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[usadar]

Hello D3 racers,

We have decided our race schedule from September to December, this year 2011.

Retro Can-Am & F-1 races will be held on September 11, October 16, November 20 and December 18 at Cheerio Speed Way.

The raceway will be open at 7:00 AM, following the practice, Can-Am Tech will start around 10:00 AM. After Can-Am race, F-1 Tech will start normally around 2:00PM.

Please confirm the race schedule, when you decide to come here to race with us.

You are most welcome to Tokyo D3.

Haruki

[usadar]

In December, the race has been rescheduled on the 11th instead of the 18th.

Haruki

[usadar]

The first quarter of 2012 have the following monthly race(Can-Am & F-1) for Tokyo D3 on January 29, February 19 and March 25.

We will celebrate the first anniversary of Tokyo D3 either on February or on March to have some special kind of race.

Good Racing,

Haruki

[usadar]

The following is our 2012 racing schedule(Can-Am & F-1) until June.

February 19----------Race 2
March 24--------------Race 3
April 8------------------Race 4
May 27-----------------Race 5
June 24----------------Race 6

The schedule from July and after will be announced soon.

The previous Saturday of the race day is the practice day, when the raceway opens between 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM.
On the race day, the raceway opens at 7:00 AM. The tech for Can-Am starts around 9:00 AM. After Can-Am race, the tech for F-1 starts around 2:00 PM.

As for other opening hours of Cheerio SpeedWay, please send me a PM.

Good Racing,

Haruki

Edited by usadar, 22 April 2012 - 03:46 AM.

[usadar]

Hello Retro Racers,

We are now preparing the aluminum box plaques(2 x 3 inch) for podium racers of our racing program every month.

The design and data have been prepared by Akitani-san.

The data has been sent to Ralph Throne for production.




Good Racing,

Haruki

[John Gorski]

Haruki
Sano I like them a lot. Guess the only way to get one
is I have to come to Japan to try and win one
at Cheerio Raceway

[Old pink can guy]

Huruki-Kan can I have one please? Just Beautiful.

[The Bugman]

Haruki
Sano I like them a lot. Guess the only way to get one
is I have to come to Japan to try and win one
at Cheerio Raceway

im with ya John,,i want one too,,very nice Haruki-san,,,,,,

[usadar]

At our Race #1 on Jan 19, I got a silver plaque for Can-Am and a gold one for F-1, though they are proto-type made of paper.

The real ones will be ready for our Race #3 in March.

I will find a way to make a good use of the design of Tokyo D3 plaques for the Western States and/or the Check Point Cup in such a way as gift/prize plaques as a token of our good relationship to SoCal D3.

I will talk to Keith about this soon.

Haruki

[S.O. Watt]

Most Excellent!

A very nice choice of the Gurney Eagle. Undoubtedly it is one of the best looking F1s ever. It also helps that Dan Gurney was my home town hero back then.

[usadar]

I have just received the award plaque stickers of our Tokyo D3 2012 races from Ralph Thorne Racing.

They are so well made and our racers will like them a lot.

For our January & February races, temporary plaques were given to podium racers, who will get the real ones at our next meting.



Haruki

[The Bugman]

what??? no plaque for 2012 Checkpoint Cup D-Main 1st place,, ,,,,,,lol
nice looking Haruki, Ralph does great work,,,,

[usadar]

On March 25, we had our monthly race #3 on our Gerding King(G13) for Can-Am & F-1.

The more detailed report with a lot of pictures is being prepared by Akitani for Keith to post on his web-site as usual.








Very close racing at the both classes & we had a great fun.

Stay tuned & keep racing,

Haruki

[Steve Deiters]

Photos to follow?

[Roger U]

Haruki and all of the Tokyo group,

It's always interesting to see the results of your races, I'm looking forward to the photos of the great looking cars you guys race.

It looks like some new racers are getting involved in your race program, that's cool.

Keep on having fun.

[usadar]

Thanks for your warm words, Roger.

The 2 new racers joined Tokyo D3 at this race, one used to race some of our racers a long time ago and the other had hid very first chance to race a slot car after just 1 hour practice before the race.

At least 2 more new racers were supposed to race but they were not able to make it this time but they promised to do in April.

Keep racing,

Haruki

PS. The pictures of race are on the way.

[usadar]

A highlight of this Race #3 is a free lunch buffer prepared by Funakoshi & Ken-chan, the chef & the chief bartender at the dining joint of downtown Tokyo, both of whom have been good friends of mine for many years.

Funakoshi experienced his first in life slot car racing at the Can-Am race in the morning after practicing just for an hour!!
I hope Ken-chan will join our racing program in April.

Thanks a lot, Funakoshi & Ken-chan for a great food!!

Funakoshi(on the left) & Ken-chan.


Hamburgers & hot dogs in Japanese-American style.


Steamed rice balls(Onigiri) with pickles, very Japanese dish.


Form the right are Yoshi Hirose, Yoshi Akiyama, Mickeyzo & Omi(Nob Hanada's team-mate), fueling themselves for the F-1 race in the afternoon.


Good racing,

Haruki

[The Bugman]

ahhhhhhhh good ol' burgers and hot dogs,now thats a slotcar racers ultimate meal,,,

[Steve Deiters]

Good food/good racing/good friends. The only way to improve on it is a faster laptime or total!

[j-slot]

Here are several photos of 2012 Tokyo D3 Race#3.

Drivers meeting. Haruki explains today's race procedure.


This time we had two newcomers.
Umino has an experience of Eurosport racing.


"The Chef" Funakoshi participates in slot racing for the first time.


Today's first race is for Can-Am, 13 entries.


Can-Am qualifying in progress.


Akitani set a new record 4.119.


Akitani's record breaking car. Akitani built chassis, Ti22R body, Falcon7 motor.


Can-Am B main cars lineup.


Nob Hanada uses Lotus40 body for Can-Am race !!


Can-Am B main racers. L-R: Funakoshi, Ryu, Tebu, Hashimoto, Omi, A/Yoshi, Umino, Hanada.


Can-Am A main cars lineup.


Can-Am A main racers. L-R: Ryu, Sekiguchi, Kamo, H/Yoshi, Haruki, A/Yoshi, Tebu, Akitani.


Can-Am A main podium. L-R: Sekiguchi/3rd, Tebu/1st, Haruki/2nd and Akitani/TQ.


Can-Am winning cars with podium plaques.


Tebu's 1st place car. Tebu built tripod chassis, O/S Ti22R body. TSR D3 motor.



F1 race is followed, 12 entries.


Haruki swings his body hard to take TQ.


F1 cars lineup. 12 car round robin race.


F1 racers, L-R: H/Yoshi, Tebu, Hashimoto, Kamo, Ryu. Omi, Haruki, Hanada, Umino, A/Yoshi, Sekiguchi, Akitani.


F1 race in progress.


F1 podium. L-R: Haruki/2nd&TQ, Ryu/1st, Hanada/3rd.


F1 winning cars with podium plaques.


Ryu's F1 1st place car. Ryu built chassis, Lotus56 body, TSR D3 motor.



Complete race report and more photos will be uploaded to Keith Tanaka's web site soon.

Akitani

[Bernie]

Very nice report. I did notice one thing that is very differnet from Retro racing here in the States, your racers are a bit "slimmer" than ours ! Great job.

[usadar]

Very nice report. I did notice one thing that is very differnet from Retro racing here in the States, your racers are a bit "slimmer" than ours ! Great job.

Hi, Burnie,

Since I started Retro racing in April, 2010 at BPR, my body has been "enhanced" in down-force/gravity more & more like my slot buddies in the States.

Haruki

[Gator Bob]

素晴らしい、共有をありがとう。

車、トラック、建物、食品、レーサーがすべてでは最高。皆さん右のそれ。佐野を言うことができますか？

I hope this came out right.

[usadar]

The Race #3 of Tokyo D3, 2012 had several points to mention.

We had 2 new racers, The Chef Funakoshi & Umino.
The chef had never touched a slot car in his life until the morning of the race day but he did well.
Umino-san used to race with some of our Tokyo D3 racers a long time ago with Eurosports and other cars.

Masaru Sasaki, one of the fastest racers here, showed up after a while of absence. We had never known he had a light stroke but was recovering all right. Welcome back, Masaru! Nob Hanada, encouraging him to join the race by giving his extra F-1 car, showed his warm welcome to Masaru. He ran the car very well but this time he did not race but stayed until the end of the raceday, helping us in marshaling. Thanks a lot, Masaru.

In Can-Am, Akitani TQed at his very first lap with the new OS Ti 22R, follwed by myself. Both of us broke our track record.
Tebu & I had a very close racing. Tebu finally won when I deslotted my car at the very last moment of the fianal heat, giving him a chance to pass me.

Sekiguchi, ex-factory RC racer of Kyosho, who had made a great progress with much practice, did very well both at the qualify & race.

Akitani TQed and Tebu won the race with new OS Ti 22R, while I am using True Scale Ti 22 Kirby/Long.

The F-1 race was a very close racing.
The Fast Ryu won the race, with our Chassis Kit Guy, Nob Hanada, finished 3rd with the same total laps of the 4th and 5th finishers.

From this race, I changed glue from Camen Heavy to Koford Medium, following the good advises at Slotblog.
The track condition was better than before.
I will also try Champion Lite, following the advise of Mike Swiss.

We had a great fun again.

Keep racing,

Haruki

[Tim Neja]

Wonderful that your racing AND hospitality is continuing to grow!! We had a great race for the Zimmerman too!! Nice to see retro is doing very well again in Tokyo and BPR!!! You're dominating Haruki!!!
T