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Thank you Bill and Diane for a fantastic evening of racing and we will see you all next year.

Rico

Minimum? That's being generous.  You're welcome Howie, glad to do it. I think I did better at night as well, perhaps we couldn't see the distractions of the other cars.....

Pot luck is good, what do y'all want me to bring?

I went shopping yesterday and found the body for my Halloween car for the low, low price of $2.00 plus an existing chassis equals a win.  Some cutting, painting, soldering plus a little time last night and I just have final assembly to go. Now, if I could just get my proxy car to go that smoothly....

I would like to thank all the racers that came to play Saturday evening, I had a great time and I hope you all did too.  I'm sorry about the computer glitches, but on the positive side I made a few adjustments yesterday and with some help from the software creator we should have it fixed.  I found out the program is designed to run automatically and not like the manual control we are used too.  I changed a few settings and set up the race the race from Saturday and it ran the entire 26 heats flawlessly.  See ya"ll in May for the next Naste race or in a few weeks for the Tuesday night series.

Regards
Rico

P.S.  Who's still farting from the chili?

No you're not

Tonight's turn out at Autumn Hills was 6 racers who enjoyed ice cream snacks provided by Kelly.  Thanks dear. Now on to the ever important results:

Classic Sports Car Class:

1. Greg Petrolati/Scratchbuilt Cheetah - 45.2 laps
2. Rico Locati/Hybrid Ferrari - 44.7 laps
3. Tracy Flood/Ninco Jaguar - 42.8 laps
4. Eric the Cheesehead/Hybrid Jaguar - 40.6 laps
5. Drew Kinney/Scratchbuilt Ferrari 166 - 39.0 laps
6. Monte Saager/Ninco Cobra - 38.0 laps

GT Claass:

1. Rico Locati/Fly Daytona Prototype - 45.3 laps
2. Drew Kinney/Avant Alpine - 43.3 laps
3. Monte Saager/Ninco Lamborghini - 40.2 laps
4. Tracy Flood/Ninco Megane - 39.9 laps
5. Greg Petrolati/Pioneer? Mustang - 38.0 laps
6. Eric the Cheesehead/Ninco Porsche 911- 37.4 laps

Thank you everyone that braved the traffic, it was another enjoyable night of Naste racing.

Rico

Thanks for another fun filled race from the Saager's.  I had a great time, despite my car troubles.   I cannot promise Police & Fire Department visits next Tuesday but the racing should be good.

Rico

Well, we didn't get a lot of racing in but I think we have a better plan for next time.

I just found out I have to work until 5:00 Tuesday so don't break your neck's trying to get there by 6:30.  I will do my best to be ready but may be running a little late.

I would agree that the Carrera cars can be bought cheap and that they are amoung the worst handling, least tunable slot cars.  I"ve heard some of the newer releases may be slightly better than some of the older ones.
I think a single make series, say Porsche 911 GT-1's or Ford GT-40's might be a fun experiment.  Ninco, Fly, Scalextric, Carrera and maybe somebody else make the Porsche's and Fly, Scalextric, Slot.it, MRRC and NSR all make GT-40's.  Another potential car would be 911 GT3's which are made by AutoArt, Ninco, ProSlot, SCX,Carrera, Scalextric, NSR and porbably a few others I'm not thinking of.  Fairly lax rules, maybe standard cans with a max RPM limit, urethane tires and see who can find a better mousetrap.

One other possibility is the Fly DP cars, lots of liveries and some slight variations in body styles coupled with being fairly cheap.

Rico

Here's some rallay vids to get you entused about the NasteCarlo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVwrg8KVx6I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c45rqos6oGY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTG6SM66WXw

Rico

Here's some nice shots of some Group B cars:

http://jalopnik.com/5910506/group-b-rev … /gallery/1

Rico