USAC Racing Forum

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The last races of the indoor season at the 2010 Columbus Indoor Winternationals will be webcast LIVE for the first time this coming weekend.

The USAC Midwest Thunder Championship Series along with the support of USAC will broadcast all racing both days live. You can view it at www.usacracing.com/usac_live (http://www.usacracing.com/usac_live)

The plan is to start the live feed about noon on Saturday after qualifying is over. Sunday will also be webcast live starting about 12:00. We also plan to have some taped and live interviews added to the racing on the track if time permits.

The only issue that could DQ the webcast would be poor internet speeds and or poor lighting. We will test this again first thing again Friday morning.

Any changes will be posted to this forum as soon as possible.

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Would think lighting might be an issue, but awesome anyways!!!

I would like to give a big thanks to Eric for working on this. I know he has given alot of his own time to put this together.
Thank you Eric

Thanks for everything you do for this sport Eric!!!!!!!

                      Scott

Thanks everyone....just living the dream.  ;D Racing with my kid - spending time with my family and having a lot of fun along the way. It is so great to be working with such great people in this sport. All the club presidents work so good together. The racing is just awesome and so many great people working together. This is how Quarter Midget racing should be.

I must add that there are many people that work daily behind the scenes helping to make your .25 experience the best it can be. Remember to thank your club officers, race officials, USAC and anyone that steps up to allow you to race with your kids. Even though you don't always agree with them they have everyones best interest at heart.

Now back to the LIVE WEBCAST ---  Tell your family and friends to tune in on Saturday about noon.

So this is a USAC event. Wont there be an issue with racers that dont have a .25 club or track in their area having to join USAC for a 1 race deal?

Phil....should be no issue at all. Most of the people that run the indoor series will also be running many of the other USAC events in 2010 like the "Battle at the Brickyard" for example.

and --  for those that this will be a one off race, USAC is offering a "one free pass" to try out the USAC .25 experience.

also....most of the USAC .25 clubs will have people there that can get you signed up the day of the event.

Thats pretty neat, an organization that truly cares about youth racing. I knew USAC did the 1 free pass last year and to continue it this year really shows committment in the sport.

Thanks for the reply.

Phil

It's always great to "try it before you buy it" and their are not very many places that allow that.  Odds are you will buy it after you try it...  ;-)

If anyone would like to purchase/donate some tapes we could record this event for future use.

The tapes we would need are : Mini DV Digital Cassette - these are good for 63 minutes. It could take about 10 - 12 tapes per day.

We could also use Mini DV HDV/DV Cassette - These are High Def and cost more but give a better picture.

( still waiting for my government stimulus check...LOL )

where can those tapes be obtained for the best price??

I would think a Best Buy or something like that?

I would also check your Goodwill. When I was in TV Productions in high school a few years back, a local goodwill stocked these at a great price. I don't know if it was just a local thing, or if they still do, but it saved us a lot of money.

Could be worth a shot anyway. But yes, Best Buy will certainly have them.

Well...so far so good. The lighting is fine. The upload speeds come and go. So they can be good (clear video) or slow which results in a choppy video. We are doing our best to get the best signal we can in this metal building (with snow on the roof).

We are hoping that this will work for all of you sitting home snowed in. It may not be perfect for the first time (Midwest Thunder Series) but we have learned a lot today. Once we get outdoors it will be much easier for the webcast Midwest Thunder Championship Series races.

If this does not work....please dont blame USAC as this is supported by them but not being handled by them this weekend. And the MWT BOD thanks them for their support.

Enjoy

Thanks for all your hard work Eric, seems like you spent your Friday working on this.  Much appreciated!

Cars are ready!  But we will be staying home!  With a foot of snow earlier in the week and lots more today along with huge drifts...not even going to attempt to drive down there in these conditions.  Spent 3 hours plowing tonight...what a mess.  Just have to use our throwout early.  Good luck to all!  We will watch if it works!

The feeds been good it just keeps getting pulled

Update....well not a bad day once we got going. We were trying to get better upload speeds early and things did get better. There should not be any dropped video tomorrow. Sunday is Deco and Briggs day with the live feed starting about noon. Again we will have no audio but plan to have that at our next MWT event.

There were many people watching and chatting on Saturday. Thanks to all the people that tuned into the Live Webcast today.

There was some awesome racing in all divisions today. The BQMRA club wanted to thank everyone that braved the poor weather conditions who came to run the indoor this weekend.

Didn't tune in until later in the day but I enjoyed watching it when I did. Awesome feature to add to the .25 experience.

Very good webcast today!  Thanks USAC and Eric for getting this going.  There were unfortunately a few USAC and Rankine bashers on the chat board.  I don't get it...USAC is doing a good thing and bringing the QM racing into the home via the web and not bashing QMA.  Not sure why it does not work the other way as well.