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Topic: Odd Monday Racing on November 17, 2025

For this Monday's racing, Midgets were the talk of the night! We had a great turn out as far as racers with a total of 10! Most of us "Old Guys" had showed up by 3:00 PM. True to the mystique of the old guy culture, the "Old Man" race scheduled for 3:30 PM did not get gridded up until sometime around 4:00 PM, or maybe it was 4:30 PM......Hey, we're old and we don't care!

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The 1/32 Open Production Class was scheduled for the Old Man Race with 9 racers participating. The tuning of these cars is being more refined each time this class is raced. Doc, Mike, and Bob are three of the best builders and tuners. Since the cars are based on factory cars, tuning is essential in getting the maximum performance out of them. These cars are becoming faster than I ever figured possible. 

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For the Old Man Race we ran one round of 3 minute heats. Battles on the track were fast and close! The top four were within 6 laps of each other! Bob took the win over Rob by just 3 laps. However, Rob posted the fastest lap in every lane! Rob was the only racer to break the 4 second barrier!

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Re: Odd Monday Racing on November 17, 2025

After completing the Old Man Race, and grabbing some of Rob's awesome hot dogs for dinner, we moved pretty quickly to the Feature Race.......On a side note; Doc brought some of his fantastic famous salsa to this race. His salsa made my hot dog even better! Thanks Doc!

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The Feature Race was for the Flexi Class. These cars took some adjustment and recalibration by drivers because they are so fast on the Redline! After a few initial laps all the drivers were dialed in and haulin' the donkeys! This was yet another really close race with the top three all within 2 laps of each other. It was only another 4 and 5 laps back to fourth and fifth. In the end it was Bob taking his second win of the night, with Bill Henry only one lap behind him in second.

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Re: Odd Monday Racing on November 17, 2025

Although it was not the Feature Race of the evening, it was definitely the most popular!

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This was the largest field of Midgets we've had at The Redline since the class was introduced. These things are big fun! The racing action is crazy! Wild wrecks with the cars tumbling and flipping brings the volume way up in the room (mostly laughing!). It is amazing to me how durable these cars are! With many crashes and wrecks the only noted damage was on just three of the cars. One car lost the rear chrome "cage" piece (came off but didn't break), one car's driver lost his left arm (again, came off but didn't break anything), and one car in a trip off the track and onto the floor, ended up with the rear of the chassis bent. The chassis got bent but there was no damage to, or loss of any of the plastic chrome pieces!

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Again, more really close racing! Only 9 laps separated first place from fifth place! These cars have plenty of power for what they are (think, bad handling Womps!). This is truly a driver's class, and Bob showed us who was the best driver! Bob completed his clean sweep of the night scoring his third win, and third PASER WEENER Point (PASER sponsors the Weekly Winner (WEENER Points) Point racing). Mike was only three laps behind Bob in second.

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Four races were able to post sub-five second laps!

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By the end of the race we had all spent some time laughing, howling, and shouting in excitement! What a great time it was! Thank you Rob for providing us the opportunity to race on your fantasticly fast track, and eat your awesome hot dogs and cookies! Thanks to all the racers for the great competition and comradery! Great times, great people!

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4 Reply by MikeG (edited by MikeG Yesterday 10:07 am)

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Re: Odd Monday Racing on November 17, 2025

Thanks Rob for another fun race and Hot Dogs! Thanks to Bill for the race report and congratulations to Bob for a clean sweep of all three classes, plus Race director duties!  Doc. The Salsa was great!

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Re: Odd Monday Racing on November 17, 2025

I was happy with the production car considering  I just put the chassis  together that morning  from spare parts and just swapped over the body from my Odd Thursday  gt3 car. Found that I had a good tire rub going on and a slipping spur gear. Both fixed so it all loaded and ready to rock next time out.  I got the  guild issue fixed on the midget  so that beast should at least not wheelie  out on the straight  anymore.  I had nothing but bad luck  in the flexi race. Maybe next I pre dip it in some salsa and see if that removes  the bad Jojo. See you all next time and grads to Bob and his broom

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Re: Odd Monday Racing on November 17, 2025

I am definitely looking forward to trying out the production cars again... Doc had worked on mine and after the race I had a chance to test it out and its a completely different car now and I may be able to be competetive now. Thanks again doc for tuning it up Ill look for the bill in the mail.

As for the flexi race it was a great time and Ive been noticing a few other cars stepping up in the speed department along with some good driving the avoid the multiple crashes the occured but all in all its always a fun class to race.

The midgets what can I say even with my 18k motor they are just a complete riot to race and have got to be one of my favorite classes to run and I am looking forward to building a 2nd one with hopefully the faster motor and will use my one arm wonder as a possible loaner car. 

Thanks again for a great night of racing and glad it all worked out that I was able to Compete ( I use that term Lightly) in all of the classes.