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NASTE News for February
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Third NASTE Race a Battle of the Screaming Midgets
Saturday February 06, 2010
 The third NASTE race of the 2010 season was held Saturday, January 23
on the Kodiak track in the stunning Brystal Barn of Bryan Henden. The
Kodiak is a high-speed HO track with continuous rail. A fabulous track
in a great location - it was a treat!
A great group of
twenty-one racers showed up to race the cars of the night - HO
something-Jets. All I know is that they had magnets and they were fast. Real fast - and
amazingly sturdy considering the NASTE beating they took. In fact once
a car did de-slot it was like a trip through pinball alley as other
cars would hit it tossing it a good two feet into the air only to be
smacked again by the next car by. Fast and very furious...
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Second NASTE Race a Battle of the Nascars!
Wednesday January 13, 2010
 The second NASTE race of the 2010 season was held Saturday, January 9 at the Stummans' Marshall Field Raceway in Beaverton.
A great group of nineteen racers showed up to race the cars of the night - SCX Nascars. We've run the SCX Nascars plenty in the past and once again they showed to be excellent runners providing close competition. These cars are not only hard to pass in the turns they can be tough to pass in a straight line. And they're all just about the same speed.
This makes for some great racing.
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NASTE Goes to the Enduro
Sunday December 06, 2009
 This past Saturday at 1 pm, the flag was once again dropped at the Auburn track of John Powers, aka, the Professor, sending four Slot.It Porsches hurtling into the future. For the next four hours, teams of drivers would speed their cars around the track stopping only for the occasional fuel refill and driver swap. Each hour, teams would trade lanes and take up with a different car.
Throughout the afternoon the race was tightly contested with the overall lead changing hands many times. The final results show the winning team ahead by a mere 18 laps. That's a difference of about one lap every 13 minutes!
Attending from the local area were Bill Bostic, Len Gillean, Greg Petrolati, Mike Lombardi and Monte and Victoria Saager and we all had a great time. Make your plans to come with us for the next one in about three months.
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Team NASTE
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NASTE 2009 Halloween Race
Tuesday November 17, 2009
 The annual NASTE Halloween race is always a fun event, and this year proved to be another great event! On Friday night October 30th, sixteen racers placed their exotic Halloween creations on the starting line at Hemi Heights Raceway Park. In addition to the sixteen racers were a number of spectators, who were there just for the show.
The race was run in two segments or rounds. The first round was run under the lights, with the second round run under "blacklight" lighting. NASTE Halloween races are typically............well, let's just say different, in an exciting kind of way!
Highlights included Dorothy "The Hammer" Abbott pounding her way to 13th, Lynette Spohn driving Speed Racer to a great 7th place finish, Larry Cockerham racing a Thong (NOT WEARING!), Victoria Saager showing the skull to most racers on her way to 5th place, and of course Bryan Trachsel taking the win! Thanks to Jeff Courtney for hosting yet another Halloween race!
Check out the "Gallery" for a photo recap of the race.
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Bill
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NASTE IPS Car Returns
Tuesday November 10, 2009
 The extremely successful International Proxy Series entrant named The Red Rider has returned safely home. After a journey of many months that started in Australia, traveled to England, Canada and finally the US, our car earned 3rd place overall out of 29 entrants including some top proxy racers. Racing on a variety of tracks under the hand of numerous drivers, our car consistently placed near the top in most events and was always a good qualifier in the time trials.
Our top event was the 5th event, La Grande Dame in Canada, where our car blazed to a pole position qualifying first only to slide to third in the race results.
We now set our sites on the next IPS scheduled to start up in early spring.
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Team NASTE Proxy Car Holding Strong
Friday October 23, 2009
 The NASTE team entry for the IPS has now made it successfully through 7 rounds of racing having recently finished the most recent race held in New York at the home club of SCX's Dave Kennedy.
Our car is still in 3rd place overall with one final event to go and that one is scheduled to run here in the US in the next few days. It's been a good run for the little red racer in a series that started some months ago in Australia, with stops in Europe and Canada. Along the way some rather famous slot car tracks were encountered. We're looking forward to seeing the traveler return home.
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Welcome to NASTE
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 NASTE was established in 1996 by a small group of slot car racing enthusiasts in the Portland, Oregon area that wanted something different. At first we raced on a short, 3 lane routed 1/24 scale track. The racing was intense! Click here to view the original site. Soon we expanded adding more tracks to the racing schedule.
Our goal is to make our racing inexpensive, with the main focus being on having FUN! Besides, we have learned that low tech can be very competitive! So, check out our cars and tracks and drop us a line if you have any questions or comments. And if you're in our local area, feel free to join us. You are more than welcome.
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