Welcome Racers

Wow!

That's really what keeps coming into my mind when I think back about Round 1 of this season's KBRL Electric series. It's such a cool sight to see a sea of people and ez ups, 4 hours before race 1, as I pulled into the parking lot. As a racer I always loved that trip to the track and the anticipation of the day to be. It's no different for me now as I light up every time I pull into the place and see the racers getting unpacked and hitting the track for the first time.

From the feedback we heard, I think most people liked the shirts and medals and I'm really happy about that! I appreciate the efforts you make to be competitive or even the efforts you make to just have fun at the racetrack and I hope you get enough back throughout the series to make it worth your while.

I really was astonished by the number of racers Saturday but SRS played a tremendous host, being used to big races. Thank you to Keoni (Owner of SRS) for allowing the KBRL electric series to open and close at SRS! It's a great track, shop, and venue and I've always love racing there! Like Jarrett, I too wish gas truck was alive but I think it's going to be just in our memories. lol

My registration team needs a big thank you because they were tremendous! My wife Jessica, Stephanie Ward, and Kimberly Hinz inside the store all helped to get racers entered and ready for the race day. Thank you girls for all your great help throughout the day! Alex Rosen helped with many projects through the day and was slated to do Tech but that would have to wait for another day. Tech is something I'm committed to but it just didn't happen Saturday. (Sorry). Thank you Alex for helping out! 

When I first get to the track the first thing on my mind is the computer and making sure I'm able to score cars. It's a job that takes some manpower and all I can do is play director. I just got to the track and instantly 3 people volunteered to help with anything. Paul Hinz, Dax Clapp, Tommy Hinz, Tim Hethcox, Dave Ward and maybe others all wanted to help and I thank them for that. Special thank you to Paul for getting everything set up and helping me test the loop! Again at the end of the night it was a group effort to tear down and there was no shortage of help. What a great group of people Keoni has at SRS and most aren't on the payroll, they're just good people that want to help where they can. It's a great feeling to run races for good people like that!

So it rained; but................. again SRS and their crew saved the day by working for 2 hours to get a flooded track back in race condition. Jake Thayer is pretty much the track guy at SRS and he was front and center with everything from Water application to Water extraction. lol Also getting muddy were the likes of Jeff (Humpty) Helms, Keoni Ahyat, George Cabral, Brian Taylor, Tommy Hinz, Jarrett Ray, Larry Tom and others I'm sure I'm missing. I thank each of you for giving of yourselves to continue the program, I never doubted that we would finish the program. 

The KBRL isn't a huge operation but it does take some great people helping out where they can. In addition to the people I thanked previously, I would also like to thank others that keep the KBRL running. Thank you Thomas Krier for handling the www.racekbrl.com website. Thomas has built that site from scratch and tried to do it in a way where I can make routine updates and have relevant info like recaps, results, pictures, videos, etc. Thanks again Thomas! I would also like to thank Mike Houp for trying to capture each KBRL race day in Pictures. I really hope to see some pictures of the guys trying to salvage that muddy mess of a track. Thank you Mike for sticking around and taking podium pictures! I think it's important to recognize those who make the podium and it only takes a minute to get those shots. 

Speaking of the podium pictures, I would like to say thank you to AZ Cal Insurance andwww.azcalinsurance.com for supporting me and the Kenny Brosh Racing League from year 1. Martin Beavers owns this company and is a local race at SRS and this year he has pledged support of three Electric and 1 Nitro round. Through their support it's easier for racers to earn Award Medals for each round of competition and I think that's tremendous! Martin and AZ Cal Insurance, thank you very much. You are good people!

Here is the complete sponsor list for this year's electric series. I always say this and I don't know if many do but it would be so great for each of you to send a short thank you to the companies below from time to time. You'll be getting some great give aways at the series final and we all want those sponsoring companies to know their appreciated:

AKA
Team Associated
AZ Cal Insurance
BC 1 Graphics
Big City Mechanical
J Concepts
Team Losi
Shortcoursehobbies.com
Spy Optic
Quicks R/C

There was great racing as expected and I'll get into that later, for now it's off to work. Thank you all!

Kenny

 

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