Hi!

Carol and I had a great day yesterday, we got to meet HT's XR7g at neils wheels. We all had a great time and Tony is a top notch guy.. Carol did whip me really good on the track managing to beat me by a full lap running Tony's Wizard. ( I was running my new one.. ya thats my excuse...). Tony was great at sharing some tips to make the car faster, so Carol had better watch her mirrors next run out..

The new track at Neil's was very smooth, very fast and very wheel powered. It got me to thinking that we may well run the Cow Puddle Race in August there.. ( I will pay to rent the track still.) Neil said he would supply a tech for timing etc. So what kind of cars do we want to run at it? Please guys who will be there wade in. (Note to self.. vote against Tjets...lol)...A classic Afx Gplus race? a Tomy? a Tyco 440? I think Wizards and such are ya really fast but not much fun.. lol..so I think we should probibly make it something that will at least make the driver a factor.

Enough I tend to ramble...

David COACH!

Hi,

It was great to meet David and Carol. I had a blast running some laps with them, Carol beat my best lap time with my own car!..LOL..(her's 2.149,mine 2.157)..I guess I'm getting old!...Oh yeah... that side bet y'all had..finished cleaning the living room yet?..LOL. It was really nice to meet Y'all!!

The Cow puddle race in august sounds like fun... so count me in.

Tony

Ya living room is all done now..lol. . Did while I watched the roundy round guys batter up thier cars....


Dave

I don't even own any Wizards or superfast performance cars. I do have lots of the common stuff like Tycos, Tomys, JLs, Marchons, Amracs, Rokkars, LLs, a few Auroras and a few customs, in just about every kind of body style. almost all of mine are bone stock, except for a few Frankenstein customs. I like to carry a good variety when I go visiting my slotcar buddies. It doesn't have to be limited to one kind of race does it?

I've been more of a collector over the years. I don't have much actual race experience.

I'm mainly into t-jets, but I like all the others too. Tycos,Tomys,AFX mag and non-mag,Rokars, stock or modified. The stock cars are alot more fun to run, they take alot more skill to drive(which I lack :p )than the one's with alot of magagnet down force. I like to carry a good selection too and I would imagine everyone would bring a lot of different type's of cars.

Meet,talk,run a few laps,hangout and have some fun...

Tony

so I think we should probibly make it something that will at least make the driver a factor
they take alot more skill to drive
I hear the "no skill/less skill" statements from time to time and just have to chuckle. It's like saying that F1 race cars, which actually have enough downforce to run inverted, take less skill to drive than say a sprint car or midget. Uh huh. Please show up at any nationally affiliated organized slot car race near where you live. The rest of us "non factors" need a better shot at the A-main. The racer's youngsters who tagged along with Dad to the race need some adults to womp on in the D-main. Hee hee hee....

I hear the "no skill/less skill" statements from time to time and just have to chuckle. :rolleyes:
The stock cars are alot more fun to run, they take alot more skill to drive(which I lack )than the one's with alot of magnet down force.

AFXtoo,
If you would have read the rest of the quote you would have known I was talking about myself, that it is harder for me to run a box stock T-jet, AFX ,Tyco ...than it is for me to run a P3. If it is easy for you to run P3's, T-jet's, AFX's and everything else... then GOOD FOR YOU!!! your very talented. ;)


Please show up at any nationally affiliated organized slot car race near where you live.
I would love to, I think it would be fun, even if I only made it to the "D-main" and got whipped by all the "tag-a-long youngsters". A nationally affiliated organized slot car race coming to Dallas probably is not going to happen anytime soon. So for now you can laugh and chuckle all you want.

See you in the "D-main", :wave:
Tony

There's really only one thing that rankles me with slot cars. It's the bias that exists within some groups and individuals that view one form of racing as the "only true form" of racing and discount everything else. I see it on both sides, the TJet racers who diss the "sucker cars" and I see it on the magnet car side with people who think you're playing with Barbie dolls if you run TJets.

I firmly believe that each level of racing requires hard earned skills and practice and the same people who work to be good with TJets would be just as good with magnet cars and vice versa. Whenever I feel there's a need to defend The Racers, who are what racing is all about, and not The Cars, I step in and wave the checkered flag. I apologize if this offends anyone. To me the cars are pretty low on the list of things that matter in racing. It's the people and it's the racing. Racing is racing.

As far as national affiliation is concerned, these groups are not like the NFL moving a new team into a new city. The national racing groups are purely a collection of people who enjoy a common hobby interest. They won't come knocking, or show up in DFW with a "suprise, we've arrived." You just have to join up and invite fellow racers in. If you have a collection of local racers who want to "join in" and be part of something larger then aligning your group with a national organization is one of the ways to help make it happen. It's all grass roots, people to people networking that keeps these things alive. You would be surprised at how far fellow racers will travel to race. At the very least there is a once a year national race where you can meet a lot of people with similar racing interests at all levels and across all classes of racing. Racers will travel from coast to coast to attend a national race. There is absolutely no reason why a large city like Dallas can't be part of something like that.

Running the D-main isn't as bad as it sounds. The little kiddies don't block your view and you generally have better marshals. I feel for the main that has the kiddies marshaling when they can barely see over the top of table without standing on a crate.

Requirments for slot car racing...

1. A track
2. A Car
3. Some power
4. and someone to race against....what ya drive? Who cares let's race...

AFX I never thought of that...The little kiddies don't block your view and you generally have better marshals. Now whats my excuse for getting beat by a nine year old...


LOL

Dave

To me the cars are pretty low on the list of things that matter in racing. It's the people and it's the racing. Racing is racing.


To misquote an Autoweek column I read maybe 20 years ago (I think it was Satch Carslon):

"Racing is fun. Racing ANYTHING is fun, even shopping carts. (But you have to be in the proper frame of mind.)"

:D

--rick