Wailing sirens and roaring crowds welcomed our remaining Mille Miglia racers to Brescia as they cut through a blizzard of confetti to cross the finish line. (Well… thats the way it happened in at least one imagination.) In true racing period form, the original field of six cars was thinned by the rigors of the…
Mille Miglia Round 5 – The Classic Cars Reconvene
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Happily, all of our drivers found their way to Bologna in the 5th round of the Austin Slot Car Club Mille Miglia series. The racing experience was what we have come to accept as “typical” for this series, with Gentleman Jim racing off into the distance while the rest of the field wrestled with mechanical…
Mille Miglia Round 4 – A Scattered Field
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North to… where was that again? The fourth round of the Mille Miglia race saw additional racers missing. The route of the Mille Miglia changed over the years, so one can only assume that the navigators must have been using different versions of the map for this leg of the journey, with some racing off…
2012 El Piloto Series #1 – Round 4 Results
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Round 4 of the El Piloto race was held on Saturday, April 28. The El Piloto race features equally prepared 1/24 scale Renault Megane cars from BRM. This series is modeled after the IROC series in that individual are not allowed to tune the cars to their taste, and the drivers rotate through each lane,…
Mille Miglia Round 2: Heading down the coast…
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The second round of the Mille Miglia series, run on April 21, 2012, welcomed two new participants to the field; Marty’s bright yellow Ferrari 250 GT and Russell’s very unique resin body Ferrari 166 MM/53 Abarth Spyder. Just like the first round, there were plenty of thrills and spills as the racers adjusted to the…
Mille Miglia Opening Race
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Thrills, spills, and race repairs were the order of the day for the opening race of the Austin Slot Car Club’s Mille Miglia Series. In true early post-WWII road rally racing fashion, the cars were not only a challenge to drive effectively but they were also a challenge to keep running for some drivers! …
2011 Slot.it Challenge Championship Results
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First, some statistics: Over the course of 2011 the seven drivers competing in the first annual series ran 24 races composed of 149 heats. They logged 12.25 hours of track time in temperatures ranging from the upper 30’s in February to just shy of 100 degrees in July and August, completing a combined total of…
Final Results – 4th Quarter Slot.it Challenge
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The club kicked off our last race day of the year with the Slot.it Challenge. We welcomed two new club members to the race, Kevin F. and Brett L., who both made respectable showings for their first race in a club series. We’re all looking forward to competing with them in 2012! The race to…