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As always, thanks for an entertaining evening Bill.  It was definitely a fun one for me as well, even with the good-natured deterioration of the BRM spectacle.  It was an impressive debut for my new GT class Nissan and a reasonable night for my completely undeveloped CanAm car.  When I can't make an Odd Thurs, I really miss it!  Looking forward to spending a little more time with those cars and getting a little more speed out of them.

I eventually will get back to running and tuning at my house on a regular basis, and then hosting the circus as well.  Until then, I will be very happy to drive into turn 1 side by side at Too Bad.

Until the next Odd Thurs!

CK

December 3rd, 2015 Odd Thursday Night Racing-

It was a cold night, but the thirteen racers on hand helped to warm up the garage as well as the track. It was nice to see Ruben Guzman from Canada, as well as the usual crowd of NASTE racers. We started the night off racing the Trans Am class. Amy Fields took the unofficial win with her Nak-Spec Camaro. Unfortunately with the traction magnet in place she was not entitled to the official overall win, that win went to Bryan Trachsel. Bryan got that win by just half a lap over Gary Goose Gossett.

Next class of cars to the grid were the classic sports cars. Performance stepped up a notch in this class with the Division 2 allowed modifications of 8mm wide rear tires and/or motor pod-type or articulating chassis. Chris Kouba's Slot.it Ford GT40 proved to be the class of the field here, setting a new lap record as well as total laps in a 3 minute heat race. Rico Locati took the Division 1 win with his proven scratchbuilt Ferrari GTO.

After the sports car race it was time for the BRM Porsche 962s. The real question was what type of race would it be? As it turned out everyone, ok well most everyone raced in a very gentleman-like manner. Unusual for the BRM class! Chris Kouba drove to an impressive win! And lastly the Over 50 Class. Gary Goose Gossett has his Mystery Chassis car pretty well dialed in now, and it showed on the track. Goose took the win with a comfortable 3 lap cushion!

I'd like to thank everyone who was able to make it out for the race! And thanks for all the snacks! I'd also like to thank Chris Kouba for allowing us to run his 3 new BRM cars (Ferrari 512 & Porsche 917s) in a little IROC race to end the night. Oh, and for those that don't know, IROC stands for I Regret Offering Cars! Oh so true some times!

The Results:

Trans Am Class Results:
n/c Amy Fields 55.1 Laps - w/TM
1st Bryan Trachsel 54.6
2nd Goose Gossett  54.0
3rd Bill Bostic 53.2
4th Chris Kouba 52.4
5th-tie Dorothy Abbott 52.2
5th- tie John Fisher 52.2
7th Jeff Fields 51.1
8th Al Christensen  50.5
9th Rico Locati 50.2
10th Terry Abbott 49.2
11th Glenn Heath 48.8
12th Ruben Guzman 44.2

Classic Sports Car Class:
1st Chris Kouba 56.9 laps First in Div.2 & Overall
2nd Goose Gossett 55.5
3rd  Bill Bostic 55.2
4th  Bryan Trachsel 55.1
5th John Fisher 52.8
6th Rico Locati 51.9 First in Div.1
7th Jeff Fields 47.2
8th  Al Christensen 47.1
9th  Glenn Heath 45.2
10th Amy Fields 44.3

BRM Porsche 962 Class Results:
1st Chris Kouba 62.9 laps
2nd Rico Locati 61.0
3rd Goose Gossett 60.3
4th John Fisher 57.2
5th Bill Bostic 56.6
6th Glenn Heath 56.0
7th Amy Fields 55.6
8th Jeff Fields 55.0
9th Al Christensen 54.2

Over 50 Class Results:
1st Goose Gossett 55.2 Laps
2nd Al Christensen 52.1
3rd Rico Locati 51.0
4th John Fisher 49.7
5th Chris Kouba 47.2
6th Bill Bostic 42.5
7th Glenn Heath 41.7

*N/C = non-compliant

Wow lots of laps, I better go downstairs and practice. Like that really helps.

That should be fun.

I'm sorry I couldn't stay for all the racing but I'm glad there was a good turn out and some good racing! It looked like everyone was having a great time while I was there! Al did a very nice job constructing his track and it runs very well! I did stay long enough to get a few bites of Al's famous meats! I will also say I had a very nice evening with my beautiful wife celebrating our 16th anniversary!

Congrats to Bill and Diane, and thanks to Donna and Al for letting us invade their house for an evening of fun. Thanks to Rico for handling the timing and giving pointers on how the program works.

Thanks guys for your support on the marriage front! Diane is the best as any of you that have met her know! I would be lost without her! I am one lucky guy!

Sad....but TRUE!!!

Weird, but very cool!

We had quite a few new and re-worked cars show up at the New Years Eve Odd Thursday Night Race!

Mitch Brooks did a lowering job to his Carrera '57 Chev. It handled a whole lot better!

Mitch's Ninco Corvette sits on a 3D chassis.

Bryan also brought out a Go Kart he built. This is the second Go Kart Bryan has built. The first was about the size of a small 1/24 car. This one is about the size of a 1/32 car. Both are very cool!