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Post by gnome on May 29, 2020 19:39:16 GMT -7
Cars made it home safe and sound, love the goodies
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Post by gibbo61 on May 30, 2020 7:01:22 GMT -7
Car's & goodies received yesterday .....many thanks for the time & effort on the race
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Post by dave632 on May 30, 2020 8:07:28 GMT -7
Glad to see the all the cars arriving safely. Some were sent first class so I could add
more insurance so they might take a couple of days longer to arrive.
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Post by finistauri on May 30, 2020 11:00:51 GMT -7
K I S S I like having classes that represent chassis builds. seems like a basic formula would be something like : Stock Modified Stock Unlimited in each chassis type so you would have a category of : Pancake t-Jet type including the various manufacturers over the years Pancake AFX type, also including various manufacturers versions including those with traction magnets Pancake 4-Gear/Specialty type including all manufacturers of said design. Inline also including many designs by multiple manufacturers over half a decade or longer. I like the classes and rules we currently have in place, just sharing my simplified (by my humble standards [LOL] ) opinion and ideas. this formula worked well for my live racing for several decades, but alas, it seems it wasn't sufficient enough to keep local racers interested. and, for the record, attending racers voted, on several occasions, to make revisions about allowances, dis allowances, additional classes and tech issues which were agreed on by a majority vote. not trying to change Nitro Slots, but this discussion (which might be redirected to it's own thread) intrigues me and I think there is much room for discussion and sharing opinions. Racing is exciting 😁 if we take the passion of tweaking our cars 🤔 our just racing them out of a store bought box, Then we're is the challenge of racing go our end up, My Black 1960s Thunderjet 40 Willys was a 4mph car, Ended up having a .629 ET And a top speed of 27mph. Granted it might be nice to have a stock race were the cars only move along at 3 to 5mph 🤔 I do remember those day 50plus year's ago🤔 I then could get to the finish line before they arive " fellows just running around " a little old fashion dry humor" Just think qualifying and racing might take weeks to complete 😁 And I could use my walker the next time I get to be a assistant at Dave's 😁 finistauri |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2020 11:34:58 GMT -7
yes, there are many thoughts as to how cars should be classed and built.
no one is wrong. there is certainly room for everything given patience and clarity.
my live group, when we were active, really liked 100% Stock T-Jet meaning everything!
wheels and tires.
JL/AW/Dash were allowed but limited to 16 OHM arms original strength stock t-jet ceramic magnets and t-jet width and diameter original tires.
after market COPPER brushes were allowed because NOS originals are hard, if not impossible, to find.
no wheelie bars, no traction magnets, no after market pick up shoes ....
and they were fun races that you could see and often cars were back and forth during a pass making it difficult to know who would cross first.
I know NOS and even refurbished Aurora T-jets are really expensive these days, but those who have them from previous can get them up to almost 10 MPH in a quarter mile.
in a future event I might use this class with these guide lines tuned to the liking of the multitude here.
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Post by dave632 on May 30, 2020 12:02:49 GMT -7
Stock T jets are the only cars I could walk to the end of the track and beat them there. I have had some
as slow as 3 MPH and the fastest was about 8. This was without me using any speed tricks. Still racing is
racing and if all is equal there should be a contest. The current Unlimteds on my track are hitting 50 - 60 MPH + in the .2 ET range
which is faster than you can blink your eye and not something that is even watchable, all you see is a blur. You have to have electronics
to be able to tell the winner and in some cases at the last race the edge was in the thousandths, very close.
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Post by nosubfor3 on May 30, 2020 12:41:44 GMT -7
got the cars OK
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Post by GTS on May 30, 2020 13:24:19 GMT -7
My cars returned home today safe & sound. Another big Thank You to all the sponsors, appreciative of all the goodies  . |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2020 14:42:42 GMT -7
my hauler arrived a few minutes ago. Thank You Dave and Mike and all the great racers around the globe.
good day today .....
I got to see a USA rocket launch to outer space again after a long delay,
got my cars (and Hank's too) back ...
and the weather is just peachy .
big shout out thank you to all the sponsors.
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Post by hairycanary on May 30, 2020 17:27:57 GMT -7
My cars and some cool goodies arrived home yesterday. Thank You again Dave and all the sponsors and participants.
Rick
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Post by comet on May 31, 2020 15:23:18 GMT -7
Al stopped by today with cars and VERY AWSOME GIFTS from the race sponsers! Just wanted to say thankyou very much to all!!!
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Post by dave632 on May 31, 2020 16:35:16 GMT -7
I also would like to thank all the sponsors again. The main sponsor was Super Tires and here are all the Racer Sponsors:
Steve Daniel, Bill Lever, Mazda, Gibbo61, JJWallace, Al Pink, Finistauri
Thanks for your generosity, by far the largest Bonanza of prizes for the racers at any of my events.
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Post by ecbill on May 31, 2020 17:34:23 GMT -7
My cars made it back with lots of great goodies. It was a fantastic race. Thanks to all of the sponsors! Thanks Dave!
Back to work now. Putting in some long hours. It’ll take some getting used to. Good to have life moving toward normal. No new normal!
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Post by skillet on Jun 1, 2020 23:45:37 GMT -7
My cars got unloaded today with a suprise in the box. Thanks Dave much appreciated.
Sam/Skillet
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Post by mazda on Jun 9, 2020 0:27:41 GMT -7
The cars have made it back to England safely. Thank you to all the sponsors for the goodies and to Dave for all the hard work for this epic event. I have packed the cars and goodies for Woodcote, they will be with him soon. |
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