Spring Series Race #3 at 21st Century Raceway

Spring Series Race #3

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*Try It, You'll Like It!* Speed Merchants welcomes Francis McEntee, Gary Morgan and Dennis Cagle to Southern California’s Premier Slot Car Racing Organization. Are Championship Series points retroactive with your membership dues? You bet! *Race Event Schedule Change* Pocket Rocket Raceway and 21^st Century Raceway have conspired to confuse everyone and switch race dates! What will those zany track owners think of next? Hey thanks you guys. Please take note before they change it again: Spring Series Race #5 on 5/26 is at 21^st Century Raceway in Cypress, Ca. Fall Series Race #1 on 7/1 is at Pocket Rocket Raceway in Pico Rivera, Ca. They can’t fool us, it’s easy to get to either place! *Drivers Meeting Resolves Critical Issue* Speed Merchants races for points and points add up to the semi-annual Points Series Championship. Best five out of six races. So the burning issue becomes: how to spend the Awards Fund that’s been accumulating every month? At the pre-race Drivers Meeting an informal-ex-post-facto-straw-poll-telephone-survey-proxy-vote revealed an overwhelming preference for individually engraved hardwood plaques and etched glass trophies with genuine marble bases. All dues paying present and voting Speed Merchants members voted unanimously not to allow plated plastic trophies as suitable recognition for our racing accomplishments. Tony Ruiz volunteered to secure the Speed Merchants Holy Grail hardware since he has all the money anyway!

Modified podium	R/O Podium
*Six Pack To Go* The advent of the Wizzard Patriot II and the continuing popularity of the Slottech Panther has gone a long way to level the competitive playing field, and nowhere was it more evident than in the Modified Main Event of Race #3. The six man round robin saw 2nd through 6th place separated by only 17 laps. All right, who slipped that Tomy in there! *7-Up!* Mechanical breakdowns happen often enough in Neo racing despite using industrial strength equipment, and that’s only if the spectacular crash impact doesn’t get you first. Often a fleet of Neo cars will start a race only to have just a few left running at the finish. The seven man round robin Neo Main Event at Race #3 featured not only seven cars running full tilt to the end, but also a total field spread of only 50 laps and only a two lap margin of victory. This pattern of high quality competition was also evident in the R/O Main Event with the same seven man field separated by only 36 laps. Now that’s a well oiled machine!

Getting down to business	Neo Podium
*Working For The Weekend* Hats off to Mike Low, Ben Vasquez Sr. and Dennis Cagle who ingeniously juggled the responsibilities of their regular Saturday jobs into the Speed Merchants racing schedule. Where there’s a will to race there’s always a way!

*Speaking Of Zany…..* Last time out Speed Merchants demonstrated why having fewer turn marshals means turning more laps. This time out TQ Jackpots had everyone Dialing For Dollars. One minute, one dollar, one shot. Low time wins. Winner take all, and then some… Ben Vasquez Jr. would like to thank Chris & Lenore Gallegos of Buena Park Raceway for sponsoring the special Speed Merchants Neo TQ Jackpot! Ben cut a 1.550 lap for a new 21^st Century Ambassador track record while raking in the cash! For interested slot car fans, Buena Park Raceway is hosting the 30^th Annual USRA Nats for 1/24 scale slot cars at their new and expanded facility. Scale classes race April 4-9 and Wing classes race July 30-August 6. Buena Park Raceway is also supporting Speed Merchants with a full color display ad in the official USRA Nats 2000 program. Best of luck you “big” car guys! Well yes, they also think of themselves as “speed merchants”…..

Modified Main Event
Position	Driver	Heat1	Heat2	Heat3	Heat4	Total
1	Doug Shepard	66	67	65	64	262
2	Tony Ruiz	62	64	64	61	251
3	Garry Haworth	63	53	61	66	243
4	Mike Low	59	59	63	60	241
5	Gary Morgan	59	61	59	60	239
6	Dennis Cagle	62	57	56	59	224

*I Got Beat By What?*
Modified	Chassis	Fr End	Rr Tires	Arm	Wind	Mtr Mags	Trac Mags	Gears	Ratio	Controller
Doug Shepard	G+	BSRT	Wizzard	BSRT	Stk	G+	BSRT	BSRT	7/22	DR-40
Tony Ruiz	P2	BSRT	BSRT	BSRT	Stk	P2	PHASE II	BSRT	7/24	Slottech
Garry Haworth	P2	BSRT	Quicker	P2	Stk	P2	PHASE II	P2/BSRT	7/22	DR-40
Gary Morgan	P2	P2	BSRT	P2	Stk	P2	P2	P2	7/22	CIDEX
Mike Low	Panther	Panther	BSRT	BSRT	Stk	Panther	Panther	Slot/Wiz	7/22	Apex
Dennis Cagle	P2	Slottech	Slottech	BSRT	Stk	P2	P2	Slot/Wiz	7/24	Parma

*R/O Main Event*
Position	Driver	Heat1	Heat2	Heat3	Heat4	Total
1	Ben Vasquez Jr.	74	75	74	71	294
2	Doug Shepard	77	74	64	74	289
3	Gary Morgan	68	65	75	78	286
4	Ban Vasquez Sr.	70	67	66	70	273
5	Tony Ruiz	68	66	67	71	272
6	Dale Yamashita	72	64	63	67	266
7	Mike Low	68	61	70	59	258

*I Got Beat By What?*
R/O	Chassis	Fr End	Rr Tires	Arm	Wind	Mtr Mags	Trac Mags	Gears	Ratio	Controller
Ben Vasquez	Panther	Slottech	Slottech	Slottech	35.5	Slottech	Slottech	Slottech	8/27	Cidex
Doug Shepard	Panther	BSRT	Wizzard	Slottech	D38	Slottech	Slottech	BSRT	7/23	DR-40
Benito Vasquez	Panther	Slottech	Slottech	Slottech	35.5	Slottech	Slottech	Slottech	8/27	Cidex
Tony Ruiz	Panther	BSRT	Wizzard	BSRT	D38	BSRT	BSRT	BSRT/Wiz	8/27	Slottech
Dale Yamashita	Panther	Slottech	Slottech	Chkpnt	23	Slottech	Slottech	Slottech	7/25	Parma
Gary Morgan	P2	BSRT	BSRT	BSRT	35.5	P2	P2	BSRT	7/22	DR-40
Mike Low	P2	P2	Wizzard	Wizzard	36	P2	P2	Wizzard	7/22	Apex

*Neo Main Event*
Position	Driver	Heat1	Heat2	Heat3	Heat4	Total
1	Dale Yamashita	87	81	95	90	353
2	Doug Shepard	84	95	88	84	351
3	Gary Morgan	81	82	90	94	347
4	Tony Ruiz	80	88	89	88	345
5	Ben Vasquez Sr.	81	88	78	88	335
6	Ben Vasquez Jr.	81	86	81	77	325
7	Garry Haworth	77	76	77	73	303

*I Got Beat By What?*
Neo	Chassis	Fr End	Rr Tires	Arm	Wind	Mtr Mags	Trac Mags	Gears	Ratio	Controller
Dale Yamashita	Panther	Apex	Slottech	Slottech	32	Slottech	Slottech	Slottech	7/24	Parma
Doug Shepard	Panther	BSRT	Slottech	Slottech	33.5	Slottech	Slottech	Slottech	8/27	DR-40
Gary Morgan	G+	BSRT	Slottech	Wizzard	34	BSRT	BSRT	BSRT	7/24	DR-40
Tony Ruiz	Panther	BSRT	BSRT	BSRT	34	BSRT	Slottech	BSRT	7/24	Slottech
Ben Vasquez	Panther	Slottech	Slottech	Slottech	34.5	Slottech	Slottech	Slottech	8/27	Cidex
Garry Haworth	Panther	BSRT	Panther	Panther	33.5	Panther	Panther	Panther	8/27	DR-40
Benito Vasquez	Panther	Slottech	Slottech	Slottech	34.5	Slottech	Slottech	Slottech	8/27	Cidex

The Situation's Out Of Control - Everything's Gone Haywire!!
One of the most enterprising and successful Southern California H.O. racing promoters in recent years has been none other than Speed Merchants’ own award winning Garry Haworth of Haywire Raceway. Haywire Raceway has played host to everything from Turkey Shoots to Springnats along with a variety of other lesser racing events. And you just never know when Haywire Productions is going to catch you on slot car video!

The bad news is that if you missed Spring Series Race #2 at Haywire Raceway you didn’t rack up hardly any points. The good news is that you can redeem yourself at the very next Speed Merchants event which is Spring Series Race #4 at Haywire Raceway on Saturday April 15.

Now that you’ve paid your taxes it’s time to go racing!

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