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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/

Congratulations to Doc, the 2022 NASTE Point Series Champion!

GREAT looking car Mitch!

The first race on Rob's Redline Raceway was held on Monday August 8th. After a few "issues" with the lap counting system (installer error), we lined up the Womps for the first race.

Womp race results:

The Womps were exciting on Rob's track! They ran very well and were well suited to the layout!

After the Womp race we put Flexi class cars on the start line.

Here's the results from the Flexi race:

Like the Womps the Flexi's ran very well on Rob's track. Lap times were blisteringly fast, even with a lack of grip on the new green track surface! Once the track is tacked up I am sure lap times will be even quicker!

Here are the race results from the July 21st race:

Trans Am Class
1st Daniel 71.4 laps
2nd Rico 70.4
3rd Greg 68.1
4th Al 65.4
5th Mitch 65.1

Can Am Class
1st Daniel 81.3 laps
2nd Rico 77.5
3rd Greg 77.0
4th Mitch 75.5
5th Al 74.1

Open Class
1st Al 82.6 laps
2nd Rico 79.8
3rd Daniel 78.9
4th Mitch 76.8
5th Greg 74.8

I probably won't go with that soft of a motor for my Flexi, but I will for sure change my gearing!

You mean "pass", like in "gas",........from the crack of his a*s?