Smith clinches Division Championship
Verl “Smitty” Smith won the 2008 Cutters Foam/Nila Racing Street Pro Western Division Championship for his Racing for Vets VA Tour.
“We’re very pleased with our results this season and all of our sponsors and the super support brought us this championship,” Smith said. “There are a lot of folks that help our program and although a simple thank you is all I can offer, it doesn’t seem quite adequate. So thank you, thank you, thank you.”
In addition, at the Sacramento Fun Drags the team posted an 8.90 ET.
“We have already started working on the bike for the 2009 season, and I won’t be able to come to the AHDRA Rockingham Finals, so Mary Lou Brewton will be accepting my trophy at this year’s banquet.’ Smith added, ”In 2009, we hope to expand our VA Shows and race a few more East Coast events.” [10/9/2008]
RC record set at the Rock
Proving that a fast track is a fast track, no matter what is running on it, world speed records were set during the inaugural US event of the International RC Speed Challenge presented by Castle held Oct. 4 at Rockingham (NC) Dragway. Competitors from all over the United States and from as far away as the UK came to try to push the envelope of speed in a variety of classes, using both nitro and electric powered scale RC vehicles. This event was the second of the series conducted in association with the UK-based ROSSA organization, the first meet being held in Stratford, England, on Sept. 23.
The highlight of the event was provided by Southern California’s Nic Case, the current Guinness World Record holder for top speed of a radio-controlled vehicle (134 mph). He only made two passes, but both shattered the existing speed record. Case’s orange FlightPower/Castle/Neu/Schumacher 12-cell streamliner recorded a tremendous 153 mph run, then came back later and laid down an incredible 161.76 mph pass to seal his place in the history books.
Other notable performances were turned in by Gary O’Connor’s nitro-powered four-engined streamliner at 93.66 mph to take the win in Open IC, and Tim Smith’s Novak-powered 84.54 mph effort in Scale Electric, a production-oriented two-cell lipo electric class.
For additional information, visit the “Fastest RC” website: http://www.fastestrc.blogspot.com/ (photos courtesy Bill Weeks) [10/9/2008]