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