Wolf skates off to take the first win of the 2012 Bay Area FCR season at Eddie’s Slot Car World. The season opener is now in the history books.

Wolf walked away with a win against a large group of competitors at Eddie’s to take the Bay Area FCR opener. Randy Tragni took a strong 2nd place while Uncle Gary took a decisive 3rd place in his quest to to snuff the competition.

Six racers bumped and rubbed NASCARs on the Blue King track for the first race of the season. There was plenty of carnage, nerfing and flops to the floor during the race. All racers had a great time!

Wolf took a strong win with 219 laps. While still grabbing the win, Wolf spent the last 5 laps of the race side lined in the pits with a loose (maybe stripped?) gear. Randy took second place with 214 laps and also fastest overall lap of 5.866 on orange. Uncle G clocked in 210 laps followed by Nathan (208), Tom (201) and newbie Maurice in his debut race (187). Maurice impressed everyone with good clean racing and a lot of speed for a first time racer.

Thanks to Eddie and Janet Wong for a great season starter. This season is only going to get better!

Points are awarded to the first six finishers:
10 points for first place, 8 points for second, 6 points for third, 4 points for fourth, 2 points for fifth, 1 points for sixth.

The 2012 Championship points and position standings:
1st Wolf Immel with 10 points (+10)
2nd Randy Tragni with 8 (+8) points
3rd Uncle Gary Hoehn with 6 points (+6)
4th Nathan Sinclair with 4 points (+4)
5th Tom Joseph with 2 points (+2)
6th Maurice Sinclair with 1 point (+1)

Next Race is, Sunday, Feb 14th at Eddie’s. (My wife says we’re all assholes for even thinking about having a race on Valentine’s day!)

Also run were FCR NAStrucks on the Blue King. The trucks are a blast to drive.
Tom Joseph took first place with 230 laps and a fast 5.76 lap.
In second place was Randy with 225 laps and a fast lap of 5.92.
In third place, with a great and very competitive drive, was Nathan Sinclair with 217 laps.
4th was taken by Uncle Gary with 209 laps.

Truck pictures

Great race, Randy! Always nice to see new (and young) faces at the track.

Your wife is quite right. I hope all you single guys have a great time next month.

Looks like I got the date wrong for the next Bay Area FCR race. It should be Sunday, Feb 12th at 2 PM at Eddie's. My wife still thinks I'm an asshole though : )
Randy

Well, she knows you better than we do.

The good news is that now all the non-single guys will be able to attend. See you on the 12th.