Topic: OSCAR's Lee Dundas Memorial Race at Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway
The Lee Dundas Memorial Race on December 14, 2019 was the first OSCAR Race to be held on the Checkered Flag track since its move to Vancouver Washington. Races showed up from Bend and the Portland area to make up a field of nine racers for the NASCAR Class race. The race format consisted of four rounds of four minute heats. Nearly every racer experienced some sort of mechanical difficulties throughout the day of racing. Most difficulties were the result of some pretty significant and dramatic wrecks!
The day started off with qualifying. Bad Bob, to no one's surprise was the top qualifier! Here's the results of those qualifying efforts:
1. Bad Bob 3.9222380 with a 3.9361839 back up lap
2. Tom Street 3.9406895 3.9760907
3. Stewart 3.9428351 3.9803818
4. Ted 3.9810254 4.0031244
5. Gearloose 4.0215759 4.0451767
6. John Gill 4.0250088 4.0580499
7. Bill 4.0563334 4.1337870
8. Al 4.2101677 4.2899813
9. Jim 4.5839186 4.6813255
At the halfway point in the race there was a tie for first between John and Tom, with each of them completing 447 laps. As it turned out mechanical issues kept John off the podium and dropped the top qualifier Bob to seventh. Here are the final race results:
1. Tom Street 883 Laps with a best lap of 4.006992 seconds
2. Stewart 879 " " 4.007572 "
3. Gearloose 857 " " 4.058463 "
4. Ted 851 " " 4.015050 "
5. Bill 831 " " No Time
6. John 821 " " 4.007385 "
7. Bad Bob 773 " " 3.410535 " (unofficial)
8. Al 750 " " 4.280688 "
9. Jim 651 " " 4.663818 "
All in all I had a great time! There was lots of track time under racing conditions, and the competition was fierce! I'd like to thank everyone that made it out for this race, with a special thanks to Tom and Jim who travelled all the way from Bend!
Left to right: Bad Bob, Gearloose, Ted, Al.
