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Thanks to all the folks that came out to have a wild and crazy time on the digital track.  I hope everyone had a good time.  I know I sure enjoyed standing back and watching.  With 17 racers in attendance we had plenty of drivers to fill out the teams.  I'm considering having a 4 hour version just for fun this summer when we can open the garage door making it a little easier to get around the track.  More on that later...

The rally track also seemed to be a hit.  Every time I looked over there someone was on it.

I'd also like to thank the HandyMen.  My sliding glass door SLIDES!  Rico, Catrinus, Jeff, Bill, all that had a hand in there, it was really appreciated.

There's even a few of those little cakes of Dorothy's left.  Yum!

Perhaps.  Will it draw men in blue if we use it?

I keep annoying them as best I can but that's about the best that I can do.  Considering other methods.

Howie, that's hysterical.  That's like the second recent incident.  Don't forget, things happen in threes.

It was a great crowd and another fun day of playing with the cars.  Seventeen racers came out to try their luck in our March first Sunday series.  Thanks to you all, we sure had a good time.

Once again Rico had the car to beat and the skill to make it even harder.  Tied with Rico for top honors on the day was AJ.  They just squeaked by Flying Bryan and all of them seemed to have more can than I did.  Once again, the cars held up pretty well.  I think we tossed a tire or two and had a motor pop loose.

There was also some good food going on.  Victoria made some excellent Chili and Tim brought a pot of Chicken soup.  How were the cup cakes?  Apparently there is a penalty for score keeping.   

Here now the results:

Rico Locati:  28
AJ Locati:  28
Bryan Trachsel:  26
Monte "Big Smooth":  24
Gary Smith:  22
Bill Bostic:  20
Greg "Greenman" Petrolati:  18
Beau Frazier:  18
Dave Smith:  18
Victoria "Zen Racer":  16
Dominic "Birthday Boy" Locati:  16
Aiden:  14
Jimmy Jones:  14
Tim "Timba"  Booze:  12
Mike Lombardi:  12
Terry:  10
Jill:  10

About 8:30 should do.  It's about two hours drive from there.

Thanks Rico, that was a great race and a fun night.  I always enjoy running around the Hills and once again I was reminded how much I miss
"night" racing.  Personally, I couldn't have eaten any more.  Hats off to Kelly, those sausages were wonderful.

We had a great time too, thanks to team Stumman.  The food was great and like Rico, didn't even give a thought to dinner.  I enjoyed the track, the new layout is not only fun but seems to be free of some of the issues we've had in the past.

It should be a fun season.

Well goodness, what a turn-out!  Thank you all.  We had 19 racers for the first event of the year.  I think that's our largest group so far.  And what a day of racing it was.

After the first round Randy, Bryan, Rico and I all stood with perfect scores of 15.  But only Randy could maintain the pace in the second set as the rest of us all slipped up a time or two.  And who's car did he run?  Rico's.

Congrats to Racin' Randy!

I liked the cars, it was a nice, somewhat diverse group.  It's also good to get to play with some of these other cars we've had for some time.  I thought my Mosler did pretty well and Rico's Porsche was sailing right along.  We'll see how well these lexan chassis hold up.  I must admit I am not optimistic.

We'd like to give an extra-special thank you to George who provided us with those two Lexus and the yellow Porsche that were ably driven by many.  Bryan's probably looking for one of those Porsche's today...  George, we're most appreciative.

And thanks to Victoria for coming up with another great soup format.  That was quite tasty!

On a final note, here's all the preparation I did to my cars for the race:

1.  Remove the magnet.
2.  Replace the rear tires though a few did still have stock tires.
3.  True the tires.

And that's it.  I didn't add weight to a single one of them though I thought I was going to have to with my Pro Mosler.  It was tail-happy as all get out.  Then I replaced the tires.  Afterward it was happy as a clam.  It's sometimes amazing what a difference the right set of tires will make.  And what tires were they?  They were very similar to the Fly Classic Urethane hand-out tires that we had made for that series.  That sort of tire seems to work really well on our track.  These were actually made for my SCX digital cars - probably a Euro-Sport wheel size.

Five more races are scheduled for this series so we'll look forward to seeing you next time.

I've updated the rules to include chassis bracing to avoid the Ninco hops.

That looks nice, did you add all those decals?