We like what Nick Daman has been doing with RC Racing TV over the past few years. The race coverage, complete with multi-angle edits and expert commentary by broadcast legend, John Hindhough. Episode 7 covers electric TC racing from the DHI Cup and electric 8th scale offroad racing from the Neo 2009 Race. Check it out.
OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach has just completed construction of a brand new carpet track. The size is 75' x 75', features CRC Ozite and the CRC Clik-Trak barrier system, a tall and solid driver's stand, and ample fluorescent lighting. This is the first permanent carpet facility in the SoCal area at least 8 years, and we're expecting a to see huge resurgence of onroad racing this summer. With the 1/12th scale pan cars beginning to transition into the new, 1cell lipo batteries, we have a strong suspicion that this will become the fastest growing class during the summer months. There's a hearty thread going over at RCTech and you can read it here.
We hope that all racers will come out to see the new facility when OCRC officially hosts it's first club race on June 6th, 2009. Thanks to Joel Navarro for allowing us to publish the first few photos of the track (above) and special thanks to Robert Black for creating such an amazing facility.
Will OCRC and Scotty Ernst host an official "IIC Warm Up Race" later this summer? We sure hope so. Stay tuned....
Thanks to Ralph Burch, Paul Lemieux and Drew Ellis for using P1 Brand products at the 2009 Reedy Race of Champions. Pictured above, all three racers used P1 Brand Tire Tubes, now available here. Congratulations to Lemieux and Burch, who both had top ten finishes in the extremely competitive Invitational class.
The 2009 Reedy Race of Champions is history. Even though the international participation in the Invitational Class was lower than usual this year, the competition and entries in the 13.5 Spec, Modified and, newly added, RCGT divisions were considerable. Thanks to the hard work of Scotty Ernst and his crew, as well as Billy Bowerman and his staff at Speed World Raceway, the racing program and the track were absolutely perfect.
We received many accolades on the complimentary P1 Brand Tire Tubes that we presented to each of the entrants. Many racers purchased additional Tire Tubes during the course of the weekend and the Speed World hobby shop sold ALL of their P1 Brand inventory. After all, most racers used at least four complete sets of the Jaco Blue spec tire at the event. The P1 Brand online shop DOES have Tire Tubes in stock and ready to ship....
(and to all of those Reedy participants: please remember that your exclusive coupon code expires on July 1st, 2009, so be sure to redeem it before then!)
Thank you to RC Evil Empire for posting our press release last week. RC Evil Empire is a unique, irreverent blog site dedicated to RC racing and based in Northern California.
Our first shipment of Tire Tubes™ for the Reedy is completed, boxed, packed and heads to Roseville in the morning. Participants arriving to the track between 3 pm and 6 pm will receive their complimentary Tire Tube™ upon check-in.
International and domestic press releases have been issued as well and should be appearing on various sites tomorrow.
