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[HarV Wallbanger III]

OH the Humanity!
The last race...
The final showdown!
Will The Bug sting the competition?...... OR
Will The Tsunami-Maker wash the field off the map?....OR
Will The Rigg outfox the field?... OR
Will The Blacklight from the 60's give the field Flashbacks?.....OR
Will The Crate make another podium?
Stay tuned for the exiting end to this around the world 3 Ring Circus Event!

Good Luck To All!

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[Gator Bob]

Turn it up !

[Jairus]

[garyvmachines]

All most RACE TIME !!!!!!

Good LUCK to ALL

GO Rocket - 88

Go Scorpion

LETS RACE


GAV Rocket-88

[Jairus]

Well, the race is over!
Nothing left to do but crunch the numbers and determine the winner. A few unfortunate upsets happened and only one tragic accident.
We started off right at noon with the first of 25 heats. From left to right our intreped and now very tired drivers are: Bob, Ken, Matthew, Josh, Roger, Zak, Paul and Kris on Black.



Seconds later the power went on!


Well, the first heat went off with-out a hitch and the spectators came and went as the hours passed.
Our track marshals, mostly friends of the drivers, worked long and hard for two and a half hours as we slogged along for 25 heats.
The first sign of any problem happened unfortunately when "H-Power" entered the frey. She charged along on Red like a locomotive until getting messed up in a pile-up with two other cars. Then started chugging along at granny speed. A quick check found that the end bell bearing had popped lose from the endbell. I poked it back in and we finished the heat with only a few laps lost. Second heat she ran beautifully, but when I moved it to the next lane that I noticed that the bearing was half way out. I popped it back in and crossed my fingers but it only went one lap before expiring and it was retired with a DNF. Can't be doing that every lap. Very sorry John, it worked very hard for this entire series on that one little motor and to give up so soon is really hard to accept.

Another problem child was "Dyna-Rigg" who kept losing a lead wire clip out of the nose of the guide. In her defense she took quite a beating during the crash fest and by the third time shoving that clip in, I managed to get the clip in deep enough to let her finish the race. But the damage was done.

Miss-K broke a lead wire and lost a few laps while we soldered that back on, but it wasn't too tragic as she only lost about 10 laps in one heat. (A note, when a car broke, we didn't stop the heat, but did extend breaks between heats until the car was fixed. If it could be fixed that is.)

"Repelatron" broke a lead wire off the guide flag during it's last heat. I looked at the lead wire hanging there with only a minute remaining on the clock... and retired her for good. Probably lost about 8 to 10 laps, but there was no way I could fix it in that amount of time.
Like John says: It's all for fun anyway. (right?)

Orange Crate 180
Wave Maker 177
Blacklight 174
Rocket 88 172
EdoTRON 168
MantaRay 164
Dynogram 159
FutureKingieThingie 156
#44 Mini-B 153
Aculeus 152
Road Kill 150
REM Raceway 148
Miss-K 147
Repelatron 146
The Needle 144
Six-T 144
Oscar Morales 143
Mabucharacha 138 (can never spell that one right)
Dyn-Astro X2 136
Dyna-Rigg 130
Titanic 127
Budweiser 127
Le Derriere 123
Scorpion 116
H-Power 30

Nothing more to say other than the track was pretty slippery. I said I wanted the track cleaned and so Matt took about 40 minutes and a lot of elbow grease to clean it, and then added a light coating of glue to the turns. It wasn't enough as I saw cars that had great tires slipping and sliding like crazy. But... it was the same for all cars so not much I could do. I applied Zip-Grip to all entries as they entered the circuit for the first time and anytime any car looked like it was having problems negotiating the track.

Scorpion showed lower than I would have expected but it was one of those cars that fish tailed all the way down the straight anyway so my only explanation is that it's tires were getting too thread-bare after the prev. 9 races. Clearance is about the thickness of one good business card anyway. Still, I don't get it why it finished so low.

Unfortunately Gary is going to get "Rocket 88" back with a badly bent frame. She suffered hard in a very tragic wreck that bent her frame totally unfixable. I was going to retire her then and there after her 5th heat but decided to keep running laps telling the drivers to take it easy as that poor car was crabbing down the track on 7-cylinders. But did they listen? Hell NO. Most just floored it down the straight and ran that poor car into the turns with aplomb. Heck, it wasn't there car was it?
Gary, that machine deserves a special place of honor on your shelf just the way she is because that 4th place spot is YOURS! Well done and quite a few drivers said they thought it ran great.
Huh.











The shirt and the car are retired.
Jairus has cracked the second beer.
I won't be running a leg of ANY proxy race again anytime soon.
The cars will be posted in the mail on Tues with battle damage. I fix nothing at this point, not even mine so deal with it!

Final tally soon as I crunch the numbers. But we all know who wins this damn thing.

[Pablo]

Great job, Jairus !!!

It is amazing to me how many miles of racing these cars endured !!

I'm happy to have a car still running at the end. But, next time, I'm building for SPEED ! !

[One27ray]

I second that Pablo Jairus did a great job You desever a few beers after this one and thanks to all the drivers and host track guy Glenn

WOW ! I'm amazed old no.# 44 made the whole series next time speed is in

[Gator Bob]

Greatest Show on Earth !!!
Thanks and Congrats to EVERYONE !!!

BTW -
Are there 8 owners that would like to run a one 'last car running enduro" ? No repairs, come as you are. Here (in Fl.), there or anywhere.
With a solid group of drivers that have local track knowledge and enduro experiance...

• Dyn-Astro x2

[HarV Wallbanger III]

Wow I made it to the end and on the podium! Thanks to all for the fun run around the world!

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[Jairus]

Final race report.

*Tangerine*


Congratulations to Steve Kempson for his final win with Wavemaker! Are we looking at the new Kingie of Thingie?

I am just too tired to do anything other than post a snap from my Excel spreadsheet.More info tomorrow.Congratulations to Steve, Edo and Mike for an excellent showing on this, the "Dynamic Challenge Thingie Proxy"!

[slotbaker]

Congrats to Barney, Steve, and Al for the podium in Albany.

We bow down to Steve, Edo, and Mike for the overall series podium.
Well done chaps.


Many thanks to ASA Hobbies, drivers and marshalls for punting our toys around the track.
Hope you all had as much fun as we've had following the Thingie Circus around the Planet.

Jairus.... JOB DONE... congrats mate.

[slotbaker]

• Dynogram
• Dyn-Astro x2

[havlicek]

Very cool Jairus and congrats to all!

-john

[Jencar17]

Thank you all very, very much!

I'm the only competitor with (much) under 100 points!!

Like Eddy the Eagle.

But, first, one had to finish last and, second, Needle finished, as all winnig cars did, too!

Once back Needle will get her confetti parade.

[JohnnySlotcar]

Thanks for all the great fun in this world traveling event! G.E. powering 6T to a top 10.I am well pleased with her performance.

[HarV Wallbanger III]

Congrats Steve-a-roonie on making the BIG Splash and to Edo and Mike. Too bad Mike your car went out in this last race as it would have been great to fight till the end with Steve. Congrats Kingie Edo on the Tron's finish as well! I wish I had not missed your race even more now!

Thank you John "Strong Arm" Havlicek for the great custom arms! Congrats to all again!

Oh well it's all done and many cars made it to the end with the many diverse motors that were used! Now my toy can come home and I get to drive it for a change till it gets put in a box or.........

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[Jairus]

Jens, one thing some of the drivers said about "The Needle" was that it's lack of speed tended to contribute to a very steady race. Notice that you finished at near midpack this time? Two more laps and your car would have tied with mine. It handles well and travels silently along with total grace. I think it could have done better in earlier races if we had caught the bent axle thing sooner.
If I were awarding prizes for pure Dynamic builds I would give special recognition to: "Titanic", "The Needle", Oscars car, "Mubachi Racha", "Le Derriere", "Dyn-Astro X2" and "Six-T". They (in no particular order) are wonderful replicas of vintage cars from the era.

[don.siegel]

Makes sense - it is a vintage car from the era! (Le Derrière, except for the body). But maybe there's such a thing as being too vintage - and especially not testing the car beforehand!

Very enjoyable series in any case, and very well organized by you Jairus, and all the local guys.

Contrats to all!

Don

[Lone Wolf]

Fantastic finish and congrats to all. For me, not coming in last is a total victory I am going to print out all of the threads pertaining to the Challenge and keep it with the car. To be truthful I will actually have the Wife do it at work Would probably cost me $50 in ink and paper to do it at home

[chief32s]

Its all been said already.

Thanks to one and all. And especially to Jairus.

Congrats to all contestants, and to Steve, Edo and Mike in particular.



Way to go Blacklight.... another podium, 6th overall and only a point behind Barney and Jairus.

Al

[MantaRay]

Thanks to Jairus most of all....................And to all of the Track Owners, Race Directors ans Drivers..........Marshalls too..........
A fun time was had by all.....................

I'm willing to take a run in Florida............

[Gator Bob]

Awesome Steve and Ray,
Only need 5 more out of the 22 cars left. Best to sign up before Jairus gets ready to ship.

I'll put up a big trophy for the car, box plaques for the winning car owner team drivers.
Pull from the GRRR (Retro), FCR-NCS (Parma) and MySeries (FL.) drivers.
Many very good and some great drivers that know these tracks.

[32Deuce]

Great series Jairus!

Congrats to Steve and Edo on their podium finishes and it was a pleasure racing with the best Thingie builders in the world today as we speak!

Thanks to all the track owners and the people behind the scenes who made it happen.

Naturally, I'm a little disapointed going into the last race in 1st place and ending up 3rd and more so because nobody seems to know why but, hey it was fun!

I will now be having fun laughing in the grandstands at the "Balls Out" races! Can you say "DeSlot?"

Best regards,
Z

[Gator Bob]

Mike, you did win .... "Most Innovative" and also the "Hard Luck" award

[Jairus]

I don't understand it either Mike. Even applied Zip-Grip to help, but your car was not the only one. Mine was all over the track before the wire broke. I had a good third place spot before the race and fell to fourth overall. Miss-K too had traction problems and just 2 weeks prior I was saying she was chirping in the turns with too much grip.

I suspect it was my fault asking Matt to clean the track before the race.