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On Saturday November 16th, Inslot's Checkered Flag hosted the second OSCAR race of the '24 - '25 season. Although attendance was down compared to most OSCAR events, the racing was extremely close between all of the competitors! After one hour of on track, power on racing, just 27 laps separated the top three, and only 38 laps separated the bottom 4! The top three's fastest laps were within .000653 of a second of each other! And, even though Tommy finished last due to mechanical issues, he posted the fastest lap during the race by .000010 second! Tommy earned the "Too Bad" award!

With only 7 racers entered we were one short of the minumum needed to hold a race. At Inslot's Checkered Flag we need a minimum of 4 Corner Marshala in addition to the 4 drivers. Thanks to Susan Street we were able to hold the race. Thank you Susan so much for being our official Corner Marshal and attendee of the day!

The last thing I would like to note here is that I had a really good time! We had a good lunch from Firehouse Subs, and shared a lot of stories! We completed this race in the standard OSCAR race format of 2 minute qualifying runs, followed by 4 rounds of 4 minute heat races. I believe we set a new record by finishing this entire race in just 3 1/2 hours! The race started on time at 10:00 AM, and the checkered flag dropped at 1:00 PM! This race changed my perspective on what it takes to have a successful and fun race! Thank you to all that made it out to compete!

Qualifying results:

Capt. Kirk -          4.6826128
Terrible Tommy -  4.7362510
Bad Billy -            4.8446001
Micky Mike -         4.9531638
Nak Nak -             5.0576509
Bart Man -            5.0969141
Meat -                  5.2052632

Race results:

1st Nak Nak -       750 laps    Best Lap 4.829794 seconds
2nd Capt Kirk -     744                        4.829307
3rd Bad Billy -       723                        4.829960
4th Meat -            681                         5.049367
5th Bart Man -      674                         5.049572
6th Micky Mike -    647                         5.220036
7th Terrible Tommy - 643                       4.829297

Last night NASTE held its Annual Halloween Race at Rapid Raceway. We had nine racers in attendance, which is actually very good for the Halloween race. Attendance has generally been low for the last few years of the event. But the enthusiasm is never low for those that take part!

This year we had a potluck meal to start the night off. Pizza, sandwiches, and lots of homemade candies by Dorothy! After we ate eveybody got their entries ready for the race. We decided on two rounds of four minute heat races. The second round would be raced in the dark! Some sort of vehicle lighting is essential for the NASTE Halloween race!

Here's a look at some of the entries:

This was Al's entry, which proved to be very fast, and one of the top runners until he spit out a gear!

Victoria's entry was also a really good runner! I believe Brian Trachsel gets the credit for this build, built many years ago!

Hersch's build included lots of brass! He suffered a few mechanical issues.

Yesterday was PASER Monday at Rob's Redline Raceway in Vancouver. Doors opened at 1:00 PM, and within an hour or two we had six racers on hand.

The track was first open to practice and testing where Mike Guthrie unveiled some of his most recent builds. Although Mike is a pretty new member he is showing some great skills with his chassis/car building!

After a bunch of practice laps we got down to some serious racing. We started out with the Womp class, racing one round of 4 minute heats. After the Womp race we ran the same program for the Flexi class.

On a side note; before the racing started, Kirk Smith made some adjustments to the power supply to correct the output to 12 volts D.C. The adjustment was made to dial back the previous setting of 13.8 volts which was determined to be much too violent for the track. At the close of the racing all the racers agreed that the power adjustment had made a drastic improvement to the overall racing! We'd like to give Kirk a big thank you! You kicked up the fun factor on Rob's track by 200%!

Rob and Jerry getting in some practice laps.

Mike and Bart joined Rob during practice.