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   Scale Auto Racing Sponsors REAL Race Cars!
Posted by : SpeedRacer on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 01:43 PM CST
Scale Auto Racing, Inc. of Houston, TX has 2 sponsored 1:1 race cars

that make regular, weekly appearances at the Gator Motorplex in Willis, TX (just north of Houston).
The black car #53 driven by Mike Corsey Jr. runs in the Hobby Stock class, and is a regular top 5 finisher with a few feature wins.
The red car #06 owned by Bobby Bradford is a regular top 5 finisher as well, and scored a win 2 weeks ago.
The Races run on Saturday nights, and you can check out the Race Schedule Here



The Gator Motorplex is a ¼ mile high banked dirt speedway located in Willis , Texas . Gator Motorplex hosts some of the largest motorsports events in the state of Texas . Racers from all over the United States come to the track twice a year with the U.S. Modified Touring Series bringing 50 plus modifieds with them. This touring series is the most elite groups of modifieds that visit Texas. Then the American Sprint Car Association, ASCS, also visit us in July and on Memorial Day each year bringing the best of the best of the southern states. These fuel injected sprints are one of the fasted alcohol burning sprints with speeds that exceed 110 mph on dirt. Other Special Classes of sprints that visit Gator Motorplex are the Southern Outlaw Winged 600cc Series, the Eighth Mile Sprinters, and Brazos Micro Sprint Association. All of these sprints plus our very own 360 Sprints which run bi-monthly pack the grandstands as they race for the finish line.

If that’s not enough, Gator Motorplex host weekly feature events consisting of: Outlaw IMCA Modifieds, Limited Modifieds, Street Stocks, and Hobby Stocks, Gator Motorplex also encourages families to get involved in the sport of dirt track racing with an affordable beginner class, Pure Stocks. This class is one of the fasting growing groups of cars and is available for thirteen year olds and up. We also have a Powder Puff Series for the ladies to participate in the sport of racing. This makes Gator Motorplex one of the most active racing complexes in the State of Texas .

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   New 1/24 scale events at Scale Auto Racing, Inc.
Posted by : Milkman on Thursday, May 01, 2008 - 11:48 AM CST
HSARC League Racing Cup Cars
We’ll be sponsoring some new racing events starting in May. On May 11th our Cup Cars will be run every Sunday at 3:00pm. Rules are posted on the main page of our web site - www.HSARC.net. I will be amending the rules to allow any stamped steel 4” chassis and any 48 pitch gear ratio. Race fee is $5.00.

Carrera Series
Our Carrera program will begin Saturday May 17 and every Saturday thereafter. The Carrera series is for any 1/24 scale Carrera car. Strictly stock – no modifications at all. Racing will begin at 2:00pm. Race fee is $5.00.

BRM Racing Series
May 17 will also see the start of our BRM racing series. This series is for the new 1/24 BRM kit cars introduced recently. The rules are simple for this series also. You can use only the parts included in the kit or their replacement parts sold separately. We’ll be running our BRM Regional Qualifying race on Sept 27, 2008. The top two finisher of this race will be slotted for the US National Race held in Chicago in October (see BRM forum on SCI). There are 11 races before the regional that we’ll use as warm-up races for our regional race. Also for these 11 warm-up races an extra $5.00 entry fee will be put into a kitty to help the two qualifiers with expenses for the national event. Race fee is $5.00 (except for the first 11 races where the fee is $10.00)

Warm-up races:
Saturday May 17, 2008 Saturday July 19, 2008
Saturday May 24, 2008 Saturday August 2, 2008
Saturday May 31, 2008 Saturday August 16, 2008
Saturday June 7, 2008 Saturday August 30, 2008
Saturday June 21, 2008 Saturday September 13, 2008
Saturday July 5,

Regional Qualifier:
Saturday July 19, 2008

Retro Can Am
Beginning Saturday June 14 Scale Auto Racing, Inc. will host IRRA Can Am racing. Based on the IRRA rules these are retro style cars of the late 60’s that are becoming very popular in raceways across the country. We’ll be posting the rules for this series very shortly, but you can see them on the IRRA form at www.slotblog.net. We’ll be alternating Can Am and BRM on Saturdays starting June 14 (new race schedule to be posted very soon). Race fee is $5.00.

All races to be held on our classis American Raceways 8 lane “Yellow” track.


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   SCX WORLDWIDE GOES LIVE!!!
Posted by : SpeedRacer on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 10:11 PM CST
SCX LAUNCHES SCX WORLDWIDE WEB SITE

SCXWorldWide is a community of people interested in motorsports and scale model reproductions of real racing vehicles.
We hope many people newly exposed to slot car racing, as well as life-long enthusiasts join SCXWorldWide in order to share ideas, find information, solve problems, and meet new people with similar interests.
Registration is free, so check it out.
Note, if you register as a paying member, you also get their club car!
The URL is http://www.scxworldwide.com/index.php

Slot Car News
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   Friday Night's Special Race Event
Posted by : Milkman on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 05:31 PM CST
HSARC League Racing Friday Night April 18 2008 - LeMans Mid-Season Special Race

Friday night, 04/18/2008, we'll run the LeMans Enduro
using our Challenger league LeMans rules. We'll run 2 minute
heats in each lane rotating through the lanes twice as usual
on the Cypress point road course. And we'll also run the 8
lanes on the Yellow track. Combined point totals determines
the final finishing order.

We will run a modified crash rule where
the power is switched off for crashes and the cars that are
de-slotted will be set back to the start/finish line.

Entry is $5.00.

Race format:
16 - 2 minute heats in our usual European rotation.
Modified crash rule.



Racing starts at 7:30 pm.


See you there!!!

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   SCX Pays HSARC a Visit!!
Posted by : SpeedRacer on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 08:07 PM CST
SCX Technical Director - Bryan Young paid the Houston Scale Auto Racing Club (HSARC) and Scale Auto Racing, Inc. a visit this past Friday night!!
It was an absolute surprise to the HSARC crew to see this HHR sitting in the parking lot on Friday night!

Bryan stopped by to check out the HSARC racing action and share some of the new offerings from SCX with us.
Bryan also delivered the ULTIMATE in customer service by hand delivering 3 new motors to Bruce (one of the HSARC regulars), who had experienced a couple of motor related issues.

THANKS BRYAN! You are a living example of excellent of customer service and made some SCX customers for life!

Keep your eyes peeled for this HHR!
There is still one secret that is behing hidden from us by SCX - we could not figure out if this one was analog or digital (LOL)!! Maybe its a new remote control version, after all there was no guide blade under the front end.

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   SCX Introduces Honda and BMW WTCC Cars
Posted by : SpeedRacer on Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 04:21 PM CST
Slot Car News SCX this week announced the new Honda Accord WTCC (ref: 63110) and BMW 310i WTCC (ref: 63120).






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   REVIEW > NINCO Schlesser FOX Buggy
Posted by : SpeedRacer on Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 10:20 PM CST
NINCO Schlesser FOX Review by SpeedRacer

I have always been intrigued by the looks of the RAID truck, however running all my other fast road cars on road courses, I never had the need for a truck. Let me just say that the NINCO Schlesser FOX buggy was an absolute surprise. It's fast, responsive and incredibly nimble.

READ MORE HERE >>NINCO Schlesser FOX Buggy Review

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   1/24 Stock Car Racing Program Starting May 11
Posted by : Milkman on Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 08:38 PM CST
Racing News
4 in. Stock Car Class

4inch D3 Stock Car

Cars:
Any Parma ready to run 4” “Flexi” chassis based stock car.
Any Champion ready to run 4” “Turbo” chassis based stockcar.

Specs:
1.) Maximum width – 3.25 inches.
2.) Minimum clearance - .062 inch (1/16 inch.). Spur gear clearance .050 in.
3.) Motors limited to unmodified Parma “Death Star” unbalanced 16D only. Seal must remain intact.
4.) Must use a 9t pinion gear on motor - spur gear not resticted but must meet clearance rule.
5.) No chassis modifications allowed.
6.) 1/8 in. axles only. No hollow axles allowed.
7.) No roller bearings – iolite bushings only.
8.) You may add lead, but it must not be applied to the underside of the chassis.
9.) Bodies must be painted. No clear bodies allowed.
10.) Must have 3D driver/interior.
11.) Must have 3 racing number – 1 number on each side (left and right) 1 number on roof or front hood.

Racing Format:
Eight (8) 2-minute heats, round robin with European rotation.
Marshaled event (drivers not racing should be marshalling a corner.)
All laps and partial laps will be recorded.
Partial laps are measured to the last section completed.

Race Fees:
$5.00

Schedule:
Day: Every Sunday beginning May 11, 2008.
Time: 3:00pm.


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   Summary of Challenger League Rule Changes
Posted by : Milkman on Friday, March 07, 2008 - 08:59 AM CST
Challengers League


Le Mans Rule Changes:
Replacement parts

1.) Replacement motors for Slot-It cars:
a.) SIMS06 - V12/3 21.500 rpm - 170g*cm Orange endbell motor
b.) SIMF06 - V12/3 21.500 rpm - 170g*cm Orange endbell motor
c.) SIMN06 - V12/3 21.500 rpm - 170g*cm Orange endbell motor
d.) SIMX06 - V12/3 21.500 rpm - 170g*cm Orange endbell motor

2.) Replacement motor pods for Slot-It cars:
a.) SICH02 - Motor mount
b.) SICH13 - Motor mount Reverse
c.) SICH18 - Motor mount Reverse
d.) SICH24 - Motor mount Reverse – OFFSET

3.) The following Slot-It tires can be used as replacements for any Le Mans car with the following provisions Tires must fit “naturally”. Without modifying the original stock hub. Tires may not protrude beyond the body.

Rear:
a.) SIPT04 - 19mm x 10mm P1
b.) SIPT05 - 19mm x 10mm P2
c.) SIPT10 - 19mm x 10mm P3
d.) SIPT12 - 19mm x 10mm P4
e.) SIPT01 - 20mm x 12mm P1
f.) SIPT02 - 20mm x 12mm P2
g.) SIPT09 - 20mm x 12mm P3
h.) SIPT11 - 20mm x 12mm P4
i.) SIPT08 - 20.5mm x 10.5mm P2

Front:
a.) SIPT07 - 19mm x 10mm Z0
b.) SIPT15 - 17mm x 10mm Z0
c.) SIPT19 – 15.5mm x 8mm

4.) Stock gear ratio: inline configuration – Stock gearing or 9 tooth pinion with either a 27T, or 28T crown.

Stock configuration: inline
a.) Slot-It inline configuration 9T pinion with 28T crown.
b.) Spirit inline configuration 9T pinion with 27T crown.
c.) Avant Slot inline configuration 9T pinion with 27T crown.
d.) Scale Racing inline configuration 8T pinion with 26T crown.
e.) Can replace plastic pinion gears with brass pinion gears.

5.) Stock configuration for sidewinder or angle winder cars: must use stock gears.




GT1 Rule Changes:

1.) Spirit “Silhouette” models: original motor can be replaced with Ninco NC5 to make it GT1 legal. This will be allowed for Season 20. Thereafter Silhouettes will be classified Le Mans and only the stock motor or its stock replacement motor will be allowed.

2.) Ninco McLaren: original 9T pinion gear can be replaced with a 10T pinion gear.

3.) All new GT cars will be considered GT1 unless proven otherwise.




GT2 Rule Changes:

Restricted to the following Manufacturers:

1.) Any GT car supplied with the standard Mabuchi “S” can motor or SCX stock motor (SCX “Pro” motors not allowed):

a.) Carrera
b.) FLY – (Fly kits/cars supplied with “Rally” motor are allowed).
c.) Revell/Monogram
d.) Scalextric
e.) SCX




Race Format:

1.) Cars will be impounded before each race event begins. During each race event, cars are either in impound or on the track.

2.) No com drops allowed at the track.

3.) Former A Division racers will run under A Division restrictions when competing in B Division events.


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   NINCO Announces the 2008 Lineup!
Posted by : SpeedRacer on Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 09:12 PM CST
Slot Car News NINCO has announced some of their 2008 Slot Car Line at the International Toy Fair in Nurnberg Germany
Some of the line up includes a new Acura LMP2 , Lambo's and more! Take a look below.




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