Melbourne Mini-Z super speedway! – Oct 17 2009, Box Hill, Melbourne

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    • #9812
      whtang
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      Melbourne Mini-Z super speedway! – Oct 17 2009, Box Hill, Melbourne

      Time to dust off those iwaver’s and miniZ’s you have laying around cos OUR RCP TRACK has finally LANDED!! So we are hiring a hall set this baby up! yes an INDOOR MINIZ venue!

      Date: Saturday Oct 17 2009
      Time: 11:30 setup, 12:30pm-4pm racing, 4pm teardown and cleanup
      Venue: Canaan International College Sports Hall, 15 Hay Street, Box Hill Vic 3128
      http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=15+Hay+Street,+Box+Hill+Vic+3128&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&gl=au&ei=Q-_GSuT-GJCpkAWc7Pk1&hq=&hnear=15+Hay+St,+Box+Hill+South+VIC+3128&t=h&z=16

      Classes: open 1:28 scale (this is the first meet, so just friendly casually racing like at gigspeed)
      Entry: $20 per racer (first meetup so this is voluntary to encourage new comers, but we hope people pitch in to help us cover hall hire costs)

      This is the going to be the first meetup of the Melbourne 1:28 racing club.. so come along and have some fun.
      The plan is to hire a place once every two months to hold a large track event and to possibly to host the HFAY Large scale events as per the HFAY schedules.
      We need a name for this 1:28 scale racing club which will use when hosting HFAY events, so post your suggestions in this thread!
      (ausmicro racers? melbourne MiniZ racers? M^2 racers?)

      We have power on site, and we will be using the ilap timing system. There will be a limited number of spare parts onsale for iwaver’s and miniZ.

      We’ve got enough track to build large layouts.. and there are a heap of layouts on the saltlake mini-Z site that we have drooled over for years..
      We are tossing up between layout.. 5A-1 and 5A-3
      http://www.saltlakemini-z.com/forum/index.php?action=gallery;su=user;cat=155;u=1

      Post your vote in this thread for which layout you would like to see on Oct 17th!!

      Post here with questions or email us at melb.miniz@gmail.com
      Hope to see you all there! :beer:

    • #25320
      blurrc
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      Wow that is gonna be sweat. *Kicks myself in the a$$ for not being in Melbourne*

      Out of the two tracks I would defiantly go for 5A-1. I personally like 5A-6 but 5A-1 would probably be better.

      How about the โ€˜Super Fast and Crazy Ausmicro Endorsed Speedway for Mini-Z and I-Waverโ€™… But seriously ‘Ausmicro Speedway’ sounds good to me.

    • #25416
      betty.k
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      oh snap!! count me in!!

      as for the name, in the illeagal bike race scene we call melbourne “burn city” as in melburn.

      so how’s “burn city mini z” sound?

      track layout? i don’t care, just so long as we get a meaty straight to show off our modified rigs!:D :8ball:

    • #44015
      z-beam
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      burn city mini drag strip! ๐Ÿ™‚

    • #44016
      whtang
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      hmm.. I can picture it now on HFAY “burn city miniz” as a club name … :smiley16:

      if any of you folks in syd/qld/etc are in melb for a weekend.. let us know in advance and we’ll see if we can setup one of the hfay tracks while your in town.. :beer:

    • #43976
      blurrc
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      I might be coming down to melbourne after christmas or early next year.

      Also do you reckon it would be alright to race a micro t?

    • #17902
      whtang
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      dunno how the micro-t handles on RCP.. but yer.. your welcome to race it with us casually..:beer:
      i don’t think hfay will recognise it though..

      btw gents.. i’ve updated the “entry fee” to be voluntary to encourage new comers.. last thing we want is to make ppl think we are trying to make a buck when really all we are trying to do is cover the cost of hall hire :smiley16:

    • #17925
      merc-blue
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      I was thinking somthing similar to Blur
      no Zs in the house at the moment. but would a RCP track with a few little jumps thrown in for fun. give people enough incentive to pull out microTs to race?

      are the guys from gigspeed on this forum?

    • #17930
      betty.k
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      this IS the gigspeed forum!!:D :8ball:

    • #43555
      whtang
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      coupla days to go…
      I think it will be the 5A-1 layout this time…
      one of the guys has tested the lap timer and its working well..

      i’ve posted to a few other forums but response has been dead quiet so I guess it will just be the gigspeed regulars at this event.. :beer:

    • #18206
      whtang
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      hey betty!
      can you call ph2t and let him know about this saturday? also a guy in another thread is chasing him down for a trade he made.

    • #28990
      betty.k
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      will do and seen that ๐Ÿ˜‰ :8ball:

    • #29010
      ph2t
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      I’ll try and get there today. Trade has been sorted too.

      Cheers,

      ph2t.

    • #29030
      whtang
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      more to come..

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    • #31081
      whtang
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      more pics as promised….

      unloading 15 boxes of RCP and our lap timer..

      before construction beings…

      the build begins..

      the track taking shape..

    • #31119
      whtang
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      almost done..

      final touches..

    • #44069
      whtang
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      the completed track!




    • #18008
      betty.k
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      that was an awesome day, well worth the 2 hours it took to set up!

      my legs were killing me a couple of days later from all that crawling around!

      big thanks to whtang and all the gigspeed crew for spending 10 million dollars on a real rcp track!:D :8ball:

    • #43554
      whtang
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      yeah!! talking about aching legs! i had the same!

      keep Saturday December 5th free.. this will probably when we hold our next event… 11am-6pm.. hopefully we can get 5hrs track time.

      now we know how to put it together a bit better we hope to setup within 1hr-1.5hrs… ๐Ÿ™‚

    • #43552
      Kerosene
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      Wow.

      I might have to time my visits to Melbourne to coincide with your track days. That’s a fantastic looking setup. ๐Ÿ˜€

    • #17941
      kevsta
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      That looks awesome. Were there many people racing on the day ?

      I’m tempted to fly down and back.

    • #43550
      betty.k
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      not a lot of people, about 8 of us racing. as it was the first time it was more of a practice run but still tons of fun! :8ball:

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