RC Racing down at Competition Hobbies in Tuscon

Sunday November 6th, 2011

For this weekends racing, the initial plan was to get in club racing over at Scottsdale RC Speedway, but because of the amount of rain we recieved Friday night and Saturday early morning hours, SRS decided to not hold their normal Saturday night racing schedule.  Since SRS was closed my friend Dean from Wolfpak Racing and myself decided to head down to Tuscon to check out Competition Hobbies and their indoor track.  We left around 10am in the morning and arrived down in Tuscon just before noon, thanks for driving Dean.

My pit area.

I really liked the layout, they have both a dirt track and a carpet track, and for today's racing they were running on both tracks.  I also like the fact that the had a large amount of pit areas, both single pit areas along the outside wall as well as pit tables on both sides of the tracks, great layout.

My first look of the layout, very nice.

Both Dean and myself entered the Pro-Lite 13.5 Short Course class, at first we were both going to run 13.5 buggy and Short Course but decided to only run the trucks instead.  Below is the race results:

Round 1 (6 min heat):
     Frank     10 Laps - 6:22
     Dean      11 Laps - 6:07

Round 2 (6 min heat):
     Results were not posted for some reason for round 2, but for myself I know I did bad, the truck kept shutting off when hitting the jumps, and I doubt I got in more then 5 laps.  I changed the position of the power switch, and no more issues for the rest of the day.

A-Main (6 min main - 11 Drivers):
     Frank    10 Laps - 6:23  Finished in 9th place.
     Dean     12 Laps - 6:29  Finished in 7th place.

It was a great day of racing, and I feel that for our first time at this track we did okay.  I look forward to coming back down to this track for the KBRL series on December 17th.  Next week, if mother nature doesn't rain on my parade again, I will be at SRS for Friday night and possibly club racing on Saturday night as well.

Slot Car Racing at the Wolfpak Garage

Friday November 4th, 2011

Its been awhile since I got any slot car racing in, but Friday night I dusted off the cars and got in some great racing over at my friends garage (WolfPak Racing).