We ran the quali for Round #1 today. Bob Bianchi from Slot Car Corner came down to do the honors; thanks Bob!
Bob ran each car for 10-15 laps to get used to it and to get the controller dialed in, then 10 laps for fastest lap. There were a total of 23 cars in the quali; with 2 more expected for the race on Sunday. Here are the results in ascending order:
23. #111 arroldn - 7.193
22. #20 8wheels - 6.911
21. #6 arroldn - 6.900
20. #5 urbanwarrior - 6.884
19. #19 aloha - 6.863
18. #1 gascarnut - 6.791
17. #133 orakeiracer - 6.746
16. #33 brumosRSR - 6.739
15. #22 dungeonracer - 6.692
14. #23 chappy - 6.653
13. #4 gascarnut - 6.549
12. #7 steeveew - 6.461
11. #124 audi1 - 6.393
10. #242 pappy - 6.386
9. #8 florida-slotter - 6.366
8. #24 audi1 - 6.355
7. #85 aloha - 6.347
6. #9 slottingsince1963 - 6.249
5. #11 urbanwarrior - 6.147
4. # 3 jscot111 - 6.131
3. #70 smokeio - 6.065
2. #2 redlynr - 6.024
1. #241 chrisguyw - 5.984
Congrats to Chris with a sub-6 second lap on urethane tires, no less...........! :o :text-bravo:
Some of you may be scratching your heads about the car # system; more about that in the note below.
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[Note: Car numbering for this round. We allowed duplicate numbers for this proxy in order to help encourage participation. However, when it comes to actually running a race, it's a lot easier to keep track of the car based on a number on the outside, rather than on a name that you have to keep cross-referencing. So, in cases where we had duplicate or, triplicate or, in one case, quadruplicate numbers, we morphed he numbers slightly in order to make the race easier to tally. Here's how that broke out for this round.
#9 - slotting since 1963 - raced as #9
#9 - aloha - raced as #19
#9 - retro racer 44 - when Keith's car arrives, it will race as #191
#11 - urbanwarrior - raced as #11
#11 - arroldn - raced as #111
#24 - audi1 - raced as #24
#24 - audi1 - raced as #124
#24 - chrisguyw - raced as #241
#24 - Pappy - raced as #242
#33 - brumosRSR - raced as #33
#33 - orakeiracer - raced as #133
The racing numbers have been written in Sharpie marker on the bottom of the chassis of each car with duplicate or greater numbers. Other hosts may plan to use a different system to differentiate duplicate number cars, but this is the system that we use here at The River Run.]
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Also tomorrow morning I will post a little tribute video for Florida_Slotter, Marty Stanley, to this thread.
On to the Round #1 race on Sunday morning!
Allan