KCC 2008/2009 TB Road Race Finish Line Event Event Cache

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Nomex: Thanks to all that attended. Sounds like it was great fun.

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Kern County Cacher's 2008/2009 TB Road Race Finish Line Event

Everyone is welcome to attend the Kern County Cacher's 2008/2009 TB Road Race Finish Line Event. This event will be held on Saturday February 7, 2009 at 5 PM at Lengthwise Brewery in Bakersfield, CA.

The Finish Line Event will be a great opportunity to meet cachers from all over the area and share Geocaching war stories, trade trackables, discover coins, and relive the race that started back in October. So come join us to congratulate the racers, have a good meal, and share your experiences. The dinner is no host and you will be able to order whatever you can afford.

The KCC2008/2009 TB Road Race was started at about 1 PM on Saturday October 18, 2008 when everyone met for the KCC TB Road Race Start Line Event & Taft LP Sprint in Taft, CA (93268).

We had a great afternoon of fun and fellowship as we recounted the war stories from the early Taft Light Pole Sprint that had started at 9 AM. We wore our Road Race t-shirts to commemorate the occasion and then released the cars to peel rubber on out of Taft and into the world.

The Kern County Road Race was originally started by Hedge in 2007 as the RedNeck RoadRace Finish Line. My Flea Market Fred RedNeck RoadRacer Bug was the winner and part of my prize was 12 inactivated travel bugs and 12 plastic holders to go with them. Hedge suckered me into organizing the next race!

This year’s road race is a Hot Wheels theme. In order to encourage maximum participation, you must sign up to be in the road race and we will not be assigning TB characters to anyone.

There is an entry fee for participating in the Road Race. Considering that there could be way more than 12 racers in this race, we do not want to pay for all of you; however, using our access to the retail industry, we will be able to keep the costs down. Here is a break down for the entry fee.
Travel Bug: $4.25
Plastic ID Holder: $1.00
TOTAL: $5.25


The racer cars can be provided by the contestants. This enables you to pick a car that fits your particular style or create your own theme. You can also be lazy and have us pick a car for you. We can find Hot Wheels pretty cheap so we will provide you a car for and additional $2.00.

In order to encourage you to sign up early, the first 12 contestants to send me their Hot Wheels, Matchbox, or other similar sized toy car will receive a free travel bug dog tag and plastic ID tag (The first 12 freebee bugs are now taken, sorry).

There are three ways to pay your entry fee. First, you can send a personal check or money order in with your car to:
Wesley Morris
KCC Road Race
1277 Kern Street
Taft, CA 93268

Second, you can come by and drop off your car and your entry fee at the same address Tuesday through Friday from noon to 5 PM and on Sundays from 11 AM to 2 PM.

Your third option is that we have created a Pay Pal account.

Once we receive your racer and entry fee, we will create your racer and activate it online. All racers belong to elrojo14 so we can conduct proper race management like recalculating miles and marking items as missing. We have inserted the basic rules of the race into the listing and allowed you to add any thematic text that is appropriate for your racer.

Race Rules

1. Only one racer is allowed per Geocaching user.

2. Your racer will earn one mile for every mile it travels. The most miles wins. Owners may move their own racer as much as they want.

3. Racers will earn a bonus 100 miles for every unique cacher who moves it. A cacher can move your racer multiple times, but only 100 miles will be awarded for that single cacher. Discoveries do not count.

4. Bonus Caches: If your racer is placed (or dipped) in a designated bonus cache, your racer will earn 500 bonus miles. Bonus cache miles can only be earned once so multiple placements in the same cache will only result in one 500 mile bonus. Picture proof of the racer at or near the cache is highly encouraged, but not required. Here is a list of bonus caches:
AMS EMC (GCRG2Y) - Hampton, GA
The Simpsons: R.I.P. Maude Flanders (GC16573) - Bristol, TN
Welcome to Lowes (GC17KZ7) - Charlotte, NC
Gentlemen, Start your Engines! (GC19KVG) - Joliet, IL
Liberty Lane (GCHWJ2) - Darlington, SC
Off Your Rocker at 200 mph (GCJ1WQ) - Daytona Beach, FL
SBUX 14 - A Little Looney! (GCHBW9) - Dover, DE
California Speedway Race Car Cache (GCPJCT) - Fontana, CA
Kids just wanna have fun #2 (GC14E59) - Homestead, FL
A Bridge Not To Far (GC1CWD1) - Speedway, IN
Miller Park (GCKVCH) - Indianapolis, IN
For Race Fans Only (GCQM1E) - Kansas City, KS
Speedway Rock (GCVBN6) - Sparta, KY
Now Who is Being Petty? (GC17806) - Las Vegas, NV
A Monster of Green for the Queen (GC1AC33) - Madison, IL
Living water falls (GCWXBC) - Martinsville, VA
Nano 001 (GC1AHD1) - Mexico City, Mexico
MISplaced (GCR196) - Brooklyn, MI
Outa Gas (GCX18P) - West Allis, WI
Gilles Villeneuve (GCM46K) - Montreal, Canada
Southpaw's Pitstop (GCJZW5) - Lebanon, TN
Shaker Forrest GAS Saver (GCZFMQ) - Loudon, NH
Dragon Bait (GCJ704) - Avondale, AZ
Baby #24...A little Jeff Gordon (GCWYM6) - Long Pond, PA
Granddaughters Rule (GCQMPT) - Richmond, VA
Infineon and Beyond (GCFC71) - Sonoma, CA
Free Ga$ (GC1914M) - Talladega, AL
"LIL Boogity Boogity Boogity" (GCNBYJ) - Fort Worth, TX
Rt 414 Stop for a minute and do a cache (GCVB7B) - Watkins Glen International, NY
Live Life to the Full (GC12F8N) - Melbourne, Australia
Putrajaya Wetland Park (GCN0KF) - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Oil Well #1 (GCRQMQ) - Bahrain
Vilanova (GC1BN17) - Cataluña, Spain
Istanbul's highest (GC13V9X) - Istanbul, Turkey


5. Additional bonuses: If your racer leaves your home state and returns to a cache owned by you in your home state, you will be awarded 500 bonus miles. If your racer leaves your home country and returns to a cache owned by you in your home state, you will receive 1000 bonus miles. All racers will be released from California, so if you live in Oregon, your racer will have to re-enter Oregon, leave Oregon again, and then return to Oregon to receive the bonus. If you have not placed a cache, then you will need to place a cache to receive this bonus. Again photographic evidence of your racer at your cache is highly encouraged, but not required.

6. Grand Theft Auto: Kidnapping of cars is allowed and encouraged. If you are a registered participant in the KCC 2008/2009 TB Road Race you will earn bonus miles for kidnapping and moving an opponent’s car. For every mile you move an opponent’s car, you will receive those bonus miles. However, your opponent will also receive those miles. If you kidnap an opponent’s car and move it 435 miles, you will receive 435 bonus miles. If you place an opponent’s car in a bonus cache, you will also receive 500 bonus miles, but so will your opponent.

!WARNING! The California Highway Patrol takes GTA very seriously and investigates it vigorously. If you hold onto a hot ride for longer than 7 days, the CHP will catch you. Your racer will be penalized 500 miles for every day over 7 days you hold onto an opponent’s car. That 7 days is cumulative for the entire race per specific opponent’s racer.

8. Racers can only be moved by a live, registered Geocacher. Sending racers by mail and virtual moves will not be allowed.

9. All racers were released to their owners at the Kern County Cacher's 2008/2009 TB Road Race Start Line Event.

Any late registrants will be handled on a case by case basis.

10. The race ends on Friday February 6, 2009 at midnight PST. All log entries will have to be received in my e-mail at that time. The finish line event will be Saturday February 7, 2009.

There will be no limit to the size of your car. However, it is best to keep in mind if you have a larger sized toy car, it might not fit in a lot of caches and it might be hard to move around. We recommend any standard sized Hot Wheel or Matchbox toy car.

This event was made for everyone to enjoy. Try to keep the competition light and treat others as you would want to be treated. Most importantly, have fun!

The Racers

This is a list of the current racers and their owners:

Kellann's Chuki - Official KCC 2008/2009 Road Racer Pace Car

ahenrickson's Bakersfield Magazine Delivery Van
Audiotronic's Silver Bullet
Bako1313's "Major Hauler 1313 - Haulin' Major"
Bevan-r-us' The Gov'nor
BigPapaPedal's Redwood Rocket
Code Name Mom's Proof you live in Taft
d three and cappie g's Fast as Hell Chevelle
DASK's Rick Mears
Geogram1's Mighty Hyper Mite
geogrunt0311&geokat's "Yay 4 Mudd!"
Hedge's Volunteer Fire TowMater
Palms Raised's Mr. King
Ridgemaster & Bearclaw's Lightnin'
RnR's Spidey Mobile
RogerMoellman's Electric Gasser
Rusty cache finder's Rusty Hoopty
ryanandzulema's Mountain Missile
Squidteeth's Helen Highwater
Tall Grass Kids' Fast & Furious Fire Engine #7
Team Holder's #2 '63 Grand Sport Corvette
Thuggle Boys' Fat Rod
Tim&LeAnn's Buttonwillow Bruiser
treasurehuntinghomies' Wicked Awesome Ra-SAH

Final Results
Place Racer Actual Miles Bonus Miles Total Miles
1
geogrunt0311&geokat's "Yay 4 Mudd!" 
21175.5
18402.9
39578.4
2
Hedge's Volunteer Fire TowMater 
20798.6
14908.2
35706.8
3
RogerMoellman's Electric Gasser 
17503.5
14334.4
31837.9
4
DASK's Rick Mears
18383
13142.1
31525.1
5
Code Name Mom's Proof you live in Taft 
16955.8
3005
19960.8
6
Audiotronic's Silver Bullet
17640.1
2200
19840.1
7
Thuggle Boys' Fat Rod
16955.8
1400
18355.8
8
BAKO1313's "Major Hauler 1313 - Haulin' Major"
14854.7
3100
17954.7
9
Team Holder's #2 '63 Grand Sport Corvette
13048
2400
15448
10
ryanandzulema's Mountain Missile 
10447.7
1900
12347.7
11
bevan-r-us' The Gov'nor
9002.4
2900
11902.4
12
Geogram1's Mighty Hyper Mite
6845.5
2500
9345.5
13
Squidteeth's Helen Highwater
7259.5
1800
9059.5
14
ahenrickson's Bakersfield Magazine Delivery Van
6388.2
2200
8588.2
15
treasurehuntinghomies' Wicked Awesome Ra-SAH 
6414.8
2100
8514.8
16
Tall Grass Kids' Fast & Furious Fire Engine #7
4995.8
 0
4995.8
17
BigPapaPedal's Redwood Rocket 
3808.2
 700
4508.2
18
Rusty cache finder's Rusty Hoopty
649.7
690.4
1340.1
19
d three and cappie g's Fast as Hell Chevelle
793.7
 203.1
996.8
20
RnR's Spidey Mobile
25.3
 0 25.3
21
Palms Raised's Mr. King
 0 0 0
22
Ridgemaster & Bearclaw's Lightnin'
 0 0 0
23
Tim&LeAnn's Buttonwillow Bruiser
 0 0 0


There were six prizes at the final event.

First Place: geogrunt0311&geokat's "Yay 4 Mudd!"
Second Place: Hedge's Volunteer Fire TowMater
Third Place: RogerMoellman's Electric Gasser
Moved by the Most Cachers: bevan-r-us' The Gov'nor (9)
Furthest International Destination: ryanandzulema's Mountain Missile (8673.4mi from Taft)
Least Miles Traveled: RnR's Spidey Mobile (25.3mi)

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