It's getting to be that time of the year again to start talking about the King of the Hill Oval Challenge at Storm Steel Raceway.

The track will be open for practice on Friday.

Saturday: Track will open at 8a.m. with practice until 1:30pm.

First Qualifier will be at 2pm
Second Qualifier will be at 3:30pm(approx)
Thrid Qualifier will be at 5pm(approx)

At 6:30pm Saturday the 2nd Annual King of the Hill Challenge will take place. This will consist of the top 3 qualifiers after Saturday's rounds in each of the three classes(17.5,13.5 and 10.5)

More to come on that later.

Sunday Track will Open at 8am with LCQ at 10am. Mains will start at High Noon. We should be packed up and out of there by 2pm.

As always we'll have nice awards for TQ and top three in each class. I'll try to get some good door prizes for everyone as well.

classes for this year:

4-cell 17.5 4600 or less batteries. Any ROAR approved 17.5 motor. Cap tires only.

4-cell 13.5/Lipo 21.5 4600 or less NIMH 3200 or less Lipo packs. Any ROAR Approved 13.5 motor. Cap Tires only.

4-cell 10.5/Lipo 17.5 4600 or less NIMH 5000 or less Lipo packs. Novak Only 10.5 motors and ROAR Approved 17.5 Motor

All cars must weight 41oz min. Motors will be teched for legality. I know all the tricks, even invented a couple myself so DON'T TRY IT

For anyone who hasn't been to storm steel this year I'll try and give some updates as to what the setups are going towards.

The grip level is down a little from last year so we've had to tighten our cars up quite a bit. A bi-level wing is helpful so have one of those in your box.

Tires i've been running are pink rears and blue fronts, nets on the right and prolights on the left, full stagger rear, half stagger front. You might want to have a green for the LF and maybe a blue for the RR depending on how the temps end up and how your car is working.

Gearing for the 10.5/17.5 lipo class has been in the 2.30-2.40 range (gear ratio) and for the 13.5/21.5lipo class has been in the 1.90 to 2.00 range.

Hope everyone can make it, if anyone has any questions, post here and someone will get you an answer as quick as possible.

Mike C

Back to top Should be a tough field in the 13..5 21.5 class looking forward to it.

Will you guys let Lloyd in IA?
The weight for 21.5 is 42oz? Do I need to feed my car some of that IA corn?
Hey Kelm, my car is black, silver and yellow so you may want to bring some heavy duty touch up materials.

I don't know about the weight, but we'll let Lloyd in the great state of Iowa, but he should be very careful though.:wave:

I will drive and put LD in the trunk but we will make the race
p.s. when we pass the state line I hope they dont check the trunk when we get stopped:p:wave:

Ya what is the weight for a NiMh and a lipo. Hays I'll pay for this but we could sprinkle some corn around the edges of the track while you are eating some grass

Just over 1 week away.

I don't really know what the weight is supposed to be for Lipo. What do they run at Tri-Clone?

Maybe you can get something to eat the corn about 10 feet in all the way around and trim the grass to 1/2". I would be covered then.
We run 41oz for the Lipper cars at the Tri-Clone

okay, 41oz min. lipo weight. is that the weight for NIMH cars as well?

Danny are you going to do the 1 min qual again this year?

Will you guys let Lloyd in IA?
The weight for 21.5 is 42oz? Do I need to feed my car some of that IA corn?
Hey Kelm, my car is black, silver and yellow so you may want to bring some heavy duty touch up materials.

I thought your car was all green last year.

Oh wait, that was all the grass that was on it from the infield.:D

Danny are you going to do the 1 min qual again this year?

I don't think it's necessary. With 4 rounds of qualifying we should be able to get ourselves sorted out.

So who's all coming this weekend? Hays? Will we see the silver fox hiding in the grass ready to pounce? Kelm? Will he put away whatever he's doing this summer and make his debut at SS?

Looks like the classes will be 4-cell 17.5 and 4-cell 13.5/Lipo 21.5...

I'll be there. 21.5 Lipo:thumbsup:

I'm in for 13.5 maybe 17.5

The weather looks perfect for this weekend. Sunny but not too hot. Don't miss out!

.....

Alright guys,

There has been some discussion.

And we have decided to cut this year's race down to a 1 day event.

Here's what the agenda looks like.

Gates Open at 8am.

Open Practice til 12:30pm. First race at 1PM. 3 rounds of qualifing and then Mains. We should be done and out of there by 6pm at the latest.

There will still be awards and such. LRT is providing the awards.

Entry Fee will be $15 first class, $5 second class.

I really hate changing things a few days before the race. But with the expected crowd, there isn't justification for a 2 day event this year.

I hope everyone will still come out on Saturday and have an Awesome time.

Thanks
Danny B.