2012 NAMBA FE Nationals June 19th-23rd @ Legg Lake

[D. Newland]

Thank you Harry @ RSF Speedmaster/Rossi Sales for supporting our raffle!

[Todd Fleury]

Sent payment for LSH and 1/8th scale and bought my flights!

[CHIEFY_44]

Hi Dave, I would like to enter P sport hydro, P Ltd cat (sprint), P Ltd offshore, P mono, P Ltd sport hydro, I may enter 2 more classes I will let you know for def asap.
Stephen Williamson,
Namba #1254
Freq 2.4
Phone # 3107020780
email is [email protected]
If you need more info pls ring or email me thxs.

[Ken Haines]

Hi Dave,
Here is the small list of classes I plan to race this year.
Jason Sims and I are definite after we spoke yesterday.
Let me know by email where to send the check.
I have a lot of boats to get ready...I better get busy !
Can't wait to see everyone again,
Thanks,
Ken Haines

Wednesday, June 20th:
N-2 Mono
P Sport Hydro
Q Mono
T Hydro

Thursday, June 21st:
N-2 Offshore
P Ltd Offshore
P Offshore
Q Offshore
T Offshore

Friday, June 22nd:
N-2 Sport Hydro
P-Ltd Mono
P-Ltd OPC
P Mono
Q Hydro

Saturday, June 23rd:
N-2 Hydro
P-Ltd Hydro
P-Ltd Sport Hydro
T Mono
Q Sport Hydro

[DPeterson]

Well after being 99% committed and begining to make arrangements to attend the Nats, I run into a home challenge that is going to cause me to reschedule mu time and redirect my attention.

Came home on Wednesday 4/4 to fire in my shop and shed. I did a post in the Off topic to show pics and explain.

I was feeling real good about this years Nats. I had confidence in my boats and my driving and was looking forward to seeing what I could do against the best.

Good luck to you all. I will will regroup and be looking to race you another time. Doug

[TheShaughnessy]

I was planning to use the same boat for pspec offshore and p offshore. Am I going to have time between heats to do it? I have a spare hull but it needs lots of tlc and it has no hardware. In the same situation with the hydro.

[CHIEFY_44]

The hydro classes are different days so you will be ok there, as to the offshore classes it will be hard going but with enuff chargers and bats it could be done maybe.:-/

[D. Newland]

Mike-Technically you can race the P-Ltd Offshore boat as-is in P-Offshore. But, it's a task I wouldn't even think the top FE guys could pull off with any amount of success. There will be a 2 lap difference each round between a good P-Ltd boat and full P boat. 8 laps for the day will separate the top P-Ltd boat and the P boat. Plus, there is a great chance you'll be back-to-back at least 1 time. Maybe 2 or 3. That means, you pull your P-ltd boat out of the water, go to the pits, put in fresh batteries and go race it again. You've got 5 minutes to do that turn-around if you're back-to-back.

My suggestion-Give your full attention to P-Ltd. It will be a highly competitive class and it typically comes down to less than 1 lap at the end of the day between 1st and 2nd. However-it's your call.

Thanks for signing up! Welcome letters will be emailed to you on Monday.

Doug-I'm going to go ahead and believe that you will make so much progress on your shop in the next 30 days that you'll actually feel comfortable committing to the Nat's again. You'll have this overwhelming feeling that your brain will need a break sometime around the 3rd week in June. Sorry again about the loss!

Ken-What's wrong? Only 4 classes on Wednesday? You'll be bored.

[properchopper]

Mike-Technically you can race the P-Ltd Offshore boat as-is in P-Offshore. But, it's a task I wouldn't even think the top FE guys could pull off with any amount of success. There will be a 2 lap difference each round between a good P-Ltd boat and full P boat. 8 laps for the day will separate the top P-Ltd boat and the P boat. Plus, there is a great chance you'll be back-to-back at least 1 time. Maybe 2 or 3. That means, you pull your P-ltd boat out of the water, go to the pits, put in fresh batteries and go race it again. You've got 5 minutes to do that turn-around if you're back-to-back.

My suggestion-Give your full attention to P-Ltd. It will be a highly competitive class and it typically comes down to less than 1 lap at the end of the day between 1st and 2nd. However-it's your call.

Thanks for signing up! Welcome letters will be emailed to you on Monday.

Doug-I'm going to go ahead and believe that you will make so much progress on your shop in the next 30 days that you'll actually feel comfortable committing to the Nat's again. You'll have this overwhelming feeling that your brain will need a break sometime around the 3rd week in June. Sorry again about the loss!Ken-What's wrong? Only 4 classes on Wednesday? You'll be bored.

I talked to Doug this morning and reminded him of our planned cultural field trip to the Hermosa Beach Female Tap-Dancing Trombone Players Pole Dancers Review. He was not tempted, but who knows ?

[TheShaughnessy]

'll be right there with you. Plan on running a Mystic or Miss Geico in Offshore, and will likely use it for dual-duty in both P-Ltd and P Offshore (with a motor swap, of course...)

that is a quote from Darin in another thread. This is why I thought I'd have time between heats to put a larger motor in for P.

I would like to propose that P offshore be switched with Q offshore on Thursday the 21st to allow my self and any other racer that so chooses time to do a motor swap. I really don't want to have to get hardware for another boat, I have 5 good sets of 4s2p, but wouldn't mind having more and not having to set up a completely different hull would save me enough money to get some more batts.

[properchopper]

'll be right there with you. Plan on running a Mystic or Miss Geico in Offshore, and will likely use it for dual-duty in both P-Ltd and P Offshore (with a motor swap, of course...)

that is a quote from Darin in another thread. This is why I thought I'd have time between heats to put a larger motor in for P.

I would like to propose that P offshore be switched with Q offshore on Thursday the 21st to allow my self and any other racer that so chooses time to do a motor swap. I really don't want to have to get hardware for another boat, I have 5 good sets of 4s2p, but wouldn't mind having more and not having to set up a completely different hull would save me enough money to get some more batts.

Mike,

It's a ballbuster for the organizers to schedule classes that work for the majority. Lots goes into it and it's hard to change once set in cement. It's a cross we all have to bear if we want to run multiple classes.

[Darin Jordan]

'll be right there with you. Plan on running a Mystic or Miss Geico in Offshore, and will likely use it for dual-duty in both P-Ltd and P Offshore (with a motor swap, of course...)

that is a quote from Darin in another thread. This is why I thought I'd have time between heats to put a larger motor in for P.

Yeah... I wasn't meaning that I'd swap motors in the same boat... I was going to bring one setup for one class, and one for the other, and I don't really expect to be highly competitive in the Open P classes...

[TheShaughnessy]

Ok well i can probably swap power plants in 5 min. I understand the difficulties of scheduling the heats to best suit the majority of racers, but since newland and Hains will be the only ones affected as of yet and since they are racing p spec offshore, p off shore and q offshore i didn't think it would affect much of anything. Just a thought and understand if it isn't a possibility, but it seems feasible.

I don't really expect to be highly competitive in any of the classes, but that isn't gonna stop me from trying. It gets boring only running one class, but a break between classes would be nice.

[D. Newland]

Post #1 has been edited to include race day schedules. Post #2 has the National event information.

Please get signed up! Do so right here, then I will send you a Welcome Letter with more information about the race and when to send your race fees.

Remember, May 19th is the paid entry cut off date to finalize the classes that will run at the event.

We are still looking for class sponsorships @ $50 per class. As many of you know, it takes quite a bit of funding to run an event like this. So, if you, your club, your district or your business are in a position to help, it would be greatly appreciated.

[Darin Jordan]

Ok well i can probably swap power plants in 5 min. I understand the difficulties of scheduling the heats to best suit the majority of racers, but since newland and Hains will be the only ones affected as of yet and since they are racing p spec offshore, p off shore and q offshore i didn't think it would affect much of anything. Just a thought and understand if it isn't a possibility, but it seems feasible.

I don't really expect to be highly competitive in any of the classes, but that isn't gonna stop me from trying. It gets boring only running one class, but a break between classes would be nice.

I didn't go back up the thread to see what you were signed up for, but note also that the Miss G/Mystics will be perfect contenders for the now viable "exhibition" class, P-Ltd Cat... :D