Alright Carpet Roadcourse and Oval racers, The time has come to announce the details of the US Indoor Champs for 2011. We're happy to have Sweep, Power Push, Alpha RC F1, Team Associated, and our event sponsor Calandra Racing Concepts already on board. As always, the race will be Thanksgiving week, Nov. 24th-27th, at the Holiday Inn, in Independence, OH. (1-800- 315-2621, 6001 Rockside Rd. Independence, OH 44131) Information and entry forms, as well as online registration will be available at www.indoorchamps.net tomorrow evening.

Classes for Oval:
17.5 Sportsman Truck
17.5 Stock
13.5 open body
10.5 Open
1/12 13.5 motor
1/10 13.5 spec

TOUR rules for all classes.........

Four rounds of Qualifying (Resort AFTER ROUND TWO ONLY), And Mains.

The Roadcourse information is posted in the Electric On-road forum here, as well as other RC related forums. As more information becomes available, I'll let everyone know here, and www.indoorchamps.net

Feel free to PM me with any questions or reach me by e-mail at bimmerian@gmail.com

I look forward to seeing all the returning faces, and all the first timers as well

Glad to see the TOUR class lineup. Looking forward to it
Rick

Is it new to have oval classes at this event? I thought it was road course only in the past. I could be wrong....

Is it new to have oval classes at this event? I thought it was road course only in the past. I could be wrong....

Last year was the first year oval was added.

It has been brought to my attention that the schedule mailed out with the entry form is incorrect. We inadvertently sent a draft, rather than the final "tentative schedule" DOH!! The correct schedule can be found at www.indoorchamps.net. I apologize for any confusion.
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Any of the big dawgs gonna be there? I'm plannin' on goin', runnin' 17.5 Stock. It's only about a 1/2 hour from me here.

Yuuup, we'll be there! (myself and three others)

John are you guys running sportsman truck again? We had a good time in truck last year. I'll be ther for sportsman truck and 13.5 spec

John are you guys running sportsman truck again? We had a good time in truck last year. I'll be ther for sportsman truck and 13.5 spec

Hey Rick, Indeed I am, I'll also be running 13.5 spec so we should have a great time this year. Can't wait!!

Why is there hardly any - very little - oval support or talk here? I still didn't get the story about what happened last year. Like I said, I would've thought that this race would be talked about six months ago...

You'll find most all the action here........ http://www.rctech.net/forum/electric-road/542818-2011-us-indoor-champs-cleveland.html

Yep, I'm over there, too, John, but apparently last year was so bad for oval that NO ONE is talkin'...

WHAT HAPPPENED last year that was "so bad"...?? Just curious to find out *why* no one wants to talk...

Just curious to find out *why* no one wants to talk...

Maybe because theres nothing TO talk about,you seem set on stirring something up.

I don't think Jimmy is stirring the pot, he really just wants to know. This event is good for on-road, but is not for oval. No one is even on here to try and promote it for oval.

Well, wasn't last year the first year for oval, takes tiume to develope a following..

Well, wasn't last year the first year for oval, takes tiume to develope a following..

Indeed it was. Up until then it was road course only.

And I'll say this..... If you're not there to participate, you'll be missing a great race and a chance to have a wonderful time with a fantastic group of racers that love our hobby.

About time to start throwing the smack talk down!

About time to start throwing the smack talk down!

Yeah, yeah...... Which reminds me....... I think you should add the
spec truck class to race in. That is unless you're afraid of losing to me! :p

Yeah, yeah...... Which reminds me....... I think you should add the
spec truck class to race in. That is unless you're afraid of losing to me! :p
That's way i'm running 13.5 open.:tongue:

who is in for 13.5 open? thinking about making the trip out from nj. any idea of oval runline and track surface? thanks

who is in for 13.5 open? thinking about making the trip out from nj. any idea of oval runline and track surface? thanks

I'll be running 13.5 open.
Run line is about 170'
Surface is CRC ozite carpet on two layers of plywood on a grid of wood.

Racers,

Oval turnout has been quite a bit less than expected. While I would prefer to continue offering Oval racing, without significantly higher numbers it seems impossible to do so. We have decided to wait until Saturday to cancel the Oval portion of the program. Provided that by Saturday we have received enough Oval entries to warrant including the program at The Champs, we will GLADLY do so.

For those of you who have already signed up, we apologize, and will of course refund your entry fees, should we be forced to cancel.

10.5 if were still runnin
travis

Copied from the Champs thread on RCTech.......


Oval has officially been cancelled for this year's Champs. Unfortunately, we didn't receive enough entries to allow for an efficient program.

In light of this development, the track will be run in the more traditional clockwise direction. We will begin practice at 1:30 Thursday in keeping with the originally posted schedule, so no one is required to change their travel plans. We'll run the first round, break for the Wings/Nachos/Door prize drawings, then continue on with rounds two and three.

We'll run three qualifiers Friday, three on Saturday, then Mains on Sunday.

Copied from the Champs thread on RCTech.......


Oval has officially been cancelled for this year's Champs. Unfortunately, we didn't receive enough entries to allow for an efficient program.

In light of this development, the track will be run in the more traditional clockwise direction. We will begin practice at 1:30 Thursday in keeping with the originally posted schedule, so no one is required to change their travel plans. We'll run the first round, break for the Wings/Nachos/Door prize drawings, then continue on with rounds two and three.

We'll run three qualifiers Friday, three on Saturday, then Mains on Sunday.

Thanks John, ya beat me to it.