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Drag racing returns to Home Racing World in the form of...
2020 HRW Hole Shot Nationals!
This year's fun run will again be run as a two track event!
- Summer Nationals in Ohio - held at Mark's Model World on the '55 track in July
- Winter Nationals in New Hampshire - held at Sick Puppy Raceway on the 26' 4" track in November
Following are the rules for this year's run - if you are interested in participating, please let me know, as it should be a lot of fun!
Scales:
- The classes will be broken into two scale groups.
- 1/32
- 1/25 & 1/24
Classes:
- Pre '90 Hot Rod
- Pre '70 Gasser
---- "Wheels Up" class
---- Conventional
- Expo
Requirements for all cars/classes:
- No limit in the number of cars that can be entered by a builder! Interested in entering one in each class and scale? Or desire to enter 3 in one class and 2 in another? There is plenty of room in the staging lanes, so feel free to build them and roll them on in as it is definitely a case of the more cars entered the better the racing!
And please remember - this fun run is just as much about the building and modeling as it is about the performance!
Bodies:
- Must have clear / tinted windows (blacked out windows are not allowed)
- Interior required to fill visible area - blocking the ability to see the chassis / running gear / track below
- Minimum of half driver with steering wheel positioned so that the driver can "see out the windshield" required
---- Vacuum formed interiors / drivers allowed - however MUST be painted in at least 3 colors
Chassis:
- Chassis may be scratch built or manufactured (material at owner's discretion)
---- "Factory" drag chassis's such as Parma Edge, JDS, ESR etc ARE allowed
- Must utilize "inline" motor mounting orientation (no sidewinder or anglewinder)
- .050" min chassis ground clearance
- Guide flag blade can not exceed 1" in length - drop arm, spring loaded, etc designs are allowed to compensate for front end lift
- Guide flag to be under the body (not visible when looking straight down on entry)
- Each entry must have a minimum of four functional/rotating tires (not counting wheelie bar wheels)
- All tires must sit on track and turn when the car is pushed from behind (not counting the wheelie bar tires)
- Wheels and tires must be appropriately sized to scale of vehicle
- Appropriate looking wheels / inserts
- Independent front wheels allowed
- Urethane tires only
- Wheelie bars are allowed - however they must meet the following requirements:
------ Bars must be of the dual wheel design and have the wheels spaced wide enough that the wheels do not ride on the braid
------ Bar "wheels" can not be of the "fixed/skidder" type design (potential track damage) or be overly large/non-scale in appearance (modeling aspect)
- Gears are to be 48 Pitch (exception made for 1/32 vehicles which may use Slot.It, NSR, Scaleauto style gears which are considered to be equivalent although not quite 48 Pitch)
----- Gear Ratio is builder's preference
----- Gear sleeves to adapt gears to smaller diameter axles allowed
- Axle diameters / materials at builders discretion
- Ball bearings NOT allowed for Hot Rod or Gasser classes
Class specifics
- Pre '90 Hot Rod
- Motor: Piranha 21,500rpm motor only!
- Body to be hard plastic or resin - no vacuum formed bodies allowed
- Min weight:
- 1/32 cars - 3.5 oz (99.2 grams)
- 1/25 & 1/24 cars - 5.0 oz (141.7 grams)
- Pre '70 Gasser - Wheels Up class
- Motor: Piranha 21,500rpm motor only!
- Body to be hard plastic or resin - no vacuum formed bodies allowed
- Front wheels are REQUIRED to rise a minimum of 1/2" on launch
- Min weight:
- 1/32 cars - 3.5 oz (99.2 grams)
- 1/25 & 1/24 cars - 5.0 oz (141.7 grams)
- Pre '70 Gasser - Conventional class
- Motor: Piranha 21,500rpm motor only!
- Body to be hard plastic or resin - no vacuum formed bodies allowed
- Front wheels are NOT required to rise up on launch (cars that do wheelie, but do not achieve the 1/2" minimum rise on launch will be run in this class)
- Min weight:
- 1/32 cars - 3.5 oz (99.2 grams)
- 1/25 & 1/24 cars - 5.0 oz (141.7 grams)
- EXPO
- Motor: Builder's choice Piranha 21,500rpm motor or new Piranha 25,000rpm ball bearing motors only!
- Body can be hard plastic, resin or vacuum formed
- No Min weight for this class!
- NOTE: This class is kind of a "catch all" for things ranging from rails and funny cars to wilder builds like: Drag Semis, jet cars
and wheelie cars like Hemi Under Glass, Little Red Wagon, Cool Bus, etc. Use your imagination!
In addition to the classes noted above, there are pair of bragging rights honors that will be awarded at each track
King of the Strip - title will be awarded to the car with the fastest ET, regardless of class.
King of Speed - title will be awarded to the car with the fastest MPH, regardless of class.
Intended format:
- Cars due in Ohio by July 11 for the Summer Nationals.
- Cars will be returned to builders after the run for tuning, gear changes, etc.
- Cars will then be due in new Hampshire by November 23 for the Winter Nationals.
- Preliminary shakedowns will be performed at each location after receipt to insure each car can make clean passes, after which, qualifying will be performed on each lane and the average of the two used to set placement in the bracket for each class.
- Cars will be launched utilizing a common control to eliminate driver to driver variance.
- Quickest car advances to next round.
- Lane "choice" awarded via coin flip for each round
- Tires to be cleaned prior to each round.
Please note:
- There are NO entry fees for this fun run!
- Photos and reviews of the cars will be shared for everyone's enjoyment!
Host location 1:
55' track at Mark's Model World, Canton, OH.
- voltage: 12 volt with capacitors
- construction: routed wood
- surface: epoxy paint
- power transmission via standard braid set flush with surface
Due date: July 11th!
Hosting location 2:
27.5' track at Sick Puppy Raceway, New Hampshire
- voltage: 12.4 volt - twin power supplies - 17amp each
- construction: routed wood
- surface: urethane coat finish
- power transmission via standard braid set flush with surface
Due date: November 23rd!
If you are interested in participating - please let me know (user name, class(es) and car make if available) and I will add your info to the list below!
Thanks!
Participants:
2020 HRW Hole Shot Nationals!
This year's fun run will again be run as a two track event!
- Summer Nationals in Ohio - held at Mark's Model World on the '55 track in July
- Winter Nationals in New Hampshire - held at Sick Puppy Raceway on the 26' 4" track in November
Following are the rules for this year's run - if you are interested in participating, please let me know, as it should be a lot of fun!
Scales:
- The classes will be broken into two scale groups.
- 1/32
- 1/25 & 1/24
Classes:
- Pre '90 Hot Rod
- Pre '70 Gasser
---- "Wheels Up" class
---- Conventional
- Expo
Requirements for all cars/classes:
- No limit in the number of cars that can be entered by a builder! Interested in entering one in each class and scale? Or desire to enter 3 in one class and 2 in another? There is plenty of room in the staging lanes, so feel free to build them and roll them on in as it is definitely a case of the more cars entered the better the racing!
And please remember - this fun run is just as much about the building and modeling as it is about the performance!
Bodies:
- Must have clear / tinted windows (blacked out windows are not allowed)
- Interior required to fill visible area - blocking the ability to see the chassis / running gear / track below
- Minimum of half driver with steering wheel positioned so that the driver can "see out the windshield" required
---- Vacuum formed interiors / drivers allowed - however MUST be painted in at least 3 colors
Chassis:
- Chassis may be scratch built or manufactured (material at owner's discretion)
---- "Factory" drag chassis's such as Parma Edge, JDS, ESR etc ARE allowed
- Must utilize "inline" motor mounting orientation (no sidewinder or anglewinder)
- .050" min chassis ground clearance
- Guide flag blade can not exceed 1" in length - drop arm, spring loaded, etc designs are allowed to compensate for front end lift
- Guide flag to be under the body (not visible when looking straight down on entry)
- Each entry must have a minimum of four functional/rotating tires (not counting wheelie bar wheels)
- All tires must sit on track and turn when the car is pushed from behind (not counting the wheelie bar tires)
- Wheels and tires must be appropriately sized to scale of vehicle
- Appropriate looking wheels / inserts
- Independent front wheels allowed
- Urethane tires only
- Wheelie bars are allowed - however they must meet the following requirements:
------ Bars must be of the dual wheel design and have the wheels spaced wide enough that the wheels do not ride on the braid
------ Bar "wheels" can not be of the "fixed/skidder" type design (potential track damage) or be overly large/non-scale in appearance (modeling aspect)
- Gears are to be 48 Pitch (exception made for 1/32 vehicles which may use Slot.It, NSR, Scaleauto style gears which are considered to be equivalent although not quite 48 Pitch)
----- Gear Ratio is builder's preference
----- Gear sleeves to adapt gears to smaller diameter axles allowed
- Axle diameters / materials at builders discretion
- Ball bearings NOT allowed for Hot Rod or Gasser classes
Class specifics
- Pre '90 Hot Rod
- Motor: Piranha 21,500rpm motor only!
- Body to be hard plastic or resin - no vacuum formed bodies allowed
- Min weight:
- 1/32 cars - 3.5 oz (99.2 grams)
- 1/25 & 1/24 cars - 5.0 oz (141.7 grams)
- Pre '70 Gasser - Wheels Up class
- Motor: Piranha 21,500rpm motor only!
- Body to be hard plastic or resin - no vacuum formed bodies allowed
- Front wheels are REQUIRED to rise a minimum of 1/2" on launch
- Min weight:
- 1/32 cars - 3.5 oz (99.2 grams)
- 1/25 & 1/24 cars - 5.0 oz (141.7 grams)
- Pre '70 Gasser - Conventional class
- Motor: Piranha 21,500rpm motor only!
- Body to be hard plastic or resin - no vacuum formed bodies allowed
- Front wheels are NOT required to rise up on launch (cars that do wheelie, but do not achieve the 1/2" minimum rise on launch will be run in this class)
- Min weight:
- 1/32 cars - 3.5 oz (99.2 grams)
- 1/25 & 1/24 cars - 5.0 oz (141.7 grams)
- EXPO
- Motor: Builder's choice Piranha 21,500rpm motor or new Piranha 25,000rpm ball bearing motors only!
- Body can be hard plastic, resin or vacuum formed
- No Min weight for this class!
- NOTE: This class is kind of a "catch all" for things ranging from rails and funny cars to wilder builds like: Drag Semis, jet cars
and wheelie cars like Hemi Under Glass, Little Red Wagon, Cool Bus, etc. Use your imagination!
In addition to the classes noted above, there are pair of bragging rights honors that will be awarded at each track
King of the Strip - title will be awarded to the car with the fastest ET, regardless of class.
King of Speed - title will be awarded to the car with the fastest MPH, regardless of class.
Intended format:
- Cars due in Ohio by July 11 for the Summer Nationals.
- Cars will be returned to builders after the run for tuning, gear changes, etc.
- Cars will then be due in new Hampshire by November 23 for the Winter Nationals.
- Preliminary shakedowns will be performed at each location after receipt to insure each car can make clean passes, after which, qualifying will be performed on each lane and the average of the two used to set placement in the bracket for each class.
- Cars will be launched utilizing a common control to eliminate driver to driver variance.
- Quickest car advances to next round.
- Lane "choice" awarded via coin flip for each round
- Tires to be cleaned prior to each round.
Please note:
- There are NO entry fees for this fun run!
- Photos and reviews of the cars will be shared for everyone's enjoyment!
Host location 1:
55' track at Mark's Model World, Canton, OH.
- voltage: 12 volt with capacitors
- construction: routed wood
- surface: epoxy paint
- power transmission via standard braid set flush with surface
Due date: July 11th!
Hosting location 2:
27.5' track at Sick Puppy Raceway, New Hampshire
- voltage: 12.4 volt - twin power supplies - 17amp each
- construction: routed wood
- surface: urethane coat finish
- power transmission via standard braid set flush with surface
Due date: November 23rd!
If you are interested in participating - please let me know (user name, class(es) and car make if available) and I will add your info to the list below!
Thanks!
Participants:
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