H.O. Enthusiasts and Sponsors,

The San Juan International Grand Prix Invitational was a success, thanks to our sponsors and the quantity of racers who attended.  First and for most I want to thank all of the sponsors who donated race prices for the event.  BRP Bat-Jets, J.C. Smith, Supertires, Slugger, SCM Performance, Chris' Embroidery, Wizzard, Scaleauto and Tom Heister.

The garage door opened at 11:00a.m. and soon there after the racers started to show up. The guys started mingling and getting their cars ready for the races.  Before the CRL race, we kicked-off with opening remarks thanking all the racers who attended and giving credit to the sponsors.  Through the day we held raffles with brown bags of race prizes for all attendees. All kinds of tires, parts, stickers, bodies, you name it were raffled and given as race prizes. We started with race #1 CRL Formula One cars followed by Race #2 T-Jets provided by Tom Bowman, J.C. Smith, Doug and Scott Keck.  The grand finale sported the G3, P-2, P-3, T-2. Racing concluded at 2:00a.m.  By the end of the night everyone had gotten their Slotcar kicks in and were visibly tired.  It was truly a fun day of racing.

Race #1 CRL Formula One

The race had 17 Racers lined up for the starting grid.  The race format was 5 minutes long with heats for 4 mains A-D.  Racing was furious as the owner of the track was trying to protect his ground.  A SG+ burned up from the San Juan hot weather.  After the final heat a Tyco had won the race with two SG+ taking 2nd and 3rd place.   Below are the final results:

Race #2 T-jets

Truly a fun race with 17 Racers again lined up for the starting grid.  The race used a round robin format.  I have to say T-jets are fun to race but after running the F-1's it was real soft on the eyes.

Race #3 (modified)

This race pitted the P-3, P-2, Panther, G3 and T-2's against each other to gage their performance at 5-minute heats.  The G3 seemed to be the best car out on the field.  Amazingly fast and with good handling it took the top two spots with a Tyco using stock motor magnets with Phase III traction magnets taking third place.  Even
though the race was a friendly the competition was fierce.  The top finishers:

Some pictures of the event