hey.......i just checked the pics, they look great.....(but where are the stadium pics)..

Hi, I race in new england and have been to alot of tracks and i will have t say that you guys have a top notch facility from what i see, i like the high driver's stand..
keith fortier

keep up the good work!! !)

Darn right, Just about 29,000 square feet. And now, we will have expanded pit space thanx to Mr. Rich Heavner,(sorry Rich if i spelled it wrong). Im getting pretty excited for the crl race. Is that a one, or two day event john? ttyl, cya sunday john.

P.S. John, i think that we should share the magic of AJ's B'Day and post the pics of his napkin eating.

Just thought I'd announce that we've built some new additional tables this evening thanks to Rich Heavner of the BACC! I think at this point we should be able to seat 120-140 racers, or more. I also ordered four new 135' X 12' rolls of Ozite from Frank Calandra today. And ... we now have 700' of the new polymer track dividers with custom tapeless corners in use as well.

KawadaKid.... it's a single day event.

The CRL race is only on Sunday. However, they are having a warm-up race with practice afterwards on Saturday.

-Rich


<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by KawadaKid:
Im getting pretty excited for the crl race. Is that a one, or two day event john? ttyl, cya sunday john.
</font>

Wow, what a large turnout for a Tuesday night practice. Lets keep up the attendance
and maybe we could get even more new carpet.

OR we could get about 150 cubic yards of clay and make the baddest indoor off-road track in west Mi. hint hint hint

[This message has been edited by brewha25 (edited 01-09-2002).]

Clay is good Brewha- I'd run a TC3 rally on it! And as for the T.N.T. races starting this Thursday, I can't wait. Maybe this time us "regular" guys can win a few instead of the "pros". I'm sure the people that were in it last year remember who always won. Is there going to be separate catagories for pro, novice, etc? http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/biggrin.gif

150 yards that is a lot of dirt I think that 100 would do the job. Man that is going to be alot of shovels full.

Shovels full??? You gotta be kidding me!! How about if we use a conveyer belt system to get it inside, and then a bobcat to move it around?? Now, THAT sounds more like a plan to me!!

Just imagine.... First we were just racing RC cars on carpet, now we're adding a second track, then we added flying airplanes inside, then the skaters, more and more tables, and now we're talking indoor dirt??? Guess we'll have to come up with a new slogan. Something along the lines of.... Great Lakes Racers Club, "one of the few clubs with plenty of space to do almost anything raceplace" http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/smile.gif


<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by nitrorod:
150 yards that is a lot of dirt I think that 100 would do the job. Man that is going to be alot of shovels full.</font>

Man with all this dirt we are going to need another drivrs stand. The conveyer belt system sounds like a much better plan than shovels and wheelbarrows.

Indoor dirt? Sounds Good to me but what about the carpet track. I raced for many years at RNL in Portage and the whole place was dirt even up front where it had two doors seperating the two. Real hard to keep it all clean.I am all for it and I am sure that many of the RNL crowd would be there for a new fresh place to race. Just wondered if this was a thought???

What a great turnout for the first night of our 2nd annual THURSDAY NIGHT THUNDER series. The new pit tables came in handy for that, thank you Rich! With the stiff competition for points, it made for an exciting evening of racing. Again thanks to all who participated. http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/smile.gif http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/smile.gif



[This message has been edited by John Warner (edited 01-11-2002).]

hey everone, incase you didn't know THURSDAY NIGHT THUNDER includes all cars and trucks they even had a class last thursday for mini coopers (sweet).... so dont miss out like i did, and bring your car/truck and lets have some fun.

Well, as many of you already know, we've run out of parking for the club now that the "El Gigante Supermall" has had it's grand opening this weekend. So.... starting today (Sunday 01/13/2002) we'll be using the door on the North side of the building. It faces Rider's across the street and has a small roof over it. I believe it also connects to Aldi's parking lot.

In an effort to make parking easier for us all, I think this is the best solution that's available. Saturday for Oval we had about 26 racers, Stadium had 57 entries, making the changeover with people trying to leave and others attempting to find a place to park was very difficult for everyone to say the least. The parking lot was already full with the mall traffic!

Thanks for your help!
John

Micro's.... Micro's.... Micro's!!

I'm confused, (as usual) where did all the new BRP Micro cars go??? There's been over 15 of them sold at the club, but only two show up every now and then. What's everbody doing, keeping them at home and chasing the cat around with them or what????

Also, the CRL race will include a class for these cars so we all need to get them back up and running again! (don't forget, we've lowered the entry fee for them as well)

Hi John.This is Scott from the U.P.We are comming down there this saturday to run oval.We are really looking forward to racing at your facility.There will be six of us for sure that will be running stock pancar.What i need to know is what is the min weight for six cell pancar and if you would be so kind as to let me know what the general rollout areas is.We run a small track at home and it would be kind of nice to get the cars setup in the general area by rollout and weight.Your track is larger than ours so we run a whole different gearing range.We also have no weight min so knowing ahead of time will save us some work and we will be able to enjoy the stay more.Thanx for the info and we look forward to seeing you all this weekend.

Scott(t3rc1) http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/cool.gif

Come one guys get those Micro cars out and lets go racing. I would also like to say that if anyone is looking at the results from sundays Micro race I broke in the main.

Scott- the min the 6 cell pan cars must weigh is 42oz. or 2lb, 10oz. as for track length it usually rolls out to around 135' plus or minus. We look forward to seeing you this weekend.

And as a reminder to all please park on the North side of the building (facing 28th street) so we can hopefully avoid the mess with the "El Gigante Supermall" and our racers trying to get in and out.

Bad Andy

Who's ready for TNT race #2 Tonight! All I know is Slim Shady is Going down, those new Reedy Zapper Packs I got are awesome, hehe. Track opens at 5:30, and Off to Hooters afterwords for some Brews.

Bad Andy

Don't forget, all classes are welcome. Trucks, Micros, 1/12Th scale that means you too.

[This message has been edited by brewha25 (edited 01-17-2002).]

Rumor has it Josh Cyrul may be racing oval with us tommorrow(saturday the 19th) If you want to see just how good you are you can bring it out against one of the most successful R/C drivers in the world. Below is a post he made on another forum.

Bad Andy


Posted from Trinity Tech Talk:
Ask Josh Cyrul; Jan 2002 thread

Bobby Flack (Thursday, January 17, 2002, 3:04 p.m.)
Josh... Where are you gonna run oval..? Were going to Grand Rapids the next 2 weeks i think to run 4-cell mod.


Josh Cyrul (Friday, January 18, 2002, 12:17 p.m.)

Bobby - I'm going to try and make GR tommorow...

Great News!....

Thanks to Mr. Sparks, we have now purchased more ozite carpeting. (it will be delivered Saturday morning) It's slighty used but in great condition. There's enough to lay out a 40'X 70' of racing surface. So, with what we have now (40'X 80') plus the four new 125'X 12' rolls coming from Calandra, (which will be 60'X 120') we should have more than we need.

Also..... It's been posted on Trinity's Tech Talk that Josh Cyrul is coming to race Oval with us this weekend along with several more racers from the Lansing, Gaylord and Detroit areas. Should prove to be some awesome racing to be had by all!

John,
Bobby and I had a great time today. I believe that is the most oval cars I have seen in years--8 heats on a Saturday Club race...outstanding!

You guys do a real nice job of making it a fun day, Thanks again.

Ted

Hey John.Scott here from Escanaba.We had a blast at your track.You run a very organized race and it went fast and smooth.Got back here about 2:30 am.It was worth the trip down for us because the racing was exciting.We didn't do real well but we had a blast.We are stuck with a small track so we are set for a small track and it was a little strange at first to get the gearing and the setup down for the bigger oval but by the last race we were going strong.You have a great bunch of drivers and some extremely fast ones too.And of course Keith was THE MAN again today.He is a great person to know and fun to race with.We have raced with him before and he's even came up here to race on our first track we had last winter.Well,i'm tired and i need sleep.Thanx for the great time and we look forward to comming down again.Thanx Great Lakes Racers for having us.

Scott(t3rc1) http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/cool.gif

AJ, E-Mail me ur resume please! Thanx, cya tuesday.

Has anyone seen my post? I cant seem to find it. It is almost like someone is deleting them. hu....wonder what is going on?

Scott, Ted and Bobby....

I want to express my sincere thanks for all the kind words. It takes an unimaginable amount of work by many to organize and maintain a club of this magnitude, and believe me when I say that reading what was written in your posts helps make it all worth while!

But.. I still can't get over driving all the way down from Escanaba just for a club race, that's quite a haul!! What time did you guy's have to leave anyway???

NitroRod..... What was your post thats missing? I haven't deleted anything from here in quite some time!

John Warner

Hi John.We have friends in Gaylord that came with us to race so we left friday nite and stayed the night in Gaylord.Left Gaylord at 7am and got to G.R about 11am.It was worth the trip.I wish more of our people could have made it down.You see,up here R/C isn't as big as it is down there.We have to travel at least 3 hours if we want to race with different people.We go to MT Pleasant,Traverse City,The Soo etc.We have 25 members in our club but most of them run the offroad and wont run oval.We have 8 that run strictly oval in the winter so we have to travel in order not to have to race against ourselves all the time.My friend Kevin and i have built an awesome offroad track last year and had a great season with a big trophy race for our last race.We also run the carpet track but turnout has not been big so we travel.We were quite impressed at how fast and smoothly everything went.To be able to move the number of cars in the time you did was quite impressive.We have been to races with a lot less cars and not have it run so smoothly. The pit area was set up perfect with nice big tables and HEAT.I would sure like to get into the heads of those A main drivers,what an awesome show of racing,not taking anything away from the other racers that were there because you have some talent in that club.We will be back.Thanx for the hospitality and the great time.We will reccomend your track to the many racers that we meet as beiing a premier place to race.Take care and good luck in your addition to the new track.

Scott(t3rc1) http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/cool.gif

Stadium Racers.....

Mark your calendar for Saturday evening February 2nd. That's when we'll be having a trophy race dedicated strictly for stadium!! Best of all it's being sponsored by M.A.R.S. (Michigan Auto Racing Series)!! That's right, it's the same organization that runs the yearly series races held outdoors during the summer months throughout the state of Michigan. Trophy's will be presented to all 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers in every main. (cost is $20.00 per entry)

Please note: We're asking that everyone be there earlier than normal so we can get off to an early start. Preregistration is also available, and highly suggested. We also plan on starting Oval earlier than normal as well. For stadium, I'd suggest being there around 4:00-5:00 if at all possible, or earlier!

(Oval driver's please be at the club as early as possible, I'd like to start first round at 10:30.)

Thanks,
John

Also.... Don't forget that Lansings CRL race is the 27th of this month. Ours will be on February 17th

Thanx AJ. BTW, how is it coming with those company's?

Nitrorod,
Have you seen my post? I cant seem to find it. Someone is deleting them.
I did see yours and now its gone along with mine!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who suffers from "Disappearing Post Syndrome". I've had at least 8 not go on the board.

Anyway, lets see if we can get some rally cars out for this stadium trophy race. I should have my spare TC3 converted back to rally, and I might run it this saturday if anybody has one to run. Dust'em off... http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/biggrin.gif

Just a reminder.....

Don't forget about the "SUPER BOWL of STADIUM" trophy race being sponsored by MARS this coming Saturday afternoon/evening!

After this Tuesday we'll be able to seat well over 100 racers with ease on permanent tables (yes, we're building 6 MORE tables).

Also... We hope to have the new AMBrc scoring system with the personal transponders in and operational very soon! (hopefully by the end of this week)

John

Way to go Hyena Motors and Jeff Hirdes's 4th Place finnish in lansing at CRL Race #2!

well it sure got dull in here.......where did u all go?

Well, if nothing else I'm here! It's now 2:24am (Friday night/Saturday morning) and I just came home from the club. We built and wired another six tables tonight plus quite a few other things that needed to be done prior to Saturday evenings MARS race. So.... I'm off to bed, gotta be back at the club at 8:00am for oval racing!

SeeYa!

Ever wonder why people on this thread can't post on the "other" Grand Rapids track thread? Exactly why is that? Maybe we shouldn't let their guys come over and run OUR Thursday Night Thunder series... Just a thought... http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/biggrin.gif

damage,

why make comments like that?

Take a look at what I found on Big Jim's discussion page on Hobby Talk.

***MORE NEWS!***

Famed 1/12th Indoor and TC Champion, Josh Cyrul had a falling out with Ernie Provetti (CEO of Trinity) and is no longer running for the big T. I asked Mike Reedy if he was going to pick him up and Mike said, "He will receive the same tech support as anyone else running our car but nothing beyond that".

Personally, Trinity having trouble with someone who excells in their field doesn't surprise me.

C-dan....

Whomever you may be. I'll do my best and try and explain what Eric's reffering to.

I believe he's talking about the fact that no matter who makes a post (usually someone from this thread), rather it be in the form of a serious question, statement or otherwise, it quickly gets deleted by Mr. Rott. I personally don't understand why he chooses to do so. My assumption was that these threads were set up for us to discuss items related to racing in the form of questions, answers or statements. Why bother having a site if everything that's posted by someone from the "other side" gets deleted before anyone has a chance to read and respond to it?

Originally posted by C-dan:
damage,

why make comments like that?

C-Dan- Damage does have a point to an extent but not letting people come race just b/c they race at rivertown isn't fair, I think. I personally would like to see the outdoor layout Terry has planned for this summer since it sounds like it will be a permanent track. But two serious posts that have been made by our club members asking Terry where this track will be so we can check it out have been deleted and without a response back from him. so I don't even bother with asking anymore because it seems that he wants everyone to know about what he's doing but not to come see what he is doing. That's just my $.02 on the whole message board thing.

Bad Andy

John,

Can't wait for February 17th and your Carpet Racing League race. Do you plan to have a warm-up race or practice on Saturday? Lansing had 20-30 racers show up for theirs. It went over well, so I'm getting questions about your plans.

Keith

Hey john, wont be able to make practice tonight, but im on for thursday. Are we going to have a practice before the CRL Race?

Boy! I tried to light a fire for some answers and the only ones that understand are GLRC club members. John hit the nail on the head- I'm not saying that we should ban racers from the other club, what I'm saying is how would Mr. Rott like it if we played his game? I know personally of two people that were "removed" from the "Rivertown" track for no reason other than they were associated with members of our track. I personally like the challange of trying to compete with Apl-Hed. I also know if I ask him a question I will get an answer. He's one of the two "pros" we can get help from. And by the way, the other is a member of GLRC. Thanks go to John for giving us a top notch track where EVERYONE can race and not be afraid to ask questions- and if they do, not have to deal with the "pro attitude".

And thats MY $.02 worth. http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/biggrin.gif

I guess I should just keep my mouth shut and not say anything but it just seems like no one even wants to get along or try to enjoy this hobby. I have been to both tracks and think that they both put on a great program, we are fortunate to have the amount of places to race as we do in Michigan. I hope this continues to happen and track wars don't hurt each other so bad that we have nothing or no where to race. I don't want to think of that. BOTH clubs do a good job at doing what they are supposed to: KEEP THE HOBBY FUN AND ENJOYABLE.

[This message has been edited by C-dan (edited 02-06-2002).]

Sooooo, is thar gonna be practice on the 16th (the day before the CRL race)?

Thanks!
-Rich

C-dan....

You mentioned something about you wished both tracks could get along, correct? Just for my two cents worth I'd like to mention that John Macintosh, Tim Brink, Dan Bossardet, Sean Bain, Pete Helmer, Jeff Cook, Brad Baker, Steve Bahr and Jody Flipse just to mention a few have either recently raced with us or visited and have not been harassed, treated any differently or asked to leave. As a matter of fact, they were treated the same as they were last indoor season as well as outdoor. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for some of our racers that were PHYSICALLY FORCED to leave the other track for no other reason than who they were.

Remember something, you're the one who brought this up, I'm simply stating facts and NOT attempting to create any undue grief that hasn't already been dealt with in the past.

R/C racing is supposed to be a fun and enjoyable hobby, if it turns into an insurmountable amount of work and grief, then I promise you, somebody else can take over, I'll find something else to do with my time and money.

John

Rich, sir.....

Well, it looks like the votes are in... YES there WILL BE practice Saturday during the day. Doors will open at 8:30, and we'll shut down around 4:00-4:30 so that our Stadium racing can be run and started at their normal time.

I'm assuming we'll do the same as the Hub did? Two or three heats and a main???? You racers will have to let me know what your preference's are.


<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by rchang:
Sooooo, is thar gonna be practice on the 16th (the day before the CRL race)?

Thanks!
-Rich</font>

John - Is Oval racing cancelled for the Saturday before the CRL?

John,

You have mail.