Here We are in 2009

2009, a great year to be a local Chicago area RC racer. We have what? Eight tracks and racing programs and counting in about an hour drive of Downtown Chicago. More venues to race at since I started racing 8 years ago at Leisure Hours Raceway back in the Crest Hill Il days.

Many of the tracks have their own "internal" forums, and then there's the big major forums like rctech.net/forum. And there's local websites that have area racing forums that have dried up like chitownrc.com, where racers don't contribute anymore. What all of these places and forums on the internet have in common is as an area racer you just might not want to post up something that isn't set in a positive light for fear of hurting someone's feelings or worse yet impacting the business at that track or hobbyshop. Well that's one of the reasons I thought we needed a new place, like this, to offer frank, honest and hopefully helpful info about our area tracks and support businesses like local hobbyshops.