Slot Car Racing News for 06/22/2008



Road warrior Montoya eyes repeat at Infineon
Juan Pablo Montoya met everyone's expectations when he raced a stock car at Infineon Raceway in his rookie season, winning last year's Sprint Cup race on the 1.99-mile road course...

Slot-Car Racing Fans Learn To Enjoy Life in the Fast Lane
Slot-car racing- a hobby in which tiny electric cars race around a plastic track with grooves, or slots, to keep the cars on course- is making a big comeback. For decades, the hobby has been dominated by middle-aged men who grew up ...

First Japan toy awards handed out
The Japan Toy Association presented its first annual awards Tuesday, honoring five products including Bandai Co.'s popular bubble wrap toy named Mugen Putiputi...

Top 30 Auto Innovations and Motor Trends in 2008
From homemade fuel to motorized unicycles, it's been a kick ass year in the world of automobiles...

PR-America's Best Teen Auto Techs Battle for National Crown and Millions in.
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Midwest Holiday Musings
If there is a Champ Car season in 2004, the "driver to beat" may not be the defending titleholder or his runner-up. While Paul Tracy poses a formidable challenge any time he's on a race track and Bruno ...

Watkins Glen: BimmerWorld race report (Motorsport.com)
BMW World Challenge Touring Car team on pace for three cars in the top-10 at Watkins Glen until disaster strikes, entire team out in one corner...

Games Video: Slot Car Racing From InCar Camer
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Tender is the night - The Times

Tender is the night
The Times, South Africa - 19 hours ago
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Slot-Car Racing Fans Learn To Enjoy Life in the Fast Lane
Slot-car racing -- a hobby in which tiny electric cars race around a plastic track with grooves -- is making a comeback as kids are being drawn in by new, high-tech cars and tracks. But some old-school hobbyists are unimpressed...

Kahne makes home on road
Juan Pablo Montoya met everyone's expectations when he raced a stock car at Infineon Raceway in his rookie season, winning last year's Sprint Cup race on the 1.99-mile road course...

James K. Little, 83
James K. Little Sr., retired exterminating company founder and longtime businessman, died Tuesday of respiratory failure at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium ...

CAR race Camera - mounted action helmet cam advice anyone?
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REVS: Arena rock - AutoWeek

REVS: Arena rock
AutoWeek - Jun 19, 2008
Ricky Dennis founded Arena Racing in 1993, with 50 cars on a wooden oval track in Rich-mond, Virginia. Dennis was no stranger to stock-car racing, .
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REVS: Arena rock: NASCAR-style racing--indoors
Drivers need lots of money--and luck--to make it to NASCAR's Cup series, but you don't have to travel to giant tracks or spend millions to get a firsthand taste of stock-car action...

Raikkonen heads Ferrari front-row
Kimi Raikkonen heads an all-scarlet front row for Sunday's French Grand Prix after pipping team-mate Felipe Massa to pole position in qualifying, while BMW Sauber struggled to produce the pace that saw them ...

The IoS pink list 2008 (Independent)
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Official Lifelock 400 Thread
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Wales Rally GB to retain slot in 2010? - crash.net

Wales Rally GB to retain slot in 2010?
crash.net, UK - Jun 21, 2008
Wales Rally GB boss Andrew Coe has that he is hopeful the Welsh-based event will be given a reprieve in 2010 and granted a slot on the World Rally .
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Kahne wins Sonoma pole (The Charlotte Observer)
SONOMA, Calif. - Juan Pablo Montoya met everyone's expectations when he raced a stock car at Infineon Raceway in his rookie season, winning last year's Sprint Cup race on the 1.99-mile road course. "Everybody thought 'Oh, he's going to come out and win the race,' " said Montoya, reflecting on 2007. "But if we didn't win the race, we sucked. It was that simple. Anything less than a win would've ...

Unfortunately for speedy Sadler, no qualifying - MLive.com

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Unfortunately for speedy Sadler, no qualifying
MLive.com, MI - Jun 14, 2008
Ryan Newman, in June 2004, was the last driver to win from the fourth slot. Rookie Justin Lofton cruised to victory in the Racing For Wildlife 200 ARCA .
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Mid-Ohio Homecoming is About More Than Coming Home for Southard Motorsports
Southard Motorsports LEXINGTON , Ohio, June 16, 2008 The Powell, Ohio shop of Southard Motorsports is approximately one hour from the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington...

Goodremote stops Thatchers winning streak at four (Dunn County News)
Mike Goodremote stopped the winning streak of Craig Thatcher at four as the Sand Creek driver won the modified feature event to highlight a curfew-shortened night of racing at the Red Cedar Speedway...

NEXT RACE - 22nd June (Planet F1)
Kimi Raikkonen grabbed Ferrari's 200th pole position at Magny-Cours on Saturday, edging team-mate Felipe Massa to the coveted grid slot...

Bourdais says France cannot afford to lose F1 slot (Reuters via Yahoo!7 Sports)
MAGNY-COURS, France, June 20 (Reuters) - France cannot afford to fall off the Formula One calendar next year if Magny-Cours is axed as a venue after Sunday's race, according to the country's only grand prix driver Sebastien Bourdais...

Kimi Clinches Ferrari's 200th Pole
Kimi Raikkonen grabbed Ferrari's 200th pole position at Magny-Cours on Saturday, edging team-mate Felipe Massa to the coveted grid slot...

Ferrari rule French GP; Hamilton comes unstuck. (Crash.Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Sport)
Lewis Hamilton discovers the true price of his costly Canadian Grand Prix error two weeks ago, as he trails home a scrappy and frustrated tenth in the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours, with the weather raining - and Ferrari's Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen reigning - on the Briton's downtrodden parade...

James May: Raising a glass to Dr Porsche
Owning a Porsche 911 is an excuse to drink more beer, says James May James May homepage Ever since beer was invented, men have been forming clubs and societies around supposedly common interests as a way of ...

50 International Journalists are Putting the "Pedal To The Metal"
June 16, 2008: The scene was a little reminiscent of the infamous Area 51: an old military airport, giant hangars in the background and armed guards at the gate...

Vettel irked to miss out on top 10 - ITV.com

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Vettel irked to miss out on top 10
ITV.com, UK - Jun 21, 2008
Vettel was happy with his cars overall performance and after scoring points at the last two rounds he remains confident going into Sundays race. .
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Spinning my wheels: Martin a solid option at Dover - FOXSports.com

Spinning my wheels: Martin a solid option at Dover
FOXSports.com - May 30, 2008
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Drifting, drags and gymkhana at Hot Rod show
Drifting, drags and gymkhana at Hot Rod show GETTING HIS DRIFT: Rear-wheel drive cars adapt more easily to the sideways drifting technique...

Watkins Glen: BimmerWorld - Motorsport.com

Watkins Glen: BimmerWorld
Motorsport.com, Florida - Jun 20, 2008
Bumps and bruises are a normal part of top-tier touring car racing, but despite this, Clay's crash left him in awe of the BMW E90's BimmerWorld has built. .
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June 17: On ESPN and the IRL's best season
Question: I read the blog every day, appreciate all you do, and agree with you 99 percent of the time, but man, it's obvious you never watch ESPN...

Road warrior Montoya eyes repeat at Infineon (Modesto Bee)
SONOMA -- Juan Pablo Montoya met everyone's expectations when he raced a stock car at Infineon Raceway in his rookie season, winning last year's Sprint Cup race on the 1.99-mile road course...

Kahne wins 2nd pole in 3 weeks - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Kahne wins 2nd pole in 3 weeks
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - Jun 20, 2008
Montoya was part of a three-entry team from Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates trying to make Sunday's event, but Dario Franchitti did not go fast .
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Slot-Car Racing Fans Learn To Enjoy Life in the Fast Lane - Wall Street Journal

Slot-Car Racing Fans Learn To Enjoy Life in the Fast Lane
Wall Street Journal - May 24, 2008
This isn't the slot-car set you might remember from when you were a kid. Slot-car racing -- a hobby in which tiny electric cars race around a plastic track .
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Calendar Events - Ottawa Citizen

Calendar Events
Ottawa Citizen,  Canada - Jun 20, 2008
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Kahne makes home on road (The Charlotte Observer)
Juan Pablo Montoya met everyone's expectations when he raced a stock car at Infineon Raceway in his rookie season, winning last year's Sprint Cup race on the 1.99-mile road course. EUREverybody thought EUROh, he's going to come out and win the race,'EUR said Montoya, reflecting on 2007. EURBut if we didn't win the race, we (stunk). It was that simple. Anything less than a win would've been ...

Florida Slot Car Racing - My Series - Race #4 Results
June 14th marked the first trip for Florida Slot Car Racing - My Series to Bill Pinch's The Raceway.biz in Cocoa, Florida. Thank you to Bill and his family for making everyone feel right at home and to Lloyd Miller for serving as the ...

Obituaries
Sarah Duncan Schultz, 55, of Delevan, Wis., formerly of Winnetka, died June 1 after a short illness...

Kahne wins Sonoma pole (Boston Herald)
SONOMA, Calif. - Juan Pablo Montoya met everyone's expectations when he raced a stock car at Infineon Raceway in his rookie season, winning last year's Sprint Cup...

World Sports at 1330 GMT
TURKEY: Croatia faces comeback king Turkey in Euro 2008 quarterfinals in Vienna VIENNA, Austria _ Croatia will play Turkey on Friday in the European Championship quarterfinals at Ernst Happel Stadium...

Slot Car Racing Evenings at Dowty's Slot Car Racing Club
Dowty Slot Car Racing Club update: "Congratulations to all the club members at the National Finals this year. Dave finished in the top 10 in two classes, Rob had problems with cars and controllers, but still finished in the top 30 in ...

Asia SuperCar Challenge: AVILA Aims First Overall Victory
Having finished in the podium three times in the inaugural round last month, Macanese driver Rodolfo Avila is back to action in this weekend's Asia Supercar Challenge rounds in Sepang, Malaysia...



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