Slot Car Racing News for 10/11/2007



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 ...

Capps Leads Racers to Reunion - WhoWon.com

Capps Leads Racers to Reunion
WhoWon.com, NE - Oct 10, 2007
That's what nostalgia racing is all about! It's just like the old days." Capps is no stranger to nostalgia funny car competition having grabbed the No. .
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RCSLOT Announces Hobby Scholarship for RC Truck and Slot Car . - PR Web (press release)

RCSLOT Announces Hobby Scholarship for RC Truck and Slot Car .
PR Web (press release), WA - Sep 26, 2007
For those not very familiar with the RC industry, Slot Car Racing and various Model Train areas are included too. Visit the Radio Control and Slot Car Blog .
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InventionLand allows employees to be kids again (The Times Express)
George Davison, chief executive officer of Davison Design and Development, prepares for work like many executives. He eats breakfast, puts on his suit and drives to work.  read more »..

Cross' Words: COT a work in progress
I love Talladega. My first foray into NASCAR came at Alabama International Motor Speedway: May 1, 1983, when Richard Petty beat Benny Parsons to the stripe...

A Place to Keep All Those Old Toys - New York Times

New York Times

A Place to Keep All Those Old Toys
New York Times, United States - Oct 5, 2007
Members can also store their wine in the garages wine cellar, and there is a slot-car racing track in the clubhouse. A lesser membership, at $350 a month .
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Slot car racing is a type of racing hobby that is not seen as much .
Slot car racing is a type of racing hobby that is not seen as much these days. Kids want electronic gadgets such as phones and MP3 players. They want computers and high - speed Internet connections. Whatever happened to the simple toys? ...

Cold start for the hot property - Guardian Unlimited

Cold start for the hot property
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Oct 6, 2007
After a year racing Formula 3 in Europe, yielding a pair of victories, it was already time to see if the precocious talent first displayed in karting could .
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slot car racing video
This movie is worth watching just for the jump near the end. Added bonus: NWA...

Cross' Words: Talladega - Nascar

Cross' Words: Talladega
Nascar - Oct 8, 2007
That was racing -- man and machine vs. man and machine. The latest race at 'Dega was more slot-car racing. And fans, throwing NASCAR under the bus isn't the .
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Countdown to 1 set in Top Fuel and Pro Stock, Funny Car still fighting
With two rounds of action remaining in the Countdown to 4, the final few spots up for grabs at the start of the day are starting to fill-up. The first round featured Brandon Bernstein clinching the final slot ...

Capps Looks Forward to Hot Rod Reunion
NHRA POWERade nitro Funny Car driver Ron Capps will return to the Automobile Club of Southern California Hot Rod Reunion again this year, but this time behind the wheel of the new Nostalgia Funny Car owned by ...

Scelzi Second in Countdown
Topic: Scelzi Second in Countdown SCELZI WINS HIS FOURTH OF SEASON Gary Scelzi was the lead actor in a dramatic show of perseverance, skill, wherewithal and sheer determination today to not only win his fourth ...

Poor Schnitzer form continues.
Augusto Farfus and Jorg Muller were in the ways once again at Monza after a difficult weekend of racing for the BMW Team Germany squad...

AMF and slot car racing.
Over the years, the controversy over AMF's (American Machine & Foundry) involvement in slot car racing has raged between historians. Some claiming that AMF purchased track manufacturer and franchised raceway orchestrator American Model ...

Hot Wheels - Slot Car Racing [Racing/2000]
Category: PC : MS-Windows Size: 390.92 MB Status: no seeders and 2 leechers Speed: 4.34 kB/s Added: 2007-08-28 00:49:57 Description: Hot Wheels - Slot Car Racing! "Take Control with Real Slot Car Controllers" (Not included with torrent) ...

2008 Independent Games Festival Reveals Main Competition Entries
("Simple addictive puzzle racing game based loosely on slot-car racing, with 32 types of game and up to 7 players simultaneously.") - Schizoid (Torpex) ("Schizoid is the most co-op game ever! One or two players control a red ship and a ...

Slot car racing is gaining in popularity
Slot car racing is gaining in popularity. Some specialty party businesses are offering slot car birthday parties for children. Up to 16 ( or maybe more ) children can race on a super large slot car track at the same time! ...

Final Four: NHRA Championships Come Down to Two Races - AutoWeek

Final Four: NHRA Championships Come Down to Two Races
AutoWeek - Oct 8, 2007
Besides Pedregon, Scelzi and Capps, the other Funny Car slot went to Robert Hight, the only member of the John Force Racing team to make the cutoff. .
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2008 Independent Games Festival Reveals Main Competition Entries
The record entry numbers have seen a host of notable independent PC, web-based and even downloadable console games entering the contest - for which almost $50,000 prizes will be given out at GDC 2008 next ...

Wicked Local Wareham
Classes Reiki share/clinic Reiki Share/Reiki clinics are held the first Thursday of each month, at 6 p.m., at The Inner Peace Wellness Center, 1 Trowbridge Road, Bourne...

Daily Planner: October 11, 2007
AUTHOR APPEARANCE: 7 p.m. Lyon Books, 121 W. Fifth St. Ceann deRohan will discuss her latest book, "Feelings Matter." Free...

Capps Looks Forward to Hot Rod Reunion (Speed TV)
NHRA POWERade nitro Funny Car driver Ron Capps will return to the Automobile Club of Southern California Hot Rod Reunion again this year, but this time behind the wheel of the new Nostalgia Funny Car owned by Gary Messenger...

Scelzi Wins his Fourth of Season, Lands in Second in Countdown
Gary Scelzi was the lead actor in a dramatic show of perseverance, skill, wherewithal and sheer determination today to not only win his fourth NHRA POWERade Drag Racing national event of the season in four ...

Full Test: 2007 Porsche 911 GT3 RS (AskMen)
View 2007 Porsche 911 GT3 RS Photo Gallery Unless you have plans to go racing, the purchase of a highly developed sports car constructed primarily to satisfy motorsports homologation regulations is not a purely logical process...

Jarno Trulli Q+A (Auto Moto 365)
Panasonic Toyota Racings Jarno Trulli had a very disappointing Chinese Grand Prix, the Italian racer failing to qualify in the top ten where his teammate, Ralf Schumacher...

Huff shines at Monza.
Rob Huff enjoyed a fine weekend of racing at Monza as the Chevrolet man bounced back from a tough qualifying session to bring his Lacetti home in the points in both races of the final European meeting of the ...

Rodolfo Avila Faced A 'No Mercy' Weekend
International Formula Master ended its inaugural season with an action-packed weekend in Monza...

Expert picks: Lowe's Motor Speedway (Fox Sports)
Kasey Kahne has had some strong recent runs, and our experts think his history at Lowe's Motor Speedway is outstanding...

Tour de Corse: Citroen preview (Motorsport.com)
Barely had the Citroen C4 WRCs of Sebastien Loeb/Daniel Elena and Dani Sordo/Marc Marti rolled off the finish ramp in Catalonia and no sooner had the Citroen Sport mechanics packed up their tool cases and their engineer colleagues switched off their computers than it was time for the team to turn its gaze to the Tour de Corse round 13 of the 2007 World Championship for which both Citroen crews ...

Costarring Role: Mercedes C350 gets slightly less than top billing
The instrument panel of the Mercedes-Benz C350 has big, legible gauges displayed in a setting that looks like brushed steel...

Still Talking Tyres And Favouritism
F1ers believe McLaren's quality have left a lot to be desired this season. Some feel passionately that Alonso should take defeat like a man and accept it while others feel Hamilton is the golden boy at the ...

Rides - Street Heart
Send high-res, digital photos, and a description of your high-tech performer to: scott.parker@primedia.com or mail to GM High-Tech Performance, 365 West Passaic Street, Rochelle Park, NJ 07662...

Metrakit racing - motorcyclenews.com

Metrakit racing
motorcyclenews.com, UK - 7 hours ago
Lap3 Row slipstreams 5th down the back straight but can only get level at the end he has to slot in behind again, they come past us Row is not near enough .
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IGF 2008 Main Competitors Announced (Slashdot)
GameSetWatch points out that the big list of entrants for the 2008 Independent Games Festival is now online. Can't tell the winners without a program, right? GSW points out some of the names to watch in this year's showdown: "Gish 2 - Gish 2 is the long awaited sequel to the IGF 05 grand prize winner Gish. In Gish 2 you take the role of physics based blob whose movement and control are ...

Torco Racing Fuels NHRA Nationals - NHRA.com

Torco Racing Fuels NHRA Nationals
NHRA.com, CA - Oct 6, 2007
Richmond , Saturday: It was an agonizing two days of qualifying at Virginia Motorsports Park for the DSR Funny Car drivers at the Torco Racing Fuels NHRA .
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Digital Slot Car Controller
My nephew loves slot car racing. He bought a nice track for him and his son to play on but his son didn't understand how proportional throttle worked; it was either on or off so the car would make it to the first turn and fly into the ...

Final Four: NHRA Championships Come Down to Two Races
National Hot Rod Association Funny Car driver Jack Beckman acknowledges that for the fans, the NHRA's new "Countdown" playoff format is working...

InventionLand allows employees to be kids again (Woodland Progress)
George Davison, chief executive officer of Davison Design and Development, prepares for work like many executives. He eats breakfast, puts on his suit and drives to work...

IGF 2008 Main Competitors Announced
GameSetWatch points out that the big list of entrants for the 2008 Independent Games Festival is now online...

Spinning my wheels: Junior owns Talladega
Fantasy owners are eager to see their stars bounce back from a rain-shortened, accident-marred run in the LifeLock 400 at Kansas Speedway...

News for nerds, stuff that matters - Slashdot

News for nerds, stuff that matters
Slashdot - 21 hours ago
Pixeljunk Racers - Simple addictive puzzle racing game based loosely on slot-car racing, with 32 types of game and up to 7 players simultaneously. .
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Fantasy Picks 'N' Pans : Charlotte Edition
Tom Bowles and Mike Neff Thursday October 11, 2007 The Chase heads to the halfway point this week with the only night race in the final 10 races...

IGF 2008 Main Competitors Announced
Pixeljunk Racers - Simple addictive puzzle racing game based loosely on slot-car racing, with 32 types of game and up to 7 players simultaneously." Read more of this story at Slashdot...

My Year Of Flops Case File #74 Batman & Robin
When I announced that I'd be writing about Batman & Robin this week, a reader took exception to including it in a feature about famous flops...

NASCAR-CUP: Waltrip earns first season pole at Talladega
Michael Waltrip celebrates today as he landed his first NASCAR Nextel Cup Series of the year pole at Talladega Speedway...

Richmond: Gary Scelzi final report (Motorsport.com)
PETERSBURG, Va. (Oct. 7, 2007) - Gary Scelzi was the lead actor in a dramatic show of perseverance, skill, wherewithal and sheer determination today to not only win his fourth NHRA POWERade Drag Racing national event of the season in four final rounds, but to leap all the way into the No. 2 spot in the Countdown to Four. He accomplished this by defeating Del Worsham, Cruz Pedregon, Tony Bartone ...

Beginner EUR¯ s slot car racing kits have everything needed to begin .
Beginner EUR¯ s slot car racing kits have everything needed to begin slot car racing within minutes. The track comes in short plastic sections that snap together so that the slots line up appropriately. Common track configurations are oval ...

Capps leads racers to Hot Rod Reunion (Motorsport.com)
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- (Oct. 8, 2007) -- NHRA POWERade nitro funny car pilot Ron Capps will return to the Automobile Club of Southern California Hot Rod Reunion again this year, but this time behind the wheel of the new Nostalgia Funny Car owned by Gary Messenger...

Scelzi Wins his Fourth of Season, Secures Second in Countdown - WhoWon.com

Scelzi Wins his Fourth of Season, Secures Second in Countdown
WhoWon.com, NE - Oct 8, 2007
Unfortunately for the three-car Don Schumacher Racing Funny Car team, as Scelzi and Capps advanced, teammate Jack Beckman, who entered this event third in .
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