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Classes for the Aug. 31st Odd Thursday Night Race will be Classic Sports Car and Can Am.

For the Sept. 7 race they will be GT and Le Mans.

Race results from 8/17/17

GT3
1 Daniel    68
2 Rico    67.2
3 Monte    65.9
4 Al    64.8
5 Mitch    64.2
6 Gary    61.6
7 David    57.4

F1
1 Daniel    67.1
2 Monte    66.1
3 Al    65.4
4 Rico    64
5 Gary    63.4
6 Mitch    59.9
7 David    52.2

BRM Group C
1 Rico    73.6
2 Al    72
3 Mitch    71.4
4 Daniel    70.4
5 Monte    69

Coming up with a time and date for a team meeting before the race has become quite a challenge. The best I can do is Friday August 18th evening after 6pm. I have determined a location yet, but I will do so after I receive confirmation from those that can attend.

Here's some points to think about before the meeting at which time we will assign some specific duties for our individual teams as well as all the teams collectively.

We need someone to be responsible for taking photos. This will be a duty covering all three teams.

We need someone to be in position at the speed bump located in the return tow route back up to the pit area. The speed bump is roughly 200 yards from the top of the hill or pit area. This person will responsible for unhooking our team cars from the tow vehicle, getting it safely over the speed bump, and then re-attaching it for the remainder of the two to the pit area. This person will not have to be at the speed bump through the entire race, only when one of our team cars is being towed back up.

If you would like to volunteer for either of those duties please let me know.

I would also like to get a contact number for each team member that will be on the hill. If you could email me the cell phone number you will have on you during the race that would be great. I will put together a list so everyone will have all the team member's contact numbers.

I would also like to make a list of all the team members planning to attend the after race party.

If you have any other concerns or questions please let me know.

Lastly, Dennis needs a small sized 12VDC "Boom Box" that will play single CD's REAL LOUD to install in the Flyer. He tried using one of those small round ones that kids plug headphones into and it  didn't work.  It has to be strong enough to drive real speakers. He will take it apart and set it up in the rear section to play appropriate crowd stimulating sounds as the Flyer flies by!  Cheap would be good.  Free would be better!  He has an old Sony that works bitchin, but Char likes it and won't let him dissect it to fit. The crowd would LOVE it!

Again, the pre-race meeting will be on Friday August 18th at 6:30pm, location yet to be determined. I hope this date and time will work for most everyone.

May the force of gravity be with you.

========Bill

New home stuff is dragging. Still no floors installed so no progress on getting settled. This sucks!

Info I received from Al regarding the classes for the next two Odd Thursday Night races:

F1 and GT3 on 8/17 and Classic Sport Cars and CanAm on 8/31

We got our cable service installed today so I am back up and running.

Unloaded a BUNCH of stuff today at the new place. We are having the floors and carpet redone so everything has to go in the garage for now. What a MESS!

Results from July 27th race at Al's Rippin' Ridin' Raceway -

Trans Am
1 Mitch    66
2 Rico    65.9
3 Greg    65.6
4 Daniel    63.7
5 Al    60.8
6 Fernando    60.8
7  Burns    59.6
8 David    58.8
9 Julie    53.2

Can Am
1 Daniel    72.1
2 Al    69.8
3 Mitch    67
4 Rico    66.7
5 Burns    62.4
6 Fernando    61
7 Greg    59.3
8 Julie    56.1
9 David    52.9

GT 3
1 Rico    68.5
2 Al    66.5
3 Greg    66.4
4 Mitch    66.3
5 Daniel    65.7
6 Fernando    64.8
7 Burns    61.4
8 Julie    59.5
9 David    52.1

BRM Group C
1 Rico    76.4
2 Al    72
3 Mitch    70.3
4 David    59
5 Burns    56.9

Looks like you guys had some close racing!

I think we need to do some experimenting with some of the ideas suggested and see where it takes us.

I know Al's track has the capability of adjusting the track voltage, and the lap time breakout could also be experimented with.

Just in case anyone was wondering, it is 3.3 miles farther to our new place in Vancouver than our current house in Fairview (as measured from the I-205 / I-84 interchange).

Time-wise that could be measured in HOURS depending on the day and time!

Probably no Odd Thursday Racing in the future at my place.............

Now that I think about it, what's the performance of the NC-1 in the old Ninco cars going to be like at 9 volts? Especially compared to the NC5 Speeder in the newer versions of the same cars?