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What a fun night of hard fought, close racing again...  Thanks Bill.

Thankfully I somehow did manage to avoid most of the carnage with the BRM's and over 50.  Some of those heats in the TA class were PHENOMENALLY close!  Good competition and great people, and I was happy to come in 2nd.  Looking forward to the next Odd Thurs, but unfortunately I'll miss it.  I will be around for the next one after that though...  So looking forward to that!

CK

The plan is for a hand-formed alu body riveted to steel supports beneath.  But talk is cheap and I have very little idea of what I am doing with that.  Fiberglass and foam would be much easier, but I want to learn alu and the resin stuff is stinky and messy.

Chris

Word is that these will be furnished painted, like the first 24h. No need to worry about the Scuderia Kouba livery on the Oregon Donor entry. I'm pretty sure Alan said they'll all be yellow anyway.

More pics from testing on Thurs.  The first is from 2:30AM, having just completed enough of my entry to actually sit and roll down the road in it.  Yes, I am supposed to wake up in 4 more hours to head to Bill's:

Upon arrival at Casa Bostic a couple of hours later, snugly in the back of the Kouba-mobile:

Bill, Beau, and Dennis loading the Flyer:

Strapping it in:

After one of the runs:

Back home in one piece, surrounded in the mess of an all-nighter thrash:

(the mess is still there, BTW)

The car ran fantastically with no evil traits.  I just held it down the middle for the first of my runs, waiting til the end to wiggle it back and forth.  It was very responsive to my input while tracking straight and true to where it was pointed.  With the solid tires, the ride was, uh... shall we say, rough?  I had to hold my head off the headrest to be able to see anything beyond general shapes and colors- but once I did, everything was a blur going by!

We only really had one side-by-side start, for which Bill jumped the start.  The Flyer has got great acceleration!  It just shot out ahead of me.  Eventually I was able to hold the gap, but by that time we were so far down our run, there was little I could do to close it.  I did try drafting him, but he scooted too far ahead for me to pull any advantage from it.

As Bill said, a HUGE thanks goes out to Beau and Dennis for showing up and enabling us to partake in this madness.  I also owe a thanks to Bill who is organizing this whole mess and basically crew chiefing on my car as well as running his own.  Thanks to ALL for making my madness happen!

If you're looking for more pics of the cars in action, you should come out with us next time.  Four is the bare minimum to effectively do this- a driver for each flyer and a driver for each shuttle vehicle.  We'd like to incorporate timing into the next rounds of trials, but that takes more people as well.  Anyone interested would be appreciated!

Chris

Some pics are here:

https://goo.gl/photos/WB5hz1FhXwBad7NT8

My camera was dead so I didn't take it and then my cell phone died and I didn't have a charger until Monte showed up, so yes, all these pics were with my cell phone camera.  If you'd like to see what things look like up there a little more clearly, I would recommend attending an event... like the 24h in Nov!

I am still in shock that Bill hasn't posted pics here yet.

We weren't last in the first race (5th) and 4th in the second.  He only went three deep in the overall classification (which we didn't make).

Very good times indeed.  Monte lived up to his Mr Smooooooth call sign- signing off his first 40 minute heat WITHOUT ANY OFFs!!!

Not to be outdone... Bill booked an "off free" 40 minute heat in the second race as well.

Unfortunately, their teammate (me) made up in spades for both of them.  We had some pretty sweet handling cars but one wasn't geared optimally and the other was just a bit too slow (needs more punch- so probably gears as well).  They ran well with only a pit stop or two for some braid love, with our pink motored car breaking in and getting quicker as the event proceeded.

I know Bill took some pics and I did too.  I'll post them up here once I have them online.

It was a reasonably well organized event, with things getting off to a behind-schedule start on both days- but only to ensure that everyone's car was well enough prepped.  There was TONS of practice time on Fri and even more on Sat morning.  And as Bill said, it was good times with great people.  Glad to have made the effort and I had a great time.

We will be fielding an Oregon Team for the 24, so mark your calendars (Nov 10-13)!

Chris

And I'd also like to echo the thanks to Al for hosting another fine night of racing.  The bar has been raised in many classes and it was great to go fender to fender with everyone.  It was very exciting with the heats of everyone finishing on the same lap and not really knowing what the results would be until they were tallied up at the end.  Things are good in NASTE-land!

Chris

Also, for those interested, the dates for the 24h are Nov 10-13th.  It's on my calendar and I will be invoking the Oregon Donors name for our team again.

Who's interested in joining up for that too??

Bill said he'd host but hasn't committed to a time.  Bill???

CK

So is Weds a go then?  If so, are we at Bill's or Al's?  What time?

CK