My Name is Dan Walter,

I am twenty nine years old with a high school diploma and fifty-six college credit hours. I am an underwriter at RSI International and have been for six years. It’s a family run business that my father owns, my brother is also an underwriter and my sister is the accountant. I am able to change my work schedule as needed to fit a racing schedule. I work with many people on a daily basis and am very sociable.

I rediscovered my love of RC cars last summer and have become actively involved in the St. Louis Dirtburners RC Club, www.dirtburners.org, I am the track manager this year and built the track for The first round of the Missouri Pro series and the first round of RC Pro Series Midwest Division. Every time I race I learn something new. I am willing to help fix anyone’s broken car, marshal when it’s my turn or when extra marshal’s are needed, and the most important thing it to listen to the other racers. I believe that I am an excellent ambassador because I will take the time to answers spectators questions and try to encourage them into this hobby.

I race as much as possible because every time I put my car down I get faster and learn something new. I raced electric all winter and it made a huge difference in my nitro driving once the summer season started. I can race and compete to win with every car I own and love every minute of it.

Races I plan to attend in 2006
RC Pro Series Missouri, Three Races
RC Pro Series Mid-West, Four Races
St. Louis Off Road Series
A few Money/Trophy Races
Club races

Currents Cars are:
1/8th Scale – Jammin X1-CR Buggy
1/8th Scale – Jammin X1-CRT Truggy
1/10th Scale – XXX-T Matt Francis
1/10th Scale – ZX-5 Kyosho

I have only been racing since August 05’ and can beat any driver at the club level except some of the local factory pilots. My goal by the end of the summer is to beat them and place in the top 20 in the RC Pro Series Midwest so I can go to the Championships. I raced electric all winter but didn’t keep track of my results. Here are my nitro results I kept track of from when I started racing last August. I quit keeping track of club level races because the club president isn’t very good about posting them.

Dirtburners RC Club
8/9/05 2nd B-main
8/16/05 3rd B-Main
8/23/05 5th B-Main
8/30/05 3rd B-Main
9/13/05 2nd B-Main
9/20/05 7th A-Main
9/29/05 2nd A-Main
10/4/05 5th A-Main
4/18/06 6th A-Main
4/22/06 10th A-Main (broke)
4/25/06 4th A-Main
4/29/06 3rd A-Main
5/6/06 4th A-Main
5/23/06 1st A-Main
5/27/06 1st A-Main
5/30/06 3rd A-Main

R/C Motorheads
8/28/05 2nd A-Main
9/25/05 1st A-Main

St. Louis Off-Road Series Round at RC MotorHeads
8/21/05 2nd A-Main Sportsman

St. Louis Off-Road Series Round at Dirtburners
9/4/05 5th B-Main Expert

Pleasant Hill – RC Fall Shootout Trophy Race
10/14/06 1st A-Main

RC Pro Missouri – Round 1
Last B-Main – Broke shock bolt

RC Pro Midwest Division, Round 1, Dirtburners St Louis, MO
8th D-Main 1/8th Scale Buggy Expert

RC Pro Midwest Division, Round 2, JCP Indiana
6th C-Main 1/8th Scale Buggy Expert
9th B-Main Expert truggy ( lost control and shut down)

RC Pro Missouri – Round 2, Novelty, MO
1st A-Main 1/8th Scale Buggy Expert

 

RECENT UPDATES:

The Second round of the Missouri RC Pro Series was this past weekend in
Novelty, Missouri. I got there the morning of the race for the few hours of
practice. I got my car dialed in very quickly because the motor holds a
good tune so I needed very few minor adjustments. In the first round of
qualifying I made only one mistake by jumping the big triple and landing on
top of a buggy which flipped me on my lid. I still ended up with the best
run in the first round so I got Zero qual points. The second run I had a
bit of trouble with some traffic and had the third best run so I got three
qual points. I was still in second overall so I needed one more zero to
hopefully wrap up the TQ position. My third run was almost flawless and I
thought I had done it until the sheets were posted and I took second by one
second, two qual points for round 3. Round 4 I had a good run going until
the last lap I earned another lap and someone who was finished decided to
take another lap and got in my way and wrecked me. The marshals were
already off the track so It really killed my last run. I got four qual
points so there was no hope for the TQ position in the A-main. I ended up
with second overall with two total qual points, the TQ position had Zero.
Before the mains I went completely over my car and got mentally ready to go
for the win. I took a few laps, settled my nerves, and pulled into the
second position on the grid. The race started and in the first turn someone
ran into me and I was all the way back to 7th position. I didn't let the
bad start effect me and started putting down the fastest laps of the entire
day. By the fifth minute I was all the way up to second place. I took a
pit which bumped my back to forth but I easily took second back within a lap
and continued gaining on the leader. Buy the tenth minute I was comfortably
in second and took another pit. The leader was four seconds ahead and we
were running almost identical laps for the next five minutes. We both took
our last pits and started the last five minutes of the race. After two laps
the leader made a mistake which gave me the lead. After a couple laps we
were battling for the lead position. He took the inside lane coming onto
the straight and I was forced to back off or wreck us both. I stayed right
behind him for a minute or two and he cased a jump badly, his pipe came off
the engine and I was able to cruise to the victory.
It was a good race and my STS team motor was strong the entire twenty
minutes. I had good pit man, my laps were only three second off my average
when I pitted, which really makes a difference in the mains. I'd just like
to thank RACERNINE and STS Motors for giving me the opportunity to represent
there company and run their motor.

Thanks,
Daniel R Walter