[Tim Hancock]

The owner of the company I work for let some of his RC friends and I to build some tracks across the street from work.... We occasionally run 1/5 scale gasoline powered short course trucks but mostly run Traxxas 4x4 Slash VXL's on the big track. Last year I took my compact tractor there and built a dirt oval where we run Mudboss, Street stock and occasionally our 4x4 Slashes. One of the other guys built an awesome crawler course there too. Another guy in our group put in a Mini Z track complete with electronic timing in one of his warehouses for us to use on Tuesday nights in the winter. He also built a large indoor 1/24 scale crawler course. I also have built a min Z track in my shop. I have a pretty good collection now of RC vehicles for casual racing/crawling with the gang. Most of the other guys also belong to a RC flying club, but I don't venture over to their club field as I can simply fly my old RC planes at my house if I get the urge.

For most of the other guys who are in their 30's to 60's it is their only hobby. Some of them spend stupid money on the hobby. I constantly have to remind them that I have other hobbies/interests to feed when they try to talk me into buying another latest greatest RC racer.