Virginia HO Club Races
April 7, 2001 at Virginia Beach HO Raceway
The Pro NASCAR T-jets, an exciting new class with highly modified ThunderJets, with current NASCAR bodies, from LifeLike and Tyco. They are very quick but a handful in the corners!
The racers of the Pro Tjet C Main, from the left: Aaron Weichbrodt, Jennifer Harrington, John Smith, and Dennis Thomas. John Peddy and Tom Bowman flank the TrakMate display.
The marshalls for this heat, from the left: Eugene Harrington, Bob Weichbrodt, George Morley, and John Peddy.
This race brought together for the first time racers from the Richmond area, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina with the regular racers of the Virginia Beach HO club. We raced the standard Fray Tjets per the Ferndale rules, the new Pro Tjets with AHORA rules from Arizona, and last a box stock LifeLike race. The Pro Tjets proved to be a very popular class, the racers liked the freedom of using any arm, any magnets, any gears and any pickups with a sturdy, wide NASCAR body. These cars really like to rub in the corners, 'cause they sure do hang out the tail! We had racers of all ages, mixing it up from the 9 year old Scott Schmoyer, to AARP poster and birthday boy...Bob Weichbrodt! We won't even say anything, about the ancient race director, Tom Bowman...because he won't remember it anyway!