Team CowRC
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The Michigan MONSTERS of RC and COW RC brought the RCMTC-MI Season 2 Championship Final to the Germania Hall in Brownstown, MI on Saturday April 13th, 2013. We had a very exciting day planned for everyone in attendance and the day turned out awesome! 55 trucks in attendance at this round. This was our final race of our 7 race points series that started back in October of 2012 in Nashville, MI at the Kellogg Education Center. We were bitten with the Venue Bug once again this year but with the support of our racers we still had a excellent turnout all season long. We had 1 race at the Kellogg school, 2 races at TSS Hobbies, 1 Race at Hillsdale RC and 3 at the Germania Hall which is the home of the Downriver R/C club. Without them our race series would have been dead in the water but we marched through the battles and had ourselves a most excellent series.
Our racers and supporters are the best group of people on the planet! We had custom Pit Towels and our Trophys made by Court-Side Inc. for the Podium finishers and some extras for prizes. Our list of supporters is grand and each and every one of them stepped up to the plate for our club and gave us some really sweet prizes for our racers! COW RC is our main title sponsor and provided TQ prizes all year long for each of our classes and a nice Gift Cert. for each of our top place finishers in each class. CPE, Hesse Machine and Nankin Hobby all provided Gift Certificates. Pro Line provided Ford Raptor and Chevy Silverado bodies also Masher and Badland tire sets. Team Blue Groove provided a host of Monster Jam clear bodies. ZRP Racing provided BTA kits and Lower 4 Link kit. With the MONSTERS providing Pit Towels, a Parma Mercury shell, Parma MJ decal sheet and Faskolor liquid mask and detailing pen. Castle Creations provided 30% and 50% coupons. Darkside Designs painted one of the best looking shells I have ever seen and donated it to us for a prize. Each and every one of our racers was able to receive something great by one of these supporters and we all want to give a huge THANK YOU to them for offering up these prizes for a job well done by all. It was a very exciting season and to walk away with something for your racing efforts is just awesome!
The weekend started off with Jim and Dan setting up the track on Friday. We ran a nice 3 lane course with 3 jumps and then added a 4th jump for the 3rd bracket. We had planned a Pot Luck lunch and everybody brought a ton of food and drink with desserts so not one person went hungry or thirsty all day long! Theresa even had a custom Monster Jam cake made to celebrate the end of our season. How cool is that!
Panoramic view of our facility :
At each event our days start out with the Novice class warming up their tires on the track for qualifying times and then bracket racing. We had a lot of great battles between all of our Novice drivers this year as most of them were returning after racing our 1st season together. Miss Katie is getting a lot better behind the wheel earning some race wins and a top TQ time in Round 6! She is a inspiration to all with her smile and great attitude at each event. I love teaching her how to race and have a good time with everyone. Zane had a great season running his CPE Terminators to several victories and TQ's. His Venom Spiderman was his most consistent racing truck of the season and he is really starting to show how good of a racer at heart he is. Josh finally came back to our series after playing soccer all winter and was able to enjoy the day with us running his 2 awesome ZRP Diablos. The kids have a great time playing together and racing each other during the day. Miss Katie had a mechanical failure on Pet Shop Crusher that put that truck out for the day and Animal ran great. Venom Spiderman, Green Lantern, Monster Patrol and Ben 10 ran great all day. These 3 racers will return again for Season 3 in the Novice class and it sounds like we might have a couple more kids next year! This is the future Pro Modified class!
Our newest class the Traxxas Monster Jam Box Stock class was raced by many and turned out to be a really big class by the end of the series! It started out strong and got stronger as the season went on. When we moved to the Germania Hall we picked up several new Pede racers and they all expressed how much they loved the style of racing we offer! The Downriver R/C club races these Monster Jam Pedes in their weekly program on Thursday evenings doing lap racing. So a lot of their regular members all raced them in our class doing Monster Jam. Nothing like being able to race your RC in two different programs! Now that is cost effective! haha These trucks are a handful of fun and fast to boot. Dan's trucks were super fast all season, he raced Max D, Grave Digger 30th Anniv. and Monster Mutt to a slew of race wins and a few TQ's at the events. Mike's Max D and Grinder trucks were the thorn that was in Dan's tires all season long taking wins and TQ's alongside his toughest competitor. Matt, Tim and Mike were in the class all year racking up points and getting faster at each round. One of our new racers Chad had to drop out of the season to help some family members and we hope he returns soon. He has a lot of talent and his trucks all performed great! We met some new racers while at TSS Hobbies but have yet to see them back at Downriver but we gained new racers who are all now true MONSTERS! Jerry, Molly, Joe and Mike have expressed how much they enjoy our series and they will be back to join us next season. Who knew this would be such a great class! I am glad I started it.
Our premier Pro Modified class is our flagship for the club. This class is the main reason I started the Michigan MONSTERS of RC and I could not be happier with our racers dedication to our small section of the industry. When I started racing with my Powers and Ripper equipped Clods I never could of dreamed of where we are today having a successful series and club. Having our VP Jon Zyck owning his own company producing quality racing chassis kits and one of the greatest Clodbuster Performance companies of all time still by our side, Crawford Performance Engineering is still racking up Championships each and every year by some of the best racers in the community.
The Pro Mod class was a absolute blast to race in and to see how many racers improve throughout the season was really great. Jim and Dan are always on top of their game wracking up points with their trucks at each round. Many times the two had to do the comrade battle and take one another out! Jim's CPE Space Ghost Terminator took the points lead in round one and never looked back. Dan's Big Dawg was as consistent as it gets earning solid point totals at each event. Phil's Patrana 199 and Nitro Circus took a few rounds to get hooked up and then in the second half of the season started to show impressive wins round after round and also taking a couple top TQ's. Mike came to a few races and was always gunning for a quicker time than the last and took his first bracket win at our final with his Spider-Man Diablo Clod! He is a great guy and helps me out at the PC too, this man is a great announcer! haha Matt and Tim raced solid all season with Bigfoot, Blue Thunder, Madusa and Predator. These two came to almost every one of our races and were a great addition to both of our classes. Mike's Grave Digger, Sudden Impact and Bigfoot Clods had their ups and downs but always came back for more and I know Mike will have these in tip top race shape for next season. He is always willing to help out no matter what you ask of him and always has a smile on his face. Our most improved driver of the year Stephen came from our Novice Champion in Season 1 to running in the top of the pack in Pro Mod for Season 2. This boy is learning quick! Laying down consistent times and taking a bunch of race wins all season long. His Bulldozer, Monster Energy, Inferno and Ogio Bagster raced all season long with almost no down time which plagued his first racing season. Jon's trucks are always fast and furious hitting the jumps trying to touch the ceiling and trying his hardest to fold a tire off the rim at each corner. He is our resident strength tester that is for sure! LOL! Instigator, Eliminator, Virginia Giant and Blacksmith were all super fast this season with his very own Diablo chassis under each lid. I myself have started to come around and win a few races. I am feeling much more comfortable on the track racing my team of ZRP Diablo's to some pretty good finishes this season and tried to take a bracket win coming up short a time or two. Chillin Villain, Anger Management and the Dark Cow all did great though and I look forward to next season all ready!
Our racers and supporters are the best group of people on the planet! We had custom Pit Towels and our Trophys made by Court-Side Inc. for the Podium finishers and some extras for prizes. Our list of supporters is grand and each and every one of them stepped up to the plate for our club and gave us some really sweet prizes for our racers! COW RC is our main title sponsor and provided TQ prizes all year long for each of our classes and a nice Gift Cert. for each of our top place finishers in each class. CPE, Hesse Machine and Nankin Hobby all provided Gift Certificates. Pro Line provided Ford Raptor and Chevy Silverado bodies also Masher and Badland tire sets. Team Blue Groove provided a host of Monster Jam clear bodies. ZRP Racing provided BTA kits and Lower 4 Link kit. With the MONSTERS providing Pit Towels, a Parma Mercury shell, Parma MJ decal sheet and Faskolor liquid mask and detailing pen. Castle Creations provided 30% and 50% coupons. Darkside Designs painted one of the best looking shells I have ever seen and donated it to us for a prize. Each and every one of our racers was able to receive something great by one of these supporters and we all want to give a huge THANK YOU to them for offering up these prizes for a job well done by all. It was a very exciting season and to walk away with something for your racing efforts is just awesome!
The weekend started off with Jim and Dan setting up the track on Friday. We ran a nice 3 lane course with 3 jumps and then added a 4th jump for the 3rd bracket. We had planned a Pot Luck lunch and everybody brought a ton of food and drink with desserts so not one person went hungry or thirsty all day long! Theresa even had a custom Monster Jam cake made to celebrate the end of our season. How cool is that!
Panoramic view of our facility :
At each event our days start out with the Novice class warming up their tires on the track for qualifying times and then bracket racing. We had a lot of great battles between all of our Novice drivers this year as most of them were returning after racing our 1st season together. Miss Katie is getting a lot better behind the wheel earning some race wins and a top TQ time in Round 6! She is a inspiration to all with her smile and great attitude at each event. I love teaching her how to race and have a good time with everyone. Zane had a great season running his CPE Terminators to several victories and TQ's. His Venom Spiderman was his most consistent racing truck of the season and he is really starting to show how good of a racer at heart he is. Josh finally came back to our series after playing soccer all winter and was able to enjoy the day with us running his 2 awesome ZRP Diablos. The kids have a great time playing together and racing each other during the day. Miss Katie had a mechanical failure on Pet Shop Crusher that put that truck out for the day and Animal ran great. Venom Spiderman, Green Lantern, Monster Patrol and Ben 10 ran great all day. These 3 racers will return again for Season 3 in the Novice class and it sounds like we might have a couple more kids next year! This is the future Pro Modified class!
Our newest class the Traxxas Monster Jam Box Stock class was raced by many and turned out to be a really big class by the end of the series! It started out strong and got stronger as the season went on. When we moved to the Germania Hall we picked up several new Pede racers and they all expressed how much they loved the style of racing we offer! The Downriver R/C club races these Monster Jam Pedes in their weekly program on Thursday evenings doing lap racing. So a lot of their regular members all raced them in our class doing Monster Jam. Nothing like being able to race your RC in two different programs! Now that is cost effective! haha These trucks are a handful of fun and fast to boot. Dan's trucks were super fast all season, he raced Max D, Grave Digger 30th Anniv. and Monster Mutt to a slew of race wins and a few TQ's at the events. Mike's Max D and Grinder trucks were the thorn that was in Dan's tires all season long taking wins and TQ's alongside his toughest competitor. Matt, Tim and Mike were in the class all year racking up points and getting faster at each round. One of our new racers Chad had to drop out of the season to help some family members and we hope he returns soon. He has a lot of talent and his trucks all performed great! We met some new racers while at TSS Hobbies but have yet to see them back at Downriver but we gained new racers who are all now true MONSTERS! Jerry, Molly, Joe and Mike have expressed how much they enjoy our series and they will be back to join us next season. Who knew this would be such a great class! I am glad I started it.
Our premier Pro Modified class is our flagship for the club. This class is the main reason I started the Michigan MONSTERS of RC and I could not be happier with our racers dedication to our small section of the industry. When I started racing with my Powers and Ripper equipped Clods I never could of dreamed of where we are today having a successful series and club. Having our VP Jon Zyck owning his own company producing quality racing chassis kits and one of the greatest Clodbuster Performance companies of all time still by our side, Crawford Performance Engineering is still racking up Championships each and every year by some of the best racers in the community.
The Pro Mod class was a absolute blast to race in and to see how many racers improve throughout the season was really great. Jim and Dan are always on top of their game wracking up points with their trucks at each round. Many times the two had to do the comrade battle and take one another out! Jim's CPE Space Ghost Terminator took the points lead in round one and never looked back. Dan's Big Dawg was as consistent as it gets earning solid point totals at each event. Phil's Patrana 199 and Nitro Circus took a few rounds to get hooked up and then in the second half of the season started to show impressive wins round after round and also taking a couple top TQ's. Mike came to a few races and was always gunning for a quicker time than the last and took his first bracket win at our final with his Spider-Man Diablo Clod! He is a great guy and helps me out at the PC too, this man is a great announcer! haha Matt and Tim raced solid all season with Bigfoot, Blue Thunder, Madusa and Predator. These two came to almost every one of our races and were a great addition to both of our classes. Mike's Grave Digger, Sudden Impact and Bigfoot Clods had their ups and downs but always came back for more and I know Mike will have these in tip top race shape for next season. He is always willing to help out no matter what you ask of him and always has a smile on his face. Our most improved driver of the year Stephen came from our Novice Champion in Season 1 to running in the top of the pack in Pro Mod for Season 2. This boy is learning quick! Laying down consistent times and taking a bunch of race wins all season long. His Bulldozer, Monster Energy, Inferno and Ogio Bagster raced all season long with almost no down time which plagued his first racing season. Jon's trucks are always fast and furious hitting the jumps trying to touch the ceiling and trying his hardest to fold a tire off the rim at each corner. He is our resident strength tester that is for sure! LOL! Instigator, Eliminator, Virginia Giant and Blacksmith were all super fast this season with his very own Diablo chassis under each lid. I myself have started to come around and win a few races. I am feeling much more comfortable on the track racing my team of ZRP Diablo's to some pretty good finishes this season and tried to take a bracket win coming up short a time or two. Chillin Villain, Anger Management and the Dark Cow all did great though and I look forward to next season all ready!
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