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John Gill and I routed out a 4' X 16' 3 lane track yesterday.

There is a lot to look at when visiting Rob's track. He has some really cool displays!

These vintage Porsche 904 cars by Monogram are sometimes overlooked. Rob did an awesome job on this build.

You're welcome Rico, and thanks for the positive feedback!

Yes Mitch. Beau built it for the PASER/OSCAR Clubman Class. Although on Beau's build he used wheels and tires closer to True Scale specs. the Clubman class does allow shorter wheel/tire combinations.

I have a Scaleauto blue ball bearing motor.........

The initial testing at Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway has gone well. On Thursday of last week, Chris Kouba stopped by for some test laps with BRM 1/24 Group C cars and some miscellaneous 1/32 cars. The track was unprepped as far as any traction compound. We cleaned the surface off using a rag and a citrus cleaner. I was surprised at how well the cars worked on urethane or rubber tires after just a few laps. it seemed to rack about 5 to 10 laps to get the cars to hook up. Here are some initial test results from that session:

1/32: Thunderslot Lola T70 w/rubber tires 6.04 sec. - Chris
1/32 Revoslot Toyota w/rubber tires 6.16 sec. - Chris
1/24 BRM Porsche 962 w/shore 30 stock rubber tires 6.23 sec. - Chris
1/24 Revell Cheetah 36D sidewinder w/urethane tires (NASTE Over 50 Class) 7.57 sec. - Bill

In this first testing there was only one issue with the track. One of the LED power indicator lights burned out on the blue lane's controller hook up. I replaced the LED the next day.

Yesterday a few guys that race in the PASER and OSCAR events stopped by. For this test session I prepped the track by spraying it with the usual traction compound solution.  Ted, John, Stuart, and Bob Nak ran a bunch of laps with PASER/OSCAR spec cars giving the track a thorough shake down. All the cars run in this session were heavy hardbody 1/24 cars. There were no issues with the track during this session. Here are some results from this session:

Fastest lap 1/24 hardbody NASCAR 4.479 sec. - John
Laps in the 4.7 sec. range were routinely made by all drivers, John, Bob Nak, Stuart, and Ted.

This test session indicated the course reconfiguration increased average lap times by just about a full second. Here's a little video of this test session (new camera - I couldn't figure out how to get it off of the black & white setting. Found out today it was set to record in night vision....).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYKi4yqMftc

I want thank everyone that helped me get the track reconstruction to this point, Beau, Howie, John, and Diane! Thank you all!

"Decorated"?.................for Christmas????

After only 4 months of work, it is done! Let there be racing!