Topic: OSCAR NASCAR at Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway on December 10, 2022

OSCAR held a race for their Late Model NASCAR Class on Saturday December 10th. We had 10 racers on hand to compete. Bob Nakamura was the recipient of the Racers Choice Award for his beautiful red #3 Chevrolet. That's right, Bob entered a Chevy!

Over the years I have come to really appreciate the OSCAR Race format. Races are held on Saturdays with a Friday night practice session preceding the day of racing. Doors open early on Saturday, with tech inspection at 9:30am. Racing starts at 10:00am with qualifying, which I like as it adds some formality to the event. Qualifying is a timed session where each racer tries to post their quickest lap. Racers qualify one at a time on the track for their timed session. Racers pick their race starting positions based on their qualifying position.

Saturday's race consisted of the OSCAR standard 4 minute heat races, with 4 rounds of racing (a round equals each racer racing all four lanes of the track once). What was evident early on in the race was how close the competition was! Eight of the ten racers were posting lap times under five seconds! Each racer got just over 2 hours of on track, head to head racing time. By 4:30pm we had a winner!

John Gill drove an exceptional race to take the win. On a side note John's motor died in his last and final heat race, with him coasting to a stop right as time ran out! Tom Street came in second 17 laps behind John, and Gary Tipton finished third just 7 laps behind Tom. Stuart Wall finished in fourth. The complete race results are posted below.

Thanks to everyone that made it out to make this race a success and extremely fun!   ======Bill

Race Results:
1st  Turing John              787 laps w/ 4.56 fastest lap
2nd Terrible Tommy        773             4.60
3rd  Gary T.                   766             4.65
4th  Stew Meat              760             4.71     
5th  Nak Nak (Bob)        756             4.82
6th  Scary Gary             737             4.84
7th  Korbynator             727             4.71
8th  Herbicidal Maniac    622             5.16
9th  Bad Billy                 510             4.77
10th Mitch                     451             5.37

Re: OSCAR NASCAR at Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway on December 10, 2022

I did manage to get some photos this time around!

Left to right: Turing John, Scary Gary, Herbicidal Maniac, Stew Meat, Gary T.
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L-R: Korbynator, Mitch.
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L-R: Scary Gary, Herbicidal Maniac, Stew Meat, Gary K.
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Mitch (now known as: SAMMITCH)
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Stew Meat
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Re: OSCAR NASCAR at Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway on December 10, 2022

NAK NAK
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Scary Gary
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Entries in the impound area
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Korbyn at the computer controls during qualifying.
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L-R: Mitch, Herb, Gary K.
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Re: OSCAR NASCAR at Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway on December 10, 2022

L-R: John, Herb, Bart, Stuart, Bob.
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Cars on the starting grid.
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Tom Street's NASCAR body is the oldest body still competing in OSCAR events.
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Bob Nakamura's award winning Chevrolet entry. Beautiful paint and detail!
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John Gill loaned me this car for this race. It featured one of the newest releases of the NASCAR Chevrolet Camaro. I proceeded to ruin every decal on the body, as well as destroy a set of gears! SORRY John!
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Re: OSCAR NASCAR at Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway on December 10, 2022

Look like it was a fun race for all..

The secondnidator

Re: OSCAR NASCAR at Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway on December 10, 2022

docdoom wrote:

Look like it was a fun race for all..

It was Doc at least until I smoked my 502.

Re: OSCAR NASCAR at Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway on December 10, 2022

Congrats to the podium. Looks like John was on form!

I was sad to miss this one, but you gotta have money to buy slot cars!

Zack