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AWESOME!!!!!

Bryan, If you email the photos to me I'll put them up for you.

=========Bill

Lists updated as of March 23, '17 races.

Odd Thursday Night Racing on March 23rd - We had some really tight race at Al's Rippin' Ridin' Raceway last night! First class on the starting grid were the GT cars. This is really a diverse class with sedans all the way up to prototypes competing with each other. This would be NASTE's version of run what ya brung! On this particular night Rico's Fly BMW sedan just squeaked out the win over Al's Porsche 962 by just 2/10ths of a lap. Less than 1 lap separated third through fifth!

Next up were the Classic Sports Cars for the NASTE Point Series Championship Race of the evening. Again we saw ten cars on the grid and the racing was just as close. Chris won the race extending his point lead, with Mitch coming in second, and Monte in third. This class is really shaking up the point standings.

A couple racers had to leave but we still had an impressive grid of eight racers for the start of the BRM Group C race. Rico had an impressive run to finish first with Al three laps behind. Dan followed in third just half a lap behind Al.

The last race of the night was for the Over 50 cars. Mitch again led the way to victory with his very dialed in Classic chassied Porsche 906. Al gave Mitch a good run but finished a lap short of beating Mitch with his KTM powered Cheetah. Fernando had an excellent run with Al's KTM powered Ford GT Roadster finishing fourth!

Welcome to new comer Andy! We hope you had a good time!

Here are the results:

GT Class
1 Rico    70.7 Laps
2 Al    70.5
3 Bill    67.9
4 Monte    67.8
5 Chris    67.4
6 Terry    66.3
7 Jeff    65.9
8 Fernando    65.5
9 Daniel    62
10 Mitch    60.6

Classic Sports Car Div.I - Official NASTE Point Series Championship Race - 2017 Season - Race No. 14
1 Chris Kouba 66.1 laps - 10 points
2 Mitch Brooks 65.3  -  9 points
3 Monte Saager  64.8 - 8 pts.
4 Terry Abbott 64.1 - 7 pts.
5 Al Christensen  63.4  - 6 pts.
6 Rico Locati 62.0  - 5 pts.
7 Dan Fritz  61.9  - 4 pts.
8 Bill Bostic 60.5 - 3 pts.
9 Fernando Carvalho  57.9  - 2 pts.
10 Jeff Fields  57.0 - 1 pt.

BRM Group C
1 Rico    73.8 Laps
2 Al    70.6
3 Daniel    70.1
4 Bill    69.4
5 Chris    68.7
6 Mitch    64.9
7 Fernando    62.4
8 Andy    54.3

Over 50
1 Mitch    67.8 Laps
2 Al    66.9
3 Bill    65.9
4 Fernando    63
5 Chris    60.1
6 Andy    44.1

Thanks Chris,

The track is L shaped with an overall footprint of 17 feet by 15 feet. At the widest point which is where the overpass is, it is 7 feet across. The upper part of the track is 5 feet across, and the lowest portion is 5 1/2 feet across.

Here's some photos from the race.

The grid for the NASCAR race.

Racers L to R: Bob, Ted, Bill, Blake

Xfinity Series car - Pattos body

Starting grid for the Can Am race

It's on the calendar Chris for April 6th.

It was a fun race! The new NASCAR Class is great! The racing is very close and competitive!

Way to go Monte!!! So glad we have you in our slot car group!

OK, here's what we think we know at this point. It seems the higher powered 1/24 cars wreak havoc with the Race Coordinator as we have it set up. We used Monte's interface board and a separate power supply for it, between the computer's parallel port connection and the track power relay which seemed to help. We think with 1/32 and HO cars this cofiguration would work fine, but with the Super 16D motors and greater there were still issu3es with the track power shutting off before the timed race was over. Our fix was to use the Race Coordinator program in conjunction with Trackmate hardware. Once the Trackmate hardware was installed, including the Trackmate interface board, Race Coordinator worked fine. Rapid Raceway is up, running, and race ready!

Monte dropped off the other components we tried at Al's today for him to test. We'll see how they work on Al's track.