NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing (Page 3 of 4)

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. My question to the rest of the group is; is this a rule we should adopt as official under NASTE's General Rules?

Good with me, one less part to have to dodge.

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.

Good place to hide illegal lead, under all that tape. LOL

It would depend on the participants

How much weight do you need Monte?

Just use very thin self-stick lead painted black. :^)

I have revised the rules for Classic Sports Car Divisions I and II per my notes from last night's meeting. Please review the revised rules and let me know if there are any errors. Thanks!  ======Bill

I posted something similar earlier on Naste's Facebook page then it occurred to me that not everybody does Facebook.

  Unfortunately there was confusion concerning last weeks PGE class, there was objection when all but one car entered was a "Can-Am" type of car. On close inspection of the rules as written these cars are legal for this class as they fall into the correct years and did participate in the listed races.
  That being said I don't think that a second Cam-Am class was intended, we already have one. That can be determined by the class sponsor at a later date. But racers being racers they tend to gravitate to the fastest type of car available in particular those racers where winning is everything. I think I fielded the only non Can-am car, a Ford P68 that ran very well finishing I think 7th behind you guessed it, 6 Can-Am cars 5 of which were built by the same guy.

It was expressed at the race that we created new classes so we could race some cars in more races. This is not correct. At the time we started expanding the classes it was because most of us had other cars at home that couldn't compete in the classes we were racing, and instead we found ourselves racing the same two or three cars week after week. Some of these new "stock" classes have become our favorites with some of the closest racing.

  On to next weeks race. GT-3 is pretty well laid out. the LMP class not so much. We keep referring to it as the LMP class, but it is actually the LMP era class and as written covers full fendered sports cars that raced from 1994 thru to the present. So if you haven't found an LMP car that you like you don't need one. Many other cars are eligible. Pictured below are some of them. All of these are capable of running below 6 seconds on my track except the 350Z (18K motor).
Two of these the Opel and Marcos are eligible for both GFX and LMP era classes as their years overlap.

For the new racers/builders/tuners I would recommend the Revoslot Marcos as out of the box it will run with my fastest cars with no tuning other than a light tire sanding. It could be a short cut to the front of the pack.

Easy fix if needed. only full fender roofed cars....  that would take car of any can am cars..

Think the only issues was with pge class. Im good with what ever we run. my 917 is getting a little dusty sitting in the old slot car box ... just needs some 10mm out back...

Because I keep going back to read them, here are the rules currently:

"Class 15 - Sportscar Era Class - Pre-Ground Effect (PGE)
Pre-Ground Effect (PGE) Era - Full-fendered sportscars from 1968 through 1980 which ran in FIA, IMSA, or SCCA sanctioned events. Any motors (22k limit), tires, driveline configuration, or chassis material may be used. Bodies must be injection molded or resin cast and not vacuum molded. Thunderslot brand RTR cars are NOT eligible for this class, but their driveline components (wheels, axles, gears, tires) and guide assembly may be used for tuning"

From our rules page: http://www.naste.org/racerules.cfm

I don't really have a strong opinion on this.  We split the eras up based on club feedback, not anything I personally wanted.  I am happy to support group consensus again, but the intent was to have era compatible cars on track with each other.  It seems like that is happening, despite the same cars having a class in which to play by themselves.

CK