Slot Car Racing News for 03/23/2008



First annual Car Shine-Off (The Pampa News)
Pampa Slot Car Speedway and The VFW Post 1657 will sponsor the first annual Car Shine-Off Sunday, March 30 beginning at 1 p.m. in the Albertson's parking lot at the north end of Coronado Center...

Hot lady stays cool with Supervan on her tail
LADY IN A HURRY: Cindy Evans-Finney is always willing to stick the nose of her Renault Gordini where it doesn't belong...

BUTTON BOOSTED - Sportinglife.com

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BUTTON BOOSTED
Sportinglife.com, UK - 14 hours ago
"I ended up P11, which is where the car is. I'm happy with that if you look back to where we were three weeks ago. "We're there on merit and half a tenth is .
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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...

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...

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 ...

Ben Harford's racing blog: Round seven - TVNZ

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Ben Harford's racing blog: Round seven
TVNZ, New Zealand - Mar 17, 2008
Anyway, Friday was occupied with the usual practice sessions and again I was to be driving the car Nelson Hartley had been campaigning, as my Brother/King .
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Malaysia stewards penalise Lewis Hamilton (Daily Telegraph)
McLaren are penalised five grid places for impeding rivals in a tense final qualifying session, reports Simon Arron...

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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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 ...

Grosjean on pole! (Auto Moto 365)
ART Grand Prix driver, Romain Grosjean, snatched his second pole of the season in Sepang on Friday with iSport International racer Karun...

Lewis Hamilton penalised by Malaysia stewards
It has taken only two races, but the focus of attention in the 2008 Formula One world championship has already drifted away from the main stage and towards the stewards' debating chamber...

Preview day fun for hoops crowd (Connecticut Post)
BRIDGEPORT EUR” The city will be a sports lover's Shangri-La this weekend, and officials hope all the hoopla will be a slam-dunk for local businesses and restaurants...

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...

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 ...

NASCAR Sprint Cup Hiatus
NASCAR Sprint Cup Hiatus posted in Nascar Unlike previous years when NASCAR 's top tier series had its first off week following the season opening Daytona 500 a Charlotte Suit had a light bulb go on over their ...

BUTTON BOOSTED (Sporting Life)
Jenson Button declared himself pleased with his qualifying performance despite his Honda missing out on a top-10 grid slot for the Malaysian Grand Prix by the narrowest of margins...

Hot lady stays cool with Supervan on her tail - Motoring

Hot lady stays cool with Supervan on her tail
Motoring, South Africa - Mar 21, 2008
"I know I'm cheeky in a racing car, sticking my nose in where it sometimes doesn't belong, but you have to be. "As for 2008, after taking last season off to .
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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...

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...

Hot lady stays cool with Supervan on her tail (Independent Online)
The crowd at the Killarney race track for the Golden Age International race meeting a month or so ago could not quite believe what they were seeing...

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. ...

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...

Lewis Hamilton penalised by Malaysia stewards (Daily Telegraph)
It has taken only two races, but the focus of attention in the 2008 Formula One world championship has already drifted away from the main stage and towards the stewards' debating chamber. And, once again, Lewis Hamilton is at the hub of the intrigue...

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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Oulton Park: Hitech Racing - Motorsport.com

Oulton Park: Hitech Racing
Motorsport.com, Florida - 6 hours ago
With ten minutes to go, waved yellow flags when Kristjan Einar beached his car at Hislops forced the drivers to slow down and the times looked set to stay .
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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...

Lewis Hamilton penalised by Malaysia stewards - Telegraph.co.uk

Telegraph.co.uk

Lewis Hamilton penalised by Malaysia stewards
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 17 hours ago
The five-slot grid penalty was an added blow for Hamilton, who had already endured a trying day. He was delighted with his car after setting fastest time .
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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...

D&D Slot Car Emporium
This is where Dale Earnhardt earned his first trophy - for slot car racing. And, according to an old friend, he still had that trophy years, later, when he had achieved NASCAR stardom. (Right: a 1955 Chevrolet Slot Car like the one Dale ...

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Just Racing - High Banks Await
The Sprint Cup Series has now had stops at Daytona, California, Las Vegas and Atlanta which are all over a mile and a half in length and all offer up what you would call clean racing...

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. ...

Mercedes-Benz E550: A plush highway cruiser
Poverty is greatly overrated. So is what is construed as "just-folks" normalcy. Both conditions are heralded only by people who don't have access to lots of money...

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 ...

Team Kalitta Gainesville test 2008-03-18 (Motorsport.com)
YPSILANTI, Mich., (March 19, 2008) -- In a rare four-car showing for all of the Ypsilanti, Michigan-based Kalitta Motorsports nitro-fueled entries, Team Kalitta took the opportunity yesterday to test and refine the tune-ups of its race cars at Gainesville Raceway after this past weekend's running of the ACDelco NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla...

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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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 ...

Malaysia stewards penalise Lewis Hamilton
It has taken only two races, but the focus of attention in the 2008 Formula One world championship has already drifted away from the main stage and towards the stewards' debating chamber...

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 ...

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. ...

TMS-Two-Time Sprint Cup Champ Johnson Gets Schooled by NHL Great Modano
Johnson, in town for his NASCAR Winner's Circle appearance for Texas Motor Speedway, became a Dallas Star for the day - complete with skates, jersey and full gear...

Big fields for Easter speedway and drags
CRUNCHED: Peter Rees takes to Nelson's Dennis Andreassend in an earlier visit to Nelson's speedway...

Dirty Words with Adam Craig: Rally Cars and Fresh Powder
Craig and Decker with their rallying machine, the Wheels of Teal Photo: courtesy Adam Craig American cross-country mountain bike racer Adam Craig has his sights set on the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing...

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 ...

Preview day fun for hoops crowd
The city will be a sports lover's Shangri-La this weekend, and officials hope all the hoopla will be a slam-dunk for local businesses and restaurants...

Texas Motor Speedway news 2008-03-20 (Motorsport.com)
FORT WORTH, Texas (March 20, 2008) Two-time defending NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson traded in his racing gloves for a pair of hockey ones Thursday as he participated in on-ice shooting drills with Dallas Stars center Mike Modano, the greatest American-born scorer in NHL history...

The Evolution of Need for Speed - Techtree.com

The Evolution of Need for Speed
Techtree.com, India - Mar 20, 2008
The Slot Car cheat would automatically activate car turning, making it super-easy to play. My favorite cheat was Road Rage, which would throw all the .
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Life in the fast lane - Henderson Gleaner

Life in the fast lane
Henderson Gleaner, KY - Mar 16, 2008
"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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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 ...



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