Schoolyard Speedway will be under new managment next year, It going to be leased out, and the hobby shop is going out of buisness, but may have another take its place?

sorry to hear that :(

Well I wanted to elaborate on the out of buisness, I guess Im not really closing shop but rather doing some serious downsizing... I will still carry a FULL line of BRP and some other 18th scale stuff.
They are the best anyway and no need to bother with other CRAP out there on the market.
But still may have the track leased to somone else next season... that was I can just RACE and have some fun for a change of pace and somone else can pay the bills.

Sorry to hear that Dave!!

You going to make a trip out this way again??
We may try to get to Indy slots this year watch for postings.

Dave, I see Summit has a cash race on Nov. 26th, and they have an "open" 1/18 scale. I suspect some of the 18T guys with their brushless motors will be there, but I'd like to make it interesting with my BRP. You up for that?

three of the brushless 18t's run most every week.

1/18 trucks.

As far as I know this year 2006 all 18th scales will be racing on sundays starting at 1pm and enterys are still just a honest Abe ( $5 ) per RC.
we will be running for 8 min heats and a 10 min feature. ;)
REM: only the 18th scales do that well.

Ya Hoo !!! Dave still running the awsome track :thumbsup:

MMMMMM....does this mean another road trip this summer?

Dave, I'm assuming you'll have stock classes in both car and truck, right? What about a pro-stock or mod this year? Check out the BRP Summer Series flyer on Bud's web site for his rules.

you know i was wondering if you could run a series like they did with the slot cars where you run on a oval and you post your main times on the internet somewhere you set the paramaters of the oval so you are running on the same track everywhere and then you could have a nation wide series where we all compete against each other

Well thats a interesting idea, but a costly one... a slot car track is rather cheep to build and easy to duplicate... my track cost around $35.000.oo to build and it would be hard to make a exact copy of... although it has been done to have a series race that is devided between a couple of tracks and each driver had to race so many races on each to qualify and determin a winner.
We just run a points series and a couple of special races.. one of which we crown the indiana champion of that class.

Dave >> Are You going to run the track this summer?

well i was talking a parking lot and some pvc pipe and just a design of a track that someone could duplicate nothing really hard or expensive to do like a club race but a nation or world wide club race

yep I'll have the duty again this year.... no one want that end of the deal... but I was sooooo disapointed in last years turnout and was really burned out.. but am feeling better now and hopefull about this year... after all its a new year. :)
I obtained a job to keep the wolf away from the door so it will help.. I hope.
The new job dont pay well at all but its somthing and if I can make a living from it I have more to give back to the drivers this year.

Hi Guys / Gals
I know its a LONG haul for many and we are glad to see you and mix it up out there with ya... Tell ya what.... Your racing here is FREE (BRP cars)
Im trying to get the 1/18th scale going... this year is real real slow starting..
This last weekend we had 4 nitro trucks and 2 electro trucks......
and 6 BRP cars <---- Best race and we did a 10 min run.
travel to do it here.. ya need a break... when your comming let me know... Sat Morning or Sun Morning ( Time )
and I'll get the place ready and get some FREE Hotdogs as well as cold & hot stuff to drink and we will have a good time running the BIG League cars on the 240ft banked concrete and see if we can have some awsome racing.
Im game if you are. and FREE racing is availible. :)

I will get with the area BRP racers and see when We can do a road trip !!!
Maybe that is going to be the future of RC The BRP cars. With the cost of everthing going up and 1/10th Rc cars cost getting out of control. The BRP cars still are the most bang for the buck and You don't have to fix them all the time !!

"Quote from Bud
1/10th Rc cars cost getting out of control. The BRP cars still are the most bang for the buck and You don't have to fix them all the time !!"
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How True.... Easy to repair IF it needs a fix.... Low operation costs.... Lower racing fee (most places)..... adding all of the Pluses to having BRP car defently shows the value involved.... There are lower cost RTR 1/18th scale rc's but the break easyer so ya have to buy parts and keep working on them so the $ people this they are saving buying the other 1/18th scale RC is lost in the maintaince costs.
Hmmmm hay Bud, What about a RTR BRP Kit?
I know everyone has thier favorite brand of radio and ESC, But have ya looked into the idea of a Ready To Run kit?

Well from what I hear the IB 2/3 cell batteries are the hottest out there now?
I still have my GP 1100ma packs.
B Deel had IB 1200ma and got 80 laps in 10 min. Pretty cool!

Sorry no RTR Here !!!!
How was Your BRP racing Sat???
I have IB 1400 in stock. Ran 23 min at Da Track on oval :)

Here is the race results.... we raced 4 races and totaled the laps for the 3 best run of each person and the most laps for the night was put in order and placed.
We ran 10 min races. ;)


Race Results for Stock 1/18 BRP
DRIVER LAPS Races Won Placed
Brian Deel 235 3 1st PLACE
Dave Bryan 215 1 2nd PLACE
Mike Schultz 205 0 3rd PLACE
Ed Curtis 197 0 4th PLACE
Rob Bryan 150 0 5th PLACE
It was fun!!

Sounds good Dave keep us informed. How have the other classes been?

Turnout this year for all of the classes have been extreamly slim.
Last sat we had 1 nitro truck and 1 BRP.
So far there was 1 race of electro trucks with 2 entered and nitro truck was averaging 5 enterys. and the most for 1 class was one night of 7 18th scale and 1 of them was a Losi Mini T who mixed it up with 6 BRP stock.
The 18th scale race in Sept is still on, Im trying to make it a fun fun fun night.
I have had many tell me they cant do the 500 this year so I canceled it as far as a trophy race... but will hold racing that day ( July - 8 ) but will not have awards but racing that day will be $5 per class/entery except for 18th scale racing is free.
But will not be the only free day of racing for the 18th scales.... when ever your group arives, that day is free racing for the 18th scales for the rest of this racing season. ;)

Wow Free racing!!!!!

Dave Some of the guys talked about a road trip but We did not nail down a date, will talk to them more.
Sorry to hear of the low turnouts but from what I hear it is like that all over.
Hang in there!!

Yea I plan to hang in there, for 2007 Im going to try to SPECIALIZE the Schoolyard for 18th scale racing.
A lot of the other classes have gotten sooooo fast out there that other people dont feel they have a chance and other feel they break too much... but runing so fast and hard does mean when they crash they are broke and going broke buying replacment parts.
Nitro truck is a good example.. the lap times went from 8 sec down to low 5 sec.. dont sound like much of diferance, but the track is a 240ft lap.
I just dont know what I can do to the walls to make em less prone to impact and keep guys from busting up so bad... but all in all the 18th scales dont have to keep shelling it out to keep it fixed and be compeditive.
The electro war with more expencive esc, bats, chargers, and other equip to be compeditive and still having to rebuild after a crash gets rather expencive.
Getting the 18th scales up and running out here is far less expencive and is still great speed racing... an avrage of 6.5 sec laps compaired to the record fastest 4.04 nitro touring Id call pretty impressive at a MUCH lower overhead cost... AND a feild of 10 over the fied of 5 10th scale just adds to the ecitment.
Soooo just have to see how many out there feel like I do and save money and have a great time racing the 18th scales this next year. :)

Im also trying to get a group together to race at Angola IN.
They have a pretty nice track and good decent guys racing there, Just not many in the 18th scale pancar (BRP)
Stock with any body, Any Buds tire compounds.
they are running oval on Fri Nights and road on sat.

Well last fri (24th) there was 3 18th scales... 2 BRP and 1 xray.
Results are as follows for the main... (4min)
Dave Bryan 1st 40laps (BRP)
Rob Bryan 2nd 32laps (BRP)
Don 3rd 30laps ( x-ray )

Maybe next fri we can have a few more join in and Race!!
And it will be more than 4 min. ;)

Ahhh found the results on the forum to post here.
-- 1/18 stock - A Main --
Pos Car Laps time name id avg.mph
1 1 40 4:00.73 dave bryan 2 15.29
2 3 32 3:40.42 robert bryan 3 13.36
3 2 30 4:01.09 james baysinger 19 11.45

hey DW count me in as soon as I can get my hands on a brp i race at angola

Look me up @ the track I have one that I'll sell. In box new cond. painted truck body.

WHAT!!! Your giving up your BRP? <---- Hard to believe
Well if ya get one and need stuff for em, I have a lot in stock, Im just out of kits right now but am planning to get more soon, I also need to place a order for more motors and ball difs... other than that I have it all and will be bringing parts to the track.

Nope, still selling the truck that I painted (not my best)!

Thats somthing else I now see im out of, truck bodys... I need to sell some of the other stuff in the shop and get more of the good stuff re-stocked.

Yea, t4 items!

I have some left. :)

Im trying to get the trqack ready to feature BRP 18th scale racing!!! Lets get em ready for action. ;)

any other classes for 1/18th scale trucks if not i'll invest in a brp when are the race dates and times

any other classes for 1/18th scale trucks if not i'll invest in a brp when are the race dates and times

one18thsclalerac, You can't go wrong getting a BRP. They are great cars, easy to work on, and virtually indestructable. I have four of them, and have broken just one T-plate in five years of running. (and that was from a side impact from another car)

I would certainly bring my 18t along, I'm sure if there were three of us with trucks, Dave would consider allowing us to race. Mine is set up with stock motor and late model body.

Dave, keep us posted with any dates you have in mind. I do have a lot going on through the summer, so I would probably only be able to get out there once a month.

Right now the track is open and free, Im trying to get 18th scale racing going here and feature em... every place around has the 10th scale stuff so they can just take em there and spend the big bucks.
Schoolyard is a 240ft banked concrete oval and we can race
RC18T, BRP, Losi miniT and so on... but running them each as thier own class... Stock & Mod.
I have been trying to get some input from drivers that want to get it started as far as the race day and race time... we usually had races starting at 5pm sat and ran the 18th scales ranging from a 5 min race to a 10min race but Im open to other times and days to do it.. , friday nights to sat morning or eve or sun morning to noon.
Bud makes a super fine car that does real well here and as Wazzer said they are super tuff durable RC... the worst that happned here was a turn marshal accedently steped on one while trying to put another back on the track and it cracked the body a little and bent the drive axle, and the dude weighed around 200lb.
Running a stock/Buds hand picked motor with 2/3 IB 1200 bats will keep a guy as fast as the rest that race.. so its not a money game to win... its driving skill and COOL racing... Hmmmm Im no math wiz but I gather the size compairison of the BRP nascar on my track is like Lowes for the real stuff... SUPER SPeedway and drafting works!
the 10th scale stuf has just gotten sooooo fast out here that everyone kept getting trashed when they wrecked hitting 50mph so it was $$$$$$$ racing.
The 18th scales are great competition and dont break ya to enjoy.
Well the racng here for a while is gonna be FREE for the 18th scales so when we get enough guys together that want to get it started this year Im ready.
I still just have the old AMB 20 system so ya wont need personal transponders ( they dont work on my system.)

whats the address and phone number i tryd rcspeedway but it just pops up a diff site 240ft dang thats awsome

School yard is a killer fun track.Dave>> Hope You can get a group going We have been having like 26 racers and 36 entries at our races this summer.

Oh yea my web site is no more.. I couldnt afford to keep it anymore... but getting here is super easy.... 3020E US20 LaGrange IN, and the phone is 260/463-3558

Thanks for the praise about my track Bud I do apreciate it... it was a LOT of hard work and is still in progress.... I still have a long way to go to get it where I had planned to have it. ;)
I wish I had more time... or you would have 1 more entry joining in.... but I had to take a job that makes me almost live there or at least it sure seems they want me to move in at 50+ hrs a week.
If we are in your area Ronald86 feel free to drop in and get some laps with me if Im home.... the track is right behind my place here on US20 (the old brick schoolhouse) right on the corner of cr300e and US20 east of Lagrange, the track is opne and ready, just go for it.

Well this last sat we had 2 brp cars on the track and got some track time and practice.... its a start!

Well this last sat we had 2 brp cars on the track and got some track time and practice.... its a start!
2 is better than 1 at least You can race :) Hope it will pick up for You.

Well its been awhile since I posted so here is somthing that may interest someone?
I may have a chance to put a carpet track downtown LaGrange, and due to the size I feel that 18th scale will fit it best... BRP Stock and Mod as well as some other 18th scales... Perhaps 12th scale and 10th scale STOCK could do it?? but its not yet installed to know for sure how big of a track and how many can have a decent pit spot... BUT I will keep the interested posted right here or on my phone line.
Before anyone asks.. I dont have a ABM system to support the personal transponders so leave em at home.. I still have the older AMB-20 house hand outs.
As I gathger its over 60 miles any direction 1 way to have a place to race around here.... Any takers, wana run em?

Dave, glad to see you're still around. I thought the aliens might have got you.

If you get it going, count me in on a couple of sessions. It's a little over an hour for me to get to Lagrange. Heck, I drive 5 hours to race BRP's in Ohio, an hour drive is nothin.

If you don't, maybe you could meet me at Pete Russell's in Elkhart some Friday night. They have carpet oval and run 18th scale mini trucks and Losi sliders. I have an extra BRP car someone can run, maybe we could get some interest started in them.

Let me know.

Hay there Wazzer, yea I fell of the edge of the earth for a bit or was abducted by the martians and found my way back. ;)
Actually I changed my ISP and went to high speed and had to re-enter my info for this site and stuff like that. <---- Excuse #1
Well I made the deal for the uptown store today, I'll start setting up a track and perhaps 2 weeks it will be ready for action.... I still havent determined how big the track will be, but it wont be the 240ft concrete size.... maybe around 125ft??? dont know.... the store still has stuff in it that cant be moved yet but its around 1600 sq ft total and have to mkae room for pit tables and stuff.
I'll post a pic asap of what gets installed... Elkhart also sounds like a plan, But I had heard that he wasnt going to open it this year??? perhaps I recieved the wrong info.

Dave >> Good to hear from You. Keep Us all informed. Maybe Us Ohio Guys can make it out sometime :thumbsup:

Sounds good, I still need to get the place set up, but hope all will be ready in a bit over a week.