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January 29, 2015 - Odd Thursday

Tonight was the night of firsts. The first race with a new race program and the first official race for a new class. For this race we used the Race Cordinator program instead of Trackmate. Race Coordinator has some features I like over Trackmate. The new program ran without any issues, other than operator error here and there, all my fault!

First class up were the Trans Am cars. This class has become very popular, and the racing is always very close. Rico came in first just one and a half laps ahead of Goose. In the GT Class Chris Kouba won by a good margin of four and a half laps. The combination of Chris and his Slot.it Porsche 962 is tough to beat! He is just flat fast! Up next was the new Over 50 Class. The field was well represented by a diverse group of vintage slot cars. A Monogram Chaparral 2D, A Gar Vic Lotus 30, A Cox Ford GT40, a Gar Vic Grand Sport Corvette, two Classic Manta Rays, a Classic Lola, and an unidentified chassis with Revell Ferrari GTO body powered by a Strombecker motor. There were some very close battles on the track, and a wreck that resulted in damage to the Monogram Chaparral. All in all I think this new class is going to be a lot of fun! Rico won the first official Over 50 Class race. The BRM race was the last race of the evening. As usual this race was extremely exciting. Lots of wheel to wheel, door to door racing! Chris Kouba was back tonight to show us all the fast way around TooBad Motorplex with these cars! We will be racing both the BRM and Over 50 Classes at each Odd Thursday Night race. We will alternate which class we run first, but both will be run after the two 1/32 classes. This way if a racer cannot stay late he can still race both classes by racing one of the two at every other race.

.....and here's the results:

Trans Am Class:
1st Rico Locati 52.8 laps
2nd Goose Gossett 51.3
3rd Chris kouba 51.1
4th Greg Petrolati 50.7
5th Monte Saager 50.1                                                                     
6th  Bill Bostic 48.8
7th Bryan Trachsel 48.7 - 9.747 Fastest Lap of the Race 
8th Bryan Dickerson 48.5
9th Mitch Brooks 46.1
10th Jeff fields 43.9
11th John Morse 43.8

GT Class:
1st Chris Kouba 61.8 laps - 8.401 Fastest Lap of the Race
2nd Monte Saager 57.0
3rd Rico Locati 56.3
4th tie Goose Gossett 55.9
4th tie Bryan Trachsel  55.9
6th Bryan Dickerson 55.4
7th Greg Petrolati 49.6
8th Jeff Fields 48.2
9th tie Mitch Brooks 47.0
9th tie John Morse 47.0
11th Amy Fields 43.6
12th Bill Bostic 57.3 - DQ motor>21.5k

Over 50 Class:
1st Rico Locati 52.4 laps - 9.763 Fastest Lap of the Race
2nd Goose Gossett 50.2
3rd Monte Saager 49.2
4th Chris Kouba 47.0
5th Bill Bostic 46.9
6th Greg Petrolati 46.8
7th Mitch Brooks 46.4
8th Bryan Dickerson 45.8
9th John Morse 45.2

BRM Porsche 962 Class:
1st Chris Kouba 56.6 laps - 8.371 Fastest Lap of the Race
2nd Goose Gossett 55.7
3rd Rico Locati 55.0
4th Bryan Dickerson 54.6
5th Bill Bostic 54.3
6th Mitch Brooks 47.7

It looks really good Mitch!

Don't you really mean "not yet"???

How will we know it's a Kouba Kar???

I am still recruiting for team members. So far I have interest from two active NASTE racers. I have also received inquiries from a club in eastern Oregon. If you have an interest in racing Aurora Thunderjet style HO cars, this is the event for you! Drop me a line and let's get organized!   ========Bill

The Barracuda is a totally mint, unbuilt kit. My original thought was a Trans Am car. However after opening the box I'm not so sure now. Haven't tested the Ray yet, but the chassis looks mint. It has a Ruskit gold motor, and it obviously has not been run much.

The best birthdays are those that include presents bought for yourself!

A good day of hunting at the 60 mark!

Thanks Rico!

Class 5 - Vintage F1 Rules have been updated as of Jan.20, 2015.

That is a nice looking mount. Does Sloting Plus make a mount for the D can motors?

Interesting....at least it has an instruction sheet in English!!!!

Do you still have to ream out the holes for the 3/32 axle bearings on this chassis?

A walk through the pits