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A new track has opened up to the Northwest hardbody racing scene! Freedom Raceway, owned by Steven Ennis, was set up and energized on Saturday April 4th, 2026. The track was built by the famous track builder Bob Scott. Bob trailered the track up from Arizona (where the track was constructed) and setit up leaving Steven with a ready to run raceway!

After the track was set up a light coat of traction compound was applied to the track surface. The first fact realized was; this is a FAST layout! Although somewhat small, this track has great flow and a feel that inspires confidence! There is a lot of speed to be found on this course! Our lap times dropped significantly after just a few laps of practice. The driver sight lines are excellent, with great visiblility around the entire course. Turn marshalling details will be figured out at the first race, but there is access all the way around the track. Access is good at all the turns.

We ran test laps with hardbody Trans Am cars, Womps, and Flexis with Go Kart bodies. Everything we threw on the track ran and handled great! This is going to be a fun track to race on, and a great addition to the Northwest slot racing scene!

From all of the racers in the Northwest: thank you Steven and Bob Scott!

This race has been CANCELLED! - Apologies for the short notice but I have scheduled a 4" flexi LeMans race for March 21 at Tom's World Raceway in Bend, the "24 Hours of Chaos".

This race is open to any steel 4 inch flexi chassis--Parma, Champion, JK, Mossetti, etc. Body type is to be that of a Lemans prototype that actually raced at 24 Hours of LeMans at any point in history, as long as it was a closed-wheel car. Motor is to be Hawk 7 only. Since a lot of these Lexan bodies are nowhere near close facsimiles of what they're actually supposed to be, car owners should be prepared to explain what car their body represents, and what year it raced at LeMans during tech inspection.

Cars will be run by teams of 2 persons. Teams will be somewhat randomly determined by drawing names out of a hat. Our local "B" drivers (our beginner group) and anyone coming over the hill who has never raced at Tom's will be pulling the names of our "90's" drivers (our fastest group), in an attempt to make all the teams fairly even. Anyone from over the hill who has prior track time at Tom's will be drawing the names of one of the local "A" racers (our middle group). In the event that both racers own a 4 inch flexi chassis, it is up to the teammates to choose whose car to race.

There will be no qualifying; starting order will be random. Heats will be 6 minutes long and each teammate will rotate though the lanes 3 times, alternating each time their car is on track. I'm borrowing rules from OSCAR in that cars will go into impound after tech inspection and whenever the car isn't actively racing. Teams' cars may not be worked on while their car is in impound. The "2 minutes before, 2 minutes after" rule for working on cars will be in effect.

Open practice is 4-8pm Friday, March 20th and Tom's opens at 8am on race day. Hopefully we can be racing by 10am. Race entry is $15 per person. Lunch provided by Captain Chaos at halfway point of race (3 rounds). Awards for each driver (2 per car) for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place, and hard luck and 1 best appearing car award.....to the owner of the car voted "best appearing". Hopefully that covers all of my bases, since this is the first race I've ever attempted hosting. And a very special thank you to Tom Street at Tom's World Raceway for graciously allowing me to hold this experimental event.

Hope to see you there,

Chris aka Captain Chaos