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This morning Zack stopped by Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway for a test session with his prototype 2NASTE chassis. Zack had the chassis assembled and configured to his Trans Am 2 car. After running just a handful of laps he had the car settled into low four second laps. Zack let me take the car for a spin and I'll tell you this car is impressive! It is better than any of my current Scholer chassis cars. It is much more forgiving and can be pushed very hard in the corners! I'm really looking forward to these chassis being available! Thanks Zack!
Zack Morgan on track with the 2NASTE Prototype Chassis.
The 2NASTE Chassis.
After just a few laps Zack was consistently lapping the Checkered Flag course in the 4.5 second range.
Video of the 2NASTE Prototype in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiaF_Axkxgw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YlGEL1bbpE
Bob always hated getting his picture taken, but here's a couple times he was caught off guard.
Gary Tipton (L) and Bob McFarland at Paul Painter's Mile High Raceway in Keizer.
Bad Bob & Tachometer Ted at Bob's Checkered Flag Raceway in Aurora.
This is a really small chassis built by Bob.
This looks to be some sort of unlimited class chassis?
Bob's beautiful hard body Porsche 917.
Another beautiful Bob built car, this time a Hudson Hornet! Check out the extra long wheelbase on this chassis! It is right at 5.0 inches!
This is a narrow sports car chassis.
Another wider sports car chassis.
This chassis could also be fitted with various bodies. This Ferrari F50 was just one body option for this chassis.
This '57 Ford early NASCAR is just beautiful!
This is a strange body. It is some sort of hard plastic body, maybe scratch built from plastic sheet?
Another one of Bob's D3 chassis.
The dimensions of this chassis allow it to accept different bodies and compete in various classes. It is seen here with a Mercury body, but some Trans Am and later model stock car bodies also fit this chassis.
Bob built some really nice D3 chassis for racing at Paul Painter's Mile High Raceway in Keizer.
This is a beautiful hard body Can Am Lola T70 Bob built. This was one of Bob's latest chassis designs.
Bob was a pioneer in the world of 1/24 hard body slot car chassis building. His chassis still represent the leading edge of hard body chassis design. Here are a few of Bob's creations for you to take a look at.
This was a Porsche 962 Bob raced. Note the piece of electrical circuit board use as a terminal block for the motor wire to guide flag connection point.
This chassis was built to compete in Pelican Park's TT Class and features a Resilient Resins body made by the late Doug Haynes.
NASTE 2020 Point Series Championship Race No.9 @ Rippin' Ridin' Raceway February 27, 2020
Race Results - Carrera DTM Class:
1 Zack 70.3 Laps - 8 points
2 Al 69.0 - 7 pts.
3 Daniel 68.7 - 6 pts.
4 Tom 66.0 - 5 pts.
5 Rico 65.9 - 4 pts.
6 Greg 63.7 - 3 pts.
7 Mitch 62.7 - 2 pts.
8 Joel 55.0 - 1 pt.
Current Standings for the 2020 NASTE Point Series Championship After 9 Races:
1st Zack - 77 points
2nd Daniel - 71 pts.
3rd Al - 65 pts.
4th Rico - 45 pts.
5th Jeff - 30 pts.
6th tie Mitch - 24 pts.
6th tie Greg - 24 pts.
8th Tom - 22 pts.
9th Chris - 15 pts.
10th Monte - 14 pts.
11th Stan - 10 pts.
12th Bryan D. - 6 pts.
13th Fernando - 4 pts.
14th Burns - 3 pts.
15th tie Bill - 2 pts.
15th tie Tim Gijio - 2 pts.
15th tie Joel - 2 pts.
18th tie Mark - 1 pt.
Here's the results from the Odd Thursday race at Al's on February 27th, 2020.
GT PGE Class:
Fastest lap Zack 6.219, Al 6.279.
Carrera DTM Class:
Dork here...............yellow SIMCA.........NOT NSU...............
Who has a BRM Mini Cooper?
And which livery?
Here's some video from the Can Am race yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07zFI9L6KJ0
From my experience I would echo what Zack said.
I do believe 110 degree would definitely affect a 1:1 racing tire. The rubber compound used for racing tires is much different than street tires for sure (the shop I worked in actually made recapped racing slicks). However I really doubt the slot car tires ever reach even 100 degrees (unless you are over aggressive when truing them!).
I worked in a tire recap shop when I was young. It takes extreme heat to affect the hardness or softness of rubber. I can't imagine we are generating that kind of heat even with the heavy and fast 1/24 scratchbuilt cars. If the tires were too hot to handle after a heat race I'd say maybe, but I just don't see it in our application.
As far as urethanes go, the molding is a cold pour process so again I think you would be talking about extreme heat to charge the tire's shore rating. With that said I do know they will "come apart" if in the truing process you get too aggressive and create too much heat. So if they were reaching a heat cycle close enough to change the shore rating I think they would just come apart. But then again that is a LOT of heat, way more than what is experienced by the car itself on the track. I did a fair amount of experimentation when I was molding urethane tires, and I do know that having them under a very hot lamp does nothing to affect the shore rating (as measured by a shore meter). The heat from the lamp was probably in excessive of any tire temperatures the cars themselves could generate.
Silly Doc, it stopped upside down. There was no "funky smell" IN the car....It was on the ground!
Thanks Chris for not only getting this display up for me, but for building the car for me in the first place! It has been an AWESOME journey! And the best part is that baby can come down off its perch at any time to take me down a mountain road at 50 MPH plus!
By the end of the race the track was pretty well rubbered up!
Just one of the highlights of the OSCAR races at Inslot's Checkered Flag is lunch featuring Firehouse Sub Sandwiches! And this time I got ALL the sandwich orders right!
Here's some photos Zack took at the race. Thanks Zack!
In the pits the second place car. A combined effort by Stuart Wall and Zack Morgan.
The winning car built by Tom Street with a Bob McFarland chassis.
The third place car built by Bob Nakamura.
The fourth place entry built by Tachometer Ted.
The fifth place car built by John Gill.
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