Slot Car Racing News for 03/29/2008



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

Jalopnik

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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Grand-Am Series Head Back to Track With Weekend at Homestead
After nearly two months away from the track, the drivers and teams of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No...

Homestead: Thursday practice report (Motorsport.com)
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (March 27, 2008) -- The last five minutes of the Thursday afternoon's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 practice session shook up the leaderboard, and as the dust settled all five different engine manufacturers sat in the top-seven slots on the time sheets...

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...

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...

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...

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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Dixon On Target Takes Season Opening IndyCar Pole At Homestead . - PaddockTalk

Dixon On Target Takes Season Opening IndyCar Pole At Homestead .
PaddockTalk - 9 hours ago
Carpenter EURknew we would run 212s so we took a bit more of a gamble with my car,EUR he said. EURIf we pulled it off we could be on the front row,EUR his team .
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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. ...

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...

Tom Bowles: Busch, Stewart lead NASCAR's sweet 16 (Sports Illustrated)
The NCAA isn't the only sporttrafficking the term "Sweet 16" this week...

Sepang: DPR GP2 Asia Sprint Race Recap - Learning Curve Continues
David Price Racing completed a tough weekend of GP2 racing in Malaysia today, with the second of the two races in the inaugural GP2 Asia Series taking place at the Formula One Malaysia Grand Prix, held at the ...

Hamilton: We'll Bounce Back In Bahrain
Malaysian will be just a mere blooper on McLaren's road towards Championship glory, says a confident Lewis Hamilton...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

New season, new talent bring fresh IndyCar expectations (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By JOHN STURBIN Reunification. Merger. Kumbaya. Whatever term best suits your perception of domestic open-wheel racing, tonight's Gainsco Auto Insurance Indy 300 will mark the historic first event since the rival IndyCar and Champ Car World Series announced the end of a bitter, 12-year split. "Better late than never," said Helio Castroneves, a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 for Team ...

Sports Right Now (KOLN Lincoln)
Here is the latest in sports headlines...

NASCAR-CUP: Jeff Gordon takes Martinsville pole
Jeff Gordon sailed to the Martinsville Speedway, the Hendrick Motorsports driver was the tenth racer to take to the 0.526-mile short-track oval...

New season, new talent bring fresh IndyCar expectations - Fort Worth Star Telegram

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New season, new talent bring fresh IndyCar expectations
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 1 hour ago
Indy Racing League founder Tony George and Champ Car partners Kevin Kalkhoven and Gerry Forsythe signed off on the deal Feb. 21. .
Rojas Leads Opening Day of Practice for Grand-Am Rolex Series . Grand-Am
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BF3: Birthday boy Alguersuari wins second Oulton race
Birthday boy Alguersuari wins second Oulton race Racing series BF3 Date 2008-03-24 By Lynne Waite and Stella-Maria Thomas - Motorsport.com This time Jaime Alguersuari made no mistakes...

Busch, Stewart lead early contenders for Chase field - SI.com

Busch, Stewart lead early contenders for Chase field
SI.com - Mar 27, 2008
Kenseth was a contender to win Las Vegas before being wrecked by Gordon, and he's clearly benefited from a Roush Fenway Racing resurgence that has three of .
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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. ...

Time to clip Formula 1's wings EUR then we'll really see Lewis . - Sportingo

Time to clip Formula 1's wings EUR then we'll really see Lewis .
Sportingo, Israel - Mar 26, 2008
It is derisively referred to as slot car racing because it is so difficult to overtake. The races are interesting, but rarely exciting and there is .
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Gordon, Hamlin on front row at Martinsville (Winston-Salem Journal)
Get the scoop on Trail Mix, the Journal's new political blog. Read more MARTINSVILLE, Va. Jeff Gordon paced the game yesterday at Martinsville Speedway, edging Toyotas Denny Hamlin for the pole for Sundays Goodys 500...

GRAND-AM-Rojas Leads Opening Day of Practice for Grand-Am Rolex Series GAINSCO..
Topic: GRAND-AM-Rojas Leads Opening Day of Practice for Grand-Am Rolex Series GAINSCO.. Rojas Leads Opening Day of Practice for Grand-Am Rolex Series GAINSCO Grand Prix of Miami HOMESTEAD, Fla...

Lewis: We'll bounce back
Malaysia will be just a mere blip on McLaren's road towards Championship glory, according to a confident Lewis Hamilton...

Homestead: Round two preview (Motorsport.com)
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (March 25, 2008) -- After nearly two months away from the track, the drivers and teams of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 are itching to get back into action at Saturday's GAINSCO Grand Prix of Miami at Homestead-Miami Speedway (3 p.m. ET)...

Rojas Leads Opening Day of Practice for Grand-Am Rolex Series GAINSCO Grand Prix of Miami
The last five minutes of the Thursday afternoon's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No...

Gordon, Hamlin on front row at Martinsville (Winston-Salem Journal)
Johnson, who has four consecutive wins here, qualifies his Chevy tenth..

Jeff Gordon takes Martinsville pole (Motorsport.com)
Jeff Gordon sailed to the Martinsville Speedway, the Hendrick Motorsports driver was the tenth racer to take to the 0.526-mile short-track oval. Earning his seventh career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series pole, he toured the track in his Chevrolet setting a fast time of 19.666 (96.288 mph)...

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 ...

Jeff Gordon takes Martinsville pole - Motorsport.com

Jeff Gordon takes Martinsville pole
Motorsport.com, Florida - 4 hours ago
He was the fastest for the Joe Gibbs Racing stable. "It was a good lap for us," commented Hamlin who hails from nearby Chesterfield, Va. .
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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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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 ...

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...

Spinning My Wheels: Hendrick favored at Martinsville (Fox Sports)
Jeff Burton's been terrific this season, and Mike Harmon likes him to compete well at Martinsville this Sunday, too...

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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2008 Indycar Series Preview
Reunification. Merger. Kumbaya. Whatever term best suits your perception of domestic open-wheel racing, tonight's Gainsco Auto Insurance Indy 300 will mark the historic first event since the rival IndyCar ...

Consular Corps earns kudos at annual gala
The 24th annual International Consular Gala attracted a capacity crowd of 330 movers and shakers to the Townsend...

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...

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...

The Beginnings of Slot Car Racing (Ron Sharer)
The slot car is well known by everyone in some form. The 1960's, saw the arrival in full force of commercial slot car racing...

Gordon, Hamlin on front row at Martinsville - Winston-Salem Journal

Gordon, Hamlin on front row at Martinsville
Winston-Salem Journal, NC - 4 hours ago
The sway bar assemblies are held in a large slot under the big tool box. The sway bar is part of the chassis that determines handling, and is one of the .
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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...

Grand-Am Rolex Series Head Back to Track for GAINSCO Grand Prix of Miami at Homestead-Miami Speedway
After nearly two months away from the track, the drivers and teams of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No...

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

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 ...

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...



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