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Here's some of the highlites from the BRM chassis clinic:

Alan from 132 Slot Cars in Tacoma sent down conversion chassis kits. Thanks Alan!

The body posts need to be shortened as shown here. Outstanding work by Chris Kouba!

This is one of the donor inline BRM Porsches.

It was a great day of racing! We always have fun racing with our northern Washington based friends. Monte did an excellent job of putting this series together! I'm looking forward to the next round up north!

We will be arranging car pools to facilitate the invasion!

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

June 19, 2014 Thursday night. Tonight's Odd Thursday racing started out with a BRM clinic put on by Chris Kouba. Chris demonstrated the proper conversion steps to change an inline BRM Porsche 962 over to an anglewinder chassis. Alan from 132 Slot Cars in Tacoma sent new anglewinder conversion kits down to those of us who own BRM Porsches, and had attended his BRM Porsche race in May. The conversion is pretty straight forward, and the kits are complete with all the necessary parts. Thank you Alan!

Once the racing started it was hot and heavy as usual. First up was the Classic Sports Car Class. Goose took the win with a narrow margine of just 4/10ths of a lap over Chris Kouba in second. In the GT Class Rico Locati was first by another 4/10ths margine over Chris Kouba in second. In the BRM Porsche class Chris Kouba laid waste to that second place 4/10ths of a lap margine monkey by winning the class and beating Goose by 3/10ths of a lap! It was very close racing the entire evening!

Thanks to everyone who made it out!

Here are the final results:

Classic Sports Car Class:

1st Goose Gossett 51.1 laps
2nd Chris Kouba 50.7
3rd Bill Bostic 48.7
4th Rico Locati 48.4
5th Tracy Flood 47.9
6th Mitch Brooks 46.3
7th Howie Howard 45.6
8th Monte Saager 42.6
9th Jimmy Jones 40.4

GT Class:

1st Rico Locati 61.2 laps
2nd Chris Kouba 60.6
3rd Bill Bostic 59.7
4th Goose Gossett 59.0
5th Monte Saager 57.5
6th Tracy Flood 54.2
7th Howie Howard 49.9
8th Mitch Brooks 49.6
9th Jimmy Jones 46.1

BRM Porsche 962 Class:

1st Chris Kouba 62.0 laps
2nd Goose Gossett 61.7
3rd Rico locati 59.8
4th Bill Bostic 58.1
5th Bryan Dickerson 57.3
6th Tracy Flood 55.4
7th Mitch Brooks 54.8

I'm hopin' you'll get tired of climbing those podium steps at some point........

Another Odd Thursday night of racing here at TooBad Motorplex on June 5th. The racing was really close tonight with a tie for first place in the GT Class, and only 1/10th of lap separating first from second in the BRM Porsche Class. Three different racers took a first, and Mitch Brooks was on the podium in the Classic Sports Car Class. Highlights included; Monte Saager running most of his heat races himself, as himself without an assigned driver, and Chris Kouba made it to the race by boat! That is definitely a first!

Here's how all the racing shook out:

Classic Sports Car Class:

1st Goose Gossett 53.1 laps
2nd Rico Locati 52.2
3rd Mitch Brooks 50.0
4th Terry Abbott 48.3
5th Chris Kouba 48.1
6th Bill Bostic 47.6
7th Monte Saager 47.4
8th Greg Petrolati 47.2

GT Class:

1st tie Chris Kouba 59.1 laps
1st tie Goose Gossett 59.1
3rd Rico Locati 57.1
4th Terry Abbott 56.1
5th Bill Bostic 55.1
6th Monte Saager 54.2
7th Greg Petrolati 54.1
8th Mitch Brooks 49.8

BRM Porsche 962 Class:

1st Rico Locati 62.8 laps
2nd Goose Gossett 62.7
3rd Monte Saager 59.7
4th Chris Kouba 59.1
5th Bill Bostic 58.7
6th Mitch Brooks 53.9

That was quite a come back Rico!!!  You covered all three podium positions in one evening!!!!

May 29th, and another action packed Odd Thursday evening! The Classic Sports Car Class was raced for the first time with the new motor spec rule in place. Two scratchbuilt cars set the pace for the race. Rico Locati took first place with his 1955 Frazier Nash, with Greenman Greg Petrolati just one lap back with his beautiful Ferrari (second place in it's first race - outstanding!). With the new motor spec for the class, Ninco Classic Corvettes seemed to be the out-of-the-box car for rest of the field. The Ninco Corvettes are very competitive with nothing more than a rear tire change.

The racing in the GT Class was very close. Race conditions were optimum with good grip on the track, which many evenings is not the case! Chris Kouba destroyed the competition with his super quick Slot.It Ford GT. Chris out ran the field by three full laps to take the win. Most of the GT Class was made up of Slot.It cars. Like the Ninco Classic Corvettes, the Slot.It cars perform very well at TooBad with just a little tuning and rear tire changes.

The action in the BRM Porsche Class for intense as usual! Chris Kouba brought out his new BRM Mercedes to see how it would run against the BRM Porsches. The anglewinder chassis'd Mercedes did seem to have a little advantage over the Porsches, but not a great deal. It looked like some of the advantage was the difference in motors versus chassis configuration. Chris is studying our current rules to see what he can do to include the Mercedes and still make the inline Porsche 962s competitive. Chris did take the win in the BRM Porsche Class with his inline 962 by a mere nine tenths of a lap over Rico Locati. Third place was only another seven tenths back from Rico. The BRMs provide for some very close, action packed racing on TooBad Motorplex's tight three lane course.

Here's how all the racing shook out:

Classic Sports Car Class:

1st Rico Locato 52.0 laps
2nd Greg Petrolati 51.3
3rd Chris Kouba 49.6
tie - 4th Goose Gossett 48.6
tie - 4th Bryan Dickerson 48.6
6th John Fisher 48.3
7th Bill Bostic 47.8
8th Monte Saager 47.7
9th Mitch Brooks 47.6
DQ Glenn Heath 53.3 (Trans Am Mustang - run for fun)

GT Class:

1st Chris Kouba 61.0 laps
2nd Bill Bostic 58.0
3rd Rico Locati 56.9
4th John Fisher 53.8
5th Bryan Dickerson 53.1
6th Goose Gossett 52.4
7th Greg Petrolati 52.3
8th Glenn Heath 48.9
9th Mitch Brooks 48.0
10th Monte Saager 47.4

BRM Porsche 962 Class:

1st Chris Kouba 59.7 laps
2nd Rico Locati 58.8
3rd Bill Bostic 58.1
4th Goose Gossett 57.7
5th John Fisher 54.7
6th Mitch Brooks 54.1
7th Glenn Heath 51.1
DQ Mercedes #63 59.0 (non-spec pink motor & anglewinder chassis)

Here's some photos from the race:

The Start -

The Official NASTE Photographer at work! -

Would this be the Fray in Salem, or the Fray at Edgewater???

Huh, what, where? No, over there.......... -