Steel City Hobbies is very happy again to sponsor Raymond Darroch and Danny Hartman at this year’s United States Triple Crown being held in Brookfield, Wisconson. John Peoples from our sister store River Junction has been keeping Ray’s and Danny’s equipment and trip running smoothly. Unfortunately, no pictures from this race.

Info as of 10 PM, Saturday, February 28, 2004

Ray Darroch:

Stock Touring Car
TQ (Way to go!)
Stock 12th Scale
2nd (Bumped out of TQ by track owner Scotty.
Mod Touring Car
3rd Place
Danny Hartman:

Stock Touring Car
7th
Mod Touring Car
N/A
Monday, March 1, 2004 Final Results:

Ray Darroch:

Stock Touring Car
A-Main Winner
Stock 12th Scale
A-Main Winner
Mod Touring Car
2nd Place – close to 1st
Danny Hartman:

Stock Touring Car
TBD
Mod Touring Car
N/A

Information from Trackside Hobbies:
February 2004. The 4th leg of the U.S. Triple Crown will be held at Scotty Ernst’s Trackside Hobbies & Raceway in Brookfield, WI. The race date is February 27th thru 29th 2004. Anyone who knows Scotty has to be looking
foward to this race.

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Steel City Hobbies stops in Palm Beach FL to visit a few Hobby Shops and local Tracks.

SCH Model Michelle Demil poses with some R/C Cars, trucks and surf boards!

Steel City Hobbies stops in at the Winter Nationals in Ft. Myers, FL.

Steel City Hobbies stops in Naples, Florida to check out an off-road outdoor track. This track is located in South Eastern Naples in a park. The track has a very nice driver’s stand with access to power and water.

Steel City Hobbies was happy to attend the Snowbird Nationals 2004 in Orlando Florida. SCH was proud to sponsor an up and coming on-road racer named Raymond Darroch who is from our home town area of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Seems that everyone has their eye on Ray as he has picked up a few sponsors over the last two races alone such as Team Losi, JR, Novak and in part, Trinity.

Read below a few facts on Ray (click here to jump to notes on Ray) and look at several pictures of all the action in Florida.

The Snowbirds have been going on for a few years and consist of a variety of races. ‘Snowbird On-Road Classes’ and ‘Snowbird Oval Classes’. The On-Road classes include: Touring Stock; Touring Sportsman 19; Touring Expert 19; Touring Pro Mod; GTP Stock and GTP Mod. All classes except for Mod have hand out motors and run for 5 minutes. Oval Classes include: 4-Cell Stock; 4-Cell Sportsman 19; 4-Cell Expert 19; 1/12th 4-Cell 19; 1/12th 4-Cell Pro Mod; 4-Cell Pro Mod; Touring 6-Cell 19; and 6-Cell Factory Mod. Race time is 4 minutes with hand-out motors except for Mod classes.

Race Results:

On-Road Racing
Lap Times for On-Road Racing – http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/2004onroadresults.htm
On-Road Qualifying Results – http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/2004onroadresultslaps.htm
On-Road individual Results – http://www.snowbirdnationals.com/2004onroadracerresults.htm
RC Scoring Pro results for Ray’s Race – Picture – http://www.steelcityhobbies.com/2004NatRaces/SnowbirdsRCSP.shtml

Club racing has turned out to be somewhat of a tradition at the Snowbirds. Two races total where the overall standings are calculated from one of the two races.