vintage trans am race?

[g13092]

Doug,

Please update us on the vintage race this past Saturday, if you get a chance!

[Eau Rouge]

As soon as I can scan them, I'll post my Xrays from last night. LOL. I broke my right foot marshalling in traffic.

We had about 65 cars in total for the first major event. It went really smoothly, all things considered. Feedback has been fantastic, everyone had a great time. There will be full coverage of the event in RCDriver in a couple of months, too. I would expect a few very cool and very professional videos to surface soon, too.

The 20-car 50 lap super main was chaos, too. Stoopid fun for everyone involved.


There is a quick write-up and a few early photos on the T/A Nationals thread on RCtech.net.



Hopefully I won't need surgery on my foot, but there is a chance. See how much I GIVE back to the hobby? LOL. I did, however, find a brand new usage for battery strapping tape.

[g13092]

Bummer on the foot! You know you're gonna have to explain a bit more about that. These are LITTLE CARS! You're not supposed to break a foot when one runs your foot over!

It looks like it was a darn good time! I wish I could have made it. Da kids soccer got rained out afterall...

[Eau Rouge]

I was marshalling and jumped into the infield to grab a stuck car, and hit a board square on the top. I rolled my foot over and heard a pop, and couldn't put weight on it. I thought i sprained my ankle, but after I took off my shoe, I had 2 golfball sized knots on the top outside of my arch. It wasn't pretty. We all went, "eeew" when I took off my sock. I wound up using battery strapping tape around my sock to tape it all up (he's a hockey player, he stayed in the game...). I hobbled around for the rest of the day, figuring it probably was an event I should stick around for considering I was the promoter and organizer.

By the time I got home (after the 1:25 drive in the snow), it was blue/green/purple/red but not badly swolen, thanks to my superior battery taping job. If my batts had only stayed in my car that well during the day.

A few hours later, I was on the way home from the ER with a new cast, some cool X-rays of my first broken bone in 38 years, a really good narcotics buzz and a hankerin' for Taco Bell.



Other than that, the race was a huge success, and I already am working on plans for 2009's event.

[Erich Reichert]

Awesome job Doug! Sorry about your foot... in our art dept we prefer to call that "smoothing out" Hope you feel better.

[scr8p]

hey doug, now you can add your injury to this thread.

http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4895&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=15

[call-911]

hey doug, now you can add your injury to this thread.

http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4895&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=15

Nicely done.

[scr8p]

being a corner marshal is dangerous work. i remember one time i was marshaling, i was wearing low top sneakers, and took a bbt sprinter's twin tube front bumper to my ankle. and of course, it couldn't have been in the corner when he was off the throttle. noooooooo. going flat out, 3/4 of the way down the backstretch, running a mod motor. i could've swore it broke my ankle, but it didn't. just hurt like hell.

needless to say, after that, i wore high tops.

[JK Racing]

Doug, I feel for ya....


Marshalling @ Perris Raceway, 1/8 scale buggies, 150 foot back straight, throttle stuck...buggy VS my right shin...buggy won. To this day I have a knot on my shin from that impact. The race director was "nice" enough to wave me from marshalling the rest of the night.