Kalamazoo vs. The World; Partake in Weekly Racing at My Track.

undercoverbuick Thursday, 3/9/2017

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Mail your cars in to see if you can beat us.  Our local group races at my house every Wednesday night.  A typical race night for us goes as follows:

Main race that typically has 48 cars

"Buy back" race for 1st round losers

Second race, same rules, typically different line up of cars, usually 48 cars. 

"Buy back" race for 1st round losers

Every Wednesday night we produce 4 different winners.  Mail us your cars and see if you can beat us.  We have 4 regular racers here.  We should be able to have a large field of cars. 

Rules & Restrictions

  • 70 gram weight max
  •  2" high and no longer than 3-1/8" long.  This race will take place on orange track with 3D bot maker starting line and finish line.
  • Must mail in a minimum of 12 cars.  Each race participant will have 4 cars in the race at any one time.  We will rotate them.  They will all see eliminations.
  • All brands of 1/64 die cast cars are welcome.  We race a lot of older cars each week.  Creativity is encouraged.
  • Wheel limitations, requirements; must be production axles and wheels.  Sanding the wheels and polishing the axles is encouraged.
  • Stock or drilled
  • Dry lubes only

Prizes

We will come up with something cool.

How to enter

Post a reply along with how many cars you're going to enter.

If you want you're cars returned please include return shipping money. 

Where to send your cars

Elliot Novess

3225 Virginia Ave

Kalamazoo, MI 49004


Don't forget to print an ID card with your entry

Entry deadline

TBD. All entries must be received by the host before April 16, 2017

Scoring and Winning

This will be a 2 night race.  The winner of each race will be impounded.  At the end of this we will have 8 winners.  Those cars will square off to decide the over all tournament winner.

Penalties

If the car fails tech we will work with that racer via PM to either fix the car(s) so it does pass tech or that vehicle will sit out the competition. 

Tracks & Dates

The races will be held Wednesday April 19 and Wednesday April 26. 


Winners and Results


I will take a crash course in making videos.  We will share a video of each race. 

Discussion

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FOTF 3/9/17

This might be up my alley! Can you please post some details, and especially pictures and/or videos, of the track? Especially of your catchbox.

12 fast cars??? Might need to dig through my former racers...

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72_Chevy_C10 3/10/17

Cool! I'll have to see what I can come up with! 

I will take some video tonight.  I don't really have a catch box I am not fond of that design.  I have more of a shut down area using carpet so things are more gradual.  By the time the race does happen my track may be longer.  It was going to get changed over the weekend but the edge glued wood I used for the shelves is discontinued. 

Sounds fun, 12 cars....I'll try to get it done. My main focus is getting my two tracks ready ( Tobacco Road Dragway and Bootleg Run), but I probably won't be able to help myself.....glad I'm semi-retired.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bws6xJqKX81BR3Z4WHRSVjFfT0U/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bws6xJqKX81BQ2JMMngxWkNUQjQ/view?usp=sharing


And this is a video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bws6xJqKX81BRDg1RFdOTXlYaFE/view?usp=sharing






  • got it, 4 track pieces per lane, short and sweet... what vinyl you got playing? — Traction-Event
  • It could be on a 12 foot shelf next weekend. The popular its on I cant buy a duplicate. Last night was Stooges Raw Power — undercoverbuick
  • IGGY! — Traction-Event
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Mcjiggles9 3/11/17

Sounds awesome. I'll mail in my 12 fastest mods :D

Ah, little sprint track action!!! See what I can do, doing some mods right now, but  Pony Wars 2 and building my (2) tracks are on the front burner right now. Looks fun!!

Some photos and video from our race this week.  We had 8 individual races tonight.  The video is the race between the 8 winning cars.  We mixed in some theme races but we usually call those on the fly. 


https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bws6xJqKX81BWG93ejJwY0tSQnM/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bws6xJqKX81BTzlFWDFjTXk3QXM/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bws6xJqKX81BS0VYY0Mtc3FlTnM/view?usp=sharing





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Nickpetty 3/18/17

 Elliot, My name is Nick of Nickpetty racing I live in Kalamazoo and I have  a nice stable of fast cars that's up for the challenge. email me @ nicxyz007@yahoo.com





My wagons returned this week so I got a chance to race those against the local guys.  My friend Marc that races with us every week built an even faster wagon than what I have.  It would have fit the rules for the wagon war 72_Chevy_C10 hosted. 

We ran 8 races again this week.  some pics of the 8 winners.  and the overall winner, which was not my station wagon. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bws6xJqKX81BeGlROC16aXk0SFU/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bws6xJqKX81BSlVISnczMGo0SGM/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bws6xJqKX81BQWFKRFRnaWY3UDA/view?usp=sharing


I want to thank 72_Chevy_C10 for the new toys.  That red Mustang is really cool. 






Just curious if anyone is mailing cars?


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