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Just a heads up; I will be at Al's this Thursday (October 27th) for the Odd Thursday Race. I am bringing a tub of parts for sale. Including motors, wheels, and some Hornby and Revell 1/32 model kits suitable for slot car bodies.

The motors are new, still in the packaging, various manufacturers. $5 to $10 each.
The model kits are new in the box. $8 to $12 each.
Aluminum wheels are new in packaging. $5 a pair. Also have some inserts.
1 RTR Slot.it HRS chassis for $25.
Some other misc. parts.

Sorry guys, NO HOLDS!  These are strictly show up and buy with cash deals!
==========Bill

Here are the results from the race:

Ron Constantin was the overall IROC winner and took home the trophy!  Congrats Ron!

Saturday September 17th 2022 the place to be was Woodburn. Ron Constantin's Country Club Raceway (a Viper continuous rail track) hosted Dave Smith's Hear The Thunder Event for 2022! And what an event it was! The place was lively with 20 entries for the four separate races. The racing itself was extremely close!

Rick Phillis of The Fray In Ferndale fame, brought with him the computer software and hardware required to run the races using the Fray format. Personally I like the 10 lap heat races as run at the Fray. the racing moves along quickly and each heat is exciting! Racers must go all out in each of their heats. You just can't hold back or sandbag!

First on the schedule was the IROC T-Jet Beetle Cup. These cars featured Aurora Thunderjet 500 chassis massaged over by Dave. They were a challenge for sure, but very smooth handling!

The second race was the IROC T-Jet McLaren Cup. These chassis were set up Fray style.

The third race was another IROC style race, the IROC TFX Hot Rods. The cars featured TFX chassis with resin hot rod coupe bodies.

The last race of the day was for "Unlimited Fray Style" cars.

Drivers get ready for the first heat. Left to right: Rob, John, Al, Bart.

You can tell this was taken early in the race. It still looks really good!

Al servicing his car between heat races.

The calm between rounds.

Douglas cooling his car down between heat races.

Looks good Mitch!

In memory of Bob McFarland....

All four walls are FULLY decorated!

This is the section of the track that gives me the most problems!

Left to right: Al, Tom, Paul, and John running some practice laps.

Round 6 of the McFarland memorial Track Tour was held at Pelican Park Speedway in Eugene on August 20th, 2022. We had a really good turnout with racers from Roseburg and Portland as well as the usual Pelicans. The class of cars chosen to compete at this event were the Pelican Park Big NASCARs. This class was a favorite of Bob McFarland's and he made many trips down to Pelican Park to compete in their Wednesday Night race program.
For their Saturday memorial race Pelican Park ran their normal Wednesday night race program which consists of 50 lap heat races in a ladder type format. This format provides some fast and furious racing! Every heat counts as points are scored for finish positions in each heat race.
In the end Gary Tipton posted the win, followed by Bob Hanna and Gary Klein. A big thanks to all the Pelican Park members for hosting this event! It was a very good time!

Here are some of Rich's cars:

This Shelby Cobra Daytona GT body is a resin casting made by Rich.

The results and report for stop number five were posted in a different place on this forum, and I forgot to get my photos from the race uploaded. Here are the details and photos from round 5 of the McFarland Memorial Track Tour at Electron Raceway in Roseburg:

Ten racers made it out for the Monday evening event. Seven local racers and three out-of-towners. Rich's beautiful track is tricky and challenging, especially for the out-of-towners (who came to be known as The Three Garys; Gary T., Scarey Gary, and The Turd Gary. I suppose you can guess who the Turd was....).

In addition to Rich being entered in the race, Bob Hanna was in attendance, which meant there were some seriously fast racers on hand! Rich allowed both the usual for Roseburg racing, big wheel style Trans Am cars as well as the OSCAR spec Trans Am cars to compete. The cars entered to race were beautiful to look at! All of them were very nicely painted and detailed! Once the racing began it was clear that Bob Hanna and Rich were the guys to beat! I couldn't believe how quickly they could get around that technical course! In the end it was Bob Hanna victorious over Rich Vecchio. Following those two were Ron Leuenberger, Lowell Buehner, and Mark Colby. The top five finishers received some very cool awards hand made by Rich.

In addition to the standard style of distance over time racing, Rich has a computer program he uses to determine finish positions by handicap. So at the completion of the race, some of us less skilled racers have a chance to finish a little higher in the secondary results, based on our actual performance average over our "handicap". It's an interesting system, and well to be honest, it worked out well for me! Thank you for hosting a great race Rich, and another tribute to Bob McFarland!

You can read Rich's full race write-up complete with more photos here on Slot Blog: http://slotblog.net/topic/100544-mcfarl … n-on-6622/