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DUBUQUE, Iowa — Denny Trierweiler’s car hit the backstretch with a whir, outpacing the other cars in a blur — at 20 mph.
“On the dirt track I can get my late-model up to 40 mph,” said Dan Morgan, of Dubuque.
Trierweiler, Morgan and about 20 other radio-controlled race car owners recently met for a regular road-course racing event of the Dubuque Fairgrounds RC Raceway, the Dubuque Telegraph Herald (http://bit.ly/1HGiaMU ) reported.
“It’s fun. I’m retired, and I needed something to do. If I wasn’t doing this, I’d be fishing,” said Trierweiler, of Dubuque.
Trierweiler does more than race the foot-long cars. He tinkers for hours on them away from the carpeted, indoor track next to the Dubuque County Fairgrounds’ 4-H building. Trierweiler assembles the small cars, using parts from here and there.
“He’s probably put together 25, 30 or more,” Morgan said.
Trierweiler spent time between races Sunday making adjustments to a miniature red Mustang.
“I can’t drive them very well, but I like putting them together,” he said.
The Dubuque Fairgrounds RC Raceway group gathers for oval-course racing every Wednesday night and competes on the road course every other Sunday. The summer season finds those in the group racing their cars around a dirt track at the fairgrounds.
“It’s a great hobby sport,” said Morgan, who served as track announcer at Sunday’s event.
Morgan has raced the cars since the mid-1980s. He flew radio-controlled planes in the past.
“Then I had a bad wreck with my airplane and decided that
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