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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.......... -

Another exciting race at Edgewater Raceway! Smooth pulls out the win without even taking one practice lap!!! AWESOME job Monte!!!

A big thanks to Art for letting us race on his beautiful track, Dave Smith for organizing the event and building the cars, and to everyone that took part in the pot luck (the food was fantastic!)!!!!

One of my favorite Greenman creations! -

List updated from May 15, '14 race.

The Corvette scored a second place in the Classic Sports car Class in it's first race on Odd Thursday. I think it may have some potential. A little tuning to come...................

COOL kid stuff! ............BUMMER racing stuff!!!!

GREAT photos Dorothy, thank you!!!

I especially like these!

Look at these racer's faces. I think they might be having a good time!!!..........Well, except for maybe Monte!

The NASTE '55 Chevy starting grid.

The BRM Porsche 962 starting grid, complete with Chris Kouba custom liveries!

That's a good point Howie. Since the track prep was the same as the last time the '55s were raced, I was thinking the temperature might have had something to do with it. I was just happy the car's characteristics were pretty constant for all the racers. It would have been bad if the cars went from extremely loose at the beginning of the race, to handling well for the racers who raced them towards the end!