News and Notes 6/21/10

All in all this was a great weekend for racing. Our local track here in San Diego 1/8 Wonder Barona Speedway isn't racing for the next two weekends. So it gives the locals here a chance to go up and run the LA tracks. This past week from Wednesday to Sunday 3 different groups of San Diego RC Clubs made the pilgrimage to West Coast RC Raceway! Wednesday a group from socal-rc.com were on hand for some racing, Friday El Cajon Hobbies raced which I was in attendance for. Finally on Sunday 1/8 Wonder Track Owner himself Ed Garcia and Jim Cooper my travel race dogs cruised up north for some RC action... Ed told me in one of the two conversations we had on Sunday, he will be joining me for the Shootout at Hot Rod Hobbies this July! Oh man our wives are going to be on fire with us! I am going to have fun explaining I need to be at Jimmy's track for four days! LOL!

Way to go all you guys for supporting West Coast this past week... Your all truly die hards in my book... In speaking with Ed the second time on his way home from West Coast he mentioned he will be heading up to Barona to work on the track this week possibly Tuesday or Wednesday. I'll let you know when and put it on the thread at socal-rc.com if anyone is interested in helping fix the track. This last Friday the socal-rc.com guys threw a fun run and raised $160 for 1/8 Wonder Barona Raceway at Franks backyard track in Chula Vista, CA... Guys way to go on this... This is awesome, this is the(RC Community I signed up to be a part of here in San Diego!!!!!!)

Also another note a lot of the guys who run out at 1/8 Wonder Barona Raceway were at the San Diego County Fair yesterday doing a demonstration of the different types of RC cars and trucks you can get into. Thanks guys for all your hard work on this, I saw some of the pics on socal-rc.com this afternoon. It's guys like you who really bring the growth to this awesome hobby!

Finally the best news to give at the end of this blog... My guy Zack Rogers had in my book another incredible weekend at his hometown track. The JBRL Electric Series Round 4 was in Bakersfield, CA this weekend at Racers Haven RC Raceway. Earlier tonight Zack called in his results to me... He TQ'ed and won both SS truck and 4wd SS buggy. He qualified 2nd in 2wd SS buggy and finished 3rd. He podiumed in all classes... I am so proud of the him... I know he was bummed about the 2wd finish I could tell by his voice on the phone, but man that is pretty good to pull all that off having no chassis sponsor! Many of you may not know the JBRL Electric racing series is becoming more and more competitive year after year. Every year there is new fresh fast local talent all battling for the top spot. Zack is doing all this mostly by motor and tire support. Zack's rides this weekend were powered by Banzai Motors, LRP SPX ESC's, JConcepts tires, Sparks Inks, Blackbeard RC etc... I once again congratulate him on a fantastic weekend.

I have some sweet news for him this week when we talk on either Monday or Tuesday! I am going to hold off and tell him before I blog about it. I want to make sure he is on board with my idea... Since Zack is now 18 by the way. His birthday was this past Saturday... I have some serious layout decisions for the site and I have the final look that I'll be deciding this week. I am going to show Zack first after my wife Mariela what I am purposing as far as layout is concerned. I need Zack's opinion because he is really knowledgeable of what is cool and hip when it comes to the RC sites. He going to help me promote (rcinsider.com) and he needs to be comfortable with the look and the content... I am taking the time to do this right and this year is the learning curve for getting the site up and working out all the bugs...

I have good idea's of where I want to take this site and where I hope it will be in a couple of years. At that point I hope Zack and I will be out looking for the next Zack Rogers who is on the cusp of factory support...

In my next blog I will focus on my conversation with Danny S of West Coast RC Raceway and Hobby Garage from last Friday...

Stay tuned for my next blog....