Slot Car Racing News for 10/20/2008



WSR: Guerrieri wins season finale in Spain (autosport.com)
Esteban Guerrieri scored his maiden Formula Renault 3.5 series victory at Barcelona after making a dramatic last-lap pass on James Walker to deny the Briton his second win in the category..

French GP cancelled
The 2009 French Grand Prix has been cancelled for financial reasons. "For economic reasons, the FFSA has decided to cancel the French Grand Prix," said a statement...

GAINSCO/Stallings 2007 Mexico City Winner First Available in New . - PaddockTalk

GAINSCO/Stallings 2007 Mexico City Winner First Available in New .
PaddockTalk - Oct 17, 2008
The detailed model is race-ready for 1/32-scale slot-car tracks and is of high enough quality to be displayed in any collector's showcase. The No. .
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Martinsville Observations - Yahoo! Sports

Seattle Times

Martinsville Observations
Yahoo! Sports - 11 hours ago
I'm still confused as to why Tim Cindric at Penske Racing doesn't put David Stremme in the 12 car for the final four races of the season. .
Johnson in driver's seat as Chase reaches Martinsville FOXSports.com
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Forget about scuzzy sex shows EUR the arts are our future, says Sky (Independent)
Theres a line in Im Alan Partridge, during the famous pitching scene, where a desperate Partridge suggests to a BBC commissioner the idea of making a programme called EURInner City SumoEUR, about fat wrestlers in a pub car-park. EURIf you dont do it,EUR he says, EURSky will.EUR..

French GP cancelled for financial reasons
The next year French Formula One Grand Prix has been cancelled for financial reasons, organisers said on Wednesday...

Indy Impasse set to Cloud Gold Coast's Big Weekend - The Epoch Times

Indy Impasse set to Cloud Gold Coast's Big Weekend
The Epoch Times, NY - 2 hours ago
Power, 27, has been a consistently solid performer in the Champ Car series, which merged with the Indy Racing League this year to form IndyCar, .
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French Grand Prix likely to be cancelled
Motor racing: Next year's French Formula One Grand Prix looks likely to be cancelled after the French Motorsport Federation withdrew its financial backing today...

Review: 2009 Porsche 911 Carrera S
The Tiptronic is dead. Long live the Tiptronic! We are cruising past the Great Salt Lake, through Salt Lake City neighborhoods whose backyards are littered with trampolines in a Porsche Carrera S with ...

Hamilton battling more than title rivals - BBC Sport

Times Online

Hamilton battling more than title rivals
BBC Sport, UK - Oct 17, 2008
"The thing that's going to beat Lewis is he's not just got to race Massa, he's racing the entire field. "He needs to stop sending those signals out [where .
McLaren promise 'boring' finale for Hamilton's sake South China Morning Post (subscription)
The Chinese GP Winners & Losers Planet F-1.com
Hamilton thanks EURphenomenalEUR team Setanta Sports
Sepang International Circuit
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GAINSCO/Stallings 2007 Mexico City Winner First Available in New Line of Grand-Am Slot Cars
A new line of slot cars from Grand-Am and Fly Model Cars has been launched with the introduction of a replica of the No...

Casino could dodge KC smoking ban
The Board of Commissioners for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kan., discussed the proposed smoking ban Thursday night but took no action...

1/32 Digital Slotcar Racing
Looking for people int Brantford Area Inerested in 1/32 scale slot car Racing. I will exclusively be using Scalextrics Digital. 100' plus size track. Attached Thumbnails. Click image for larger version Name: t1.JPG Views: N/A Size...

Dark Knight Slot Car Racing
You may think racing your Ferraris and Lamborghinis around is cool, but you stand no chance when racing against the new age Batmobile. There is no fire shooting out the back of this Batmobile a la Adam Wests version, but there is no ...

Forget about scuzzy sex shows a " the arts are our future, says Sky
Opera, ballet and bridge are to the fore as Sophie Turner-Laing rebrands the satellite broadcaster's output...

Laguna Seca: VICI Racing race report (Motorsport.com)
Monterey, Calif...

EURits things thursday: worlds greatest shelby slot car racetrack?
unfortunately, slot car racing is either too cheap, and its toy status quickly wears thin as it starts to fall apart and stops working, or its too expensive, and its not fun because youre doing it as a hobby instead of an occasional ...

Laguna Seca: VICI Racing race report - Motorsport.com

Laguna Seca: VICI Racing race report
Motorsport.com, Florida - Oct 18, 2008
Technical Director Roland Wall called for a short 5-lap session to confirm race set-up, and Marc was entrusted with driving the #18 car. .
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'Hamilton has just got to use his brain'
The Formula One world championship is poised for a thrilling climax with three drivers in with a chance of winning with two races to go...

First Footage Of Putter Golf, Air Hockey, Slot Car, and Sugoroku .
Family Slot Car Racing seems like it's real slot car racing, not like PixelJunk Racers on PSN. Seems you'll have to base everything around your speed and not actually driving around. It will be interesting to see how these games are ...

Lewis claims brilliant China pole - ITV.com

Lewis claims brilliant China pole
ITV.com, UK - Oct 18, 2008
Completing a difficult day for Red Bull Racing, Coulthard fell at the first hurdle under an hour after RBR boss Christian Horner had told ITV Sport that .
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Speedway chief: Smoking ban issue for Kan. casino
Any indoor smoking ban enacted in Kansas City, Kan., likely will include an exemption for the casino floor at the planned Hard Rock Hotel and Casino at Kansas Speedway, a Unified Government spokesman said ...

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 ...

Kubica turns attention to claiming third - ITV.com

Kubica turns attention to claiming third
ITV.com, UK - Oct 19, 2008
EURThe balance of the car was still not good in the first two stints, and it only changed in the final stint after we changed to the softer compound. .
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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, ...

Laguna Seca: Vici Racing ALMS Race Recap - Real Heartbreak
There was real heartbreak for VICI Racing this afternoon at a hot, dry and dusty Laguna Seca as the team's #18 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, following a stunning start to the four-hour Sports Car Championships of ...

As Oil Prices Fall, Push For Alternative Energy May Ease - Free Internet Press

As Oil Prices Fall, Push For Alternative Energy May Ease
Free Internet Press, NY - 4 hours ago
A brief film depicted an electric car owner driving off with a beautiful woman to the strains of "The Power of Love" while her original companion struggles .
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Tips on enjoying life EUR every day and in every way EUR in B.A. (Seattle Times)
Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a city of diversions, food, wine and fun, as seen through the eyes of one vacationer who keeps returning...

Ex-wife sought in death of spouse in '96 car bomb - Arizona Republic

Ex-wife sought in death of spouse in '96 car bomb
Arizona Republic, AZ - 6 hours ago
Triano was a real-estate broker and developer who made millions investing in Indian bingo halls and slot-machine parlors here and in California before .
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Radio on: a car that is Savage by name, savage by nature
CHILDREN get obsessed about the oddest things. I can recall my life revolving around Figurine Panini sticker books, marbles, BMX bikes, dual-screen Nintendo handheld games and, for a short while, ...

Spinning my wheels: The final countdown (Fox Sports)
Nobody's better than Jeff Gordon at Martinsville, and this weekend it's his turn to prove it with a slump-busting win, Mike Harmon says...

Johnson in driver's seat as Chase reaches Martinsville (Fox Sports)
Weather rewarded Jimmie Johnson again at Martinsville. And it could be a big boost in his quest for a third title, Lee Spencer says...

Raymond Parks: NASCAR's Double Inaugural Championship Car Owner
"I don't remember anybody back then racing cars like he did. He did everything first class...

Obama's perfect weekend: Ahead in polls, record fundraising - and Colin Powell too (Guardian Unlimited)
Colin Powell, George Bush's former secretary of state, yesterday dealt his own party a major blow when he threw his weight behind Barack Obama's bid to become the next president of the United States...

Luxury Car Review: 2008 Aston Martin V8 Vantage roadster
British upscale sports car builder Aston Martin has certainly had its share of ups and downs in recent times - perhaps not a a oeroller coaster ride,a but something pretty close...

brm challenge at wyoming valley slot car association
. 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. the line up was. ...

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 ...

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. ...

1995 Honda Civic
This 1995 Honda Civic, owned by SilverEG6, has an estimated 190 horsepower. Check out some of the pictures and ratings of this Tuner Car below, as well as other info about this ride...

Mazda Raceway Outing To Wrap Hacquarda s Rookie Season
Taylor Hacquard will cap a solid rookie open-wheel racing season in California this weekend as the Vancouver racer heads to the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for Round 12 of the 2008 Star Mazda Championship ...

Will consumers eat up digital music on SanDisk flash memory cards? - San Jose Mercury News

Will consumers eat up digital music on SanDisk flash memory cards?
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - 5 hours ago
Nor can you fit them into most car and home stereos in use today. And few US consumers currently listen to music on their phones, which are the device where .
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Franchitti: We all want to win at Surfers.
IndyCar>> Franchitti: We all want to win at Surfers. Wednesday, 15th October 2008 Returning IndyCar star Dario Franchitti admits that everyone will be keen to win on the Gold Coast - even without points to ...

Calendar
British Car Enthusiasts: Meet for breakfast 8:30 a.m. the third Sunday of the month at Broadway Bar & Grill, corner of Prince of Wales and Fisher Avenue...

F1: Barrichello determined to keep drive (autosport.com)
Rubens Barrichello has told his Honda Racing chiefs that he will do everything he can to prove he is worth keeping on for 2009..

Potomac Confidential (Washington Post)
Potomac Confidential fills the midday lull with discussion by Metro columnist Marc Fisher who looks at the latest news with a rigorous slicing and dicing of the issues that define who we are and where we live...

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 ...

Dover offers more than the excitement of racing and slots
Dover International Speedway accommodates 140,000 fans for NASCAR races such as the MBNA America 400 on Sept...

Hamilton delivers (News 24 South Africa)
For a race that promised so much, the Chinese GP ended up as the most anti-climactic race of the season, writes Natalie Le Clue...

Johnson in driver's seat as Chase reaches Martinsville
If Jimmie Johnson were unstoppable, there'd really be no reason for anyone to show up at the track over the final five races in the Chase for the Sprint Cup...

Please NASCAR, Not Martinsville Too
Martinsville Speedway isn't for candy-ass drivers or spectators. And that's the best thing about the joint...



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