Hey guys,

Does anyone have any pictures from the old banked track? If so let me know I would like to see them.

Thanks,

Mario

I'll look. I may have pictures from when my car went through the wall coming out of 4 back in 2000... yes, it literally went through the wall. LOL

Mario, I think I might, Ill have to look through my old memory card, from my OLD digital camera... Kevin

i think i do but its hard to see you way in the back LOL. hope all is well and hope to race with you soon let me know if they will be running the hangover race this year been missing that.

Roman, if you are asking about running the hang-over at classic, I am sorry to tell you that they are now running indoor off-road. No more carpet oval. Kevin

i think i have a video of the 2000 roar carpet nats somewhere i'll have to look

Roman,

Banked track is gone, sure do miss it! Walt sold the place and torn down the track before he actually had it sold. And with the biggest race of the year being flat no one wants to race on a banked track. I personal think flat is damn boring but who am I...

Sure do miss all the guys and the good times! Wish we could go back about 10 years!!! Best times of my life.

Hope all is well!

Kevin and eveyone, thanks! Let me know what you come up with!

Mario

Is it possible to have a banked track where the outside groove worked as good as the inside groove?

Know what you mean about the flat track racing... used to race at Sandhills banked oval in NC and absolutely loved that track.

Bill

the only way the top could be just as fast is if the top groove had more banking then the bottom.

James

http://www.steelcityhobbies.com/images/GreatSouthern04/ARCOrNatsClassic05/003.gif

That looks like it would be fun to run. How long was the run line?

hey Mario whats shaken

That looks like it would be fun to run. How long was the run line?

i agree with midwestrc looks fun

I miss that track. It was alot of fun to race on. If we only could have had a lipo race there I think 10.5 2s would have been a blast! Wheelie Time!!! LOL

The run line was 185-190 in stock, and mod was 195 + ish. I looked on my old dyno laptop to find those numbers. Kevin

Some will disagree but Classic was the best banked track around. High banks and high speeds. Sandhills was awesome but it was bigger with less banking and bigger sweeping turns. Both are missed!!!

The run line was 189 feet. Mod record was 70 4:04. 3.2's up front. Classic was a fast ass track!

I never understood why everyone loves flat tracks instead of banks. I know the Snowbirds are flat but come on thats one race a year. I bet if Boylan would make the oval track banked he would still get a crowd. I know contructing 2 tracks would be very expensive but it sure would be awesome!

Mike O, whats up! How's it going?

Mario

too bad , bank carpet is just to old school!

I ran the Winterblast at Turn 4 (K/N) last year for the first time in 9 years last season, All I can say after that is how much I miss the banked tracks. I wish it were closer so I could run it more often.

I remember running Classic twice in 2000. A couple weeks before ROAR nats, and then again for Nats. The first time out I ran 4 cell stock. I had a radio glitch and it lodged my car into the turn 4 wall... nice big hole, suprisingly it did little damage to the car.

Came back for Nats and Steve Miller had talked me into running 4 cell mod. First day I sucked, rebuilt the car, went back the next day, won my heat and just missed the A main. I led from like the 3rd lap on, but everyone else dumped and I kept running into dead cars.

I was sad to hear they took it down when I got back into RC a couple years ago. I was hoping to make it back there again.

Casper,

Nice picture! Got anymore? Anyone? Keep them coming....

Mario

here are two pics I found, Adam Liehr is all grown up now!

I think this is where I became Amish? Look at that trim job on my face..... :freak:

I have never been to Classic, but it does look familiar. Does anyone know if that track was originally from Pennsylvania? It looks like a track I raced on in Tamaqua, PA with the straight-aways made longer. Prop and Wheels ran the first two years with a sand coat paint and we ran capped tires. It was then carpeted. I believe the last season of operation was in 1999. The track was then taken out of the building and moved to Ohio, I think. I attached some pictures.

I'm pretty positive both those tracks were up and running at the same time running the banks.

Wow, looks just like Classic. I did a search for the racetrack and a website came up but had no good info about it. I wonder if the track is still raceable where ever it is?

Mario

Mario, the Prop and Wheels track is the track in Mt. Vernon, Ohio (Redfox Raceway). They took a section of the straight away out, and it was high banked short track. Sorry to say, it was closed, and the track disposed of... Kevin

Mario, the Prop and Wheels track is the track in Mt. Vernon, Ohio (Redfox Raceway). They took a section of the straight away out, and it was high banked short track. Sorry to say, it was closed, and the track disposed of... Kevin

Thanks for the info.

No problem, I loved that track, I started my racing career on a track almost identical to it that also got "disposed" of 15 years ago... I love banked oval racing, I hate to say it, but flat oval killed the carpet racing for me...

I was at the track i think 3 times. It was very cool, and very worth the 8 hour trip. I think i did a club show, and two nats. It was a tuff track to tackle if you didnt run it weekly or have an in to the track. I really liked it and was sad to hear it went flat.

WOW... that is an old picture!

Adam

Yea it is Adam, your all grown-up now...

I don't know if I would say that, but I grew facial hair and gained a lot of weight! lol

That sucks. I was hoping that prop and wheels track was still around somewhere. I would love to do some banked track racing somewheres. I know Turn 4 is banked but I dont wanna drive 8 hours to run on looped carpet....

Adam, your driving skills are still the same as they were in that picture! LOL

Mario

Hello Guys, I agree flat tracks are not much fun...I have no photo's(sorry) wish I had.
Looking for someplace with banks, no luck yet.

If I could win the lotto I would build one.

Chuck #3

If I could win the lotto I would build one.

Chuck #3

If I won the lotto I would race the REAL thing and build a R/C Banked track! :)

I did not mean the BIG one... if I got $100,000. half would go to making a indoor banked R.C track.

That sucks. I was hoping that prop and wheels track was still around somewhere. I would love to do some banked track racing somewheres. I know Turn 4 is banked but I dont wanna drive 8 hours to run on looped carpet....

Adam, your driving skills are still the same as they were in that picture! LOL

Mario

They don't run looped carpet... It's ozite.

I'll look. I may have pictures from when my car went through the wall coming out of 4 back in 2000... yes, it literally went through the wall. LOL

i see your still driving the same then LOL:thumbsup:

Hey now... I only blew up motors, I never touched the walls at your place... lol

Banked tracks disappeared when the Snowbirds became the biggest oval race in the US.
Everyone wanted a flat track to get ready for the Birds. Also it is much cheapper to build a flat track. Sandhills Raceway was the best banked track in the nation. Even their racers went looking for a flat track. If Fabio was still living the track would have gone flat. When Sandhills closed I wondered how long it would be before racers would be asking for banked tracks. No one with-in an eight hour drive of Orlando, FL would be in their right mind to build a banked carpet oval today.

Banked tracks disappeared when the Snowbirds became the biggest oval race in the US.
Everyone wanted a flat track to get ready for the Birds. Also it is much cheapper to build a flat track. Sandhills Raceway was the best banked track in the nation. Even their racers went looking for a flat track. If Fabio was still living the track would have gone flat. When Sandhills closed I wondered how long it would be before racers would be asking for banked tracks. No one with-in an eight hour drive of Orlando, FL would be in their right mind to build a banked carpet oval today.

Agree... but what would be cool is you could build a large enough banked oval and have a flat track in the middle - 2 tracks in one. Now that would be sweet, and that banked oval would be huge!

Bill

Sandhills was almost big enough to do that. I think thats what needs to be done. Banked track oval and road coarse in the middle....

Turn 4 went to new ozite carpet? Or is it the same carpet from a couple years ago?

Mario

Mario you build a big banked carpet track with a flat oval in the middle. Ill drive the 2.5-3 hours every week. Kevin

Hey now... I only blew up motors, I never touched the walls at your place... lol

true! if they would have lasted more then 20 ft at a time you may have had the chance! LOL

Mario you build a big banked carpet track with a flat oval in the middle. Ill drive the 2.5-3 hours every week. Kevin

Hell yea, I'd be there every week too!

And Turn 4 I think might be looped carpet, but it's so worn that the loops are gone...awesome place to race though. I SOOOO wish there was a banked track around me (or a BIG flat track for that matter).

you know, I am going to make a assumtion here! and just go ahead and blast me i am sure, but lets time line this, because I was gone during these years.


1988 mostly flat on road track converted to oval
1989 Some tracks started building Banked oval CONCRETE arrives on the scene
1990 More track went banked More concrete banked track
1991 Hard to find a flat track more concrete banked
1992 indoor concrete banked track as well as carpet
1993-2009? I do not know!

But i beleive that the banked concrete and carpet track allowed new racers and easier driving experince and the oval racing grew to almost what dirt oval is today.

Did I miss something or am i grabing at straws?

I lived in maryland we had within one hour 3 banked carpet ovals and we had PA, VA, NC, NJ for conrete bank oval when i raced back in the day.

Hell yea, I'd be there every week too!

And Turn 4 I think might be looped carpet, but it's so worn that the loops are gone...awesome place to race though. I SOOOO wish there was a banked track around me (or a BIG flat track for that matter).

Turn 4 has always been ozite... It's just the same ozite that was there 15 years ago and there isn't much left to it. Still has a ton of grip though, and is a blast to drive on.

Shawn, you have to admit, considering I had maybe 3 minutes of practice after taking all day to build the car, coupled with the fact I've NEVER run caps before, I did pretty well in the 1 heat I actually finished. If I had figured out that wonderful piece of Tekin engineering was the reason my motors were hand grenading in the first place, I would have tossed that thing in the weeds. There is always next year... I'll be armed with a race ready Twister this time, no more building cars at the track... Well, maybe birds and ovalmasters, but thats it!

That's not ozzite. I once had a 25 foot strand of loop wraped around my left rear. Darnedst thing I have ever seen.

My understanding is it is 20 yr old loop carpet.Worn out but alot of fun.

I coulda swore that was ozite back when I first ran it... maybe that's why I could never get my car to work worth a damn there.

Anyone remember Mega Track from Jersey? I know that was a really popular cap tire track back in the day before my time. I was never there, but have heard a lot of stories. I know that was the inspiration for the Prop & Wheels track.