Sad Day for R/C in Ontario....

Fastcats has announced they will be closing their doors at the end of March. One of the great family run RC operations with a truly world class facility. This leaves the Greater Toronto Area (with a population of about 5 million?) with ZERO indoor RC tracks. Amazing how this population level cannot support one indoor track. Here is what John and Pam had to say on their site (www.fastcats.ca):

To all of our supporters, customers and friends..... It saddens us to make this announcement, but the FastCats track facility will be closing at the end of March this year. We have had 5 great years here in Oakville and hope that we have created a racing legacy people will remember for years to come. We have always strived to do our best in everything we have done and we feel that would not be who we are, if we simply closed our doors one day without any notice. As many of you who have been here with us for the last 5 years know, the hobby has seen many changes. We have tried to embrace them all and support the r/c community the best we can. However the past summers have become more challenging and while we are very busy now in the winters we are just not able to support ourselves over the summer months. We have remained open this winter to provide the winter season a place to play, but as the months of April/May arrive and we go through the usual downtime, while people wait for the outdoors, we are confident that it will be October/November before most of you will miss us and you never know what might happen locally by then. We don't feel that FastCats is done....we just feel that FastCats at this location is done. It would be our future hope to still be involved in the r/c community but cannot be specific in what capacity at this time, but we do have some plans....stay tuned! We hope you will continue to support us for the next 6-7 weeks, as it is still time to play indoors and we will still be here for you. So the facility goes on as usual until the end of March, with our schedule as follows.... offroad Feb 8th-14th - trophy race on the 14th onroad Feb 15th-28th - Northeast Grand slam Feb. 19-21 and TCS Feb. 28 offroad March 1-14 - "the Big Finale" trophy race March 7th (because of march break) onroad March 15-28 TCS tba Our website and forum will continue as a local gathering place for the r/c community. We thank each and every one of you that has made the last 5 years so memorable and for your support, we have made many friends. We especially want to thank our children: Stephanie, JB, Matt & Michael who have sacrificed many family moments for the sake of the track and to Nick Imineo, who has been with us since the beginning for his endless help, and to all “the guys” who have helped us over the years to run this place, maintain it and we hope make this a place to remember. We are proud to have been here and look forward to hanging out with you all in the future.

John & Pam


This family (and friends) have poured their heart and souls into RC and have sacrificed so much to make things happen here. I don't think they will be out long though (I hope). I am excited to see what they have in store for us as I don't think they can stay out of the industry long!

Thank you for all your hard work and the good times. Hopefully we will all be racing at Fastcats again soon...wherever it is.


Sidenote:
Looks like 10th scale is really taking a beating up here. Fastcats closing, Sid's Raceway on the brink of closing.

I will have to say: 8th scale electric is the future of electric up here! Time for people to pony up and convert I think. My MP9e is already on it's way....