17 replies to this topic

[twistafatty]

I would like to say thank you to Mike Iles and family for a great time at the Brawl.

Also, thank you to Jay Kisling for running an outstanding race program.

[Duffy]

Well, having just arrived home after 3.4hrs' drive (my nether regions already numb from a racing experience that makes Alien Probes seem like a casual dalliance) I take this moment to thank the Speedzone crowd and the assemblage of the East's finest for a great time, and I'm real glad I didn't brass anybody off too bad.

Duffy

[JerseyJohn]

The Isles family, Jay, Caitlin, and Curly gave us a great weekend... Thanks to all.

[HarV Wallbanger III]

Well done SpeedZone!

[Marty Stanley]

Well, having just arrived home after 3.4hrs' drive (my nether regions already numb from a racing experience that makes Alien Probes seem like a casual dalliance) I take this moment to thank the Speedzone crowd and the assemblage of the East's finest for a great time, and I'm real glad I didn't brass anybody off too bad.

Duffy,

It's a numbing thought to think that you know the difference!

SpeedZoneNJ, MrsSarge, and everyone that busted their butts to put The Fall Brawl into being... from the other side of the webcast, ya' done good!

Whenever a question was asked, MrsSarge would grab her pad, head on over, get the answer and post it. She learned all sorts of new things about webcasting as she started putting the results from each heat on the screen. What a great example of doing what was necessary to make it successful.

Racers - you put on an awesome display. I saw several non-racers that were in the 'social group' and watched their commentary - whether you understand it or not, webcasting exposes slot car racing to a lot of people that have never heard of it nor probably would have. We need to make use of our websites, Facebook and all the places we can to put that breadcrumb trail into place to bring new blood into the sport.

A superb job and a big thank you to each and every one of you!

[JerseyJohn]

Team Bullet wishes to thank The SpeedZone for putting on a great race. My buddy Bruce attacked the Jersey Devil and made a move up. Way to go, Bruce!!!

It was downhill for the team from there. A marshall took out my Can-Am. I wish the A Main guys would give us lower main guys the attention they expect most of them are either color impaired or suffer from ADD.

Regards,

JJ

[Hipsticker]

I sure enjoyed watching the races this weekend from here . Thank you everyone at speedzone for putting the races on ustream for us out here not able to go .It was way more better once the sound was added ..you could keep track of positions after every heat ....it was funny the one time a car hit the camara that was inside on a pole there ...and when everyone stood there looking at the rundowns on the monitor by the highbank between heats ,it looked like they were looking at the camara right beside it ....better watch what you say standing there commenting men ..a lot of us can hear you ...lol.......hes a what? he did what?
thanks SPEEDZONE!

Gary HIP Culy
A-MAIN WANNA -B

[Noose]

Great weekend, great racing, and overall great time!

Thanks to the whole SpeedZone crew for a very cool weekend of Retro racing. Seeing Wing guys like Chubby Salz stop by to check out the action and say..."Well..guess I have to build some of these," says it's growing for sure.

Thanks to all of the sponsors for the prizes that were given. The "after" party Saturday night was priceless with HowieWood.

Some very, very close racing took place and that's what makes Retro great. For those that didn't make t this year, mark your calendars. This will be an annual event at SpeedZone on the Retro East™ calendar for sure.

This is a tough group!

[JerseyJohn]

Dude, 5.3s in the C MAIN POLEASSEEEEE!!!

And props to Noose for organizing and running a great event!!!

[John Gorski]

Thanks Mike, Jay, Noose & the girls (for the great food)
Great event it Rocked . I know you put a lot of work into
this show and it was a great success. Fast Close intense
racing. For those of you who haven't been there yet Speedzone
is a Slot Racers dream High Speed super speedway track & The Jersey
Devil Super Flat track road course. Good power & surface.
Well stocked on parts & anything you need to order.
Thanks for the great hospitality and atmosphere.
Fall Brawl was a success. Special Congrates to Matt Bruce,
Jay K, Mike I, Howie .

[Matt Bruce]

Thanks to the Illes family, Mike, Kim, Max, and Mikey for a world class raceway for us to play. Thanks to Jay, Caitlyn, Wes P,for all their hard work, and to all the racers who support Retro here in the East. The food was great as well as the racing. I would like to say thanks to Tony P for a great Can-Am car once again, it was the best car I ever had @ Speedzone. Also thanks to Ron Hershman for the Fast Ones refurbs, JK , Alpha ,Slick 7, Noose, Chicagoland parts, Cort products, OS Bodies, Boogie Bodies, Red Fox, Lou Pirro, Mike Steube, Dennis Samson, Parma, ProSlot, and most of all the support of my wife Sharon and my son Ryan.

[slotcarone]

Congrats to the winners!!!! Looks like every race was a close one. I was only there for the Can Am on Sunday but had a great time just the same. Thanks for putting on a top notch event and thanks to the sponsors for their support.

[wesp]

Thanks gorski. Ur The man. And I would like to give a big thanks to jay K. Mike I and mAtt b for helping me become a better race if it was not for u guys I would not be able to do this stuff at all thank u guys so much

[Howie Ursaner]

I had a great time at THE BAWL. It had everything and was a great success.Thank you Mike Iles and Jay for everything.Thank you to all my friends who helped me and congratulations to all of the Winners, and all of the racers.If you were there you were a winner.This was the first big race at Speedzone and only a taste of what is to come.Mike and Jay are committed to do whatever it takes to make this the best event there is. Every Slotracer should be there next time to fight it out.Retro Racing Rules the roost.They are the most fun cars to race.

[Noose]

Just so everyone knows the crew at Speed Zone is not ignoring the blog. There is a problem at Speed Zone in connecting to the blog and they have been trying to get it fixed for over a week. They can get to all other internet sites without a problem. That is why the results, etc. were being posted to their website. I understand they have had their internet provider in and it does not appear to be anything on their end. I know they have been working with Cheater on this.

[NJ SpeedZone]

We are back on the blog.I just got to get caught up on all the other things that go on here at the "ZONE" ie; weekly racing.And customer work.I will be posting the thank yous tomorrow.A few other feel good stories to tell also . Jay

[penske]

To MIke Isles , Jay , Catlin , and Wes. I didn't think it would be possible to have more fun then I did at RetroPalloza but I would be wrong. Some very close racing all weekend. I truly believe it when Noose and Jay say that Retro East is the best retro group in the country. Congratulations to all the people who TQ and to those who won. You deserved it because it did not come easy. The Saturday night bench party was in a word special. Howie, You are a one of a kind, for sure. It wouldn't have been the same without you there. To all the sponsors who donated gifts, we all thank you all for your generosity..........Roger Ruggieri

[Cheater]

Hey, here's what happened with SpeedZone.

Our ISP detected more than 30 simultaneous connections from the SpeedZone's IP address, with lotsa bandwidth used. This can signify a Denial of Service attack profile, so they tell me, and thus the firewall automatically blocked SpeedZone's IP from even reaching Slotblog. I suggested that it might be reasonable for more than 30 folks at SpeedZone to be connected at once via wireless, they indicated that it wasn't just the number but also the bandwidth, which was at a level that would require everyone to be constantly refreshing a browser page.

So we really dunno why this happened, but we're sure glad we tracked it down and got it fixed. That's computers for you... we often don't have any idea what really caused the problem, but we do know what we did that fixed it.