Racewars

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20/03/2024

It's been too long!

Maybe, just maybe there's more where this came from...

06/04/2023

It's hard to believe it's been 10 years.

We'll never forget the highs and lows and those there alongside us for the ride that was "Racewars".

17/12/2021

In line with our post on December 3rd Racewars confirms that the event scheduled for February 25th – 27th at The Perth Motorplex has been canceled. Entry fees will be refunded.

Racewars also wishes to advise followers that there are currently no plans for future events. This extends to & includes the Albany Runway Racing event which we have been informed is unable to proceed. This is due to significant issues with the runways surface condition & the councils need to protect the runway from anything that could further damage its surface. We support their call given the condition of the runway & how vital it is to keep it safely active for aircraft until such time as it can be repaired & rebuilt whenever that may be.

We wish to thank you all for your support over the years. A special thank you needs to go to The City of Albany along with those in the community that welcomed us & supported us since our move to The Great Southern. We'd also like to thank the ANDRA & Motorplex teams for working with us on what we believe would have been a great weekend of social motorsport & car culture had it proceeded.

For now we're going to look back on all we've achieved, from practically nothing & absolutely out of nowhere. We've taken Racewars from an idea hatched over a beer in a Mt Lawley pub to an event that had global reach & redefined runway racing in Australia. While the wider recognition of the diversity & quality that exists in the WA car scene and other achievements like the Racewars Sprint were important to us, we still feel our biggest success was reaching out to true grassroots racers. We did this by delivering events that supported car culture & our enthusiast community on our terms, our way; for us.

From all of us at Racewars; thanks for being part of this journey.

03/12/2021

It appears we might have got this a bit wrong...

We pride ourselves on delivering events for the community that engage & entertain the community. It seems however that our proposed Motorplex event isn't resonating with many of you and has left most of you cold on the concept.

We knew that some of you would only want to go runway racing. We now know many of you still have negative outlooks about the Motorplex the way things have run there in the past. We can see all this is having an impact on people commiting to the event.

After speaking to many of you and hearing what you have to say we understand where you're coming from & while we feel many of you are missing the point & over thinking things; we know that there's only so much we can say to some of you as minds have been made up and that's that.

Importantly we know there's still a number of you who are still open minded & giving it some ongoing consideration. We really do believe this has the potential to be a great weekend of minimal stress, no BS car culture with the bonus of weekend long race track access.

However we also don't believe in making the same mistakes we have made with the runway event. We will not be proceeding with the event unless it has a genuine pathway to cover it's costs without needing funding from the event team to support it. This means that without sign up's we won't take the risk to proceed.

On December 16th a decision will be made to proceed or not. Should sufficient people make the choice to join us we'll gladly proceed, if not we'll refund those who signed up & committed to joining us in trying to deliver this event for the community.

What happens next is collectively your call.

There's no hard feelings if you all collectively decide it's not for you. That's your choice & we'll respect that. So we'll look forward to seeing what you decide to do & we'll go from there.

30/11/2021

Lets summarize the last few days developments & what the Racewars Motorplex Takeover is about.

We’ve booked Perth Motorplex for 3 days (Feb 25th – Feb 27th) & will be running 1/8th Mile & ¼ Mile Drag Racing + 1520ft Roll Racing all weekend for as many hours as we can run each day.

We’ll also be running a weekend long car show (Kebab’s & Cars) with Skid Row open for as many hours as we can run each day along with live entertainment & DJ’s to keep the party vibe going all weekend.

We’ll have onsite camping for Racer & Kebabs & Cars entrants.

Cash Days is back & open to people with Racer entries. (You must have a Racer Entry to participate).

Because some of the rules are still confusing some of you let’s go over the basics once more.
- The ANDRA safety rules apply to everyone & every session.
- Everyone should really read the rules, they’re simple to follow
& easy to understand.
- The “Race Classes” (True Street / Sportsman / Outlaw) are
purely for prizes and lining up races.
- You can turn up and run a 10.00 if you’ve got airbags and disk
brakes. (This is 80% of you all)
- You can turn up and run a 10.50 even if you’ve not got airbags
and disk brakes. (Older cars)
- You can run sub-10’s unmodified if you’ve got a stock
supercar / high performance car that qualifies for the
exemptions.
- 1320ft rules = 1520ft rules. You’ll maybe see a small increase
on your 1320ft trap speed.
- If you’re not tech’d to run below a 10 or 10.5 you can still race
BUT the onus is on YOU to stay above of those numbers
(bracket race).
- I’ll have the team add in bracket racing classes so people can
race up to the tech levels 10.00 for modern / 10.5 for the
classic’s. You can choose to enter a bracket class on the
weekend once you’re teched.
- We know when you go bracket racing there are occasionally
small mistakes & people might “break out” (accidentally go
too fast); however, we also know when there’s obvious p**s
takes.
- Race safe, race smart.
- You can turn up on the weekend & get scrutineered unless
you’re going really fast & the rules say need ANDRA tech.
(This is ~10% of you. Most of you will simply not be that quick
so you won’t have to worry about meeting tech or speed caps
anyways)
- So read the rules carefully & make a plan to choose to race to
a bracket or comply with the tech rules to go all out. Your call
on what you want to do, both are valid options.
- There will be a tech day planned for those who need it. In the
interim ANDRA can help with tech inquiries.
- Please read the rules.

With all that out of the way it’s time for you to sign up & me to sign off for a bit & let you get to know some of the new team members.

If you’ve scrolled this far it’s time for you to click this link & complete your registration.
https://racewars.com.au/entrants/

Get off Facebook & go sign up now!

See you in February.

Jon.

29/11/2021

We love skids! You love skids. Pretty much everyone loves skids!

The Racewars Motorplex Takeover is a racing event & we know that it's very helpful to warm the tyres before running a pass. Naturally for the standing start 1/4 mile & 1/8th mile stuff there's the burnout box already there ready to go. And thanks to our Engineering Partner RSA Engineering we'll also have our drop in pads available in the staging lanes so you can get your tyres nice & warm prior to the roll on's.

Okay so with that serious stuff out of the way let's move on to "Skid Row". If you know what the legendary Tuff St is we don't need to say too much more. The aim is to have it open all weekend & available for racer entrants + Kebab's & Cars participants with the Skid Row pass. It'll allow you to cruise thru the pits, hit Skid Row, put on a show and have a bit of fun doing it.

We're not doing a skid comp or going to shut down the on track racing to run the Snakepit. We want to get as many runs in across the weekend as possible so we want to avoid anything that closes the strip or needs it cleaned up & re-prepped for racing. So Skid Row will be the place to watch the burnouts*

(*And the pre staging skids as we all know there's going to be some big ones there as well)

28/11/2021

I was going to talk about burnouts today but I’m still far too hungover to make a "real post" so this’ll have to do.

We all know "that bloke" who's mouth runs faster than their car ever will. The type of person to chat a whole lot of s**t but then never actually show up and race.

There’s always a reason why they won’t race. Maybe they don’t like the event rules or their magical s**tbox of hopes & dreams is never running or they simply disappear when it’s time to step up. Either way they absolutely have the fastest car on the internet and they'll gladly tell you everything about it except for the fact it's done nothing.

Well now's the time for you to call them out and help get them off the internet & on to the racetrack.

To help give people a chance run their cars & not their mouths I’m going to put up 2 Platinum entries. The person with the best call out wins them both meaning they’ll have an entry for them & an entry to give the track shy comrade they’ve called out. We’ll even make sure there's a chance to grudge race it out over the weekend.

I’ll pick the most amusing call out next Friday (December 3rd) and you’ve got until then to pick your target & call them out.

Normal programming & an explainer on Skid Row, Tyre Warming for Roll On's and so forth should resume tomorrow*

*Maybe...

Jon

27/11/2021

27/11/2021

So firstly, lets broadly agree there’s no point lining up a 300hp daily driven Golf R against a 900HP not even close to road legal GTR; it’ll be a junk race for the entrants and those watching. Close racing is the best racing, so it makes sense to pair opponents in groups of roughly equivalent performance where possible.

After basically copy pasting some details from another event in the USA that seems to function reasonably well we wound up with the basic class system below.

True Street is your genuine grass roots class. This is for real street driven, street registered vehicles with mods that don’t make them a defect magnet. This is the class for people who just want to run what they’ve brung & have fun doing it.

Sportsman is the next step up and it’s for “Street Cars” that are more highly modified & maybe aren’t entirely street legal anymore. You all know who you are; we don’t care if you’ve taken it through Macca’s or HJ's drive through for burger runs on Instagram & so forth. If it’s more wild than mild & you start sweating bullets if a cops behind you in traffic chances are you’re sufficiently modified & therefore fast enough to come play in Sportsman.

Sportsman is also where you’re going to find the “fast from factory” stuff, the supercars, exotics and of course the high end EV’s that run numbers most of us could only dream of a few years back.

Last but not least is Outlaw. The clues in the name. It’s basically for anything four wheeled & too wild for Sportsman with zero need to even pretend to be road legal. So if you’ve got a real deal race car and want to come play you’re more than welcome.

Cash Days is as it’s always been. Run what you’ve brung & hope you’ve brung enough. Cut a light & steal a win or mow them down at the big end. Do whatever you’ve got to do to win.

All vehicles will need to meet the technical requirements & safety regulations for the speeds they’re going to run (OR like we said yesterday only run to the speeds they’re able to with the level of safety equipment they have).

You’re racing those inside your class for the prizes & trophies but in saying all of this if you happen to own a 300hp daily driven Golf R & really want to be chopped by a 900HP GT-R you’re more than welcome to line up a run out of your class. As long as everyone is safe & having fun that’s all that really matters to us.

There’s a heap more detail on the classes, tech regs and everything else on our website. Check it out and then while you’re there sign up!

Shall we talk Cash Days tomorrow?

26/11/2021

Nobody likes event regulations.

We don’t like writing them. We don’t like having to go through them over & over again with people & lets be honest most of you don’t care for them either. Trust me we do get it.

However, without some basic rules we can’t go racing so we’ve got some rules. Thankfully there’s a basic set of rules that we can use from The Perth Motorplex & ANDRA to go racing simply, sensibly & safely.

We all know how the rules work & we all know how the rules are applied at The Perth Motorplex. We don’t believe in kicking people out for no good reason at our events, but we also won’t allow people to take the p**s. So what does that mean if you think you’re going to run numbers your car isn’t teched for?

Well, you could do what Jamie & I are doing with the AU & get the car up to spec to run the speeds it can OR you can simply dial it back a bit or lift off and run the numbers your car is tech’d to run over the ¼ mile & roll on’s.

One option might cost some cash, the other option might result in someone “chopping you” at the deep end but does it really matter at the end of the day given it's a "fun focused event"? Personally, I don’t think so and if you want to go racing for sheep stations (or at least whatever is in the prize pool) there’s always Cash Days.

(And look maybe if there’s enough support, we run bracket racing classes as well for people to opt in to so if you can’t step up & get fully teched you can still be in with a shot of winning something without blowing thru your speed caps. Let me know in the comments below)

As a side note ANDRA have developed a set of tailored exemptions for all the new “too fast from factory” stuff that comes off the production line ready to race. Think Tesla’s, Hellcats, AMG’s, BMW M’s, RS Audi’s as well as the usual Supercar & Hypercar exotica. So, if you’ve got a Ferrari SF90 on order you won’t need to bolt a Parachute on the back of it & you won’t need to cage your McLaren or have Arm Restrains in your AMG GT. They’re built for going f*cking fast & ANDRA recognizes that passive & active safety technology in these cars is better than what’s found in the 00’s, 90’s and older stuff many of us still love to race.

Hopefully that makes a bit more sense to people & while we will never keep everyone happy with event regulations (and there’s no point trying to) we will do what we can to keep people safe. That’s something we won’t compromise on & importantly I hope that like us you all see the merit in racing as safely as possible as well.

Now we’ve got that out of the way let’s talk competition classes & why they’ve broken in to 3 tiers. See you all again tomorrow.

Jon.

25/11/2021

So what’s the story with the Racewars Motorplex Takeover?
Firstly, we’re doing this event because we want to & we believe a weekend long party at a racetrack with 3 days of racing, car shows, Skid Row (Tuff St), bands & DJ’s plus the amazing vibe of us all coming together to enjoy it all is worth the effort.

This event was never supposed to be hyper competitive or super serious. Again, it’s just an excuse to come together for a weekend of car culture & community. So, if you’re one of “those people” up in arms over the fact there’s some ANDRA rules at an ANDRA venue or the fact your 9 second GT-R with sequential doesn’t qualify for “True Street” class you’re missing the point entirely. I’ll touch on the rules & regs tomorrow in more detail as it warrants a post of its own given some of the commentary I’ve seen.

When you see this event for what it is it should all make a bit more sense & really if this isn’t your cup of tea, you’re following the wrong page.

From a real-world perspective running a 1 event a year, high cost, regional event simply isn’t sustainable. We’ve known for a long time that we needed to diversify to defend what we’ve built but also give us the platform to grow further. We see this Motorplex event as being an addition to the existing event & also the launching pad for the Racewars brand to grow outside of WA.

A weekend long event without the stress & expense of the runway event inside the Perth Metro area; without the ball breaking pre-event scrutineering & days of set up also sounds like a welcome change for the team of selfless & perhaps senseless people who keep stepping forward to put these events on for you all.

As you can see this Motorplex event works on just about every level we can think of, it’s cheaper, simpler, easier for us all to be part of but it’s still going to be a heap of fun if you’ve all got the same mindset about it we do.

If you have; entries are open on the website. Sign up now & secure your slot. www.racewars.com.au

Tomorrow let’s talk tech.

Cheers
Jon