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The Bayside club will host their ANNUAL PRESIDENTS SHIELD event on 25th January this year. This is an event with some history and tradition at Bayside and has run as long as the club has been around, traditionally early in the years calendar – this year it’s the first event for the year.
This year it also has the added attraction of being the first event on the new layout and the new surface. With a couple of added classes Bayside are expecting a big entry, the electric guys can choose Mini, 540, Stock, Mod while the nitro sniffers can run Gas Tourer (includes RTR cars) or Pro Tourers.
This is a pre-entry event and entries close on 18th – on line entries are available.
Don’t miss this one as it’s sure to be a great event. The club has arranged lighting for the Saturday night if you need the practice and racing will be all day Sunday till we finish – expected to be under lights.
To all the Schuie drivers out there please make every effort to get to this event, we are looking for a great get together for the start of the year – there will be an additional prize for the best placed Schuie driver in both stock and 540 courtesy of Action R/C.
I am now planning to race stock and Gas (RTR)- my gas car has taken a week to get here from Sydney and then I had to pick it up at the depot – TOLL IPEC GRRRRR – parcels get from London quicker than they get from Sydney. They reckoned they had delivered it to my house last week and of course when it wasn’t there I feared the worst – anyway all’s well, if only I can get it ready in time.
Should be a great weekend – see you all there. The Offroad Nationals will be on in ACT at the same time and my new CAT SX will be making it’s race debut in the hands of a very capable driver – Mark FP so I could be a bit distracted – don’t you hate it when you should be in 2 places at the same time.

7 responses to “Bayside Presidents Shield”

  1. Steve Guyatt Avatar
    Steve Guyatt

    So if I race 540 there(with the S400) can I get a chance at the schuy prize also…….

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  2. heavy Avatar
    heavy

    The staff and family of Action RC are inelligible. 😆
    beside it drawing a very long bow to call a Serpent a Schumacher.

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  3. Steve Guyatt Avatar
    Steve Guyatt

    Ok fair enough,

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  4. heavy Avatar
    heavy

    3 tanks through the RTR so far in teh boring running in process. Electric is a lot easier than this 🙄

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  5. Adrian Avatar
    Adrian

    I bet the neighbors are happy about that 😯

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  6. heavy Avatar
    heavy

    It’s a RTR pull start – how noisy could that be – 😈 anyway probably serves em right for not being home to knee cap my robber last week

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  7. heavy Avatar

    Finished running in the CEN CT5 at 6 this morning – no not here in the street – went to a new Industrial estate down the road.
    That’s as close to a track as this car will get before heat 1 of the Pressy shield.
    Leaned it out a bit (a fair bit actually ) and it seems to be going ok – idles well and takes off ok – changes gear, what else could you want. Handling – no idea really.
    Now do I run rubbers or foams. Rubbers would be a whole lot easier, foams might be quicker. As a budget exercise I suppose I should just use some old rubbers really.
    I’ve got a specktrum receiver in it so I can use my good radio but the radio that comes with this – remember it’s a $400 retail RTR- is a great piece of equipment – 10 model memory – FM module – on 27mhz nice tidy receiver- certainly looks better than anything I’ve seen in a RTR before. Apparently there is a 2.4 module available for it as well. http://www.skyion.net/radios.html
    The body that comes with the car looks good -mines a Mercedes GTR something, all silver and red and something – looks good on the shelf BEHIND the Datsun and the Subaru.
    Have a look here
    http://www.cenracing.com/cars/ct5/ct5.html

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