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We had a good turn out on February 7th with eleven entries in the high noon Womp race. Ron came up from Woodburn with Dave and Brian to take a run at racing some slightly bigger cars than what will fit on his Viper HO track. It was great to see Terry and Lee make it out, and Mitch also finally made it back to the track for some Womp and Flexi action.

We raced the now standard 3 rounds of 20 lap heat races for the Womps. Each heat race is scored individually with points for first through fourth, so each heat race counts. There is no holding back in these short sprints! The better you finish in each individual race, the higher your total score. After three rounds of racing there was a tie for first place. In this scenario the racer with the quickest lap time through all three rounds, breaks the tie and is awarded the win. In this case Doc's best lap was a 5.501 second lap, which by the way is only .001 second from breaking out (losing a lap)! His fastest lap time was .010 quicker than second place!

Round 1 results:

Round 2 results:

Round 3 results:

Well that certainly helped clear that up!................maybe I still have the red one?.......somewhere?????

We're missin' ya!

Results from the January 27th race:

That's a good idea Doc! Awhile back Stuart offered to help us with a class. Next time I see him I'll talk to him about it.

PASER has always promoted the racing of "Hardbody" cars, model car bodies mounted on scratchbuilt brass chassis. The topic of adding these classes of cars to the Monday racing came up again. The one issue with this class of racing has been how to get new racers up to speed. Many times the newer members have never built anything like the hardbody cars raced in this region. Suggestions that came up in some of the recent discussions included starting off the racing with very simple design chassis. Something similar to the Hanna Econo-Car chassis design. A specification could also be implemented which limits the chassis brass pans to .062" material. The .062" material is much easier to solder than the typical .090" used on the more advanced chassis. Another suggestion was to develop a spec type chassis and motor combination and use Team Bluegroove bodies, which are .030" thick (closer to model car bodies than the typical Lexan bodies). There was also an idea to start the racing as s variation of the IROC style races. For example, the racers that have or build some cars would put there cars out on the track. Four cars could be chosen by random or some other method, to be used in the race. All of the racers participating would race those four cars in an IROC style format.

So, more input would be helpful in getting started down this road. Especially from you newer guys! If you have any ideas or comments, let's here them!

As it turned out we had a good crowd for the evening races as well! The PM Womp race had six cars on the grid. The track had tightened up some as the temperature and humidity had dropped from the earlier races. Half the field was posting lap times in the 5.5 second range, and the others were hitting 5.6 seconds. Doc has been a force to deal with in the Womp races so far this year, and he was on the wheel for this race winning all three rounds of 20 lap heat races! Here are the PM Womp race results:

1st Doc 40 points
2nd Bill 35 pts.
3rd Dave 32 pts.
4th Lee 30 pts.
5th Bart 26 pts.
6th Brian 17 pts.

Here's Doc sporting yet another fence post and some questionable ears!

The racing at Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway on Mondays is heating up! The high noon Womp race had 9 entries. We raced the now standard format of three rounds of 20 lap heat races to determine a winner. With points being scored for finish positions in each individual heat race, each 20 lap heat race is important. At only 20 laps they go quick and there's no time to hold back!

This race was to be another extremely close one, with each of the top six racers posting at least one heat race win! After the three rounds of racing Doc and Dave ended up in a tie for first place overall. Using the fastest lap posted to break the tie gave Doc the overall win by just .147 second. Here are the High Noon Womp Race results:

1st Doc 41 points with a fast lap of 5.574
2nd Dave 41 pts. 5.721 fast lap
3rd Rob 37 pts.
4th Bob 36 pts.
5th Bill 35 pts.
6th Brian 24 pts.
7th Gerry 20 pts.
8th John 19 pts.
9th Ryan 17 pts.

Congrats to Doc and yet another Womp win! He's adding a lot of fence posts to that PASER WEENER CUP!