We've recently started doing some slot car drag racing over here in New Hampshire. Thanks to the effort of a guy we call Itchie, who had made the scale 1/8 mile strip for us to run on, we have had some great evenings of drag racing. This post is of our most recent meet on Feb 11th. (it's copied and pasted here from another forum where I wrote this).
We started the evening off with the 1/32 Street Eliminator class. With a breakout set at 1.35, anything faster wouldn't count in qualifying, or would be a DQ in eliminations. Fresh from it's last place finish on it's trip to Ohio, the Dungeon prepped 55 Chevy nailed a perfect 1.350 run to claim TQ. The 55 Chevy was able to work it's way thru eliminations and into the final. On the other side of the ladder, the #3 qualifier, another Dungeon prepped car, this one a Camaro driven by Phil, worked it's way thru and made it an all Chevy final (it was painful to type that ). With standing room only, the crowd was quickly disappointed because the race was over before it started. Phil had red lighted giving the win the the 55! Next up was the Hot Rod Eliminators. These are also 1/32 cars, but with many mods being done and being quite a bit quicker. With a 1.10 breakout, these are fast becoming a crowd pleaser. As with the Street class, a Dungeon prepped 29 Ford named Black Beauty came out with the TQ honors. It was also able to work it's into the final. Coming from the other side, Jungle was able to work his SPE prepped Gasser from the 6th qualifying spot into the final. With again standing room only, the crowd this time got to see a close race, and went into a frenzy when they saw the win light come on in Jungle's lane. Congrats Jungle!! With the little cars done, it was time for the bigger cars. Up first were the Stock Eliminators with a 1.35 breakout. And we saw lots of that in this class . And once again (get used to reading this folks!), a Dungeon prepped car came away with TQ honors. This time it was the "Nails" machine being driven by Robin (I love that gal!!) But what's this?!?! In the 1st round, Robin got sent to the trailer by #16 qualifier Bob, who was running a car given to him by the famous Harry Wise of HRW fame!! Pretty sure Harry would be proud. I know Bob was!! Bob would make it all the way to the final. On the other side, #3 qualifier, racing with us for the 1st time came Matt with his Wilder prepared "Judge" GTO. Matt proved to be too much for Bob, and drove away for the win. Congrats Matt!! The crowd was now getting a bit antsy, as the always entertaining Comp Eliminators came out to blast down the SPE Drag Strip. With a 1.20 breakout, the action was getting along a bit quicker. And for the 1st time all night, the crowd was relieved to hear a Dungeon prepped car was not TQ, as a Kip prepped 209 Altered came away with that honor. Kip would take the 209 Special all the way to the final, where he would be paired up with (ready?) a Dungeon prepped Ohio George Mustang being driven by Robin. Robin had qualified as #2, and worked her way thru against some heavy hitters. Some of you may recall that the Ohio George Mustang was the winner the first time we ran at the Sassy shop. Would it be able to repeat? With lane choice going to Kip, who had run a perfect 1.200 in the semi, Robin was ready. She beat Kip off the line, and held on to grab the win. Congrats Robin! Now the crowd was excited, because the big, bad and fast boys (and girls) came out to play. With a breakout of .89, we still have a couple of breakouts. These babies were flying!! And we also had a record # of entries for any class run at SPE, with 30 entries!!! As we always do at SPE, we have a elimination run off for 16th spot, which meant 15 cars would be competing for the right to go up against the TQ. Um...yeah. TQ? A Dungeon prepped car of course. This time a "work in progress" car called the Wild Deuce. I don't recall who ran the #66 car, but after qualifying 16th, he had to work his way thru 4 rounds to officially claim that spot. The Wild Deuce was only able to get to the 2nd round before being sent to the trailer. The Kip Prepared Hammer Slammer car came from the #4 spot and earned it's way to the final. On the other side, Dana, drag racing for the 1st time, was able to take her new Trailer Hood prepped McDonald's ride from the 11th spot all the way to the final (I should note that she took down the Black 57 along the way ). Kip, now wanting to avenge his loss to a woman in the previous class, again had lane choice. Turns out it didn't help, as when the race was over, the win was glowing in Dana's lane. Congrats Dana!! I should mention we had over 80 entries on this night (we're allowed to enter multiple cars in any class).
Not sure at the moment when we'll be racing next, but I'll update as soon as I know.
