First day of vacation, and time to plot out a plan for the 2010 onroad season!

I really think this will be a breakout year for our style of R/C parking lot racing!

With all of the new high tech stuff coming out just about everyday, it'll be good to just focus on having fun racing, instead of having the latest and greatest technology.

First, I would like to just give you all a general idea on what's on the agenda before I formally map out a schedule....

We're definately going to stay on course, and offer our mainstay classes....Vintage, Nitro Vintage, RCGT, M-Chassis, and this year, adding F-1 to the mix!

As far as locations, as of right now, I want to base the season around the special events I can get at New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP)

I have an email to them as I type this, and waiting for a response.

I'll be promoting these races as "Big" events on R/C Tech (http://www.rctech.net) in the "Racing Forum"

The Vintage Grand Prix people already contacted me to again do their event at NJMP on Sunday May 23rd, so you might as well ink that date in, and consider that as the first big SJCCR race of the season!

As far as more local racing, it is my thought to continue to revive Wagner Park and actually consider painting a permanent layout so anyone can go there at anytime and practice/bash when there is no organized race going on.

The layout would have some different options similar to Jackson, so the course can be easily changed once in a while.

This should really help racers (especially newer racers) get some practice time in before race days!

I would also factor in an oval around the outside of the road course, since we have quite a few oval guys looking for a local place to race too....It's also possible that we could include an oval class at our road course races, but need to see what kind of turnout that would bring first. Otherwise, the option would be open for the oval guys to race on their own day.

We'll still do a few races at Nifty Fiftys once in a while too....Not as many as last year though....

It's just a lot of work to get a track set up around the patron parking at 4pm, and frankly, with the amount of people showing interest this season, I'm not sure we will have enough room (and time) to run a full program before they close.

That's it for now....I'll let you know when I hear from NJMP....

Hope they're on Sunday otherwise I have 3 VTA cars and a M03 for sale.

sounds good ray....

sounds like you're taking the program back to what it was when I first started racing oval and road course

Can't wait to see some F1 cars running around NJMP

But, of course....

Yeah, and with a setup like that at Wagner Park, it wouldn't be hard to do....



....and I'm sure hundreds of spectators will say the same....LOL

NJMP...Love that place... Sunday, May 23rd = Marked!
Always a big thanks to ya Ray for keeping things on the move.

I'm not a fan of Wagner Park . I like to see all the spectators
What about the old Alpine they have a huge back lot

I hear ya...nobody loves spectators more than me....Races at NJMP will more than make up for Wagner....LOL

Yeah, the old Alpine (now Taylors) is ripe for a special event there too....maybe PiMpFEsT????

or maybe a HPI Challenge??

You know you wanna do another one

Awww man, don't get me started....I'm still tired from the last one....Hahaha

Seriously, I didn't see any 2010 Challenge info on the HPI site, so I don't know if they still have them on the menu for this year....I'll keep an eye on it though....

well then it might be time for Ray Murray to pull out the ol' 'Unofficially Official HPI Challenge' banner

because you know 'if you host it, they WILL come'

Since this is an Oldies but Goodies tour, how about holding some races in conjunction with some muscle car shows. The car guys love to watch RC and their events are well attended by the general public. The have a monthly event up the street here in Mt. Laurel. I'll see if I can find some info.

Yeah, there's a few around here too, but the good ones usually take up
all the unused spots leaving little to set up a track and pit area. (Namely the one at Fuddruckers in Turnersville)

Wouldn't hurt to get some info and let me know though....It would have to be on a very large lot for it to work (school, mall, etc)

There went the neighborhood...