NASTE News for January

NASTE Race #8 - The Enduro
Wednesday January 21, 2015



A new track, a new challenge, and another exciting evening of racing!  As you’ve probably all heard by now Monte and Victoria replaced their SCX Digital track with a new Carrera Digital track and it was a hit.

The new track is smooth as silk and the layout easy enough that after a few minutes most were driving like experts.  The Carrera Can Am cars Monte had prepared by removing the magnets and adding Paul Gage tires performed flawlessly, the system operated without a hitch.  The drivers?  Well, it is a NASTE event after all.

Once the sixteen racers in attendance had some practice time, we let the ladies – and Thomas – divide up the racers into four teams and it was Enduro time.

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NASTE Race #7 - The HO Master Returns
Tuesday January 06, 2015



The seventh race of the NASTE 2015 Point Series Championship, HO style, was held at WFO Speedway this past Saturday.  Sixteen racers evenly divided into the expert division and the NASTE Challenge division were in attendance.  

The racing was intense and very close!  There were some spectacular crashes in both divisions, pretty much equally divided between the AC Cobras raced in the first round, and the '55 Chevys raced in the second round.

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NASTE Race #6 - First Race at The Gorge
Tuesday December 23, 2014



A new track, a new challenge, what an exciting evening of racing! 

Bob Nakamura provided the NASTE racers with the honor of the first official race on his big Scalextric four lane track. And true to NASTE racing, we broke that baby in right! 22 racers put the track and computer system to the test. To Bob’s credit we did not experience one problem with the track. 

The night’s racing consisted of two rounds of three minute heats. Fly Classics were the cars of choice for the IROC style format. Racers found the car and track combination quite challenging, but all adapted quickly and the racing was actually quite close.

In the Challenge Race Thomas Flood posted his third consecutive win, and fourth of the season. John Fisher was a few tenths behind in second with Perry Petrequin third, his best finish to date. The Challenge racers made up over half of the field of racers for this event, and we even saw some new faces including Eugene Jung who traveled all the way from Southern California to race with us.



 

NASTE Race #5 - More Fickle FIAT's of Fate!
Wednesday December 10, 2014



Sunday December 7th was the day for racing in the hills. Rico and Kelly Locati hosted the fifth race in the NASTE 2015 Point Series Championship. Racing at the Hills is a special treat as Kelly lays out a food spread equivalent to anything you might see at a Greek wedding! After we had all filled our stomachs we got serious about racing. Ok, maybe semi-serious.

Rico had brought out some old favorites for us to maneuver around the tight and twisty Autumn Hills course. For the first round of two minute heats we raced Nincco Mercedes. The Mercedes were somewhat loose in the traction department, so fast laps required a fair amount of judicious applied throttle!  Even at that the racing was extremely close, with Rico taking the overall lead after the first round.



 

BRM Group C Race at Rapid Raceway
Monday December 01, 2014



At approximately 1:30 PST yesterday the flag dropped on the opening heat. Sixteen racers were in attendance to fling BRM Porsche's around Rapid Raceway in Portland, Oregon. And did they ever.

We had expected some of the Washington area racers but with early morning pictures from up north showing snow on the ground I guess they decided it was better to stay home than come take their beating. Heck, we were looking forward to a little payback from the Tacoma 24 Hour Enduro. We'll just have to wait until next time.

Howie had the shop warmed up for us and the cars seemed well matched to the surface and temperature. With the exception of a lead wire parting company from a guide and a Parma gear loosening on the axle, all ran perfectly well- or at least well enough. The important thing though was for smiles all around and a good time for all.

Heats were 5 minutes with two times through the rotation for 40 minutes of track time for each racer.

Lots of racing and some good battles on the track- 3rd and 4th just 2 laps apart, just 3 laps between 5th thru 7th, and one lap between 12th and 13th!

Here now the results:

1. Howie Howard - 352 laps
2. Bill Bostic - 349
3. Monte Saager - 342
4. Rico Locati - 340
5. Tracy Flood - 327
6. John Fisher - 326
7. Chris Kouba - 324
8. Thomas Flood - 304
9. Mitch Brooks - 295
10. Todd Flood - 270
11. Victoria Saager - 265
12. Michael - 235
13. Jimmy Jones - 234
14. Aidan - 223
15. Lisa - 214
16. John Bostic - 182

Fast lap of the day was set by Howie with a 6.19. Chris was just behind that at 6.20.

Big thanks to Howie for opening his track to us and to Chris Kouba for heading up the event. Thanks to both Chris and Bill Bostic for supplying many of us with rides for the day.  We'll hope to see more events like this in Portland in the future.

 

NASTE Race #4 - The Off Road Space Fray
Tuesday November 25, 2014



The fourth race in the NASTE 2015 point series was held at Dorothy and Terry’s HammerTime Speedway. And for this night we had not only two sets of Terry’s HO demons but an additional set of cars from Richard Phillis, better known as the master of the Ferndale Fray.

The first set featured the cars from Richard which proved quick and smooth.  For the NASTE Challenge Thomas Flood charged out to an early lead and took first followed by hometown heroes Amanda Abbott and Nick Snowhill.  For the experts it was Flyin’ Bryan Trachsel taking the win followed closely by Richard “hey, those are my cars!” Phillis and Terry Abbott.



 

NASTE Race #3 - The HO Masters
Monday November 17, 2014



The third race in the NASTE 2015 point series was held at Bryan & Sherry Trachsel’s  WFO Speedway. WFO is a very challenging but fast HO track. Bryan had prepared two sets of cars for the IROC style race, and the NASTE Full Monte race format was used for this race.

The NASTE Challenge racers were the first to hit the track. The racing was fast and close. Russell Flood drove consistently making very few mistakes, which resulted in wins for both NASTE Challenge rounds.  Mitch Brooks and Victoria Saager posted second place finishes.



 

NASTE Halloween Race 2014
Monday October 27, 2014



20 NASTE racers made their way through the horrific storm to Rapid Raceway for yet another Halloween race. Pre-race activities included an electrical power outage, followed by the deployment of an emergency generator for backup, a fantastic pot luck meal, with everything from white chocolate covered grape eyeballs, to hot and spicy BBQ bat wings. Not to mention plenty of chocolate rum balls! 


After we were all full it was time for the NASTE logo contest judging. It was decided the judging would be by popular vote of all the racers in attendance. We had eight excellent entries, and after the vote we had it narrowed down to a tie between two of them. So it was decided we would vote again on just the two entries that had tied. Guess what? Yup, a tie again! That’s where we left it….for now.


On to the racing. We had some totally outrageous entries this year! We had Carl’s Cat In The Hat entry, which may have set a record for the longest Halloween car ever!  There was John’s coffin complete with a Barbie skeleton, and Barbie’s head rotated 360 degrees while the car was in motion! Flyin’ Bryan had a new go-cart driven by a skeleton. Dorothy was out in full battle gear with the brand new Hammer II……well……..hammer!  Rico showed up with a full race wiener mobile, OSCAR Meyer sponsored of course! We raced one round of two minute heats in the light, and another round in the dark. All I can say is it was a wild race, as the NASTE Halloween races usually are! Look for photos of the entries in the forum section.


Here's how they finished:


1st Bryan 139 laps

2nd Monte 123

3rd - tie Rico 111

3rd - tie Howie 111

5th Bill 110

6th - tie John F. 109

6th - tie Tyler 109

8th Sherry 105

9th June 100

10th Mitch 99

11th Dorothy 98

12th Tracy 90

13th Carl 86

14th Todd 78

15th John 72

16th Perry 72

17th Terry 69

18th Nathan 63

19th Victoria 61

20th Lois 32 DNF




 

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