Okay peeps, time to get your brain juices flowing.
Question: What would your ultimate RC racing facility be like?
Mine... Clean, state of the art, well lit, climate controlled, well ventilated, indoor, HUGE carpet on road for the peelers, pandas, gearheads, and n00bz. Flat screens with speedworld on. Races 3 days a week. Sofa/lounge area with multiple xbox 360's to pwn your buddy on Call of Duty or Halo 3 while your tire sauce brews. Vending machines with sodas and a secret stash of Miller High Life. No parts. Bring your own damn parts! Well...maybe a few spurs, pinions, motors, and esc's to sell to the mod freaks when they melt their stuff. Air hand dryers in the bathroom so ya'll don't steal all my paper towels!
Damn, I miss SIR. Heading there on a rainy Wednesday night with some takeout food and hopes for an awesome race... There's gotta be some rich PacNW RC dude that needs a tax writeoff....???
Hey, a guy can dream. (I have an offroad dream facility too...no more time to type now.)
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Being in the pacific northwest have off-road, on-road, dirt oval all under one HUGE roof warehouse to keep the rain out. Open All season long with a shop that is able to carry a wide array of parts. During the spring and summer season, the roof can retract open to let in the sun light.
The drivers stand will have three or four levels high…. Ya you got to include the flat screens so that every corner you look you will not miss any action during race events!!
Here in mount vernon, they are building a new super walmart. the old wal mart will be vacant i believe. we were talking the other day about a building with a full hobby store, 4 tracks(off road, on road, dirt oval, carpet oval), big screens every where with speed channel 24/7, wifi, a mini Hooters resturant, a big smoke eater for the gas cars. it would awesome, now i just need to get a loan..............
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It exists, actually. AF Model Rings in Turin, Italy. It's a park with outdoor onroad and offroad tracks that share a driver's stand. The club runs a seasonal indoor program in a nearby building. They hosted the 05/06 cycle of electric IFMAR worlds.
The question, and it's worth asking: if a "dream track" were to come into being in Seattle metro, would the excellent energy we're all enjoying this summer evaporate along with the effort required to pull our racing programs off? In contradiction to our aspirations, are we better off having to work harder for it and by necessity, get along?
And to extend the implications, would it crowd out the EGTC, 4-Seasons, or even Fantasy World? It's maybe okay to consider it now, given the passing of time. But SIR didn't thrive in the summer. But with SIR gone, the outdoor programs are enjoying turnouts they haven't seen in years. Perhaps it's mere correspondence, or perhaps there is a relationship. I think it may be the latter.
Which describes the healthier racing scene?
1. One tremendous facility serving a 100 mile radius.
2. Five scrappy make-do programs within a 100 mile radius.
There is a track like the one in the pic in every-other town in Europe...most of them are funded by the city....Sounds like a better idea then a concrete skate park in every town
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....how did you know I had you in mind posting this Todd?
I'll just come out and say it: Of all the "enthusiast groups" I've ever had the pleasure of being a part of (mountain/road biking, baseball, video games, gym rats...not all current btw!), this PacNW RC crew is by far the most...ummm...vocal.
So yes, I think the multiple tracks for this particular group of folks is a better model than one SuperTrack. Seems some peeps require the constant threat of a race program disappearing to actually focus on how fun driving toy cars is, rather than bitching about how that dude over there snaked his line in the A-main 3 years ago.
On the other hand, a SuperTrack would be SOOO cool. I am a regular and willing payer of the stupid tax (mega millions). A few of my mega millions would go towards a SuperTrack...with go-karts, clowns, and strippers. Probably even a nacho cheese dispenser at every pit spot too.
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I would like the part support of peel it with the track size of old bear creek raceway. That would be sick.
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Well, if it's true that Europe, the UK, and Japan are home to the world's greatest tracks, then it's also true that they didn't just fall from the sky (or out of a billionaire's pocket, for that matter.) They were built by municipal governments because groups of people in those communities made convincing cases for their value, both in the present and for the future.
Roughly 400 yards south of Hangar 30 on the west side of the sports field road is a great site for an outdoor track. Covered paddock, easily fenced, and at present, a total dump. But it could be as awesome as the Turin facility. The vital intangibles: energy, vision, cooperation, leadership, and commitment...well, there's the rub. It seems to me that an effort to build a track on public property with some portion of public funds would require a sophistication of concept that could also accommodate the continued vitality of other local racing programs. In fact, it just might raise the level for everyone.
Dream a little dream...
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