Slot Car Racing News for 03/17/2008



Kelly snares shootout spot.
HSV Dealer Team driver Rick Kelly was one of five Holden drivers to qualify inside the top ten for the non-championship V8 Supercar Manufacturers' Challenge in Melbourne, securing his place in the top-ten ...

The Beginnings of Slot Car Racing
Companies like Revell, Monogram, Cox and Strombecker, took detailed models of popular stock cars, Indy cars, formula 1 cars and sports cars, added rudimentary chassis with motors and the hobby of slot car racing was officially was ...

Mexico City: Sunday Quotes (Pitpass)
Mexico City: Sunday Quotes..

Top 35: Hornish in, McMurray out as Martinsville looms
BRISTOL, Tenn. The goal for Sam Hornish Jr. in Sunday's Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway was simple: Be invisible...

Aussie Briscoe backs good mate Nico
RYAN Briscoe will be cheering for Nico Rosberg in the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday...

Slot Car Wall Art: Where Functionality And Design Meet - Jalopnik

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Slot Car Wall Art: Where Functionality And Design Meet
Jalopnik, VA - Mar 6, 2008
Its just hanging there so I can take it down, plug it in and enjoy the excitement of Slot Car Racing *anytime. This might interfere with posting. .
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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...

NCAA National Track and Field at ONUOhio Northern senior Jimmy O.
NCAA National Track and Field at ONU 03/13/2008 Ohio Northern senior Jimmy OBrien runs the track at the ONU field house while training for this weekends NCAA Division III Track championships taking place at the ...

Slot Car Sculpture Should Be Racing Onto Our Wall - Gizmodo Australia

Gizmodo Australia

Slot Car Sculpture Should Be Racing Onto Our Wall
Gizmodo Australia, Australia - Mar 6, 2008
The only downside with having a model racetrack hanging vertically from your wall is that you cant actually plug the thing in and have vertical car races .
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Economy may shift odds to approve Palm Beach Co. slots
A monorail ride would link a gambling and entertainment hub to Palm Beach International Airport under a venture floated by top county officials and the Rooney family, owners of the Palm Beach Kennel Club...

Economy may shift odds to approve Palm Beach Co. slots (Miami Herald)
A monorail ride would link a gambling and entertainment hub to Palm Beach International Airport under a venture floated by top county officials and the Rooney family, owners of the Palm Beach Kennel Club...

Mexico City: A1 Team Pakistan A1GP Qualifying Recap - 'Mixed Feelings'
A1 Team Pakistan was on track today for final practice and qualifying at the A1GP, Mexico City...

Auto Racing: Jarrett's Farewell Sunday
As Dale Jarrett prepared for the last points race in his 24-year career at NASCAR's top level, praise for the 1999 Cup champion flowed around Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee...

Slot Car Wall Sculpture - Product Reviews

Product Reviews

Slot Car Wall Sculpture
Product Reviews, UK - Mar 13, 2008
Can you remember back in the 80s when the slot cars were a must have item? Well know you can have the slot car wall art is a sculpture on your wall. .
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Spinning my wheels: Bristol
Mike is a contributor for the FOXSports.com fantasy group. Read his blog for more analysis...

Bowyer beats Kahne, rain (Akron Beacon Journal)
Associated Press BRISTOL, TENN.: Clint Bowyer outraced Kasey Kahne and the rain to win the Nationwide Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway when it was stopped just past halfway...

Button says points unlikely
Jenson Button has ruled out scoring points in Melbourne this weekend, but flagged a growing sense of optimism from within the Honda camp...

'I Never Had An Improvement As Big As I Had Last Week'
Jenson Button has ruled out scoring points in Melbourne this weekend, but flagged a growing sense of optimism from within the Honda camp...

Webber joins night racing call
MARK Webber said it was essential authorities did everything possible to ensure a grand prix remained in Melbourne as local powerbrokers again ruled out a switch to a night time-slot. Australia's Formula One ...

Sebring Qualifying Halted Thursday After Crash
Acura Teams To Start 3-5-7 in LMP2 For Saturday's 56th 12 Hours of Sebring An early accident by a Mazda prototype sports car stopped qualifications Thursday at the famed Sebring International Raceway when ...

Slot Car Racing (or Surf Music)
I haven't actually downloaded this surf album but the cover image took me back a few years to the slot-car racing craze of the 1970's. There were actually lots of 'hobby' stores at the malls that had big tracks set up in the store and ...

Sebring: Acura qualifying report (Motorsport.com)
SEBRING, Fla. -- An early accident by a Mazda prototype sports car stopped qualifications Thursday at the famed Sebring International Raceway when driver Ben Devlin's car hit the Turn One barrier. Devlin walked away...

Dowty Slot Car Racing Club update
The 2008 calendar of races is now available on Dowty Slot Car Racing Club pages on Cheltenham4u. You can also read up about the different classes of slot cars they race every week and see the results for their January races. ...

Model car revival - ABS CBN News

Model car revival
ABS CBN News, Philippines - Mar 9, 2008
The history of car racing has a somewhat amusing beginning in the United States. During the Prohibition era when imbibing alcohol was illegal, .
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Life in the fast lane - Henderson Gleaner

Life in the fast lane
Henderson Gleaner, KY - 12 hours ago
"Slot car racing was really big everywhere in the mid- to late-1960s, but after that boom, it died off, except in pockets around the country where NASCAR .
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League One round-up (Daily Telegraph)
Review of all the Coca Cola League One games...

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. ...

In the groove with the slot car racers - East Anglian Daily Times

In the groove with the slot car racers
East Anglian Daily Times, UK - Feb 19, 2008
EURœThere are some anoraks in other places who live and breathe it and are not much interested in anything other than slot car racing, but we're all normal .
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Austalian GP: Race Winners + Losers - Planet-F1

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Austalian GP: Race Winners + Losers
Planet-F1 - Mar 16, 2008
When it came to racing the BMW, it was no match for the McLaren and on some laps Hamilton was pulling out gaps of 0.7 and 0.8. When they pitted, Kubica was .
Prac Three: BMW shine as top two falter Planet-F1
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Life in the fast lane (Evansville Courier & Press)
-- A.G. Kimbrough never thought that racing Slot cars, a hobby he intermittently started in 1964 would one day turn into a business venture. But the semi-retired Kimbrough, who moved to Evansville in June from North Carolina, by way of a short 5 month stint in California, figured he'd give it a shot...

Button says points unlikely at Aus GP
Button says points unlikely at Aus GP Mar.12 Jenson Button has ruled out scoring points in Melbourne this weekend, but flagged a growing sense of optimism from within the Honda camp...

NASCAR notes: Toyota still not included in 2nd tire test at Darlington
Goodyear is going back to Darlington Raceway for another test on the newly paved surface, and once again a Toyota won't be involved...

Lap-By-Lap Report
Rosberg celebrates his podium finish. AUSTRALIAN GP CLOCKWATCH Facebook FINISH: Rubens Barrichello could yet to be disqualified while Bourdais is classified P8 as his retirement came in the final few laps of ...

AUTO rACING Auto Racing: Jarrett's Farewell Sunday - Hartford Courant

AUTO rACING Auto Racing: Jarrett's Farewell Sunday
Hartford Courant, United States - Mar 16, 2008
Michael McDowell will move into Jarrett's slot in Waltrip's three-car lineup two weeks from now in Martinsville, Va. McDowell will move into the No. .
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Community Calendar
Family Night at St Mark's. The whole community is invited to celebrate fellowship and family with games and food provided free, the second Friday of each month...

Economy may shift odds to approve Palm Beach Co. slots - The Ledger

Economy may shift odds to approve Palm Beach Co. slots
The Ledger, FL - 8 minutes ago
Wagering on dogs and horses requires concentration, knowledge of the racing program, familiarity with trainers and breeders - a certain level of .
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Webber joins call to race into night
MARK WEBBER yesterday said it was essential authorities did everything possible to ensure a grand prix remained in Melbourne as local powerbrokers again ruled out a switch to a night time-slot. Mark Webber has ...

Lewis Hamilton goes back to the F1 future
Motorsport purists had been waiting seven years for such a moment. When this morning's Australian Grand Prix began in Albert Park, Melbourne, it was the first time since San Marino 2001 that drivers had been ...

Slot car drag raceKirk Meyer, 18, and Amanda Schnipke, 16, of Miller City High School, a.
NCAA National Track and Field at ONU 03/13/2008 Ohio Northern senior Jimmy OBrien runs the track at the ONU field house while training for this weekends NCAA Division III Track championships taking place at the ...

AUSTRALIAN GP - LAP-BY-LAP - Sportinglife.com

AUSTRALIAN GP - LAP-BY-LAP
Sportinglife.com, UK - Mar 16, 2008
They connected on the re-start Lap 48: Safety Car in this lap. And we are back racing. Barrichello has been given a 10-sec penalty Lap 47: Kovalainen and .
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Jarrett won respect long before final points race (Lexington Herald-Leader)
As Dale Jarrett prepared for the last real start in his 24-year career at NASCAR's top level, praise for the 1999 Cup champion flowed around Bristol Motor Speedway. Jarrett will start 37th Sunday in his final points race, his last time behind the wheel except for an All-Star race in May. "He has had a heck of a career and I have had a blast racing with him," four-time series champion Jeff Gordon ...

LAST RACE - 16th March (Planet F1)
Not all PF1ers are happy with Hamilton's win, which some say is a sign Ferrari are missing Schumi. There's also a call for DC to learn a few manners...

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 ...

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The Slot It Porsche 956 Short-tail Slot Car
The Porsche 956, along with its variant, the 962, was the car that established the pattern for the entire Group C / GTP category of race cars, a pattern followed for the entire duration of that era of endurance racing. ...

Life in the fast lane
Life in the fast lane "Oh man, I crashed my car again," Sean Thomas, 6, shouts as he leans to see his car on the intersecting figure-eight track at FastLane Raceway in Washington Square Mall on Friday...

Toyota still not included in Goodyear tire test (Sports Illustrated)
Goodyear is going back to Darlington Raceway for another test on the newly paved surface, and once again a Toyota won't be involved...

Canadian Vintage HO Slot Car Racing Race # 21 will be Thursday Feb .
Race # 21 will be Thursday Feb. 21st 2008. The Class is OHORA T-jets. Held at Pinecrest Speedway abarrie@cogeco.ca. The track will be open at 7:00 pm for practice and racing is to start at 8:00 pm To ...

New to slot car racing. Tips?
im new to slot car racing. i just started a couple of weeks ago. i went to the track in beachwood nj. its nice there. im thinking about buying a flexi 5. (that is when i get the money)the car i have now is a turbo flex chassie and a ...

LAST RACE - 16th March (Planet F1)
So, if you can have that much fun in the dry - what would it be like when it's wet - the World Rally Championship.? Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, 1st Lewis Hamilton's dominance was perhaps one of the more boring features of the race...



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