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Odd Thursday Racing came on Saturday on March 14th..... I know, that's very odd!

The day started out with breakfast at The Stagecoach Saloon. I love their $4.00 breakfast! 2 eggs, 2 large bacon strips, country style potatoes, and a piece of toast! YUM!

The doors to the track opened at 11:00am. The track was open to practice until the first race started at approximately 12:30pm. We raced a total of five races throughout the day and evening. Later in the evening we also did some testing with various types of cars including Carrera 1/24 cars, and Parma 1/32 Womps. It was a fun day of racing, visiting with friends, and just playing with toy cars! When it was all over, two more racers were added to the Odd Thursday Night Winners List. Gary Howie Howard made the list with two wins, and Beau Frazier made the list with his Trans Am win. Thanks to everyone who made it out!

Here's some results:

Over 50 Class
1st Gary Howie Howard 51.0 laps - Fastest Lap of the Race 9.777
2nd Chris Kouba  48.7
3rd John Morse  47.7
4th Bill Bostic  47.2
5th Beau Frazier 46.9
6th Jeff Fields  44.8
7th Tracy Flood  44.0
8th Mitch Brooks  43.2
9th John Fisher  41.0
10th Amy Fields  38.8
11th Todd Flood  38.2
12th jimmy Jones  32.6

Vintage F1
1st Jeff fields  52.0 laps  Fastest Lap - Scalextric Vintage 9.562
2nd Tracy Flood  51.7
3rd Bryan Dickerson  50.7  Fastest Lap of the Race 9.391 & FIRST in Class - Scalextric Modern 
4th John Fisher  48.2
5th Mitch Brooks  46.7  FIRST in Class & Fastest Lap 10.621 - Historic Modified Production
6th Amy Fields  46.2  FIRST in Class & Fastest Lap 10.073 - Late Model F1
7th Monte Saager  45.8  FIRST in Class & Fastest Lap 10.844 - Cartrix
8th John Morse  45.2
9th Gary Howie Howard  42.8
10th Beau Frazier  42.2
11th Chris Kouba  40.6
12th Todd Flood  35.6  FIRST in Class & Fastest Lap 13.132 - Historic Scalextric

GT
1st Chris Kouba 58.5 laps  Fatsest Lap of the Race 8.653
2nd Beau Frazier  57.5
3rd Tracy Flood   54.9
4th Bill Bostic  53.3
5th Gary Howie Howard  52.9
6th Jeff Fields  52.8
7th Amy Fields  51.1
8th John Morse   48.5
9th Jimmy Jones 47.0
10th Mitch Brooks  46.4
11th Todd Flood  45.8

Trans Am
1st Beau Frazier  54.1  Fastest Lap of the Race 9.308
2nd Bill Bostic  52.0
3rd Chris Kouba  49.8
4th Gary Howie Howard 48.5
5th Tracy Flood  47.8
6th Todd Flood  47.2
7th Rob Miracle  45.2

BRM Porsche 962
1st Gary Howie Howard  58.1
2nd Chris Kouba  57.5
3rd Bill Bostic  56.7  Fastest Lap of the Race 8.535
4th Beau Frazier  53.9
5th Tracy Flood  52.9
6th Rob Miracle  50.3
7th Todd Flood  49.8

More Womp testing today. Looks like we decided a 7 tooth pinion and a 28 or 29 tooth crown was the best gear setup for the TooBad track. Man, these things are fun!

GREENMAN - superior craftsmanship and beautiful cars!

Greg's newly completed scratchbuilt Auto Union Hillclimb car.

Race worn but still gorgeous! One of my favorites of Greg's many builds!

March 5th Odd Thursday - We did some thrashing tonight! We got a lot of racing in with 15 participants tonight. The night started with the Classic Sports Cars. Although Bryan Trachsel's scratchbuilt Aston Martin was fast, Greg Petrolati's scratchbuilt Scarab proved to be just a little faster. Greg beat Bryan by just 2/10ths of a lap. Rico Locati finished just one lap back in third. Monte Saager placed fifth with a Ninco AC Cobra, half a lap behind Rico, incredible!

The Vintage F1 Class was about as exciting as it could possible have been! Open wheel carnage at its best! Goose took the win setting a new track record. Bryan Trachsel was second, also besting the previous track record. Jeff Fields drove a fantastic race finishing third.

The Over 50 Class was also action packed! Glenn Heath raced his Parma Womp car as a test session. Glenn dominated the race with that little Womp, and to everyone's amazement actually executed a couple really good nerfs! Alas the brave little Womp was rewarded with a DQ, leaving the official win to Goose. Goose won with his Strombecker Ford J completing almost 51 laps. Rico was second with his Gar Vic Grand Sport Corvette, and Greg Petrolati Finished third with a Classic Lola T70.

Evening highlights included; Greg Petrolati's beautiful newly finished scratchbuilt Auto Union Hillclimb car. Bryan Trachsel's very cool scratchbuilt Datsun 2000 roadster. Bryan Dickerson brought out his newly built Monogram Greenwood Corvette/Avant chassisied screamer - watch out for this one in the next GT Class race! Al Christensen was back with his KTM powered Cheetah in the Over 50 Class. And maybe best of all, Al brought us some delicious smoked beef!!!

The results:

Classic Sports Car:
1st Greg Petrolati 51.7 laps
2nd Bryan Trachsel 51.5 - 9.910 Fastest Lap of the Race
3rd Rico Locati 50.1
4th Gary Goose Gossett 49.8
5th Monte Saager 49.6                                                                     
6th John Fisher 49.2
7th Mitch Brooks 47.9 
8th Bryan Dickerson 47.5
9th Glenn Heath 46.9
10th tie Jeff Fields 45.7
10th tie Al Christensen 45.7
12th John Morse 45.3
13th Dana Denton 41.8

Vintage F1:
1st Gary Goose Gossett 54.0 laps
2nd Bryan Trachsel 53.6 - 9.443 Fastest Lap of the Race
3rd Jeff Fields 51.4
4th Bryan Dickerson 48.8
5th Rico Locati 48.4
6th Greg Petrolati 48.3
7th Monte Saager 47.6
8th John Morse 47.0
9th John Fisher 45.9
10th Bill Bostic 45.1
11th tie Mitch Brooks 43.3
11th tie Amy Fields 43.3
13th Glenn Heath 41.6
14th Dana denton 38.9
15th Al Christensen 31.1

Over 50 Class:
1st Gary Goose Gossett 50.7 laps - 9.629 Fastest Lap of the Race
2nd Rico Locati 49.5
3rd Greg Petrolati 49.0
4th Bill Bostic 45.2
5th Mitch Brooks 44.8
6th Bryan Dickerson 44.4
7th Al Christensen 43.2
8th John Fisher 42.5
9th John Morse 40.5
DQ Glenn Heath 51.1 - illegal car/Parma Womp

Congrats to Amelia and her team!!!  Our Granddaughter did the battle of the books. Turns out our own "Hammer" started that whole thing!

Good news is we will probably still be here playin' when you get back!!!! ......hint hint.........

Chris, hey I think I've seen that car before...............from the rear!!!

Odd Thursday on Saturday March 14, 2015. That's right, I have a wide open Saturday on my extremely busy retar'd guy schedule, so if you are up for some racin' come by my place on Saturday March 14. The plan is a full day of racing, starting with the traditional $4.00 breakfast at The Stagecoach Saloon. Breakfast orders go in at 10:00am, I plan to be there by 9:45am. The doors will be open at TooBad Motorplex after breakfast, 11:00am estimate. We will be racing ALL the Odd Thursday Night classes! This includes Classic Sports Car, GT, Vintage F1, Trans Am, BRM Porsche 962, and Over 50. In addition, cars will be on hand to try out for proposed new classes. If you have a certain class of car you would like to race on Odd Thursdays bring it with you. Some of the classes that have already been proposed are; Carrera 1/24, VWomps, Can Am, and variations of GT and Sports Cars. Classes will be raced in order of interest by attending racers. A race with LMP/DP/Group C has been added to this event.

I will have snacks on hand. At some point we will break for food. We can make a burger run, or whatever the crowd wants to do. There will not be any prizes or awards, just racin'. Come by whenever you want and stay as long as you want!  =====Bill

We're ALL with Mitch!

But it's FUN to have races, and actual races maintain interest in the hobby. Races require some sort of rules and structure. Don't believe me, other than actual race days, how many of you track owners run cars around your track for more than a few minutes?  If you still don't believe me just look at how long practice lasts before a race. It doesn't take long even with 15 or so racers, until the track becomes vacant during practice. Practice gets boring after awhile. Although running cars around the track side by side is fun, if one of the participants is just holding back to keep in step with the other, that's not racing. That is one of two things, it's either practice or playing.

That's how we end up with so many classes!!!!

I just had an offer accepted.............CRAP!!!!

Being re'tard and all, I took a few minutes to crunch some numbers using this season's point totals. In regards to whether or not we let track owners finish points count on their own tracks, I am planning to let them count. Based on results taken from this season's totals, if it were the end of the season with their top 5 finishes counting towards their season's point total, Bryan would be in first. In either scenario, Bryan would be first. Without his win on his track he is in first by virtue of most wins in a point tie with Terry. With his win on his track counting, he beats Terry by 5 points, with Terry's win on his track counting. The only significant change in the line up would be Rico moving up to the fourth spot from the seventh spot. The top seven would consist of the same top seven no matter how you talley the points. When you start making rules in regards to who derserves points for a win, where do you draw the line. For example; Monte used to own and he built Autumn Hills. Should Rico's and his points not count if either one wins on that track? Victoria and Dorothy are both co-owners of tracks, are they exempt from winning points? What about car owners? We race on tracks where club members supply the cars. If a club member prepares and furnishes cars for the race should they be exempt from winning points? For example when it comes to racing the NASTE '55 Chevy's, I have far more experience racing them than any other member! What about racers that supply controllers for a race? Should they be exempt from winning points if they had the opportunity to race with their own controller?

Now, I'm not saying there could not be a participant bumped out by a point or two based on a track owner's win on his own track. What I am saying is when it comes to determining who the top seven NASTE racers are, regardless of how you stack the points the odds are very good that the top seven are going to be the top seven! The rules are the same for everyone. In addition, I plan to have a more equal schedule of races when it comes to number of races on tracks. I am planning on 10 races for next season, so any possibility of an advantage by winning on your own track is reduced even further. My feeling is this, anybody that makes the top seven deserves to win the championship. Barring very bad luck, the best racer will win the championship no matter how you stack the challenge!

Below is the list of how the season points totals would look if this were the end of the season, with & without track owner wins:

1st Bryan 100 points win wins on his track  -  94 points without the wins on his track. Number of wins breaks tie with Terry.
2nd Terry  95                                               - 94
3rd Tracy  92                                               -92
4th Rico    90                                                - 82 Rico would be 7th without his win on his track counting.
5th Monte 89 1 win breaks tie with Bill          - 87 Monte would be 5th based on points talleyed either way.
6th Bill      89                                               - 89 Bill would be 4th if track owner wins did not count.
7th Goose 83                                              - 83 Goose would be 6th if track owner wins did not count.

So there you have some real stats, no spread sheet report. I'm open to discussion, but I just don't see where it is really gonna matter one way or another. Personally, I like the challenge of trying to beat a racer on his own track! I say let the track owners points count!

Yes, the link in the second post works.

Too much $$ on the Womp for me!