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Yes, it was Odd Thursday Night Racing at its best!

As Tracy put so well, "it was Odd Thursday in that it was odd that it fell on an even Thursday"!

To start the evening off, Chris let us take his new BRM McLaren around for some laps. Like Rico said, these cars are awesome! The Trans Am race was as close as ever, with just three laps separating first from eighth. There was another tie for first between Greg and Rico, as well as a tie for third between Glenn and Chris. Evil Jimmy Jones fought hard to keep the "loaner" it the game, but it just wasn't meant to be!

The GT Class was an exciting race. For the first few heats it looked as though Dennis Hart was going to walk away with it with his Slot.it Audi laying down some impressive lap times. John Fisher started out with a very loose car, but after cleaning his tires he proceeded to destroy the field. It was obvious had John cleaned the tires before the start of the race, he would have dominated! But at the checkered flag it was Rico taking the win,

The BRM race was as wild as ever! John Morse masterfully executed the best strategic nerf of the night. It was truly poetry in motion! 3/10s of a lap separated third, fourth, and fifth. Chris Kouba again showed us the fast way around TooBad Motorplex!

Here's the results:

Trans Am Class:
1st -Tie Rico Locati 50.7 laps
1st - Tie Greg Petrolati 50.7
3rd - Tie Glenn Heath 50.3
3rd - Tie Chris Kouba 50.3
5th  Bill Bostic 50.1                                                                     
6th  Bryan Dickerson 49.1
7th Dennis Hart 48.5 
8th Mitch Brooks 47.4
9th John Morse 45.9
10th John Fisher 45.2
11th Jimmy Jones 39.0

GT Class:
1st Rico Locati 59.4 laps
2nd Chric Kouba 58.0
3rd John Fisher 57.0
4th Bryan Dickerson 56.0
5th Greg Petrolati 54.5
6th Bill Bostic 53.8
7th Dennis Hart 53.6
8th Glenn Heath 49.7
9th Mitch Brooks 49.4
10th John Morse 45.1
11th Jimmy Jones 42.4

BRM Porsche 962 Class:
1st Chris Kouba 61.2 laps
2nd Rico Locati 60.6
3rd Glenn Heath 57.5
4th Bill Bostic 57.3
5th John Fisher 57.2
6th Bryan Dickerson 55.6
7th Mitch Brooks 54.6
8th John Morse 51.6

Bryan & Sherry - Thanks for hosting the race Saturday! It was an excellent time. The food was delicious and the racing was awesome! The new timing & lap counting system worked flawlessly. The cars you prepare are always fun to race!

A big thanks to Dorothy for all the snacks and snapping the photos!!!

I agree Tracy!  We may have to look into building some or something similar???

The results and photos of the proxy cars are here: http://www.slotcarillustrated.com/porta … amp;page=2

Our beloved Hammer was out in her full Halloween driving suit. Here she is trying to bribe Tracy with her delicious candies to move over and let her by. Most everybody let her by anyway. It was hard to ignor the Hammer II coming up behind you!...Very intimidating!!!

There were two extraordinarily and incredibly engineered cars at this years NASTE Halloween Race. One of which was this one built by Carl. This Cat In The Hat entry had a separate motor driving the front propeller, as well as another motor driving that rear chopper spinner thing, in addition to the motor powering the car. Carl finished 13th with this behemoth.

This was the other engineering marvel. John built this coffin car and added the skeleton to the lid. The Barbie head was motorized and rotated 360 degrees while the car was in motion. It was awesome!!! Alas Barbie suffered a break down just before the end of the race, probably due to stress. John finished out the race in his back-up invisible car, in 15th.

Here's John and Carl wirin' up to the driver's station, while Victoria gives me her parade wave in the background. Please ignor that fast moving individual off to the right, that's just Flyin' Bryan.....

The Rico Weener, what more can I say? Other than it was big and finished 3rd!

Mitch Brooks decorated his '55 Chevy for the Halloween race and finsihed 10th with it.

Bryan Trachsel consistantly builds some of the fastest NASTE Halloween cars. He succeeded again this year capturing first place with his skeleton driven go-cart!

Another terrific NASTE Halloween Race!!!! Can't wait until next year!!!

This was a common expression worn by racers throughout the night:

Rico's Red Green Van was back this year, this time drivin by June to a 9th place finish. It hauled this year!

Perry brought out this chop, channelled, sectioned, and burnt(?) pumkin thingie.....He finished 16th with it.

Yes, yes, yes!!!!

Man, did we have snacks or what????!!!!!!

AND we ate 'em ALL!!!!!!!!!

Odd Thursday - October 23rd.

At this Odd Thursday we ran the 13th and final round of the 2014 IPS Proxy. We had 15 drivers in attendance with 23 cars entered. We ran two rounds of 2 minute heats. Cars were raced in random order, and drivers were placed on teams of three (one for each lane), and the driver teams were rotated as well. All the drivers had at least 20 minutes of racing time with various cars. The results are posted on the Slot Cars illustrated website under the IPS Proxy info.

After the IPS Proxy race concluded, we raced one round of three minute heats for the BRM Porsches. As usual, it was a barn burner! The Goose was the only one to make it out of the barn alive and took the win!

BRM Porsche results:
1st Goose Gossett 58.5 laps
2nd Rico Locati 56.9
3rd Chris Kouba 56.7
4th Bill Bostic 53.8
5th John Kouba 50.3