one pin corners...?

[propnuts]

Newberg is pretty cool

I never said bigger turns are better, just safer. I always really enjoy watching 2 boats running even with each other going into turn 2 at Newberg, just to see who is going to hit the brakes first, and who is coming out of the turn first. If I were a GOOD driver, I think I would pprefer tight corners too.

[mr.b51]

Sparks

To describe how small Sparks is , I moved here to Reno from FL back in the early 80,s. and was running a 350 hydro then. Someone saw my boat and said they race those type of boats every Labor Day weekend over at Paradise Park. I said you mean the small R/C boats . He said no your size. Bottom line , I,ve raced all over the country in my almost 50 year career. Running 15 second laps on a 3 turn course you don,t get to take many breaths. As Ray stated if you raced at Sparks you can drive anywhere.

[ricochet112]

In the mid 80's, Inner City Racing Commission, a wild cat club in Oregon, put on 2 tiny races; one was Waldport that had about 38-40 second lap times (that race was my first 1st because everyone else jumped the gun with a 2 second start run). The other was in Boardman, Turn 2 was a, single pin, wood and cement swim platform 8'X8', lap times were 25-28 seconds, and a Yamato 80 was quickest. This little swim area couldn't have been much more than 200' X 100'. We ran a handicapped system with staggered starts.

[CSR4C]

Another small course was Taholah, WA. When the race schedule was being hammered out at the region meeting, a tide table had to be used in selecting the date. I remember Earl Garrison loosing the foot off his KG4. After thophy presentation he walked out on to the race course and picked it up.

Darrell

[Larry Darneille]

Boardman, OR

Boardman was one site where they had unofficial para-mutual betting. It was a harvest festival and the local farmers bet on each heat. It was a great party.