We now join our coverage of the Targa Florio Round 2 sponsored by Austin Slot Car Club. Morty Walker: Hello rally fans and welcome to today’s coverage of the Austin Slot Car Club’s Targa Florio event. It looks to be a beautiful day for the second stage if I say so myself, and I do…
Targa Florio Rally – Round 1 Palermo. Sicily. To many, these names conjure images of a seaside city with a Mediterranean climate, amazing food, and architecture that spans the ages. To racers, however, it will always ring with the sound of the Targa Florio (insert your favorite howling sports car motor here). The Austin Slot…
The end-season race brought a few surprises. With the overall championship sewn-up, Marty chose to field his #25 Nissan over his season-dominating Porsche. Further, Marc T. piloted his Lancia around the turns for the first time this season. Finally, Roy made a rare showing and ran a Lancia to round out the 10 entrants. Alejandro…
Results! Order by Date Name Attachments 2019 Group C – Round 5 – Group A (13 kB)2019 Group C – Round 5 – Group B (9 kB)2019 Group C – Round 5 – Overall (20 kB)2019 Group C – Round 5 – Results (14 kB)IMG_7876 (379 kB)IMG_7873 (448 kB)
Round 4 of the 2019 Group C races brought out 8 racers where temperatures hovered in the 50’s. This relatively low track temperature once again caused some questions about which tire compound to run and there were variations between the 30’s and 22’s on the fastest cars – however, lap times didn’t seem to vary…
11 racers started the previous race; 11 racers started round 3, showing how popular this event is within the club. Extremely tight racing matched with dream cars makes for a good turnout. It also helped that the biting cold, so recently holding Austin (and our track building) in its grip, had wandered away, making tire…
