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TOPIC: Club Racing |
| Eric G
April 12, 2005
7:11:34 PM
Entry #: 796511
| WHo's ready for a club race? I know I am. Andy wants to have one this Sunday. DJ wont be here (he's going to whoop A$$ in Las Vegas Race) so everyone has a chance to win. For you new guys, now's the perfect time to get your practice up for RPR's May Tropy Race. Raceing against 40-50 people is much more fun, but intense, than just 15-20 guys. I hope we can get a nice turnout this weekend. See everyone there.
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| joe
April 12, 2005
8:20:25 PM
Entry #: 796632
| where is Juan???????? have not seen him post in a long long time. hopefully andy did not scare him off
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| Juancho
April 12, 2005
10:34:00 PM
Entry #: 796825
| I'm still here (Checking on the forum every day)... and I'm dying to go to the track... Been swamped in work (So first things first).
I'll do my best to go and race you guys this weekend.
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| joe
April 12, 2005
10:49:43 PM
Entry #: 796846
| juan,
keep up the enthusiasm........ i think it is great that you are so into this... you have good ideas, do not let people discourage you.
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| Juancho
April 12, 2005
10:54:16 PM
Entry #: 796855
| All right guys... Lets spice things a bit and have some fun:
One of my distributors has offered to contribute and incentivate our activities, so (If this is OK with Andy), we are going to ruffle one prize between the top three places all mains combined (6:1 - 9:1 chances... Not bad uh???).
Prize has a value over $ 200.00
Or should we have a 15 lap shootout for it???
Andy, in the event that I cant make it to the track on Sunday, I drop by your house to leave it with you.
Depending on the turn out, I may be able to get some more prizes for our next series... SO LETS GO RACING!!!!
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| Juancho
April 12, 2005
11:18:22 PM
Entry #: 796877
| Thanks Joe... Dont worry I was born with a self-winding thing. ;o)
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| Alex S
April 12, 2005
11:53:25 PM
Entry #: 796929
| Are you going to come oout this weekend Joe? I will be there as long as I can get all the parts I need to put my car back together.
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| RoyalPalmrace
April 13, 2005
12:56:08 AM
Entry #: 796988
| trying to get my new serpent 710 ready to race this weekend i'm really wanting to put some laps down.
juan I hope out make it out to race...joe maybe you could let some of the guys up north know about this club race it would be cool to run more people. let them know about the prizes!! the track is getting more and more prepared wait till you see...
I think the final results will be awsome..
I want to try sugar this weekend ...anybody know where i can get some large bags cheap??? 50lbs or 100lbs
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| Juancho
April 13, 2005
1:45:36 AM
Entry #: 797016
| SUGAR (50 AND 100LBS):
TRUJILLO AND SONS
1100 NW 23rd Street
Miami Fl 33127
(305)633-6482 ext # 119
Sales@trujilloandsons.com
http://www.trujilloandsons.com/sp/home_sp.htm
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| Juancho
April 13, 2005
1:59:08 AM
Entry #: 797019
| OKAY.. Propposed Payout (Pending RPR approval):
Top three possitions of each main will go into a 20 lap shootout, top possiton from each main gets a Prize.
A Main Shootout winner Pize:
http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=213&subcategory=214&product=10795
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| Juancho
April 13, 2005
2:02:14 AM
Entry #: 797022
| B & C Main Shootout winner Price (One Prize Only, both mains combined):
http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=213&subcategory=215&product=4908
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| Eric G
April 13, 2005
7:32:58 AM
Entry #: 797111
| Make sure that A-Main prize is the Silver one, So it will match my I-Pod Mini when I win ;)
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| alucard
April 13, 2005
8:11:35 AM
Entry #: 797141
| Wish I could be thier but I am heading to Palm Bay this weekend to race.
Andy if you have any flyers let me know. Email me the flyer and i will print out some and hand them out this sunday when I race.
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| joe
April 13, 2005
8:41:53 AM
Entry #: 797186
| hi alex,
i am going to try my best to make it. abraham is working on my rrr and hopefully he will have it done by this weekend. if not, i will be there to hang out and pit. man, that wreck seems horrible. i guess you got a lot of fixing to do. good luck!!!
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| Eric G
April 13, 2005
10:00:20 AM
Entry #: 797327
| Joe, how are you ever going to be able to setup your car if you keep letting Abraham do it for you? :P j/k
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| joe
April 13, 2005
10:44:02 AM
Entry #: 797412
| he is not setting it up for the race. he is just maknig the car "neater". i am not wanting him to do the settings, more correcting my building mistakes. even so, i should learn to do this myself. it just never turns out right.
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| RoyalPalmrace
April 13, 2005
11:45:17 AM
Entry #: 797560
| mike we need you at royal palm!!
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| Eric G
April 13, 2005
1:34:49 PM
Entry #: 797827
| Yeah I know, I'm just cracking on you. Sometimes those guys do things in a few minutes that we'd never figure out if it was staring us right in the face. But let me tell you. It was awesome this weekend. To go to a track I'd never been to, and dialed my car in with the setting tricks I learned. I still had a bit too much steering, but I didn't have enough time to fix it. But I still knew what settings to adjust. Pretty cool stuff. See you this weekend.
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| joe
April 13, 2005
1:41:14 PM
Entry #: 797844
| yeah, it is cool when you know what to change for what reason... but one thing, the track at fort myers is so good that you could basically put the worst tweaked car down there and it would still handle pretty well... except for that traction rolling problem at the winternats:)
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| Alex S
April 13, 2005
1:41:19 PM
Entry #: 797845
| Sound Kinda confident Eric. Just wait my new SSG radio plate and new Servo case is going to make me so fast!!!! You and Zen Master(Andrew) are my next targets. I will beat you, but you still have to pit for me.HEEHEEHEE
I wish I could use my new canopy at RPR. I think I will set it up under the roof just to get some use out of it
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| Eric G
April 13, 2005
1:45:12 PM
Entry #: 797857
| Yeah Mike...we need you here. In case you didn't see...there "could" be a chance to win a Zen Micro (iPod Mini type device) Those things are bad ass. I don't think you'll have that chance at Palm Bay. Besides, your Tax season is done for the moment on Friday, what better way than to let loose on the weekend. Bring the Wife down and hit the town Saturday night, and then WOW her at the Track!...LOL
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| joe
April 13, 2005
1:59:15 PM
Entry #: 797890
| yeah mike, i must agree........ support miami's track
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| joe
April 13, 2005
1:59:15 PM
Entry #: 797891
| yeah mike, i must agree........ support miami's track
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| Eric G
April 13, 2005
10:59:50 PM
Entry #: 798830
| Let me tell you, I couldn't do any better laps than 16 seconds until I dailed the car in. Once i had the right setup, I was able to hit laps in the 14's, less than half a second of the leaders' pace. Not too shaby for the first time out on the track. BUt yeah, that track is nice, but all that traction won't eliminate the need to setup a car correctly.
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| Alex S
April 14, 2005
12:18:31 AM
Entry #: 798924
| I got all the parts to rebuild my car today, so I'm in for Sunday. A+ to Andy (Shopserpent) for prices and Service. I ordered 4 separate orders on Monday and got All my parts by today, Wednesday. Not bad huh.
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| RoyalPalmrace
April 14, 2005
1:06:25 AM
Entry #: 798952
| Thank you alex...for using shopserpent.com
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| RoyalPalmrace
April 14, 2005
1:16:07 AM
Entry #: 798959
| Alex bruzzo is setting up a permanent computer at the track for us! that will be more convinient than lugging the laptop around. it also allows for real time race video over the net if we had an internet connection.. J-lap has all the features including a pit screen. for the pit men and other great things as well.
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| RoyalPalmrace
April 14, 2005
1:26:31 AM
Entry #: 798964
| WOW! I just checked out the prize for this weekend! that thing is awsome. This should be fun...
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| Juancho
April 14, 2005
1:41:37 AM
Entry #: 798972
| Guys, please make sure to bring a photo ID if you are planning on winning the MP3 player, need to send copy (JPEG) with the sponsor write off sheet.
If we can get 40 entries for the weekend I'll guarantee some more prizes for the next series.
SO LETS COME OUT AND PLAY
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| Juancho
April 14, 2005
1:42:49 AM
Entry #: 798974
| SORRY I MEANT TO WRITE 30 ENTRIES
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| joe
April 14, 2005
8:39:51 AM
Entry #: 799151
| sorry, but i will not be able to make it this weekend. i dropped my rrr off to abraham to work on. and it will definitely be a lot of work to finish. i was going to drive the serpent, but just realized i do not have a controller, i gave it to abraham. i have an extra receiver but no extra controller!!!!!!!!!
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| alucard
April 14, 2005
7:19:54 PM
Entry #: 800467
| Thanx guys. But I am visiting family up there this weekend too. But now that tax season is done I hope to be out as much as i can before my son is born. Then as soon as he can hold a contoller he will be racing too :).
See you all soon.
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| RoyalPalmrace
April 14, 2005
8:49:48 PM
Entry #: 800588
| Joe hurry and go buy a controller for this weekend. Mike congrates on your future child. I think you should start playing engine sounds and call lap times around the belly. That way the child would be more ready to run. BORN TO RACE!!
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| RoyalPalmrace
April 14, 2005
9:00:21 PM
Entry #: 800608
| Maxy Velasco and I went to the track today and put down a coat of surface sealer around the sweeper. The track is turning out very nice with all the improvements.
Nelson has done a great job also with the wood work around the track and on drivers stand.
gentalmen I think things are going to improve a-lot for everyone that wants to race.
I am continuing to improve the track one step at a time as I am able.
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| joe
April 14, 2005
10:53:08 PM
Entry #: 800762
| maybe if that new controller the nomadio was out... maybe i would buy a new one... i was looking forward to racing you guys this weekend, oh well...
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| alucard
April 15, 2005
2:42:21 PM
Entry #: 801741
| I pre ordered the nomadio. hopefully it will be out this summer.
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| Alex S
April 16, 2005
1:14:36 PM
Entry #: 802686
| DAMN! I'm still waiting on my SpecTrum and now something else is coming out.
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| Eric G
April 16, 2005
7:46:19 PM
Entry #: 802893
| DJ's currently in 10th Overall in the Rd Logics Las Vegas race. Let's hope he can keep it up.
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| Juancho
April 17, 2005
1:24:26 AM
Entry #: 803144
| Forget the Spectrum, the Nomadio is AWESOME!!!
It should be out before the month is over
http://www.nomadio.net/default.asp?ilevel1=2
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| Juancho
April 17, 2005
1:26:21 AM
Entry #: 803145
| SEN1-SYS Sensor System - 2.4Ghz RC radio control system with telemetry. Includes controller, car transceiver, 3 sensors (speed, voltage, temperature), NiMh battery pack for the controller, Charger for the NiMh battery pack, Instruction manual, quick start sheet, CD ROM containing PC software.
Available – April 2005
Note: This SKU is a complete kit to upgrade one car to use the Nomadio system. It includes the controller and one car transceiver with sensors. Additional car transceivers are available separately as SEN1-TXK. $649.00 dropped to
$499.00
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| alucard
April 17, 2005
6:01:44 PM
Entry #: 803666
| Hey guys. I got 2nd place in the race up here in Palm Bay. Not bad considering my oil leaked out of the front shocks (gotta see why that happened). I hope to be out again with you all soon.
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| Eric G
April 17, 2005
11:28:06 PM
Entry #: 803964
| Robbed I Tells Ya!
MAAANNNnn...What a bummer... I had that thing in my sights. All I had to do was finish the damn main. Oh well. This was a great idea. I think it could develop into a nice way to bring some more people to the track. Obviously there can't be a free iPod every race, but maybe it will help keep the interest in the next series if another prize can be found. Instead of a a one day shootout, We have a series of races and then the Top 10 overall (for example) have a shootout for the prize. Kinda like Nascar now has with the Nextel Cup. Oh well. See everyone soon
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| Alex S
April 18, 2005
12:32:21 AM
Entry #: 804008
| All in all, it was a real fun race day. Traction was good, the track was clean, and I even got to traction roll(3 times). I did chunk 3 rear tires, though. I really need to learn to cut the body in the rear aroung the tires so that this stops happening.
Congrats to Andrew and Frank!!!!
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| RoyalPalmrace
April 18, 2005
11:40:11 AM
Entry #: 804467
| I wonder what happened there . the site was down for a few hours.. its ok now.
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| Juancho
April 18, 2005
12:17:30 PM
Entry #: 804532
| The word is A W E S O M E ! ! !
The track was very clean, good NEW SEALER/SUGAR traction, I think the new railing is coming out great too....
I don't know you guys, but I enjoyed very much the exitement for the shootout (Even more than trading paint and bumping with Frank every other lap)...
I'm certain we will be able to get prizes for our next series... And even more positive I can snatch a couple more MP3's for the endurance (If any).
In any case (Even though I was driving like a girl, and finished dead last)... I think this was the kind of environment that will bring more people to our track.
Ah, Andy GREAT JOB... (Congrats to Andrew and Franky).
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| joe
April 18, 2005
1:17:14 PM
Entry #: 804631
| congrats to andrew for breaking me out of the main... j/k
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| Henry D
April 18, 2005
4:29:23 PM
Entry #: 804910
| HELLO GUYS, LONG TIME NO SEE, HOPE TO BE BACK RACING SOON, HAVE HAD SHORTAGE OF HELP AT STORE AND ALSO ED TOO MUCH SCHOOL, HE'S NOT RUNNING THE STATE SERIES BUT WILL RUN ONCE IN A WHILE AT RPR. ONLY GOT 1/8 S. CARS NOW. GOT TO GET TOGETHER WITH ANDY TO SCHEDULE A 2 HOUR ENDURO SOMETIME IN MAY. JUST GOT SPEKTRUM SYSTEMS AT THE STORE FOR M-8, 3PK AND KO-PROP0. THERE'S A NEW JR. RADIO TO REPLACE THE R1 AND WE'LL SELL IT AS A COMBO WITH THE SPEKTRUM. SEE YOU SOON,
HENRY & ED.
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| Eric G
April 18, 2005
4:59:46 PM
Entry #: 804968
| Yeah Andrew, stop being such a Hack! :P SOmehow, even though I was half a lap ahead of you, you managed to make my e-clip pop off my spur gears, causing them to fall out. THen when I fixed that, You were like 10 laps up on me, and you made me crash into the wall ALLL the way from the other side of the track. :P That player should be MINE, I wAS ROBBED!... Just kidding, I had a great time. shootout gives racing a little more incentive.
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| alucard
April 18, 2005
5:24:19 PM
Entry #: 805018
| Joe,
The engine i bought from you is awesome. I couldnt use much of the power because my car was properly tweaked but as soon as it get it right i'm sure i can be competitive. thanks again.
Yea, the site is extremely slow. I have a bar on the top where league lineup says they are having performance issues. oh well, cant complain if its free.
Andy, i am looking on shop serpent for red springs and the aluminium bodies and cant seem to find them. any part numbers? also the motor on my start box blew this weekend. any suggestions for a new one?
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| joe
April 18, 2005
6:01:51 PM
Entry #: 805077
| mike,
thanks for letting me know about the engine. i am selling my 710 stuff and going to be running the rrr. i have the new starter box that serpent came out with. i paid $110 about 2 months ago. maybe i used it in 3 races. i will sell for $75. if interested, call me 305-807-9529.
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| alucard
April 18, 2005
9:26:07 PM
Entry #: 805415
| Joe
sounds good. i will call tomorrow.
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| Juancho
April 19, 2005
12:08:27 AM
Entry #: 805674
| Hey Eric, any news on DJ???
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| Omar
April 19, 2005
2:04:13 PM
Entry #: 806510
| Juancho
When you have a time please call me.
305 772-3381
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| joe
April 19, 2005
3:42:10 PM
Entry #: 806715
| mike,
andy has the starter box for sale for $89. i must have gotten ripped off i guess. but if still interested, i will sell you mine for $60. let me know, 305-807-9529.
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| RoyalPalmrace
April 19, 2005
6:41:41 PM
Entry #: 807059
| thats 88.00 without member discount..
our members pay less.
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| joe
April 20, 2005
8:45:49 AM
Entry #: 807786
| andy,
can you delete some old topics that are never used so they all can fit on one screen?
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| dj
April 20, 2005
11:29:39 AM
Entry #: 808091
| Hi guys, I wanted to let everyone know how my first travel race went. We arrived to Vegas on wed. 5pm Vegas time after a 5 hr plain ride, Which sucks, but thats ok. we got to the track on thurs. for practice and MAN the bigs boys were out. People like Barry Baker, Darin ishitini, robbie collins, bobby flack, ron atomic and 10 or more other really good drivers. All the manufactures with their teams were there. We (serpent) had the smallest team. The way they do the qualifing is different, I have never done it this way. They do not take you best qualifier for positioning. They do points for each round with the best two rounds counting for the qualifing. Well saturday started and my first qual was a bust. I did not even get to start, I had a problem. The second one things were really good in the warm-up and after the second lap i had a problem, so not good again. the third round another different problem, so for the first day I was in bad shape. they resorted for the next day, so i was in the lowest qualifier, hence playing dodgeball for the next 2 round, which I needed to qualify. the 4th round in ran clean and ran 8th overall, so I was good with points. the last round needed to be good, since they use 2 round for qualifing. I needed a fast 16 lap run to make the a and needed to finish or i would be in the e or f. I ran my best and was 5th for that round, this put me last in the "A", man what a moment. Made the A in my first big race. The level of compition at this race is similar to the nationals that will be in dallas. serpent ended up with 3 cars in the A, which was good since we had the smaller team. for the main event i was in the 10th position, paolo in the 5th and brandon in the 9th. the race started and by the second lap I made my way through traffic and was in 4th, just waiting for the pass on the 3rd place car. it was an hour main, so I stuck behind him for about 5 laps, just waitting. I made my pass and was gone, pulling in 1 -3. Man our motors were the best out there. no had motor on us in sedan. i came in the pitts at 3rd place and pulled out , after 2 more laps my car had an electrical problem and that was that, the end of my first travel race. What an experience!!!!!!!!!!! See you guys on sunday of the May state race.
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| RoyalPalmrace
April 20, 2005
1:11:47 PM
Entry #: 808313
| Geez! I cant believe that! in top 3 possiion and then a radio problem... sorry to hear that. Congrates however since top 3 in big event is no cake walk. I did make a bet that you would be full sponsered by the time you get back. I know that was a great experience for you.
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| joe
April 25, 2005
8:52:36 PM
Entry #: 815834
| juan,
please call me!!! i will be up until 11:30 pm. 305-807-9529.
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| RoyalPalmrace
April 27, 2005
10:38:23 PM
Entry #: 819907
| Finally after looking around for a system to carry all my stuff. I may have found a great combination. I wanted something that can carry all my stuff but when you do that in one case it weighs a ton. I came up with a modular system that works well using off the shelf components and some of the stuff already being used.
The whole system comes apart for travel and combines at the track for easy mobility. I think its great..
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| Juancho
April 28, 2005
1:56:24 AM
Entry #: 820102
| What is it Andy?
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| RoyalPalmrace
April 28, 2005
11:34:30 AM
Entry #: 820580
| Last night i was reviewing the design and I came up with something that brings the cool factor way up and does not exsist. Humm.. I may have something here. After I show you guys maybe i'll sell a kit for this thing.
I'll show you at track.
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| RoyalPalmrace
May 1, 2005
10:44:27 PM
Entry #: 825314
| Congrates to DJ .. I think hes our reginal champion...At this pace he will be world champion in a few months?? not bad for less than a years work.
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| Alex S
May 1, 2005
11:53:31 PM
Entry #: 825381
| Wasn't the race rained out?
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| dj
May 2, 2005
7:44:44 AM
Entry #: 825534
| yes it was, after 3 rounds of qualifing i was TQ so that put me as the winner.
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| Alex S
May 2, 2005
1:41:32 PM
Entry #: 826157
| Congratumalations!!!!!
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| Alex S
May 2, 2005
1:43:57 PM
Entry #: 826162
| I was just looking at pics from The last Fort myers race and I saw my car> http://www.mopar-man.com/gallery/album06/DSC_5278
Cool!!! I feel famous. J.K.
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| RoyalPalmrace
May 2, 2005
3:22:29 PM
Entry #: 826369
| DJ... How about a report on your race experience for the reginals???
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| dj
May 2, 2005
4:15:19 PM
Entry #: 826472
| It was cool, but wish we could have ran the whole weekend. You getted so hiped up and work so hard on the cars and stuff that when we showed up to th etrack on sunday, Chris called to race before the rained even started. Of course I was in the best possition, but I still wanted to race. I felt that my car was really good this weekend and everything was going my way. I would have like to run another qualifier and the mains, but thats racing. We had a small turnout, but the majority of the regulars where there. My car o.k. in the first qualifier, so I made some changes for the second and left it like that for the third. This weekend I had changed all of my electronics, radio, servos and ran the spektrum. it took me a while to just used to the new stuff, by the third qualifier, I was o.k. i put in a good 2nd and 3rd qualifier. I could have been faster if I had set my clutch better, but still learning in that department, paolo send my clutch sounded like it needed to be tighter. Put I can not complain I had a good showing and cann't wait till the next big race. See you guys in a couple of weeks on Sunday, I do not think I will race, but will go on Sunday for the mains and Trophy. Sat I can not make it.
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| Eric G
May 2, 2005
4:28:20 PM
Entry #: 826502
| As DJ's Offical Big Race pit man I demanded that the race be called. I did not see it just that DJ would have to defend his TQ position under such poor conditions. Not only was the rain and lightning getting closer, but there was a giant swarm of LOVEBUGS all weekend long. I had to petition Jim to cancel the race :P
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