Saturday, November 5th 2011 Great weather and soundtrack contributed to a very pleasant race; for the first time in a long while we saw racers wearing jeans without sweating their ****** off. Russell dominated the race turning 221.75 laps; scoring the fastest lap ever on a Group-C Slot.it, a 3.847 seconds; and also breaking the…
2011 Modern F1 Series – Round 4 Results
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Round four of the Modern F1 series. The semi-stock Scalextric cars are very unpredictable and not the best performing models, keeping them on the slot is a feat in itself; as a result, our club is just racing to finish the series. This race had Shawn racing Nico Rosberg’s 2006 Williams, Ary with Felipe Massa’s…
GT Series – Round 1 Results
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Most of our club members chose Slot.it cars as their GT entry, Jim’s NSR Mosler was the only exception. There were three McLaren F1 GTR cars, two of those, raced by Russell and Roy, were cars that previously ran on the 2011 El Piloto Series; Shawn also raced a McLaren, his was powered by a …
Round 1 of the 4th Quarter Slot.it Challenge
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Whoa! Stop everything! We have three drivers with fast laps UNDER 3.9 seconds! I still remember when braking 4.0 seconds was an achievement… congratulations to all the racers! We have managed, in under one year, to go from a group average fast lap time of 4.228 (Race#1 – Q1) to 3.922 (Race #1 – Q4).…
The 2011 Austin Scale Model Show
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ASCC was one the exhibitors of the 2011 Austin Scale Model Show, on September 24th. The annual event, hosted by the Austin Scale Modeler’s Society, helps promoting scale modeling in Central Texas. Hundreds of incredibly detailed scale replicas, ranging from automotive to Sci-Fi, decorated the tables at the Contest. Our club members displayed a large…
BRM Series Round 5 Results
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The fifth round of the BRM Series witnessed a new competitor – Robin our clubs treasure. With the addition of Robin the BRM series has become one of the most popular and well accepted race series the club has run. The series continues to be one of the member’s favorites and it looks…
Round 4 of the 3rd Quarter Slot.it Challenge Results
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August 20th 2011, second race of the day and the fourth round of Slot.it Challenge. As Marty had to leave early, only five competitors participated on the race. Racing on our track works best with three corner marshals, this time we had to do it with two and a track call button. Maybe it is…
BRM Series Round 4 Results
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Race #4 of what seems to be the most popular series for our club: 1/24 BRM cars. BRM makes slot car replicas of the Porsche 962C and Toyota 88C, both great cars to race. This race was the first of many to start at 11am in an effort to dodge the Texas heat — it…