Had a great time racing with the Ford Driving Instructors tonight!

Ran a couple IROC style races, one with the dreaded VW Womps and a second with BRM Porsche 962s. ......And Bryan Dickerson won BOTH races!

Congrats to Bryan on some excellent driving, and thanks to Rico and Greg for puting up their BRM Porsches for the IROC (I Regret Offering Cars) Race!!!!

And the biggest thanks to Jeff & Amy for bringing all the food and refreshemnts and setting this event up!

We missed you Doc!

That sounds good to me Rico. I'll run a round with the NASTE Sports Racers we ran at Howie's, then we can run a Trans Am Class race. We should have enough loaner cars to get through it? I've got two cars we can use.

That works for me Rico!!! I'll add it to the calendar.

I can give you a ride home Doc if you can make it over.

This Thursday Sept. 8th TooBad Motorplex in Fairview will be open for a special night of racing for NASTE members and the members of the Ford Driving School.

Doors open at 4:00pm with racing to start at 5:00pm. The main race of the evening will be an IROC style race with the 1/24 NASTE Sports Racers as raced at Rapid Raceway last season. We will also race the Trans Am Class as spec'd for Odd Thursday racing.

This race is sponsored by Jeff & Amy Fields. Plan to come out for some racing, food, and fun!

Sure thing Doc!

Me too! I'd like to try it out!

Oh..............I HATE when I get FIRTS!!!!!...............MAN that HURTS!!!

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Here are some photos of Dan Fritz's fantastic digital track in Vancouver Washington:

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Here's a photo of yet another Rannalli chassied modified ready for competition. This one was built by Dan Fritz.

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I think there are enough of these out there ready to race to add them to my next Saturday race at TooBad Motorplex in a class of their own. This class will be designated the TBR (Team Bluegroove Rannalli) Modified Class.

Lists updated as of September 1, '16 races.

Off to a good start for September! Odd Thursday Night Racing on September 1st -

We had a great crowd of 14 racers fielding cars for the Can Am / USRRC and Le Mans Classes. It was really nice to see Goose Gossett, Dennis Hart, and Jeff Burns back at the track.

The Can Am / USRRC cars took the track first. We had five cars entered in the USRRC Division. Monte Saager raced to the overall win and firts in the Can Am Division with his Slot.it Alfa 33/3. Gary Goose Gossett tied Dennis Hart for eighth overall overall and first in the USRRC Division driving his MRRC Chaparral.

In the Le Mans Class Goose showed he had lost nothing in the skill department by taking the win. Dan Fritz gave the Goose a good finishing second just over a lap behind. And just a lap behind Dan was Jeff Fields in third. It was a very close race!

After we had completed racing the Can Am and Le Mans classes we ran the first Oregon leg of the Pony Car Wars Proxy. Thanks to Monte for organizing this event and giving us the opportunity to run the cars. It was a lot of fun!

Results:

Can Am / USRRC
1 Monte Saager   57.6 laps - 8.924 sec. fastest lap
2 Rico Locati  56.0 - 9.297
3 Amy Fields  55.8 - 8.666 T/M
4 Greg Petrolati  55.6 - 9.298
5 Al Christensen  55.3 - 9.256
6 Dan Fritz  55.0 - 9.259
7 Jeff Fields  54.3 - 9.199
8 - tie Dennis Hart 53.5 - 0.067 T/M
8 - tie Gary Goose Gossett  53.5 First in USRRC Division - 9.511
10 Mitch Brooks  49.8 - 9.972
11 John Fisher 49.7 - 9.879
12 Bill Bostic 46.1 - 10.209
13 Jeff Burns 45.4 - N/A RIDER
14 Evil Jimmy Jones 43.7 - 10.205

Le Mans
1 Gary Goose Gossett  56.2 laps - 9.367 sec. fastest lap
2 Dan Fritz  54.9 - 9.414
3 Jeff Fields  53.8 - 9.483
4 Rico Locati 53.7 - 9.393
5 Greg Petrolati 53.6 - 9.761
6 Al Christensen 51.5 - 9.952
7 Dennis Hart  51.4 - 9.861
8 Mitch Brooks  51.1 - 9.989
9 Bill Bostic  50.7 - 10.193
10 Monte Saager  49.5 - 10.202
11 Amy Fields  49.1 - 9.901
12 John Fisher 48.3 - 10.299
13 Jeff Burns 44.7  - 9.939
14 Evil Jimmy Jones 44.6 - 10.033

Thanks to all that were able to make it out for the night of racing!

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You had a good lead on me from the first two rounds. I don't think I could have caught you!

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WOW, that was a close race!

Update for this Thursday's Odd Thursday race at TooBad Motorplex:

After the Le Mans and Can Am races we will be holding the Pony Wars Proxy Race.

Update for this Thursday's Odd Thursday race at TooBad Motorplex:

After the Le Mans and Can Am races we will be holding the Pony Wars Proxy Race.

Terry Abbott showed up with a new vintage sprint car on a Rannalli chassis:

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Race action on Odd Thursday August 25th '16 -

Pictured left to right: Victoria Saager, Monte Smooth Saager, Chris Kouba, Terry Abbott, Anthony Schoepflin, Greg Greenman Petrolati, Dan Doc Fritz:

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Greg Petrolati showed up with a new vintage F1 chassis he is working on:

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Congrats on your win Monte! The Nissan was fast and you were driving like a pro!

Sorry I had to leave early Bob, but not before I had a chance to gobble down one of those delicious BBQ hot dogs!

Thanks for a great race day Bob & Terry!

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This Thursday 9/1 will be:

Le Mans
Can Am / USRRC
BRM Porsche 962
Over 50

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There are more great photos from the 2016 Portland Adult Soap Box Derby here: https://desomer.smugmug.com/Events/PDX- … /n-L8wCtd/

stumbley wrote:

I'll show up early some time to help with the modified race screens.

Thanks Stan, that would be great! I just can't seem to get that done. Computers are just not my area of expertise!

=========Bill