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Another Odd Thursday Night race at Rippin' Ridin' Raceway and the first round for the GT3 Class in the point series. The night started with a Classic Sports Car Div.II race. Zack Morgan is one of NASTE's newer members but it would appear Zack already has some tuning skills down! Zack loaned me his Slot.it GT40 to race and I'll tell you, it is the best handling Div.II cars I have ever raced! Div.II is the class for the next point series race and everyone needs to watch out for Zack, he is coming!

Classic Sports Car Div.II
1 Bill 77.4 Laps
2 Daniel   76.1
3 Zack   72.0
4 Rico  71.8
5 Al  71.2
6 Mitch  69.1
7 Monta 65.3
8 Stan   64.1
9 Jeff  62.4

Next the GT3 cars were sent to the grid. *Update: I didn't forget my car...but I kinda wish I had! Did I mention I HATE these cars?...However, these cars do provide for some pretty close racing....IF you happen to buy a good one! Ok, enough from the soapbox....Rico got his second straight win in the point series with a 70.7 lap total. Al came in second just 3/10 of a lap behind. Doc captured the last podium spot completing 67.5 laps.

GT3 Class - NASTE 2019 Point Series Championship Race No.9:
1 Rico   70.7 Laps
2 Al   70.4
3 Daniel  67.5
4 Monte  67.4
5 Jeff  66.7
6 Bill  65.0
7 Zack  64.4
8 Mitch 63.6
9 Stan  57.3

*Note to self, and any first time track builders: When designing an overpass make provisions for any possible future work, like re-braiding, or repairs. I realized this area is going to be a bitch to work on when I re-painted the braid recess through here. If I had extensive work to do through here I would either remove the banked curve, or at a minimum jack up one end of it to gain clearance.

I feel a future class coming on.............

I finished up scraping all the old glue residue off the braid recesses. I ended up with about another 20 feet of braid to replace. One section of braid on the red lane from the 180 degree curve at the bottom of the banked curve, all the way under the overpass and around to the bottom short straight came up. The glue for that section of braid had totally let loose. Oh well, better to find it now! Tomorrow I will do a little clean up and prep work, and then it's time for paint!

That makes two of us Terry! But it is still fun! I modified a chassis I had with a Flexi angle winder motor mount/axle mount. I'm still working on it after five or six races. It's not great but it gives me something to compete with!

Possible Monte. I already have an Econo car chassis so my build would be an extra.

Terry, I have been having fun racing with you in this class! It seems we are very closely matched! The race before this one I beat you by less than a full lap, this time we tied but you were faster! This is fun stuff!

Have you been able to get hooked up for the NASCAR Class yet?

Thank you Howie for providing us with an awesome place to gather and track to race on!

Photos from the Indy Car race on January 26, 2019:

The start of a heat race for Indy cars.

This morning I started working on cleaning up the lands next to the slots to lay the braid. I want to get this step done before I do the paint touch up on the running surface so I can also touch up the lands where needed. I will be re-laying most of the braid as it is in really good shape. I did however find some areas where the braid should be replaced, so I figure now is a good time.

This is easy mindless work, just some light scraping followed by vacuuming and a light swipe with a rag.

Looks much better after they're cleaned up!

Thanks Zack.