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Redwood Empire R/C Ground Pounders Club

The Redwood Empire R/C Ground Pounder's are one of Northern California's oldest radio controlled car clubs.

For full information about racing with our club, please visit our website at http://www.thegroundpounders.com. This page primarily exists to post photos from recent races and promote our events during the race year (typically April/May through the end of October each year.)

24/01/2025

IT IS OFFICIAL
LOSI MINI B OVAL SPRINT
Is now an official class for the 2025 Ground Pounder race season.

This is a newer class that we tried out last year, it worked so well and there was a lot of interest that we've decided to make it an official class for 2025. This class will have featured and year end awards and club races will count towards overall points.

Everything you need to get started in this class is available at Jake's Performance Hobbies in Rohnert Park.

Rules will be posted on our website soon,
yet they are as follows:

--Mini-b based cars, 7 1/2" wheelbase (stock mini-b)
-Any winged sprint car cage allowed
Any sprint car body allowed
-Any chassis allowed
-2 cell lipo only
-8.4v max charge (4.2v per cell)
-Batteries must be "hard case" type OR secured in a hard case
-Recommended motor: HobbyWing 2435 4500kv, NO HIGHER KV BATTERIES ALLOWED.
-ANY 1/10 TC car foam is allowed. 26mm front and 30mm rear. You may trim and true as you see fit.
-Max Weight of 875grams, Min Weight TBD
-ESC MUST be in blinky mode.

Message us with questions or go into Jake's Hobbies and they can set you up!

22/01/2025

2025 RACE SEASON IS STARTING SOON!!

Our 2025 Ground Pounder RC race season is coming up soon. We are posting the "tentative" schedule. Note that this schedule may change over the next few weeks, but at this point we feel pretty confident to share and fairly certain about the dates.

We will be updating rules for classes as well as any new classes very soon (that is in the works now). Updates will appear on our website www.TheGroundPounders.com. We will make announcements when they are updated and final. Look for that soon.

Race fees will remain the same
1st class $25
2nd class $10
3rd class $5

Our first "warm up" race is scheduled for Sunday March 2nd. This first race is a no points race, meaning it does not count towards your race season. We won't list results on our FB page, or note winners, etc...It is really meant to come shake off the rust, get your cars dialed in and get ready for the upcoming season. We encourage everyone to come out to this race as it really does help you get prepared for our track conditions. If your new to RC racing this would be the perfect 1st race for you as well.

Stay tuned as we'll be posting more information about the upcoming year in the coming weeks.

We will continue racing oval and on-road classes this coming season. We are also going to continue to race at Peterson Cat in Santa Rosa, CA for most of the season. We will most likely switch locations towards the end of the season (but will provide more details on that as we iron that out).

Feel free to message us with questions.
We look forward to racing with all of you in 2025!!!!

12/01/2025

THANK YOU FOR AN AWESOME 2024 RACE SEASON!

Photos from our 2024 awards/end of year banquet.
We are going to start working on the 2025 race calendar, updated classes and rules, as well as a few other cool additions to the next season. We typically have a warm up race in March, so that will most likely be around when our first 2025 race is. More details to come!

05/01/2025

THIS FRIDAY!!
YEAR END AWARD BANQUET!!
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WHERE: Mountain Mike's Pizza Rohnert Park, 6314 Commerce Blvd (Near the Safeway)
WHEN: Friday 1/10/2025
TIME: 6:30PM - ?? (typically lasts about 2-3 hours)
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Pizza, Drinks, Raffle for Prizes, Awards!
(bring cash if you want to participate in the raffle)

See you Friday!

01/01/2025

Wishing you a wonderful 2025! See you at the banquet on 1/10/25

6:30PM
Mountain Mikes, Commerce Blvd Rohnert
(details in post below).

11/12/2024

It's coming up!
Mark your calendar and be sure to be there!
Pizza, Drinks and Awards for top 3 in each class.
Cya Friday 1/10/25!

08/12/2024

Congratulations to a few of our local club racers. James Joiner and Eric Falk competed at The Racers Den this past Saturday. Featured awards race was GT12, TT02 and Losi Nascar. Eric competed in the featured TT02 class, he was on a near TQ pace in qualifying and snagged a 2nd place finish in the main. James ran 21.5 Sedan, where he finished 1st in the main. Great job guys!

25/11/2024

It's that time of year, the 2024 Ground Pounder R/C season has come to an end and we are hosting our annual awards banquet.
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WHEN: Friday January 10th, 2025
TIME: 6:30PM - 9PM
WHERE: Mountain Mike's Pizza, Rhonert Park
6314 Commerce Blvd, Rohnert Park, CA 94928
(Note there are 2 Mountain Mike's in Rohnert Park we are meeting at the MM's on Commerce Blvd)
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We look forward to this event, -next to racing its probably the most fun we have as a group! We provide the pizza and drinks.

Top 3 finishers in each official class receive professionally designed awards. The awards this year are pretty awesome, we went all out. -Really, they are that nice!!

Please RSVP if your coming and if your bringing a significant other so we can get an idea of how much pizza to order.

See you in 2025 at the year end banquet!

16/11/2024

Where can you race now that the Ground Pounders 2024 race season is done?

Fortunately there are plenty of options. Many of the regular GP'er racers continue to race during the off season as there are plenty of options. Racing year round is a great way to improve your skills, meet new people and experience new tracks.

Here are a few options to check out:

Hardline Drift
This is an indoor drift track you can check their hours here on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/375757507749289

707 Raceway and Hobby
Indoor on-road and oval racing. A lot of racers from Ground Pounders race here on the weekends. 707 has indoor racing and onsite hobby shop, they race pretty much every weekend.
Check them out! https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057667440360

Delta RC - Oval
Hard dirt oval track, many of our GP'er oval racers continue to race at "Delta" throughout the year. Delta Oval has many ongoing race series. Check it out: https://www.facebook.com/DeltaRC

NorCal Hobbies
For both outdoor and indoor racing check out San Jose's NorCal Hobbies, they have a huge on site hobby shop, indoor offroad carpet track and host many outdoor asphalt races. https://www.facebook.com/NorCalHobbiesCA

Heading to Sacramento? There is really nice facility with both indoor on-road and indoor off-road tracks. Racer's Den hosts many races and series, they race most weekends as well. This is worth a trip! https://www.facebook.com/groups/431888509509126

There are many more options if your willing to travel a little further outside the Bay Area. In the meantime GP'ers are working on the 2024 Year End Banquet details (post to come soon), as well as 2025 race schedule, rules, and some other exciting things we have in the works. See you at the track!

12/11/2024

Ground Pounders would like to congratulate some of our oval racers who raced at Delta Dirt Oval last weekend. They started their "Oval Winter Series" this past Saturday.

Congratulations:
Shermon Wong, Chuck Mefford, Brian Gilson, Dave Ivey, and Justin Senn who all podiumed in their events.

You can view the post here: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0kPfEgXYL9KNQsHXYxHZzFmWomHedHmV5mUvVRtZGFRFcULVP4SvupgVneW8L9DRDl&id=100067120166991

31/10/2024

Last Sunday 10/27 was to be our last GP'er race of the 2024 race season. However due to heavy drizzle and a very wet track we were forced to cancel the race event. After much discussion we have decided to not do a make-up race date. We have more rain expected this coming weekend and have a few club members needed to help out who are not able to make it the following weekend. 707 Raceway in Ukiah is holding a race 1 Sunday a month and is starting on Sunday 11/17. We did not want to race on the same day as 707 raceway and hobby. After that we head into Thanksgiving and then December. It starts to get really iffy with weather and complicated with people taking time off for the holidays. This leaves us with a total of 6 races we raced this season. We have decided that we will allow your best 4 race performances (as opposed to your best 5). If you did race 5 or even 6 races it only helps you as we count your top 4 performances (so you can throw out 1 or 2 races depending on how many you participated in). This allows many more racers to stay in the competition for a year end award (we provide awards to top 3 finishers in each official race class we hosted).
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THANK YOU!
Our club would like to first and foremost thank all of you who showed up to race this season. We would not have a club if it were not for passionate racers like you who showed up on our Sunday race days. Thank you.
Thank you also to everyone who helped setup the track, put everything away at the end of the day and kept their pit area clean. Also Peterson Cat for so graciously allowing us the use of their parking lot area, we love this space for many reasons. Thank you also to our entire club board, those who announce races, run our program, spend time going through results and posting to LiveRC, and those who donated their time, money and goods to our track. The Senn's for donating tarps to cover our trailer when not in use, Rob Burn for storing the trailer and bringing it out every race day. Matt Senn for announcing, creating the track layouts (even the ones w/ bus stops), keeping our program running on time, updating our rules, and so much more. Dave Ivey!! -thank you for all your help, the track space, electricity to power our batteries on race day. Amy Wildt, our awesome treasurer who comes out each race day, tallies up all the money, makes sure bills get paid and that we are not spending too much. Shermon Wong!! -our awesome El Presidente. Shermon overseas everything. Without Shermon we'd have no sauce for the track, no final decisions on things like calling the season and making sure all the board members attend our meetings and keeping to our schedule. Running a program like the Ground Pounders takes a lot of work, but it never feels like work when you enjoy what you do, right! We plan to run this program for many more years and with your help and support that will continue to be possible. so THANK YOU!
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We do have some cool new things planned for the '25 race season (yes we've already been discussing it). We'll share more in the coming months and as we get closer to the '25 race season.
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After we review and tally the final points we will be messaging those who finished in the top 3 in an event. We will probably do this sometime in later November. We also plan to have a year end party, everyone who participated in our club events is welcome to come. We typically provide the food and drinks, -many details on that as well. The date will probably be sometime in January of 2025 after the holiday season. We'll have a date pinned down in the coming weeks and will post it here.
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THANK YOU all again for a wonderful 2024 race season!

31/10/2024

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Wishing all our fellow RC racers a fun and safe Halloween.
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We will be making an official post with details about the missed race this past weekend. Look for that a bit later today.
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The Ground Pounders RC!

27/10/2024

Race CANCELLED due to rain.
More info to come later today.

10/10/2024

CLUB RACE #7
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It's happening! Club Race #7 is coming up soon.
Sunday October 27th, this will be our last club race of the GP2024 Race Season and YOUR last chance to get points in for the year end points series. We take your top 5 race finishes, tally them up and give out really nice professionally designed awards for the top 3 in each class.

So if you only have 4 races, or want to try to improve your standing come on out!
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Featured race is "Slash Street Stock"
Awards for top 3 finishers!

Rules can be found on our website:
https://www.thegroundpounders.com/

Hope to see you there!!!

07/10/2024

Here are total points after club race #6.
One more race to go, -get your points in! See you Sunday 10/27.

07/10/2024

RACE RESULTS 10/6/24 CLUB RACE #6

Club Race #6 was this past Sunday. It was a HOT one! Yet we were able to move quickly through the heats and get the program wrapped up by 3:15.
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Thank you to everyone who came out to support our club. Peterson Cat for allowing us to use their facility for racing every month. All the GP'er club members who help run the program, bring the equipment and track supplies. Also to Amy our club Treasurer who although she does not race she comes out to each event. THANK YOU!

In addition we'd like to say a special thank you to Kevin Paulson and John Masterson who both stayed for an extra hour after the race was completed to help tear down the track and put all the equipment away. We truly appreciate your help, -having guys like you at our club events really helps us all out. THANK YOU.

Also Thank You to all the Jake's Performance Hobbies and 707 Raceway and Hobby crews that come out every club race. We appreciate seeing you at the track, helping out and bringing the competition!
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Featured race was "Vintage Trans Am". This might be our most popular race class. I believe we have had a VTA A and B main every club race, even though it was 100+ degrees out we still had a full lineup of 13 competitors. Congratulations to everyone who made it to the A Main. Couple things to mention, Kevin Paulson did a great job bumping from the B main to the A and finishing 6th overall in the A main. Great job moving up w/ the fassst guys. Justin Senn also made the bump to the A and finished just above Kevin in the 5th spot. Hunter Stuart, he's always there ...Hunter is has become one of the top VTA drivers at our club, he easily makes it in the A and is always right around the top 3 finishers. He started 3rd in the main but due to traffic and a little luck not going his way finished 4th. Still a great performance, we have no doubt he'll be a top contender next season. Art Knight ran away, started 1st and finished 1st ..he bobbed and weaved his way through traffic and had a great run. Nice job Art. The battle was for the #2 spot. Early in the race Hunter passed Eric (who started 2nd), as did Donnie. There was a battle between Donnie and Hunter for the 2 spot, meanwhile Eric found his groove and caught back up to the Donnie / Hunter battle. If memory serves me correctly Donnie and Hunter got into it a bit, allowing Eric to fly by both of them. Eric held the 2 spot for most of the race with Donnie only inches behind him. As Eric navigated through traffic Donnie followed right behind in the path that was created. Last lap and Donnie made a move, got on the inside of Eric but was only about an inch or two too late and was caught. Really good battle between Eric and Donnie.
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Our next race will also be our last club race for the 2024 race season, that will be on Sunday 10/27. We will be making an official post about it probably later this week or very early next week. Be sure to check our FB page for updates!

See you at the next race!
707 raceway and hobby

03/10/2024

Season Points

Below are the current total points for each GP'er race class. Throw-outs are included in this list, -so current leaderboard reflects that.

There are 2 more races for the '24 GP'er race season, Sunday 10/6 and Sunday 10/27. We take everyone's top 5 race finishes when calculating top 3 for each class. We will have a year end awards ceremony, most likely in January.

See you all this Sunday for Club Race #6

16/09/2024

RACING!!!!!! It's That Time Again!

CLUB RACE #6
SUNDAY OCTOBER 6TH
Peterson Cat Parking Lot, Santa Rosa CA
Practice 9AM - 10:15AM
Racing starts 10:45AM
Featured event:
VINTAGE TRANS AM
Rules for this (and all classes) can be found on our website www.TheGroundPounders.com

Details on track location can be found here:
https://www.thegroundpounders.com/Peterson_Cat_Santa_Rosa...
Class Rules:
https://www.thegroundpounders.com/2024_Club_Rules.cfm
ROAR MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED
Decal awards for top 3 in all classes,
Acrylic plate awards for top 3 in featured classes.
See you SUNDAY OCTOBER 6TH!

As mentioned in a previous post, kits can be bought at Jake's Performance Hobbies in Rohnert Park. As can all other RC equipment needed to race with The Ground Pounders.

See you at the race!

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CLUB RACE #2 SUNDAY MAY 7 ! Featured race is 21.5 Nastruck Oval, awards for top 3!! We race on-road and oval, novice to experienced classes. Track opens at 8AM, sign ups 9AM - 9:30AM. Racing starts promptly at 10:30AM. Results on LiveRC. Location is Peterson Cat Parking Area, 3710 Regional Pkwy, Santa Rosa, CA. Racing is $25 1st Class, $10 2nd Class, $5 3rd Class. 3 Classes max for each racer, must have valid ROAR membership. Hope to see you at the track, please message us with questions.

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