Topic: Dale Earnhardt Memorial NASCAR Race at Tom's World in Bend Oregon
On May 8th 2021 Tom Street held his annual Dale Earnhardt Memorial Race. This was an OSCAR race for the NASCAR Class which are 1/24 scale scratchbuilt chassis cars powered by super 16D motors. The speed and handling of these cars is surprising! With 16 entries of these incredibly fast hard bodied cars, it was sure to be an exciting day of racing!
A qualifying session sets the grid for two divisions of racing. The top eight qualifiers were slated for the Monster Energy Race, and the lower eight qualifiers were gridded for the Xfinity Race. The winner of the Xfinity Race has the option of moving up into the Monster Energy Race or being credited with the Xfinity Race win. If the winner choses to move up he then receives the Iron Man Award for competing in both races! In this scenario the next highest finisher in the Xfinity race is declared the winner.
The track at Tom's World is a four lane routed track that is long, fast, tight, tricky, and very technical! It is the most difficult track I have ever raced on and that includes the legendary three lane track of Lee Dundas' in Wilsonville! It took me 20 years to get over to Bend to race on Tom's track. I wish I would have made it sooner!
In the Xfinity Race it was Jim with the win. Bob Nak got the option to move up to the Monster Energy race. The Monster Energy race was won by Curt, who by the way was also the top qualifier for the day. Both races were action packed and saw lots of good side by side racing. It was a fun and exciting day! Thank you Tom for another fantastic day of racing!
