TSRF 1/24 Scale races, June 18th, 2005

Buena Park, CA

 

Sam Brown flattens old pros with old rental car!

 

Sam Brown purchased a very used rental car and proceeded to win the TSRF race at Buena park last Saturday, June 18th.
The car had been first used at Raceworld in McHenry, IL, for the first ever TSRF demo race in 2003. It was then used for the TSRF demo race at the 2004 Western States race, then sold along with a batch of others to Uncle Kal's to serve as bullet-proof rental cars. When Uncle Kal's closed its doors 2 weeks ago, Sam purchased the car and merely put a new body on it, never rebuilding it. He merely replaced the plastic blade-style guide by the new steel pin.
The well broken-in car then dominated the race, humbling old pros John Tore Anderson, Mike Steube and yours truly, all struggling with various ills mostly due to brain fade. Scott Jarrett and Jim Watterson repeated their performances from the previous race, ending 2nd and 3rd with cars purchased the week before over the counter.
How is that as a proof of fair and even racing, where the beginner REALLY stands an equal chance against the most seasoned expert?

Main event results:
 

Pos

           Driver

 Body type

 Laps

      Fastest lap

 

 1

 Sam Brown

 Porsche 956

 204

 6.808"

 2

 Scott Jarrett

 BMW V12

 194

 6.972"

 3

 Jim Watterson

 Porsche 956

 191

 6.917"

 4

 Philippe de Lespinay

 Lancia LC2

 187

 7.026"

 5

 Mike Steube

 BMW V12

 185

 7.211"

 6

 John Tore Andersson

 BMW V12

 184

 7.082"

 7

 Barry Obler

 Porsche 956

 169

 7.250"

 8

 Rick Salvino

 Porsche 956

 185

 7.359"

 

Post-race online comments (courtesy Old Weirld Herald Forum):

 

John Emmons
IMCA Worlds Survivor
 

Registered: Jun 2002
Location:
Posts: 545

 Atta boy Sam...

I bet it was the "purple" one eh Sam?

Good job.

Hope to see you guys and race next Saturday, I was invited to do some 1:32 plastic track racing yesterday, had a blast running some Ninco DTM cars in a 3 hour enduro/team race. I think I've found my new racing outlet.

John Emmons

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 06-19-2005 10:50 AM
      
sambrown
Slightly Crazed.
 

Registered: Nov 2003
Location: SOCAL
Posts: 42

 Yup. The purple one.

For once I didn't get stupid.

The white one will be almost as fast - I gave it to Scott.

I'm in for the 24 hour race. Can we use resilient Resins bodies?

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 06-19-2005 11:04 AM
      
TSRF
von Cyclops
 

Registered: Jun 2002
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Posts: 4259

 Unhappy No posible, Senor...

The current Resilient Racing bodies will hardly fit the chassis designed for more modern 1970 to 2005 prototypes, GTP, LMP, ALMS, GT... in other words, larger cars.
The racing cars were MUCH smaller in the 1950's and 1960's, and this reflects in 1/24 "scale" pro racing of today. Indeed they never changed, so a Koford "Peugeot" is in fact roughly in 1/29 scale...

The planned 24-hour race can easily be accomplished with injected bodies. Yesterday I had a couple of fellows driving a TSRF car fitted with the heavy and cumbersome (but real pretty) Carrera Audi R8 body, and the thing handled superbly, being only 1/2 second off the average time of a vac-formed bodied car. With the format we run, there is little risk of body damage unless one drives like a maniac.



Dokk P

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