liljohn1064

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PN Racing North American Championship

Tracks Hobbies is excited to be hosting North America's largest Mini Z race of 2019. For the first time ever, we invite racers to join us in the mid-west capitol city of Madison, Wisconsin to enjoy some fast-paced racing action!

REGISTRATION will CLOSE on Sunday, March 3rd!

Event is April 5-7, 2019.

Link to the Event Info Link to the registration

EMU

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I am registered (for 6 classes)!!! Looking forward to the race.

mugler

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Now that's what I call Mini-Z Nirvana, you the man

MTseo

I am in for 3 classes. One of them is the F1 though, see if there are enough registrants.

mugler

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Hoping F1 will happen for you guys, my all time favorite class, had the opportunity to run it at the only PNWC i've attended back in 2012 & finished 2nd place after a crash-n-go incident my car being the crashee....all in good fun

While on the subject, the kyosho F1 chassis despite its front end design shortcomings with some tuning attention and after market parts still delivers surprising levels of performance and that special x-fun factor that only the F1 cars can.


Beyond Kyosho who decided to stop releasing their F1 chassis I would have thought a fully manufactured F1 car ( no 3D parts at all) based on Kyosho sized rims / tires & general dimensions (unlike x-power F1) with modular electronics would be on the itinerary of at least one of the manufacturers who already released AWD & Pan Chassis, surprisingly none of the currently 3 non-kyosho F1 offerings fall in that category.

EMU

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F1 was always my favorite class to race. Not an easy chassis to get setup right, but very rewarding when it was working correctly.

I would love to see a manufacturer step in and fill the void with a production level chassis, but it doesn't look like that would happen any time soon. X-power released an f1 car of a different scale, which was a good design, but not applicable to race against standard f1s.

my best finish was 4th in 2010 PNWC finals. It was a hot class that year, and the last big race that I raced f1 in. 2011 I sent 3 cars with a teammate to the finals, and they returned in parts in body bags essentially. I never got around to rebuilding them. I only have one f1 in operable condition.

mugler

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Looks like we missed the chance to trade paint by a couple of years


At some point this week I'll shoot and upload pics of the 3 Kyosho F1 chassis I still keep at the ready..there's one with Mantisworx front upper arms and another with the Atomic AF-038 awaiting a Lajf damper.


In the past couple of years the biggest performance leap forward for Kyosho F1's has to be the Marka Rear / PN front (med or hard) tire combo. This combo seems to make a drivable car out of any F1 chassis even if the car is not tricked out all the way or tuned to perfection. Anyway I hop I'm not giving any race secrets away for PNNA for anyone who already knew this but anyone with a Kyosho mini-z in their closet owes it to themselves to dust it off and try it with that tire combo.

MTseo

http://www.trackshobbies.com/racing/.../event-agenda/
They have the registrants per class listed at the bottom of the agenda page on tracks hobbies website. EMU just you and me so far signed up for the F1 it looks like.

Links432

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Well shoot, if box stock doesn't make it, I don't know what else I'd try to run. Also that spreadsheet is the first time I've seen my name at the top of a spreadsheet.

Billy Kelly

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Buzzsaw46

I wanted to go but our furnace died a couple weeks ago during that brutal cold week. Then the Wife decided she needed a new car, my fun money is gone!!

Links432

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So far might just be two from our group. Maybe 3 at most.

Billy Kelly

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Links432

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Haha well it will be nice to see familiar faces.

Billy Kelly

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