Lake Superior R/C Club

I just wanted to see what other people's thoughts were about Thursday night racing. I would like to see a limited number of classes run so that racing doesn't go so late. Here are my thoughts.
Novice
Slash?
Spec truck
VTA
1/12 stock
WGT
I think that's a good amount of classes and of course other classes could be run at the Saturday races.

Getting home before 1am sounds good to me.

I'm in for WGT if there is enough for the class. Looks like there should be no prob.
Shane will keep the program rolling good!!

Wgt

letrbuk wrote:I just wanted to see what other people's thoughts were about Thursday night racing. I would like to see a limited number of classes run so that racing doesn't go so late. Here are my thoughts.
Novice
Slash
Spec truck
VTA
1/12 stock
I think that's a good amount of classes and of course other classes could be run at the Saturday races.

Not sure there will be a slash on-road class this year as a bunch of us have gotten cars. WGT needs on the list, if there is only a couple they usually dont run anyways.

Sounds good. I didn't realize so many people bought WGT cars.

With out the slash class that gets us down to about 45 minutes per round.

If we don't have slash though I'm sure there will be guys that want stock truck. It would be nice to get down to a core bunch of classes for Thursday night.

Getting done late is not a product of too many classes, it is a product of us not being diligent enough with our program. I think this is something we can fix, and hopefully from week 1 going forward this winter we do a better job of being on time.

Here is a little time breakdown, and I'm assuming we start at 6:30 just for accuracy sake. This also assumes 6minute heats, do we only run 5 onroad, I honestly don't remember?

6:30 - Novice start
6:39 - VTA start
6:48 - Truck start
6:57 - Spec Truck start
7:06 - WGT start
7:15 - 12th scale start
7:28 - 12th scale end.

This hypothetical round just took 58minutes and it included 3 minutes between each heat. Also, I think 6 classes is fairly accurate, if there were more then one heat of something you would add 9minutes to the round. That being said, let's plan for a 5minute break between rounds and a 10minute break before the mains. Based on this we would start round 2 at about 7:33 and it would end at roughly 8:30, round 3 would then start at 8:40 and end at 9:38.

Not saying we can or will adhere to a schedule such as this perfectly but it gives a good example of the fact that we very well can be done at a reasonable time. Just something to think about as I know a lot of the guys who have a bit of a drive would love to be able to get on the road at a reasonable time.

I was planning to run Wgt olny on Saturday race. But if you need one to full the class I will run.

Kevin/Jabber wrote:Getting done late is not a product of too many classes, it is a product of us not being diligent enough with our program. I think this is something we can fix, and hopefully from week 1 going forward this winter we do a better job of being on time.

Here is a little time breakdown, and I'm assuming we start at 6:30 just for accuracy sake. This also assumes 6minute heats, do we only run 5 onroad, I honestly don't remember?

6:30 - Novice start
6:39 - VTA start
6:48 - Truck start
6:57 - Spec Truck start
7:06 - WGT start
7:15 - 12th scale start
7:28 - 12th scale end.

This hypothetical round just took 58minutes and it included 3 minutes between each heat. Also, I think 6 classes is fairly accurate, if there were more then one heat of something you would add 9minutes to the round. That being said, let's plan for a 5minute break between rounds and a 10minute break before the mains. Based on this we would start round 2 at about 7:33 and it would end at roughly 8:30, round 3 would then start at 8:40 and end at 9:38.

Not saying we can or will adhere to a schedule such as this perfectly but it gives a good example of the fact that we very well can be done at a reasonable time. Just something to think about as I know a lot of the guys who have a bit of a drive would love to be able to get on the road at a reasonable time.

Well put!! Most of our problems come from not starting on time and poor time management. Lets fix this for Winter 2014/2015.

Another thing to think about class wise. What about offering an "offroad class" instead of a truck or slash specific class. MMR does this is in cities with some success. Any offroad car with a stock motor can run in the class. Maybe we don't need to explore this option because there won't be any slashs but it would be nice for them to have a place to run if needed?

Thoughts?

Kevin/Jabber wrote:Another thing to think about class wise. What about offering an "offroad class" instead of a truck or slash specific class. MMR does this is in cities with some success. Any offroad car with a stock motor can run in the class. Maybe we don't need to explore this option because there won't be any slashs but it would be nice for them to have a place to run if needed?

Thoughts?

Not a bad idea, I think we need to see how many guys would be running truck or short course and see what the need might be. I know a few of the guys that ran slash last winter didn't get a car to run so they may want to run them again.

Im only wanna race stock truck