Endurance Race - Southeast

onetoncrawler · Oct 4, 2010

We had several threads last year about an endurance style race at GMP (RCRA, i think) and Sharpshooter was asking about the endurance style race also. My question is, did anything ever come of these races ?

I am wanting to race next season but the only option i see for this type of race is ECORS. ECORS is an awesome set up but is 8 hours away for us Bama guys. Im willing to make the drive, but i think it would get old driving that far 4-5 times a year.

Just seeing if there were any other options close by. :dunno:

sharpshooter · Oct 4, 2010

The place I was considering a race closed down due to the property selling out for hunting only,but as many good parks as we have in Alabama, I dont see why there couldnt be a series put together and ran at the different Al. parks.Someone could really put together one hell of a series just here in Alabama

sharpshooter · Oct 4, 2010

I also know someone that is looking to lease some land just to do competitions on here somewhere local,so if anyone has any place in mind let me know

dragr1 · Oct 4, 2010

You might try contacting Jon Glass that runs The Great American Park in Auburn, AL. That place would be good for an endurance race and he has the equipment to make whatever is needed. Most of the park used to be an old golf course. It also has serious rock courses if you wanted to mix it up. There is an event the end of this month-Oct 30 if you want to check it out.

Trey · Oct 5, 2010

We would love to have some type of endurace race at Choccolocco and participate in a series with other parks, but dont know where to start.

It would be fun to make one whole lap completely around park with certain obstacles for time bonus credits.

We have thought about a poker run also. :driving:

onetoncrawler · Oct 5, 2010

maybe ECORS could expand to some parks across the southeast? I think about every park i have been to has a long access road around the perimeter , mix in some obstacles and you got a good race

but Alabama alone has enough parks to make a series , divide it up into 2 or 3 classes and i think you would have a good turnout :dunno:

i know the MM rock rally would fit in perfect with this series

BamaTJ · Oct 5, 2010

It is a great idea, just need a promotor and rules. The RC Rocks event is the model for a local series. 4 events, same park and lots of good racing. Definately think it would be cool to take that idea and spread out to 4 or 5 different parks like Gray Rock, MMORV, Choccolo, etc. That way you change up the terrain and it is a lot of fun.

Just takes somebody willing to put it on and invest the time and money into it.

jewylewy · Oct 5, 2010

i raced in the SETTC last week or so and really enjoyed it, would love to comp in more of a rock rally style event
Unversity of South Alabama Offroad Team would maybe help with a sponsored event closer to mobile say boggs and boulders

Budget YJ · Oct 5, 2010

I would be in for this :****: :woot:

onetoncrawler · Oct 5, 2010

quote from ECORS on FB

"We are working on WV and AL as those seem to be some of the most popular requests for 2011"

sounds good

dragr1 · Oct 5, 2010

Trey said:
We would love to have some type of endurace race at Choccolocco and participate in a series with other parks, but dont know where to start.

It would be fun to make one whole lap completely around park with certain obstacles for time bonus credits.

We have thought about a poker run also.

I agree, Chocco would be awesome too

J.A.B · Oct 5, 2010

HPO would be worth consideration with long access road that would also have plenty of small obstacles mixed in

onetoncrawler · Oct 5, 2010

J.A.B said:
HPO would be worth consideration with long access road that would also have plenty of small obstacles mixed in

i agree, HPO has a Motocross track also ....maybe use part of it also???? heck all parks around North to Middle Alabama have pretty good loop trails and probably could be made to work

Trey if you are interested in hosting an event contact the ECORS guys and see if yall can make it happen :driving:

zayne2427 · Oct 5, 2010

Crusher Ridge would be a sweet lil park to have a race at.
They have a good bit of access roads for speed and a bunch of climbs pretty close together that could weave up and down on the front side of the mountain,
take access road to the backside up and down a few different obstacles then access roads back to the front side of the park .
bunch of technical stuff, a ton of rocks, and plenty of roads for the speed sections
It's also in the dead center of North AL

kennyWayne · Oct 5, 2010

Trey said:
We would love to have some type of endurace race at Choccolocco and participate in a series with other parks, but dont know where to start.

It would be fun to make one whole lap completely around park with certain obstacles for time bonus credits.

We have thought about a poker run also.

trey ive been to your park bout 10 times and still havent rode all of it . next time we come up your going to have to be our tour guide . we always hit the same spots . ireally like riding there :drinkers:

dragr1 · Oct 5, 2010

How about run all the parks - one a month over several months-and call it King of the Bammers!!!

I can't take full credit for that, a buddy of mine came up with it and we joke about doing it one day-hitting all the parks in the state back to back. A Bammer Ulitmate Adventure of sorts.

RCMafia79 · Oct 5, 2010

Crusher Ridge is in. we have dozers and equipment to make a race course. we just dont have the" big event" experience to organize something like this. the park is relatively new so we are still learning.

scottlang · Oct 6, 2010

msorp would be in also.

BamaTJ · Oct 6, 2010

Like I said, it still takes organization and bringing it all together. Standard set of rules and cooperation with the park owners is required. I have been to most parks in AL and they all have the capability to host an event, but it also requires a lot of other stuff from the landowners/volunteers like parking accomidations, trail cutting, course marking, volunteers, spectator access, etc.

Hardline Crawlers as a club was discussing the possibility of hosting an event for all park owners to come and get on the same page about event dates and rides, so as to not compete with each other and end up having to close parks. If there is enought interest in this maybe we can talk about this topic as well. Just an idea.

I would personally like to compete in something like this, but don't necessarily want to promote it. There is a fine line between what is doable from a series perspective and what is not. Generally 4-5 events is a good number, but many series try to throw in 8-10 events and they end up being poorly attended.

1TONZR2 · Oct 6, 2010

I would love to do an event like this, but every time I try to goto something similar, I have drill that weekend. I need to send in my drill dates for the year so they can work around them! :woot:

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