NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (Page 30 of 85)

Ha! I'll take a "y". Fun night. Thanks to Chris for loaning me his little Ford. Congrats to Rico on the win.

February 23rd Odd Thursday at Al's Rippin' Ridin' Raceway in Portland.

We had an outstanding crowd for this Odd Thursday race, a field of 12. Welcome back to new comer Fernando Carvalho, and it was good to see Dick Gehrke stop by and run some laps with us!

The racing started off with the Can Am Class cars with Chris Kouba leading the way to the checkered flag. Dan Fritz returned to his usual second place spot. Amy Fields had an impressive drive for a third place finish, one of her best finishes to date.

Next up was the NASTE Point Series Race with the Le Mans Class cars. Chris Kouba scored another wi, this time with Terry Abbott close behind, and Dan Fritz dropping to third. First through eighth all had over 60 laps, with only 5 laps separating first from eighth. The racing was very close!

For the BRM Group C Race the field dropped to eight but the intensity went up, as usual for the BRM class! This time Al Christensen took the win followed by Chris Kouba one lap back. Dan Fritz again fought his way to third.

Last but not least was the Over 50 Class where Mitch Brooks narrowly beat out Al Christensen with Bill Bostic following a ways back in third. All the classes added up to some very close and extremely fun racing! Thanks to Al Christensen for hosting and to everyone that brought snacks!

Here are the results:

Can Am Class
1 Chris Kouba  73.7 
2 Dan Fritz  71.8
3 Amy Fields  71.3
4 Rico Locati 69..0
5 Al Christensen  68.3
6 Terry Abbott  67.5
7 Greg Petrolati  67.3
8 Jeff Fields  66.0
9 Mitch Brooks 64.2
10 Bill Bostic  58.2
11 Fernando Carvalho  50.1
12 Dick Gehrke  48.7

Le Mans - Official NASTE Point Series Championship Race - 2017 Season - Race No. 12
1 Chris Kouba 67.9 laps - 12 points
2 Terry Abbott 66.6  -  11 points
3 Dan Fritz  65.7 - 10 pts.
4 Al Christensen 64.5 - 9 pts.
5 Jeff Fields  64.2  - 8 pts.
6 Bill Bostic 63.4  - 7 pts.
7 Rico Locati  62.7  - 6 pts.
8 Greg Petrolati 62.4 - 5 pts.
9 Mitch Brooks  57.2  - 4 pts.
10 Amy Fields  57.1 - 3 pts.
11 Fernando Carvalho  52.3 - 2 pts.
12 Dick Gerhke  47.1 - 1 pt.

BRM Group C
1 Al Christensen  74.5 Laps
2 Chris Kouba 73.4
3 Dan Fritz  73.0
4 Rico Locati  71.2
5 Greg Petrolati  70.7
6 Bill Bostic  69.4
7 Mitch Brooks 68.5
8 Fernando Carvalho 56.5

Over 50
1 Mitch Brooks  66.7 Laps - 7.548 sec. Fastest Lap
2 Al Christensen 66.7 Laps - 7.591 sec. Fastest Lap
3 Bill Bostic 61.2
4 Rico Locati 56.6
5 Chris Kouba 54.0

RE: Over 50 class, you can't win by any smaller margin without losing.

Yes the Scalextric GT3 cars do qualify for the GT class, but they will probably get spanked pretty hard by the Slot Its and the lone Fly car that runs in that class. They are fun looking cars and could probably benefit from their own class, but we might want to think about something similar speed/handling wise that could run with them. Not everybody might want to buy another car for another class. Just a thought. I already picked up a Scaley GT3 just because, well, I guess because I have no will power to resist.

I'm OK with having classes with two divisions, but anymore than that is just a pain in the you know what to score and keep track of (like our current F1 class!). My prefference would be to NOT have any classes with divisions but I am OK with whatever the group would like to do.

With that said, at some point I would like to "re-construct" our current F1 class as well as the GT class. Maybe turn them into multiple classes?

it would not be a bad idea to look at our classes and try to get them organized a little better.  I agree the F1 class is pretty well a monster that needs help.  There are others...

Just leave a spot for my Soccer Mom car, I've finally got it turning some very good laps. If it was up to just Monte there would be NO yellow cars.

I think we should have a YELLOW CAR Class, and MAKE Monte participate!!!

I'd be more in favor of a stand alone GT3 class as well.  As Mitch says, the current GT class hardware will crush a stock-ish Scaley car. The one Doc had was fun and well-balanced, and I'd imagine Scaley's can be found pretty inexpensively.

I'd be up for it. Will have to start looking for one...

I suggest we make a list of all the possible classes.  Pick 10 and start a rotation.  Next year we can pick a different 10.  Or something like that.  Maybe only replace half per year so 5 holdovers and 5 new.

Does that mean we have to paint Doc yellow?