NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (Page 14 of 85)

Hey JM: I bought my bastard file at ACE hardware, they had three different lengths to choose from.

Thanks Bill for a fun night of hot and heavy racing.

Rico

Bill: Thank you for having the race night.  The air might have been warm, but the racing was hotter-it was a great night of racing and food and laughs.

Here's some cars Beau Frazier built for our Over 50 Class:

Beau built this vacume formed bodied Grand Sport Corvette using an AMT brass chassis.

Very nice wheel detail!

Thanks to everyone that came out to race last night! We saw so really good close racing! I'll get the results posted later today.

=========Bill

The racing was very close last night as the lap totals show in the results. There were many good close on track battles in all of the classes! Here are the results from last night's racing - July 9th.

Gary "Goose" Gossett was first in the Classic Sports Car Class with his Ninco Corvette.

Classic Sports Car:
1st Goose Gossett  50.5 laps
2nd Rico Locati 50.1
3rd Greg Petrolati 49.4
4th Monte Saager 48.8
5th Dennis Hart 47.3
6th Chris Kouba 46.8
7th Al Christensen 46.6
8th Mitch Brooks 46.4
9th Gary "Howie" Howard 45.9
10th John Morse 45.7
11th Jimmy Jones 45.3
12th Beau Frazier 36.5
13th Cash 34.5

July 9th race results-

Chris Kouba finished first in the Over 50 Class with his Cox Ford GT40 Roadster.

Over 50 Class results:
1st Chris Kouba 54.0 laps
2nd Rico Locati 53.1
3rd Goose Gossett 51.4
4th Beau Frazier 51.3
5th Al Christensen 50.8
6th John Morse 47.0
7th Bill Bostic 45.5
8th Mitch Brooks 45.3
9th Howie Howard 45.2

Chris' winning Cox Ford GT40 Roadster "Custom"......

Bill,

Thanks to you and everyone who showed up for another evening of awesome racing!  It was extremely competitive yet still casual and enjoyable- specifically going side by side with Goose in back-to-back Over 50 heats.  You've done a fine job striking a balance for Odd Thursdays, and it seemed like everyone else was having just as good a time as I was.  I know I've missed a number of racing evenings lately but it was one of the best nights of racing I've had in quite some time.

THANKS!!!

Chris

You guys are most welcome!  I'm glad we are getting good use out of the track, and it's great to be able to race and have fun with so many good people! This month completes our third straight year of Odd Thursday Racing at TooBad Motorplex! I'm looking forward to much more!!!!

Submitted for Goose:

I also would like to see this class. What years are we considering 1964-1974? How about we trade/rotate group c class with can/am?
I would like to see a max motor rpm of 19,500/19,800, these motors are cheap to replace. "No sponge tires allowed". Do we allow the larger size Carrera cars? I do see a problem with mrrc chap 2c ff-050 21,000 rpm motor, the fly f-1 used a ff-050 @ 19,500 rpm, but i do not know it it is available. I see several classes required-see below.

"Vintage" class; start with a out of the box rtr car, (fly, slot-it, other?) see motor rule, replace rear tires (only). "Following allowed for all classes"; allow removing material from bottom of interior-do not cut thru, lowering of body at mounting posts, no fender opening/lower sills cutting (inside fender clearance allowed). Weight allowed.

"Vintage Mod"(ified) class; see motor rule, use plastic or resin body, with plastic or resin chassis (some resin kits come with chassis), ok to use set screw wheels.
mrrc chap 2c body to be eligible for this class. Weight allowed.

"Vintage Pro" class; see motor rule, use plastic or resin body, with plastic or "brass" scratch built or purchased chassis, ok to use set screw wheels.
mrrc chap 2c body to be eligible for this class. Weight allowed.

Goose

From Greenman:

Keeping in mind how Can Am worked historically it was a sports racer out growth of the USSRC racing series. Early cars were tube-framed, which later gave way to monocoque racers. The rules were basically "no rules" whatever you could do to go faster was okay... later it was a bit more structured. This included cars with moving wings (chaparral) vacuum traction assist (chaparral again), moving bodies, multiple engines in short... whatever. What really killed the series was the money chase and timing. On one hand, Porsche just out spent everyone else and ran the little guys out of the series. Add to that, the early 70s oil shock and didn't help either. Ironically the last Can Am Championship was won by the UOP Shadow a titanium monocoque car driven by George Follmer.

Might I suggest two classes? Early cars with an under 20k motor, configuration gearing, etc open. For to reflect the tube frame cars. And a later car series with a 25k motor limit and one (gag) magnet? This would represent the later cars that showed the progress learning about aerodynamics really worked that took place over the years. Both series should allow alloy wheels and scratch building, thought I feel Slotit McLarens may dominate the late cars as the Slotit Chaparral may dominate the early cars. How do you guy feel about it?

Greg

I like the idea of limiting the class to two divisions, older cars and newer.  I'm not a big fan of allowing magnetic traction on either class, but I'll go with whatever you guys decide. I think the scratchbuilt could run against the RTR type cars. That seems to work well with the other classes we race. I'm leaving this class up to you guys for the most part. You guys will be the sponsors, just as the Trans Am class is Glenn's, the BRM class is Chris', and the F1 class is Monte's. I think this class might be a good replacement for our current GT class. It will be better structured than our current GT class.

==============Bill