stop between lap 20 and 80 and change all 4 tires. Class is limited to 10 cars. Cost is 10 bucks winning team gets all the cash (good Saturday dinner on the racers!). Had a good time the last couple years doing this for sure! Pick your driver and 2 teams. We may throw a loop in it.

And Fuller - you have to pit in pit road

And Kat - it doesn't mean pit between lap 20 and 80

And Daryl - you will save time by not drinking beer in between tire changes

And Merideth - charge your pack this time

And Malin - can you crew of Bean and Maher repeat the win again?

Can't wait to watch this one!!!!!!!!!!!

GOOD NEWS!!

Arnie Fie from Custom Works RC Cars is coming to race the Race Rock champs. He will be racing Nextel Cup and Outlaw Nitro Sprint. We are setting up a Q and A session Saturday evening at the track where Arnie will be talking chassis setups and allow the racers to ask any questions they have on racing! Awesome!! We will broadcast this also on our live webcam!

Can't miss this one!

HI mike just wanted to let ya know that troy merideth is back home with voodoo and will be making a run for the gold at the race rock event we look forward to helping you on upcoming events!

Awesome! He's the talk of every race and will get you plenty of press that is for sure!!

Dave Wert: I ran your cells years ago when I was still living and racing in PA. Raced in Gilbertsville and at MegaTrak for years. Glad to see you back at it!

Bob

Dave Wert: I ran your cells years ago when I was still living and racing in PA. Raced in Gilbertsville and at MegaTrak for years. Glad to see you back at it!

Bob



WOW HI BOB THANKS FOR THE KIND WORDS! LOOKING FORWARD TO BE BACK IN FL ! :wave:

TTT, 9 days and counting!!!!!

Hi Tinman!

I went dirt oval racing tonight and it sounds like we are going to have 15-20 nitro sprints coming to race the ROCK. Holy moly!

http://floridadirtoval.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=853

Any idea when the track will be ready for practice on Saturday?

With the help of our new sponsor = MB Racing = the schedule is to have the track down and ready to rock and roll at sunrise Saturday morning. A whole day of RC tuning and testing. With a little happy hour at Race Rock around lunch time it does not get any better!!

Check out:

www.racetalklive.com (http://www.racetalklive.com)

Wed they have me on to talk about Race Rock and oval racing!!

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FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE

RC Pro Series Off Road, Ralph Burch & Mike Boylan this Wednesday on RC Race’n Radio

Rural Hall, NC (May 28, 2006) –RC Race’n Radio presented by the RC Pro Series is a new radio show dedicated to the radio controlled racing industry. RC Race’n Radio presented by the RC Pro Series airs each Wednesday evening from 8:00 - 9:00 PM EST on WLRT 1490 THE OUTLAW and can be accessed over the internet at www.racetalklive.com. This exciting new program is hosted by Doc Love, Chris Smith and Danny Southard broadcasted on location live from King R/C in King, NC.

Carlton Eppes, RC Pro Series Race Director will provide the weekly news in and around the RC Pro Series. We will have RC Pro Series nitro off road reports from round 1 for the Western region hosted by Boulder City RC located in Boulder City, Nevada and round 2 for the Southern region from Real R/C located in Pleasant Hill, Missouri. Ralph Burch from RC America will join the crew to talk about the Reedy Race of Champions, Team Xray and on road racing under the RC Pro Series Banner. Mike Boylan, one of the most successful R/C racing promoters in the country will check in to discuss his summer race, The 8th Annual Race Rock Oval Championships in Orlando, Florida plus share his thoughts on the promotion of R/C racing and where R/C oval racing is headed.

Some of the regular cast of characters that will check in on occasion will include Matthew “Big Pudd’n” Sistrunk reporting news surrounding the 1/8th scale nitro off road racing scene throughout the summer. Lin “McLin” Vaughan of RC-Oval.Com will serve as a correspondent reporting on the R/C oval racing scene. Mike Myers of the SGrid.Com will also provide reports from major R/C racing events as well. You may find additional information on R/C racing and RC Race’n Radio presented by the RC Pro Series on www.sgrid.com, www.rc-oval.com and www.rcproseries.com.
RC Race’n Radio presented by the RC Pro Series airs each Wednesday evening from 8:00 - 9:00 PM EST and can be accessed over the internet at: www.racetalklive.com . Each show is also archived ‘On Demand’ so listeners can tune in at their convenience. RC Race’n Radio presented by the RC Pro Series is co-sponsored by TRD Hobbies; A Main Hobbies; Kyosho America; Blue Thunder Racing Fuel; Maxspeed Designs; Nomadio and Werks Racing.
Listener participation is welcome on RC Race’n Radio presented by the RC Pro Series. There are three different ways for listeners to directly interact with the RCRR crew and their scheduled guest’s.

E-mail at rcradio2006@yahoo.com, IM the crew using the buddy name RCRadio2006 on AOL or call the TRD Hobbies Hot Line (1-877-899-RACE [7223]). For additional information on RC Race’n Radio presented by the RC Pro Series contact Doc Love shorttrackn@aol.com; Danny Southard DSouthard2@triad.rr.com; or Carlton Eppes carlton@rcproseries.com.

30 percent chance of rain for Sundays race!! :)

good luck to the fl VOODOO DRIVERS GOOD LUCK DO US PROUD!

Thanks. We are really looking forward to it! Please tune us in on our live webcam with audio and live results. Practice will be live Saturday too!!!!

http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/thunderslive

Any idea the size the of track is going to be in comparision to MTR, Strickland, etc...

Any idea the size the of track is going to be in comparision to MTR, Strickland, etc...

They have curbs that limit the width and the track last year was about as long as a track you may be familiar with. Seen any tracks that look like this anywhere? Hint? The Mini-Monster

http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/racerockpics/racerock7/track.jpg

Oh, ok. I've been to busy pulling linoleum this week and next week will be the carpet. A remodeling project that finally caught up with me. LOL So, I haven't been able to test the car out on a short track. I get out this weekend and next weekend for good behavior so I can play with the little cars. Do you have a good setup for the Maverick for short tracks? I was going to try the MTR but I think I need to go stiffer.

Tick tock, Tick tock :thumbsup:

I got chills!! Can't wait! Hope everyone is excited about the racing!!!

Mother Nature got in the way of the Mains but was still a fun racing event. Lots of close competition. Was Super having the CustomWorks guys there. Rob Cutman knows how to drive that Sprinter, for sure! And Arnie had his car on a rail.

Looking forward to the next Race Rock event.

Bob

Thanks to Mike & Mike & Mel & Kenny!

What a weekend. Thanks to all the racers that came to support the 8th Race Rock Oval Champs! We didn't get to run the mains cause of rain. But I hope everyone had a great time. I will post some more when I get home. Still moving trailers around!!

Thanks DAVE for the results. Race Results and more here:

www.rcresults.com/clubs/The_8th_Race_Rock_Champs/ (http://www.rcresults.com/clubs/The_8th_Race_Rock_Champs/)

A big thanks to the guys that make it happen (from A-Z): Mike Bean, Ken Holmes, Mel McCoy, and John Moukie. These guys worked hard on the track and everything else and I could not do it without them!

Thanks to the sponsors. Custom Works surprised us and came down. The chassis seminar was awesome with Arnie! These companies dontated to the raffle: Bad Dog Hobbies, Competition Electronics, Darkside Motorsports, JBR Cells, TQ Cells, Tekin, EA Motorsports. Thanks!

CYA soon!

I had a great time for my first Race Rock. The only bad part was the rain before the mains. It just made me want more of this short track racing. It was way too cool.

Thanks to everyone for the race: Boylan, Scarecrow, Bean, Mel and of course Race Rock and fellow racers. See you all soon....maybe a couple of days LOL

Also let's not forget David Croy for lap times and race results on the web. I had my laptop at the race and was able to access the web to see my lap times.

Thanks!

A big congrats to Arnie Fie being the 2006 All- Star Champion and to Rob Cutman winning the highly competitive and exciting nitro sprint class on the oval.

I have some awesome pics of the sprints at Race Rock! Check out these Nitro sprint videos too:

http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/videos/8thracerock.mov
http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/videos/8thracerock1.mov

http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/racerockpics/8thsprint1.jpg

Some more pics here:
http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/thunder