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[Jay Guard]

I'm really looking forward to the GRRR race on Sunday, Aug. 21, and I suspect we will have quite a crowd.
We will be racing IRRA GT Coupe, Can-Am, and Stock Car, in that order, all on the new King track.
Doors will open at 9 AM. The location is Sunshine Plaza, 2400 S Ridgewood Ave, South Daytona, FL 32119.
 

 
BTW... I ran on Greg's new 155' (six-lane) King track this past Saturday and it is sweet! The large radius turns make it easy to drive even though all but the main bank are almost flat. It can be very fast, but IMO it drives quite different than a 'punch bowl' track with a lot of banking. IMO to go really fast you have to develop a very smooth rhythm. I didn't measure the braid depth but it appears to be .020"-.025". With my limited track time, and no real testing, my best guess for gearing would be 11/28, mostly because I understand the voltage is right at 14 vDC, so a 12tr pinion may heat up the motor a bit too much; as always your mileage may vary.

[Danny Zona]

A few tips.

Greg glued the track using the formula Port Jeff uses.

So Thunder rubber, Wonder rubber, hard treated, or hard Kelly Retro rubber will work.

I like .025" guide spacing which is the same spacing I use at P1 and Fast Eddie's.

Can-Am cars are liking more weight than normal. 108 grams and up.

Biscuit and I both hit 4.570s in practice; we expect to go faster as the track rubbers up.

Feel free to ask for any advice.

[CoastalAngler1]

I'm bringing HO Joe.  What about Jackass and Rich?  Hopefully lots of racers will come this Saturday to test.

[Steve T]

Are you open every Saturday? What about Sunday?

[Danny Zona]

Are you open every Saturday? What about Sunday?

Open Tuesday through Saturday 11am-7pm.

[Grant G.]

If you have not been to this raceway the best places to park are in the red zones. The dirt lot has a back door entrance to raceway pit area that is convenient and the parking lot on the side also not too far a walk to get inside. 

 

[Jim Difalco]

I should be making the trip as I can test some 1/32 and HO controllers. Is anyone staying over saturday night? Any hotel recommendations?

[Jay Guard]

Jim:  Greg's new place is awesome and when I was there last Saturday there was quite a crowd on the 1/32, HO, and 1/24 tracks.

[Danny Zona]

It was good to see Rick Moore drive across the state for a practice session. Fast Eddie made it over as well.

We had a lot of fun testing.

[MSwiss]

Danny,
Tell Greg good luck with the race.

What are you guys getting for a sensible gear ratio?

[Danny Zona]

Danny,
Tell Greg good luck with the race.

What are you guys getting for a sensible gear ratio?

I'm liking 11-26/27 for Can-Am and GTC.

I haven't tried a stockcar yet but I'm pretty sure a 10 pinion will be optimal.

[MSwiss]

Eleven rhymes with heaven.

I like the sound of that.

[Marcus P1 Raceway]

Does anyone have the results of the other classes?

[MSwiss]

Everything is now posted on the GRRR FB page.

[Jay Guard]

Well here is the much belated report of the GRRR Event #8 held at Greg Walker's new place in Daytona Beach, Fl.

There was a great turn out as it seems everyone in Central Florida wanted to try out the new track

 

Here's a shot of his beautiful new Donn Bryans built six-lane King track.  It's not a high banked "swoopy" track at all, in fact it's quite flat, but it has very large radius turns, a "ninety" that's more like a "seventy" and even that feature is moved well away from the bridge overpass. All of this means you have far fewer cars coming off there and the ones that do don't end up under the bridge.  It really makes for a cleaner race and the six lane feature gives larger side gutters and also makes it easier to marshal.

 

 

 

First up was the GT Coupe race with 18 entries...

 

GT Coupe Qualifying results...

 

GT Coupe "C" Main results...

 

GT Coupe "B" Main results...

 

GT Coupe "A" Main results...

 

 

Next was the Can-Am race with 21 entries...

Can-Am Qualifying results...

 

Can-Am "C" Main results...(sorry no lap totals)

L to R: 2nd Matt Bowman, 1st Mike Moock, 3rd, Dave Davies

 

Can-Am "B" Main results...(sorry no lap totals)

L to R: 2nd Ed Hoffman, 1st Rick Moore, 3rd Jay Guard

 

Can-Am "A" Main results...(sorry no podium pictures)

!st Danny "DZ" Zona, 2nd Mike "Biscuit" Bressett, 3rd Jeff Bonnanno

 

 

Last race of the day was for the Stockcars with 9 entries run as a round robin...

Stockcar Qualifying results...

 

Stockcar Round Robin race results...(sorry no podium pictures)