This past weekend saw a coming together of some or the north eastern’s best racers for RC Car World’s First Annual Ronald McDonald House Charity Race, located in Willingboro, NJ. Track director Oladelé Bolden put together the event with the help of track owner Mike Sko and RMH Director Teddy Thomas.
They reached out to sponsors for the event and they answered the call with resounding support. Event sponsors included RcKrackin’, HRP, Sweeps USA, Gravity RC, Team Associated, HPI, WTF, Pep Boys, MIP, Venom, Serpent, Savox and Racers Edge, Viper, SpazStix and Xpert. With the support of such sponsors every racer received a gift.
Alex Valdes held down announcing making sure all the races were entertaining. Racers came for far and wide in support of this charity race, including R.O.A.R National Champions Jeff Cuffs (Team Associated) and Tom Lane (Yokomo). Racers came as far as Virginia, Connecticut, Washington DC, New York and more. With over 55 race entries, it ensured there would make for some great competitive racing and lots of money to be raised for the RMH charity. With everyone’s support over $1000.00 was raised for the RMH!
Racing began at 11am and thanks to the some good race directing the program ran super smooth, after each race the next set of racers had already completed tech and were ready to race. Marshall’s reported to the track promptly to be able to complete 3 rounds of qualifying and mains by 6:30pm. Each round consisted of eight heats of races. Classes included USVTA, 1/12 scale 13.5, F1, and 17.5 touring car.
Qualifying at RC Car World is always a fun experience due to them reshuffling after each qualifier, so racers are consistently battling to make the show. TQ were; USVTA: Tom Lane (Yokomo), 1/12 Jeff Cuffs (AE), F1 JD Roast (Tamiya), Touring Car Jeff Cuffs (AE). The mains were all fun, competitive and entertaining all the way down to the D main of touring car, yes D main!
Touring class A Main winners: First place winner was Jeff Cuffs with fastest lap 9.380, second place winner was Carlye Forbes with fastest lap 9.422, and third place winners was Aja Archibald with fastest lap 9.585.
F1 class A Main winners: First place winner was Jeff Cuffs with fastest lap 9.252, second place winner was Jammin Jeff jones with fastest lap 9.442, and third place winner was JD Roast with fastest lap 9.323.
1/12 Class A Main winners: First place winner was Jeff Cuffs with fastest lap of 8.491, second place winner was Pat Clark with fastest lap 8.628, and third place winner was Jammin Jeff jones with fastest lap 8.656.
Vintage Class A main winners: First place Aja Archibald with fastest lap 9.543, second place winner was Tom Lane with fastest lap 9.851, and the third place winner was Phil gonesh wih fastest lap 9.812
Touring class B Main winners: First place winner was Carlye Forbes with fastest lap 9.473, second place winner was Jonathon Klingler with fastest lap 9.838, and third place winners was Juwan Hunter with fastest lap 9.714.
12/16/2014
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