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Update from our Crew Chief/Designer/Builder/Driver:

GRAVITY RACING UPDATE

Gravity Racers hit the road on Tuesday with a short trial run.  The car is fast and responsive.  Horn, warning lights, back-up camera system, steering and brakes all function as planned. Front quarter panels, hood and final paint job and livery are all that remain.  Planning a run down Scappoose/Vernonia HWY ( 45 mph +) SOON..

5 shares @ $ 10 each remain.  Be part of History and share in the glory at the upcoming race on August 20th.

Will advise on S/V trial run date.  Probably on a Sunday morning (fewer cops and less traffic). All are invited to witness and celebrate at the local pub following.

Valeria Victrix !

- Dennis

Here's some more pictures from work session #3

Here's the steering system. This cable setup is straight off the current U.S. Soap Box Derby Cars

NO, the rollbar is NOT made out of an old person's walker!!!

Thanks Rico, great pictures!

Thanks for the reminder Dan. Web page needs updating. I'll get on it!

The next work session will be next Tuesday, June 21st from noon to 4 PM.  As usual, lunch will be served at noon.

We will be hooking up all of the various gizmos into a working electrical system, installing the remaining bodywork and hopefully taking her for a test run.

Dennis

Here's some pics from last night:

Mitch's CalifOregon Sportsman.

Glenn's '57 Chevy on a scratchbuilt chassis.

June 9th 2016 Odd Thursday -

We han an enthusiastic crowd of 19 racers last night, and we raced our butts off! We started the night with the Classic Sports Car Class in which John Fisher finished first. Monte Saager was second overall, and first in division I racing a Ninco AC Cobra! The racing was so close the top eleven were within four laps of each other! After the classic sports cars we raced the F1 Class. This class is also very competitive , especially considering the class is broken into multiple divisions. Six of the divisions were represented last night. Glenn Heath scored the win with a Modern Division Scalextric A1GP. This win puts Glenn on the Winner's List! Congrats Glenn!

With so many racers the first two races were not over until 10:00pm. But that did not stop 10 racers from sticking around to race the BRM Porsche 962s. The action in this class is fierce! Racing these 1/24 BRM Porsches on the tight TooBad course is exciting to say the least! Can you say "bump pass"? If you can't, you better learn! Rico Locati barely squeaked out the win over Goose by just 1/10th of a lap. Last but not least, those of us that could still stand put our Over 50 Class cars on the track. Gary Gossett showed us how it's done by beating us with his Cox Dino Ferrari.

A big thanks to all that were able to make it out to race! I know the traffic was terrible last night, and I really appreciate the effort you all put out just to get here!

Results:

Classic Sports Car Class
n/c Gary Goose Gossett 54.9 laps
1st John Fisher  53.5 + First in Division II
2nd Monte Saager  53.1 + First in Division I
3rd Bill Bostic  52.3 - Div.II
4th Amy Fields 51.7 - Div.II
5th John Morse 50.2 - Div.I
6th Al Christensen 50.1 - Div.I
7th Bryan Dickerson 49.7 - Div.I
8th Greg Petrolati 49.6 - Div.I
9th Stan Smith 49.4 - Div.I
10th Chris Kouba 49.3 - Div.I
11th Mitch Brooks 49.0 - Div.I
12th Anthoney Schoepflin 48.5 - Div.II
13th Rico Locati 46.8 - Div.I
14th Dan Fritz 46.7 - Div.I
15th Glenn Heath 45.2 - Div.I
16th Rene  40.2 Div.II
17th Alec Vandehay 39.8 - Div.I

F1 Class
1st Glenn Heath 55.3 laps MD w/mag
2nd Goose Gossett 54.5 + First in SVD
3rd Rico Locati 53.9 SVD
4th Dan Fritz 53.0 SVD
5th Amy Fields 52.2 MD + First in MD
6th Jeff fields 52.1 MD
7th Monte Saager 51.8 SVD
8th John Fisher 50.9 + First in SWD
9th Bill Bostic 50.8 SVD
10th Chris Kouba 50.2 + First in MND
11th Mitch Brooks 49.7 + First in SND
12th Rene 49.6 MD
13th Anthony Schoepflin 49.3 SVD
14th Bryan Dickerson 49.2 + First in END
15th Al Christensen 48.2 SVD
16th Greg Petrolati 47.4 END
17th John Morse 47.3 SVD
18th Alec Vandehey 44.1 MD
19th Stan Smith 43.9 SVD

BRM
1st Rico Locati 61.3 laps
2nd Goose Gossett 61.2
3rd John Fisher 60.4
4th Chris Kouba 59.9
5th Stan Smith 57.3
6th Al Christensen 56.5
7th Bill Bostic 56.2
8th Glenn Heath 53.3
9th Mitch Brooks 50.3
10th Greg Petrolati 43.1

Over 50 Class
1st Goose Gossett 50.9 laps
2nd Chris Kouba 50.3
3rd Al Christensen 50.2
4th Bill Bostic 48.4
5th John Fisher 37.0

I may have somewhere Rico. I'll take a look tonight.

Meet the NASTE Sports Racers.......................race 'em this Sunday at Rapid Raceway!

Things have finally calmed down around here and settled close to normalcy. So I've had some time to again read through this string of messages. I want everyone to know I really do value your input and try to see or understand all the different points of view. My goal is nothing more than to make the racing with NASTE the best it can be!

The Odd Thursday Night Races are going very well. I plan to continue partnering with Al holding the races as they are currently formatted through the summer months.

As for the weekend NASTE events, Monte will be taking over the administration duties of those races. I will be concentrating on the Odd Thursday Night Races. I'd like to thank Monte for volunteering to help split up the duties involved with the operations of NASTE.

Dorothy, I intended to try and address each of the issues you had brought up in your "novel", but after reading through it again I'm not really sure what point or points you are trying to make? From what I can understand it seems you take issue with those that in your opinion take the racing too seriously? And your main concerns seem to be centered around the weekend races as you do not participate in the Odd Thursday Races? So I guess I'm thinking maybe you did not read all of my posts or you or misinterpreted my meaning? Everything after my statement that I would be removing the Point Series Championship from the traditional NASTE weekend races, were statements and proposals of how I intended to facilitate the Point Series Races at the Odd Thursday Races. They had nothing to with, nor any bearing on how the NASTE weekend races would be formatted or run. None of my side of the discussion has had anything to do with changes to the weekend races other than removing the point series. Which again you wanted me to do in the first place as I remember? So if you don't participate in the Odd Thursday Races anyway, and the point series is gone from the weekend races, I'm really confused as to why you seem dissatisfied enough to stop coming to the "new" NASTE races? I apologize if my comments were not clear enough!

Thanks for your input Dorothy.

Just for clarification; 1. I do not consider NASTE MY club. I DO consider the Point Series Championship MINE as I promote, sponsor, schedule the races, administer, and fund a large portion of it. 2. YES, Odd Thursday Night Races are considered NASTE Events.....

Please remember I am NOT talking about changing the weekend NASTE events. I am only planning to remove the NASTE Point Series Championship from those events. Half of the people in attendance are not participating in the series anyway. I know you for one were a proponent for doing away with the points series. I am just proposing to move it to another venue.

And thank you for the kind words!

=========Bill