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[sledman]

As part of the Second Annual Modelville Hobby Retro Marathon, NERR ran Coupes on the American Model

Raceways Aristocrat and Can-Am on the American Sovereign for our 9th race of the season on

Saturday, April 12th..

 

Sixteen drivers participated in the Coupe event while eighteen drivers ran in the Can-Am race. 

 

The full race report can be viewed here: 

       NERR S12 Race 9 - 04-12-25 - Coupes + Can-Am at MVH.pdf   1.24MB   96 downloads    

 

Updated Points and Standings can be viewed here:

       S12 NERR Points - After Race 9.pdf   459.07KB   53 downloads

 

Current NERR Track Records are in a separate post.

 

NERR's FINAL points race of the season is up next. We'll be heading to Solvay, NY, to run Coupes and F-1 on the King at Speedy's Fast Lanes. 

 

Our Annual Awards Banquet and Non-Points Race will be held on Satuday, May 17th at Modelville Hobby. Mark your calendar and plan to attend!

[Gil Aubin]

Thanks Dave, for all you do at the big events and, of course, the weekly races.  I agree, the photo of John Weaver's "Concours de Moche" winner did not do it justice.  The pieces of strapping tape on the outside of the body to keep the front from ripping off at the fender wells was the deciding factor

[NSwanberg]

Well run event. I was blessed to be able to participate. I earned a slight redemption from my previous event on the MIle.

[Bridgehampton66]

A truly great weekend!  

 

See the YouTube stream, if you're of a mind to.  Link appears on the Modelville Hobby pages.  3 cameras,

and nicely directed.

 

Thanks to Richard Payne for pulling this all together.  And to Peter Lentros, for making this facility

possible, in a global sense.  

 

For next year's Marathon, look for even bigger incentives for the historic/realistic Concours competition.  Also, we'll

have someone great in to perform the US national anthem.  And the Canadian anthem, if we have a

Canadian or two!

[Gil Aubin]

Are the celebration enduro and banquet restricted to those who raced during the year or open to others as well?  Also, do we know what cars will be used, teams, times, tracks, etc.  Really looking forward to it, I have missed all the previous ones.

[sledman]

Gil, 

The plan is to use the brushless IROC cars with either DDS Ferrari bodies or the new Cobra Daytona Coupe bodies if we can find them.

We've discussed splitting the race between two tracks, potentially the Royal and the King.

To have enough racers the event will be open to anyone who is interested in participating. 

Pre-registration will be required in order for us to determine interest and how to best balance the teams.

This event will be held in similar fashion to all NERR race days, starting around 9:00 am (no tech required) with the banquet beginning sometime in the early afternoon.

We will be posting more details as we get closer to the event. 

     Dave

[A. J. Hoyt]

All,

 

Please have a gaze at the recorded races from this event. I watched them from the Modelville website shortly after they happened and was really impressed with the quality of the broadcasts with three VERY clear camera angles, an immediate display of the scoring screen (from the computer) after the end of the heat and even an announcer during the heats!

 

Many, many thanks to Richard Payne; I was told he arranged all of this - if this is incorrect, please correct me.

 

It should be considered the high water mark for broadcasting slot car races!

 

It was very much appreciated as I got to watch Nelson Swanberg turn the ship around on his Sovereign track fortunes; you are, indeed, fully redeemed from your previous experience!

 

Keep it in the slot,

 

AJ