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NASTE News for December
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Thursday Thunder Indy Car Race at Rapid Raceway
Saturday December 349, 2024
Thursday December 12th was all about the Indy cars at Rapid Raceway. The doors opened at 3:00pm and racing starting about 5:30pm. In addition to the great racing, coffee, cookies, and snacks of all sorts were on hand as usual. With 13 racers in attendance there was no doubt we were in for some open wheel fun!
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Northwest True Scale Can Am Race at Rapid Raceway
Monday December 344, 2024
The Can Am race at Rapid Raceway consisted of two rounds of 4 minute heat races. This class requires racers to use Team Bluegroove bodies on their chassis. Chassis include modified production and scratchbuilt brass chassis. Cars are powered by either Hawk 7's or Super 16D's. These are fast cars and this was an exciting race!
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PASER Trans Am Race - November 23, 2024!
Monday November 330, 2024
The PASER group came to The Gorge Raceway for some Trans Am racing on Saturday, November 23rd. It ended up at Rapid Raceway. Confused? It started with 11 racers testing, preparing and starting a 3 round, 3.5 minute heat length Trophy race then............computer failure!! Backup computer........didn't connect to the track. Howie, who owns Rapid Raceway, graciously offered to move the race to his track and a 1 round, 5 minute heat length race was contested. What started out as a disaster, ended up with a fun race and everyone had a great time.
Thank you, Howie.
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Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway Hosts OSCAR NASCAR Race
Sunday November 322, 2024
On Saturday November 16th, Inslot's Checkered Flag hosted the second OSCAR race of the '24 - '25 season. Although attendance was down compared to most OSCAR events, the racing was extremely close between all of the competitors! After one hour of on track, power on racing, just 27 laps separated the top three, and only 38 laps separated the bottom 4! The top three's fastest laps were within .000653 of a second of each other!
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Slammers at Rapid Raceway!
Monday November 309, 2024
A race featuring Northwest True Scale's Slammer Class was held at Rapid Raceway on Saturday November 2nd.
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NASTE Annual Halloween Race!
Saturday November 307, 2024
On Friday night November 1, 2024 NASTE held its annual Halloween race at Rapid Raceway. Rapid Raceway has been home to the annual Halloween race for a number of years now. This year's race had nine entries, some new and some old favorites!
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Welcome to NASTE
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 NASTE provides slot car hobbyist’s with opportunities to further their interest in slot cars through social gathers as well as structured race programs. NASTE also connects with other clubs which provides even more options for racing.
NASTE was established in 1996 by a small group of slot car racing enthusiasts in the Portland, Oregon area that wanted something different. At first we raced on a short, 3 lane routed 1/24 scale track. The racing was intense! Click here to view the original site. Soon we expanded adding more tracks to the racing schedule.
Our goal is to make our racing inexpensive, with the main focus being on having FUN! Besides, we have learned that low tech can be very competitive! So, check out our cars and tracks and drop us a line if you have any questions or comments. And if you're in our local area, feel free to join us. You are more than welcome.
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Upcoming Events
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Trophy Race - Rapid Raceway
Saturday January 04, 2025
This race will consist of two races.
1/24 Can Am Class race, and a 1/24 Porsche 962 Class race.
Entry fee is $15 and will include lunch and plaques through 3rd place for each class.
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NASTE Odd Thursday Race
Thursday January 09, 2025
Doors open at 3:00 PMClasses:
Le Mans
RevoSlot*
Open
*De-notes Point Series Championship Races.
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Trophy Race - The Gorge Raceway
Saturday January 11, 2025
1/24 Trans Am Class - 3 Rounds of racing Doors open at 9 AM - Racing at 10:30 AM Entry Fee = $15 - includes lunch & awards. This is the make-up race for the race originally scheduled for Nov.23rd. All those who paid at the cancelled race will pay nothing or if unable to attend the make up race, will get their race fee returned.
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Thursday Thunder Race at Rapid Raceway
Thursday January 16, 2025
1/24 Can Am Class.
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NWTS Chassis Building Session at Rapid Raceway!
Saturday January 18, 2025
Fellow racers;
Chassis session on Jan. 18. Doors open at 10:00am. I would like to concentrate on the Hanna type chassis and the #2NASTE. *Hopefully the kit for the Hanna chassis will be available by then. The kit is the center pan and side pans. You will need: motor bracket, guide flag and tongue, gears, soldering iron (if you have one) solder, flux, tires, axles and bushings, motor (S16D with the Chinese arms, the cheap one), wire from the motor to the guide flag, guide flag brushes, .063" piano wire, square brass tube 3/32x.014", these can be found at Parkrose Hardware or Hobbyland or perhaps Hobby Lobby. Something flat to solder on. *If the kit is not available, I and perhaps others have some proper brass for making the center and side pans. Yes, coffee, tea, goodies will be here. Any questions, comments?
See ya.
Howie.
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PASER Monday - The Gorge Raceway
Monday January 20, 2025
Doors Open with Open Track at 3:00PMSnacks and refreshments on hand!
Womp Class Race at 6:00PM.
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NASTE Odd Thursday Race
Thursday January 23, 2025
Doors open at 3:00 PMClasses:
Sports Car Class LMP
Slot.it/Polycar Classic*
Open
*De-notes Point Series Championship Races.
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Trophy Race - Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway
Saturday January 25, 2025
This race will be for cars that are legal for the OSCAR Late Model NASCAR Class. We held a chassis building class for these cars last year and many racers completed new cars during that class. This is your opportunity to bring those cars back out for some track time!
Please note; this is NOT an official OSCAR race. The racing format will be the standard PASER race format with round robin rotation. Driver rotation will be random as set by the computer. There will be NO qualifying/time trials. 4 minute heat races will be used with 3 rounds of rotation to complete the race.
Again; entries must comply with the OSCAR NASCAR rules.
Doors open at 9:00 am.
Trophy Race includes awards for 1st through 4th finish positions, and Concours.
Also includes lunch!
Entry Fee = $15
Rules:
General Rules for vehicle Preparation & Racing
No Tire Gluing Allowed
Track Gluing by track owner only Note: To prevent damage to track surfaces, when lighter fluid, tire conditioners or cleaners are applied to tires, make sure the excess is removed with a towel or allow tire to dry before putting on track surface Chassis:
All chassis must have beveled pans to protect track surface from gouging.
Must be a 90-degree inline configuration
Chassis may be constructed using any material.
Cars will have a minimum of .055” ground clearance.
Chassis cannot be visible or protrude past the body perimeter when viewed from above or through the drivers compartment. Visible chassis parts must be painted black or darkened as not to show.
Either oilites or ball bearings are legal for axles unless stated otherwise Tires:
All four tires must touch and roll on the track.
All tires will have black sidewalls
No tire will have less than ¾” diameter.
When viewed from above, tires may not extend beyond the widest part of the wheel opening, when the chassis is at its center of lateral movement.
Front wheels must not be partially hidden by the front or rear edges of the stock front wheel well. (This does not include the top of the well.)
Bodies:
Guide flags must not extend past the foremost part of the body when viewed from above.
All cars will have a painted, detailed driver to scale. Interior cockpit tray must conceal the whole chassis.
All cars will be painted. (Clearcoat does not count) and numbered in at least three places. Numbers will be at least ½” tall.
All bodies will begin races intact and complete, with no missing parts Bodies will have front and rear windows.
Replacement windows other than stock are not allowed.
Bodies may not be stretched or modified to fit the chassis.
Bodies may not have material moved unless specified in the Modification section of the class.
Late Model Nascar
Scale: 1/24th-1/25th
Years: 1980 to Present
Bodies: Replica of an American made “NASCAR” sedan no ASA cars.
Drivers: Vacuformed or resin cast.
Body height: 1/24th bodies shall not be less than 1 7/8” (1.875) tall measured from ½” behind the windshield at the center of the roofline to the bottom of the chassis (air dams excluded) 1/25th excluded from this rule but must not be lowered at all.
Modifications: Bodies may be trimmed to remove part of the front spoiler and side air dams (to stock valence height for proper track clearance.
Motors: Open Super 16D.
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Rapid Raceway
Saturday February 01, 2025
1/24 Late Sportsman Class for points.
1/24 Le Mans Class backup.
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PASER Monday - Rob's Redline Raceway
Monday February 10, 2025
Doors Open with Open Track at 3:00PM.
Pizza Dinner at 5:00PM! Flexi Class Race at 6:00PM .
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NASTE Odd Thursday Race
Thursday February 13, 2025
Doors open at 3:00 PMClasses:
Slot.it Group C
RevoSlot*
Open
*De-notes Point Series Championship Races.
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Trophy Race at The Gorge Raceway
Saturday February 15, 2025
1/24 4" Flexi Class - Trophy Race. 3 Rounds of racing.
Doors open at 9:00 AM - Racing at 10:30 AM.
Entry Fee = $15 - includes lunch & awards.
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