Lightfoot-
Keep your head up. You have come up with one of the coolest things I have seen in Rc. I wish I lived in California so I could race with the series.
It probably seems like you're putting up with a lot of crap for not a lot of reward, but your example is spawning new groups of racers and is known all over the world. That's pretty cool.
Believe me, I know what your going through.