Hello racers. We have booked the weekend of July 18th and 19th for carpet road and carpet oval racing. Saturday is road - Sunday is oval. We will have practice Friday night for road and Saturday night for oval. Looking at an awesome race weekend indoors in the heat of the summer - rain or shine you are on the line! Road racing will feature touring rubber, 12th, and World GT. Yes we are working on classes for LiPo's in 12th and GT! These classes are growing Nationwide and are bringing back many road racers, as with LiPo and brushless racing is a lot less stress. Oval will feature all the basic's racing now with the COT body debuting in 13.5 1S LiPo.

I will have more information as we get closer - but wanted to get the dates out and official word we are locked into Minnreg next month. Hope to see everyone there for two days of great racing action!
Some past Minnreg pictures:
http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/2008FCC.htm


Mike
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6 weeks!!!

RAIN OR SHINE YOU ARE ON THE LINE!!!

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can't wait for pete to put 5 laps on my best run! lol

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3910 Ulmerton Road
Clearwater, FL 33762
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54.00 a night with FREE upgrade to microwave and refrigerator. Just mention Minnreg!

can't wait for pete to put 5 laps on my best run! lol


If your talking about Pete D then I feel your pain. he comes to our track to practice for the birds and breaks the records in all the classes. makes it look so easy lol.

Confirmation Number for Minnreg:
G00021-17

Practice Friday night for Road - Road racing Saturday at 10:30am - 3 heats and a MAIN
Practice Saturday night for Oval - Oval racing Sunday at 10:30am - 3 heats and a MAIN

Working with Ron Harrison on laying down fresh SNOWBIRD CRC RUG!!!
Let's have a great weekend of R/C Racing indoors!!!

Can you say:

Air Conditioning!
Rain or shine you are on the line!
Competition with the best of the best!
Racing almost 24/7!
New Rug!
Food and drinks!
Pitting tables / chairs / power all provided!

WOW!!!!

Checking bomus flight miles right now SRM Will you be using the new TOUR rules for classes Mikey

Hey Steve. I think we are bit early for the 10.5 and 7.5 in July. 7.5 is still being tested out, so 17.5 will be a STRONG class. And 21.5 is still a big class down here in the South so I look for that to maybe be the biggest. Probably a good 25 in each.. maybe 30. COT single 13.5 will be a big class though as it is growing. And SKs too and 12th! Hoping for 100... ya never know. Hope to see ya down for some good racing!

Hi Mikey ,I m working on getting pedro in tow and flying down for the weekend SRM

SWEEEETTTTT Bring it, and don't forget FRED.

Hey Steve. I think we are bit early for the 10.5 and 7.5 in July. 7.5 is still being tested out, so 17.5 will be a STRONG class. And 21.5 is still a big class down here in the South so I look for that to maybe be the biggest. Probably a good 25 in each.. maybe 30. COT single 13.5 will be a big class though as it is growing. And SKs too and 12th! Hoping for 100... ya never know. Hope to see ya down for some good racing!

17.5 2s??

yes Frankie 2s

cool, i dont have to build another car! lol.. you go'n Dave?

yup planning on it running 17.5 2s and my boy in 17.5 1s

is there a 10.5 1 cell?

Hi Mikey ,I m working on getting pedro in tow and flying down for the weekend SRM

http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/showthread.php?t=257213

after reading post 1 & 3 it looks like smracket has been watching too many adventures of superman rereuns

it seems as smracket plans on going to a race in nj and fla on the same day

rocket can do it!

1 cell lipo 10.5 may and it's a stretch have some entries..IF we don't get some 7.5's to play with....the fl crew is fighting 1 cell tooth and nail...currentlty only 13.5 cot has any interest...we are planning on 7.5 1 cell in november for sure

http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/showthread.php?t=257213

after reading post 1 & 3 it looks like smracket has been watching too many adventures of superman rereuns

it seems as smracket plans on going to a race in nj and fla on the same day


racket racket racket lay off the poppy seeds when doing all that cooking

the racket and poppy seeds nip

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WOW! Fred now I know why they let you drive the Fairy the day.:wave:

Short promo video of Minnreg in case anyone never has been here:
http://snowbirdnationals.com/minnreg/Minnreg.wmv

Flyer is up! Check out www.rcthunder.net (http://www.rcthunder.net). I will have parts at the track and should have new DUO2s for sale!!!
http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/minnreg/2009SummerShootout_small.jpg

Check out the live racing page:
http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/thunderslive.htm
We are testing a way to archive the weekend now you can go back and watch/listen!
Should be a cool slideshow playing now....

LESS THEN 5 and WE GO RACING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

JUST IN FOR MINNREG - the only ones in the COUNTRY will be here!!!
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Drivers Ready... At the TONE..... urrrrrr!

Live racing at Minnreg - maybe 100 cars!!
We are practicing at 3AM are we nuts???
http://snowbirdnationals.com/thunderslive.htm

Fantastic race weekend at Minnreg. Check out the results:
http://thunder.rcresults.com/2009FCCSummerOval/
http://thunder.rcresults.com/2009FCCSummerRoad/

A huge thanks to everyone involved!

Looks like the Sportsman race was great, along with the 17.5 A-Main.

Congrats gusy!

Joel White

What was the track size @ MINNREG?

(Drive line and Width and Length if possible)

Boylan's a hack. I'll bet he got passes by Katfish and booted him on exit to take a cheap win.......lol

Nice turnout Mike!

Dave P.....I am still faster than you....So much for retirement huh.......lol

What was the track size @ MINNREG?

(Drive line and Width and Length if possible)


same size as snowbirds

Thanks Peter - yes it was a great weekend. So happy to see so many racers racing - and it seems to be growing down here a little... some new guys, dirt guys, old guys,,,, cool!

same size as snowbirds

Thanks Dave, but THAT doesn't help me one bit.

I want to try to make sure OUR "West Coast" track is as close as possible in size - so our next races can be 'Birds Warm-Up races.

We have 100 x 48 worth of carpet...so a end to end length (outside of ice to outside of ice) would be helpful too.

Overall length I think is 92 foot and it is 40 wide... infield width is 14 feet and corner width is about 14 feet that should get close length for infield pipe. Hope this helps.

hacker!

hacker!

Funny coming from MR DOOR SHOT! lol

Overall length I think is 92 foot and it is 40 wide... infield width is 14 feet and corner width is about 14 feet that should get close length for infield pipe. Hope this helps.


Thanks Mike

We should be pretty close already then, we're 4 rolls wide, the full length of a basketball court, I believe the measured run line was 165 ft.

There's a video from our last race here - http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/showthread.php?t=261018

joe the video of your track shows like the groove is almost like your in a turn the whole track? i think we have more straight?

Minnreg normally rolls about 174 ft running line....Snowbirds is about 180ft.........

Kat, if you guys are only 40ft wide and we're 48, that would probably be true...and I think our ICE is only 8 ft. wide. (It may be 12 though, I forget)


We have enough room, as the guys get more betta, we can still pull the ends of our ice out about another 4 ft. each direction, which should get us really close to a 180ft run line. (I left a lot of run off room for slower traffic)

The "WEST COAST" guys have made GREAT improvements in their Carpet driving the last 18 months. We didn't get to do too much of it before that.

Hopefully it will help some of them be more competitive when they head back to FL. for "The Big One"

btw joe your carpet race and ours use almost the same set-up

our rug is laid down on a gym floor as well..

any rug practice is rug practice! looked like a good race

Yeah, this gym is sweet. It's a brand new facility, the floor is AWESOME. It's the rubberized FAKE wood looking stuff, and the carpet really likes it.

We were using the NEW McDermont Field House (Activities Center) which uses that SNAP together Plastic flooring over concrete. That seemed to let AIR get underneath the rug, and it was hard to get it to lay flat.

One of my favorite things w/ this gym is they have a STAGE, so I don't need to put up a drivers stand. (The only down side is there is no RAIL on the front of it for guys to lean up against)

At the race 2 weeks ago, it was 105 degrees OUTSIDE - and inside w/ the AC it was 78 degrees!

(The only down side is there is no RAIL on the front of it for guys to lean up against)

Well the RAIL for us AARP members is to steady us and then there are those it's to put their belly on. hehehe.

Glad to see you have found a place top run carpet.