ECHORR 5th Anniversary Race
The racers started coming in around 8 AM and quickly the Randolph Racing
Complex filled up with ECHORR members from all over the North East. We
had some new comers, including Dave Vickers of VRP SlotRacing and Pete
Barclay, yes the magnet car racer! Everyone exchanged pleasantries and
anticipated the draw of the random team race. We picked out captains and
co- captains and then seeded six teams to compete on three tracks. After the
team selections, they were off to the tracks to get their 10 cars ready that
would run on all the tracks before they had to be impounded.
Sponsor prizes were handed out all day. Some special prizes were won by
Chuck Shaeffer (A DBL controller with a blue sparkle handle) and Randy Haydt
(a KC-Jet).
While the teams had open practice, we held an IROC for our juniors 13 and under.
This is always a fun part of the festivities and it is great to see the youth still
participating in slot car racing. It turned out to be some very close racing among
the 5 participants. When the dust settled, Kid Racer took the checkered flag first
just edging out Larry by less than one-half a lap!
Kids IROC results:
Kid Racer – 50.5 laps
Larry – 50 Laps
Cricket – 49 Laps
Lauren – 46 Laps
Lea – 43 laps
All the juniors received well-deserved trophies for their efforts.
Now it was time for some lunch, delicious sandwiches from one of the local
delicatessens. Now it was show time. Here are the teams:
Team 1 – Slick
Capt – Chuck S.
Co- Capt – Derek W.
Bill Trotter
George III
Jeff C.
Team 2 – Hotracks
Capt – Hiram
Co- Capt – Victor Q.
Kid Racer
George II
Team 3 – Crown Gear
Capt – Dave Lockwood
Co- Capt – Don A
Dave Simms
Chief
Team 4 – No Clue
Capt – Joe Rinn
Co- Capt – Rick S.
Butch
Cricket
Team 5 – Late Again
Capt – Pit Stop
Co Capt –
Randy H
John Gero
Brian B.
Rich L.
Team 6 – Jefferson
Capt – Henry H
Co- Capt – Derek S
Big Mac
Ron S.
Dave Vickers
Team Race Results:
Team Jefferson 4 -1
Crown Gear – 4 -1
Hotracks 2-2-1
Slick 2-3
Late Again 2-3
No Clue 0-4 -1
Team Jefferson beat Crown Gear head to head so they get the win.
Fun and exciting close racing with random teams, does not get much better
than that for a fun afternoon! We did find out about a new tuning trick used
by the 1962 Aurora Ford Nationals Champ, Henry Harnish. It seems that to
get a good handling car in a team race you must hand select an arm that
ohms out at 50, 27, 25….that’s right and it didn’t even get hot! That is why
he is the Champ!!
After a day of intense, racing about 20 of us went over to Rosie’s Restaurant,
a great Italian venue in the neighborhood. This place has excellent cuisine
and awesome bar! We relived the day and many other races and shared
some laughs at each other’s expense; this is truly, what this event is about!
Sunday morning came quickly and many of met at the Randolph Diner for
breakfast before heading back for another fun day of racing. The flavor of
the day was Nostalgia cars on the Tub Track. Henry’s Tub track is probably
the best and smoothest lock and joiner Tub track in existence today. We had
open practice till the NY style pizza was delivered for lunch, man is that pizza
good!
We ran 2-minute qualifiers and seeded the bump up mains, with the top four
qualifiers seeded in the A Main and two spots left for the move ups.
Nostalgia Qualifying:
Hiram – 99.06
Don A – 97.32
Dave Lockwood – 95.05
Derek Shaeffer – 94.04
Henry Harnish – 93.27
Big Mac - 93.08
Vic Quinones- 92.05
Dave Vickers – 91.35
Pete Barclay – 91.20
Dennis Moore – 90.46
Brian Kaplun – 90.45
John Gero – 90.43
Jeff Crosley – 89.25
George B III – 88.20
George B II – 87.04
Butch - 78.31
Kid Racer – 78.19
Derek W. – 76.36
Brian B – 75.34
Nostalgia Mains:
D Main:
Jeff C – 91.04 *
George B III – 88.06*
George B II – 83.33
Derek W. – 79.06
Brian B – 77.06
Kid Racer – 76.20 * - Move up
Butch – 74.46
C Main:
Dennis Moore – 95.36*
Jeff C – 91.43*
Brian K – 91.13
George III – 87.20
Pete B – 90.46
John G. – 70.21
B Main:
Henry H – 96.19*
Dennis Moore – 96.19*
Big Mac – 93.20
Vic Q. – 92.44
Jeff C. – 92.35
Dave V. – 91.23
A Main: (3 Minutes)
Hiram – 149.23
Dave L – 147.25
Don A – 144.06
Dennis Moore – 143.34
Henry H – 142.20
Derek S. – 141.32
Dennis Moore and Henry Harnish did not meet the body weight requirement in
tech, so the official finishing order was:
We are serious about the rules.............
1- Hiram
2- Dave L
3- Don A
4- Derek S.
5- Big Mac
6- Vic Q.
7- Dave V
8- Jeff C
9- Pete B
10-Brian K
11-George III
12-George II
13-Derek W
14-Brian B
15-Kid Racer
16-Butch
17-John G
First I would like to thank Henry Harnish for letting us use his great place for
the event, this is a first class race center run by a first class person! A special
thanks to Joe Rinn for helping set up the races and running the Sunday event
at the expense of not racing. Thanks to Derek Shaeffer for helping with tech
and clean up. Thanks to all for tiding up the place and helping, make this a
special event. But most of all thanks to our sponsors this year:
BRP Racing Products
Identity tires
DBL Racing Controllers (all in the A Main of the Nostalgia Race were using them!)
NJ Nostalgia Hobby
ZoominMotorsports
KC Jets
Hotracks (Provided Trophies for the event)
VRP SlotRacing
These sponsors are the best and they support ECHORR so let’s support them!!
Hiram
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