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I thought I took it home but I guess it's possible.  I'm out of town through Sun but will check when I get back.

Good racing last night.  I had a great couple heats side by side with Al, and the competition up and down the field is pretty tight!

I'm game!  Will happily contribute to the construction but would need it to reside somewhere else, at least for the near term.

Poking around, it looks like cars are reasonable.  I think I'm in.

Doors + roof and not Thunderslot = GT legal.

Go for it!

Yes, I would expect the intention is for points races, but I read "these cars" as the Can Am and GT classes, and specifically without TS cars.

T-Slots are ineligible for this season.  Period.  I believe the objective is to replace the TS rounds with fresh new (championship-counting) rounds without them.

We can figure out on the side how to integrate TS cars into the field going forward but for now they are out for any championship rounds.

I'm good with that.

It seems that only round 6 is causing the heartbreak.  I say scratch that round and let's move on.

Yes.  Restriction was removed in July.

Nothing.

That would suck.  I would miss running against you.

Yes.

http://naste.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=630

What specifically is your objection?  The inclusion of the GT40, or of the existence of a class of slower-motored, podded cars on skinny tires?

To be completely honest, I wasn't planning on buying one and intended to thrash on a Slot.It to get it competitive.  Then I was given a coupe as compensation for someone's portion of the 24h entry cost and I very quickly came to the same conclusion which Mitch references above, only I was spared the expense of trying to set up some other car first.  The Thunderslots are fairly untouchable in the short term and without spending equivalent sums of money on other ones.

After this, I did seek out and purchase the whitest-with-red-stripes-liveried spider I could find and tuned it in the same manner I did the coupe.  It was another step function quicker.  If I spend a bunch of time and money on my current Slot.it, I may get it close, but it's currently "only" running 6.9's at Al's, so it's certainly not near the pointy end.

That said, I do still believe it is possible to tune another car to be competitive with them, but it will take time and persistence.
After the racing on Thurs night, I got out the 962 which I don't run anymore to see where it was.  After a few laps I had it running 6.5's with occasional 6.4's....  So it's possible. But that car is heavily massaged and took quite a bit of time to get there.

I'll actually probably run it for the GT category race nights, just to have something other than a Thunderslot out there, that and my coupe isn't white with red.  We did discuss at the beginning if the Thunderslots were allowed (along with the NSR's), and we did all say yes.  I would be inclined to stick with that decision but understand they will probably need their own class.

Perhaps we allow them through the end of the series this year and then run them as a sub-class of Can Am on non-points nights.  We can decide if they remain championship legal at the start of next season again.  I don't particularly care one way or another, but also as Mitch says above, they really are spectacular cars to run and it'd be a shame to not use them.

It seems to be contagious... 

When I got home last night, I did a bit of a scrub of the house.  Guess what I found?  Yes, in a place where it was totally not supposed to be, I found my DiFalco.

All is right with the world now.

Thanks for an excellent night of racing!

I remember what the results were.....