Speed & Sport Hobbies, owner Roger Gunning, is a new store opening soon in East Mesa.
Speed & Sport Hobbies
9333 E Apache Trail, Suite 104 (Just east of Ellsworth, behind Pizza Hut)
Mesa, AZ 85120
(No phone yet)
I will be at the location every day building tracks. Projected open date late March. May set up small mobile tracks until then.
Focus is on a flat 1/24 scale roadcourse track and 1,000' drag strip. Other roadcourse tracks in HO and smaller scales may be used.
This will be a racer-run raceway. Great racing and attitudes will be promoted. Anything else will be dealt with promptly and fairly.
Professional services such as birthday parties will be available via a party coordinator.
Our very small consortium of racers are looking for sponsors and partners for track building expenses. Please message me if interested. There is one very nice donor at this time and many labor helpers. Always seeking more.
This will be an exciting effort by local individuals who love and have great knowledge of various levels of slot car racing. We hope to find a connection that works for a very long time. Everything is possible.
New raceway in East Mesa, AZ - Speed & Sport Hobbies
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Posted 01 March 2017 - 10:29 AM
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Posted 01 March 2017 - 12:25 PM
Great news, Bob. Need a raceway in the greater Phoenix area.
Best of luck to all and hope to drop in at some point.
Best of luck to all and hope to drop in at some point.
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Posted 01 March 2017 - 05:09 PM
Good news.
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Posted 01 March 2017 - 05:41 PM
A flat track huh? That is always good. Please keep us posted.
Just thinking... two tracks in the southwest: Slot Car City in Las Vegas and now Speed and Sport Hobbies in Mesa, AZ. This sounds like a early Spring road trip.
Just thinking... two tracks in the southwest: Slot Car City in Las Vegas and now Speed and Sport Hobbies in Mesa, AZ. This sounds like a early Spring road trip.
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Posted 01 March 2017 - 08:02 PM
Best wishes to all!
Cheers
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Posted 01 March 2017 - 10:23 PM
Ah, just 15 miles from home.
BPR is over 300 miles away.
Am I happy?
BPR is over 300 miles away.
Am I happy?
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Posted 01 March 2017 - 11:36 PM
Yes you are. Might be seeing you and a few others there. Flat trackin'!
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Posted 02 March 2017 - 01:20 AM
Thanks, fellas, for the recognition!
Here are some basic plans I made for a six-lane 4" lane spacing. This was for a relatively skinny building.
Now however, we managed a larger space 29 x 73.5'. I'm suggesting we think about building an eight-lane approximate 135-145' flat track. We have some great electronics professionals and could put together a world class track.
I am sure the 1,000' drag strip will be off the wall and I'm trying to arrange it like BPR with pit tables all along the wall and the announcers booth at start line.
Here are some basic plans I made for a six-lane 4" lane spacing. This was for a relatively skinny building.
Now however, we managed a larger space 29 x 73.5'. I'm suggesting we think about building an eight-lane approximate 135-145' flat track. We have some great electronics professionals and could put together a world class track.
I am sure the 1,000' drag strip will be off the wall and I'm trying to arrange it like BPR with pit tables all along the wall and the announcers booth at start line.
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Posted 02 March 2017 - 03:34 AM
I like the bottom one.
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Posted 02 March 2017 - 08:28 AM
I agree, bottom one. The top one reminds me of the "Beast" that used to be at The Cave in Yorba Linda, CA.
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Posted 02 March 2017 - 02:52 PM
Alrighty the power is on! Time for some progress.
We are having a work day and meeting this Saturday at the location. Come on out.
I'm coining a new phrase:
"The Blue may be King but FLAT'S WHERE IT'S AT."
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Posted 02 March 2017 - 03:00 PM
Bob,
You oughta get some T-shirts that say that. That is fantastic!
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Posted 02 March 2017 - 04:21 PM
"The Blue may be King but FLAT'S WHERE IT'S AT."
I ran out of allotted "likes" for the day, so... 
I think I read this somewhere here on Slotblog: "Banked tracks are for fast cars, flat tracks are for fast drivers". Or something like that.
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"Fool me once, same on... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again."
George W. Bush
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Robert Mueller, special counsel (2013)
"... because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook."
Richard M .Nixon, Nov 17, 1973
"Fool me once, same on... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again."
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Posted 05 March 2017 - 08:11 PM
The space is too tight for an eight-lane track. Here's a revised popular version.
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Posted 06 March 2017 - 02:44 AM
More sketches.
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Posted 06 March 2017 - 01:43 PM
They look like FUN Bob!! I vote for #14 in the clockwise direction!! 
She's real fine, my 409!!!
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Posted 06 March 2017 - 07:36 PM
I like the top of #15 and the bottom #2, but I would flip #15 over and have it in a clockwise direction also. You will also have to think of where the marshalls will have to stand as you don't want them blocking the view if the drivers. Also having a tight(ish) lead on corner to the main straight can cause problems as people usually lean over to put their cars back on if they deslot. A more sweeping corner might be better (as in the bottom #2). The 4" lane spacing might be a bit tight for 1/24. i would use about 120mm as that seems to work quite well on the tracks we use. Dont make you tight corner to tight as 1/24 cars will just flick around them. Try and use 300mm radius as the minimum for any inside corner.
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Posted 10 March 2017 - 10:50 AM
I like the top one in #15.
What time is that meeting. Ho race @ Glens starts at 5 PM.
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."If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Pheonix." Dr Hunter S Thompson 1937-2005
"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?" - Jack Kerouac 1927-1969
"Hold my stones". Keith Stone
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"Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history, all passionate authentic experiences will be appropriated, mishandled, watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed, and sold to people you hate." Von Dutch [Kenneth R. Howard] 1929-1992
."If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Pheonix." Dr Hunter S Thompson 1937-2005
"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?" - Jack Kerouac 1927-1969
"Hold my stones". Keith Stone
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Posted 12 March 2017 - 12:06 AM
Big Al meeting @ Denny's Signal Butte/Main 7:30 am Sunday. 7:45 prayer led by David Duddy 🙏🏻
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any race results?
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