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Well the upstairs is crammed full! I also rolled most of my tools into the house garage to get everything out of the way for track assembly. It will not look this way for long!

A couple of videos from the racing on January 17th:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da5q5MnCtDA&t=3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeGXGKJIlRY&t=9s

Around the room at Rippin' Ridin' Raceway. Starting at left Doc, Rico "Chet" Locati, Kevin, Monte, Chris, and Jake.

Left to right: Kevin, Monte, and Chris.

Around the room from the left: Jeff, Rico, Kevin, Monte, Al, and Jake.

A few of the racers at last night's race. Left to right: Al, Kevin, and Jake.

The view from the driver's perspective at Rippin' Ridin' Raceway.

Daniel on the left side of the back straight, Rico on the right.

We had eleven racers at last night's Odd Thursday race. The first race of the evening was the GT3 Class. Although Al won the race by almost a two lap margine, the rest of the field was pretty close. Second place was a tie for lap count with Jake beating out Monte with a quicker fastest lap time. This class will be one of the point series classes starting with the next race. Here are last night's results for GT3:

GT3:
1 Al   71.4 Laps
2 Jake   69.1
3 Monte  69.1
4 Rico  66.1
5 Mitch  65.2
6 Chris  65.0
7 Bill  63.2
8 Zack 62.5
9 Daniel  61.9
10 Jeff  61.4
11 Kevin Lagassa  53.6

After the GT3 race the Le Mans Class cars were lined up for the point series race of the evening. This week Rico showed everyone he was on his game by taking the win. Al finished second just one tenth of a lap behind Rico, and Monte finished third just another seven tenths of a lap behind Al. This class provides some very close racing!

Le Mans Class - NASTE 2019 Point Series Championship Race No.8:
1 Rico 72.7 Laps
2 Al   72.6
3 Monte   71.3
4 Daniel  70.5
5 Chris  69.9
6 Bill  68.9
7 Jeff  68.3
8 Zack   66.7
9 Mitch  64.6
10 Kevin Lagassa  59.8
11 Jake  55.8

It had been quite sometime since we last raced the BRM 1/24 Group C cars, but last night they returned to the track, and in full furry! We had a blast thrashing these old beasts! It's been too long!

1/24 BRM Group C Class Results:
1 Rico 75.0 Laps
2 Chris   73.9
3 Al   73.0
4 Daniel  71.6
5 Mitch  68.9
6 Bill  63.3
7 Zack  59.3
8 Kevin Lagassa  58.2

Very nice chassis DC!

I fixed the photo for you by uploading it to the website. It did display fine by clicking on the link you supplied.

Good suggestions Monte.

NEW RULE added to Official Rules under General Rules:

7. All screws that pass through the bottom of a car's chassis will have their heads taped over. This is to prevent them from falling out onto the track surface should they become loose. This includes the heads of body mounting screws, as well as chassis motor pod mounting screws, or any other screws accessible or visible from the underside of the chassis.

Electrical tape works very well for this application. I will see that there is tape on hand at Al's Rippin' Ridin' Raceway for those that do not have any. Same will be true for InSlot's Checkered Flag when it is up and running.

This rule will be enforced at future races on InSlot's Checkered Flag.

The official NASTE Odd Thursday Night racing rules are now listed in only one spot. The rules are now found only from the Race Rules link on the Home Page. I added a link at the beginning of this forum topic to also direct readers to the official list.

After Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway is set up and ready for racing here in Vancouver, I will be enforcing a rule requiring the body screws on 1/32 production cars to be secured into the chassis. This is easily done by placing a piece of electrical tape over the mounting screw holes on the bottom side of the chassis. We have all experienced someone losing a body screw on the track. They get into the guide slot where they are difficult to remove and can cause damage to cars. The other common scenario is for them to get picked up by a car's motor magnets which can also cause damage to the car.

I'm bringing this up one more time, and also in the Odd Thursday Night Racing forum topic, because I think this would be a good rule to adopt, and because I WILL be enforcing this rule when I have Inslot's Checkered Flag track up and running.

If there are no objections I will add this rule to the official rules listed here.

I'm in provided I have the dates open!

It was a blast last time and would love to do it again!