NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (Page 45 of 82)

Can Am starting grid for a heat race.

Pictured left to right: Jake, Mitch, Chris.

Just an indicator of how fast Monte was, even the camera couldn't catch him!

Staring grid for another Can Am heat race.

Pictured left to right: Monte, Chris, Al, Zack.

Monte, The Big Smooth!

Race host and fisherman extraordinaire Al, or MEAT as we like to call him!

Jeff taking a break to get in a little bench racing between races.

Hey Montie quick question for you. that dtm car was missing one body mounting screw, were those factory or after market screws, I have nothing in my stash that is that big. thanks also did you find those t/a rears tires i was looking for? see you all Thursday......

My box is packed and sitting by the front door. I even have my Carrera DTM packed for some testing. It was the first car to break into the 6s on my track.
It's getting some traction now. I've pulled out and tuned some cars with rubber tires on them and have been running the dickens out of them. Since I woke up with a cold Christmas eve our plans got postponed so between the three lanes I ran over 2,000 laps yesterday, some on autopilot and some as fast and hard as I could without coming out. It's a long walk around that track.

Thanks see at the speedway then

Race results from the sixth race of the 2019 point series held at Al's Rippin' Ridin' Raceway:

GT3:
1 Daniel   67.6 Laps
2 Rico   67.4
3 Al  66.8
4 Jake  64.8
5 Zack  62.9
6 Monte  62.7
7 Mitch  61.9
8 Bill 59.9
9 Jeff  59.3
10 Bryan Dickerson  39.6

Le Mans Class - NASTE 2019 Point Series Championship Race No.6:
1 Monte 70.7 Laps
2 Daniel   70.5
3 Rico   69.4
4 Al  68.5
5 Bill  67.3
6 Jeff  67.0
7 Zack  61.4
8 Mitch   57.9
9 Bryan Dickerson  56.0
10 Jake  49.8

Open Class Results:
1 Bill 77.8 Laps
2 Al   75.7
3 Daniel   73.2
4 Rico  69.8
5 Bran Dickerson  66.5
6 Mitch  66.4
7 Zack  63.4

What a great way to start out the new year racing at Rippin' Ridin' Raceway on January 3rd 2019. We welcomed a new racer, Kevin to the group, and then proceeded to thrash some cars!

The first class to grid up was GT. The basic rules of this class state cars must must have a roof and full fenders. Most cars fit into this class which makes it easy for newcomers. Initially NSR brand cars were not allowed in the class but, since the price point of NSR cars has come down and the cost of building a competitive car has gone up, the restriction was removed. The outcome of that decision is reflected in the results of the race listed below. Note that my winning NSR Porsche 917 was totally box stock. I took it out of the box, loosened the chassis pod and body mounting screws and raced it. It is running the original stock, treaded tires.

GT Class Results:
1 Bill   79.8 Laps
2 Al   77.1
3 Mitch  73.4
4 Greg  69.0
5 Rico  67.7
6 Jeff  67.2
7 Daniel  66.1
8 Zack  64.4
9 Monte 51.5
10 Kevin Lagassa  49.5

Can Am was the next class up and the night's race for points. Monte killed us with his awesome scratchbuilt Porsche 917. Al followed in second with Mitch finishing third.

Can Am Class - NASTE 2019 Point Series Championship Race No.7 @ Rippin' Ridin' Raceway:
1 Monte 77.7 Laps
2 Al   76.8
3 Mitch   73.8
4 Daniel  73.6
5 Greg   68.2
6 Jeff  67.7
7 Bill  67.0
8 Zack  65.1
9 Rico  63.5
10 Kevin Lagassa  58.2

Greg Greenman Petrolati brought along his new 1/24 scale Fiat to last night's race. Pretty cool car!

One of the GT Class grids.

Around the room from the left: Kevin, Rico, Zack, Daniel, and Amy.

Around the room at Rippin' Ridin' Raceway on January 3rd. From the left: Monte, Daniel, Kevin, Zack, Jeff, Al, and Rico.

Can Am Class grid.

As a side note, after several racers left for the evening, the remaining six of us ran an open class where we set a new lap record of 6.22 seconds. It was a Thunderslot of course, However a couple of NSRs and a Slot -It during the evening were clocked in the 6.5-6.6 range, unheard of just a year ago. Whoever thought that 73 laps would be just good enough for a 3rd place finish?
I'd like to think we were finally getting the hang of this hobby, but it's probably just more rubber on the track.