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The future unfortunatly I think is in Las Vegas. IF Aviation Nation can give prizes it will wipe out reno. They have so many sponsors in vegas. thats the good thing about small little reno, few people/crowds.
Jarrod
Speeddemon "if you build it they will come" Problem is there are not enough airplanes or money to support 2 races a year.
Sorry Jarred...I was once 'young and impressionable' like you. I smile at your enthusiasm. It's something I could use. Somehow it's just not as fun as it used to be in the good old days.
I wish it was 1974 again. Oh, the possibilities.....
Mojave racing;
1970-1972 1000 mile races. ( Well, '72 was 1000K)
1973-1979 Reno like event. Usually all classes. Jet (T-33 and F-86 class) racing in '73 and '74.
jarrod, in regards to new planes coming down the pike, yes wildfire is one, but even that team says they won't be gold competition, what i meant was planes more on the order of renegade and hopefully my designs >;^)>
The thing that was different about Mojave was the attitude surrounding it. It was put on by Air Race Management....a group made up of race pilots and owners (mainly Lyle Shelton and Clay Lacy), and there was none of the crap that RARA has been notorious for over the last 40 years.
It wasn't perfect, by any means...but it was an event run by the pilots FOR the pilots...and the fans were the winners. And in the mid-70's, it saw some of the best championship races ever run...MUCH better than anything that happened at Reno. Towards the end, a different group of people took over, who wanted to do it 'their way', and coupled with the gas crunch and a few other factors, the event died out by the turn of the decade.
It was just more of a fun event. If you could put up with the wind, the sand, and the fact that it was out in the middle of nowhere.
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