As the Sun Sets on the 2017 5th Scale Season West Coast 5th Scale would like to

 wish everyone a Happy Holiday season as we wrap up the last race of the year.

Santa's Helper GP at GLARCRC

With the RAMS season over and we look forward to 2018 this was the last race for the 5th scale group in So Cal. We had the Texas 5 come visit and get some good track time in and get experience, data and feedback to take with them back to Renton. Because they were told, we are coming. The event had enough for two mains of 5th scale sedans which was good. Not the amount that Hugh drew for the Cancer Benefit where we had GT and STC classes, none the less the competition was good. With Victor Garcia out of this event that left Craig Kaplan as the next consistent driver to mount the charge on the Goodwine's that came loaded. Kyle and Phil would go toe to toe for TQ with Phil pulling it out in the last qualifier. But race time came and it was Kyle at the point and he never looked back. I don't know how many people Craig paid off but from 10th to 3rd starting lap 3 I'm thinking his wallet was a little light. Here is your podium for the Santa's Helper G.P.

Videos Coming

 The Killer G's, Kyle and Phil Goodwine backed up their impressive run at the Cancer Benefit with a flip in the order with Kyle taking the win this time.

3rd - Craig Kaplan - 1st Kyle Goodwin - 2nd Phil Goodwin

A Main   B Main

Members of the Texas Five celebrate their podium spots in the 5th Scale B Main

3rd - Juan Blaylock - 1st Marquell Osborne - 2nd Sam Bronson

GLARCRC Cancer Benefit 2017

F1 took center stage at this years GLARCRC Cancer Benefit. Hugh Lawson sponsored the trophies for the class and this prompted a good turnout for the open wheelers. Even bringing out Mr. F1 Bob Sarnelle out of semi retirement (lol) for the event. Hugh keep Bob honest throughout the quals but it was Bob that would grab TQ. As the mains started everyone not on tire warmers struggled for grip in the opening laps. But as time went on the racing got feisty. There was a great battle for 3rd with Kenny Watkins, Steve Sanchez, Marc Drennen and Hau-Ching Liao. Hugh would suffer a mechanical and his day was done. Kenny also having a strong run saw his bid for a podium end with a front brake failure. This left the effort that Marc put in missing the Meet and Greet to wrench on his car paying off as he came home second and where else would you expect, don't know how he does it, but Hau-Ching Liao gets another podium.

Results

 STC had a good turnout as well and the Goodwine's came loaded. All through the quals Kyle pushed the limit to try to get past Victor but his 17/7:04 would stand firm for TQ with Kyle just 5.35 seconds behind and Phil 9.55 behind. Arnold Mercado's (RAMS) trip down would be rewarded with 4th on the grid and Cedric Collins would round out the top 5. But Victor, Kyle and Phil were on a different level this day. As the main started Victor had a mishap and would have to battle his way back up through the field. This left the Goodwine's up front alone. Kyle would have an issue and have to battle back as well. Phil ran a good consistenly fast race and for good measure got fast lap of the race as well on his way to the win.

Results

 The GT race had its own fair share of excitment with Greg Shum getting the lead from TQ Frank Pena on lap one and was looking like he might start to pull away but rear tag body tuck would take him out of the lead and rejoin in 7th. But that didn't stop Greg as he battled his way back all the way to second late in the race and even unlapping himself with 5 minutes to go only to run out of gas two laps later. Kenneth Watkins found himself as high as second midway through the race but could maintain the pace to stay there.  While running third Tom Wong would find out that dots are bad for his Contrast and that would drop him back to the end of the pack. Tom fought his way back up to finish second. Jojo made his way to fourth late in the race only to be past by the late charging Wong.

Results

Happy Birthday Arnold (with the gang at Buffalo Wild Wings)

West Coast 5th Scale relives the WCC 2013 - 2017 - Here

Warm Springs Oct 15

WC5S headed up to Warm Springs for the Season Finale of their Club Series and the final race of the season.

There has been some talk of one or two races during the winter months and we will keep you posted. The turnout was good as well as the racing and always good to see our friends at Warm Springs. We had some good conversation about next year and some fun events. We will keep you posted on those as well. So for now enjoy the racing.

STC A Main

F1 A Main

Sportsman A Main

4WD A Main

It is Saturday, July 15th 2017. It is forming up to be a good day as the drivers start to arrive at the Warm Springs Raceway. But today and the following day this place should have been called HOT Springs Raceway. It was Hot, very hot and the heat took its toll on tires and drivers if you werent carefull. Thanks to the resident guru Marc Drennen, he rigged up two shop fans on a generater and attached a sprayer to the fan, instant mister. This had to be the hit of the weekend as many drivers found themselves in front of it at one time or another. The racing was just as hot. The racers that arrived Saturday got themselves the advantage of dialing in their cars and be ready for the next two rounds of qualifing on Sunday. At the end of day Saturday your Top Qualifiers were: 4WD Dave Stroud - 32 laps, F1 Hau-Ching Liao 29 Laps and STC Tony Vega 35 Laps. On to Sunday and more drivers arrive to participate in the event. Time for those drivers to get their halo runs in and upset the order.  In Sportsman Al Gerace had it after the first round Sunday only to lose it to John Ng in the fourth round. in 4WD Dave Stroud beat his previous TQ with a round three amount of 33 and beat out Daniel Colhour by 1.351 seconds.  In F1 it was Hugh Lawson throwing down a 32 lap run to get the pole and STC Tony Vega would drop his 35 lap time down to a 10:01.190. In between we had lunch and drinks provided by Tony Vega and RC Modelsport.com.

On to the Mains

More Pictures and Videos to come

STC Podium

1st - Tony Vega

3rd - Cedric Collins      2nd Todd Rizzo

4WD Podium

1st - Tony Foskett (Way to go)

3rd - Dave Stroud    2nd - Hau-Ching Liao

F1 Podium

1st - Cedric Collins

3rd - Marc Drennen     2nd - Hau-Ching Liao

Sportsman Podium

1st - John Burnett

3rd - Al Gerace      2nd - Steve Sanchez

2017 KO Propo Grand Prix

The 2017 KO Grand Prix organizers let us run in their race this year and it was a good event to attend. Everything ran smoothly but no one could have guessed what would have happened in the main. Three drivers were at the top of the Q sheet while the other 7 racers all qualified with the same number of laps which meant there was going to be one slug fest coming. With the first half a lap being heavily contested for the lead we thought we were in for a race long battle. But racing is racing and events unfolded and one driver got to fulfill his dream and was actually leading the event for a few laps to the surprise of some spectators. But the hounds were coming and they were coming fast. The race settled into its mid race grove with some good battles going on and to one racer the unthinkable would happen and he had to do the walk of shame...lol as his phone blew up in his pants from the texts he was getting from his fan club watching around the world. We also welcomed new racer Terry Jackson to his first major race. Check out the video.