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Today I learned Beau Frazier passed away. Beau had been ill and was in the hospital when he passed this morning. Beau was a good friend to everyone here in the Pacific Northwest slot racing scene. He was a great builder and competitor as well as mentor. He was always available to lend a hand and or advice to anyone. He held a position of admiration, and his contribution to our local racing scene is beyond measure. He will truly be missed by all!
Great stuff Zack! Thank you!
Anybody looking for a new Indy car chassis? Here's a complete roller on Ebay, with a new unpainted body.
L-R: John, Herb, Bart, Stuart, Bob.
Cars on the starting grid.
Tom Street's NASCAR body is the oldest body still competing in OSCAR events.
Bob Nakamura's award winning Chevrolet entry. Beautiful paint and detail!
John Gill loaned me this car for this race. It featured one of the newest releases of the NASCAR Chevrolet Camaro. I proceeded to ruin every decal on the body, as well as destroy a set of gears! SORRY John!
NAK NAK
Scary Gary
Entries in the impound area
Korbyn at the computer controls during qualifying.
L-R: Mitch, Herb, Gary K.
I did manage to get some photos this time around!
Left to right: Turing John, Scary Gary, Herbicidal Maniac, Stew Meat, Gary T.
L-R: Korbynator, Mitch.
L-R: Scary Gary, Herbicidal Maniac, Stew Meat, Gary K.
Mitch (now known as: SAMMITCH)
Stew Meat
OSCAR held a race for their Late Model NASCAR Class on Saturday December 10th. We had 10 racers on hand to compete. Bob Nakamura was the recipient of the Racers Choice Award for his beautiful red #3 Chevrolet. That's right, Bob entered a Chevy!
Over the years I have come to really appreciate the OSCAR Race format. Races are held on Saturdays with a Friday night practice session preceding the day of racing. Doors open early on Saturday, with tech inspection at 9:30am. Racing starts at 10:00am with qualifying, which I like as it adds some formality to the event. Qualifying is a timed session where each racer tries to post their quickest lap. Racers qualify one at a time on the track for their timed session. Racers pick their race starting positions based on their qualifying position.
Saturday's race consisted of the OSCAR standard 4 minute heat races, with 4 rounds of racing (a round equals each racer racing all four lanes of the track once). What was evident early on in the race was how close the competition was! Eight of the ten racers were posting lap times under five seconds! Each racer got just over 2 hours of on track, head to head racing time. By 4:30pm we had a winner!
John Gill drove an exceptional race to take the win. On a side note John's motor died in his last and final heat race, with him coasting to a stop right as time ran out! Tom Street came in second 17 laps behind John, and Gary Tipton finished third just 7 laps behind Tom. Stuart Wall finished in fourth. The complete race results are posted below.
Thanks to everyone that made it out to make this race a success and extremely fun! ======Bill
Race Results:
1st Turing John 787 laps w/ 4.56 fastest lap
2nd Terrible Tommy 773 4.60
3rd Gary T. 766 4.65
4th Stew Meat 760 4.71
5th Nak Nak (Bob) 756 4.82
6th Scary Gary 737 4.84
7th Korbynator 727 4.71
8th Herbicidal Maniac 622 5.16
9th Bad Billy 510 4.77
10th Mitch 451 5.37
The NASTE Odd Thursday Night Rules have been updated. They can be accessed from the Home Page by clicking on the "Race Rules" tab:
This race was a great kick-off for the Even Thursday Night Racing!
Thanks Howie!
Since I have been out of the 1/32 racing for awhile now, I am fine with whatever you guys decide.
Doc,
I don't think I have seen the final draft of the new rules. Are they just new "Class Rules"? I will move the existing class rules to an inactive file and post the new rules once they are finalized.
Are you keeping the existing "General Rules" or are those changing as well?
NASTE 2023 Point Series Championship Race No.5 @ Rippin' Ridin' Raceway December 1, 2022
Race Results - PGE Class:
1 Zack 82.3 Laps - 4 points.
2 Daniel 80.4 - 3 pts.
3 Al 80.3 - 2 pts.
4 Mitch 70.2 - 1 pt.
Current Standings for the 2023 NASTE Point Series Championship After 5 Races:
1 Daniel - 21 pts.
2 Al - 20 points.
3 Greg - 8 pts.
4 Rico - 7 pts.
5 David - 5 pts.
6 tie - Zack - 4 pts.
6 tie - Mitch - 4 pts.
8 Bill - 2 pts.
Race results from Dec. 1, 2022:
In an effort to simplify racing schedules, Thursdays are now officially Race Night! NASTE is continuing its "Odd Thursday" racing schedule, and PASER and Northwest True Scale are starting their "Even Thursday" racing schedule. So ALL Thursdays are Race Nights! Some race days will include a lunch gathering before the track opens. Check the NASTE Calendar for dates, times, classes, and locations!
PASER has discontinued the Monday Open Track days and moved the days to Thursdays. Northwest True Scale/Rapid Raceway has joined in, adding an even wider variety of 1/24 racing!
This coming Thursday, December 8th marks the first evening of "Even Thursday" racing at Rapid Raceway. Check the NASTE Calendar for times and classes. The "Even Thursday" racing will resume (after a holiday break) on January 12th at Bob's Gorge Raceway.
After this current 2023 there will be changes to the Can Am Class. The biggest change to the existing rules is the requirement for ALL bodies to be manufactured by Team Bluegroove. They currently list 17 different Can Am style bodies for sale on their website, which provides plenty of selection! The new rules, which will take effect sometime in September 2023 for the 2024 racing season, are listed below:
CHASSIS: Any chassis design, inline, angle, or sidewinder. Scratch built, production, or modified production. No portion of the chassis should be seen outside the body. Guide flag cannot stick out beyond the nose of the body. Chassis parts can be produced, guide flag tongues, motor mounts, axle mounts.
BODY: Must use Team Bluegroove brand .030” thick body. Eligible bodies types are listed below.
BODY MOUNTING: No stretching of the bodies. If your body is 3.0" wide your chassis should be no wider than 3.0".
MOTOR: Hawk7, Pro Slot & Parma Super 16D (Chinese armatures).
TIRES: Fronts: minimum diameter shall not be less than .800”. Minimum tire width is .250" and flat to the track, no rounding of the tires. Tires must contact, and be flat to the track surface. May coat for hardness. NO "O" RINGS. Rear tires are .900” minimum diameter. Tires may not stick out beyond body.
BEARINGS AND AXLES: Open
GROUND CLEARANCE: Not to be less than .055” as measured at lowest point.
INTERIORS: Must use a 3 dimensional interior tray. No printed interior. An option is to use resin arms and head. This is to promote a true scale look per our name: northwest true scale racers! OPEN COCKPITS - No cover over the cockpit.
BODY DETAILS: Bodies must be Team Bluegroove .030” thick Lexan and scaled after the Can-Am cars that actually raced in the Can-Am series. The following are highly encouraged but not mandatory. Wheel inserts, roll bars, injection stacks, exhaust pipes, and paint schemes that reflect the period. If a full wing was used on the real car, you may add one if it resembles the original in scale and proportion, but it is not required.
12/2/2022
Eligible Team Bluegroove Can Am bodies as listed on their website:
1/24 PORSCHE 908 BODY.
1/24 FERRARI PB4 LOLA VINTAGE LEXAN BODY
1/24 KING COBRA LOLA VINTAGE LEXAN BODY
1/24 CHARPARRAL 2G VINTAGE LEXAN BODY
1/24 PORSCHE 908 V3 LOLA VINTAGE LEXAN BODY
1/24 McLAREN M6 LOLA VINTAGE LEXAN BODY
1/24 FERRARI 312 LOLA VINTAGE LEXAN BODY
1/24 FERRARI 312/612 LOLA VINTAGE LEXAN BODY
1/24 FERRARI 612 LOLA VINTAGE LEXAN BODY
1/24 McLAREN M12 LOLA VINTAGE LEXAN BODY
1/24 LOLA T70 VINTAGE LEXAN BODY
1/24 LOLA ANTIQUE VINTAGE LEXAN BODY
1/24 FERRARI OPEN COCKPIT VINTAGE LEXAN BODY
1/24 HONKER 2 VINTAGE LEXAN BODY
1/24 LOTUS 40 BODY
1/24 McLAREN M8-A VINTAGE LEXAN BODY
1/24 FERRARI 312P BODY VINTAGE
Team Bluegroove website: https://teambluegroove.com/collections/1-25?page=1
That is part of the plan Doc.
Doc, here's what I know for sure.
We are moving from Mondays to Even dated Thursdays for racing at my Inslot's Checkered Flag in Vancouver, Bob Nakamura's Gorge Raceway in Troutdale, Rob's Redline Raceway in Vancouver, and Howie's Rapid Raceway in Portland. The race dates will be rotated between these tracks.
The classes to be raced have not yet been determined. We will be discussing possible classes next week. There may be some differences between the classes raced at the various tracks. I have sent out messages and questionnaires in an effort to understand just what racers are interested in racing. However I did not receive much input at all. As I see it we are re-starting the weekly races from square one. I have talked with a few racers while the discussions about re-organizing have been going on, and some have expressed a desire to keep the Womp class and the Flexi class.
Rapid Raceway's Even Thursday race dates will feature existing Northwest True Scale classes. The Womp class will not be part of the races held at rapid Raceway.
Part of this re-organization is an effort to make the weekly racing schedule simpler for everyone interested! Instead of juggling race days and dates, all of the local racing will be taking place on Thursdays and Saturdays. We will be putting out a schedule with dates, times, and classes as soon as it is finalized. In the meantime if anyone has any ideas they would like to express they should contact me and let me know. I AM keeping track.
=============Bill
PASER started an Open Track Monday schedule that has died off substantially. In my mind simple schedules have always been a plus! I.E., Odd Thursday Night racing. You always know when it is happening. You don't even have to keep your eye on a calendar.
This year the racing schedules for Saturdays are FULL, and attendance has been pretty darn good! Again, easy to keep track of. It's Saturday there's racing somewhere.....
With all that said, and keeping "simple" as a priority, PASER is moving their Monday Open Track schedule to EVEN Thursdays. Opposite weeks of the NASTE Odd Thursday schedule with the idea of; it's Thursday, there's racing somewhere! Racers can adjust their week knowing and counting on Thursday as "race night"!
Emails will come out soon with the dates, times, and details regarding the PASER schedule.
So I'm gonna wade in here. PASER started an Open Track Monday routine that has also died off substantially. In my mind simple schedules have always been a plus! I.E., Odd Thursday Night racing. You always know when it is happening. You don't even have to keep your eye on a calendar.
This year the racing schedules for Saturdays are FULL, and attendance has been pretty darn good! Again, easy to keep track of. It's Saturday there's racing somewhere.....
With all that said, and keeping "simple" as a priority, PASER is moving their Monday Open Track schedule to EVEN Thursdays. Opposite weeks of the NASTE Odd Thursday schedule with the idea of; it's Thursday, there's racing somewhere! Racers can adjust their week knowing and counting on Thursday as "race night"!
Emails will come out with more details regarding the PASER schedule. As far as NASTE goes, my only thought is classes.....My personal feeling is you need to cut back on the number of classes you actually race, and simplify those classes. I've been part of NASTE since 1996 and for the life of me I can't even figure out what's being raced anymore! What attracted me to racing 1/32 was the simplicity. I didn't have to spend a great deal of time working on the cars, and the classes we raced were quite diverse. It seems to me that nowadays all the cars run about the same regardless of the class.
My 2 cents...........I'll shut up now........... ======Bill
NASTE 2023 Point Series Championship Race No.4 @ Rippin' Ridin' Raceway November 17, 2022
Race Results - GFX Class:
1 Daniel 82.8 Laps - 5 points.
2 Al 81.3 - 4 pts.
3 Rico 75.8 - 3 pts.
4 David 73.5 - 2 pts.
5 Greg 71.0 - 1 pt.
Current Standings for the 2023 NASTE Point Series Championship After 4 Races:
1 tie - Al - 18 points.
2 tie - Daniel - 18 pts.
3 Greg - 8 pts.
4 Rico - 7 pts.
5 David - 5 pts.
5 Mitch - 3 pts.
7 Bill - 2 pts.
NASTE 2023 Point Series Championship Race No.4 @ Rippin' Ridin' Raceway November 17, 2022
Race Results - GFX Class:
1 Daniel 82.8 Laps - 5 points.
2 Al 81.3 - 4 pts.
3 Rico 75.8 - 3 pts.
4 David 73.5 - 2 pts.
5 Greg 71.0 - 1 pt.
Current Standings for the 2023 NASTE Point Series Championship After 4 Races:
1 tie - Al - 18 points.
2 tie - Daniel - 18 pts.
3 Greg - 8 pts.
4 Rico - 7 pts.
5 David - 5 pts.
5 Mitch - 3 pts.
7 Bill - 2 pts.
Race results for November 17th 2022:
Springwater is such a fun, FAST track! But make a mistake and you may pay dearly!....Or worse yet make someone else pay for your mistake! Such was the case for me. I'll try blaming it on "senior moments", but I've been hooking my controller up backwards from time to time for years!........Anyway, a BIG apologize to Mitch, I am truly sorry I destroyed your car! ====Bill
A great race, thanks Bob!
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