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Yes, you can run a turn SC10 motor in a Slash and vice versa. This Saturday and Sunday, August 22nd and 23rd is the second leg of the three series electric on road race being held at Strictly Raceway, W.

Lawrence Ave. Saturday late afternoon the track will be ready for free no charge practice. Sunday the track will open for racers practice at 7am. Racing to begin at 11am. Last year Vintage Trans Am began to really take off. USVTA is still popular too. For electric off road out at Leisure Hours last winter Slash was the hot ticket on Saturday nights. This coming indoor season, especially for Leisure it will be interesting to see how Bernie deals with all the new short course vehicles that have and will come out to compete with Traxxas Slash trucks.

Last year it was easy. Stock Slash was just that What will the classes for short course be like at Leisure this year?? There's talk of and I want to jump on the bandwagon at Strictly's indoor small scale track of trying to resurrect Mini-Z racing.

Well resurrect might not be the word because I don't think Mini-Z racing ever really caught on here in Chicagoland. Stay tuned and I'll bring it back up soon. Posted by kenji at PM 4 comments:. Newest Local Track. Lots of people have been stopping by. Biggest negative issue so far for them was not buying and installing CRC racing carpet. They do have an Ozite product laid down, but it's not traditional racing carpet.

In the first weeks racers were seeing tons of fluff balls and fibers working their way into vehicles. Ruined bearings and lots of time spent pulling pubies out of everything. Reports are it's way better but not perfect. Looks like they absolutely need to vacuum after every race and practice session to keep it manageable.

Hopefully the problem gets solved before the indoor carpet racing season begins. The track is in a perfect geographic area for many area racers. The best thing that could happen to the place, in terms of generating way more business, would be for them to drop 60 yards of clay and dirt in the place and groom a wonderful electric indoor dirt track.

There's never been one so close to the city since Chicagoland Hobby had their dirt track in the back of their store in the 90's. Dirt would draw a huge crowd. Posted by kenji at AM 14 comments:. Monday, August 10, Here We are in We have what? Visit Us on Facebook at. August 27 - 29, Full Race Winners Class Pictures. All Nitro Pro Stocks were restricted from testing on the track and had to compete with no track time during shootout. Street Eliminator Saturday Shootout.

IC Racing's Ivan Cathey picked up the runner-up spot pictured left. Billy Bartkus took home the Winner's cash payout. Melvin Sledge takes over the 10 spot from Garie Phillips. Top Ten List Video Highlights for Come out and run what you brung. Many volunteers are racers, former racers, friends and family of competitors, and anyone who enjoys the camaraderie of the yacht racing community. Racing experience is not necessarily required, but we are looking for committed and organized team players interested in racing and race management.

The Race Committee's work-on-the water involves setting up the race courses, starting races, and recording the finishing competitors. There are many positions available, from committee boat drivers, mark setters, timers, flag signalers, and recorders.

There are also opportunities off the water, including score keeping and assisting with registration for large events. Talk and discussion directly with Novak on Rctech. Posted by kenji at PM No comments:. Interested in direct info from the racers who race at a specific area track? All the area venues have their own internal bulletin board forums where you can interact directly with that track's racers. Posted by kenji at AM No comments:. Saturday, October 31, Kris Polancek, an Underground regular, recently did some thorough testing.

See what he has to say about it in the Underground forums. It's that time of year for many of the area's on road racers to be thinking about moving from asphalt racing to carpet racing.

Follow along with veteran Chicago racer, Kevin Kane, as he instructs what to do with your 4WD sedan chassis to optimize it for carpet season:.