The starting field. In the SSC club we now have eight cars, although the #43 Dodge Cherios wasn’t ready for the track this time either. The Kodak car owned by Thorbjörn Lundkvist was as usual put in the hands of his son Jimmy. Mats John Deer car wasn’t present so at start we where six drivers this time.

Racers where: Lars Johansson, Torbjörn Lundkvist, Jimmy Månström, Anders Lattermann, Hans Kihlén and Niclas Lindblom.

First some lines about the basic concept. It is pretty straight forward and the rules are pretty simple: Take a Revell plastic 1:24 model of a Nascar, build it and keep everything of the interior that is viewable through the windows and cut away the rest and put it on motorized slotracing chassi.

The race was as usual held at the 40 meter long slotracing track at Stockholm Slotcar Club in Barkarby 25 km north west of Stockholm city.

See more about how to build a car and pictures from the track in the first Nascar race report.

As before, we calculated that 66 minutes total driving time would make a good long race and that the winner and maybe some other of the top racers would make 500 laps.

Our computerized Atis system has been a little strange lately and given to short segment times, so we have momentarily gone back to our trusted Swedaxi timing system. It is a computerized machine made in 1982 and although it was extremely modern then, it can’t output any logs on disk as the Atis can so we don’t have as much data saved as with the Atis.

First we had Qualification:

Qualification Tuesday, December 4, 2002

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Name Time Seconds behind the leader

Lars Johansson    7,418
Anders Lattermann   7,653      -0,235
Hans Kihlén         7,829      -0,411
Niclas Lindblom    7,959      -0,541
Torbjörn Lundkvist  8,016     -0,598
Jimmy Månström      8,037      -0,619
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This time we where 6 drivers. Lars Johansson took a strong lead as has been the case the last races, with the rest of the field chasing him. Anders Lattermann had problems with the brake that fell out some times, probably a motor brush problem, and lost 6 laps in the start. Anders drove as fast as he could and eventually got the 3d place. Torbjörn who have gotten his car in good order, got the second place and managed to join the “500 laps club”.

Jimmy had a bad time and nothing seamed to work for him with a lot of deslotting and crashes so he pulled out. Then Niclas had some problems with the motor getting loose and Jimmy realized that maybe after all he could get a better position than the sixth place so he came back on track and started to run again. That was a good decision since he got the fifth place and Niclas had to take the sixth place. Hans has gotten his car in fairly good shape and managed to get the fourth place this time.

Lars finally took the win, on this the last race for the season, after the 66 minutes of running time and also secured the 1^st place in the series!

Among the spectators that visited the event was once again our club chairman Rickard Lundh and two guys that usually runs Scalextric cars at home. Will they be rookies next year?

Results Tuesday, December 4, 2002
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Name Total Laps

Lars Johansson              510
Torbjörn Lundkvist          500
Anders Lattermann           478
Hans Kihlén                 469
Jimmy Månström              427
Niclas Lindblom             400
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ONE RACE OUT:
You must take one race from the series out that will not be counted in the total points standing. In the table below each drivers worst race is removed (as worst, not being present counts, or the one with the lowest points):

As you can see, this leads to the fact that the following drivers will be on the podium at the price ceremony next tuesday:

1st place: Lars Johansson
2^nd place: Anders Lattermann
3d place: Torbjörn Lundkvist

We will drive this type of Nascar racing every second Tuesday evening also next year, starting in mid january. Stay tuned for more results!
Interrested to join or visit a race? Email: lattel@canit.se

POS		10/9	24/9	8/10	22/10	5/11	19/11	3/12	TOTAL	AFTER
1	Lars Johansson	18	17	16	25	26	25	26	153	THE LEADER
2	Anders Lattermann	16	20	20	18	20	20	18	132	-21
3	Torbjörn Lundkvist	20	25	14	17	16	16	20	128	-25
4	Nicke Lindblom	17	16	17	15	17	17	15	114	-39
5	Mats Hummel	26	16	26	21		19		108	-45
6	Hans Kihlén	15	18	18	14		15	17	97	-56
7	Jimmy Månström			15	16	18	14	16	79	-74

POS		10/9	24/9	8/10	22/10	5/11	19/11	3/12	TOTAL	AFTER
1	Lars Johansson	18	17		25	26	25	26	137	THE LEADER
2	Anders Lattermann		20	20	18	20	20	18	116	-21
3	Torbjörn Lundkvist	20	25		17	16	16	20	114	-23
4	Mats Hummel	26	16	26	21		19		108	-29
5	Nicke Lindblom	17	16	17		17	17	15	99	-38
6	Hans Kihlén	15	18	18	14		15	17	97	-40
7	Jimmy Månström			15	16	18	14	16	79	-58

Stockholm Slotcar Clubs seventh Nascar race