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[Keith Tanaka]

Due to the Slotblog server swap last night, my original 1/32 race report got lost somewhere in cyberspace. Oh well, it was just another (the tenth) 1/32 demo race held on the BPR Flat track after the D3 RetroPro race.

Thanks to our race director, Barney Poynor.

Here's the complete race/chassis photo report:

Tenth 1/32 demo race

A field of six cars, three anglewinders and three inlines will try to finish first.


1/32 demo racers, L-R, Mike Chavez, Keith Tanaka, John Cukras, Craig Correia, Paul Sterrett, Hector Gonzalez.


1/32 overall podium, L-R, Paul Sterrett 2nd, Keith Tanaka 1st, John Cukras 3rd.


Podium cars, L-R, Paul Sterrett, Keith Tanaka, John Cukras.


[Anglewinder podium, L-R, Craig Correia 2nd, Paul Sterrett 1st, Hector Gonzalez 3rd. (Hector was unavailable for this photo, so FrankenMotor was his stand-in)


Inline podium, L-R, John Cukras 2nd, Keith Tanaka 1st, Mike Chavez 3rd.


Keith

[munter]

Thank you, Keith...

For me, here a few thousand KMs away this race report was a pleasure to read.

Great venue, great racers, great cars... great stuff.

Thanks,

munter

[chaparrAL]

Frank needs to get out and get some sun!

[Mark Wampler]

Congrats, Keith. Whoppin' with an inline already.
Those treated tires were doin' you sweet:)

[Keith Tanaka]

Thanks, Mark.

From what Paul Sterrett mentioned to me when we started these demo races, he said that trimming down worn D3 treated tires (less than .812") to .790" or less would probably remove most of the treated part of the tire. Thus, a trimmed-down JK treated tire will have more grip than it had originally.

Keith

[Mark Wampler]

Yeah, that makes sense. I'm running narrow untreated, but they wear out fast like ProTracks. I have a pretty heavy car, around 100 grams.

[HarV Wallbanger III]

Its a shame that Craig's car had a stock motor brush problem. It would go fast then slow, fast and slow. He was going to pull out and I told him to take my place as turn marshall and I would fix it. I checked the hardware to see if it had moved but it was tight then pulled the brushes and saw 1 looked shinny and 1 rough.... (stock brushes)

He missed 1/2 a heat while I ran.... (OK.. trotted) to the counter to get a set of Koford SB II motor brushes to put in and get him back in the race. If this was not a round robin he would have missed more than a 1/2 a heat as he was off while I fixed the problem.

We had 2 new chassis in the race as well. John Cukras showed up with his new chassis/ car. It looked neat as always and he used some of Dennis's Love Lotion to improve the bite. Hector had a neat little chopped up Whomp chassis (steel) We gave him a 1 race pass and I told him I would give him a old brass Thumper chassis I had so he could build another like it for future races.

[Mark Wampler]

I was looking for Phil Nyland's car to whip out another 4.7 on the Flat Track. He was absent this race, but what does Phil have in that rig? 5.0's this time around only. Was the track not as fast this race? A little dirty?

[Keith Tanaka]

I was looking for Phil Nyland's car to whip out another 4.7 on the Flat Track. He was absent this race, but what's Phil got in that rig? 5.0's this time around only. Was the track not as fast this race? A little dirty?

The fast cars didn't race Saturday. The track wasn't slower. If Craig's anglewinder didn't have some problems during the race, he would have won easily.

Keith

[Mark Wampler]

This is one of the dynamics of an upstart racing class which has the sub variations of cars that run differently, but race together. Everyone wants to run together and have some good results within their own peer group. Running angle winders with inlines is interesting, but no matter who you are racing against, you are racing the track and stretching your own limitations. The side by side action without nerfing makes that a big plus for 32’s.

[HarV Wallbanger III]

"The track wasn't slower."

Keith I do think the track was slower because of the temp last Saturday was at least 10 degrees hotter than it has been..... Don't you?? It seemed all the cars were a little loose on Black especially. (for the most part our fastest lane... most days) Look how much tire John ran! I have never had that much tire on any of my cars. I really think it was a 1/10 or so slower because of the HEAT.

It's a good thing we did not race yesterday as So Cal had RECORD temps all over! It was way over the 100 mark were my wife works down by the beach and 111 here!

[Mark Wampler]

Almost 90 at the beach here yesterday. Few people have AirCon in their homes here.