Handicaps. If you give the slower racers/cars 20 laps, knowing that you have to push to beat that, we have a race yo! I can never beat Ricco or Mitch, but if you give me 20 laps, the tides just turned. Now they got something to do...!
I DO know how you feel Jeff. In my opinion, there are very few persons that can take up a new skill/hobby and be really good at it in the beginning. When I started racing slot cars with the NASTE group I certainly wasn't at the pointy end and sometimes I'm still not. That being said, I am fairly good repairing/tinkering with many forms of mechanical devices which I have been able to transfer into building/maintaining/racing slot cars. As far as "driving" slot cars the only way to get better is to practice, practice, practice. In the beginning I never thought I could catch, let alone, win against the likes of Bill, Monte, Flyin' Bryan to name a few but I kept trying and occasionally I can beat them. So keep on trying- you'll get there.
I do agree that some of our classes need some restructuring, especially the F1 and Classic Sports car. In my opinion we should down motor the Sports cars to make them run slower than some of them currently do. I also think it would make things simpler if we limited them to actual production cars and eliminate cars that were race cars first and street cars second. Any car that falls in the latter category can run in our GT class.
Regards
Rico
