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[Crash Enburn]

(To continue totally derailing this thread...) I'm reminded of my first trip to NC. My wife (raised outside of NOLA) and I were trying to get to a wedding in Asheville, NC and stopped for directions. The person said several words I understood, but the majority of them I did not. I was just staring at the person wide-eyed. My wife tugged at my shirt, said "thank you very much" to the person, and led me out of the shopette.

"You understood her?!", I asked incredulously.

"Yes", and then she rattled off the directions in English.

I grew up in the military with a wide-variety of kids and accents, even in a foreign country, and never really had a problem. I'm still amazed that I couldn't understand the woman at the shopette.

(and to put the thread back on track...)
Good luck to you, John, in your move to NC! /images/boards/smilies/biggrin.gif

 

[CHR Racing]

There are some big changes coming for the NPWDRL!! John has graciously sold me the League, and after the finals I will take possession of it. I hadn't planned on announcing it till after the finals but word has leaked out and I'm starting to get PM's, so to put down any rumors, here you go.

I feel that in order to blow the league racing scene up and get maximum participation from racers, and growth for vendors and suppliers it needs to be a non vendor/supplier specific racing venue, and that is what the NPWDRL is going to be. I have sponsorship letters going out shortly to all that I can think of, if you know someone that you think would be a good sponsor please PM me. They do not have to be Pinewood derby related. I have already lined up 3 that aren't. There is still a ton that needs to be done. Switch over domains, accounts and so forth is very time consuming. The core classes will remain the same, no rule changes. I'm going to put out a class for the first time racer, called Box Stock. More on that later. If you have any comments, questions, or concerns you can post here, PM me, or email me at [email protected]

Thanks guys I will try to keep you update as much as possible.

Do you have a tentative race schedule for 2016 yet ? I assume you would like to do something similar to 2015.

 

[Quicktimederby]

Sorry for being MIA. The tentative schedule is going to be;
Race #1 Kick off! Feb. 13
Race #2 March Madness, March 12th
Race #3 Spring Fling, April 9th
Nationals @ Mid America
Race #4 After party May 27th. (May have to adjust this one, holiday weekend)
And that's as far as I've gotten, on the scheduling.

Things are starting to come a long nicely. Hope to have the building secured by next week. If all goes well this new race facility will be incredible! In a retail location, easy to find, restaurants, hotels, and stores right next door. Starting some track adjustments this weekend, should have it ready for the machine shop soon. You guys that were able to race on this track at the Nationals last year and thought it was smooth, you any seen nothing yet! I'll take some pictures as it progress along.

P.S. There will be monthly awards, They are under development now. They are going to be very sweet and fit in your box returning to you.

 

[GravityX]

Thanks for getting a preliminary schedule out. Now to start planning!

 

[BulldogRacing]

Thanks Q.T this all sounds great! Looking forward to seeing the new building. Does anyone know the exact dates of MA yet? Trying to book a plane ticket for my Christmas present.

 

[Vitamin K]

Thanks Q.T this all sounds great! Looking forward to seeing the new building. Does anyone know the exact dates of MA yet? Trying to book a plane ticket for my Christmas present.

According to the Facebook event page, it's May 6-7.

 

[CHR Racing]

Sorry for being MIA. The tentative schedule is going to be;
Race #1 Kick off! Feb. 13
Race #2 March Madness, March 12th
Race #3 Spring Fling, April 9th
Nationals @ Mid America
Race #4 After party May 27th. (May have to adjust this one, holiday weekend)
And that's as far as I've gotten, on the scheduling.

Things are starting to come a long nicely. Hope to have the building secured by next week. If all goes well this new race facility will be incredible! In a retail location, easy to find, restaurants, hotels, and stores right next door. Starting some track adjustments this weekend, should have it ready for the machine shop soon. You guys that were able to race on this track at the Nationals last year and thought it was smooth, you any seen nothing yet! I'll take some pictures as it progress along.

P.S. There will be monthly awards, They are under development now. They are going to be very sweet and fit in your box returning to you.

That all sounds great so far! I realized looking at the calendar that May 27th is a Friday. Was that intended as a way to get the race out of the way early on the holiday weekend? I suppose it seems to make sense to push that one into early June, especially in order to allow more time for turnaround from the Mid-America/Nationals at the beginning of May.