Race Wars Lives

Note: This is part two of The Fast & The Furious. It is the artical posted rite below this.

The Fast & The Furious ... the movie became a slot car race. At the end of that long, long day I had to wonder if everybody / anybody enjoyed it. Yeah a good race is always fun, but this one took over twelve (12) hours! In the next week or so all I heard from the guys that raced was it was a total blast & are you gonna do another one? So I decided to make it a once a year event.

 

And I did.

Hopefully we learn from our mistakes ... and I did. For the second Race Wars with some better planning we were able to cut the time down to less than ten (10) hours. And as the years have gone by, there have been several changes to make the race a better race & accommodate more racers without losing the original theme of the race. Now here we are some eight (8) years later & still going strong ... and come September, 2009 Race Wars 8 will be held.

In closing let me get back to the movie.

There has been a second & a third Fast & Furious movie.

The fourth movie was released ... on April 3, 2009 &

like with all the rest I was there

I totally enjoyed it & as soon as it's out on DVD you can

bet I'll buy it..

But I think the first one will always be my favorite

after all, it has already given me & a bunch of the guys

I race with seven (7) years of happiness.

Thanks for lookin' ... J Y D

The Fast & The Furious

Back in 2001 the Fast & the Furious hit the big screen. Prior to that I hadn't been to the movies more than once or twice in over 20 years. I found myself back at the theater over & over again. I just couldn't get enough of it. I even made a slot car race out of it.

In the movie all they talked about was gettin' ready for Race Wars so that became the name of my new race & in 2002 the first Race Wars (slot car race) was held. 

In the movie everyone gathered in the desert to do battle to find out who would be the best of the best.

In the slot car world it became a one day traveling race that included six different tracks.

You had to build one car (& there were guidelines) to compete against all the other racers across six different tracks without any changes to the cars between tracks.

Each track being totaly different in design, layout & texture. All of the cars were impounded when not racing to ensure they were not tampered with.

The race started at 9:00 am with tech-in of each of the cars. Once the race was started we ran the first three tracks & then had a break for lunch & followed with the final three tracks. At the end of the race there were awards handed out for all the winners.

That first race saw fifteen racers all doing battle just to see who would be the best of the best & at the end of the day, a very long day (some 12 hours later), a guy by the name of Bob Dunkle was the 1st Race Wars winner.

And at the end of the day as I looked around at all the tired faces wanting to do nothing more than go home & go to bed I wondered to myself did we do good or what?

I hope you'll stay tuned to find out what happened?

Thanks for lookin" ... J Y D