Category: 2016

2016 Year-End Celebration

Continuing the club’s tradition, the 2016 year-end celebration was packed with good food, friendship, laughter, gift-exchanges, car talk and Tombola … Tombola? Yep, Tombola! Most commonly known as Bingo.  😀 Thanks to Mel Roeder, our friend from Down Under, who sent a package full of goodies, including a Scalextric Ford XB Falcon GT car; and Jen…

Group B Rally Series Race #1 Results

The first round of the Group B Rally series was attended by six racers.  The format for this series is very different than the other series in that this one is based on time and not laps.  Every racer in this first round/stage had to run the same 70 lap heat/stage and the best time…

2016 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

  Some of club’s members just returned from Colorado and the 100th anniversary of PPIHC. Romain Dumas conquered the 14,115-foot mountain climb on a Honda-powered Norma M20 RD Limited, covering the 12.42-mile course in 8 minutes, 51.445 seconds. Dumas’s impressive run came from a combustible, amazing sounding, powered engine – and there were very few of those. Most petrol-powered…

Formula GP – 2016, Race 1 Results

In 2015 we had the itch to try a F1 style race again and chose the AllSlot formula GP chassis as our platform. Under ideal conditions these cars ran very fast and had good handling, however their chassis was a soft plastic that was easy to break at the guide boss, motor mount and front…

Group C / IMSA – 2016, Race 6 and Final Results

The sixth and final race of the 2016 edition of Slot.it Group C/IMSA proved to be a barnburner and entirely worthy of the most popular race series in Austin Slot Car Club history. Not only did the series see record numbers of entrants, with as many as 15 racers, but the level of competition was…