Tamiyausa Blog WISCONSIN!

-CENTRAL WISCONSIN-Hello Fellow Tamiya Fans- Sorry for the long delay in updating my blog,a lot has happened in the last six months. The biggest is that I relocated back to my home state of Wisconsin from Arizona. My wife and I finally got the opportunity to move our family back to where I grew up. After selling our house in Arizona and finally purchasing a new house here, I can start getting my hobby room together (which is much larger than I have ever had before!) I have only raced twice since the move up, once racing my TRF211 at Dirt Heaven in New Franken, WI and the other was running my TRF419x on the high bite carpet at Windy City RC near Chicago. Both surfaces posed a huge challenge for me from what I ran before. The new CRC Black carpet's traction at Windy City is something crazy. Racing on that surface reminded me a lot of running a 19T foam car. Racing was very competitive and very fast. I never managed to get a full race in on all four wheels but motivated me to keep changing everything on the car that I could (I forgot my tow blocks at home.) As I started making progress and the dust/rust came off of me, the weekend was over. Windy City is a great place and they put on an awesome program that ran as smooth as I have seen them. If anyone is in the area, be sure to check them out! My day at Dirt Heaven was equally as challenging. I showed up early in the morning to start breaking in tires for their clay surface. My TRF211 was very hard to put power down with new tires. With a long race day,limited practice and NO PREP, results were as expected. So for the future, my hobby room build starts tomorrow which will be off limits to the kids, and allow me to be much more prepared. My plane tickets are bought for the Reedy Race Touring Car of Champions at the Tamiya USA track over Memorial Day weekend. I am looking forward to an enjoyable weekend, with great friends. After that, it'll be the ROAR 1/8th Nationals at Stateline R/C in Indiana with some club racing in-between. Its great to be back running again, at HOME!! Thanks for all the support! BK