Smartechracing

Does anyone know which track in US can run 1/5 scale cars?

Smartechracing

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K-Spindle

SV in Sun Valley California is designed for both 1:5 scale on-road and it has a big off road track for 1:5 scale but it needs some help to get the facility back up to speed.

Smartechracing

Thanks, could you give us more information of the track?

K-Spindle

They do not have an active web site so its hard to point you there. Most of the 1:5 scale drivers that use the track do not use this forum so its even harder to point you in the right direction. VS Modelsport can really help you here, but they are at the 1:5 scale on-road national championships this week.

SV used to be called Komatsu Zenoah Speedway or KZ for short they held the 1:5 scale world championships in 2003 there. Here is a link to the promo video its very cool,
[link=http://www.metacafe.com/watch/453636/highlights_ifmar_world_chanpionship_1_5_rc_2003/]2003 IFMAR 1:5 Scale Worlds[/link]

There are some places that have the off road track photos. Shoot me a PM for more data.

K-Spindle

Here is a link to the company that made the film its worth owning if you love large scale....

[link=http://www.barmotorsports.com/]B.A.R. Motorsports [/link]

Kemo

we have a pair of tracks right here in Ramsey Minnesota, one for onroad and one for offroad. The onroad series has been going for a while, just hoping for some offroad activity sometime soon.

I'm reviewing one of the videos of our onroad track... I'll be posting it soon.

UPDATE:

OK the video is clean Our track has the Molzer Mowery guys (Fredrik is crazy I tell you!), So there is quite a bit of competition here. here is the video.

http://www.molzermoweryracing.com/mo...shoe071705.wmv

With more cars:

http://molzermoweryracing.com/movies/shoerace05.wmv

Smartechracing

Nice video.

Papago_RC_Raceway

Here is a pic of us Nelson

Smartechracing

MORE CLEAR PICS?

Papago_RC_Raceway

http://images.google.com/images?q=th...=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Kemo

Thanks... most of the focus here in my area is onroad. If there is enough demand for offroad racing at the track, then that tends to pick up a bit.

Smartechracing

We need off road track[sm=thumbs_up.gif]

Smartechracing

Can not see the picture

Smartechracing

More 1/5 tracks?

Kemo

offroad track debut racing...

http://www.molzermoweryracing.com/mo...dirtopener.wmv

Smartechracing

Nice video. Nice crash

K-Spindle

Hard to get the off road guys to race, some in the industry do what ever they can to keep it from getting going. Why they do this who knows but 99.99999999999% of the large scale dirt guys in the USA do not have the desire to really race. Just one of those things. In Los Angeles we have tried and tried but despite a big great race track they just do not come out to race in the dirt. Bashing is king in the USA.

Kemo

offroad is popular here in Minnesota, but 1/5 F1 and 1/5 Touring car is dominant over 1/5 offroad racing.

But as you stated... the great majority would rather bash than race em.

i know that if we had an 1/8 mile dirt oval track, we'd have some dirt guys out there in a heartbeat!

Papago_RC_Raceway

Its all about promoting the races. Promote and they will come.

nwnitro

Check out our site, video of our 'Baja Blast' http://nwnitro*********.com ; second year for this and we had a great time. Here in the NW it is always weather dependant for outdoor tracks but at this VW car show we have access to the large covered arena that we can race in. We get lots of attention........ and have gained quite a few newbies to the 1/5th gas offroad group. We hope to grow this to a bigger event with custom track built etc. but we will need some sponsors to come on board to make it happen.

Locally there is a 'private' outdoor track that one of our customers has built that we can use by invitation that is huge with large banked turns and small jumps which works real well for the 1/5 gas stuff. There is an on road track close to Vancouver, WA: Timezone http://www.timezoneracing.com/
where they have some great racing!
1/5 gas offroad is growing, let's make it happen!

Kemo

We've done plenty of it, problem is that we have one guy at a hobbytown usa near here, and he badmouths all of us... I'd assume its because he doesn't know how to talk to people, treats everyone like crap; and thats why the indoor track he ran, was run into the ground. Its a shame, but oh well. If we get enough baja's and rampages around here, I'm sure it'll pick up again.

Smartechracing

MORE TRACKS?