45 replies to this topic

[Mike Patterson]

Any chance of someone posting some info about the race?

[Ron Hershman]

There is some race reporting on the Speedzonenj.com website and lots of stuff on Facebook

[Mike Patterson]

Thanks Ron, but I don't Facebook.

[Greg VanPeenen]

Mike,

Matt Bruce TQ and win (by 10 laps) in F-1. Rick Davis comes from the C main all the way to the A main . Not sure where he finished.

Mat Bruce TQ and win ( by 5 or so) in the Coupe PD class. 2nd was Chris R. 3rd Edsel, 4th Mike Isles.

Jay TQ and destroyed the field in Retro Po, Chubby 2nd, Rick Davis 3rd.

Hope that helps

Greg V.

[Greg VanPeenen]

Correction Davis came From the D main to the A main in F-1.

[Bill from NH]

Mike, if you get a Facebook user ID & password, you can stay in "read-only" mode & just read what's on other's pages. You don't have to spend hours daily social networking.That's how I use it, My own page has very little on it.

[Frank The Tank]

Results for the first three days of retro action are on the SpeedZone results page:http://www.speedzone...cingresults.php

Pictures are on their Facebook page:https://www.facebook...J/photos_stream

Enjoy more to follow

[Mike Patterson]

I'm sorry, but I would think that a raceway hosting an IRRA™ "Premeire" event could at least post something on here about the events going on. Even a post saying "Full report to follow" would be appreciated.

[John Streisguth]

For what it's worth, they do have one of the best live streams anyone puts up.

[Noose]

A full report will follow now that I got power back. There was only one IRRA official there and there is only so much I could do. I couldn't be there the whole weekend either.

All of the results are on the SpeedZone website under the race results tab.

[Mike K]

Glad to hear the needle is moving some what back to normal for you Noose.

While real time race reports are nice, the track and organization should be doing everything to serve the racers during the event first and the onlookers second..... from what I could see, it looks like Mike and Jay did another great job for the racers that attended.

[NJ SpeedZone]

For the Race Results go to www.SpeedZonenj.com and go to race results.

[Howie Ursaner]

Some day, someone will write race reports like they used to be written by Gene Hustings and Mike Morrissey. If you have ever read one you know the excitement they generated with background stories and careful detail of all aspects of the drama. We have none of that now and the race reports are just a few statistics. The old way inspired a generation of young people to dream about attending one of the events and winning one of those races. How can anyone be inspired without great writing. Too bad that is all gone. Just read anything from Car Model and Model Car Journal and you will know. It is sad that the story of these races are never told.

[Rick]

Agree Howie, we need a roving reporter at the big retro events. Deiters would be the man! And Bill with camera is priceless.

[tonyp]

And who pays for it? It is a lot of work. Consider us Luck that Noose steps up to the task.

[Duffy]

I've done this writing stuff. What I know, and what anybody who's done it knows, is: there's a point where writing about your hobby becomes your hobby, or else you gotta make some decisions. The "roving reporter" thing requires a PRO, and most of us are still working at our day jobs &'re otherwise involved with family & community & such.
As long as this is a Hobby, we're subject to what other Hobbyists choose to make out of their own time. Hard for me to ask someone else to do what I won't.

[tonyp]

It also gets old after awhile. I did all the Retro East reports until I moved and after the first couple of dozen it gets real old fast. lol...

[Duffy]

In sidebar earlier, I mused how Rob Walker did this thing so well in his R&T race articles - but, once again: Pro.

But I did love his stuff. And I'll always cherish his description of Jochen Mass, brassed off: "...and an angry Jochen is quite a Mass."

[Rick]

Geeze it was by no means a put down of Nooses efforts and reports. Race reports used to always have a complete spread sheet for the tech report. Motor, gears, controller, body etc etc etc laid out in excell or ? Those were looked at over and over again by the racers. I know I did hundreds of them.................

[gascarnut]

Some day, someone will write race reports like they used to be written by Gene Hustings and Mike Morrissey. If you have ever read one you know the excitement they generated with background stories and careful detail of all aspects of the drama. We have none of that now and the race reports are just a few statistics. The old way inspired a generation of young people to dream about attending one of the events and winning one of those races. How can anyone be inspired without great writing. Too bad that is all gone. Just read anything from Car Model and Model Car Journal and you will know. It is sad that the story of these races are never told.

Perhaps we should nominate Howie for the job?

[Noose]

Dennis, you took the words right out of my fingers. LOL

[Howie Ursaner]

When i said someday someone i meant some aspiring journalist who has an interest in slot car racing.LOL

I do appreciate the work and time that people put in to take the pictures, and give us the info we do get.

[Noose]

Based on the way you typed that methinks you are not an aspiring journalist ey?

[stevphens]

Some day, someone will write race reports like they used to be written by Gene Hustings and Mike Morrissey. If you have ever read one you know the excitement they generated with background stories and careful detail of all aspects of the drama. We have none of that now and the race reports are just a few statistics. The old way inspired a generation of young people to dream about attending one of the events and winning one of those races. How can anyone be inspired without great writing. Too bad that is all gone. Just read anything from Car Model and Model Car Journal and you will know. It is sad that the story of these races are never told.

Amen, Howie! When I was a kid in the 60's, reading those race reports made slot racing much more exciting and interesting than it would have been otherwise. We would build a chassis (sorta) like one of our heroes built (you for example, Howie) race it on a buddy's homemade 3 lane wooden track, and we felt special. The articles, photos and race reports in the magazines made slot cars seem to us like real racing machines, not toys. Actually they were real miniature racing machines! But, we may not have realized it without the guys who wrote it up...

[Duffy]

"Oh, you're a musician? Why don't you come to our party? And bring the band?"
Sorry, I know you guys really mean well, but I can't help chuckling at lines like "It would be great if someone would - " in which someone is implicitly "NOT-me." What do you imagine will happen? Some guy'll read the post and go, "Wow, MAJOR head slap, it just never occurred to me what I'd be doing with all that extra time now that my wife dumped me! Wull, Good Gracious Goll -Leee,I gotta thank that guy..."