RCMTC-MI Winter Update!
Fri July 13th, 2012
Hello all, Austin here with an update. I have placed the Winter Race dates on the events page along with our flyer. And I was told to let everyone know that we have changed our rules to allow up to a 5 truck maximum. Thanks all and have fun!
RCMTC-MI R/C Demonstration to be held.
Sun June 10th, 2012
The Michigan MONSTERS of RC will be holding a demonstration of our racing organization at the Delton Public Library on June 14th, 2012 from 6pm till 8pm. Come out and say hi and bring a RC with you! Any RC's will be allowed to race on our course at the demonstration.
FLYER WITH INFO ON EVENT
RCMTC-MI Presents MONSTER Summer Jam!
Sun June 10th, 2012
The Michigan MONSTERS of RC are back and ready to deliver you the best Replica RC Monster Jam Racing in Michigan once again. After our long hiatus without a venue we have secured our race dates with the new owners of the Kellogg Education Center and could not be more excited about our club racing once again. Check out our events tab for the Michigan MONSTER Summer Jam coming up in July and download and print off your new copy of the updated Rule Book. We have some changes in there including a new class addition which we are very excited about. The Traxxas Box Stock Monster Jam Stampede class will be sure to offer some fast and fun racing for any age or experience level. These trucks are readily available from most LHS's and are very competitively priced for any RC Enthusiast who loves the thrill of MONSTER JAM!!
Come out and join us for some fun and do not hesitate to contact us with any questions you might have.
RCMTC-MI Planning Summer Session!
Sat Feb 18th, 2012
The Michigan MONSTERS are planning a Summer Outdoor series for the 2012 season. With our current venues out of commission we had to postpone our series and returning to where the MMRC club started was the best plan for us and our racers. Stay tuned for a new schedule of events and we hope you can join us this summer for some MONSTER JAM!
Thank you for your support of Michigan Monster Truck Racing. :)
RCMTC-MI is POSTPONED
Fri Dec 9th, 2011
Our second season is Postponed until we can find a new venue site for our series. Lloyd's Pit Row has closed its doors and we are unfortunately out of a venue yet again. We will keep everyone updated as the situation progresses. Thank you for your support and have a nice holiday!
RCMTC-MI is BACK!
Thur Nov 24th, 2011
RCMTC-MI is pleased to announce that our Monster Jam series is now back on! All info on race dates and venue can be found on our events page along with a flyer located near the bottom. Any questions, go to our contact page and feel free to email or call. And Happy Thanksgiving everyone, have a good day!
RCMTC-MI is POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Sun Oct 9th, 2011
Our second season is Postponed until we can find a new venue site for our series. The building is being auctioned off for sale and we do not know the fate of the building. So we will be working on securing a new location and will keep everyone updated on the series and any new dates and location. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we look forward to bringing you the series as soon as possible. Thank you for your continued support of Michigan Monster Truck Racing!
Event page updated with fall schedule!
Sat June 3rd, 2011
Hey everyone, Austin here to say the event page has been updated with the fall race dates. Head there to find them. If you have any questions or suggestions, my email is on the contact page. Have a good day!
RCMTC Michigan Championship Final Results!
Tues April 19th, 2011
The RCMTC Michigan Championship Final was outstanding! Big thanks to everyone who helped make this series possible and to the racers for making the competition fun and exciting. We had the largest turnout of trucks this season on Saturday and the day ran very smoothly. We raced 3 rounds and had a Freestyle competition, a Pot Luck lunch for everybody, had the decal sale drawing, handed out awards for points finishers and overall just had a blast. The racing was very close all day long and seeing the classes fighting for the top spot for the points was awesome. I have to give a big thanks to my kids and my wife for their encouragement and support of this club, it means the world to me.
The Novice class was a blast to watch all year long and to see all the kids improving on their skills every month was really cool. Stephen pulled off the big win and came in first place for Novice. Grant rocked everybody with his stellar Freestyle performance and took home a new Pro Line F-650 body and Hot Wheels decals. Pro Lite proved to be a huge success for us and will remain a class to stay in our events. John's WK's will be a force to be reckoned with next season as he is very quick with them and they perform outstanding. Pro Mod was our premier class and the racing on Saturday was very close and many races were down to the clock telling the tale. Congrats to Jon Zyck for taking the class top spot on the box with his TTR Ripper Pro and to Phil Grande for the win in Freestyle and he took home a new Pro Line Silverado body w/ a ZRP servo mount.
Our support from CPE, RCMT, Hesse Machine and the Kellogg Education Center is greatly appreciated and we look forward to many more seasons together with them. I would also like to thank all the RCMTC chapters for their support and encouragement for our series. It is great to be a part of the MT sector of the RC hobby and to see so many Straight Axle trucks together in one place is really awesome. We will always strive to bring the best in Replica Monster Jam racing for years to come and look forward to our Outdoor season starting up soon.
Stay tuned for videos from our filming master John as he captured lots of video from Saturdays festivities.
Thank you to our guests from the IL chapter for coming up and racing with us in our Championship Final. It was great spending the day with you all.
Novice Round Winners :
Race 1 - 3 TTR Ripper Pro / Blue Thunder - Stephen
Pro Lite Round Winners :
Race 1 - Redcat Ground Pounder / Amsoil - Joe
Race 2 - HPI Wheely King / Scorpion - John
Race 3 - CPE Super Stallion / Barricade - Joe
Pro Mod Round Winners :
Race 1 - TTR Ripper Pro / Safe Auto - Shelley
Race 2 - TTR Ripper Pro / Tenacity - Scotty
Race 3 - TTR Ripper Pro / Hotwheels - Jon
Season Final Points Standings
Novice :
1. Stephen - TTR Ripper Pro / Blue Thunder - 63 pts
2. Zane - CPE Terminator / Monster Semi - 59 pts
3. Zane - CPE Clod Pounder / Troops Truck - 41 pts
4. Josh - CPE Predator / General Lee - 37 pts
5. Josh - CPE Terminator / Nitro Circus - 31 pts
6. Grant - HPI Wheely King / Iron Outlaw - 26 pts
7. Katie - HPI Wheely King / Scarlet Bandit - 14 pts
8. Seth - CPE Predator / Backwords Bob - 11 pts
9. Grant - HPI Wheely King / Little Scorpion - 10 pts
10. Julia - CPE Terminator / Little Madusa - 10 pts
11. Julia - CPE Predator / Backwords Bob - 8 pts
12. Stephen - HPI Wheely King / 5 Alarm Fire - 4 pts
Pro Lite :
1. Joe - CPE Super Stallion / Barricade - 24 pts
2. Clint - CPE Terminator / USA1 - 20 pts
3. Joe - Redcat Ground Pounder / Amsoil - 17 pts
4. John - HPI Wheely King / Outlaw 34 - 13 pts
5. John - HPI Wheely King / Scorpion King - 8 pts
6. Luke - Redcat Ground Pounder / Ground Pounder - 6 pts
7. Jake - CPE Stallion / Monster Energy - 6 pts
Pro Mod :
1. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot 2K - 52 pts
2. Scotty - TTR Ripper Pro / Tenacity - 34 pts
3. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Hotwheels - 33 pts
4. Dan - TTR Ripper Pro / Big Dawg - 31 pts
5. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Doomsday - 26 pts
6. Joe - PRP Berzerker / Blue Thunder - 25 pts
7. Jimmy - TTR Ripper Pro / Team GT - 22 pts
8. Clint - CPE Terminator / MLB - 20 pts
9. Jimmy - TTR Ripper Pro / Team Shorty - 19 pts
10. Scotty - PRP Berzerker / Gymkhana 3.0 - 18 pts
11. Jimmy - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot Tonka - 17 pts
12. Dan - TTR Ripper Pro / Sudden Impact - 16 pts
13. Dan - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot - 15 pts
14. Jon - PRP Berzerker / Destroyer - 14 pts
15. John - HPI Wheely King / Iron Outlaw - 12 pts
16. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Time Bomb - 11 pts
17. Jimmy - CPE Terminator / Space Ghost - 10 pts
18. Joe - PRP Berzerker / Dream Crusher - 10 pts
19. Scotty - TTR Ripper Pro / Bad Boy Bigfoot - 9 pts
20. Rich - CPE Terminator / Black Stallion - 9 pts
21. Phil - Defiance / Iron Outlaw - 9 pts
22. Joe - TTR Ripper Pro / Wildfly - 8 pts
23. John - HPI Wheely King / Red Bull - 8 pts
24. Jason - TTR Ripper / El Toro Loco - 7 pts
25. Jake - CPE Terminator / Shocker - 6 pts
26. Shelley - TTR Ripper Pro / Safe Auto - 6 pts
27. Rich - TTR Ripper Pro / Lucas Oil Crusader - 5 pts
28. Jason - CPE Terminator / Shock Therapy - 5 pts
29. Shelley - CPE Terminator / Miss America - 5 pts
30. Joe - TTR Ripper Pro / Anger Mgt. - 4 pts
31. Dan - TTR Ripper Pro / Little Tiger - 4 pts
32. Jason - CPE Terminator / Captains Curse - 4 pts
33. Danny - CPE Terminator / Defender - 3 pts
34. Shane - CPE Terminator / Superman - 2 pts
35. Shane - Custom Cobra / Cobra Commander - 2 pts
36. Shelley - TTR Ripper / Madusa - 2 pts
37. Shelley - TTR Ripper / Pink Madusa - 2 pts
38. Rich - CPE Terminator / War Wizard - 1 pt
39. Danny - CPE Terminator / Airforce Afterburner - 1 pt
40. Danny - CPE Terminator / Eliminator - 1 pt
41. Mike - CPE Terminator / Pro Line Terminator - 1 pt
42. Brant - CPE Predator / Mohawk Warrior - 1 pt
43. Phil - JPS / Bounty Hunter - 1 pt
Thanks for a great indoor racing season and we look forward to next season of indoor Monster Jam racing next October. See you at the track!
For full event coverage along with pictures and video, please visit; http://michiganmonstersofrc.net/forum/index.php?topic=136.0
RCMTC Round #6 Results
Mon Mar 14th, 2011
The Michigan MONSTERS were burning down the gym at Round # 6 of the RCMTC-MI Series Championship. This was our second to final round of the points series and the day was smooth and fast! We had a great time and a solid day of racing was had by everyone. The track was a 1 lap track and made for some really close races. The Novice class racers are all becoming seasoned pro drivers before our very own eyes and how exciting it is to see Josh honing his skills and taking the top of the box for the day in points with his General Lee truck. Pro Lites saw a small class of 4 but we all had a blast running our trucks to the edge of their capabilities and nailing some rather competitive lap times. Clint with his USA1 and John with Outlaw 34 tied for the day in points as this class is proving to be a really fun class to run. Pro Modified class was a thrilling day of competition as we had so many close races that were decided into the tenths of seconds for winners. Jon's Bigfoot 2K series points leader took home the gold for the day by nailing the top spot on the podium. Overall it was our smoothest round of our inaugural season as we are applying all that we have learned throughout this season so far and making things click. We are all excited about next month as we head into the Championship final, try to join us or stay tuned as we conclude our indoor season and gear up for outdoors!
Novice Round Winners :
Race 1 - TTR Ripper Pro / Blue Thunder - Stephen
Race 2, 3, 4 CPE Predator / General Lee - Josh
Pro Lite Winners :
Race 1 - CPE Super Stallion / Barricade - Joe
Race 2 - 3 CPE Terminator / USA 1 - Clint
Race 4 - HPI Wheely King / Outlaw 34 - John
Pro Mod Winners :
Race 1 - CPE Terminator / Little Tiger - Jon
Race 2, 3, 4 TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot 2K - Jon
RCMTC-MI Round # 6 Points Series Totals :
Novice :
1. Zane - CPE Terminator / Monster Semi - 50 pts
2. Stephen - TTR Ripper Pro / Blue Thunder - 48 pts
3. Zane - CPE Clod Pounder / Troops Truck - 36 pts
4. Josh - CPE Predator / General Lee - 31 pts
5. Josh - CPE Terminator / Taurus - 27 pts
6. Grant - HPI Wheely King / Iron Outlaw - 18 pts
7. Seth - CPE Predator / Backwards Bob - 11 pts
8. Katie - HPI Wheely King / Scarlet Bandit - 10 pts
9. Julia - CPE Terminator / Little Tiger - 7 pts
10. Stephen - HPI Wheely King / 5 Alarm Fire! - 4 pts
11. Julia - CPE Terminator / Cyclops - 3 pts
Pro Lite :
1. Joe - CPE Super Stallion / Barricade - 17 pts
2. Clint - CPE Terminator / USA1 - 15 pts
3. Joe - Redcat GP / Amsoil - 12 pts
4. John - HPI Wheely King / Outlaw 34 - 7 pts
5. Jake - CPE Stallion / Monster Energy - 6 pts
6. Luke - Redcat GP / Ground Pounder - 4 pts
Pro Mod :
1. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot 2K - 46 pts
2. Dan - TTR Ripper Pro / Big Dawg - 31 pts
3. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Hotwheels - 26 pts
4. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Doomsday - 25 pts
5. Scotty - TTR Ripper Pro / Tenacity - 24 pts
6. Jimmy - TTR Ripper Pro / Team GT - 22 pts
7. Clint - CPE Terminator / MLB - 20 pts
8. Jimmy - TTR Ripper Pro / Team Shorty - 19 pts
9. Joe - PRP Berzerker / Blue Thunder - 18 pts
10. Jimmy - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot Tonka - 17 pts
11. Dan - TTR Ripper Pro / Sudden Impact - 16 pts
12. Scotty - PRP Berzerker / Gymkhana 3.0 - 16 pts
13. Dan - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot - 15 pts
14. Jon - PRP Berzerker / Destroyer - 14 pts
15. John - HPI Wheely King / Iron Outlaw - 11 pts
16. Jimmy - CPE Terminator / Space Ghost - 10 pts
17. Scotty - TTR Ripper Pro / Bad Boy Bigfoot - 9 pts
18. Rich - CPE Terminator / Black Stallion - 9 pts
19. Joe - TTR Ripper Pro / Wildfly - 8 pts
20. John - HPI Wheely King / Red Bull - 7 pts
21. Joe - PRP Berzerker / Dream Crusher - 7 pts
22. Jake - CPE Terminator / Shocker - 6 pts
23. Jon - CPE Terminator / Little Tiger - 6 pts
24. Rich - TTR Ripper Pro / Lucas Oil Crusader - 5 pts
25. Joe - TTR Ripper Pro / Anger Mgt. - 4 pts
26. Dan - TTR Ripper Pro / Little Tiger - 4 pts
27. Danny - CPE Terminator / Defender - 3 pts
28. Shane - CPE Terminator / Superman - 2 pts
29. Shane - Custom Cobra / Cobra Commander - 2 pts
30. Rich - CPE Terminator / War Wizard - 1 pt
31. Danny - CPE Terminator / Airforce Afterburner - 1 pt
32. Danny - CPE Terminator / Eliminator - 1 pt
33. Mike - CPE Terminator / Pro Line Terminator - 1 pt
Congrats to the race winners and I look forward to the RCMTC Michigan Championship Finals brought to you by The Michigan MONSTERS of RC, Crawford Performance Engineering and RCMT.net.
Thanks and I appreciate your support of Michigan Monster Truck racing!
For full event coverage along with pictures and video, please visit; http://michiganmonstersofrc.net/forum/index.php?topic=105.0
RCMTC Round #5 Results
Mon Feb 14th, 2011
The Radio Controlled Monster Truck Challenge in Michigan was at it again this past Saturday and once again having a great time with friends and racers trying to put their trucks on top of the podium. The weather turned out great and almost everyone was in attendance from our normal group and we had some guests this month from the IL chapter and our newest Novice racer Julia Zyck joined us for her first ever Monster Jam event. Rich and Danny made the trip up from IL to join us and bring some IL heat to our wintery mix up here in Michigan. The track was fast with some big air finishes that had a few trucks cartwheeling across the carpet and a few wheels were caught rolling across the track after hardware failure got the best of a few trucks. Most all were back in time for the next stop at the tree to race once again. Jimmy Grahl brought his A game on Saturday and swept the Pro Mod class with Bigfoot Tonka and Team GT, Bigfoot Tonka turned in a 13.8 second lap in Round 4 that was blistering fast for this track. Jon is still in the points lead with Bigfoot 2K keeping the Big Dawg in his pen this round and matching points for the day. Leaving them with a 3 pt spread for the top two positions in Pro Mod. Stephen has found the setup that makes Blue Thunder tick and took all 4 rounds of Novice staying ahead of the competition by 3+ seconds per lap, Zane was close behind and they are both coming into the final two rounds with just 6 points separating 1st and 2nd place in the standings. Julia Zyck is a drag racer we found out hitting a .006 reaction time on the tree! WOW!! Nice job Julia... Our newest Class Pro Lite saw 5 entries this round and it was loaded with CPE race trucks. We had 1 original Stallion, my Super Stallion and Amsoil GP, Clint's Terminator and Lukes Ground Pounder GP. All the Pro Lite racers really enjoyed this class and I do believe it will be here to stay. We learned one thing about having this track as we hoped to bring the thrill of Monster Jam oval style to our series, well you have a blind spot at one time during your race no matter where you stood. It proved to be tougher than it looked and kept racers on their toes to get both of those front tires up the ramp! None the less it was a excellent day of racing with 24 Pro Mod, 5 Pro Lite and 8 Novice trucks. I thank everybody who made the trip up and joined us at our 5th Round of the RCMTC-MI!!
Novice Round Winners :
Race 1-4 - TTR Ripper Pro / Blue Thunder - Stephen
Pro Lite Winners :
Race 1 - Redcat GP / Amsoil - Joe
Race 2-4 - CPE Super Stallion / Barricade - Joe
Pro Mod Winners :
Race 1 - TTR Ripper Pro / Team GT - Jimmy
Race 2-4 - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot Tonka - Jimmy
RCMTC-MI Round #5 Points series totals :
Novice :
1. Zane - CPE Terminator / Monster Semi - 44 pts
2. Stephen - TTR Ripper Pro / Blue Thunder - 38 pts
3. Zane - CPE Clod Pounder / Troops Truck - 32 pts
4. Josh - CPE Terminator / Taurus - 22 pts
5. Josh - CPE Predator / General Lee - 19 pts
6. Grant - HPI Wheely King / Iron Outlaw - 13 pts
7. Katie - HPI Wheely King / Scarlet Bandit - 10 pts
8. Julia - CPE Terminator / Little Tiger - 7 pts
9. Seth - CPE Predator / Backwards Bob - 6 pts
10. Stephen - HPI Wheely King / 5 Alarm Fire! - 4 pts
11. Julia - CPE Terminator / Cyclops - 3 pts
Pro Lite :
1. Joe - CPE Super Stallion / Barricade - 11 pts
2. Joe - Redcat GP / Amsoil - 8 pts
2. Clint - CPE Terminator / USA1 - 8 pts
3. Jake - CPE Stallion / Monster Energy - 6 pts
4. Luke - Redcat GP / Ground Pounder - 4 pts
Pro Mod :
1. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot 2K - 34 pts
2. Dan - TTR Ripper Pro / Big Dawg - 31 pts
3. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Doomsday - 24 pts
4. Jimmy - TTR Ripper Pro / Team GT - 22 pts
5. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Hotwheels - 21 pts
6. Scotty - TTR Ripper Pro / Tenacity - 19 pts
6. Jimmy - TTR Ripper Pro / Team Shorty - 19 pts
7. Clint - CPE Terminator / MLB - 18 pts
8. Jimmy - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot Tonka - 17 pts
9. Dan - TTR Ripper Pro / Sudden Impact - 16 pts
10. Dan - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot - 15 pts
11. Joe - PRP Berzerker / Blue Thunder - 14 pts
11. Jon - PRP Berzerker / Destroyer - 14 pts
12. Scotty - PRP Berzerker / Gymkhana 3.0 - 12 pts
13. John - HPI Wheely King / Iron Outlaw - 10 pts
13. Jimmy - CPE Terminator / Space Ghost - 10 pts
14. Rich - CPE Terminator / Black Stallion - 9 pts
15. John - HPE Wheely King / Red Bull - 7 pts
16. Jake - CPE Terminator / Shocker - 6 pts
17. Rich - TTR Ripper Pro / Lucas Oil Crusader - 5 pts
18. Scotty - TTR Ripper Pro / Bad Boy Bigfoot - 4 pts
18. Dan - TTR Ripper Pro / Little Tiger - 4 pts
19. Danny - CPE Terminator / Defender - 3 pts
20. Shane - CPE Terminator / Superman - 2 pts
21. Rich - CPE Terminator / War Wizard - 1 pt
21. Danny - TTR Ripper Pro / Airforce Afterburner - 1 pt
21. Danny - CPE Terminator / Eliminator - 1 pt
Congrats to the race winners and I look forward to Round # 6 of the RCMTC-MI brought to you by The Michigan MONSTERS of RC, Crawford Performance Engineering and RCMT.net.
Thanks and I appreciate your support of Michigan Monster Truck racing!
For full event coverage along with pictures and video, please visit; http://michiganmonstersofrc.net/forum/index.php?topic=88.0
RCMTC Round #4 Results
Sun Jan 9th, 2011
The Michigan Monsters of RC had their 4th round of the RCMTC-MI Points series this past Saturday and what a race it was. Very challenging track for all the racers and we completed 4 rounds of racing and had a great time with friends. The snow held off allowing a few of the racers to enjoy the day laying some laps down with their Clods. We had a great turnout w/ 18 Pro Mod trucks and 8 Novice. We started our Pro Lite w/ a exhibition round of the Ground Pounders. Luke and I got them over Xmas break and we ran ours a few times up against each other. I let a few of the other drivers run mine, we should have this class up and going with a few more trucks next round. I was running mid 15's and having a blast with it. Our track layout was unique and you started in the staging gates, take off and head for the center of the track at which you have a gate you had to enter to go onto the oval, make two laps around with the jumps being at the far end of the corners and back out the gate and turn to the finish gates. The entry gates were bigger for Novice and smaller for Pro classes. It turned out pretty cool and I received many compliments on my design so thanks guys!! Onto the points...
Novice Round Winners :
Race 1 - CPE Terminator / Taurus - Josh
Race 2-4 TTR Ripper Pro / Blue Thunder - Stephen
Pro Mod Winners :
Race 1 - TTR Ripper Pro / Doomsday - Jon
Race 2 - TTR Ripper / Sudden Impact - Dan
Race 3 - TTR Ripper / Team Shorty - Jimmy
Race 4 - TTR Ripper / Bigfoot - Dan
RCMTC-MI Round #4 Points series totals :
Novice :
1. Zane - CPE Terminator / Monster Semi - 36 pts
2. Zane - CPE Clod Pounder / Troops Truck - 27 pts
3. Stephen - TTR Ripper Pro / Blue Thunder - 26 pts
4. Josh - CPE Terminator / Taurus - 16 pts
5. Josh - CPE Predator / Superman - 15 pts
6. Grant - HPI Wheely King / Iron Outlaw - 13 pts
7. Seth - CPE Predator / Backwards Bob - 6 pts
8 Katie - HPI Wheely King / Scarlet Bandit - 6 pts
9 Stephen - HPI Wheely King / 5 Alarm Fire! - 4 pts
Pro Mod :
1. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot 2K - 27 pts
2. Dan - TTR Ripper / Big Dawg - 24 pts
3. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Doomsday - 21 pts
4. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Hot Wheels - 20 pts
5. Scotty - TTR Ripper Pro / Tenacity - 19 pts
6 Clint - CPE Terminator / MLB - 15 pts
7. Jon - PRP Berzerker / Destroyer - 14 pts
8. Dan - TTR Ripper / Bigfoot - 13 pts
8. Dan - TTR Ripper / Sudden Impact 13 pts
8. Jim - TTR Ripper / Team GT - 13 pts
9. Joe - PRP Berzerker / Blue Thunder - 11 pts
9. Jim - TTR Ripper / Team Shorty - 11 pts
10. John - HPI Wheely King / Iron Outlaw - 10 pts
11. Joe - TTR Ripper Pro / Wildfly - 8 pts
11. Scotty - PRP Berzerker / Gymkhana - 8 pts
12. John - HPI Wheely King / Red Bull - 7 pts
13. Jake - CPE Terminator / Shocker - 5 pts
13. Jim - CPE Terminator / Space Ghost - 5 pts
14. Scotty - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot Bad Boy - 4 pts
Congrats to the race winners and a big thanks to all of those who help out through the day. It is much appreciated.
For full event coverage along with pictures and video, please visit; http://michiganmonstersofrc.net/forum/index.php?topic=60.0
RCMTC Round #3 Results
Sun Dec 12th, 2010
The Michigan MONSTERS of RC had our 3rd round of the Radio Controlled Monster Truck challenge on Saturday December 11th and what a great day of racing and the largest turnout of trucks for the club so far. We had 21 Pro Modified trucks and 7 Novice racers to battle it out for points in the Championship hunt in April. I would like to thank Jimmy G. and Dan DuFore for making the trip in to race with us, these two are great guys to hang with and excellent racers who like to have fun. We also had 3 new faces in the Novice class this round. My daughter Katie brought out her Scarlet Bandit WK to battle against Grant Payers Iron Outlaw, a pair that would indeed make Mr. Creten proud to see. Also new comer to the hobby was Seth Beach who piloted the CPE Predator Backwards Bob and put on a most impressive display of natural talent for his first go around with a controller in his hand. Most of us were counting on rather bad weather but it held off till the evening and Sunday so we lucked out! We also introduced our new timing system and light tree. It gave us that extra bit of realism to our form of racing and really is fun to "watch the lights" and try to get that extra quick reaction time. We were able to complete 3 rounds of racing and had to ditch Freestyle because of time delays on this race day. I had some issues with our software and it delayed our racing a few times, my huge apologies for this. We will have this all squared around by January, I did not have much time for testing as I just got the system completed on Thursday evening before the race day. Thanks to Kevin and his kids for making the trip out to see us and we hope to have him racing with us in January. Thanks to Margaret for filming our races and bringing the MONSTER Rice Krispy treat.
Novice class was super competitive and the racers all had a smile on their face. Newcomers Grant and Seth both made it to the final race in two of the rounds on Saturday and put the pressure on Zane our Novice points leader but they could not stop him from taking home the wins. Zane put on a solid performance and took all 3 Round wins.
Pro Modified had a great day of racing and some very fast laps were laid down. The mid 10's were the hot ticket of the day and Dan DuFore even broke the 10 sec mark with a couple mid 9 laps. Jimmy and Dan really brought the heat and kept everyone on their game and gave our club points leader Jon Zyck a run for his money. Scotty K's Tenacity truck is really gaining momentum and Clint B our CPE Teminator man is solid as a rock with MLB. Everyone of our new racers is improving each round and lots of talk about how much fun everyone is having. The Michigan Chapter of the RCMTC is really improving and we are all happy to be a part of it.
Racing Rounds Winners
Pro Mod winners :
Race 1 - TTR Ripper / Big Dawg - Dan
Race 2 - TTR Ripper / Big Dawg - Dan
Race 3 - TTR Ripper / Big Dawg - Dan
Novice winners :
Race 1 - CPE Terminator / Monster Semi - Zane
Race 2 - CPE Terminator / Monster Semi - Zane
Race 3 - CPE Clod Pounder / Troops Truck - Zane
Round # 3 Points Series totals :
Novice :
1. Zane - CPE Terminator / Monster Semi - 28 pts
2. Zane - CPE Clod Pounder / Troops Truck - 21 pts
3. Stephen - TTR Ripper Pro / Blue Thunder - 14 pts
4. Josh - Team Tweaked Powers / Predator - 10 pts
5. Josh - TTR Ripper Pro / Bad Boy Bigfoot - 8 pts
6. Grant - HPI Wheely King / Iron Outlaw - 7 pts
7. Seth - CPE Predator / Backwards Bob - 6 pts
8. Stephen - HPI Wheely King / Bounty Hunter - 3 pts
8. Katie - HPI Wheely King / Scarlet Bandit - 3 pts
Pro Modified :
1. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot 2K - 25 pts
2. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Hot Wheels - 15 pts
2. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Doomsday - 15 pts
2. Dan - TTR Ripper / Big Dawg - 15 pts
3. Jon - PRP Berzerker / Destroyer - 12 pts
3. Scott - TTR Ripper Pro / Tenacity - 12 pts
4. Clint - CPE Terminator / MLB Bigfoot - 11 pts
4. Jimmy - TTR Ripper / Team GT - 11 pts
5. Joe - PRP Berzerker / Blue Thunder - 10 pts
6. Dan - TTR Ripper / Sudden Impact - 7 pts
7. Joe - TTR Ripper Pro / Wildfly - 6 pts
7. John - HPI Wheely King / Red Bull - 6 pts
8. Jake - CPE Terminator / Shocker - 5 pts
8. John - HPI Wheely King / Iron Outlaw - 5 pts
9. Scott - PRP Berzerker / Stone Crusher - 4 pts
10. Scott - TTR Ripper Pro / Bad Boy Bigfoot - 2 pts
10. Shane - CPE Terminator / Superman - 2 pts
10. Dan - TTR Ripper / Bigfoot - 2 pts
10. Jimmy - TTR Ripper / Team Shorty - 2 pts
10. Jimmy - TTR Ripper / Bigfoot Tonka - 2 pts
11. Jake - CPE Stallion / Monster Energy - 0 pts
12. Clint - CPE Terminator / USA 1 - 0 pts
Till Round # 4 of the RCMTC-MI presented by The Michigan MONSTERS of RC along with CPE and RCMT we thank you for your support of Michigan Monster Truck racing!
For full event coverage along with pictures and video, please visit; http://michiganmonstersofrc.net/forum/index.php?topic=44.0
RCMTC Round #2 Results
Sun Nov 14th, 2010
The Michigan Monsters of RC had their second points series race on November 13th, 2010 and it was a great day for the people to get together and do some Monster Jam!!! Whoomp Whooomp was the sound of the day because we had some new trucks joining us. Happy to see Josh come out with his Predator and War Wizard truck. Clint and Scotty were both sporting new Rippers. So everyone was excited to start racing so we got things going and had a full day of 4 rounds of racing and a Freestyle event after racing.
Track layout was like this: Start at the gate facing you, start and turn outside do a full turn and hit the cars and run down the straight on the inside, turn outside a full turn and hit the cars and run down the straight back into the start gate and make a full turn out and hit the cars again, run the straight on the inside and turn back outside then drag race to the end of the track and turn inside across the finish line.
Technical track and some speed running at the end , made it challenging and fun run at the end having a full speed corner to maintain and cross the finish. Nice design Mr. Zyck!
Our Novice Class stepped up this time and we had a very competitive group of trucks that were racing. Stephen brought out Blue Thunder and with a few improvements he really dominated the Novice Class this round. Zane was close in the hunt and Josh really did great not breaking any trucks....haha Just kidding Josh! You did great and gained some valuable points for the series.
Racing Rounds winners :
Mod Clod Winners:
Race 1 - TTR Ripper Pro / Goliath - Jon
Race 2 - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot 2K - Jon
Race 3 - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot 2K - Jon
Race 4 - TTR Ripper Pro / Goliath - Jon
Novice Winners:
Race 1 - CPE Terminator / Monster Semi - Zane
Race 2 - TTR Ripper Pro / Blue Thunder - Stephen
Race 3 - TTR Ripper Pro / Blue Thunder - Stephen
Race 4 - TTR Ripper Pro / Blue Thunder - Stephen
Round # 2 Point Series totals :
Novice Class
1. Zane - CPE Terminator / Monster Semi - 18pts
2. Stephen - TTR Ripper Pro / Blue Thunder - 14pts
3. Zane - CPE Clod Pounder / Troops Truck - 12pts
4. Josh - Powers / Predator - 6pts
5. Josh - Etzler / War Wizard - 5pts
6. Stephen - HPI Wheely King / Bounty Hunter - 3pts
4WD Pro Modified
1. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot 2K - 21pts
2. Clint - CPE Terminator / MLB Bigfoot - 11pts
3. Joe - PRP Berzerker / Blue Thunder - 10pts
3. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Hot Wheels - 10pts
3. Jon - PRP Berzerker / Destroyer - 10pts
3. Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Goliath - 10pts
4. Scotty - TTR Ripper Pro / Tenacity - 6pts
5. John - HPI Wheely King / Great Pumpkin - 5pts
5. John - HPI Wheely King / Wheely King - 5pts
7. Joe - TTR Ripper Pro / Anger Management - 4pts
8. Jake - CPE Terminator / Shocker - 4pts
9. Joe - TTR Ripper Pro / Wildfly - 3pts
10. Shane - CPE Terminator / Superman - 2pts
Everyone really enjoyed the track, it was technical and had its fast parts. It is amazing to see new people to this style of racing really pick up on it and everyone was driving great. Nice to have a different layout every race, makes us all have a challenge to prepare for .
Big thanks to RCMT.net for sponsoring our crushed car jumps.
RCMTC Round #1 Results
Mon Oct 25th, 2010
The Michigan Monsters of RC had their first ever indoor carpet points series race on Saturday October 23rd, 2010 and we had a great time and excellent racing. Jon and I have been busy planning for this and are very happy on how things turned out. We had a accident with the timing system so that is being sent back for repair and we hope to have it completed by the November 13th race. We used one verbal race starter and dual stopwatches by the lane marshalls at the finish gates for timing purposes and everything went very smoothly and we were able to complete 4 rounds of racing. I was busy just making sure things ran smoothly and was not able to take a lot of pics or video, this will be resolved shortly as I need to get a better camera. I tried to take some nice action pics but mine all turned out blurry, I know Stephen took some nice shots and he is going to upload some soon.
Racing Rounds winners :
Mod Clod Winners:
Race 1 - CPE Terminator / USA-1 - Clint
Race 2 - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot 2K - Jon
Race 3 - PRP Berzerker / Blue Thunder - Joe
Race 4 - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot 2K - Jon
Novice Winners:
Race 1 - CPE Terminator / Monster Semi - Zane
Race 2 - CPE Clod Pounder / Troops Truck - Zane
Race 3 - CPE Terminator / Monster Semi - Zane
Race 4 - CPE Terminator / Monster Semi - Zane
Round #1 Point Series totals :
Novice Class
Zane - CPE Terminator / Monster Semi - 11 pts
Zane - CPE Clod Pounder / Troops Truck - 9 pts
Stephen - HPI Wheely King / Bounty Hunter - 4 pts
Stephen - TTR Ripper Pro / Hotwheels - 4 pts
4WD Pro Modified
Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Bigfoot 2K - 11 pts
Joe - PRP Berzerker / Blue Thunder - 8 pts
Clint - CPE Terminator / USA 1 - 5 pts
John - HPI Wheely King / Great Pumpkin - 5 pts
John - HPI Wheely King / Wheely King - 5 pts
Jon - TTR Ripper Pro / Hotwheels - 5 pts
Jon - Etzler / War Wizard - 4 pts
Scotty - TTR Ripper Pro / Tenacity - 4 pts
Jake - CPE Terminator / Shocker - 4 pts
Jon - PRP Berzerker / Destroyer - 3 pts
Joe - TTR Ripper Pro / Anger Management - 2 pts
First I would like to thank everyone for joining us for this event, we had a great group of people and you all are becoming such good friends along the way.
I personally would like to thank the following for helping me get this club started and a few others that helped in more ways than they will ever know. I would like to thank Jon my VP for all of his help and dedication for making this series the best it can be and for retiring his Electrician license at the end of the day...( LOL! ). To Brett Crawford who has been a huge help to me and answering our questions and offering advice and being our first manufacturer on board with our club, it is truly appreciated. To Will the admin of RCMT.net who continues to support us and give us forum space and we have official RCMT.net Crushed Car jumps. To Michael Poss who has given me the courage and support to take my dreams farther each and every day and to show me how the Radio Controlled Hobby community can come together and make dreams come true. Thanks to our other RCMTC chapters in Hawaii, Illinois and New York for their help and support of our Michigan chapter. To all my friends here locally who have come together and shown me how much fun it can be to have something we can all enjoy together and create memories for us all. Shane, Jake, Clint & Margaret, and Scotty you all are a great group of RC enthusiasts who I take pride in having you as members of the club. John and Stephen you guys traveled far to join us and I appreciate you taking the time to come out and have fun racing, you guys are great and we cannot wait to have you back next month.
Most of all I want to thank my wife Michelle and my children Austin, Zane and Katie. Without you all in my life none of this would have ever happened, I enjoy spending as much time with my kids as possible and to see Zane doing so well in something he loves is just the biggest prize of all.
We kept our track simple for the first race as many of our racers had never experienced carpet racing before. The venue is excellent and we have a storage room at the gym so we do not have to haul the carpet and jumps in and out every event.
The track area is 36' X 60' and offers 8 ft lanes. We were very happy with the carpet as it offered great traction and not too tacky. My neighbors made my lanes jumps and starting gate jumps out of solid wood cut at their saw mill, these will not get broke or fall apart! We will be having a different track layout for each series event.
Zane not only races but loves to take part in running the races, he will be a valuable asset to our club. We started at the gates and you make your way to the first crushed jump and turn inside hit the second crushed jump and make one more lap around the cars for 4 hits on the cars then through the finish gate. On the final race of each round we do 4 laps hitting the cars 8 times.
Until Round #2 of the Indoor Points Series for the Michigan Monsters of RC I thank you for your support of Michigan Monster Truck racing!
Joe