Motorama 2012 was an event unlike any other I’ve attended before. This was our first time going here as RC Soup. Friends of ours have been there every year for the last few years and finally talked us into going. We had a blast! This is our official post-event writeup. Here we’ll cover the basics of the event itself. We already covered all of the racing results for R/C in THIS POST. We also covered some of the racing action that dealt with our particular group of Central New Yorkers in THIS POST.

Overall, Team Soup did pretty good. We don’t claim to be Pro level drivers. We’re what you would consider you’re average r/c enthusiast to be. Matt Peterson finished 7th in the D main of Stock Short Course. I finished 6th in the F main. I struggled a lot with depth perception on the back end of the track (time to check my eye prescription perhaps? lol). Stock Short course went down to H mains, so I’m just happy not finishing dead last. Results aside, I went to have fun, fully aware that I had little shot at a podium finish.

Team Soup driver Jarodd Goedel did well in Stock Short Course class, making his way into the A main, and finishing 8th after being bounced around on the blown out track. This is something everyone I think struggled with by the end of the weekend. There were some pretty big holes in the track from the heavy 1/8 scale cars running on it.

Below are some shots of the track layout for 1/8 scale and Short Course. Motorama also had a 2nd track setup just for 1/10 scale (2wd and 4wd buggy, stadium truck, novice, etc). None of our crew raced over there, so I cannot really attest to how that track was or handled, but it looked like a really nice clay setup.

Here’s a shot of the pits to the right of the track. This is just a fraction of it.

A shot by our photographer John Zachary of Berry Pettit’s E-Truggy making it around the hole-laden track.

Berry Pettit and Taylor Petersen in E-Buggy class.

Motorama is not just an r/c race. Radio control is just a tiny part of this event that focuses on EVERYTHING MOTORSPORTS. The event is held at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg, PA. This is all indoors, in a 1 MILLION SQ. FT. building! Just to give you an idea of the scale.. all under one roof they had: Hot Rod, Custom and Tuner car show, 2 radio control race tracks, Robot Conflict, Quarter Midget Racing, Go-Kart Racing, a Speed Show (race cars etc), and Arena Cross dirtbike and ATV racing in the large arena. Tell me that’s not insane?!

I’ll walk you through the rest of the show in the following pages.