Lutzinator Motor Speedway update

0 March 7, 2011, 8:18 a.m.

Our pal Ryan Lutz has been working feverishly on his own personal practice track recently. He has been blogging about it on his website, and has now posted a video of himself turning a few laps on an early rendition of the final product.

Here is what Ryan had to say:

Sunday, Mar 6, 2011

Yesterday I headed over to Home Depot and got 400′ of pipe thinking that should be enough to finalize my track. Boy was I wrong! It’s going to take another 400′ to finish it I believe so that will have to wait for another day. We went out there and laid out the pipe that we had got along with the 150′ of black corrugated pipe that we had found on the property. For the most part the layout can be seen and it at least allowed me to run my car for a few laps before the rain came back. I didn’t do my complete layout that I had set out before because there ended up being a low spot that was still very wet and the rain also destroyed my berm. So for now I had to improvise.

My brother-in-law and his friends had also built a wood halfpipe looking thing for his BMX bikes. It was a little sketchy so they decided to start over with new wood. So we used the two halves to make a jump for the R/C track. We wanted to put it close so we could line up for it as it’s only 6′ wide but we ended up putting it on the end of the back-straight for now. So lining up for it is a big challenge but it is only temporary.

At the moment rain and time are the biggest hurdles. It’s raining again today and will be again tomorrow. Then i’m off to Atlanta. So hopefully by April the weather will clear out and I can spend some time making the track truly dialed. For now, it’s something to play on while we wait for the time and weather to clear! Enjoy the video for what it’s worth. I know it’s sketchy and all but it’s something for now.
-Lutzinator