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BarkingSpyder

At 4-years old in Pensacola I repaired my steering linkage on my Ford Pedal-car. Dad later converted this car to a Blue Angel with ailerons and elevators with a working "stick/yoke"; the rudder was controlled by the steering wheel. I like all motorsports - I grew up going to a NASCAR Feeder track with Sportsman and Modified classes, and was lucky to attend drag races in 1970 at Orange County Raceway. My first solder-iron was a Christmas gift at 9yo; I modified T-Jets to be AFX spec before AFX Cars were in local stores. I rebuilt a few tractor & car (SIMCA) engines plus transmissions by 15yo (I still have my ring-compressor and valve spring tool) I am a former mountain and road bike geek & perennial sound engineer. Struggling guitar hobbyist and Amp "tweeker"

Formula GP – 2016, Race 6 Results

Our final race June 18 in the Formula GP series only had five racers, but had some exciting action. Dave won this race, with Marty and Steve (with lowest ET) hot on his heels. These three have been battling for the podium spots all through this series, with Alex always in the mix. Marty won the overall…

4-Hour Enduro Race at Dallas Slot Cars-2016

On June 11 we raced the Tyler Slot Car Club (Chris Taylor, Dave Barry and friends) in the much anticipated and controversial event at Dallas Slot Cars in Garland. Marty and Alejandro/Alex went up as the representative 2-man team from ASCC.  Mark went up to cheer, observe (JIC we do this at home one year),…

Formula GP – 2016, Race 5 Results

Our June 4 race only fielded six racers but the action was hot with some very tight racing and as the day wore on lots of contact and action.   Order by Date Name Attachments IMG_20160604_141950066 (72 kB)Formula GP-20160604-5-Heats (56 kB)Formula GP-20160604-5-Leader (43 kB)Formula GP-20160604-5-Round (26 kB)IMG_20160604_133044590 (4 MB)Formula GP-20160604-5-Results (259 kB)

Formula GP – 2016, Race 4 Results

Our latest GrandPrix race May 21 was exciting altho we only had six racers.  Our 1st heat was dropped by the video.  Heat-2 pitted Marty against Team-Cassidy who made a strong showing, with everyone posting 3.8s in the first 2 minutes. Its fun to watch Dave rock in his groove as Jordan and Marty sweep…

Formula GP – 2016, Race 3 Results

Our May 7 race was exciting with lots of fast racing and a few spectacular events; what would you expect from nine young, skinny, crafty guys!  (…more later ….) Order by Date Name Attachments Formula GP-20160507-Results (256 kB)Formula GP-20160507-Leader (31 kB)Formula GP-20160507-Heats (71 kB)Formula GP-20160507-Running (43 kB)Formula GP-20160507-Inspection (63 kB)FormulaGP-2016-RearView (207 kB)Formula GP-20160507-3-Leader (43 kB)Formula…

Formula GP – 2016, Race 2 Results

Our second Formula race was a little more exciting than our first outing.  Unfortunately one of the more dramatic events was Marty’s motor pod cracking leading to a DNF for his 3rd heat (see our forums for a possible preventative patch).  Ary was in Brazil so Russell drove for Team Barbosa and posted some respectable…

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…