[Saboteur]

They might have them surely. I'm thinking you need your own pit crew and tools surely. The Ferrari FXX owners have a crew given to them as well as their beloved ride stays locked up somewhere being it isn't street legal.

[jwaj2002]

no the track days are more to just drive the track for the fun of it, you might have a porsche 911 then an 81 celica driving the course they do track days alot at the nascar tracks

[st_dragn_wagen]

i thought the nurburgring was open every day. a pay and do a lap type of thing.

[jwaj2002]

it probably is

[Saboteur]

It's like $7-$11 just for a lap which isn't bad at all. There was a video on YouTube with a Hummer on the ring. LMAO that thing would surely run out of gas before it crosses the finish line.

[jwaj2002]

nah, they have 30 gallon fuel tanks, and its only 14 miles, they'll need to fill up before and after but they'll pass the finish line with a 1/16th of a tank

[Saboteur]

I'll post the video of the guy driving. I think he was doing between 50-75mph. Surely that mileage would go down in no time no? It'd be funny to see him trying to top out speed wise on the back stretch to the finish lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ8nwes6m-g

CommanderB is my tag there lol.

[jwaj2002]

I'm giving them credit, I figure the hummer can get 2 gallons per mile

[st_dragn_wagen]

after watching the backyard track videos again, i kind of have a hankering to rebuild my ghetto ass backyard track. move it so its not quite as dangerous, new layout, some new jumps. if only i wasn't so lazy

[Saboteur]

Originally Posted by st_dragn_wagen

after watching the backyard track videos again, i kind of have a hankering to rebuild my ghetto ass backyard track. move it so its not quite as dangerous, new layout, some new jumps. if only i wasn't so lazy

When all the snow melts do it up! Snap some pictures and post it on here. Too bad I wasn't a neighbor as I'd help out as well as enjoy occasional visits to bash and RTR. I have enough funds to get an Associated T4/B4 Spec RTR to mess around with. The Slash Platinum version still has my eye though.

[st_dragn_wagen]

snow? im in so cal, no snow involved. but it rained a week or so ago and im waiting for the dirt to finish drying out. my backyard just doesn't dry out very well.
after the yard dry's out then iv got a little bit of grass to scrap up (again)
then i have to finish cleaning up and taking out the planter and picking up the pile of river rock and then dig out the weeds
then kind of level everything out making sure to fill in the pothole
then lay out the track
then build the track
and im currently on the stage where i sit on the back porch looking at my old track drinking a beer thinking "man it would be cool if i rebuilt that?"

you better go with the associated. no traxxas on my track

[Saboteur]

C'mon man it's a SLASH! LOL. I'd like one of the older RC10GTs. I had an MT12 with stock exhaust and she ripped. Swapped the XR2 AM radio from the Losi Sport NT RTR and it never glitched one bit. I wish I still had that radio lol.

[st_dragn_wagen]

Originally Posted by Saboteur

C'mon man it's a SLASH! LOL.

all the more reason!
slash drivers need to learn proper track educate.
get out of the way of faster traffic.
don't hit somebody on purpose (especially when there upside down!)
don't drive backwards on the track.
turn marshals are not targets for air born attacks.
when waiting for a friend to catch up, don't park your truck at the back/bottom of the jumps or in the middle of the corners.
most importantly, drop the ego! just because you bought a truck that every 14 year old internet superstar thinks is better than porn. doesn't mean your farts don't stink.

[jwaj2002]

Originally Posted by st_dragn_wagen

all the more reason!
slash drivers need to learn proper track educate.
get out of the way of faster traffic.
don't hit somebody on purpose (especially when there upside down!)
don't drive backwards on the track.
turn marshals are not targets for air born attacks.
when waiting for a friend to catch up, don't park your truck at the back/bottom of the jumps or in the middle of the corners.
most importantly, drop the ego! just because you bought a truck that every 14 year old internet superstar thinks is better than porn. doesn't mean your farts don't stink.

lol thats pretty good, I've used my slash to flip an sc10 back on its wheels in a race before, about 10 of us crackin up on the driver's stand

[st_dragn_wagen]

iv seen that in practice. do an inch up and bump when there is no turn marshal, but they are always careful about it. what was pissing me and a lot of other people off was 4 or 5 slash drivers who would see a truck upside down and swerve or even jump track to smash the upside down truck as hard as they could like some type of demolition derby game or something

[jwaj2002]

yea that would piss me off, now we had some really bad marshal's that race (broke people's cars refused to marshal them if they weren't on their team) by the mains all of us slash drivers started taking them out, jump and hit em in the face or run over their feet, since they had been litterally kicking our cars off the track and stomping on them all on purpose

[st_dragn_wagen]

from the sounds of it those marshals need to be kicked in the nutz.
last time i was at the track there was a guy with a slash that wasn't really trying to hit the marshals just make them dance. he just wasn't doing a very good job of it, and was hitting them. the way the track was set up there was a banked corner that went into a double jump and then right into another corner. people were crashing there a lot from casing the jump trying to get into the corner good. during practice a turn marshal goes to flip a T4 over in that corner. see's the slash coming so he stopped. was going to let the slash go by then flip the T4 over. the slash stopped in the banked corner. after a 2 or 3 second stare down between the marshal and the slash the marshal walks out, bends over and flips the T4 over. on his way back to the upright possession he swatted a slash out of the sky. the slash driver waited till the marshal was busy/preoccupied then tried to hit him. the marshal actually walked over and flipped the slash over. the slash driver actually had the nerve to mouth off about it. the marshal simply quite and walked off.

he wasn't the only driver pulling that crap ether. there were a few other slash drivers who were trying to swing the rear end out and drift through the corners seeing how far out and how close to the turn marshal they could get. i got hit three or four times

its weird, the 7 year old with the blitz is fallowing the rules i listed above. but the 30 something year old with the slash is an assclown. i don't get it

[jwaj2002]

yea, the worst part is the officials wouldn't do anything about them, they did that crap whenever they had to marshal a race, especially if someone from their team was in that race, one of us saw it more then anyone since he ran every single class that weekend, and wound up by 11pm having nothing in one piece to take home because they broke (on purpose) all but 2 of his cars, and the other two (sc8 and sc10) he smashed into the same marshal's legs at full throttle and destroyed both cars (both brushless)

[Saboteur]

True I have seen some really bad Hackfest of Slash events with the newbs and "sportsman". The pro class is a lot cleaner.

[jwaj2002]

yes but these marshals weren't in our race, none of their team was infact, they just didn't want us there because it meant there was more time between their "more important" races

[Saboteur]

Thats how a lot of racers are up my way too. They don't want to marshal and they want more time for THEM and not the beginners. They think their hot stuff, but most of them who are ignorant don't win anyway lol.

[Surfer_Girl]

your tracks sound a lot like the beach's out here. with all the "locals only" crap. when the surf is good if your not a local regular to that spot you are not aloud to surf. stay out of the water. if you don't fist fights, jumpings, beatings will in sue.

[Saboteur]

Originally Posted by Surfer_Girl

your tracks sound a lot like the beach's out here. with all the "locals only" crap. when the surf is good if your not a local regular to that spot you are not aloud to surf. stay out of the water. if you don't fist fights, jumpings, beatings will in sue.

Yikes. What state do you live in? Thank god I'm not a surfer or much of a swimmer lol. I'd like to go scuba diving one day though to places where new folks are welcome.

[Surfer_Girl]

OC California. you can go swimming out there all day every day. when the surf is bad you can surf all you want, but when the surf is good there’s a good chance your not surfing. showing up with a surfboard and paddling out you run a good risk of running into one of those groups of locals who will do everything they can to run you out.
if you go up and down the coast your going to find places that are friendly and places where your not even going to get wet unless some local is drowning you.

some of the skate parks are starting to get that way to. some skaters wont let BMX riders ride. some skaters from the neighborhood the park is in wont let skaters from outside the neighborhood skate in there neighborhoods park. if you’re a rollerblader forget about it.

[Saboteur]

Wow that's crap! Even the cops or guards at the beach can't do anything? Why would they try to down someone just because they aren't local? They don't own the beach they just go there.