MarkBrown

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We had a nice turnout today (50+ entries), plus fine weather for racing. Unfortunately I failed to ask for the race results file before the computer was packed away, so I can't post results. Here's what I remember: There were at least seven Euro-Trucks (see the attached photo of the starting grid for the Euro-Truck main) and close racing there. Truck class was big and rowdy. Formula One is having a pre-TCS bump -- I think nine entries. Mark T made things interesting by landing his car in the mulch during the main. FWD was the small class with three entries, and Mini was five or six. Novice was like Truck, big and rowdy -- the way it ought to be. In GT3, Mike Boyle TQ'd with a 4WD mini! He had that thing hooked up. I think there were six of us in GT2, and in Q2 and the main Justin and I were never more than 20 feet apart, closer to 3 feet apart typically. Good times.

Nortran11

Novice was only rowdy if you were back in the pack.

chiefjredbeard

so my euro truck guys, i know these things bounce, but im feeling mine is doing it a little to much, any tips? anything besides greasing these friction shocks?

Nortran11

It's eurotruck my doods, whooooooooooooooooooo

jwg191

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Anti-ware grease in the shocks and diff. That's only thing you can do unless you don't care about the tcs rules for the class. If you don't then do anything you want.

chiefjredbeard

yea already did the diffs, trying to kinda of seat shocks right now, will try some anti ware for the shocks before sunday!! trying to stay tcs legal for now

MarkBrown

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By signing up in advance you assure that Tamiya USA sends prizes up to Galaxy for the classes you run. Right now, only one Euro Truck is signed up. We know there are at least ten of these beasts out there. Just sayin'.

chiefjredbeard

went to register this morning and realized my procrastination got the best of me!! i will be running the team watahmalawn euro rig at tcs,

OVA

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Hey Mark
I received an Email from Tamiya USA about there was glitch online sign up

was told that there are a least 11 Euro trucks sign up for sure

Nortran11

Hopefully they got their race software glitch figured out this week.....get through 2 qualifiers only to be told they messed up and have to fudge it and run an 11 car A-Main

big al

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What time will the track be setup this Sunday?

Skruger

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The Trackside Grill will be there at Galaxy TCS

MarkBrown

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Hooray! You are going to make a bunch of people happy.

Skruger

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Great job Mark Brown for pulling off the hat-trick.

MarkBrown

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We got a bunch of walk-up TCS entries today to push the car count above 70! The largest classes were Euro Truck, Spec Novice, and GT1; F1, Mini, and GT2 each had nearly full A-mains. There were four FWDs and two GT Pro-Spec cars, run together. It was sunny but not blisteringly hot; very pleasant racing weather. And as promised, Patrick's Trackside Grill was in full operation. Heaven. Thanks to Galaxy for bringing TCS to us! See attachment for results. Photos should appear on Tamiya's site in awhile. I think somebody had a GoPro set up, so perhaps they will share video with us?

I was too busy to watch all of the racing but want to highlight some of the good stuff I did see. Rich Miskho had a solid run in F1, was right on Mark T's tail after Mark had a small bobble near the end of the race, then kept it close to the end. Ethan Lim (Chris Lim's son) took a creditable fourth in GT2 - Chris had better stop talking about entering Ethan in Spec class! Ray Park drove to fourth in GT1 ahead of a snarling pack of veteran TCS racers. And David McLean was the quickest FWD out there; he must have had a big incident (I was turn marshaling and it didn't happen near me) to drop to second. The FWDs look so cool carrying corner speed.

We had the largest turnout in Spec class since Galaxy restarted its TCS regional in 2011! This is just awesome. Shout out to J. D. Lee who made "the show" in his very first RC race.

Most likely this was the last race in our area for the despised Tamiya B3 tire. Tamiya USA has sold their stock of pre-mounted B3s and has announced that they will use a Solaris premount at Tamiya nats. Fingers crossed, Tamiya USA will do a deal with Solaris to produce a TCS-branded premount to use next season, similar to what they did with Shimizu to create the TCS F1 tires that revived TCS F1 racing.