Saturday action on the Blue Nightmare - New Concord, OH

[TuscoTodd]

We had an opportunity to spend some time turning laps on Reese W's "Blue Nightmare" Max Trax road course yesterday - talk about a fun track to run on! No two corners are alike and every corner in the infield is either increasing or decrease radius - definitely a cool set up!

Action kicked off with Aurora stock t-jets running "Hauler" bodies - here are the shots from the action!

[TuscoTodd]

The next class to hit the track were the stock t-jets with conventional bodies.

[TuscoTodd]

The third class to hit the track was Super Stock / FRAY type T-jets!

[TuscoTodd]

Next up were the fairground cars (Aurora chassis with wide rear tires allowed)
Normally we only run these on ovals - but they were pretty entertaining on the road course - and to keep things "interesting" we ran these as a fuel race!

[TuscoTodd]

We finished out the day with "Vintage Sportsman" (Aurora chassis with large wheels)
Normally this is an oval track class as well - but running them on the road course as a "Fuel" race proved to be pretty entertaining!


































Definitely a great time and look forward to the next time we will getting together to run here!

[REL13]

Todd, Thanks for posting these pictures. Great looking track and it looked like everyone had fun.

[TuscoTodd]

"looks like everyone had fun..." No doubt about that!

[Austin]

Love it, wish I was there,

[sweet]

Appreciate the pics!...Looks like a GREAT time...Nice group of cars...Gotta say I love the 59 Buick wagon!

[slothead]

Love the track, cars, and most of all how you track everything using Excel. When I had a 4 lane Tyco track back in the 80's it was all pencil and paper. I think those notebooks are still in a box up in the attic.

[TuscoTodd]

Yes - we have done racing with everything from manual clickers and spreadsheets to using Trackmate and Race Coordinator and have to say - having the program tabulate and sort everything definitely makes it a breeze!

[TuscoTodd]

Thanks for the kind words gents! This track will be one of the host tracks for the upcoming HO TransAm proxy as well!

[cjperry81]

I have not dabbled in HO scale yet, just 1/32 but I may have to get a car together for this future proxy. It would be fun to have a car running at a track in New Concord, I went to Muskingum from 2000-2004. I loved my time living in New Concord!

[TuscoTodd]

Wow - small world! Would be great to have you as part of the proxy! Here are the links to the proxy and reference tutorial on building cars to the rules noted. Enjoy!
HO TransAm Proxy: https://www.hrwforum.com/forum/hrw-s...trans-am-proxy
Friday Night build reference post: https://www.hrwforum.com/forum/hrw-s...reference-post

[Norman]

That track must keep you on your toes with all the different radius corners!

As always, very cool pictures & report!
You guys are spoiled with all the excellent tracks!

I've been down for a week with no heat in my race room, no racing for me.

[TuscoTodd]

That track must keep you on your toes with all the different radius corners!
... You guys are spoiled with all the excellent tracks...

The track is a LOT of fun and it definitely keeps you on your toes and YES we definitely have a good number of great home tracks and an impressive commercial track all within no more than 1.5 hours of my house! Makes for a lot of great racing!