USSCA Mid-South Div1 2001-02 Series Race #3
11/3/ 01
21 entries this month, & 4 new USSCA members at Archdale Slot Car Raceway (phone=336-431-4391/ fax=861-0574/ e-mail= Archslotnc@aol.com), 3407-G Archdale Rd., Archdale NC 27263, to drive “Production C” and Restricted “World 12” USSCA wing cars on the “Beast”. We will next month have our 1st female racer joining us. A racer from the 70’s who’s relocated to the Archdale area. We look forward to this. Some of the best in the world are women.
Again I pulled in just in time for Production C Tech-in! It really does work best to drive to a race during the night & early morning. No traffic! Garland had cleaned the turns and resprayed them. And Iris had donuts + coffee waiting.
About 12the race got under way with local racer Chad McNiel Race Directing and taking photos. He appears to really enjoy photographing the “PILE UPS”. Says “there must be something wrong” every time we have one. You see, Chad only races Scale 4.5” Nascar and no matter how many times we tell him these are easier to drive, he don’t buy it!
9 Entries and Dennis Strickland took Concourse. “JR”went down in defeat this time.
Final results were Garland Brown,1st w/ 487 laps, Jonny "JR" Bottoms 2 nd w/ 477 laps, Dennis Stricklandn 3rd w/ 462, Jeff "BOBO" Hilton 4th w/ 458, his son Michael Hilton 5th w/ 453, Tommy Mcdowell 6th w/ 440, Joe Lyons 7th w/ 438 and rounding out the field Greg Baker 8th w/ 429.
Remember = the OVERLAP once a month of USSCA & the weekly ASCR Production C races counts towards the points race for the ASCR’s Series.
And there’s a new 4.5” Dirt Late Model Class starting @ ASCR!
We took a quick FOOD BREAK and then started Tech for World 12/Restricted 72 gram min weight limit/non aluminum chassis cars. Regaining his top position, Jonny "JR" Bottoms took Concourse. Dennis, I’m sure, will come back with something better next time.
Roger Cleveland, Myrle Beach SC racer in Mid-South Div2 series, has done a bang up job on his new Web Site “Slotman21.tripod.com”. Roger has been gracious enough to post our Div1 information as well. Thanx Rog! And keep up the good work. Looks great!
“Jimmy” Johnson , if you’re reading this, Garland made it REAL CLEAR to me that “JR”s Turboflex chassied World 12 kicked all our butts. Better do a real good job rebuilding that Steel + Wire chassis he busted in half. Personally, I’m contacting Slick 7 to see if there’s a TRICK to getting this boxstock 12 chassis around the tight donut on Red + White lanes @ ASCR.
The results were “JR” Bottoms w/468 laps, Greg Baker 2 nd w/ 453 laps, Garland Brown 3rd w/449 laps, Dennis Strickland w/424 in 4th, Jeff Hilton w/ 416 5th, Tommy Mcdowell w/ 406 6th, and H "Rip" Barnes in 7th w/374.
The USSCA Mid-South Div 1 race series T-shirts still aren’t ready . But I’m glad to announce they’ll be sporting Koford’s name as well. Box is in the mail as we speak. Thanx to Stu + gang!
And we have a Correction to last month’s Report. The 2nd place car in Res. C12, Dennis Strickland, was a SPEC 15 car!!! Which is great news. Means we may be onto something right here! HA! 5 cars teched in. Almost 6, as David Dyson showed up we attempted to put a car together for him but it just wasn’t coming together well. Instead, he race directed the race for us, giving Chad a break.
1st was the “Gman”again(this getting old FOLKS!) getting 460 laps. Atleast this time it WASN’T by a margin of nearly 100 laps! I want to point out here that these cars can be very frustrating. Keeping the wind on them and getting them DIALED IN is not an easy task. And we saw the other side of Joe, who after talking to his car and warning it….proceeded to WALL IT! We asked “looked like you did that on purpose?” Mr. Lyons turned to us and said, “Yup.”
2nd was Dennis Strickland w/ 458 laps, 3rd Joe Lyons w/ 384, 4th JR Bottoms w/ 372 and 5th was (ya, ya, ya) me w/ 344 laps. Think I’d better spend some time working on my controllers!
A couple interesting things happened prior to + proceeding the race. First, Garland tried placing an order for C12 motors & found thee was none available from Mfgrs. (as opposed to Blueprinters), and now has Paul @ Alpha building motors + sending some setups. Second, it was brought up that we as a Sanctioned Regional Group should actively pursue not purchasing equipment from mfgrs. who do not now,or ever have, supported our activities. It was suggested that we look further into this and maybe a survey of Mid-South racers is in order.
Special thanks to Chad, Iris, Joe Lyons for continuing the C12 building, and David Dyson. And to other ASCR racers who marshaled.
For information on USSCA Mid-South Div1 Racing contact H “Rip” Barnes @ hbarnes1@email.unc.edu and Rick Bernardo @ USSCA1@aol.com, for Rules see USSCA.org on the Web.

WINNER’S TECH SHEETS

USSCA Mid-South Div l 2001-02 Race Season Date:_9-1-01, 10-6-01, 11/3/01 Track:_Archdale Slot Car Rcwy./ RACES #1&2

DRIVER CHAS MOT ARM G.R. Tires BOD Con

1/24th Scale/ Am. Production C CLASS

9-1-01 T. Dunn Turboflex Mura Sprtsmn2 9/38 Alpha Koford Omni
10-6-01 G. Brown Turboflex PS Koford 7/29 Alpha O/S DiFalco
11-3-01 G. Brown Turboflex PS Koford 7/29 Alpha O/S Difalco

1/24th Scale/ Am. World 12

9-1-01 R. Kormeluk PS PS Camen --- SRT Camen DiFalco
10-6-01 G. Brown PS PS Koford 8/36 Alpha PSE DiFalco
11-3-01 “JR” Bottoms Turboflex ___ ______ ____ _____ ____ DiFalco

1/24th Scale/ Restricted Cobalt 12

9-1-01 no official race…….testing only
10-6-01 G. Brown Slick 7 RL Koford 8/36 Alpha O/S DiFalco
11-3-01 G. Brown Slick 7 RL Koford 8/36 Alpha O/S DiFalco