Slot Car Racing News for 09/15/2009



Hamilton edges Sutil to snatch pole at Monza - CNN International

BBC Sport
Hamilton edges Sutil to snatch pole at Monza
CNN International
The car is amazing. This is a continuation of the work we did at Spa, and the good feeling of being a race driver is back. It's a great feeling. .
Hamilton: We didn't anticipate being that quickPlanet F-1.com
Italian Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton takes pole while Jenson Button .Telegraph.co.uk

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Federal judge fouls up with R-71 ruling (seattlepi.com)
Keeping secret names on R-71 petitions: Bad law, bad policy and bad precedent...

Razia`s race, as Hulkenberg claims title
Third place in Sunday's sprint race at Monza was enough for Nico Hulkenberg to claim the 2009 GP2 Series title with one double-header round remaining, all but ensuring that he will be in Formula One next season...

Saturday's NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Event @ Tri-State Raceway (The Auto Channel)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series - West Central Division Tri-State Raceway; Earlville, Iowa Saturday, September 12, 2009 Contact: Brett Lyons (626) 483-8242 Pairings are Set at Tri-State Raceway EARLVILLE, Iowa (September 12, 2009) - Qualifying is complete at Tri-State Raceway with pairings set for Sunday's eliminations...

In brief | Mother and daughter attacked
Mother and daughter terrorizedRobbers late Wednesday held a gun to the head of a 16-year-old girl and shocked her mother with a stun gun.The incident began when the girl walked from her home out to her car about 9:45 p.m. and a man grabbed her and put the weapon to her head, police said.He forced her to her home in the 8900 block of West 124th ...

Slot Car Racing, is it really racing? - World Racing Forum .
The boys at Speed Sport Life (who try all sorts of motorsports) entered a slot car race to try their hands at some miniature motorsports victory. The...

Charged up at the raceway (The Lompoc Record)
It is like stepping back in time. Walk through the door at Fosters Scale Raceway and you are immediately transported to an earlier era...

Five Pieces Of Completely Free Advice For Jay Leno On The New Show - NPR

New York Times
Five Pieces Of Completely Free Advice For Jay Leno On The New Show
NPR
(They keep mentioning that it's a "green" car, as if anybody finds a car race more exciting when the cars run on batteries.) Celebrities racing each other .
Leno going bigLos Angeles Daily News
What did you think of Jay's first night?KARE
A Deluge by NBC to Promote LenoNew York Times
Los Angeles Times -Reuters -Christian Science Monitor
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WC: Series Earlville final summary - Motorsport.com

WC: Series Earlville final summary
Motorsport.com
2 slot and into the winner's circle by defeating No.1 qualifier Roger Bateman of Calgary, Manit., in the final. His lap of 5.746 seconds at 253.18 mph was .
WC: Series Earlville Saturday summaryMotorsport.com

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Flowmaster Dragstock VI Delivers the Thrills to Capacity Crowd at Rockingham Dragway (The Auto Channel)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: American Drag Racing League Contact: ADRL Communications (404) 375-4895 or (636) 272-2375 www.ADRL.us http://www.adrl.us/> *Flowmaster Dragstock VI Delivers the Thrills to Capacity Crowd at Rockingham Dragway* The National Guard American Drag Racing League's (ADRL's) Flowmaster Dragstock VI lived up to its promise of a ...

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Qualifying - selected team and driver quotes
Williams’ Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima on failing to make it through to Q2; Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica on their near simultaneous engine issues in the BMW Saubers; Giancarlo Fisichella on his 14th-place grid slot for his first race for Ferrari; and Lewis Hamilton on taking pole for McLaren...

Monza: Scuderia Coloni GP2 Weekend Recap - PaddockTalk

Monza: Scuderia Coloni GP2 Weekend Recap
PaddockTalk
Luiz did a fantastic race, the car performed well and the team worked brilliantly. We have had some problems with Andi, he had a technical problem yesterday .

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Let The Chase Begin
The Chase is on! And, I am thirlled! Kyle Busch is out, as Brian Vickers bumped out the 4-time 09' race winner with some amazing driving down the stretch...

Hamilton: We didn't anticipate being that quick
Lewis Hamilton insists he was surprised by McLaren's pace in Saturday's Italian qualifying, which saw him edge Adrian Sutil in an intense battle with the Force India driver...

Jay Leno's Green Car Challenge - Wheels Blog - NYTimes.com
What happened to the celebrity slot-car racing? I thought that was a better idea than this, which is just a warmed-over version of the Top Gear segment (which is great by the way). The key is to get a VARIED group of participants though ...

Car Calendar (San Diego Union-Tribune)
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MICHELS & THIRKETTLE WIN IRWINDALE NASCAR SLM TWIN-40S; JOANIDES - RacingWest.com

MICHELS & THIRKETTLE WIN IRWINDALE NASCAR SLM TWIN-40S; JOANIDES
RacingWest.com
The race took 13-minutes, including one red flag to remove a stalled car near the intersection. DEMO DERBY: The fan-popular demolition derby lasted .

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SlotCarDuino : Slot Car Racing Lap Timer Cobweb
Well, Mrs techcobweb and I have been asked to create a game based on slot-car racing. Set up a track, charge for a go racing the cars around our track. The idea is to time the laps, and record EURtop-gear styleEUR the best times. ...

Age Limit Raised In State's Race Track Slot Proposal
Gov. Ted Strickland has asked the Ohio Lottery Commission to increase the age limit for playing slot machines at race tracks from 18 to 21...

Scalextric Need For Speed slot car racing sets - AutoExpress

Scalextric Need For Speed slot car racing sets
AutoExpress
Cult video driving game Need for Speed has been brought to life by developer Electronic Arts (EA) and slot car giant Scalextric EUR and the result is one of .

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Mini Coup Concept: A Lifesize Slot Car - New York Times Blogs

New York Times Blogs
Mini Coup Concept: A Lifesize Slot Car
New York Times Blogs
With its low roofline, silver-and-blue paint job, rear roof spoiler and racing stripes, the Coup Concept looks like a lifesize slot car. .

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Federal judge fouls up with R-71 ruling
Although they've been known to limit taxes while at the same time mandating more spending on education, our state's voters use initiatives and referendums to make -- and to repeal -- laws...

Federal judge fouls up with R-71 ruling
Although they've been known to limit taxes while at the same time mandating more spending on education, our state's voters use initiatives and referendums to make -- and to repeal -- laws...

WiiWare Review - Family Slot Car Racing - GamePro Arcade - Insert .
GameProArcade.com covers the growth of the casual video game market, including coveage of games within the iphone, flash, downloadable Xbox and PS3 content platforms...

Hamilton edges Sutil to snatch pole at Monza
Lewis Hamilton gave McLaren Mercedes pole position in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza with a dramatic late lap to beat Force India's Adrian Sutil by just two-tenths of a second on Saturday...

Hamlin Wins Chevy Rock & Roll 400 at Home, The 2009 NASCAR Chase . - Backstretch Motorsports

Hamlin Wins Chevy Rock & Roll 400 at Home, The 2009 NASCAR Chase .
Backstretch Motorsports
Kevin Harvick was ninth and Ryan Newman 10th, which earned him a slot in the Chase, along with his car owner Tony Stewart, who had a rough night and wound .

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Speed:Sport:Life Racer Boy: Slot Car Racing, or How to Race Door .
EURSlot car racing?EUR you ask. Yup. I'm not talking about that weak ass Tyco set that ran on six C batteries that you found under the Christmas tree when you were a kid. I'm talking about blistering fast slot cars on technical 8 lane ...

Hamilton edges Sutil to snatch pole at Monza (CNN)
Lewis Hamilton gave McLaren Mercedes pole position in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza with a dramatic late lap to beat Force India's Adrian Sutil by just two-tenths of a second on Saturday...

Dragstock VI delivers thrills to capacity crowd - Radioactive Drag Racing News

Dragstock VI delivers thrills to capacity crowd
Radioactive Drag Racing News
2 slot with a 4.02 at an incredible 204.01 mph, the Clarksville, Maryland-based driver downed fellow Belts contenders Todd Moyer, Spiro Pappas and Jeff .

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Sunday's NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Event @ Tri-State Raceway (The Auto Channel)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series - West Central Division Tri-State Raceway; Earlville, Iowa Sunday, September 13, 2009 Contact: Brett Lyons (626) 483-8242 NHRA Winners Crowned at Tri-State Raceway EARLVILLE, Iowa (September 13, 2009) - The NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event at Tri-State Raceway is in the books and the West Central division racing schedule has been ...

BF3: Van der Zande on Portimao first race pole
Changes: The National Class numbers have been increased by the addition of Frenchman Mathieu Maurage at Team West-Tec and Lebanese Joe Ghanem at Carlin Motorsport...

Hamlin Wins at Home
Twenty-six races into the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, there are now 12 drivers with a chance to win the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup...

Track record - Telegraph.co.uk

Telegraph.co.uk
Track record
Telegraph.co.uk
Thus was born a generic for slot-car racing that only about five per cent of the population can pronounce properly. The original cars collected their .
Top Gear's James May races Scalextric carsThe Surrey Herald
James May sets Scalextric world recordToyNews

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Having Loads Of Fun With Slot Car Racing
Slot car racing is an innovative game or hobby for those who are fascinated with racing cars. Miniature or scale-model cars are raced on a special track. The track is flat and wide enough for two or more slot cars to race side by side. ...

WC: Series Earlville final summary (Motorsport.com)
EARLVILLE, Iowa (September 13, 2009) -- The NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event at Tri-State Raceway is in the books and the West Central division racing schedule has been completed...

Formula One to return to Canada
A financial dispute between the two parties resulted in one of the most popular events being omitted from this season's schedule for the first time in 22 years...

As For The Racing Stuff: Hamilton Was Quickest In Monza Practice
Lewis Hamilton and his McLaren's KERS dominated Friday's first practice for the Italian GP as the Brit led the way almost from start to finish...

A day at the races for two Foster competitors (The Lompoc Record)
The action is intense. Rylee Rios and Klay Funez are pictures of total concentration EUR locked in a duel to see who is, on this night anyway, the better slot car racer...

Sunday's Top Stories
Two vehicle accident on Airport Hwy, early morning fire, Walt Disney World facelift...

Is Slot Car racing really car racing?: Grassroots Motorsports .
Aug. 24, 2009 7:36 p.m. confuZion3 SuperDork. Um, and yes. Slot Car racing is racing. Heck, it's one of the words in the name of it. If you argue otherwise, you're a godless heathen communist. ...

Jack Beckman to make PINKS All Out appearance on SpeedTV 9/17
Jack Beckman to make PINKS All Out appearance on SpeedTV 9/17 DON SCHUMACHER RACING 2009 NHRA FULL THROTTLE DRAG RACING SERIES JACK BECKMAN TO MAKE 'PINKS ALL OUT' APPEARANCE ON SPEEDTV SEPT...

Slot Car Racing for your event - Extreme Climbing Party Rentals
blog for: Extreme Climbing Party Rentals. title: Slot Car Racing for your event. Preview: Now you can bring home or to your next event the speed and excitement of Formula One racing on our custom built 50 feet long, 4 lane Slot Car ...

Blogs Last updated: September 10, 14:29 (Cyclingnews)
Welcome to Cyclingnews' live coverage of stage seven of the Tour of Missouri. Today's final stage is a circuit race in Kansas City, Missouri. It will run seven laps of a 10.2-mile circuit. Please note that we no longer have a commentator email, but we still want to hear from you...

Fearless Predictions: Chasing Deadlines
I'm no math wiz - sorry about that Mrs. Muffley, but there's no denying it - but even I know 11 into eight doesn't work too well...

Honeymoon resorts are kitschy, romantic and endangered
Mt. Pocono, Pa. - Some might call it dated. But judging from the grinning couples at Paradise Stream Resort, that old Poconos love vibe still shimmers...

Family Slot Car Racing (WiiWare) review
16 Aug 2009: Slot car racing fun for the whole family.or is it?..

What do Richard Petty and Bert Convy have in Common?
It's easy in this line of work to make a knee-jerk reaction to breaking news. It's a little more difficult to offer some insight a few days after the fact...

Five Pieces Of Completely Free Advice For Jay Leno On The New Show
As we've previously noted, The Jay Leno Show , which premieres tonight, is going to be on for a good long while, whether it's good or bad...

timaru slot car racing on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
timaru model car racing club is one of the oldest slot racing clubs in the UK, founded in the 1950's when some of the early members worked at the nearby Hornby factory. This factory also became the world famous home of Scalextric. ...



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