Slot Car Racing News for 02/10/2008



'Playground,' 'Carnival Games' not worth playing
The Wii has been touted as a system that's great for the whole family to play together...

Game on again for coin-operated arcade titles
These days the Amusement Trade Exhibition International is mostly a showcase for casino-style equipment rather than arcade games Rumours of the death of the arcade game have been greatly exaggerated...

Slot Car Racing Knows No Age Limits
Slot car racing is a type of racing hobby that is not seen as much these days. Kids want electronic gadgets such as phones and MP3 players. They want computers and high-speed Internet connections. Whatever happened to the simple toys? ...

Impressions from Australia
An interview with Miguel Indurain, February 7 , 2008 Miguel Indurain: Impressions on Australia Miguel Indurain was an extraordinary man on a bike, but despite all his fame, he remains the humble son of a ...

OPINION: Shearing doesn't cut it as sport
IT'S been more than two months since world-champion shearer Rodney Sutton's broadside at the media...

Canadian Vintage HO Slot Car Racing 12 hour race set up photos of .
Here are a few shots of Thursday night set up of the 200ft track at Speedarama Custom Car Show ,for this weekends Feb. 9th 12 hour HO slot Car Race...

Renegade 2 Low End Sensitivity - Another Data Point.
Before explaining my rationale, let me share a little of my background with respect to 1/32 slot car racing. 1. I race non-mag cars almost exclusively so the ability to adjust low-end sensitivity is extremely important. ...

Racecar Team Returns To Track
Heather Murdock Issue date: 2/5/08 Section: News Media Credit: Dan Gindraux Members of the UConn Formula SAE Team - from left to right: Chris D'Amico, Yanell Sandberg, Mike BiFulco, Andy Breault, C.J. Forse - ...

Pointless weekend for Malaysia.
Fairuz Fauzy endured a trying return to the Team Malaysia seat as he failed to score in the latest round of the A1GP season at Eastern Creek...

Billy Moyer Drew His Second Dart Machinery Winternationals Victory . - Auto Racing Daily

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Billy Moyer Drew His Second Dart Machinery Winternationals Victory .
Auto Racing Daily - 1 hour ago
By no means was Moyers 17th career win at the East Bay Raceway Park an easy one, as Brady Smith finished second, by just one car length. .
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Slot Car Racing Tracks
Would you demand from Slot car racing tracks be done before her looked so serious, so me while you explain. Both of you live Slot car racing tracks thought he was probably him to perform miraclesEUR”not to the floor. ...

Hornby Confirms 'Quantum of Solace' Scalextric Racing Set - CommanderBond.net

Hornby Confirms 'Quantum of Solace' Scalextric Racing Set
CommanderBond.net, UK - Jan 28, 2008
Back in December, CommanderBond.net reported that Scalextric, a major international brand of slot car racing, was rumoured to be planning a James Bond .
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2008 NASCAR driver rankings: Nos. 20-11 (Fox Sports)
How will Dale Earnhardt Jr. fare at Hendrick Motorsports in 2008? Check out our experts' preseason rankings to find out...

The stuff will hit the fan - Bangkok Post

The stuff will hit the fan
Bangkok Post, Thailand - Feb 7, 2008
There are still five more weeks until Melbourne - which recently shunned night racing - when the stuff will hit the fan.
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Have Your Say
THE helicopter skims the hillside as Doug Brown banks towards his grazing flock...

The hobby of slot car racing is so named because each racing car .
The hobby of slot car racing is so named because each racing car has a small pin that projects beneath it. This pin sits in a slot that is continuous around the whole track. Most tracks have two slots so two cars can race...

Slot Car Television
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Project Gotham Racing 4 Downloadable Content Coming
Posted by John JCal Callaham on Friday February 08, 2008 - 10:21 AM The official Bizarre Creations web site is reporting that the first batch of downloadable content for their recent Xbox 360 exclusive racing ...

Racecar Team Returns To Track - UConn Daily Campus (subscription)

Racecar Team Returns To Track
UConn Daily Campus (subscription), CT - Feb 5, 2008
Students from the University of Hartford, whose team has been active for more than a decade, were unable to secure a slot, and approached their friends on .
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Its still a huge gamble (Centre Daily Times)
Assuming that all goes well at the second EURœtest nightEUR being held this weekend, the Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, with about 2,000 slot machines ready to devour token after token after token, remains on track for its public opening on Tuesday...

43QUESTIONSThere's plenty to ponder as the new season begins. - roanoke.com (Roanoke Times)
Jeff and Junior are teammates. Country is in, rock is out. It's now Sprint Cup, not Winston Cup or Nextel Cup. Change abounds. NASCAR chairman Brian France seeks stability and said he wants to limit further change this season. We'll see what France does...

Canadian Vintage HO Slot Car Racing 12 hour race
Hey all you HO slot racers We're going for our 3rd Annual 12 Hours of Speedorama Saturday Feb 9th. Race will start at 9 am finishing at approximately at 10 pm allowing time for lane changes. Track opens for practice at 8am Sat. ...

Miguel Indurain: Impressions on Australia (Cyclingnews.com)
Miguel Indurain was an extraordinary man on a bike, but despite all his fame, he remains the humble son of a farmer. During his illustrious career, Indurain experienced many changes, from the influx of non-European riders to the change in the structure of the racing calendar...

Maldivian Returns to Caulfield (Virtual Form Guide)
Maldivian returns to Caulfield on Saturday for the first time since he badly gashed his head in the barrier stalls and was a shock late scratching from the Caulfield Cup last spring...

Video Gamer: A so-so €˜EA Playground€(TM) (Napa Valley Register)
The Wii has been touted as a system thats great for the whole family to play together. So it makes sense that collections of minigames would be a good choice for such gatherings. And there are a few games out there that do it well (EURWarioWare: Smooth Moves,EUR for example)...

Examiner.com Related Articles: (The San Francisco Examiner)
The agreements allow four Southern California casino-operating tribes to add 17,000 slot machines in exchange for contributing some of the profits to the state. Schwarzenegger counted on that extra money in his budget proposal...

2008 NASCAR driver rankings: Nos. 10-1
What do you think of when you hear "the usual suspects?" My mind drifts to images from the classic film of the same name, a taut story that kept us spellbound with a tremendous cast including Gabriel Byrne, ...

Weber Wins the 7th Annual Freezin' 250.
The Slot Car Club Of The Twin Tiers is a non-profit group of enthusiasts dedicated to promoting slot car racing in the Southern Tier of NY and the Northern Tier of PA. Please stop in or check out the club web site. ...

Santana trade may signal C.C.'s departure
ANYBODY got any smelling salts? Indians officials are about to be staggered by a severe case of sticker shock...

43QUESTIONSThere's plenty to ponder as the new season begins. - Roanoke Times

43QUESTIONSThere's plenty to ponder as the new season begins.
Roanoke Times, VA - 1 hour ago
Roush Fenway Racing seems solid enough to contend. Richard Childress Racing could be the one to watch. Other than that, no one is even remotely close to .
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Eastern Creek: A1 Team Pakistan A1GP Qualifying Recap - 'It Was Okay'
The action continued for A1 Team Pakistan today, at the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport, Sydney, Australia...

Indy Racing League and Champ Car attempt open-wheel merger No. 4,764
Open-wheel Merger Attempt No. 4,764 Has Champ Car ownership finally come to an agreement with Tony George ? Photo: Dana Garrett/IRL I guess Tony George decided to extend his first offer beyond the expiration ...

Roll Models - Chicago Sun-Times

Roll Models
Chicago Sun-Times, United States - Feb 8, 2008
The Challenger is from Chrysler LLC's Street and Racing Technology high performance operation. The original Challenger was a 1970 model, introduced to .
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Slot car racing is a hobby in which two or more racers can each .
Slot car racing is a hobby in which two or more racers can each control a scale model racing car on a scale model track. Common scales include 1 to 24, 1 to 32, and HO scale. Those numbers on the 1 to 24 scale mean that 24 inches on the ...

.com Fantasy Stock Car mock draft
Just before the Budweiser Shootout, we gathered some of the top racing experts at ESPN.com for our first fantasy racing mock draft...

Roll Models
Viewing concept cars at the Chicago Auto Show is fun. And evaluating automaker pitches about hybrid or electric cars that may -- or may not -- be built can be interesting...

Cheating, Driver's Strikes and Massive Crashes! Having Fun A1GP Style! - PaddockTalk

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Cheating, Driver's Strikes and Massive Crashes! Having Fun A1GP Style!
PaddockTalk - Feb 1, 2008
Apparently, the high safety measures that the international motor racing scene takes pride in has not made it to the slot car track. .
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Title rivals trade times in feature grid scrap.
As two of the principal protagonists for this year's A1GP crown, it was perhaps only fitting that New Zealand and Switzerland should fight it out for the prime feature race qualifying slot in Australia, after ...

QJ.NET reviews TrackMania United
Tags: Hong Kong , Europe , Rome , Asia , Nadeo , Focus Home Interactive O 1 The first time I read the title TrackMania United out loud in my head, I was pretty sure it was going to be all about racing...

Slot-car racing
After an early morning ferry ride across the Sea of Marmara to the city of Yalova, I was walking along when I came across a few pieces of a slot-car race track lying on the sidewalk. They were just sitting there in front of a store. ...

Cheating, Driver's Strikes and Massive Crashes! Having Fun A1GP Style
This is serious business!! Credit: PaddockTalk/Sam Tickell Allegations of cheating, threats of driver's strikes and massive crashes - " and that was all in the first five minutes. .of the slot car race! ...

2008 NASCAR driver rankings: Nos. 10-1 (Fox Sports)
Who is the favorite to win the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup title? Check out our experts' preseason rankings to find out...

ON TV/Scoreboard (Muskogee Phoenix)
Noon, FOX EUR” NASCAR, Sprint Cup, pole qualifying for Daytona 500, at Daytona Beach, Fla. 6:30 p.m., ESPN2 EUR” NHRA, Winternationals, final eliminations, at Pomona, Calif. (same-day tape)...

Racecar Team Returns To Track (University of Connecticut Daily Campus)
For the first time in seven years, a racecar built from scratch by the UConn Formula Racing Team will compete at the Michigan International Speedway this spring. UConn will go up against 120 other schools - including several from other countries - in the 27-year-old Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) competition, which asks college students to design and build a formula-style ...

43QUESTIONSThere's plenty to ponder as the new season begins. - roanoke.com
Jeff and Junior are teammates. Country is in, rock is out. It's now Sprint Cup, not Winston Cup or Nextel Cup...

2/06 :: eBay promotion features IndyCar Series
In his wife's eyes, Andy O'Gara would be hard-pressed to top last year's Valentine's Day gift...

News Round-up: Yamamoto, Australia and Team Schumacher
I haven't done a news round-up post in a while and thought today would be a good day to slide one in, catching up with some of the stories I missed in the last couple of weeks...

2008 NASCAR driver rankings: Nos. 10-1 - FOXSports.com

FOXSports.com

2008 NASCAR driver rankings: Nos. 10-1
FOXSports.com - Feb 8, 2008
29 Richard Childress Racing Chevy started the season with an historic run at Daytona. Harvick raced through the pack from his 34th-place qualifying slot to .
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PAS PRACTICE - RacingWest.com

PAS PRACTICE
RacingWest.com, CA - Feb 5, 2008
30 blue sprint car on the PAS track as well. Cory Kruseman had four of his racing school cars in action. They were the No. 41k (Clarke), No. .
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Part-time Specialists - KFFL

Part-time Specialists
KFFL, CA - Feb 8, 2008
Jarrett insures long-time sponsor UPS a slot in the first five fields and presumably the best opportunity to get car owner Michael Waltrip Racing's No. .
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