Playing in the dirt is pure 'merika! only pinko commie socialists race onroad.

Doesn't seem to be much of a body odor problem with onroad

Sam and Jim check your PM - update on the rental car info. Got us a full size car, but not by choice... Word to the wise - never rent from Thrifty. Idiots - all of them.

The race had a bad rep a few years ago for the track being bumpy and them running a bad show. New people were brought in and the race has taken off. Racing in the mall is quite an experience. They ran 33 heats a round in under 4 hours. There was a 2 minute clock set in between heats and I don't think I ever heard it expire.

Having done a little VTA racing, I have to say that the Canadian VTA rules made it the most fun I have ever had running VTA. Also look for the middle TC class which was boosted 17.5 to be 13.5 blinky next year. I have been working with the race organizers to bring the race more inline with what the rest of North America is doing, and they are listening. I am going next year for sure.

Hey guys..I'm in need of some early xray parts... I have a t1 evo2 and a t2 009... I'm a drifter, so the ball diffs I have are useless to me in unmodded form....and I hate modding perfectly good ball diffs....anyone have a spool or 2 they would be willing to trade?( I have a jrxs type r I can use for barter if you have more t1/t2 parts you can offer)...I live right by the track so I can pick up when you come to gets some laps in...thanx in advance... van

you guys all bringing your 5280 shirts to nats for a club photo!?

I'm bringing my 5280 pants for a club photo. hint: they are invisible

May the dots be with you. Always.

I think the discussion at the track was that Friday will be 5280 shirt day for everyone (who wants to participate that is).

I have recently been feeling pretty burnt out and stressed leading into nats and MHIC, but upon seeing the photo of the nats layout I am rather excited and looking forward to getting to Philly. Pretty crazy what just a simple photo can do.

Me too, it looks fantastic.

All checked in for the flight, eager to get there.

we will see how everyone feels about getting apex bombed by overzealous d-mainers trying to do a hero lap. not a fan at all. taking nothing away from the amount of work and effort that the track crew has put in, it looks great, just not a fan of a zero penalty track.......

Those plow disks will throw you into the next county if you hit one dead on, its a huge risk/penalty to choose to cut in just a bit too far. But also nice that if you do go in tight you wont be automatically thrown across the track if you get bumped or pushed into where a board would be. The fact the disks/dots are inside the painted/plastic line which will probably be fairly slippery as-is means there will potentially be a penalty doing that anyway.

Either way - everyone is racing the same track - if cutting in on the line is the fast way to go, then everyone will be doing it. If it isn't, then people wont be.

the thing they really did right was to put an obvious color break between the desired line and the "corner". It will be much better than the idiocy we had going on.