Track Drag

[gguertin145]

Has the Track Drag been shipped yet? We decided to order one a month ago now right?

The straight could have used it last week

I am still ok with the club reimbursing the wiita for it as long as he provides a receipt

[WIITA]

here you go gg. Ive spoken all the words I can about my opinion, the rest is up to the farm boss.

Last weekend at fisks I seen a drag in action between heats, worked great!! Drove right over the entire track, jumps and all. And the jumps were not small. Here's a link of the track he used it on and a link to a drag that would work best for us IMO. Of course you would want to wet the track before hand, But that's what we do anyways.

http://www.mnnitroseries.com/gunner/fhf2011pano.jpg

http://www.abiattachments.com/products/ ... wable.html

[gguertin145]

That will work great!

Someone give him the approval to order!

[BSchorr]

Or you could just burn an old box spring... wire some cinder blocks on it... and get the same results.

[WIITA]

Tens of thousands of dollars spent on our facility and guys won't spend 400 on something that will drastically improve racing, Im speechless......

[Menace]

There is a time when trying to save money is good and times when you just pony-up the cash and get on with things. This has been talked about for 2 years now and we still don't have a handbuilt "Red Green" track drag so let's just spend the money and make all our lives and our track better.

[gguertin145]

Lets get this ordered!

[wild bill replogle]

Lol. Would this be a good time to ask if we can get a building over the track like the dome? Its only $12000






+1 on the drag.

[wild bill replogle]

Or.... $11,999. I heard that helps.

[gguertin145]

so for 299 I heard we could have one of these brand new sitting at the track?

[pp69]

The Drag that will make the track as smooth as running on carpet!! I think we do that all winter this is off road racing and if some of you would spend a little time maintaining the track you would relize the kind of dirt you are dealing with. The best time for the drag would be right after we race when you have losened the top enough to have some material to work with. If you try and drag the track when it is got a hard top on it you would make it a mess very similar to what happened after we made this last track change and it rained. What happened is it turned into muck, but just like pottery it dried out and got as hard as a rock. Now I sugested we should work on the track right after we finished racing on that nice Sunday afternoon and guess what in about 5minutes there was no one around so what good would a track drag have been. The other thing you need is water once you have made this presteen racing surface to soak the fines so they meld back into the groomed track, again this is not sand!! On the water side of things I have not seen anyone volunteer there personal truck to keep the tank filled. O wait a minute I have done that too. You realy have to prep the track before race day if you want a surface that will hold up and all summer I have been up there with little help and like I have said before our race park needs to stay clean and neat the people we have our lease with give two hoots in **** about our race surface so I spend my time up there making sure we look somewhat respectible. I know Mike would be more then happy to work with who ever shows up to help and if we got a dedicated track crew then maybe we can add the right equipment for the dirt we are dealing with.

Thanks to you that have helped this summer
Gary

[WIITA]

Myself and many other guys in the club really appreciate all of the work you do in the club Gary. I know you always bitch about a few guys that have been around for ever and never help. I look to help more in the future.

[Jeff Ford]

As a former track owner, Gary hit it perfect onto how and when a drag works, we tried all kinds of things at TCHR and its not easy prepping a track to a smooth racing surface and we had the track indoors, outside, all the planning,prepping in the world goes away when mother nature has her say with some rain.

[gguertin145]

Its unfortunate that you can't get more help... many of your club racers have to work hard just to show on Thursdays though and I don't see this as something that will ever change and they really shouldn't get chewed for showing up to support the club... we do need entries. If someone has a choice between finding time to race or work on the track im pretty sure they will choose race. You could try implementing a free second class for those that show on Tuesday and lift a shovel... maybe that would help motivate some of the cheap racers.

Gary if it wasn't for you we wouldn't have racing in duluth. Everyone is very grateful for what you do I wish there was a way to fix this. I know I cannot drive to help anymore

You could try charging higher race fees to those who don't help? Really seems money is all the racers we race with are concerned with.

[letrbuk]

Gary I'd like to thank you for all the work you put in, if I lived a half hour away instead of an hour and a half away I would definetly help more. I try and help when I'm able to make it to the races.

Greg if your calling me a cheap racer your wrong if I had to pay more to race I would have no issue with that. What I don't like is people changing class rules all the time. If everyone decides to go brushless in the Cooper I probably will just because I like the class. The reason there was talk about going brushless in spec truck in the past was because you can't buy those motors new, I haven't heard of any silver can motor shortages. I think Cooper is good the way it is because a person can go buy one at Hobbytown and be out there racing, the only other class you could do that in is slash, but we don't really run that in the winter anymore so I guess Cooper is the only option unless Hobbytown is going to start carrying the ezrun brand.