***BIG SOUPER BOWL SHAKEDOWN ANNOUNCEMENT***

X Factory will be in the house for this event! Chazz and Paul Sinclair will be making their way here from Ohio to hang with us Central New Yorkers (and anyone else that comes out)!

Paul is the President of X Factory (the original Mid Motor chassis for Associated vehicles), and a top tier racer with always solid finishes @ national level events such as the Cactus Classic, Motorama, Short Course Nationals and others. He just pulled off a very respectable 9th place overall finish in the Triple-A's @ CRCRC's Midwest Champs against the likes of drivers like Maifield, Cavalieri, and Tebo. He's sponsored by JConcepts, Viper, B-Fast, Lunsford, MIP and others.

Ok, so that's cool.. but that's not all. X Factory is awarding an X - 6 Cubed Conversion Kit (Retail value $224.99) as a prize for the winner of the stock buggy class. They need minimum of 21 entries in the class. Prize to be awarded to the highest-finishing driver who is not sponsored by a chassis company. So, if the winner is a sponsored driver, the prize goes to the second-place finisher, provided he is not sponsored.

That said.. GET THOSE STOCK BUGGIES OUT! 21 is a lot to ask for our area, but based on the survey I threw out last month (this has been in talks for a few weeks), I think we can do it. Note that STOCK BUGGY is 17.5 BLINKY ONLY. This is a nationally run class, and very common at other tracks like Full Throttle, RC Excitement, RC Madness, RCHR, Wolcott, and many other big tracks in the northeast. I know 17.5 anything isn't really run around here on any regular scale, but that's what everyone else runs for a "stock" class.

Oh, and we're still not done.. Paul is also willing to do a "clinic" where any driver can talk with him at length about any issue with any 1/10 electric vehicle. This will be done in a sort of group session on Friday night. Calvin Hall has agreed to have a special FREE closed practice night on Friday for anyone attending and registered for the race. Must be signed up to go on the track. If you want to practice and be there for the seminar but can't make the race Saturday, you are still welcome to join us for the regular practice fee.

Tentative schedule for Friday: There might be practice from 4-7, then the clinic, 7:30 - 8:30 or 9, then practice until 10-10:30. I believe we'll try to make it organized practice. Still need to confirm this.

Oh, and we also added Robinson Racing, B-Fast, SMC, and Sweep to the sponsor list!