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Ok, I promised pictures and here they are.  The Jaguar is almost finished.  Just needs a little touch-up.  She'll be showing up for the next Tuesday nighter so you can do a first-hand viewing.

First, a picture of the Orange Rat as it was...

Victoria said it needed a re-paint and she was right.

We made all the decals and yes, we could have done a better job of color matching the blue background to the color of the car but it was a first attempt and I was too excited to not give it a try rather than spending the day trying to color match shades of light blue.

The decals on the white background look exceptional.  Even the little SCCA logo on the front fender is readable!

Not really sure, we never set it up but there's probably 50 - 60 pieces of track there including a loop and some up the walls.  Probably sets up in a 4x8 area.

Yes, I agree, cheap and plentiful would be ideal.  As well as similar in performance.  However, we could also just pick a car that comes in white and everyone can decorate their own.  That might be fun on multiple levels.  It would also provide a variety of liveries which is the real problem with the Ferrari class we are running now. 

It would be fun to see how many showed up at the first race running white cars.  Hmmmm...  a few decals...  a little clear coat...  However if you are going to go that route at least get the sparkly clear coat.

Those Flyers look perfect but there doesn't seem to be any word yet of a white version.  We'd want more than 4 liveries I hope.

I'd lose sight of my car...

No problem there, Rico.  Those are good points.  In fact, I actually have a painted track.  Soon it will be taped.  The tape is sitting in the garage on the bench.

The goal of the poll is to determine how much down force and speed we want for starters.  Sounds like your preference would be the RTR choice for now.  We can always determine later what the parameters of a given class might be.  I was just hoping for a ballpark approach.  I sort of see it as 4 base levels:

1.  Really fast cars with lots of magnets
These are the cars we are currently running in the unlimited slot.it class.  Cars are really fast and modified within a set of rules.  Cars can get pretty costly.

2.  Ready-To-Run (RTR) cars with magnets
These cars would basically be stock and so limited to the magnets that come in the car.  Some modifications could be allowed to get around the person that gets the 10/10ths car.  Cars are reasonably inexpensive.

3.  Fast non-mag cars
These are probably the over-achievers of the non-mag world.  Cars like Slot.it, NSR, and even the newer SCX Pro would be good choices.  Probably beyond our skill level for starters.  Cars can once again become rather costly but at least you don't have to buy any magnets! 

4.  Slower non-mag cars
Cars with motors of less than 20k.  Most any car could be used since there is a variety of good motors that could be used available.  Since most any car could be used, this would also be one of the more inexpensive classes.  And it could also allow for quite a bit of ingenuity on the part of the car builder.

As always, the actual rules need to be pretty well spelled out.

As far as transitions, I am guessing the easiest way to get out of the first group is by going to group 2 followed by group 4 before ever attempting group 3.  But what the heack do I know?  That's why I ask...

You tell me.  Please.

Nice, I like that.  How big is the layout?

Well, I don't entirely disagree with you, I know it has caused me a few frustrating moments.  But I thought they did a much better job last night of at least informing drivers when it was time to pit.  That's been missing on some of the other nights and drivers just drove around losing laps on empty.  I agree it's too much for the driver to be worrying about fuel while trying to drive around a track at an average of about 4 seconds a lap.  At those speeds there's not much time to not pay attention.

I just added a new poll to see what we might be interested in racing for the next Beaverton season.  Perhaps we can do fuel management with the next poll.  I know we'll be using it on the digital system when we race on it.

Ok, we've got all the entries.  You can vote for your favorite on the home page.  Here they are one more time:

TRACK DESIGN A:

TRACK DESIGN B: 

TRACK DESIGN C: 

TRACK DESIGN D: 

Thanks to those that entered and good luck.  Let the judging begin!

Ok, those of you that weren't there, you missed a good time courtesy of the Beaverton Slot Car Club.  The racing was pretty close, especially after Gearloose adjusted his controller.  The food was great and plentiful.  And although some of the teams seemed a little more "balanced" than others it was a great race.  I think the difference in each team from the next was about 20 laps.  Now if Charlie and I just could have figured out that fuel management thing...  We must have lost at least 20 laps.  Excuses gladly furnished upon request.

Here's a picture of George and Jack and one of those Slot.It Porsches.

More racing action!

and more racing action!

dueling corner marshal's...

Racer's discussing the correct misspelling of "Spedbal"...