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Nice job with the 908 Doc, I'm going to have to dig mine out and give it some attention.

And thanks Al and Donna for another evening of fun.

I think yours might be at Al's Bill. I bought one from one of the 3D ( Devis Design) guys who was getting out of the slot car stuff. I haven't used it yet or know how well it works.  You're welcome to give it a try.

The copper tape made a huge difference on my track

Put your motor back into your car Doc, we're racing them tonight.

IMHO that's just part of tuning. It's something that anybody is capable of doing. I've done similar things sometimes successfully sometimes not so much. I've had similar success putting a new car on the track at 5 or 6 volts and letting it run for a couple of hours.

  There are a hundred different things you can do to tune a car and just because there might be one I don't care to do doesn't mean I can say the next guy can't. That would be like me saying I don't want to glue and sand my tires so nobody else gets to. Or me not having a tire razor and saying that nobody gets to use one.

  For me that's the best part of this hobby, the tinkering, experimenting, and fussing about. The rest is just running around in circles.

Good choices Doc, you do well in those classes. However many racers aren't particularly fond of Trams Am and they need a LOT of tuning to run well.

The Cam Am and LeMans are run very stock and need very little fiddling with to run well.

Classics l or ll is a good one.

GT is also one that runs out of the box cars only replacing the magnet with lead.

When I started with NASTE I think we only had GT and Classic Sports car, at least that's all I remember. F1, LeMans, Trans Am, Over 50 and Can Am all came later.

It bugs me that I can't remember, I'm sure we didn't run the same cars every two weeks. I think each week we ran one of the classes then Bill ran an IROC race. I'm sure someone else remembers.

I do like the idea of fewer point classes and just more "fun" classes, but then I've never been a real "competitive" person by nature but I like having a good time. I know the competition is a big part for others, so I'll play along and try to be fast enough to keep the those folks on their toes.

  I'm enjoying the tinkering and tuning. Some brands of cars need some upgrades just to make them drivable before you even try to make them faster, but I now have a Slot It Alfa 33/3, a car I had previously given up on, that now runs in the low sevens lap after lap and can reach 6.8 when pushed using all Slot It parts and rubber tires. So anything is possible.

I think of our F1 as an endurance class, at least I have to endure trying to keep it on the track for 9 minutes.

Left to my own devices I would race 50s sports car one week, 60s sports cars the next, 70s sports cars after that, then repeat the cycle. I may be boring, but I'm easy to please.

Would we also continue the GT class? Otherwise our MKl GT40s (1966-67) have no place to play.

Thanks Monte and Victoria for another wonderful First Sunday. I think I finished 4th and 5th which is a bit higher in the middle than usual for me. It seems a good time was had by all.

Been ready Doc, Now I'm just waiting. The next time the  rest of these guys all look away at the same time I'm outta here.