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Almost forgot!

Thank you Dorothy for the birthday candy!!!!   --------------Bill

It's a NEW YEAR!.........MORE Odd Thursday Night Racing on January 23rd, 2014!

Not a big turn out but still a bunch of fun racing! This odd Thursday marked Al Blanchard's return to slot racing. Al stated he was in need of some entertainment. Whatever the reason, welcome back Al! So in addition we had six of the usual suspects for a field of seven racers. The racing was close and competetive, as it has been for awhile on odd Thursdays. Then we raced the BRM Porsches in somewhat of an IROC format. That's when things changed! Competetive; yes, but in an ugly kind of way! As we only had two BRM Porsches to use as IROC cars, we looked for a substitute car as a third entry. Mitch Brooks volunteered his scratchbuilt vintage sports car. We promptly broke the guide flag on Mitch's car (sorry Mitch!).  It was then decided a NASTE '55 Chevy might be an appropriate substitute; uh NOT! Don't get me wrong, the car functioned just fine. But what started out as a nice friendly competetive race, turned into an all out brawl!!! Since the '55 was quite a bit slower it didn't take long for racers to figure out it was strategically advantages for the '55 to serve as kind of a defensive tool! The name of the game turned to; get past that damn '55! It was actually quite fun and I had a great time!

So here's the results:

Classic Sports Car Class:

1st Rico Locati 47.9 laps
2nd Bryan Dickerson 47.8
3rd Terry Abbott 47.2
4th Tracy Flood 46.4
5th Mitch Brooks 45.1
6th Bill Bostic 44.4
7th Al Blanchard 41.1

GT Class:

1st Rico Locati 56.5 laps
2nd Terry Abbott 54.0
3rd Tracy Flood 53.4
4th Bill Bostic 53.2
5th Bryan Dickerson 51.6
6th Al Blanchard 47.9
7th Mitch Brooks 46.7

'55 BRM Porsche 962:

1st Tracy Flood 48. laps
2nd Bill Bostic 47.2
3rd Rico Locati 46.9
4th Bryan Dickerson 46.8
5th Al Blanchard 45.0
6th Mitch Brooks 42.2

I'll have to submit this question to Chris..........

As most of you regular Odd Thursday Night racers know, thanks to Chris Kouba, we have been racing 1/24 BRM Porsches in an IROC format after the running of our two rgeular classes, Classic Sports Car and GT. These BRM cars have provided us with much more fun than anyone ever would have thought. So much so that we have added them as a third class to race on Odd Thursdays when there are enough participants (this would be at least 2!)...Anyway, they provide for extremely close racing, a lot of bumping and pushing, and they are just a blast! I have added the rules we will race them under to the first post here, which contains all the Odd Thursday racing Rules. The rules look a little complex at first glance, but let me asure you they are not. The intent is to keep the cars close to the BRM Challenge Rules, so if a racer wanted to compete in that series it would not be hard for them to alter their car to comply with those rules. Basically we race them BOX STOCK! If you don't have a car and are interested in sticking around to try them out, Chris Kouba has graciously made loaner cars available!

Thanks Chris!   ---------------------------Bill

List updated from Dec. 19 race.

Thanks Smooth...........twer nuttin'..............

January 2002 - Vintage Modifieds on Jeff Courtney's NASTE 3 track. These 1/24 cars were powered by Radioshack motors and ran hard rubber model airplane rear tires.  They provided plenty of action on the five lane track!

The field for the NASTE 2001 Halloween Race at Jeff Courtney's NASTE 3.

Racing on the original NASTE 3 lane 1/24 track after it's move to Fairview. A young Colin Ivey in the photo, January 2002.

I completed the upload of a bunch of old NASTE photos into the Gallery section. You can see them all there under The NASTE Archives.

Thanks Dorothy, great pictures as usual!!!!

I scanned this photo some years back, not sure where the original is now, or if there are more.....

This photo was taken at the first NASTE Halloween race. Anyone remember the date? I know it was before September 1999, and before all our kids graduated from high school. The race was held at Tim Barnes NASTE 2 track in Fairview. Tim's track was a commercial 4 lane 1/24 track that was previously in the slot car shop in Lake Oswego. Tim bought it from the owner of the slot car shop. The original owner had reconfigured the track. It's original design, as it was in the slot car shop, was a double decker design. It was reconfigured to fit in a garage after it was taken out of the slot car shop when it closed.