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Ha! This is why, last night as David and I ran our (mostly) out of the box Policars that my Ronnie Peterson Lotus was so quick on stock tires. I’ll go ahead and shrink my tire profile a bit. 🙂
BTW, they’re really good just out of the box…and so dern purdy.
Since the Policar Vintage F1 liveries are limited, I doubt we’ll want to force everyone to have unique ones…but I am claiming Ronnie Peterson’s Lotus 72E number 1, just in case. 🙂
Ronnie was my first racing hero after all…
Curious…did you find new tires for those somewhere? I have been seeking the 1/32 M1 tires for a while (for my home set) and they’re all out of stock everywhere I look…
Grrr…lots of Saab models at 1/43. Can’t find a single one at 1/32 (except for a resin 96 by Oscar Models that is apparently not being sold anywhere). A Sonett II would also be cool, but nothing but 1/43. The search continues…
Cheese and Chianti (but only bottles with raffa on the outside) are highly encouraged. I’m loath to require headlights since many of the cars cannot support them (at least, the NSR Porsches don’t have light boxes or clear lenses and would have to mount something like a rally car on the front of their vehicles). Considering we don’t have magnets, I don’t think scattering a loose surface all over the track is a good idea, let alone needing to clean it up later. I do have some ideas for future events that will be announced if we can make them work. I am planning some discussions with our timing and scoring team…so stay tuned.
Hmmm…the Targa was heavily recce’d, and the only rally out there that is seat-of-your-pants-read-the-pace-notes-for-the-first-time is SCCA (the rally drivers with REAL cojones).
A quote from Vic Elford about the Targa, ““By 1968, the track was etched into my memory; you could literally have blindfolded me and dropped me somewhere along the route by helicopter, and I could have told you where we were, what the next corner was, and which gear I’d be in.”
So…in the spirit of the real Targa, any recce would be acceptable. However, opening up the rally track is a multi-person activity…so having scheduled sessions is certainly helpful…but as manager, I can’t say I have any objection to running practice at any time there are 2 people around with an interest.
Soooo…I wonder why is the 427 being excluded for being a 427 Cobra. Wikipedia (I know…maybe not the be-all source) says the 427 Cobra Daytona coupe Chassis # CSX2299 raced in the tourist trophy of 1964.
I have the monogram model of this car. The Wikepedia article mentions the paint schemes used in 64 and 65…my model is plainly the 65 paint scheme, although the CAR itself is the same run in 1964 TT. If the paint job is an issue, I can repaint it (to a fantasy livery…I don’t have the patience to create the original scheme!).
The rear track is approximately 56mm.
Is it legal?
And to make it more interesting, I’m probably warped enough to try to make this front-motored slot car work so I don’t have to build some way of getting the motor under the driver compartment. This will almost certainly make it noncompetitive, but hey…I love a challenge!
I can usually be there on Thursdays…until I start traveling again for work, and then my attendance will rely on where I happen to be on a Thursday evening. Otherwise, I can commit to being a second person. I have lots of work to do on my Tourist Trophy car and I ordered my F1 car Saturday night. Seems I have the bug again! 😀
And thanks, Marty – yes, I have been holed-up for so long that it was immensely enjoyable to be around like-minded people again. And I’m glad my “sloting skillz” are still there since I am being massively humbled in the Karting realm!
So based on the notes from last weekend’s meeting, this GT3 event will be a “driver present” event and not proxy. I do want to verify that before I pull the plug on a car. I plan on running the BMW Z4 Presentation Livery, but only if I can drive it. Sorry – but proxies just don’t excite me. The livery comes as a #1, but I can change that if the Audi’s already existing #1 is a hiccup to the plan.
I need to get caught up on my reading of our expectations…I THINK we’re allowing masked men to show up at the events. With many of us getting the vaccine or on the list, and since I’ve been able to successfully avoid getting the ‘vid with how I am managing my interactions, I’d be comfy jumping back into in-person action.
I don’t have a car yet, but I plan on getting caught up a bit over the weekend on our messages and will likely make a purchase since I love GT3 cars. I may not make the 10th as that is planned to be my first kart race down in New Braunfels, but if it rains, we don’t race due to the extra slippery nature of the concrete there…it becomes a true skating rink, even with rain tires so for safety’s sake they tend to cancel. In that event, I’d love to be slotting.
