Slot Car Racing News for 10/13/2008



Scalextric 1:32 American Champions Slot Car Racing Track Set
Scalextric 1:32 American Champions Slot Car Racing Track Set. From Hornby Hobbies Limited. This slot car track system is brand new in the manufacturers protective outer shipping container. The track components and slot cars within are ...

Japan Flashback 2007 - Hamilton reigns at sodden Fuji
After 20 years at Suzuka, Formula One racing returned to the Fuji Speedway for the 2007 Japanese Grand Prix...

Another wacky birthday party idea - Slot Car Racing!
My 9-year-old son was invited to a slot car racing birthday party last Saturday. I imagine it would appeal mostly to boys, but I have to say that one of the best racers at this party was an 8-year-old girl. ...

2008 Paris: City of Light-weights
One of my favorite things about the Paris show is Hall 2.2, which is filled to brimming with bizarre microcars...

Dennis: We'll make sure Lewis doesn't throw it away (Morning Star)
RON DENNIS called on everyone at McLaren to "dig deep" on Monday in order to give Lewis Hamilton the best possible chance of securing the Formula One drivers' championship...

Rusty Wallace denies brother's claim that he's considering a return to NASCAR's top level
Kenny Wallace wrote in his SpeedTv.com blog that the 52-year-old former Cup champion is pondering a return to the Sprint Cup Series, and said it was rumored he'd fill a seat at Dale Earnhardt Inc...

New business features slot car racing
Rob Bihl and his wife are the owners of one of the newest Scioto County businesses, River Rat Dragway Slot Car Racing in New Boston. The business features a 55-foot long full scale drag strip. The track is scaled down from a real drag ...

Ex-F1 Driver Gains F2 Tender
Former Formula 1 driver and commentator Jonathan Palmer's MotorSport Vision [MSV] company has won the tender to supply and run the FIA's proposed new Formula 2 series ...

Hamilton At His Best To Take Formula 1 Pole In Japan, FIA Stewards Don't Intercede
Controversy during Formula 1 qualifying for the Japanese Grand prix has been averted, and McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton will retain his 12th career F1 Pole...

Japanese GP quoteboard (ITV.com)
Find out what all 20 drivers on the grid made of an exciting afternoon at Fuji Speedway...

Busch Survives Crash-Filled Talladega
Busch Survives Crash-Filled Talladega Sunday October 5, 2008 Date: Oct. 5, 2008 Event: AMP Energy 500 Series: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Location: Talladega Superspeedway Start/Finish: 37th/15th Winner: Tony ...

F1: Massa gets points for dangerous driving - ChiefOfficers.Net

F1: Massa gets points for dangerous driving
ChiefOfficers.Net, UK - 23 hours ago
For sure, he did not have time to brake and slot in behind the Finn. No action against Raikkonen for forcing another car off the track. .
What If The Stewards Hadn't Interfered Planet F-1.com
Dennis calls on McLaren to dig deep Independent
Kovalainen welcomes second row slot autosport.com
SkySports - Formula 1
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LAST RACE - 12th October (Planet F1)
Never before has the decision-making of race stewards played such a pivotal role in the destiny of a World Championship...

Scalextric 1:32 BBC TopGear Powerlaps Slot Car Track Set
This irregular figure 8 set contains a Porsche 911 GT3R and a Ford GT as tested at the actual TopGear track in Great Britain TopGear throttles and Lap Counter Timer included 1:32 scale slot car racing track system. Review More...

Richmond: Cruz Pedregon Saturday notes (Motorsport.com)
RICHMOND, Va. (Oct. 11) -- Funny Car champion Cruz Pedregon posted the quickest elapsed time of drag racing's 1,000-foot era when he zoomed down Virginia Motorsports Park Saturday afternoon with a 4.041-second pass at 306.88 mph that earned his Advance Auto Parts Toyota Solara team the No. 1 qualifying position heading into Sunday's eliminations...

Spinning my wheels: Look out for Hendrick Motorsports (Fox Sports)
Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s performances at Lowe's have been up and down. Where will he finish tonight? Mike Harmon offers a preview...

Lowe's Observations - Yahoo! Sports

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Lowe's Observations
Yahoo! Sports - Oct 11, 2008
His car was so loose that at times it left me believing that takes more than a bad race car to stop him. When his car is bad, he's still good. .
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International Speedway Reports Results for the Third Quarter of . - Earthtimes (press release)

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International Speedway Reports Results for the Third Quarter of .
Earthtimes (press release), UK - Oct 9, 2008
Watkins Glen International hosted a successful weekend of sports car racing in June, highlighted by the fourth Grand-Am Rolex Series Daytona Prototype .
International Speedway Corporation F3Q08 (Qtr End 08/31/08 . Seeking Alpha
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Richmond: Cruz Pedregon Saturday - Motorsport.com

Richmond: Cruz Pedregon Saturday
Motorsport.com, Florida - Oct 11, 2008
(Oct. 11) -- Funny Car champion Cruz Pedregon posted the quickest elapsed time of drag racing's 1000-foot era when he zoomed down Virginia Motorsports Park .
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Dowty Slot Car Racing Club Update
The 2008 calendar of races is 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, see the results and read the reports from their recent ...

F1 teams seeking Canadian GP reprieve.
Formula 1>> F1 teams seeking Canadian GP reprieve. Friday, 10th October 2008 F1 drivers and teams admit the loss of the Canadian Grand Prix around Montreal's popular Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in 2009 is a ...

Ex-champ R. Wallace denies he's considering return
Rusty Wallace denied yesterday a report by his brother that says he is considering a return to NASCAR's top level...

Last European round looms for Scuderia Ecosse - Planetlemans.com

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Last European round looms for Scuderia Ecosse
Planetlemans.com, Netherlands - 5 hours ago
The recent updates to car 62 made a postive improvement to the overall performance of the car at Nogaro, and the team are determined to finish the European .
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Hinchcliffe Wraps Atlantic Season with Podium
James Hinchcliffe returned to the podium with a third place effort at Road Atlanta as the 2008 Cooper Tires Presents The Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda concluded with Round 11 at the Georgia track on ...

Horizon Shootout comes to Tilton
This weekend marks the first annual Horizon Shootout sponsored by Horizon Hobby and JTEC Racing...

F1 to be supported by Formula Master
The Formula Master single-seater series will take a slot on the Formula One support card for two events during 2009...

Slot Car Racing on Vinyl Records
This design combines vinyl records with slot car racing, or at least that is what I took from it. They actually break apart a Vinyl record, rearrange it as a racing track, and using modded slot cars with installed speakers, ...

Nakajima fired up after securing 2009 slot - guardian.co.uk

Nakajima fired up after securing 2009 slot
guardian.co.uk, UK - Oct 9, 2008
"I twice raced Formula Three at Fuji -- also twice Japanese GT and once with a touring car in an endurance race. "It is going to be the first time I drive .
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Formula Renault 2.0: Magny-Cours Races - Roberto Mehri Takes The . - PaddockTalk

Formula Renault 2.0: Magny-Cours Races - Roberto Mehri Takes The .
PaddockTalk - 1 hour ago
The Spaniard was racing on a circuit on which he feels particularly at ease and bagged pole. When the lights went out he made a blinding start and was well .
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Sontag snags fourth feature of '08 (Morris Daily Herald)
Brett Sontag, from Joliet, went to the high side of the track and passed Scott Koerner and Billy Knippenberg Jr. to win his fourth late model feature of the season Friday night at the Grundy County Speedway, in Morris...

Phillip Island Saturday Quote Machine Final
Casey Stoner took his eighth pole position of the season at Phillip Island today and with it claimed the prize of a new car for the "MotoGP Best Qualifier 2008", following an entertaining qualifying session ...

Dennis Calls For Final Push (Sporting Life via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Sport)
Ron Dennis has called on everyone at McLaren to "dig deep" in order to give Lewis Hamilton the best possible chance of securing the Formula One drivers' championship...

Star Mazda: Hacquard Eighth On Road Atlanta Debut
Taylor Hacquard was left to rue what might have been in the penultimate round of the 2008 Star Mazda Championship Presented by Goodyear, Round 11, held Friday at Road Atlanta, as the Vancouver racer finished ...

McLaren to dig deep for Hamilton (The Herald)
Ron Dennis, the McLaren team principal, has called on everyone at the team to give Lewis Hamilton the best possible chance of securing the Formula One drivers' championship...

Five Coast drivers in one-lap bid for pole - Gold Coast News

Five Coast drivers in one-lap bid for pole
Gold Coast News, Australia - Oct 10, 2008
The accident destroyed his $450000 race car and ended the weekend for him and his Hope Island teammate Andrew Thompson.
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Obama pitches new plans to aid economy - San Francisco Chronicle

Obama pitches new plans to aid economy
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 1 hour ago
Obama's Ohio speech could be a preview to the big half-hour time slot his campaign is in the process of buying on all four television networks set for .
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Canadian Grand Prix dropped from Formula One calendar by FIA
North America will be absent from next year's Formula One world championship after the Canadian Grand Prix was dropped from a revised calendar issued by the sport's governing body...

Hinchcliffe Wraps Atlantic Season with Podium
James Hinchcliffe returned to the podium with a third place effort at Road Atlanta as the 2008 Cooper Tires Presents The Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda concluded with Round 11 at the Georgia track on ...

Voice Over IP slot car racing!
Voice Over IP slot car racing? Come again? Apparently, this project takes advantage of Asterisk to take in the phone data and spit that out to a Java based softphone. This softphone takes in a SIP stream and then measures the waveform ...

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Kovalainen rues win that got away at Fuji - crash.net

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Kovalainen rues win that got away at Fuji
crash.net, UK - Oct 12, 2008
EURœI was feeling pretty confident about catching them both because the car was feeling just fantastic and then, all of a sudden, the engine stopped. .
Fuji factfile ITV.com
Japan GP: post-race reaction Setanta Sports
Sunday - Team Quotes GrandPrix
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Smith captures third Grundy Speedway victory (Morris Daily Herald)
With only two weekends remaining in the 2008 racing season, defending track champion, Tom Smith, did what he needed to do to keep atop the point standings and possibly win a second title...

Calabasas Pumpkin Festival - Sat. & Sun. October 18-19th
The adventure begins at the Calabasas Pumpkin Festival, presented by the City of Calabasas, the Chamber of Commerce and the Calabasas Arts Council on Saturday, October 18 and Sunday, October 19 from 10 a.m. to ...

BRM Challenge at Wyoming Valley Slot Car Association
It was again another beautiful Northeast Pa. day, especially for slot car racing!!! Our first event of the day was the BRM IROC (cars supplied by Alan Smith of Scaleracing LLC) and the fun supplied by 13 racers for the race. ...

Talkin' Talladega - roanoke.com
File 2003 Kevin Harvick helps Dale Earnhardt Jr. celebrate - and cool off - after he won the Aaron's 499 at Talladega in 2003...

New business features slot car racing (Portsmouth Daily Times)
Rob Bihl and his wife are the owners of one of the newest Scioto County businesses, River Rat Dragway Slot Car Racing in New Boston. The business features a 55-foot long full scale drag strip. The track is scaled down from a real drag strip...

Formula Renault 2.0: Magny-Cours Races - Roberto Mehri Takes The Championship Lead
Roberto Mehri put himself in a strong position for the title after Magny-Cours where he took over first place in the Formula Renault 2.0 West European Cup...



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