NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (Page 9 of 82)

Odd Thursday Night on Decemeber 11, 2014.

First off, what wind???? Just the typical east county gusts here in Fairview!

We had seven racers for the evening, including one newcomer, Jeff Fields. We raced hard and heavy through the three usual classes of cars, then proceeded to bench race late into the night. I think I enjoy the bench racing just as much as the track racing! Must be because I'm an old guy!

Gary "Goose" Gosset was in top form and flew by us all for the wins in EVERY class! Well except for the Historic F1, only because he wasn't racing one! Jeff Fields placed first in the Historic F1 division. Rumors were also flying about bringing back the handicap rule. But I think it's just time for the rest of us to step up our game (pun inteneded). Next race I'm loadin' for goose!
Bring it on my feathered friend!!!

Results:

Classic Sports Car Class:
1st  Gary Goose Gossett 52.5 laps
2nd  Bryan Dickerson 50.1
3rd  Mitch Brooks 49.1
4th  John Morse 45.7
5th  Bill Bostic 45.2                                                                     
6th  John Fisher 41.2
7th Jeff Fields 38.7 

Vintage F1 Class:
1st Gary Goose Gossett 55.3 laps
2nd Bryan Dickerson 49.8
3rd Bill Bostic 48.2
4th Jeff Fields 45.0 - 1st Historic Division
5th Mitch Brooks 43.9
6th John Fisher 43.6
7th John Morse 41.0

BRM Porsche 962 Class:
1st Gary Goose Gossett 59.2 laps
2nd Bill Bostic 58.0
3rd John Fisher 52.9
4th Bryan Dickerson 52.1
5th Mitch Brooks 50.0
6th John Morse 49.3
7th Jeff Fields 49.0

Don't try to get away with using Turkey Feathers! We'll know!!!

I'm going on Amazon to see about buying a drone with an infrared camera to position over your place so I can find out how you are setting up your cars, and monitor how much practice time you're puting in!!!

Oh man..............I don't blame you!!!!

That sounds cool Mitch. Bring it out to the next race!

Oh yeah, the MONEY thing!!! Gets me all the time!!!  From racer to Ebay!!!

Next to leave the bench was my Scalextric Trans Am Camaro. This is my number 9 car. I have temporarily given up on my number 6 car that I was trying to keep mostly stock, with just a rear tire change. Although the car worked fairly well, the stock Scalextric rear wheels were just not up to the task. I first stripped, then broke 3 rear wheels! The number 9 car has updated Slot.it gears, rear axle, and wheels. While I had it on the bench I made some rear wheel inserts for it out of the ones I broke on the number 6 car.

Last one to roll off the bench. My race winning Scalextric vintage F1 Eagle went to a new owner. I had such good luck with that car I decided to pick up another Eagle to replace it. With this one I decided to add some decals to the body so I could tell it apart from the other popular Eagle entries. This one, like my first one, got some additional lead weight and Luf's rear tires.

Jimmy Jones celebrated his 71st birthday with us on this January 15th Odd Thursday Night of racing.  A new name was added to the winners list. Jeff Fields scored hiw first win in the Classic Sports Car Class with his Slot.it Ford GT40! Jeff out ran 10 other racers to the checkered flag, winning by a full two laps! The early leader, John Morse developed rear tire trouble on his Ninco Corvette which dropped him out of the running for the top spot. Gary Goose Gossett narrowly beat Bryan Trachsel by 3/10ths of a lap in the Vintage F1 Class. Mitch Brooks scored his second win in the Vintage F1 Historic Division. We raced the Over 50 Class of old school 1/24 cars for the first time. There were a few equipment failures, mostly mine due to poor pre-race preparation, but the racing was very exciting and fun! Based on feedback from those in attendance, it looks like this will be a popular class. We had a few loaner cars on the track for this race, and the same loaner car helped drivers to the top three podium finishes. What was that car you might ask? It was a totally stock Classic sidewinder witha clear plastic Lola body. And then we raced a fourth class for the night, the ever popular BRM Porsche 962s. These BRM cars are just way too much fun! Even racing four classes, we were finsihed with the race format by 10:30pm! It was a great night of racing! Hope you had a great birthday Jimmy!!!

Results:
Classic Sports Car Class:
1st  Jeff Fields 53.1 laps
2nd  Goose Gossett 51.3
3rd tie  Mitch Brooks 50.8
3rd tie  Rico Locati 50.8
5th  Bryan Dickerson 50.0                                                                     
6th  Greg Petrolati 48.6
7th Bill Bostic 47.9
8th Bryan Trachsel 47.8
9th Monte Saager 45.3
10th Jimmy The Birthday Boy Jones 45.1
11th John Morse 39.2

Vintage F1 Class:
1st Gary Goose Gossett 52.7 laps
2nd Bryan Trachsel 52.4
3rd Greg Petrolati 50.6
4th tie Jeff Fields 48.0
4th tie Bill Bostic 48.0
6th Rico Locati 46.9
7th Monte Saager 46.5
8th John Morse 44.8
9th Bryan Dickerson 43.9
10th Mitch Brooks 42.3 - 1st Place Historic Division
11th Jimmy Jones 38.5

Over 50 Class:
1st Greg Petrolati 48.6 laps
2nd Bryan Dickerson 48.4
3rd Rico Locati 46.1
4th Mitch Brooks 44.2
5th Goose Gossett 44.0
6th John Morse 39.3
7th Jimmy Jones 35.3
8th Bill Bostic 33.9

BRM Porsche 962 Class:
1st Gary Goose Gossett 56.6 laps
2nd Bill Bostic 54.0
3rd Mitch Brooks 53.8
4th Greg Petrolati 53.2
5th Bryan Dickerson 50.4
6th Rico Locati 48.7

A typical Odd Thursday Night

Bryan Trachsel and Goose

A walk through the pits

The rules for the Vintage F1 class have been updated and posted under the Race Rules topic in the Forum. The update adds cars to the list of elligible cars with the addition of two more classes. As in current practice, all of the Vintage F1 classes are raced together in one race, and scored with an overall winner as well as individual class winners.