Dirt oval in oakville CT My be what us dirt oval heads are looking for

MAYBE THE NEW GMX???????????????????:thumbsup:

Maybe...
It's at Pin Shop Hobbies, 28 Main Street (Rt.73), Oakville, CT. Just North of Waterbury. They are having an open practice Sunday. Shop opens at 10am. Bring pit tables. Steve, one of the owners, put down new clay this week. Hopefully some guys can make it. I'm gonna try my ProCar & see how it goes. I'll let you guys know what the scoop is after Sunday.
http://www.pinshophobbies.com/

Maybe...
It's at Pin Shop Hobbies, 28 Main Street (Rt.73), Oakville, CT. Just North of Waterbury. They are having an open practice Sunday. Shop opens at 10am. Bring pit tables. Steve, one of the owners, put down new clay this week. Hopefully some guys can make it. I'm gonna try my ProCar & see how it goes. I'll let you guys know what the scoop is after Sunday.
http://www.pinshophobbies.com/

I wish you let me know you were going I would have put my gbx together instead of waisting my time elsewhere, all by myself.

Nice .Just wanted to let you all know that Bob and myself stopped over to tthe track today to check it out Some realy bad weather came threw and washed the track away in the turn nxt to the wall Track needs major repair . talked with steve the owner and he said he is getting more clay this week might need to do a work party before sun .Outher that that it has potential"forget the spelling jokes i heard them all " Talk to you soon guys Kenny

I ran the track today. The existing material wasn't right for dirt oval. Didn't pack well (not enough clay in the mix). Steve has better material, just didn't get it laid down with the weather. The way the surface is right now, it's just like the old Xtreme (when JB owned it) A converted buggy with pin spikes/fuzzies will kick a purpose built-EDM's a$$. Long straights, flat corners. The surface was definately smooth enough to race on.

If the new clay is good, it will be a very good place to race. I think Steve plans to try it again next Sunday. Please spread the word & try to make it.

Yes, We are going to try again on sunday. We are going to be working on the track wed. and thurs. night to try to get it were it need to be. We will be spreading the new clay on thurs. I will try to let you know more after that.
Thanks
Steve

Cool. might stop by.

I raced the oval today with my late model Track was fast.Small turnout because of fathers day but it was fun.Steve worked on track in the AM
to get it ready.

Please post pictures of the new track- Thanks!

I don't have any pictures put if you go to the pin shop hobbies thread there
are picture there. I'll call Steve or Pat the owners of the hobby shop and see if they can or I will take pictures next time I'm there.

The pictures on there web site are of last years track the current track is alot
differant and it has the oval too.They are going to update the web site this week Steve told me today.The oval picture is on the pin shop thread on Hobby talk I just checked.

Did i hear latemodels? If anyone wants to run LM's i'm for it. I'll try to stop up this weekend. What time is racing? What are we all running?

Erich- How ya doin'? Give me a shout when you have 5 minutes some time-:thumbsup:

518-452-0422

Did i hear latemodels? If anyone wants to run LM's i'm for it. I'll try to stop up this weekend. What time is racing? What are we all running?

Racing Starts at 3PM on Sunday Im open for running anything, so far not many people have showed up there has been a couple of nitro Late models but thats it so far. Hopefully we will have a better turn out this weekend.

If you were able to run your dirt oval on sat. nights you could get 6 to 10 dirt oval mod regulars in a heartbeat.

pics of pin hobbies

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Unfortunatly we tried to run oval 4 weeks and I have only had a handfull of guys show up. We even tried changing the clay and still nobody showed up so this leads me to believe that the oval will not work and we are changing it to an off-road track. Maybe next season I will try to build a separate oval but I would have to see alot more interest. Thanks to the people that did stop by the track.

Where did you advertise your first big oval race? Usually when a new oval track opens up they have a big race so all the guys know the track is there. check out master hobbies's, a huge success! I'm not saying this to be a smart ass I love dirt oval and I'm just trying to help . Have a big race, advertise it AND THEY WILL COME!

http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/showthread.php?t=221817

Yea i did not even kno about the place untill you had a race there no advertiSment no racers. Sorry went there last sun at 4:00 and the place was a gost town

Well, Like I said right now the off-road is doing good and since the oval is incorporated into the off-road track it makes grooming and keeping it smooth very hard. I am working on another place to build just a dirt oval. If that happens I will advertise it more on all the forums. But before I spend the time and money on the track I would like to have some input from the guys that would be racing on it. If you would like to e-mail me suggestions on size , banking, the right clay or any thing else that would be helpful that would be great. The E-Mail address is pinshophobbies@sbcglobal.net Maybe we could get something going towards the end of this season or definatly next season.

Wow, Bonzai posts pics on 6/21 and it's done and over with on 6/23? :confused:

Some of us up here in the Albany area have been discussing your new track and eagerly waiting to see pictures of the new facility. We were interested in attending an entry form type of race if you held one. Obviously we would not be commuting there to race every week, but would certainly come down to a big race if we could.

Keep us posted on the progress of the next oval if and when you build it...:thumbsup: