Really happy right now.

[leo-rcc]

RC-BOMB, the off-road RC model car racing club I helped its foundation of, has gotten together for the first time in our own location. Since March of this year we've been racing on the private track of one of our members, which is a nice track and we are grateful he let us use it, but with over 60 members and roughly an equal amount of RC cars it was getting too cramped.

Now, with the aid of the city council and support of our sponsor, we've signed a lease for indefinite time on an old football (that is soccer for Americans) field which we can convert to one of the largest off-road model race tracks in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Google streetview link to the location

I'm really pleased that 8 months of hard work is paying off. January and February our club will be building up the track, and in March we want to hold our grand opening and first race.

[Darwinian]

Sounds hyper-cool I'm very happy for you as well

[fr0d0]

Nice one Leo! Try not to upset the neighbours!

[theVOID]

I'm sure fr0d0's laws are lovely if things go wrong with the football field

[leo-rcc]

Of course we have looked at the noise factor for the area, as it is also part of our permit plan. We have open fields on three sides, so no neighbours to contend with there. Across the street are houses, but they are part of the busiest street of Bergen op Zoom so I doubt they'll hear us above the regular traffic noise. For the moment however we will not allow bigscale racing, just nitro and electric 1:8 scale or smaller. That will stop most noise pollution from day one.