our local club rc3 has gotten the green light to have oval races at our local quater midget track!!!! our first race will be this sunday april 1st... there will be electric classes only no gas type cars allowed at this time... classes--- pan car, touring car ect... anything as long as there are 3 and it is electric...

direction to the track--- http://www.hqma.org/DIRECTIONS.html
club info--- www.rc3racing.com

track should be blown off and ready to practice on 9-9:30am racing starting 12:30-1:00pm...

have any pictures of the track??

those pics are great over on their website of the track. I wonder if someone would let us put a radio in one of those cars and race?????:roll:

WOW!!! Concrete and Banked. My Kinda Track

looks like a great GASCAR, .09 and Quarter scale track! How is the surface for the little cars?

we are not currently not allowed to run the gas cars on the track...we have had some discusion about them with the hqma directors... their concern is the fuel getting blown onto the track and changing the racing surface for the hqma racing cars... anyone have any info on the gas cars and the gas fuel that might get onto the track on race day? as for the 1\10th scale pan cars it is way smooth enough for them we did some practice laps last week and i used 3 green and a red lr and it ran rather well on a dust track...

we are not currently not allowed to run the gas cars on the track...we have had some discusion about them with the hqma directors... their concern is the fuel getting blown onto the track and changing the racing surface for the hqma racing cars... anyone have any info on the gas cars and the gas fuel that might get onto the track on race day? as for the 1\10th scale pan cars it is way smooth enough for them we did some practice laps last week and i used 3 green and a red lr and it ran rather well on a dust track...

Just my damn luck, I'm in the process of getting a Nitro Pan car as we speak and can't race @ my home town track, guess I'll have to sell the thing and get me another electric ride, anyone going to run the 4300 brushless class? Is there going to be a race schedule released?

whats the run-line??
Night racing??

havent measured the track for a run line yet only been on it with my car 1 time... we will have all that figured out this weekend... as for night racing there isnt any planned as of right now... check out www.rc3racing.com for the schedule... as for brushless we would have to wait and see what shows up to race.most likely it would end up being stock motors 4 cell but 3 or more makes a class... come 1 come all!!!!

Quarter Scales would be cool on that track. They don't put down anymore oil than a Go-kart!

t t t

I just did a step measure the time I went out there, and it was about a 420' runline. Of course that is give or take a little.

Should be a blast to have races on.. Come on out and give it a whirl..

:thumbsup: thanks for the info

The Fuel Actually Increases Traction, Has Any One Ever Noticed That Almost All Traction Compounds Contain Some Oil Anyway?

i have heard that also... were are currently working on getting gas cars approved... i would really like to have a 1/4 scale myself... maybe if we could present them some of the cars for inspection and let them look at what might if any gas/fuel/oil if any at all would be left on the track...

bump!!!!!!! :tongue:

I bet after the first race in Mtgy, the Coyote Pack could make a trip up there to demonstrate the 1/10th Nitor cars to them. I would bet we can get some of the 1/4 scalers to show up as well.

We had a great race yesterday. liquid sunshine appeared a couple of times but we got the racing in. Hope to see all the out of towners again the next race!

Todd there was some good racing yesterday @ the Huntsville "Crete" Oval Track, thank you for all your set up help and good batteries & motors, can't wait till the next race. :thumbsup:

i will be up soon to show yall boys how it's done on the crete!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bring it on Brandon. :wave:

race results posted!!!!
http://jlapracemanager.com/cgi-bin/jlapviewresults.asp?where=atrain

look under 11/5/2006 for sundays results....i messed it up somehow and got it on the wrong date so instead of risking loosing the results i left it alone lol...

it was a great day of racing thanks to all that came out!!! i think we will see lap times down into the 6's at the next race!!!

next race may 6th... make your plans now....

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yea im going to have to come down to a 1/4 scale race in montgomery and see what its all about!!! we are going to try and get approval to run them at the hqma track...

Try to get the 1/10th Nitros approval as well.

Talk to the owners and see if they would be open to a demo race with the 1/4's and the 1/10's.

we will work on it... sounds like a plan to me....

we will work on it... sounds like a plan to me....

DC you the man, we need all the racers we can get, guys this track is a good place to race. :thumbsup:

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Rocket.
Now why would you say anything less? What is it 10 minutes from the house?LMBO!!!!! :wave:

Slider, you got that right, there aint no better track than the home track, come on up and run with us. :wave:

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I will when they let us run the Quarter Pounders.

Sounds like a plan Slider, I only hope things can be worked out in the very near future to run them Quarter Pounders and the Nitro cars here.

i cant understand why they wont let us run 1/4 cause i just dont see how we could mess up the racin surface we dont spray oil down and the cars will not damage the walls they have in place hope they come to there senses soon would love to come over there and get some laps

It is just the plain and simple fact that they are not sure.

Maybe what we should do is take a few of the 1/4's and some 1/10 Nitros up there for an electric race. Take time to talk with the track owners/officials and show them our stuff.

I think that if we do that, show them respect that we will get a shot to run there.

So................ when is the next race?

the next race will be may 6th... could someone explain the format in wich you guys race the 1/4 scale cars and the nitro pan cars? i have heard a few different ways but i want to be clear on how it should be run... not sure if you guys run in minutes or laps... also when a 1/4 scale has a wreck what takes place? does the race stop? we will need all this type info...

1/4 scale is run under the same format as a 1/4 midgets and nascar. Caution for wrecks and red flag for wrecks that require someone to go on the track to remove a car.

Nitros are pretty much the same as electric. No cautions.

In the Nitro's we will run 50 Lap Qualifiers with longer mains, say 150-200 laps.

No cautions in 1/10 Nitro. Pit stops are up to the track. What I mean is, pitting all at the same time or as STRATEGY dictates.

With the way the track is laid out, we would just about HAVE to do planned pitstops. The Quarter Midget pit road wall is way to tall to come in and actually have a pit stop.

We could probably do a lap run with our software. I think we did a couple of those over the winter with the 18th scale stuff..

Of course all this is depending on if they get aproved or not by the QM officials.

In the Nitro's we will run 50 Lap Qualifiers with longer mains, say 150-200 laps.

No cautions in 1/10 Nitro. Pit stops are up to the track. What I mean is, pitting all at the same time or as STRATEGY dictates.

Scott, how does the pitting thing work, do you guys have someone there waiting to fill the car with fuel or do you just stop and pit the car yourself? I have never seen a Nitro race.

In IDEAL situations you will have a pit crew. At Mtgy, the Quarter Scale guys will sometime be willing to fuel us, so we will try to return the favor for them.

The last time I raced Nitro (my first) I took Jason to fuel my car, but it was not needed, we red flagged for pit stops. Now I can;t use Jason, unless we are in different mains. He now races one of the Coyote cars.

The pits are in the mains only. The qualifiers are 50 lap events and easily made on a tank of fuel.

racing this sunday may 6th make your plans to be there!!! gates open around 8:30 track should be ready around 9:30 racing starting 12:30-1:00 pm...

I'll be there if nothing happens for the next round of oval action Sunday. :wave:

Sounds like you guys got a good thing going on down there. I miss everybody in Huntsville


Joe Rogers

whats up joe long time no hear or see!!! we are just now getting this oval thing off the ground and turn outs seem to be getting bigger and bigger!!! maybe you can come down and race with us one weekend... hope things are going well for ya!!!

derrick claunch

Sounds like you guys got a good thing going on down there. I miss everybody in Huntsville


Joe Rogers

Is this the Joe who had the indoor banked track on south parkway in Huntsville back in the late 80's early 90's?

yep that would be him...

Whats up people.. Things are going good I race when I can . Most of you guys didnt know it but I was into Music pretty heavy and im back in a Classic Rock Band thats pretty popular around Louisville . And we have been real busy this week during the Kentucky Derby Festival going on we are playing a CHOW WAGON tonight.. anyway...

We have a local indoor carpet oval here called RIVERPORT R/C RACEWAY and its a nice place.. Derek I will try to make it down soon im having Alabama DT's

It's good to hear from you Joe, this is Eddie Harbin, the wanna be Davey Allison back in the day when you had your track, hope you can make it down to the our new track sometime, it would be good to see you, take care " Rock Star". :wave:

any word on 1/4 yet would like to come over there and show yall what a real r/c oval car sounds like :thumbsup:

any word on 1/4 yet would like to come over there and show yall what a real r/c oval car sounds like :thumbsup:
Will, I guess DC is the man to talk to about that, I would like to see the 1/4 pounders race here, along with the GASCAR guys.

Will, I guess DC is the man to talk to about that, I would like to see the 1/4 pounders race here, along with the GASCAR guys.

The GASCAR guys, what REAL FAST R/C cars sound like ;). Just messing with ya Gilly!

DC -- Have you tested the waters with the owners of the track to see if they are open to some fuel cars coming up?