Originally Posted by
Raul Garcia
I wouldnt consider SC racing racing at wolcott on the track that he has setup now.. The Offroad track is amazing, I wish some of the effort exhausted in that track went into a REAL SC track..I think I had high expectations considering all the gossip of about how Lester's place is this and Lester's place is that. He has a stocked hobby store, and a nice offroad facility, but oh well, I guess racing is racing.. Pinshop runs on a full track and seems like a cool place.
Sorry but I have to chime in here.....
Wolcott's SCT track is still a work in progress. Currently it is half dirt, half concrete. The jumps on the dirt sections are made of dirt. Jumps on the concrete are wood. The wood jumps are still being finalized (height, pitch and placement). Once their final configuration is determined they will be carpeted to provide plenty of tracion on take off and landing. The track currently avarages 20-25 sec laps. Lester is planning on expanding the track to twice the currrent size in the near future. As everyone knows, Lester knows how to build a killer track. The current SCT course is alot of fun, exspecialy when the concrete is wet..
Box Stock Slash is the biggest class at the moment and the trucks run perfect on the track. Mod Slash / SC10 is growing every week also. I know Raul was expecting more and was a bit dissapointed, but you owe it to yourself to check it out for yourself. SCT racing is held on Tuesday and Friday nights. Racing starts at 6:30. The program moves along quick and racing usualy is finished my 10-10:30. Lester is also going to run several "BIG" SCT events on Saturdays during the summer. He has contacted Traxxas about running some sponsored / sanctioned events. I also showed him the RC Pro Series National Championship Series, I'm going to see if he will run that Slash series also. Maybe RCHR can get in on the action and join up with Wolcott to get some type of SCT series going.
Raul, we've been friends for a long time so please don't take my above comments the wrong way. I know you were not impressed with Wolcott's SCT track, but you don't need to publicly post that someone should not go there just because you don't like it. I personaly don't like Pinshop. Not because of the track, but due to other reasions. I have never told someone to not go there just because I don't like it. We need this hobby to grow so we should be encouraging people to visit as many tracks as possible so they can make their own decisions about them. I'm thinking about taking a Friday night off from work in the next week or two to go racign at Wolcott. Why don't you join me and see if doing some actual racing on the track changes your feelings about the place...
Here's a vid of some racing action a few weeks ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlntKWmbFXo