The 2022 24 Hours of Tacoma

As always, Chris, I'll be there, provided the date coincides with my availability.

This just in...

Dates are November 10-13, 2022

Do those dates work for you Stan?

Anyone else- who's in?

Full info:  https://132slotcar.us/the-7th-annual-br … -of-tacoma

I may come up this year to watch and perhaps support but not race. I'm good with 3 minute heats but since the stroke the 4 minute heats we run with OSCAR/PACER are taxing. In that last minute I find myself watching the prettiest/flashiest cars on the track rather than mine.

It's now Stan and me plus an out of towner Tony from the SCI forum. 

Is anyone interested in maybe even marshalling for us if an hour of racing is too long?  Any extra bodies would be excellent!

Hey guys, it’s not confirmed yet because I’m waiting on test results but it looks like on Thursday 11/17 the race on that night will be canceled for medical reasons hopefully Odd Thursday racing will continue on 12/1. I will let you know as soon as I do.
               Al

So the 24 hour race is over. The Oregon Donors/BC team finished in 6th place (out of 9), which was actually pretty good considering that we had teammates who had never run the track before. The team consisted of me (Stan), Darren, his son Damian, Ray (who has raced with us before), Jake (from Tualatin), and Alwyn (known as "SuperSlab" on the forums). Darren and Alwyn also raced for a team called "CanAm" that finished in 3rd place. The car (a silver BRM Ferrari 512) was prepared by Darren and another CanAm team member named Dwayne to a really splendid performance. We only had to change braids and tires once, so very few pit stops. For the most part, racing was pretty non-eventful as far as we were concerned; no "offs" to the floor or hard crashes, unlike what happened for other teams. We lost the exhaust detail from a rather tame rear-end, but that was the only real damage the car took.

Damian and Jake had never run the track before, and Damian had not run slot cars for "about 20 years" in his estimation, so their heats were not as successful as we might have hoped. Damian improved markedly over the 24 hours, and Jake was a bit overmatched, but did pretty well considering. We were, in fact, the only team whose performance improved in the second 12-hour session. Had we had a few more drivers of the skill of Darren or Alwyn, our results would have been much better. And if Chris had been able to attend, there's no doubt we would have finished higher.  All in all, an enjoyable time—but we'd love to see more Oregonians next year!

Also, we finished our heats on the slower 6-lane track, as opposed to the quick 8-laner. That was a huge factor in our less that stellar finish.

Wtg I was on the other  side of the country  enjoying  the 95% humidity  of Florida  so no way to help out. Good job there guys.