Our Racing Venue
In June my sons (8 and 5) found a brocherue for Hot Wheels races in a town about 30 miles away from us. We have a big collection of cars and gathered up 24 cars each for them and headed up to see what it is about.
Many of the cars we picked out couldn't even finish the race, so I started searching on the Internet and found this site!!! And we started racing cars ourselves at home and my youngest son has taken home a win and runner up spot in two of the divisions and won a theme contest over the last two months. The oldest son has only gotten into the top 4 once.
http://husracing.shutterfly.com/2010/
They haven't updated the site for July or August yet, but I figured you would appreciate it.
They have a cool deal where it costs kids $5 for 24 cars and then they get a free car there. If anyone places in the top 4 they get points and "money" to buy new cars there. The winner in each division gets put away until November when all of the winners compete for the overall fastest car.
Discussion
The racing season ended in November (they run the same schedule as NASCAR-February through November). We only found this in June and my boys (Newman39 and KyBusch18-Fantasy League) did quite well.
KyBusch18 Season Highlights-
Finished 2nd in points for the rookie class. Earned a trophy. http://husracing.shutterfly.com/2010/906
Had the 2nd fastest car of the year in the rookie class-Jet Threat http://husracing.shutterfly.com/2010/777
Won a slow pokes race and finished as the 2nd slowest car of the year in the slow pokes class (had to finish the race)
Had the top vote getter for the theme car of the year and won a medalhttp://husracing.shutterfly.com/2010/901
Newman39 Season Highlights-
Finished 4th place in points for the rookie class. Earned a medal. http://husracing.shutterfly.com/2010/908
Had the fastest car of the year in the rookie class. Earned a trophy. http://husracing.shutterfly.com/2010/692
Onto February 2011, now they get to race with the "big boys"
Very cool! Thanks for posting the link, I always like seeing photos of setups, I think they give all of us some good ideas.
Looks like that place has quite a setup with the finish line and four lanes, very nice. Also looks like they have a class for just about everything. From the site it looks like they've been doing this at least since 2006.