better turn the heat on in the dugeon, i'm coming too. :devil:
my red rocket is lookin pretty impressive. :D
junior barnes
putnam propulsion, hyperdrive, pole position batteries

Hey bob,

I have a suggestion for quallifiing, you should try to keep the heats to 4 or 5 cars max, I know there are alot of people coming but if there are 6 in each heat you are going to have a lot of people that have not raced each other and a lot more crashes, It may take a little longer to get thru the rounds but it will be worth the extra time in the day to have the field of people happy with there race weekend and may even help some of the issues of the shuffle that some drivers still have. just a thought but I know if there are less cars per heat in means less crashes and that will make for better racing

see everyone at the track :wave:

Fun is what it's all about. We will do our best to keep the heats to max of 5 cars. Good suggestion, Thank you

Bob T :thumbsup: :wave:

Just thought I would pass this info along, I just booked two rooms at the hollow in in barre. the guy was helpful and the price not bad 65.00 for each room, I also called the days in and they wanted 135.00 for a room that was smaller than the one at the hollow in, last time we stayed at the days in it was around 55 dollars, when I asked why the price change I was told that there was some event in town and the rooms are hard to get for the weekend, I later found out that it was just other racers calling for rooms. the guy at the hollow in said he stil has a few room left.

oldtimer, I replied to your last email, I just resent it let me know if you got it or not.

Could someone also tell me what time the doors open Sunday.

chris,
doors open at 7:00 on sunday

Good luck ct guys even you oldtimer. :thumbsup: I'll be looking for 47 laps at the regionals. :tongue: MZ

I just want to let everyone know that we have some weather issues to the south but, it should not effect us in Barre, Vt. For the people who are traveling tomorrow, Take your time we are open from 8:00 to 8:00 so you will have plenty of time to practice Saturday and some on Sunday. Have a safe trip, I will see you on Sunday. It's going to be allot of fun.

Bob T :thumbsup: :wave:

Jesus dont pay 135 dollars for a room at the Days Inn :eek: Try the Comfort Inn at 802-229-2222 or the Lague Inn at 802-229-5766. if anyone has trouble finding a room let me know there are others in town as well but I just gave you the better one and the closest ones first.
$65 for the Hollow is a good price and worth it. $135 for the Days Inn is rediculous.

other options
Pierre Motel 802-476-3188
Budget Inn 802-479-3333
Capital Plaza 800-274-5252
Vermonter Motel 802-476-8541

Brian

Just wanted to let everyone know that the trophy race tomorrow will go on inspite of the snow storm. Allot of the out of town people have arrived from CT and NY and are practicing right now so, the show must go on. Be careful on the way to the track, take your time, if you think you are going to be late tomorrow call us at the track, the # is 802-373-1688 we will sign you up. Hope to see everyone tomorrow at the track.

Bob T :thumbsup: :wave:

Can you tell me what the roads look like comming from north?

Martin Paradis

Martin,
When are you coming down tonight or tomorrow ??? the further north you are the better it is and if your coming in the morning the roads probably will be allready plowed. Hope you can make it.

Bob T

Bob,

We`ll be there tomorrow morning, hope to be in around 8:00.

See you there,

Martin Paradis

I would like to Thank the Barre Town R/C club for putting on a great race :thumbsup: nice people, professionaly run, and fun time racing.
there was some 70 drivers on hand, that drove through 2 foot of snow for some close racing.
This race in now on our annual race calendar.
Nick Leone
Team NSW
Beefy Products

I would like to thank each and everyone of you for coming to the Christmas Classic (BLIZZARD) Trophy race. I hope everyone had some fun and a good time. I also hope that everyone had a safe journey home. The next Trophy race will be in March or April. The race results are posted on www.barrerc.com, check it out, I'm still working on the pictures. Thanks again

Bob T :thumbsup: :wave:

I want to thank everyone for coming to Barre in such terrible conditions. The timing of the storm made it impossible to postpone, besides it takes more than 30 inches of snow to cancel a race in Vermont. I think that is the first trophy race I have ever been to that nobody fought or argued with anyone. It seemed a good time was had by all. Just look at the results page and you can see there was some great races in every class. Thanks to Rob for the help plowing on Saturday. 3-4 inches an hour is pretty tough to keep up with.
Thanks to Bob and Gary for sacrificing their day of racing so that the rest of us could have a great day of racing. Everything ran like clockwork. Nice job guys :thumbsup:
Don't forget how to get here, we race every Sunday at noon. Hope to see you all and more back at the spring race. :wave:

p.s. Anyone else have fun? The drive in the snow alone was a blast.

Brian Ouellette

Hello all, the pictures from the Christmas Classic are posted on the website. Check it out
www.barrerc.com

Bob T

Hi all the race results from today are posted on the website www.barrerc.com check it out

Bob T

Hello all,
We are now in the Northeast Carpet Oval Challenge. Our race dates are 6-7 March 2004, practice on 6 Mar and the race on 7 Mar. We are going to incorporate the series into a Trophy race on that day, that should make for a big crowd. We need to start now looking for a sponser. It looks like it's going to be a good series with tracks from Rome NY, Glenns Falls NY, Rensallear NY, Enfield CT and now Barretown Speedway representing VT. For the complete schedule check out the thread for the series on Hobbytalk. See you at the track

Bob T

Thats great Bob :thumbsup: I am going to try to get Ray to pick up the last date. I sent tony an e-mail, hopefully he reads it. I am sure Ray would want in on this. Missed you Sunday, hope to see you next week.

Brian

I'll be back this week. See you then
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL

BOB T :wave: :thumbsup:

Hello all, the racing was great today. The race results are posted for last week and this week, check it out www.barrerc.com

Bob T

we will be coming over on sunday 1-11-04 to race, should be atleast 4 or 5 of us,

see ya at the track

We have missed you guys! :wave: Looking forward to seeing you back. How did it go in Rensellaer?

Brian

The website is updated, check it out
www.barrerc.com

Bob T

hey dudes, when is your next big race? and how was this past weekend?
-junior barnes

The next trophy race is 7 March 2004, this will also be a points race for the Northeast Carpet Challenge, hope you guys can make it

Bob T

hEY jUNIOR, COLD ENOUGH FOR YOU UP THERE? iF YOU NEED TO WARM UP, COME ON DOWN ANY TIME. ONLY 20 SOMEODD BELOW DOWN HERE IN THE BANANA BELT :cool:

BRIAN
WWW.BARRERC.COM

Hello, I'd really like to make the trip up for the series race on the 6-7. Does anyone know how far of a drive it is from Rome? And what kind of turnout do you expect for 12th scale?

thanks,
jw

JW,
I'm not really sure about the 1/12th scale because it's not a class that we normally run but, we will if we get enough cars so, I guess we need to know how many 1/12th are planning on making the trip. It takes about 5 to 6 hours for the trip we raced in Rome 2 years ago for the series. Hope you make it

Bob T

Hey Bob, did you hear from Jon today? He sent me an e-mail today. I will forward it to you. He is in Virginia right now. But he said he will come up and talk to us when he gets back to town in Feb. or March.

Brian :thumbsup:

I read the one you sent me, I'm looking forward to talking to him

Bob T

Hello to all, the website is updated with todays results. Check them out www.barrerc.com I hope everyone that went to the Winterblast had a good time.

Bob T

Wow Bob that was fast. I think we should make mention here our plans for next week. For those of you who have been away, and those just looking for something different, next week we will be running 5 minute heats and the main events will be 100 lappers. We do 60-70 laps now in 4 minutes. In 5 minutes we should do close to 80. 100 laps should take around 6 minutes. Thats 360 seconds of run time, we should all be able to do that. It is an experiment just for next week, see how it goes. If we like it we could do it more often. I think it is a chance to be more like a real race, you don't see then racing for just 5 minutes at Daytona. "The Daytona 5 Minutes" Come on over next week and give it a shot with us. I think it will be a whole lot of fun. :thumbsup:

Brian

hey brian i bet that someone will do 85-87 laps in 5 minutes,if i wasn't going to glensfalls,i'd be over that sounds like fun.


Dan Dubuque :thumbsup:

:wave: Hey Dan, nice to hear from you. We missed you at the Christmas blizzard trophy race. We will keep you updated, if it is half the success I think it will be, I am sure we will be doing it again. :thumbsup:
Be sure to tell all your friends.

Brian

brian,i wanted to go to the christmas classic,but i couldn't get out of my driveway, the plows never touch my road until mid afternoon,and my toyota truck don't like snow,it's only a 2 wheel drive,i will try to make it over soon.


Dan Dubuque

It is certainly understandable you missing the trophy race. We got 30 inches of snow out of that one.:eek:We did miss you though. :cry: It just wasn't the same without the mighty midget and his crew. It just sucked the way the storm hit us that hard and they weren't expecting that much. By the time it started snowing here we already had guys here from CT and NY and Canada practicing. Too late to postpone now. We had a great race and the place was just about full anyway. Looking forward to seeing you back real soon :thumbsup:

Brian

Hi Brian,
While your on the subject of trying new things, how about 2 or 3 lap individual qualifing runs! Would be neat to try and see just how much longer it took, and how well it was received. Just a thought!

Later,
Larry

That has been mentioned Larry, I am sure we WILL try it some time. I think it would make sorting out the heats go a little faster if we qualified for our starting spot instead of a random start based on when you sign up. The faster cars would start together instead of waiting for the second round to shuffle you around. It would be a little time consuming, but if we sacrifice one round of heats for time trials it might make for better racing. We could do time trials, 2 heats and the mains. If all the cars were ready and lined up waiting so we could go boom,boom,boom. I think we could get through time trials in about the same time as a heat race. We will talk about it at the next driver's meeting. I for one think it is a great idea. :thumbsup: anybody else?

Brian

I like the idea of having "hot lap" qualifying. It would be fun. Not really a big fan of the 100 laps though. I would rather keep the main ths same as the rest of the heats. If you want to do 5 mins then do all of the heats at that. I notice that when I practice and go to the 5+minutes on a battery pack that the car starts to handle differently. Could be battery dropping off or just traction etc. For the guys that are a little better that might not be a problem, but for me I have a hard enough time staying out of people without the car changing during the run :jest:

Not to mention that if you have 8-10 heats that that will be a late night to get out of the race.

Planning on being there sun. will see how it goes I guess........

brian ,we have done the 3 qualifying laps in plattsburgh,it don't take that long,as long as every is ready when they're surpose to be,if some one is'nt there they go in the last heat, plan and simple,we did it with only the pan cars,it's really alot of fun.we started at 7pm raced 3- 5 minute heats and a 5 minute main and got finished at 11:00,


Dan Dubuque

Allot of good ideas, we'll have to talk about it this week at the track. See everyone there

Bob T

All good ideas, looking forward to trying something new :thumbsup:

Brian

Well I found it

Hopefully I can Keep the Body Together This weekend .Seems Like the Hot Glue Gun Worked . Seems to be Holding Up. I have 2 Other Back up Bodies ready . Also Held together with Hot Glue Gun. If I can get The Push out of it . I think I might beable to Hold it all together . As long as I have been on This site This is the 1st time I have seen this Thanks Brian , For letting me know about it . I will tell Rick

It used to be a lot simpler to use. All the oval racing was together in one place. Now there is 800 different areas to look in, it is just too confusing. It would take you a year to search every thread on here. Some guys use oval racing, some guys use general discussion, hell I don't know where to go anymore. :confused: When I get a response notice I just copy the address and paste it and click go or I would never find anything

Brian

Should be alot of Fun This week , I hope it is Not Getting out late . I Hope to have a good time . I Think some People Might have some Problems with it . If your Battery packs will hold .That would be Not Very Good if I was still running 3000 Packs

But not a good day for me . But Oh well I guess that will Happen . I had a Broken Rear right tire in where it Mounts to the Hub. So that is why My car was put to Lunch. Oh well Going to Try something New this week. Make some Major Adjustments I guess Rebuild some Shocks , And change some Springs . Try to get it Smotther I guess. But That has alot to do with my Bad Drving. TTYL Thanks again had a great time :wave:

Sorry you had bad luck in the main Wey. Mom said there would be days like that, she just never said there would be so many. I think most everyone had fun with the 100 lapper. I also think 5 minutes is too long. I really like our 4 minute races. The 100 lapper was fun for something different, not something I would want to do regularly.
When it comes to adjusting your car Wey, don't do major changes. Try small things one at a time. When you make major changes you don't know what worked and what didn't. If the combination of changes doesn't work that doesn't mean one or two of those changes might have helped but the third thing you did through it out to lunch. You know what I mean? Besides, your car isn't that bad. Make one change at a time and see what it does. :thumbsup: Just my two cents, take it or leave it.

Brian