Bashers Indoor Rc Raceway

We have three weeks of camps to choose from this year! The camps run Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 9:00-1:00!

The 4th round of the JConcepts Super Cup 2011 season was host at Daytona, FL during the Thanksgiving weekend. In 2wd Stock buggy, the young Daimon Borkowicz did an amazing 15 laps run in qualifying, one of only 4 people to do a 15 lap run during the entire event, to TQ the stock buggy class. In the main, without any real competition, Daimon was able to pull away & lap the field with Ruffy Rios finishing 2nd & Kory Ferguson finish 3rd.

In 2wd Mod buggy, The JConcepts main man Jason Ruona set the pace in qualifying, there were 2 other drivers that got close to the TQ pace, but the inconsistent track condition caused many to fall off the pace. With the only 15 laps run in Mod Buggy, Jason Ruona claimed the TQ spot, with Paul Wynn in 2nd & Dave Duncan in 3rd with his crazy boosted 17.5 motor. In the A main, Jason Ruona tried to check out, but 2nd place Paul Wynn stay close behind. Some turns later, Paul tried to overtake Jason at the table double, but the unsuccessful attempt failed & caused him to fall back. Felix Law took advantage of the mistake passing Paul. About 2 minutes into the race, Jason Ruona was keeping a 2 second distance in front of Felix Law until he made a mistake at the table top. Luckily, he was able to recover from the crash quickly & stay in front. 5 minutes into the race, just when everyone thought Jason could win the race, he made a mistake in the middle section, this time, he wasn’t able to recover as fast and Felix Law took the lead. The battle began here, where Jason start to turn up his pace trying to hunt down Law. He made a inside move after the table double on Felix, but Felix didn’t let this happen and he made the same move on Jason at the following corner. Felix was now leading Jason into the U turn and Jason rouna tried to put an inside pass on Felix, but it failed & got stuck on the pipe. Twenty seconds to go in the race and Felix only needed to finish without any mistake, while Jason tried to catch up to cross the line before the 6 min finish. In the end, Jason was about 1.24 sec short to follow and Felix Law took home the win, with Jason Rouna in 2nd & Paul Wynn in 3rd.

In 4wd Buggy, the Hobbycrap/ Basher RC Raceway Driver, Felix Law grabbed the TQ without much effort in the first round of qualifying. In the 2nd round Felix was once again on pace to better his 15 laps TQ but a noise from his B44 got louder and his pace start to slow down. With only 20 seconds to go, his B44 was barely moving, but Felix was still able to better his first round’s TQ time. In the main, Team Associated driver Zack Genova having a bad day in qualifying was able to step up his pace passing Felix Law on the second lap and checking out. Meanwhile, the battle was between Felix & Mike Barone for 2nd. Felix was clearly faster than Mike, but his great enemy got him every time, Felix continuing to make the same mistake at the triple, flipping over. Unfortunately Mike Barone made a mistake while battling with Felix, hitting the wall going on to the straight breaking a rear arm & retiring from the race. This let Carl Lebo finish 3rd, Felix Law 2nd & Zack Genova in 1st.

One of the biggest race series in FL is the JConcepts SuperCup. The Series has an average of 130+ entries every race thanks to the great race director Mike Applegate. For this 3rd round of the SuperCup, it was hosted at New Red hobbies, Ocala FL. This indoor facility was the only track that has enough traction to run slick tires. But due to the last minute rule to keep competition fair, JConcepts decide to make this a “Non Slick” race. The Biggest Class of the entire SuperCup Series is the Short Course class. There about 75% of driver enter at least one short course class.

In Stock Short Course, The battle for TQ was between the Young 11 years Old Daimon Borkowicz sponsor by JConcepts & the Reedy Race On road winner Dave Bowser. With Dave Bowser’s “Almost perfect setup SC10” He was able to drive his car to claim the TQ position with Daimon only a few second back. Dave Bowser said “My car has a good setup, but it’s very hard to drive. Even with a few mistake, I was still able to hold the TQ because the car have a lot of corner speed.”

In the SSC Main, Dave Bowser & Daimon’s battle continued. With the ability of bumper to bumper battles with short course, the 1st min of the race was intense. Until Dave made a slight mistake, Daimon was able to take the lead & drive away. While the “Horse power man” Billy Bruce with his Revtech powered Kyosho came from 8th place all the way up to 3rd battling against Dave Bowser. In the end, Due to couple of accidents, Dave fell back to 4th place while Daimon claimed the victory with Billy Bruce & Michael Bruce finishing 2nd & 3rd.

There were a total of 3 full heats of qualifier for the Pro 4 short Course class, making this one of the biggest classes in the SuperCup series. Felix Law was able to grab the TQ with his JConcepts equipped Losi SCT-E. He was able to do the only 17 lap in this class with a consistent average of 21 sec per lap.

In the Pro4 Main, Felix Law took advantage of the TQ & checked out. Without any problem, he was able to win the race with 2 laps ahead of the field. The battle was between second & third. The Basher RC Raceway driver Cory Schoppmeyer was able to battle his way against the local “short course king” Ricky Layman to finish 2nd & Lazi Janos from Coral Spring FL did an impressive run finishing 3rd at his first ever big race in his career.

Last Saturday on the 8th was our first 3 hour Enduro race sponsored by JConcepts, DNA Energy Drinks, and Puccini’s pizza. We had 9 teams of three or more drivers racing for 3 hours!! We started with 9 teams and ended with 4! The top finishing team with 662 laps was Bashers team driver Felix Law, Phillip Amid, and Alfredo Arrieta!

We had a great weekend at Bashers topped off with Julian Virgo’s 6th Birthday party! We had 17 five and six year olds enjoy pizza from Puccini’s and raced each other on the track from 5:30-8:00! Julian raced the Bashers Team Associated SC 10 and won his big race! If you would like to book a birthday party please contact us at brian @bashersrcraceway.com.

Different race…..same story!!! Basher’s RC Raceway Team Drivers made their way up to New Red Hobbies in Ocala for the King of the Short Course Series. The event was a great success with 86 entries in attendance sponsored by Trinity, Black Label Vinyl, and Proline! The traction was high and the racing was tight. Coming out on top of three classes were J.R. Mitch in PRO 2 Short Course, Mike Applegate in Stock Short Course and Felix Law dominating in PRO 4 Short Course! Three First Places to start off the series! Coming up Friday September 16th, Team Driver J.R. Mitch will be teaching a Race Clinic to any junior racers interested and will stay for the Friday Night Club race!

Some of Bashers RC Raceway’s top drivers made their way to Southern California for the Surf City Classic, hosted by OCRC in Huntington Beach, California. Many of the industries top drivers were in attendance, including Dustin Evans, Ryan Cavaleri and Ty Tessman. There were over 300 entries and the racing was action packed on a high traction layout. One of Basher’s top drivers Felix Law took first place in 4WD Short Course and second place in 4WD Open Buggy! The other top Basher’s drivers were Cory Schoppmeyer, Nick Schoppmeyer and Mike Barone, all had great showings in this event!
Other racing news, this Friday, September 2nd, Factory Team driver JR Mitch will be racing at Basher’s RC Raceway!!! Also expected to attend are Basher’s Team drivers, Mike Applegate and Felix Law! We are expected to have some great racing Friday night!!!!

Back to normal hours! Monday thru Friday 1:00-10:00
Saturday 12:00-10:00
Sunday 12:00-9:00

Now that Summer Camps are over, we will be opening at 12:00 Monday thru Friday! We will be racing All racing classes this Friday night at 7:30! Saturday the 20th we will not open to the public till after 6:00! We have two private Birthday parties earlier in the day! Sunday we are open 12:00-9:00!

This is our last week of Summer Camp at Bashers RC Raceway! The camp is Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 9:00-1:00!!!
Monday Timber Trace Elementary will be back at Bashers for some racing action. We are expecting 75 racers from 9:00-1:00!
Racing this week will be on Wednesday and Friday Nights!
Saturday the 13th we open at 2:30 after a private facility Birthday Party 12:00-2:30!