12th Annual Great Lakes Challenge

[Fossil]

The 12th annual GLC is on from August 27 to Aug.29 in Toledo Ohio. Go to http://racersoftoledo.com/entries.html to obtain an entry form and directions. Hope to see the Ontario contingent this year.

[lookout]

thx Raye

I will be there and i think a couple of more locals will be as well
Lou

[BMCLEAN]

Hey Lou
That's great are you going to run sedan or 1/8 or both LOL

[lookout]

Originally Posted by BMCLEAN

Hey Lou
That's great are you going to run sedan or 1/8 or both LOL

I am thinking both but if i only run one than 1/8

Lou

[nitro ho]

The Locals that are rumored to be going are

Lou vanderSL0OW
Dan ( the bad man )
Adam ( Smashing pumkin )Hutchinson
Gervais AKA Nitroho.

Did i miss anyone?

[Fossil]

Link to the GLC on RC Tech

http://www.rctech.net/forum/nitro-ro...ledo-ohio.html

Entry list available.

[lookout]

will i be able to purchase Roar track side ?

[Fossil]

you bet.

[lookout]

thx Raye

do you know if Gary is going?

[Fossil]

Lou,

I don't believe Gary will be going this year. From what Bill tells me he has other plans for that weekend. Bill will be there.

fossil

[Dan_E]

Hotel is booked for Lou & I. I have sent my entry in today for both 200mm & 1/8. See you there.....

[Fossil]

See you guys there.

[BMCLEAN]

Dan/Lou

When are going over and where are you staying?

I will be there Friday morning and I am staying at the Holiday Inn Express.

[Dan_E]

Bill,
We will be leaving London early Thursday. We are going directly to the track for practice and will be checking into the Sleep Inn & Suites just off 280.
Dan

[BMCLEAN]

Entry list as of today



1/8th 4WD
Art Carbonell
Ryan Ramsey
Ted Hammer
Dennis Young
Ron Gustin
Ross Chiaramonte
Ruben Serrano
Mike Keely
Mike McBride
Robert Ronas
Brian Berry
Joey Dilodovico
Clay Slusher
Sal Difazio
David Lee
David Greer
Greg Tong
Ralph Fortunato
James Conder
Wes Lion
Kenny Howard
Joby Uchman
Doug Filo
Mike Pulfer
Andrew Nicholas
Doug Rheaume
Dan Engelbreth
Louis Vanderway
Jari Taskila
Billy Bowerman

1/8th Masters
Mike Saputo
OV Opheim
Bill Walth
Randy Ramsey
Steve Lazarus
Skip Starkey
Lou Przybyla
Mark Unger
Raye Field
Harry Hananouchi
Brad Rasmussen
Carlton Coleman
Mike Becker
Dan Louis
Mike Richey Sr
Darrell Scott
Bill McLean
Lon Burling
Marvin Davis
Rick Davis
Mark Sweeney
Gary Andersen
John Schwietzer
Bob Block
Brent Gottfried

1/10th Sedan
Dorian Tisdale
Ricardo Torres
Troy Woodson
Raymond Sundland
Carlton Coleman
Tom Esposito
George MacDonald
Joey Dilodovico
Marques Simmons
Juwan Hunter
Fabio Evangelista
Robert Secco
Joe Tuttle
Jim Waldecker
Jeff Whiting
Loran Whiting
Emily Whiting
Nick Alteri
Chay Blount
Craig Xavier
Ray Juhl
Tony Block
Paul Sweeney
Elliott Hart
Andy Power
Dan Engelbreth
Louis Vanderway
Kevin Johnson

GT
Jim Palansky
Joe Ruberto
Dan Quisno
Gene Greer
Mark Rodney
Scott McNish
Lon Burling II
Marty Waldhelm
Scott Takacs

[Elliot]

Serpent Debut at Great lakes Challenge - http://rcspecial.com/news/?p=54777

[Elliot]

Race Report from Mike Myers - Where is Raye??

Qualifying

The beautiful weather we’ve been experiencing continued, and got even
better if that’s possible. You couldn’t ask for better racing weather.
The nearest reported rain cloud was rumored to be somewhere in
Transylvania.

The plan for today is to run practice all morning, have a driver’s
meeting at noon, and then run the first two rounds of qualifying. The
race schedule got a bit longer than expected, when 140 racers signed up,
with others still on the way. Even with running 14 cars in the 1/10
scale Mains, and 12 cars in the 1/8 Mains, it’s going to be difficult if
not impossible to stay within the goal of only 16 Mains - and this is
with running all eleven (more coming??) 1/8 GT cars together.

Everything is running smooth as silk. Everyone is just doing the right
thing without needing to be told. Part of this is because everyone
already seems to know what to do, and part because of the *fun*
atmosphere at the event. Josh Cyrul’s wife has set up a food stand
alongside the track, so even that need is now taken care of. The PA
system is loud and clear, so no matter where you are, you’re informed of
what is going on - and in case you want to work indoors, you can tune
your FM radio to 89.7 and listen in your camper or trailer.

NEW IN THE PITS:
Dan Louis showed up with a new design for four-wheel-drive-braking for
1/8 on-road cars. These systems used to be illegal for this class, but
apparently the rule was removed from the ROAR rulebook. I’ve been told
the rule still remains in the IFMAR rules. Don came up with an
ingenious way to fit it to his 1/8 Shepherd car - it all fits together
as if it had been designed by the factory! Dan has been inventing new
parts for r/c race cars for 35 years now! This is just the latest in a
long line of things he has thought up and turned into reality.

Dan is running a Shepherd CEFX Version. He machined and fabricated all
the pieces. There are stainless steel rotors designed to "float" on
the front outdrives. Shepherd brake pads are used. There is a cable
from the throttle/brake servo, running to the self-adjusting brake
controls for the front brakes. The amount of front braking can be
varied, but there is a limit because of the front one-way bearings. Dan
says the front brakes are even more effective because of the weight
transfer during breaking - he can drive further into the corners before
having to apply the brakes.

RACING:
The driver’s meeting was held at noon, and everyone brought up their
cars for a group photo. Qualifying got underway soon afterwards.
Thanks to the "flagless start" developed by the Toledo club, even that
part of the event fit seamlessly into the general flow of the event.
There is a countdown starting at 30 seconds before the start of each
qualifier. Cars can come in for refueling whenever they want, and
spread themselves out around the track. At the tone, the clock is ready
to start, as soon as the first car crosses the line. The race clock
starts for each following car whenever they cross the line, so there are
no more first turn pile-ups. Something else that nobody misses is
frequency clips. Fewer than ten racers are running the old style
crystals - everyone else has switched to the new DSS style radios.

Chris Goetz took over the announcing duties as qualifying got underway.
He has a good way to make every race on the track sound like the World
Championships, and he’s constantly providing good information on what’s
going on.

Qualifying ran smoothly and efficiently. At the end of the first round,
the qualifying standings were printed - see below:


Pos. Cn- Racer's Name Best Result
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1/8 4WD
1 US Ralph Burch 17/05:10.076(1)
2 US Mike Swauger 17/05:10.983(1)
3 US Joaquin Desoto Jr 17/05:20.246(1)
4 US Chris Tosolini 16/05:00.768(1)
5 US Paul Ciccarello 16/05:02.416(1)
6 US Ted Hammer 16/05:02.653(1)
7 US Terry Rott 16/05:05.539(1)
8 US Art Carbonell 16/05:08.892(1)
9 US Jason Conley 16/05:12.522(1)
10 US Mike Pulfer 16/05:12.810(1)
11 US Joby Uchman 16/05:13.848(1)
12 US Jari Taskila 16/05:16.016(1)
13 US Billy Bowerman 16/05:16.795(1)
14 US Robert Ronas 16/05:17.334(1)
15 US Mike Keely 16/05:18.153(1)
16 US Sal Difazio 15/04:47.989(1)
17 US Kenny Ives 15/05:00.508(1)
18 US Ron Gustin 15/05:00.610(1)
19 US Peter Sheldon 15/05:02.721(1)
20 US Mike Mcbride 15/05:05.424(1)
21 US Louis Vanderway 15/05:05.814(1)
22 US David Lee 15/05:07.282(1)
23 US Paul Becattini 15/05:10.512(1)
24 US Clay Slusher 15/05:11.482(1)
25 US James Conder 15/05:13.792(1)
26 US Kurt Lechel 15/05:17.556(1)
27 US Ruben Serrano 15/05:21.150(1)
28 US Brian Berry 14/04:49.059(1)
29 US Sean Lue 14/05:00.791(1)
30 US Mike Chiappetti 14/05:12.673(1)
31 US Andrew Nicholas 13/04:24.298(1)
32 US Wes Lion 13/04:35.113(1)
33 US Ross Chiaramonte 12/04:18.491(1)
34 US Kenny Howard 12/05:10.949(1)
35 US Dennis Young 11/04:05.078(1)
36 US David Greer 6/03:33.320(1)
37 US Doug Filo 5/01:40.277(1)
38 US Ryan Ramsey 2/00:41.235(1)
39 US Dan Engelbreth /00:00.000(1)
40 US Joey Dilodovico /00:00.000(1)
41 US Josh Cyrul /00:00.000(1)
42 US Greg Tong /00:00.000(1)
43 US Doug Rheaume /00:00.000(1)
44 US Tom Cohen /00:00.000(1)


1/10 Sedan
1 US Ralph Burch 16/05:18.198(1)
2 US Chris Tosolini 15/05:03.693(1)
3 US Josh Cyrul 15/05:04.752(1)
4 US DJ Apolaro 15/05:05.216(1)
5 US Andy Power 15/05:06.250(1)
6 US Eric Jones 15/05:17.355(1)
7 US Shawn Davis 15/05:17.432(1)
8 US Diatta Colymore 14/04:48.964(1)
9 US Craig Xavier 14/04:52.948(1)
10 US Tony Block 14/05:00.289(1)
11 US Fabio Evangelista 14/05:02.610(1)
12 US Melvin Austin 14/05:03.781(1)
13 US Jeff Parker 14/05:04.098(1)
14 US Louis Vanderway 14/05:06.906(1)
15 US Troy Woodson 14/05:10.234(1)
16 US Chay Blount 14/05:10.484(1)
17 US Ray Juhl 14/05:10.608(1)
18 US Elliott Hart 14/05:10.715(1)
19 US Ted Hammer 14/05:10.917(1)
20 US Loran Whiting 14/05:12.376(1)
21 US Ricardo Torres 14/05:15.083(1)
22 US Junior Mena 14/05:15.516(1)
23 US Richard Kozakiewicz 14/05:16.096(1)
24 US Joey Dilodovico 14/05:17.133(1)
25 US Dorian Tisdale 14/05:20.587(1)
26 US Tom Esposito 13/04:37.402(1)
27 US Jeff Whiting 13/04:51.837(1)
28 US Mark Unger 13/05:00.455(1)
29 US Marques Simmons 13/05:02.681(1)
30 US Nick Alteri 13/05:03.148(1)
31 US Jim Waldecker 13/05:12.566(1)
32 US Dan Engelbreth 12/04:44.745(1)
33 US Tory Skyers 12/05:03.840(1)
34 US Monti Panzica 12/05:04.302(1)
35 US Emily Whiting 12/05:06.308(1)
36 US Quinn Moon 12/05:06.477(1)
37 US Shih Hang Lee 12/05:06.845(1)
38 US Paul Sweeney 12/05:16.258(1)
39 US Rob Secco 12/05:16.484(1)
40 US Shawn Patterson 11/04:03.770(1)
41 US James Palansky 11/05:03.445(1)
42 US Raymond Sundland 10/05:08.526(1)
43 US George Macdonald 9/03:29.758(1)
44 US Bobby Flack 9/05:14.616(1)
45 US John Hoffman 7/02:28.725(1)
46 US Chris Doseck 5/03:10.743(1)
47 US Carlton Coleman 5/04:12.918(1)
48 US Mark Rodney 4/02:18.886(1)
49 US Vincent Jackson 1/00:20.385(1)
50 US Merrill Myers /00:00.000(1)
51 US Shawn Buchanan /00:00.000(1)
52 US Kevin Johnson /00:00.000(1)
53 US Garry Brown /00:00.000(1)
54 US Joe Tuttle /00:00.000(1)
55 US Robbie Collins /00:00.000(1)
56 US Juwan Hunter /00:00.000(1)


1/8 Masters
1 US Rick Davis 16/05:15.915(1)
2 US Skip Starkey 16/05:16.445(1)
3 US OV Opheim 16/05:18.475(1)
4 US Brent Gottfried 15/05:06.676(1)
5 US Harry Hananouchi 15/05:07.066(1)
6 US Mark Unger 15/05:13.471(1)
7 US Bill Mclean 15/05:18.929(1)
8 US Bill Walth 15/05:19.387(1)
9 US Bob Block 15/05:21.586(1)
10 US Mark Sweeney 14/04:52.086(1)
11 US Mike Saputo 14/05:01.519(1)
12 US Dan Louis 14/05:03.195(1)
13 US Mike Becker 14/05:04.815(1)
14 US Lou Przybyla 14/05:05.364(1)
15 US Randy Ramsey 14/05:05.936(1)
16 US Brad Rasmussen 14/05:06.512(1)
17 US Marvin Davis 14/05:11.021(1)
18 US Steve Lazarus 13/04:29.437(1)
19 US Gary Andersen 13/05:06.647(1)
20 US John Schwietzer 12/05:09.896(1)
21 US Lon Burling 11/05:07.906(1)
22 US Darrell Scott 6/02:12.677(1)
23 US Jeff Whiting 6/04:40.568(1)
24 US Mike Richey Sr /00:00.000(1)
25 US Carlton Coleman /00:00.000(1)
26 US Kirt Scammell /00:00.000(1)
27 US Bill Debenedictis /00:00.000(1)
28 US Juwan Hunter /00:00.000(1)


1/8 GT
1 US Scott McNish 12/05:00.982(1)
2 US Lon Burling II 12/05:06.790(1)
3 US Mark Rodney 12/05:11.873(1)
4 US Joaquin Desoto Sr 11/05:13.671(1)
5 US Dan Quisno 11/05:23.150(1)
6 US Bob Rexrode 9/05:22.354(1)
7 US David Greer 8/04:56.496(1)
8 US James Palansky /00:00.000(1)
9 US Scott Takacs /00:00.000(1)
10 US Joe Roberto /00:00.000(1)
11 US Marty Waldhelm /00:00.000(1)

[Fossil]

Raye is working in Indiana for the next 7 days. Things just didn't work out due to a project delay in Warsaw IN.

[Elliot]

Pictures from today http://www.sgrid.com/cgi-bin/backtalk/peeknroad,18,6

[Elliot]

Standings after 2 Qualifiers - http://www.sgrid.com/2010/glc/friday/glc-qual2.html