NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (Page 19 of 87)

Monte Saager, Bryan Trachsel, and Rico Locati in the bleachers!

Jeff Fields turn marshalling the back straight and overpass area.

Amy Fields and Mitch Brooks doing their part to keep racers in the race!

Al: Thank you for opening you're home to me (and my cold ) had fun. Thanks all for sharing there snacks with me.

Thanks Rico for sticking your behind out there where we could kick it!!!

thanks Al and Donna for a great night of racing on an excellent track.  cant wait until Naste gets to break it in...

On January 21st Odd Thursday Night Racing returned to TooBad Motorplex. We tried a new race format with the Race Coordinator Program. For the first Vintage F1 Class race the format worked pretty well, with the finish positions aligning with the manual scoring used to check the new format. The same was not true for the second Can Am race. It appears as in the first race where the diversity of cars creates quite a spread in total laps, the format worked well. However in the Can Am Class the racing was much closer and there was little difference in each position's total laps. In the case of the second race the new format's finish positions were way different and off from the manual tally. So much for the new format!

But the racing was exciting and fast as usual! The track's surface temperature was 62.6 degrees at the start of practice, and 68.9 degrees for the start of the third race (BRM Porsches).

Vintage F1
1st Goose Gossett END  62.4 Laps First Overall + First in Division END
2nd Jeff Fields MD   61.6 - First in Division MD
3rd Bill Bostic SVD    60.3 - First in Division SVD
4th Monte Saager SVD   60.0
5th Rico Locati MND   58.5 - MND - First in Division
6th Bryan Dickerson END   57.4
7th John Morse SVD   56.0
8th Greg Petrolati SND    55.6 - First in Division SND
9th Mitch Brooks SWD    54.5 - First in Division SWD
10th John Fisher SWD 54.2
11th Al Christensen SVD  53.8

Can Am
1st Goose Gossett  61.6 laps First Overall + First in Can Am Division
2nd Rico Locati  Can Am 61.5
3rd AL Christensen  Can Am  58.9
4th Monte Saager Can Am 58.8
5th John Morse  Can Am 58.3
6th Bill Bostic  Can Am 58.1
7th Jeff Fields Can Am 58.0
8th Bryan Dickerson  Can Am 57.6
9th Greg Petrolati Can Am 57.2
10th Mitch Brooks USRRC 56.3 - First in Division USRRC
11th John Fisher  Can Am 55.4

BRM
1st Rico Locati   61.1 laps
2nd Bill Bostic    57.8
3rd John Morse    55.8
4th Al Christensen    55.6
5th Jeff Fields    53.1
6th Mitch Brooks   46.5
7th Goose Gossett  45.7

Over 50 - run at 10 volts in error
1st Goose Gossett 54.9 laps
2nd Bill Bostic    51.0
3rd John Morse    50.6
4th Rico Locati    49.9
5th Mitch Brooks    49.0
6th Al Christensen   48.3

Man, too bad I missed the action.

Not...

I want a Nerf button on mine.

Odd Thursday Night at TooBad on Feb. 25th.

We had 15 racers for the first race of the night. The ever popular Trans Am Class started the night off. Amy Fields scored the most laps, but with a traction magnet installed her car did not conform (n/c) to the rules for a racer that has previously won at TooBad. That gave the official win to Bryan Trachsel. The Goose finished second only half a lap behind. The racing was very close!

The next class to hit the track was Vintage Formula 1, which consists of various divisions covering every F1 car made! Again Amy Fields posted the most laps, but the use of a traction magnet leaves her with another n/c in the finish column.  The official overall win went to Gary Goose Gossett, second to Bryan Trachsel, and third to Monte Saager. Again it was very close racing.

As the crowd thinned out more after the second race it was decided to race the BRM Porsche 962 Class as the final race of the evening. We were down to just five racers, which makes corner marshalling just as exciting as racing! Thanks to some problems I was able to score the win over Goose, with Bryan Dickerson coming in third.

Here's the results:

Trans Am
n/c Amy Fields 55.8 - traction magnet
1st Bryan Trachsel  54.4 laps
2nd Goose Gossett 53.9
n/c Dorothy Abbott - traction magnet
3rd   Bill Bostic 52.3
4th Bryan Dickerson 52.2
5th Victoria Saager 52.1
6th Chris Kouba 51.8
7th Jeff Fields 51.5
8th John Fisher 50.2
9th Greg Petrolati 50.0
10th Mitch Brooks 49.2
11th -tie Stan Smith 48.1
11th -tie Terry Abbott 48.1
13th Monte Saager 46.7

Vintage F1
n/c Amy Fields 55.9 - traction magnet
1st Goose Gossett END  54.7 Laps First Overall + First in Division END
2nd Bryan Trachsel SVD   53.9 - First in Division SVD
3rd Monte Saager SVD    53.3
4th Bryan Dickerson END   52.6
5th Bill Bostic SVD  51.5
6th Jeff Fields MD  49.2 - First in Division MD
7th Greg Petrolati SWD   49.0 - First in Division SWD
8th Mitch Brooks SVD   47.8
9th Victoria Saager SVD    44.3
10th Stan Smith SHD  38.8 - First in Division SHD

BRM Porsche 962
1st Bill Bostic  61.3 laps
2nd Goose Gossett   60.6 - Toyota
3rd Bryan Dickerson    58.3
4th Stan Smith   52.7
5th Mitch Brooks    51.1

Thank you to all that made it out to race!   =========Bill

It looks like there was some fast and very close racing at Rippin' Ridin' Raceway on March 3rd!

Congrats on your win in the Over 50 Class Mitch!

Congrats to Goose Gossett on his 70th Odd Thursday Night win!

Unfortunately I was unable to attend, but here are the results:

Classic Sports Car
1st Gary Goose Gossett 65.4 Laps
2nd Mitch Brooks   63.9
3rd Chris Kouba    63.3
4th Greg Petrolati   60.5
5th John Morse  56.8
6th Al Christensen   56.7
7th Stan Smith   56.2
8th Jeff Fields    55.7

Can Am
1st Chris Kouba  69.2 laps
2nd Gary Goose Gossett 68.8
3rd AL Christensen   67.4
4th Amy Fields 67.1
5th Greg Petrolati 62.9
6th Mitch Brooks 60.6
7th Jeff Fields 56.9
8th Stan Smith 56.7
9th John Morse 55.4

BRM
1st Chris Kouba   73.5 laps
2nd Al Christensen   73.0
3rd Mitch Brooks    68.4
4th Stan Smith    67.7
5th Gary Goose Gossett   66.0
6th John Morse   63.8

Over 50
1st Mitch Brooks 67.8 laps
2nd Gary Goose Gossett  66.9
3rd Al Christensen   65.0
4th Chris Kouba   62.5
5th Stan Smith   61.0

OOPSSSSS.................I can fix that!

Thanks Smooth!

I was indeed a great time.  Thanks for a fun night Al!  The track is breaking in nicely.

Chris