1st Summer Weekend

 Hello, all one of you reading this, namely me. It's been a crazy few months, but I finally have time to dedicate to running some race cars. What started off as a weekend idea has expanded into a full week of various projects and races. 

Before that, I had a Lego Holiday Racing City built for my daughter and I to race on xmas. Worked out great and our "race" became a big adventure to see how many minifigures we could get to the pizza place in time for lunch. 6 year olds,  awesome minds. The answer is 28. 28 people made it in time for lunch.

Two sports cars a sporting. The #79 Escort pulls the #25 Alfa Guilia through downtown Lego City.

Speaking of the new Sports Car class that I've been developing over last year; there will be a race to crown a first champion of the class this week, likely in the next two days. That's 7 aluminum chassis Revoslot race cars going at it for early bragging rights. Personally, I think it's anybody's race. The Revoslot cars are so well made and designed that they run practically identical to each other. Kinda crazy, I know. And due to the slightly heavier-than-plastic chassis, I'm not sure how much effect the different body styles will have on the overall performance of the race car. There honestly seems to be no difference. This is the class of cars you break out at a party when you want everyone to get a fair shot with an equally-tuned/designed car. Totally great. Can't say enough good things about Revoslot.

Arty night shot of two 2002ti, caught in the wild at an imaginary street gathering. Donuts were made.

I just realized that I hadn't included a number of cars to the right sidebar, which is basically most of the cars in this post. I'm fixing that now and it should be up to date.

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Also on today's list of things to do: fix up the Porsche 918 Spyder. As you might remember, I bought my first Carrera slot car in quite some time recently, and have been waiting to get it up to speed. I'm finally there,  so I'm starting on the most glaring issue: tires. Holy geez Carrera has terrible tires. Even doing a double sanding hardly helped and they slip-slide all over. I remember the summer heat having an influence on my old Carrera cars, causing them to slide and have practically zero grip. It was how I decided to turn that Safety car I had into a drift car. I've since changed it back, but probably shouldn't have.

It was worth the money, even if to just do the comparison.

I feel like this needs to be said whenever I mention this car and what my plans are to do with it. Bottom line is, Carrera doesn't make competitive hobby level slot cars. They don't care to make them, and that's okay. They still exist, so doing comparisons to other brands is fun, until it isn't. So I'm going to get this running as well as I can make it as is. I've been messing with the tires today and I'm going to get some replacement urethanes. I don't want to waste any more time on the Carrera tires. Otherwise, the car is sound, maybe a bit [okay, a lot] heavy, but otherwise should run well with new tires. I don't predict wins, and would be surprised to see it run with the pack, but you never know. 

I don't have a class for it to run in yet, so it's going to run in multiple classes as a special entry. I plan on running it in every race for awhile so it gets a chance against every car I have. 

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There are also two other cars that I'm running, only because they were a few of the more recent cars I picked up and totally beautiful. The Ferraris:

Beauty of a car. Did I mentioned that I bought this?

Last year's Car Of The Year. Incredible to look at, incredible to drive.

When I first started the session this morning, I wasn't sure where to start, but I grabbed these cars first. Whatever was going to happen, these two were going to be involved. I haven't done much to the Sunoco car yet. Still have to do a basic tuneup to it. The #16 runs so smoothly I forgot how great it is. 

Once I've finished with the Sports Car race, I'm going to run a Le Mans special, featuring only cars that would have run there. I have a lot, so it'll be a big race. Also, it's a marathon of as-of-yet-unknown duration. More on that to come.

So there it is. The track is a basic out-back config, nothing special. Just what fits in the room and leaves me space to still get around in. I'm looking forward to the Sports Car class. There are still others I want to pick up, but not until after summer's over. 

Back to the track.....

I wanted to add; since I got the tire truer, I have had great handling on every car that's come in contact with it. The differences in handling are huge. And they run like they've been tuned forever. Put a tire truer on your holiday list.