Have to go back two weeks, cause I FORGOT to post about Cody!!!!!!

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4/7/2013

FZRC (Sarasota, FL.)

Cody's dad bought my Losi XXX-SCT two weeks earlier to have a RC to race with his three kids with (they all have one). Cody like the Losi better than his Duratrax so!!!!

This is Cody's 2nd ever race! He TQ'd and lead for two minutes of the 5 minute main then the motor, a 17x2 brush motor started to died!!! About 90 sec from the finish it died!!!! As Cody walked by me he said "That's racn' "!!!! Was he unhappy that he didn't finish you bet, but that didn't get him down.

Brushless Hobbies had given "MRCW" one of their 120 amp brushless ESC's, OVER six months ago!!!!! When we received this we put a Novak 13.5 motor in the ESC box.

The BIG eyes that a kid has when they get something that they are not expecting is part of what "MRCW" is all about.

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4/21/20013

FZRC (Sarasota, FL.)


Erik, a team driver for Brushless Hobbies (he is the racer who contacted BH about "MRCW") assisted Cody in getting the gearing right for his Losi for the day.

After Cody lapped ALL the racers in the first qual, we did a motor temp check 140 degrees << that is just right! In the 2nd qual he lapped all the racers more than 2 times!!! The main he lead from the tone and drove away from the other racers!

Marty, track owner wants Cody to move out of the Novice class. With the Novak 13.5 motor that would place him in the same class as ME!!!! I already have my hands full with his older brother!!

Track link >> FZRC

2/3/2013

FZRC (Sarasota, FL)

Was there for a Sunday club race. Christian and his Mom (Denna) showed up, remember he is the kid that had a steering problem a couple weeks ago at FZRC. Noticed that Christian had a friend with him, Travis, he was asking Christian if he could drive his buggy.

Talked with Denna about Travis, he fit the "MRCW" spec's!!!

Travis received a Traxxas Rustler with a custom painted body by EZ Customs, FZRC gave him a FREE race entry!

1/13/2013

FZRC (Sarasota, FL)

A young man was planning to race his Electrix RC Boost 2wd Buggy BUT was having a servo problem. Marty the track owner asked me to have a look as he was busy getting everything ready to have races. Intro'd myself to Christian and we went over to my pit to have a look.It was a simple tightening of a screw. We talked about how to get MORE power/speed out of the buggy. Changed the stock white connectors to Deans, wire the motor direct to esc and tightened up the slipper. Another racer loaned him a set of race level rear tires, put a transponder mount hole in the body and he was ready to race!!!!

There were six in Beginner class and Christian qual in 5th place for the main, Christian had to leave before the main so his first race main is yet to be!!!

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1/6/2013

FZRC (Sarasota, FL)

Met with Andrew today at FZRC, to exchange chargers and batteries.

He traded a Duratrax Onyx 100 (NiCD & NiMH) charger for a B6 (every kind of recharge-able battery) charger.

Two Traxxas 3300 7-cell batteries for a SMC 6000, Gen ACE 5000, Turnigy 5000 and a Gold 4900 lipo batteies.

Plus I threw in a set of rear Slash rims.

Now IF I can just remember to give him the program card for the Speed Passion GT1.1 esc that he got 1/5/2013!!!

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The Vet that got the front bumper and F/R shock towers, as at FZRC also. Marty (Owner of FZRC) installed the parts for him and he was having some REAL fun on the track!!!

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1/5/2013

HMIRCR (Sarasota, FL)

Was there for a Sat night club race, GREAT FUN!!!!! :-)

Andrew was pitting next to me, he had just got a Traxxas Slash 2wd and was worrying about racing in his first race. Had a talk with him finishing "last" and how that wasn't possible! Showed him a race results sheet, pointed out that NO where on the sheet was there a last place!!!

We did some adjustments to his Slash, so he was ready for his first qual. He had a good run finished 3rd.

As we talked, he shared what his plans where for the Slash, motor and esc, lipo batteries. Told him that the motor and esc he had planed to get wasn't a good upgrade for racn', it was a good upgrade to run in front of the house!

He asked what I thought what would be a good motor and esc for him to get as a race system. Told him a Speed Passion GT1.1 with a Speed Passion 10.5 Sportsman motor as I handed him both! Another racer had time to install the motor and esc as I was due at the track to turn marshal. Had time to set the radio system the the esc for him and out he went for his 2nd qual. He qual in 5th for the main. Finished in 4th NOT BAD for his first race!!!

As we where getting Andrews Slash ready a guy asked me if I was the guy who ran "MRCW"? :-) He is to old to get a RC from us, BUT when he told me he was a disabled VET, I asked what WE could do for him. He needed a front bumper for his Traxxas Rustler. Pulled a extra Slash front bumper out of the pit box and that was just what he was looking for, handed him a RPM front and rear shock towers also. Thought he was going to cry from the blessing!

So let's see what did we do today,

1 ESC
1 Motor
1 Front bumper
1 Front shock tower
1 Rear shock tower

1 HAPPY KID
1 HAPPY VET
4 HAPPY RACERS who seen "MRCW" work for the first time

1 HAPPY ME!!!!

That's 12 HAPPY bits! :-)

Now for next week!!!!!!

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12/15/2012

Hobby Marketplace Indoor RC Raceway (Sarasota. FL)

FORGOT to post this last week!!!! :-(

HMIRCR had a day of FREE practice, while I was there a young man, Chris, who was driving a rental SC truck from the track and I got to talking. He was saving his penny's to get a RC like the rental units, Chris is at the upper age level to receive a "MRCW" RC.

I didn't bring everything (to make a give away) to track as I had only planned to test two "MRCW" RC's. Chris has a income source, so I asked him if he had $100 towards funding a RC. He did, after giving Chris a Duratrax Evader ST we went next door and picked out a battery and charger.

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12/21/2012

Hobby Marketplace Indoor RC Raceway (Sarasota, FL)

A few weeks ago a young man, Mark, received a Traxxas Slash from "MRCW" and was in need of "Race" level tires. The Slash came with a set of 4wd Slash tires, they looked SWEEET but didn't work well on carpet.

A racer, Josh, asked us if there wasn't anything he could do to assist this young man. Shared with Josh that Mark could use a full set of race level tires. Josh has a Slash and I just figured that he would go through his tire stock and donate what he could.

Josh presented Mark with a shoe box sized box of tires, NOT just tires but two FULL sets of NEW tires and NEW rims!!!!!!! This is like $75 worth of tires.

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Mark race his first Pro2 SC race, with the new tires, and finished 4th!! :-)

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