Tracey Espy - President of the GSRCI

Ok many people are coming up with some common questions...this is the forum to hopefully attend to those very questions.

Q. Why is it a 3 days event?

A.  It's not.

The host tracks will open their tracks on Fridays for practice...being there or not is up too you only.  The Saturday schedules are usually laid out with an open practice session in the early hours that normally will conclude at a 10am-11am time period.  At that point heats are formed and racing begins into the 3 heats intended for the Saturday schedule.  If you are able to make Saturday to run heats then great!  BBQ normally gets handed out at the end of the day Saturday or some track may elect to serve it at lunch on Sunday...either way is fine point is you get BBQ somewhere in there.  The Sunday schedule usually in tales a short practice session for some of the late arrivals that maybe couldn't make Saturday.  Then a LCQ is run mid morning Sunday with the mains to follow.

This flexible schedule lets you have many options in trying to make the race.  If you are free to the world and have no restrictions then you'll be the guy showing up Friday all the way into Sunday.  A person less open to that kinda of freedom would show up on Saturday and go on into Sunday.  Then you'll have the guys that maybe couldn't get off work Saturday but really wanted to race bad...and they can show up Sunday practice a little hit the LCQ and run a main to still make a race weekend after all.  The tracks will all be opened to any late arrivals to allow this flexibility in the program.

Q.  This distance between race is going to be expensive...why so far apart?

A.  Yes with gas prices going up trying to make 4 races all across GA would be hard on anyone's budget.  The actual point of the series is to spread out all over GA the best we can to help include as many racers as we can and not just have one particular side of the state have all of the action.  GA is big and there are RC Racers all over it.  This race series is something that lets everyone compete with each other.  It is a points series with the best 3 of 4 races putting you on the boards.  If you make 4 races only your  best 3 count etc... 

With a minimum of 3 races completed you are in the race for points.

What this does is allow the racer to make a choice on the tracks he wants to try and attend that year.  You don't have to run yourself crazy making all 4 tracks if you don't want to.  Just pick the 2 or 3 closest ones to you or your favorites and you are in the competition for the series. 

Now keep in mind that there will be a "Points Monster" award for the top 3 total race points accumulation at the end of the year.  So if your the mad man that runs 3 classes every race and your gonna make all 4 races then your probably a shoe for a win for this award.

Q. With Sportsman classes in Truggy and Buggy how will Sand Baggers be dealt with?

A.  Good and worthy question for any race period.  We all know in a points series it's gonna happen...someone will be in the Sportsman class running Expert times lapping the field in the heat races.  The solution is simple really and is addressed in the Points section here.