Unfortunately the way things stand in Tulsa at the moment, our local indoor 10th scale track shut down for the rest of the month due to lack of participation. Says they will open back up but that if it does not pick up they will close permanently.

That being said, if I want to continue racing at all, the tracks are all about the same radius to where I am.

Fastlane Kansas City(more than likely driving up there this saturday to run the 22 2.0 and 22-4 on their indoor track.)

Mikes in Dallas (temporarily out of business and from what I have heard has not found a new building yet)

Indyrcworld Basically Dallas (haven't been there yet, was planning on it this Sunday to run the ebuggy and 10th scale, but the wife has other plans for me this weekend...........husband duties) So Saturday is my race day this weekend.

Hutchinson Kansas has a nice indoor 10th scale (problem is they start racing at 6:00pm and that leaves me driving home until 3:00 am or so or staying the night. Fastlane opens at 10:30am and is typically done by 7:00 or so if not sooner. I can be back home in Tulsa by the time the races are over in Hutch.

gshobby runs Ebuggy over in Arkansas, nice track but in reality it's kind of a tweener a little to big for 10th scale buggy but not really a true 1/8th scale track.

Hopefully somebody opens a track in OKC or Tulsa sometime in the near future. I know of a new hobby shop in Tulsa that plans on having a track or two but they want to establish their business first. They seem committed hopefully if they do open them people will support it.

So, I understand what you are getting at but I have been put in a position of............I have to travel 3 to 4 hours if I want to race anyway. At least for the time being, so why not get into Nitro it's something I have been wanting to try for a little while but figured nobody else here was doing it and I probably wouldn't want to make the investment if I was only going to race it a couple of times a year. Hence the EB48.2 (which in reality other than the starter box, igniter, etc........is about the same investment as a Nitro ride) but I understand electric been doing that for 20+ years so it was an easy compromise.

Kids grown and gone, wife trains for marathons and triathalons, man has to have something to do when he isn't working or life becomes real boring (bad knees.................it's why I don't run with the wife, I do get the bike out and do some training with her on that but I can't keep up)

So that's the story, if my local 10th scale track was thriving no I probably would not make the investment as I probably wouldn't travel 250 miles to race a lot if my local track was 20 minutes away. But, not so lucky anymore I guess.