Good Morning Everyone,
Before I make my way out to Barona RC Speedway today, I want to take the time to let everyone know I apologise for not getting the Richard Smith Profile Blog done this week. I have been running and gunning all week working like a mad man gathering content for my new site rcinsider.com.
The best news this week for me was being able to contact Richard's sister Linda. She gave me a wonderful bio on Richard. I can't wait to share this with you. I realise the Richard Smith Memorial race is today, but his story is timeless... (To me his story will never get out dated, that is why I am a part of this wonderful hobby.)
On to Business News: At this time I am able to announce that the RC Insider and El Cajon Hobbies have agreed to cross promote each other's businesses. This past Friday I had a meeting with Vik the owner of El Cajon Hobbies and I presented some idea's to him. He was very receptive. At this time I am letting all of So Cal know El Cajon Hobbies is the Official Hobby Shop of the RC Insider. Very soon you will see the El Cajon Hobbies Team Trailer will the new RC Insider graphics on it...
I am looking forward to this working relationship. I have more to blog about Team ECH and their shop but I am saving it for the new site... I also have more info on some up coming driver news that will be released next week... (This is a great get for the RC Insider)!
Finally on May 19th El Cajon Hobbies was burglarized. Around 28,000 dollars worth of RC related products were taken out of the hobby shop. Last Friday I did my part in trying to help this business by getting the surveillance video on Chanel 6's 10pm news. Hopefully these guys get caught soon...
Below are links:
http://www.elcajonhobby.com/
http://www.rcinsider.com/
Stay tuned for my next blog:
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Richard Smith Memorial Race...
Good Evening,
I promised a special blog this week on Richard Smith an OC Circuit Driver. I wanted to share this info tonight and start preparing for this weekends race. I am PMing Charlie Barnes as soon as this blog is out. I hope this race will have a big turnout. I will blog about this a couple more times this week because our RC racing community has lost a veteran driver here in Southern California. To be honest, I probably raced with Richard Smith at some point when I was in high school. He has been around a while and I used to race so cal on-road back in the day when I drove with Kisbey Motors and Precision Motorworks Motors, back in the early 90's.
If you get a chance please check out the forums on rctech.net. I read them and they touched me so much that I am having my mom's Catholic Church St. Joesph's in Modesto, CA have a mass held in his name.
In my next blog I will profile Richard and post some of his friends comments... I hope the little bit I can do helps his family during this tough time...
Below is the info on the race... My blog this week is dedicated to Richard Smith...
Richard Smith Memorial Race - R/C Tech Forums: "To all who have been lucky and fortunate enough to have known Rich, he has gone to a better place now. WE will have a 1 day memorial race for him on Sunday, May 30 at Surf City Raceway. All the proceeds will go to his Wife to help with there time in need. She will also auction off his RC stuff as well. So to those who happened to have the 5th Sunday off this month, Come On and Join us! Surf City Raceway is located at 18100 Golden West St. Huntington Beach, Ca 92648.
Cost is $20 to race. This is no trophy race. No special prizes. Just a race to help a good friend's family. Thank you."
Stay tuned for the next blog...
I promised a special blog this week on Richard Smith an OC Circuit Driver. I wanted to share this info tonight and start preparing for this weekends race. I am PMing Charlie Barnes as soon as this blog is out. I hope this race will have a big turnout. I will blog about this a couple more times this week because our RC racing community has lost a veteran driver here in Southern California. To be honest, I probably raced with Richard Smith at some point when I was in high school. He has been around a while and I used to race so cal on-road back in the day when I drove with Kisbey Motors and Precision Motorworks Motors, back in the early 90's.
If you get a chance please check out the forums on rctech.net. I read them and they touched me so much that I am having my mom's Catholic Church St. Joesph's in Modesto, CA have a mass held in his name.
In my next blog I will profile Richard and post some of his friends comments... I hope the little bit I can do helps his family during this tough time...
Below is the info on the race... My blog this week is dedicated to Richard Smith...
Richard Smith Memorial Race - R/C Tech Forums: "To all who have been lucky and fortunate enough to have known Rich, he has gone to a better place now. WE will have a 1 day memorial race for him on Sunday, May 30 at Surf City Raceway. All the proceeds will go to his Wife to help with there time in need. She will also auction off his RC stuff as well. So to those who happened to have the 5th Sunday off this month, Come On and Join us! Surf City Raceway is located at 18100 Golden West St. Huntington Beach, Ca 92648.
Cost is $20 to race. This is no trophy race. No special prizes. Just a race to help a good friend's family. Thank you."
Stay tuned for the next blog...
Monday, May 17, 2010
News and Notes 5/17/10
Good Morning Everyone,
I got back from the UP GRADE RC Race yesterday around 4:00pm yesterday and boy was I tired. I didn't stay to shoot video of the mains. I had to come home early for work last night. Anyway it was a fun weekend in Hesperia, CA. If you ever get a chance and like running on a loamy track, Fun Time Hobbies is the place for you. UP GRADE RC, SMITH OPTICS, JONES CANCER FOUNDATION and a few other sponsors that I can't remember put on a fantastic weekend.
I walked away with a couple of door prizes that I will gladly be using... It is nice to see RC manufacturers step up in these tough economic times and sponsor races such as this. UP GRADE RC had their trophies specially made for this race. I believe Jimmy Babcock kept announcing the fact that they were laser etched... They were without a doubt some of the coolest awards so far this year I have seen...
I want to take this time to touch on a couple of things in this blog... Last week while I was at work a few of my readers asked me about my blog... I received 5 phone calls and 3 e-mails. Much to my surprise I didn't realise my blog was taken off socal-rc.com. The reason for me blogging about this is the fact that I was told I wasn't the only affiliate taken off the website. Later that night I spoke with Dan he assures me our relationship is in good standing and that he is in the process of creating an affiliate page. He said in due time I'll be back on the site. I really haven't left the site because I post everything in General RC Discussions where I already have a thread.
After thinking about it over the weekend at the UPGRADE RACE. I have a take on this. I wish I would have been notified about this before it happened, but I wasn't. I really didn't like the fact that I was blind sided by this. The RC community is very small here in San Diego. There are a couple of good hobby shops, couple of legit tracks right now etc...! I can honestly say I didn't lose any sleep over this. This was a blip on my radar... I told several people socal-rc.com can do what they want it is their site. I'm not a paid advertiser... I do see where their site is going... I am very happy for them. They are getting the exposure they need and that is fine with me.
I write stuff in my blog that people like and I write about things that people don't like. I want everyone who reads this blog to understand I have always been thankful for everything socal-rc.com has done for this blog promoting it and mentioning it at their races. My initial goal when I started this blog was to promote the local racing scene in San Diego and the surrounding region of Southern California.
I plan to do a better job at bringing more local stories and race coverage in the future with either photo's or video. I am slowly growing month by month and I have several notable professionals in the RC Industry like what I have been doing for awhile now... It is nice to hear from time to time that people enjoy reading my blog. Recently Pat Lowry I noticed followed my blog. That is great for me. Pat is a very credible local hot shoe here in SD. In addition to Pat other So Cal locals such as Charlie B of the OC Circuit, Jaws local on-road race director of SDAR have been following my blog and commenting on it. I really appreciate their endorsments.
The blog has been quiet this past week because I am in the process of moving this blog to my own site. I spent the past week lining up graphics, working out certain partnerships with local San Diego RC companies. Finally, I secured the domain rcinsider.com! You are free to check it out. It is parked at www.godaddy.com. I will have my graphics done by the middle of this upcoming week by my partner in crime Dave Blair of the Blair Group! Just kidding Dave works with me at XETV-TV here in San Diego he is the lighting director and shades all the video that comes into the control room from the field and studio.
I should be back on track this week. I have a blog about the upcoming Richard Smith Memorial Race in the OC at the end of the month that I am planning to run. I have my thoughts on the JBRL Electric Series. My guy Zach Rogers continues to dominate the SS field! I wish I was that fast... Finally, I will release more info on what is taking place with my new website.
Stay tuned for my next blog...
Saturday, May 15, 2010
UPGRADE RC SKIN IT TO WIN IT RACE!
Good Morning Everyone,
I just arrived at my hotel this morning here in Hesperia, CA. Instead of going to the J Concepts Wave Race this weekend I chose to attend the UPGRADE RC SKIN IT TO WIN IT RACE at Fun Time Hobbies in Hesperia, CA. I am now off to the track to get set-up. I will be bringing you a couple of blogs all weekend long, as well as taking some video. I will have a few new video's up next week when I return to San Diego.
Next week I'll have the blog up and running again... I used this week to get my truck ready for the race and babysit the little one. I have plenty to talk about JBRL, SOCAL-RC, you name it I'll be right there in the middle of it.... In fact I already have a blog meant to go last week. It is written I just need to do a little more editing and quite possibly I might get it out this weekend. If you haven't gotten a chance check out thercinsider youtube channel! Please subscribe and give me your feedback.....
I plan on adding at least two new video's each week... Ok I'm off to get some coffee and go race...
Stay tuned for my next blog...
I just arrived at my hotel this morning here in Hesperia, CA. Instead of going to the J Concepts Wave Race this weekend I chose to attend the UPGRADE RC SKIN IT TO WIN IT RACE at Fun Time Hobbies in Hesperia, CA. I am now off to the track to get set-up. I will be bringing you a couple of blogs all weekend long, as well as taking some video. I will have a few new video's up next week when I return to San Diego.
Next week I'll have the blog up and running again... I used this week to get my truck ready for the race and babysit the little one. I have plenty to talk about JBRL, SOCAL-RC, you name it I'll be right there in the middle of it.... In fact I already have a blog meant to go last week. It is written I just need to do a little more editing and quite possibly I might get it out this weekend. If you haven't gotten a chance check out thercinsider youtube channel! Please subscribe and give me your feedback.....
I plan on adding at least two new video's each week... Ok I'm off to get some coffee and go race...
Stay tuned for my next blog...
Saturday, May 1, 2010
News and Notes 5/1/10
Good Evening Everyone,
Today was the final round of the Socal-rc.com Short Course Series hosted at Kearny Mesa Bowl. The race took place in the bowling alley's parking lot. I spoke with Socal-rc.com's moderator, and I will have all the results in the next few days. I told Dan Callander at the end of today's race that I will blog more in depth about their Points Series as soon as the results are in. He told me he can't wait to read the report! Grade me Accordingly Dan!!!!!!
Next topic I was at Barona Speedway last weekend with the gang. In the words of Downtown Dave Brown "Good Times were to be had by All". All you socal drivers.... You have no idea what your missing by not getting down here to this track! I love it.... Anyways I got the Barona Channel Up right now it is under RC Insider... I am basically posting the video's I cut and putting them on Barona's Thread. These races will be on Barona's website when Ed Garcia gets one going. He is working on that as we speak....
While at Barona last week I spoke with Kyle Christy of El Cajon Hobbies. Kyle is also their Race Team Manager. He mentioned that he and the owner of El Cajon Hobbies are putting a series race together later this Summer. Right now they are working on getting an I lap system. It is nice to see things really starting to take shape in this town... I am so glad to be out on the front lines writing about the local RC racing action in the County I live in.
Finally the REAL BIG NEWS one MR. KEITH JONES of ROCKETSHIPRACING.COM called me last week. We texted back and forth for 3 hours straight while I was at work. Big update from Mr. Jones 8 Tons of race grade sand free clay has arrived since last Saturday. He said things are moving right along nicely. Inspections are 40% done on one building and they have just started inspecting the second building this past week. Currently he is almost done securing a food court with a Mini Del Taco. He hopes to get a Cold Stone Creamery as well. In talking with Keith he mentioned he has enough room for two indoor 8th scale tracks and one on road track. That is awesome...
I really am looking forward to seeing this project come full circle. I hope to be talking with Keith in the next couple of days. I know he will be at the JBRL this weekend. In fact I'll probably text him tomorrow. I couldn't make it this weekend but I hope to be back on the road in June.... I have to pick and choose my out of town races carefully right now. Trust me, I wanted to be at Hot Rod Hobbies this weekend, but I was told by "The General" aka my wife that no out of town racing until Mother's Day is over.
At this time, I want to thank the guys at Socal-rc.com for putting on a fabulous Short Course Series here in San Diego. It takes a lot of work putting something like this together. You guys did a great job your first time out of the gate. I also want to thank them for having my blog on their site. I appreciate the good working relationship I have with socal-rc.com.
I would like to thank the Barona 1/8th Wonder Crew for letting me be your video guy and letting me put a channel together for you guys. Ed Garcia you and my Pit Dawg Jim Cooper are the reason I keep racing and blogging! Finally a big thanks to Keith Jones of rocketshipracing.com, I haven't known you very long but in dealing with you these past couple of weeks it has been a pleasure talking to you about your new track. I look forward to following your story as it continues to develop here in San Diego.
Stay tuned for my next blog.....
Links Below:
http://www.socal-rc.com/
http://www.rocketshipracing.com/
http://www.elcajonhobby.com/
http://www.downtowndelrin.com/
P.S. Off to go work on the video channel....
Today was the final round of the Socal-rc.com Short Course Series hosted at Kearny Mesa Bowl. The race took place in the bowling alley's parking lot. I spoke with Socal-rc.com's moderator, and I will have all the results in the next few days. I told Dan Callander at the end of today's race that I will blog more in depth about their Points Series as soon as the results are in. He told me he can't wait to read the report! Grade me Accordingly Dan!!!!!!
Next topic I was at Barona Speedway last weekend with the gang. In the words of Downtown Dave Brown "Good Times were to be had by All". All you socal drivers.... You have no idea what your missing by not getting down here to this track! I love it.... Anyways I got the Barona Channel Up right now it is under RC Insider... I am basically posting the video's I cut and putting them on Barona's Thread. These races will be on Barona's website when Ed Garcia gets one going. He is working on that as we speak....
While at Barona last week I spoke with Kyle Christy of El Cajon Hobbies. Kyle is also their Race Team Manager. He mentioned that he and the owner of El Cajon Hobbies are putting a series race together later this Summer. Right now they are working on getting an I lap system. It is nice to see things really starting to take shape in this town... I am so glad to be out on the front lines writing about the local RC racing action in the County I live in.
Finally the REAL BIG NEWS one MR. KEITH JONES of ROCKETSHIPRACING.COM called me last week. We texted back and forth for 3 hours straight while I was at work. Big update from Mr. Jones 8 Tons of race grade sand free clay has arrived since last Saturday. He said things are moving right along nicely. Inspections are 40% done on one building and they have just started inspecting the second building this past week. Currently he is almost done securing a food court with a Mini Del Taco. He hopes to get a Cold Stone Creamery as well. In talking with Keith he mentioned he has enough room for two indoor 8th scale tracks and one on road track. That is awesome...
I really am looking forward to seeing this project come full circle. I hope to be talking with Keith in the next couple of days. I know he will be at the JBRL this weekend. In fact I'll probably text him tomorrow. I couldn't make it this weekend but I hope to be back on the road in June.... I have to pick and choose my out of town races carefully right now. Trust me, I wanted to be at Hot Rod Hobbies this weekend, but I was told by "The General" aka my wife that no out of town racing until Mother's Day is over.
At this time, I want to thank the guys at Socal-rc.com for putting on a fabulous Short Course Series here in San Diego. It takes a lot of work putting something like this together. You guys did a great job your first time out of the gate. I also want to thank them for having my blog on their site. I appreciate the good working relationship I have with socal-rc.com.
I would like to thank the Barona 1/8th Wonder Crew for letting me be your video guy and letting me put a channel together for you guys. Ed Garcia you and my Pit Dawg Jim Cooper are the reason I keep racing and blogging! Finally a big thanks to Keith Jones of rocketshipracing.com, I haven't known you very long but in dealing with you these past couple of weeks it has been a pleasure talking to you about your new track. I look forward to following your story as it continues to develop here in San Diego.
Stay tuned for my next blog.....
Links Below:
http://www.socal-rc.com/
http://www.rocketshipracing.com/
http://www.elcajonhobby.com/
http://www.downtowndelrin.com/
P.S. Off to go work on the video channel....
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