Micro On Road Nats

[RCMadness]

R/C Madness in Enfield Connecticut is proud to be holding the inaugural Micro On Road Nationals Race on November 30, December 1 & 2 2007. Team X-Ray/RC America and RC Driver Magazine have signed on as primary sponsors while Team Associated will be providing hand out motors for the stock classes. In addition, Team Scream, Apogee, G&F Racing, Novak, Exotek (formerly Motek), www.AtomicMods.com, LRP, Reedy, Psycho Cells, Castle Creations and BRP have also signed on as sponsors just to name a few. To help promote this great event and spread the word a full page ad/flyer will be running in a future issue if RC Driver.

Classes and rules for the event at this point are as follows:

Class 1
Micro Touring Stock (4wd)
Sponsored by Psycho Cells
CHASSIS: M18, MRS4, NRX18 or Similar
WHEELBASE: 150mm Max
WIDTH: Front Max 108, Rear Max 108mm
MOTOR: Hand Out Brushed Motor to be specified later
TIRES: Foam or Rubber Tires
BODY: Open 2 or 4 Door 1/18 Touring Car Style Bodies
ELECTRONICS: Open Electronics
BATTERIES: Nimh 5 Cell 2/3a 6.0 volts limit

Class 2
Micro Touring Mod (4wd)
Sponsored by Team Scream
CHASSIS: M18, MRS4, NRX18 or Similar
WHEELBASE: 150mm Max
WIDTH: Front Max 108, Rear Max 108mm
MOTOR: Open Brushed Micro Motor No Larger than 370 in size
TIRES: Foam or Rubber Tires
BODY: Open 2 or 4 Door 1/18 Touring Car Style Bodies
ELECTRONICS: Open Electronics
BATTERIES: Nimh 6 cells 2/3a 7.2 volts limit

Class 3
Micro Touring Brushless/Unlimited (4wd)
Sponsored by Apogee Packs
CHASSIS: M18, MRS4, NRX18 or Similar
WHEELBASE: 150mm Max
WIDTH: Front Max 108, Rear Max 108mm
MOTOR: Open Brushless Micro Motors
TIRES: Foam or Rubber Tires
BODY: Open 2 or 4 Door 1/18 Touring Car Style Bodies
ELECTRONICS: Open Electronics
BATTERIES: Nimh 2/3a or Lipo Cells (11.1 volt limit)

Class 4
Pan Car Stock (2wd)
CHASSIS: Scalpel, BRP or Similar Direct drive cars
WHEELBASE: Factory stock wheelbase & length
WIDTH: Factory stock width
MOTOR: Hand Out Brushed Motor to be specified later
TIRES: Foam Tires only
BODY: Open 1/18 Car Body
ELECTRONICS: Open Electronics
BATTERIES: 4 Cell (4.8 volts) Nimh 2/3 A cells

Class 5
Pan Car Open (2wd)
Sponsored by Team Scream
CHASSIS: Scalpel, BRP or Similar Direct drive cars
WHEELBASE: 150mm Max
WIDTH: 115mm Max
MOTOR: Open Brushed or Brushless Micro Motor
TIRES: Foam Tires only
BODY: Open 1/18 Car Body
ELECTRONICS: Open Electronics
BATTERIES: Nimh 2/3a or Lipo Cells (7.4 Volt Limit)

Class 6
Rally Car Open (4wd)
CHASSIS: Max Length 210mm, Max Width 145mm, Max Wheelbase 160mm
MOTOR: Open Brushed or Brushless Micro Motor
TIRES: Stock 18R tires, rims & inserts (No Foam Tires)
BODY: 1/18 Rally Car Body ONLY
ELECTRONICS: Open Electronics
BATTERIES: Nimh 2/3a or Lipo Cells (7.4 Volt Limit)

Class 7
1/18 Truck Open (2wd or 4wd)
CHASSIS: Open Chassis
MOTOR: Open Brushed or Brushless Micro Motor
TIRES: Open 1/18 Tires including foams. No Touring Car Tires, No 1/10 Hex Adapters (Less Vendetta ST)
ELECTRONICS: Open Electronics
BATTERIES: Nimh 2/3a or Lipo Cells (11.1 Volt Limit)
BODY: Must use a stadium style 1/18 truck body

Class 8
1/14 Open (Recoil & similar)
Sponsored by Castle Creations
CHASSIS: Max Length 292mm, Max Width 133mm, Max Wheelbase 187mm
MOTOR: Open Brushed or Brushless Micro Motor (400 sized or smaller)
TIRES: Open 1/14 rubber or foam tires
ELECTRONICS: Open Electronics
BATTERIES: Nimh 2/3a or Lipo Cells (7.4 Volt Limit)
BODY: Touring car/sedan style 1/14 body

Class 9
Drift Exibition Open (4wd)
CHASSIS : M18, MRS4, NRX18 or Similar
Motor: Open Brushed or Brushless Micro Motor
Tires: No Foam Tires (Drift Tires ONLY, NO rough edge PVC tires)
Body: Open 1/18 Drift Body
Electronics: Open Electronics (no gyros or drift boxes)
Batteries: Nimh or Lipo Cells (7.4 Volt Limit)

Misc Rules:
• Assume the following: If the rules don’t say you can do it, you can’t.
• NO REVERSE. If you use reverse you will be assessed 5 second stop & go penalty. After 3 stop & go penalties in one race you will be disqualified from that race and your car will be removed from the track.
• No rough or “team” driving. Anyone who is considered to be team driving or rough driving will be disqualified and no refund will be given.
• All races will be 5 minutes long.
• NIMH cells can only be 2/3a's
• All prototype and one of a kind items must be approved by the race director before being used in competition
• 540 type motors are not allowed in any class.
• Tires may not extend beyond the wheel wells in the micro touring car classes.

[RCMadness]

Hey All,
Here is the schedule for the Micro On Road Nats…

Friday November 30th
Open practice from 11:00 AM to 9:30 PM. The shop closes at 10:00 PM. We will pick times periodically throughout the day to give drift cars exclusive practice time.

Saturday December 1st
Open practice from 8:00 AM to 10:30 AM. Track closes at 10:30
Drivers meeting at 10:30 AM
Qualifying starts at 11:00 AM. There will be 3 rounds of IFMAR style qualifying on Saturday.

Sunday December 2nd
Open practice until 10:15 AM, Track closes at 10:15 AM
Door Prizes from 10:15 AM to 10:45 AM
Drift Exhibition from 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM
Best Paint Competition from 11:45 AM to 12:00 PM
Mains start at 12:00 PM
Awards following the Mains

Times subject to change depending on the number of entries or unforeseen circumstances.

[RCMadness]

Hello Everyone
Two weeks until the race!!!

Prizes and entries are rolling everyday! Things are really starting to take shape! We will even have a surprise guest or two!!!

Exotek has submitted to me pictures of prototype and soon to be produced product to be approved for the race and let me say… COOL!

Anyone planning to run one of a kind, prototype items or items not in production needs to get the item approved PRIOR to competition…

Again, email me with any questions…
Dean

[RCMadness]

Hey Everyone,
If you want to see the layout for the Micro On Road Nats check out the MadCam
http://www.rcmadness.com/500_Webcam.asp
on Sunday. That is when we will set-up the lay-out.

See everyone SOOOON

Dean

[RCMadness]

Hey Everyone,
WOW, what a great weekend of racing & fun! People from Cali and Canada and all across the land came out for the inaugural Micro On Road Nationals and were NOT disappointed.
First, let me say thanks to all the great sponsors who helped make this event happen:
R/C Driver - Greg is one of the best guys on the planet and is ALWAYS good to his word
Team Associated – Tony and everyone at AE are just the best and came through again
Reedy- Donated the motors so the stock class did not have an increased fee to enter
RC America / X-Ray – Thanks for the cool prizes
Castle Creations – Joe provided endless support all weekend and is just flippin awesome
Team Scream – John is a long time supporter and makes some of the best packs on the market
Apogee Packs – Bill makes some of the best lithium packs on the market and sent us prizes NEXT day air!
Psycho Cells – Tim is a great guy and has some cool Scalpel ideas!!
Atomic Mods.com –Class and Messy pit sponsors and just great people
HPI Racing – GET WELL Rodney! Even with his injury Colin got us prizes ASAP
Exotek – This is the future of RC! SOME great new stuff in the works!
Competition X - Again, Tony Phalen is the man. And her sponsored the best paint competition!
New Wave Cells – Great packs
BRP Racing – Bud wanted to make it but just could not. His cars still won!!!
YourMicro.com – Another quality long time supporter
MaxAmps – Great guys and packs
HiTec – Mike always hooks us up with GREAT prizes
Atomic RC – Great stuff
G & F Racing – Get better Frankie… We missed you and your dad
Robitronic - They sent THREE kits! Nuff said
Tamiya USA - Also sent THREE KITS
Novak – Charlie always hooks us up
Checkpoint – TC1030 Charger door prize!!
J Concepts – Certs for cool bodies
These sponsors helped us make this event happen and donated the boat load of prizes that we gave away.

As for cool stuff
Zack Barry was racing the soon to be released X-Ray M18T Pro. They got it on Thursday threw it together and were able to qualify 2nd and with luck won the A-Main
The Tek18R chassis Tony Phalen was the BOMB!!! I want one. His 18R was like a touring car!
The Exotek M18 R3 chassis. The results speak for themselves!
Micro Man! You rock dude. Nice paint and you are Recoil champ! Wesley, SEND ME AN EMAIL. Need to talk. dberry@rcmadness.com
Tim from Psycho cells has some cool ideas for the scalpel
John from Team Scream has some ULTRA HOT 1500 cells on the way!!!
And way too much more to remember!

I will try to get pics soon.
If I forgot you… I did not mean it!
Email me if you have questions….
Dean
dberry@rcmadness.com
1/18 Indoor Off Road Nats… Last weekend of March 2008 is next!!