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Excellent pictures Dorothy!!!

Tracy, thanks for letting me win!!!!

Thanks Goose!

If you haven't taken a look in the NASTE Library in awhile you might want to check it out. It is growing! We have been adding instruction and specification documents from various manufacturers of slot cars and equipment, as well as racing sets from the 1960s.

The new, just off the work bench Kouba Kobra showed up to race last night.

April 23rd Odd Thursday Night racing -

The night started off with Monte running the Carrera Scramble Proxy. I was absent from the race, but you can see the results here: http://www.slotcarillustrated.com/porta … post905544

In addition to the proxy race we were able to get in another four classes of racing!

Al Christensen made the winners list by taking the top spot in the Trans Am Class. Gary Goose Gossett trailed Al by just three tenths of a lap. Greg Petrolati was a lap back in third. Congrats on your win Al!

Trans Am Results:
1st Al Christensen 53.5 laps - Fastest Lap of the Race 9.289 w/mag
2nd Goose Gossett 53.2 - 9.673
3rd  Greg Petrolati 52.1 - 9.627
4th Chris Kouba 51.5 - 9.971
5th  Bill Bostic 51.1 - 9.721
6th  Monte Smooth Saager 50.8 - 10.076
7th  Mitch Brooks 49.7 - 9.913
8th  Rico Locati 49.4 - 10.015
9th  Lance Spiering 42.0 - 11.097

In the GT Class the racing was extremely close! Chris Kouba returned to the podium racing his Slot.It Porsche 911 GT1, with Rico Locati just half a lap back. Jeff Fields raced to an impressive third place finish two tenths of a lap behind Rico.

GT Class Results:
1st Chris Kouba 58.4 laps - Fastest Lap of the Race 8.544
2nd Rico Locati 57.9 - 8.565
3rd Jeff Fields 57.7 - 8.770
4th Gary Gossett 56.7 - 8.809
5th Monte Saager 55.7 - 8.984
6th John Fisher 53.8 - 9.429
7th Amy Fields 50.9 - 9.675
8th Greg Petrolati 50.6 - 9.500
9th Al Christensen 50.5 - 9.399
10th Mitch Brooks 48.5 - 10.169
11th Lance Spiering 45.8 - 10.167

In the Over 50 Class the Goose showed us the way home again winning with a two and a half lap margin! Bryan Dickerson was second with Rico just three tenths of a lap behind him.

Over 50 Class Results:
1st Goose Gossett 52.2 laps - Fastest Lap of the Race 9.297 & new class record.
2nd Bryan Dickerson 49.8 - 9.734
3rd Rico Locati 49.5 - 9.570
4th Al Christensen 49.3 - 10.396
5th Greg Petrolati 49.2 - 10.354
6th Monte Saager 46.9 - 10.331
7th Chris Kouba 43.4 - 9.837
8th Bill Bostic 39.8 - 11.128
9th Mitch Brooks 38.0 - 11.531

Rico Locati beat Goose by half a lap for the BRM win, with Chris Kouba in third another four tenths of a lap back.

BRM Porshe 962 Results:
1st Rico Locati 60.9 - Fastest Lap of the Race 8.229
2nd Goose Gossett 60.4 - 8.334
3rd Chris Kouba 60.0 - 8.517
4th Bryan Dickerson 53.2 - 8.569
5th Bill Bostic 52.5 - 8.368
6th Al Christensen 47.5 - 9.577

Currently we are racing pretty much ANY vintage F1 type of car. Although the rules as written for the NASTEburgring detail Cartrix and Scalextric cars, we have added scratchbuilt, other manufacturers, and newer versions of F1 cars to the racing at TooBad Motorplex on Odd Thursdays. I am fine with running any type of F1 cars participants are interested in racing. My question would be; as we expand the list of elligible cars do we want to better group them in separate heats by year raced or style of car? Another option might be to have an F1 race night where we run different classes of F1 cars instead of the current classes? Or do we just keep racing all the different types of F1 cars together and I group them in finish order overall and by class? Whatever we do i will need to update the rules for the Vintage F1 class or classes.  =========Bill

San Francisco sucks! Freeks, bums, garbage, facilities that don't work, and just plain TOO many people!!! I am SO glad to be outta there!  Staying over in Medford tonight.

Took Hwy 128 over from the coast to Santa Rosa today. Temp in the 80s once we got into the valley. Saw lots of vineyards, really twisty roads, and more really BIG trees!!! Checked out an antique shop in Santa Rosa and picked up some cool old magazines for $3 apiece. Scale Modeler Volume 1 Issue 1, and some early 60s car mags. Pretty cool!

Guess I'll have to change my strategy!

Here we are in Grants Pass this morning. Weather is iffy at best and cold. Found a cool antique mall yesterday. I picked up a bunch of old books yesterday, 1960s and 70s vintage. In the group was a 1967 pocket size Ford Racing soft back pocket book, a 1960s famous racing drivers hard back book, and a hard back 70s Camaro book. There were SO many old books I just had to cherry pick what I liked the best. There must have been 30 or 40 old books about cars and or racing. I also bought a set of Revell track curves still in the original box. I just couldn't pass it up, the box art is beautiful! We have Diane's new lap top with us so I will try to keep up with what's going on this trip. Lastly I got a text from my daughter who's staying at our house for us while we're gone. She was wondering why there were slot car tires in the fridge!