SCRC Crawlers

The Final event of the season didn’t disappoint…

The day started out with our warm up class… 1.9. With small tires, short wheelbases and no dig, these trucks are by far the least capable that we drive. They also make a great way to start the day out. With support manufacture support for the class waning we have slowly been having less trucks show up and this event was no different, some drivers that own them, left them at home. Even with less participating, we still put on a show. A few broken gears and some lines that were called impossible but, proved to just be extremely hard is what resulted.

2.2 Pro class is when the real fun starts. We call it pro class but, we are all anything but pro’s and that’s evident in our driving. Course 1 resulted in 1 person finishing the course, that’s right 1 person. After that, courses 2 and 3 were decided to be a little easier. The day wasn’t without breakage, right at the end, our newest driver blew the rear gears on his “new to him” truck.

2.2s was meant to bring back how crawling was 4-5 yrs ago and it does just that. With only 1 motor and no dig, driver skills and truck setups are defiantly key. This also seems to be were all the growth in the sport seems to be. Guys that have always driven 2.2p have started building 2.2s trucks, some using chassis and parts they have had sitting on the shelf since MOA took over pro. Some are trying to innovate and advance the 2.2s class, sometimes it works and sometimes it fails miserably. The 3 courses were defiantly a major test to driver and truck.

With the season coming to an end, we look forward to spring and summer. Sunshine and warm temps will be here soon and so will courses on natural rock. We will crawl on surfaces from rock and earth dams to a rock quarry that dates to the end of the 19th century. This past winter season saw regulars not being able to make comps and brand new drivers, some with truck bought that day, we can only hope that our regulars will be able to attend more regularly and our new drivers have been bitten by the bug and will become regulars.

season standings can be found here:
SCRC_Winter_2012and2013 SCRC_Winter_2012and2013

We would like to thank Malley’s Automotive in Frankfort IL for donating the space to host our 2012/2013 winter points series.   With retail space in the Chicagoland area being at a premium, the great folks at Malley’s did a HUGE favor to the club and the sport or RC Rock Crawling.  We hope they are able to extend the same great favor to us next fall.

See Malley’s for all your Automotive needs for the car you drive to get there and the rc car’s you drive for fun.

http://malleysfrankfortautorepair.com/

This weekends comp start has been moved to 9:30 due to heat.  Please try to be early.

2012 Spring/Summer Series Competition Schedule

1.9, 2.2 Comp, and 2.2 Sportsman.

*ALL events are on Saturdays – 9:30am Check-In – 10:00am Comp Start.

SCORES & SERIES POINT TOTALS:  

 
March 31st – Malley’s House of Rock
 
April 21st – Malley’s House of Rock
 
May 19th – Busse Woods (Higgins Road Location)
 
June 9th –   Palos Heights
 
June 30th – Busse Woods (Main Dam Location)
 
July 21st – Palos Heights
 
*Location Maps available in the forum.

**If an outdoor event looks to be “rained-out” the event will be moved to “Malley’s House of Rock”.  A change like this will be posted on within the forum, and updated within this list.

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