Florida's Spring Fling Vintage Car Pictures

[Ruffy]

Here are some of the action shots taken by Jason Venezia during the Spring Fling.
Jeremy Harris won the vintage class, Jeff finished second with Jake Emperley finishing in 3rd place!
Congratulations to these guys! Well Done!
For those wondering where I was, I wasn't at the track on Sunday as I got sick Saturday night and into Sunday, and then spent all day Sunday, Monday and part of Tuesday recovering from it.

These are but some action shots I selected from the long list of photos taken, and only of the vintage cars there.
For all the pictures, go to The RC Asylum Gallery.

Click the photos to enlarge.

Ruffy's RC10 sits waiting for one of the qualifying heats to start.

Jeff's RC10 sits waiting for a qualifying round to start.

Josh airborne over the long table-top.

Ruffy rounds one of the "S" turn corners.

Jeff and Josh rounding the same "S" turn corner.

Ruffy with Jake hot on his heels, as they approach the "snake" corners.

Ruffy hugging the inside line through the "snake" corners.

Jeff into a turn.

Ruffy into a hard turn after the 1st table top/corner-turn combination.

Jeremy hard into a turn.

[Ruffy]

Jake Emperley's RC10 waiting on the line for the qualifying to begin.

[59burst]

thanks for sharing those nice pictures. I love them

[flipwils11]

Great pictures, sorry to hear you were under the weather.

[seth556]

I tried to get mine ready with a 13.5 and then realized my Novak esc didn't like non-novak motors and so I was going to have to switch esc's and all then ran out of time so I ran my truck. The vintage cars looked great out there, sorry I had to miss racing with them. Lap times were pretty quick as well.

I'll see everyone out there this weekend with the rc10 in normal 17.5 mode.

Ruffy - I was disappointed I didn't see you on Sunday, the buggies were looking quick on Saturday.

[Ruffy]

I went down to the track today to race our local track points series and managed to also pick-up my TQ plaque for the Vintage Class from the Spring-Fling Race.
So I decided to show the beautiful big TQ trophy that Ken made (track owner) here for you all to see. Notice that the main image is a beautiful picture of Jeff's gorgeous RC10!

And YES, a box stock gold tub CE TQ'd the Vintage class. Just shows you don't need all the "improvements" to get out there and have fun and go fast with our old vintage cars that we all so dearly love!

So here is the beautiful plaques they gave out so you know what is in store for the regions and next years "Spring-Fling" event! We hope to see more of you all there. Looks like Jake is going to come down for the Region Race too (I hope he does!)

At today's races my stock CE Tq'd and won the stock class (17.5) and qualified 4th in mod. Mod class I won't say anything about except that it felt more like a hammer fest/novice class with the amount of unnecessary contact between most everyone except the guy that won today, Paul Wynn. Paul drove an awesome race in patience as he wrecked, fell back to 4th and recovered from it putting some nice clean laps together to easily recover his 1st place again and run away from everyone. Congratulations to him on a job well done and a true class act, but as we both spoke about afterwards, that "a" main was more like running an F main at most places except a nationals! At a nats level race it felt more like a "J" main. You get the picture, it was ugly.

[THEYTOOKMYTHUMB]

Looks awesome! What's the plaque made out of, glass? Looks very cool. One of the races here this year they gave away all Pewter plaques that were very cool. I didn't win one of course( ), but they were very cool.

I just think it's cool to see plaques other than the typical wood with gold emblems.

[seth556]

Car was looking great today, Ruffy. I didn't get to ask you after the main but the rear of my car still felt super loose, I could feel the effect the caber in the front made but especially in the S's the rear wanted to slide out any chance it got. I'm not sure what else I can do to tighten it up back there.

[Charlie don't surf]

Loose is fast!

[seth556]

Not when you're spinning out on every turn, I just need a tad bit more side to side grip on the rear and it will be dialed.

[Ruffy]

Seth, next time I'm there let me drive your car for a lap or two and then I should be able to tell you what we can do to resolve that!
We will get you running fast and dangerous!

[seth556]

Sounds good, as long as the dangerous means dangerous to your placing and not car

[knucklebuster]

wow sounds like you have a good group of vintage runners. I better up the ante... brushless/lipo. I only started buying nimh a couple of years ago and thought that was a huge difference! FM would probably be good too

[Ruffy]

Lipos are amazing. All you need is one. Just keep recharging it.

Come on out on May 7th in two weeks, this will be our next electric race day at the RC Asylum. Very easy to get to, use the address on the website www.thercasylum.com or the google maps page.
I will be out there May 7th with 3 to 4 of my vintage RC10's, two of which are the racing RC10 CE's

We'd love to have you out!

[seth556]

If you want to get into li-po I recommend the Gens-Ace li-po's that HobbyPartz carry. You can get a 40c 5000mah pack for $35 shipped and it performs better than the Venom packs that a lot of guys are running which cost 2x or so. They're nice because like Ruffy said you just need one pack per car, nice to have 2 but 1 will work just fine.

Come on out to the track, I've been having a lot of fun out there with all the guys.