NASTE News for January

NASTE Race Night 5 - Return to Hemi Heights
Thursday January 19, 2012



The NASTE 55 Chevys returned to duty for the fifth race of the NASTE 2012 Championship.

Jeff Courtney's 1/24 scale four lane routed track hosted the race for the group of racers.

Dorothy "The Hammer" provided us with some of her finest calorie work to date. Her delicious cakes molded in shapes of cars and trucks were just too cool! As for the racing, three minute heats were run which allowed the new racers time to adjust to the challenging cars, and allowed the veterans time to re-familiarize themselves with the Radio Shack power delivery.

Typical with the NASTE 55s there was some great crashin' and bashin', highlighted by well placed nerfs, and just plain "take-outs". Surprising to many of us was "The Hammer's" amazing (totally out of character I might add) super clean, super fast, precision racing style that took her to a great finish. The room was a buzz with comments of "is this the new Hammer?"; "Will a new nickname be required?"; "Where has our beloved Hammer gone?". It would appear the inevitable has finally happened; The Hammer is now a full-blown racer!

But even with her excellent performance she as well as every else was no match for the un-catchable Dave Smith.

Dave took the win with Terry Abbott and Bill Bostic in a tie for second. As usual racing the NASTE '55 Chevy's resulted in a very close field, narrowing the gap between the experienced racers and the less experienced.



 

NASTE Race Night 4 - The NASTE Enduro
Monday December 12, 2011




The fourth NASTE race of the 2012 season was held Saturday evening at Monte and Victoria's Jacquelin Park Speedway where a spirited group of fourteen racers came out on a cold winter night to try out the re-designed digital track.

After an hour of practice so racers could get re-acquainted with the digital format as well as do a little grazing at the food bar three teams were formed to battle it out Enduro style for the next two hours. 

An Enduro is a little different than a normal heat race since the heat lasts 40 minutes.  And a digital Enduro adds another feature as refueling is required lest your car stop dead on the track out of fuel and also out of the remainder of the heat.  So periodically drivers need to pull into the pit area and refuel their cars to continue.  At that point drivers are swapped, just like at Le Mans and Sebring.

Once the flag dropped Team One in lane one took the early lead.  As the heat progressed, the lead stretched further and further.  Would they run away with the race or was this just the first symptoms of an IROC race?

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NASTE Race Night 3 - Fantasy World Hobbies
Wednesday November 23, 2011



The third NASTE race of the 2012 season was held Saturday at the Fantasy World Hobbies warehouse courtesy of Tony Kuljis.  Since that's about a three hour drive from Portland, Bill offered to pilot the NASTE party van and we filled it with eight willing souls.  Mike Lombardi met up with us at Fantasy World where we were joined by local hot shoes Tony and John The Professor Powers.  

The Fantasy World warehouse track is a 1:32 scale 4-lane Scalextric track of about 80 ft.  The track has a nice feel to it with a set of S-curves and a good sized straight section to unwind.  It doesn't take long to feel comfortable.  On top of that, Tony had brought along his Racer Ferrari 250LM's.  We've raced them before - quality cars that are well tuned without being over-powered.  What a treat!

After an hour of practice we got down to racing.  Through the first set of heats The Big Smooth held a two-lap lead over Rico, The Professor and Tony with Bill and Drew another couple of laps behind.  The girls were also charging hard with Victoria holding the lead over Dorothy The Hammer.

Could the Smooth hold off the locals?  Click here to find out.


 

Racing at Fantasy World
Tuesday November 22, 2011

Here's some video from our race at Fantasy World courtesy of Victoria.



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NASTE Race Night 2 - Fast Times in Hillsboro
Wednesday October 12, 2011



The second NASTE race of the 2012 season was held Saturday at Monte and Victoria's 1:32 scale track in Hillsboro.  The Penguin Point track is a 55-foot, 3-lane, wood -routed track with full detailing.  The surface grip is outstanding and beginners get the hang of it pretty quickly.

On this night twenty racers came to do battle.  Monte had set up three of his Ninco McLarens complete with Slot.It running gear so there was none of that Ninco wheel tossing or as much tire hop.  Instead what we got was fast and close competition as racers flung those little cars around the track with reckless abandon.

After the first set of heats Flying Bryan held a one-tenth lap lead over host Monte with Bill just a lap back and Rico close behind him.  Would the home court advantage finally be overturned or could the Big Smooth come back and grab the win?

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New NASTE Season Classes Announced
Tuesday October 11, 2011

BREAKING NEWS!

After some discussion it has been decided to adjust the NASTE Season Scoring format.  Here are the changes:

Class A: Men - 16 and over.
Class B: Ladies - 16 and over
Class C: Juniors - under 16

And also an added class for Rookies and that would include anyone that is entering their first season of NASTE events.

Points per race will be accumulated just as in the past.  We'll just have a few more categories to add interest.  The main NASTE trophy will still be awarded to the high points racer but we'll also be honoring those in the individual classes as well.

We hope you enjoy the adjustment.


 

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