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Jimmy Jones celebrated his 71st birthday with us on this January 15th Odd Thursday Night of racing.  A new name was added to the winners list. Jeff Fields scored hiw first win in the Classic Sports Car Class with his Slot.it Ford GT40! Jeff out ran 10 other racers to the checkered flag, winning by a full two laps! The early leader, John Morse developed rear tire trouble on his Ninco Corvette which dropped him out of the running for the top spot. Gary Goose Gossett narrowly beat Bryan Trachsel by 3/10ths of a lap in the Vintage F1 Class. Mitch Brooks scored his second win in the Vintage F1 Historic Division. We raced the Over 50 Class of old school 1/24 cars for the first time. There were a few equipment failures, mostly mine due to poor pre-race preparation, but the racing was very exciting and fun! Based on feedback from those in attendance, it looks like this will be a popular class. We had a few loaner cars on the track for this race, and the same loaner car helped drivers to the top three podium finishes. What was that car you might ask? It was a totally stock Classic sidewinder witha clear plastic Lola body. And then we raced a fourth class for the night, the ever popular BRM Porsche 962s. These BRM cars are just way too much fun! Even racing four classes, we were finsihed with the race format by 10:30pm! It was a great night of racing! Hope you had a great birthday Jimmy!!!

Results:
Classic Sports Car Class:
1st  Jeff Fields 53.1 laps
2nd  Goose Gossett 51.3
3rd tie  Mitch Brooks 50.8
3rd tie  Rico Locati 50.8
5th  Bryan Dickerson 50.0                                                                     
6th  Greg Petrolati 48.6
7th Bill Bostic 47.9
8th Bryan Trachsel 47.8
9th Monte Saager 45.3
10th Jimmy The Birthday Boy Jones 45.1
11th John Morse 39.2

Vintage F1 Class:
1st Gary Goose Gossett 52.7 laps
2nd Bryan Trachsel 52.4
3rd Greg Petrolati 50.6
4th tie Jeff Fields 48.0
4th tie Bill Bostic 48.0
6th Rico Locati 46.9
7th Monte Saager 46.5
8th John Morse 44.8
9th Bryan Dickerson 43.9
10th Mitch Brooks 42.3 - 1st Place Historic Division
11th Jimmy Jones 38.5

Over 50 Class:
1st Greg Petrolati 48.6 laps
2nd Bryan Dickerson 48.4
3rd Rico Locati 46.1
4th Mitch Brooks 44.2
5th Goose Gossett 44.0
6th John Morse 39.3
7th Jimmy Jones 35.3
8th Bill Bostic 33.9

BRM Porsche 962 Class:
1st Gary Goose Gossett 56.6 laps
2nd Bill Bostic 54.0
3rd Mitch Brooks 53.8
4th Greg Petrolati 53.2
5th Bryan Dickerson 50.4
6th Rico Locati 48.7

Howie I'd like to commend you on the great job you're doing at Rapid Raceway! You are always listening to your racers, and you go out of your way to please us all. What you've given us is some of the best and closest racing I have seen in 1/24th for a long time! The car classes you have put together are exciting to race, and the cars themselves look great! In addition, those of us with lesser building skill can put together a competitive car. Thank you!  ========Bill

Maybe it comes fully assembled?  That would be a HUGE improvement over the Scholer which came disassembled with the instructions written in German only!

I listed some cars and a Slot.it controller for Bryan Dickerson on Ebay tonight. Check out what he's got for sale. If there is something you're interested in you can save the shipping charge by picking it up. Plus you might be able to dicker with him on the price?

================Bill

Posted that one just for you Smooth!

Some photos from the race:

I was an HO enthusiast when I was a kid. My first set was a Gilbert 1/32 set which I loved. Then my Dad took me over to one of his friend's hosues and that guy's kids had a huge Aurora HO Thunderjet set up. Well, that was it! The next Christmas I turned HO!!! I still have a couple of my original cars.