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by howie » Sat Mar 08, 2014 6:11 pm
The name of Late Model Trans-Am is going to be changed to: TA2. The reason is because there is a series called TA2 that is racing the late model Camaro, Mustang and soon to be Challenger in 1-1 scale. This series is a spin off/continuation of the Trans-Am that started in 1966. This is exactly what we are doing. If you go to links and click on Late Model Trans-Am, it will take you to their web site. Then click on Trans-Am 101 and you will read what TA2 is, also TA and TA3. Our rules will not change.
by howie » Sun Dec 15, 2013 12:11 pm
Small turnout for the TA2, but it was fun.
Kirk and I teamed up with my Trans-Am car to a win.
Thanks to Mitch, Bill, and Kirk for sticking around to corner marshal for us.
Here is the race results:
1st. Howie/Kirk 180 laps...................4.984455 sec.
2nd. Marty 177 .......................5.000514.
3rd. Gearloose 173........................5.156156
4th. Beau 163....................... 4.999666
Beau's new Mustang.
by howie » Sun Mar 31, 2013 10:13 am
The race of March 30th. 2013. The last race of the night had 4 entries so we made it short and sweet. Thanks to those who stayed and corner marshaled for this race. These cars are nice looking and fun to race!
by howie » Sun Jan 27, 2013 11:42 am
The race of Jan. 26th. 2013. The first race of the TA2 class. These cars are nice looking and handle ok. The rules have been modified ( check out the rules section ) to go wider on the tracking both front and rear with the addition of fender flairs to help the handling and to copy the look of the current 1-1 scale TA2.
Congratulations to Bob Nak. for winning the first TA2 race with his fine Mustang!!
Kirk is in better shape than he thought he was, he made it into the "Hole". Thanks Kirk.
The "outlaw" green car is of the OSCAR kind, Stuart wanted to race but didn't have a legal car. He was DQ'd.
Results of the first Late Model Trans-Am race
The previous posts to this topic were copied over from the Northwest True Scale Racers site with Howie's permission. The NTSR site is scheduled to close down at the end of this year. I will be copying over as much of the great information posted there as possible in the next few months. =====Bill
by howie » Sat Oct 08, 2016 10:01 pm
The Rapid 500 kicks off the 2017 season.
Results over all: 1st. Gearloose with 733 laps. 2nd. Beau with 702 laps. 3rd. Marty with 694 laps. 4th. Blake with 630 laps. 5th. Howie with 608 laps. 6th. John with 595 laps. 7th. Terry with 375 laps.
Xfinity results: 1st. Marty 2nd. Blake 3rd. Terry.
Sprint Cup results: 1st. Gearloose 2nd. Beau 3rd. Howie 4th. John.
The hard body NASCAR is going away, it will be in Lexan after this race.
by howie » Thu Oct 08, 2015 8:30 am
The 2nd. annual Rapid 500 took place on Oct. 3rd. 2015, Results are posted below.
Sprint cup:
1st. Gearloose.
2nd. Beau.
3rd. Stuart.
4th. Howie.
5th. Ted. ( DQ.)
Xfinity:
1st. Bob Nak.
2nd. Gary.
3rd. Blake.
Overall results.
by howie » Sun May 10, 2015 8:50 am
Last race of the season, May 9, 2015. Results:
1...Gearloose......194 laps...............4.508773 sec............white lane
2...Stuart...........186....................4.499786.................blue
3...Bob N...........170.....................4.780963.................yellow
4...Marty...........166.....................4.984149.................white
5...Ted..............164....................4.405840.................red
6...Howie...........156....................4.937157.................blue
7...Blake............155....................5.116690.................white
8...Beau.............153....................4.718216.................white.
There were a couple OSCAR cars in the race, but it was just a fun race anyway, and it was fun. This is the first NASCAR race since the Rapid 500.
by howie » Sun Nov 09, 2014 8:44 am
The first annual Rapid 500 is on the books. Nine racers showed up to do battle, I appreciate every one of them. The race was not with out it's glitches. First the blue lane needed a repair, while plugging in the soldering gun, a short in the plugin box caused the computer to lose the race. So we elected to start over and shorten the race. Then the blue lane needed to be re-repaired! With that done we proceeded to have a fine race.
We ran the classes together and scored separate, it worked out very good.
Thanks to my wife for the soup and potato salad.
This will be the kick off race to our future seasons.
The field.
The first start.
The second start.
by howie » Sun Mar 30, 2014 9:04 am
March 29th. 2014.last race of the season and what a race it was. Rain outside brought the racers inside! Bad Bob with his fast NASCAR won the race and set the bar higher by setting a new track record. Thanks to Kirk for bringing the fine soup and Marty for bringing his goodies to add to the other goodies. I put the final points on the News page.
by howie » Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:13 am
Race of March 1st. 2014. Seven racers showed up to do battle. The track was repaired in the "esses" and cleaned for this race causing some slippery conditions. I squeezed out a win over Gearloose. We have one race to go on March 29th, then start planning for the 2015 season. It was also discussed to set a new rule starting next season: to have the tracking set at a certain width for all NASCAR's, therefore eliminating the problem with narrow bodies. I think it is a good idea and I will install the new tracking rules asap. Also it was discussed to add flairs to the cars to avoid the look of tires sticking out beyond the body too much after cutting out the wheel wells for the tires to clear. I like that rule also. Marty has a flared NASCAR and it looks great. No it is not absolutely true scale, but so be it!
by howie » Sun Feb 23, 2014 12:03 pm
Race of Feb. 22, 2014. A lot of action both on and off the track. A few racers showed up that we haven't seen at Rapid for awhile: Stuart, Gary, James. Gary brought a new racer to the field, Dima Donchorov who shared a car with Gary.
This was the first race that hiked the entry fee to $4.00 and I supplied the food. Sorry guys, I will do better next time, although we ate pretty much the whole thing. Gearloose drove a great race and took the win. The track had a lot of rubber on it and so the times weren't that great. It will be clean for the race next weekend. Current points are on the News page.
Another Pontiac! Belongs to Bill.
by howie » Sun Feb 02, 2014 8:35 am
Race of Feb. 1st. 2014. A good turnout thanks to BB, Dave Smith, Bob Schaffer, Paul Painter, Larry Cockerham for making the trip up here to compete. It was a lot of fun and good racing!
by howie » Sun Jan 05, 2014 6:06 pm
This was the kick off to the 2014 NASCAR points series. I took an early lead in the points chase. I challenged the track record and was successful! Thanks to Bryan for bringing his hot dog roaster.
by howie » Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:50 am
Race of Feb. 16th. 2013. The competition is getting very close between True Scale NASCAR's and the OSCAR NASCAR's. NASCAR rules were discussed and tossed back and fourth and voted on and starting next season, only True Scale NASCAR"s will compete at Rapid Raceway. So next season will be True Scale format in all classes.
I'll also mention that Gearloose's True Scale NASCAR is a home built in-line chassis and is fast and handles great!!
by howie » Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:52 am
The first NASCAR race of the 2013 season. Dec. 15th. 2012. I lost the results by my own mistake. So we went by memory as to the results. I decided that for the remainder of the 2013 season, (Marty, Beau and I also discussed this issue after the race) that the OSCAR NASCAR's can compete with the True Scale NASCAR until such time it is decided to race only True Scale NASCAR. Bad Bob and I badgered each other's NASCAR which was good for some laughs. Beau took the time to set a new NASCAR track record with Kirk's new car at 4.7351 seconds.
The previous posts to this topic were copied over from the Northwest True Scale Racers site with Howie's permission. The NTSR site is scheduled to close down at the end of this year. I will be copying over as much of the great information posted there as possible in the next few months. =====Bill
by howie » Thu Oct 13, 2016 8:07 pm
Beau discovered several other 4.5" Indy car bodies that will be added to the body list. He also ordered 5 of the Outasite #0520 body to be put in the inventory of bodies for sale.
by howie » Sat Oct 08, 2016 10:25 pm
Marty is in the process of building an F1 car and John bought a body, so things are looking up for the class.
by howie » Mon Oct 03, 2016 9:42 pm
I finished this F1 last March or so ( see the Projects page ). We have a couple F1 races toward the end of the season ( 2017 ). Beau and I already tested our F1's and they handle great, should be a fun class with the open wheels as an added challenge! I am in the process of building another one for Blake and then another one for Dwayne. We can have a race with 5 people, so we need one more!
by howie » Sun May 29, 2016 7:39 pm
From now on this page will be known as the F1 page. We will have the F1 on the schedule in 2017.
Beau's new F1.
by howie » Mon Nov 10, 2014 5:28 pm
I am still on the Indy car thing. I have updated the chassis rules, the chassis is to be an open chassis. The Scholers are evidently going away as Professor Motor has been out of our favorite one for at least 8 months and they can't get a hold of anyone at Scholer. So, buy or build and let's get this thing going, maybe for the 2016 season!
by howie » Sun May 04, 2014 12:48 am
Update: No Indy cars have been built beyond Beau's. The class is not on the schedule yet for the 2015 season. Maybe if it was put on the schedule there would be a few put together. So stay tuned.
by howie » Sun Jan 27, 2013 12:06 pm
Beau brought his new Indy car to the Jan. 26th. 2013 race. After the race was over he tested it. It turned in the very low 4.3's! This is going to be a very fast class for next season. I am considering a summer race with these cars. There is a picture of Beau's Indy car on the Projects page. It has yet to be painted. His car is powered by a Hawk 7 on a Scholer Pantara chassis.
The previous posts to this topic were copied over from the Northwest True Scale Racers site with Howie's permission. The NTSR site is scheduled to close down at the end of this year. I will be copying over as much of the great information posted there as possible in the next few months. =====Bill
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