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Regina Amateur Slot Car Racers (RASCR) / Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Hi everyone,

A group of us try to race once per month. We have been recording our antics on Youtube.

Most of us became friends through board gaming many years ago. We have expanded the league to a few friends of friends as well. This is a closed group by invite only. We race at a Condo Rec Facility. The winner of each race gets to design the next track. We use a race format similar to that of the HO Indy Slot Car league (fabulous coverage on youtube of this group, btw).

We race on Carrera 1:24/1:32 scale track. So far we have been running a mixture of the following Carrera Digital 132 scale cars:

DTM

GT3

BMW Procar

Porsche Spyder

Ford GT2

Ford Capri Zakspeed Turbo

You can find our race coverage here:

Nurburgring (July 21, 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZT84_hcFQ5iELluOYrfWGNa85ZtiIVzB

Flappy Bird 600 (June 23, 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZT84_hcFQ5gM-ibk0F_qw9qvKC87Oyh8

Lanceapolis 500 (May 11, 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiE4iIsh03zBZMViAFOdiaw (my 10 yr old's first attempt at race coverage and editing so their are some late 60's / early 70's psychedelic things happening on this one.. haha)

Please note we have a mix of people recording each race. We probably won't win any awards on coverage anytime soon but we have fun. Our hope is to get better as we go. Most of the video coverage will be with a Go Pro Hero 7 and a Samsung Tab A Tablet.

Please note clips may have some language. Feel free to like and subscribe to my channel for any further updates!

Cheers!

Michael
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Hi everyone,

Here is the playlist from our race event from yesterday (Sunday, August 18, 2019). Circuit Spagna Catalunya (with a reversal overpass twist in the track).. No edits - everything is raw footage.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZT84_hcFQ5jADLCNN8-VK-ttC2HE712s

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Nice to see some other Canadian prairie-based groups having fun! You can see what we're up to in Calgary here: https://m.facebook.com/RockyMtnRacers/ and here: http://homeracingworld.us/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=21333

By the way, I organize the largest inter-club race in Canada. If you guys are interested in meeting other like-minded groups, check these out: https://m.facebook.com/TouristTrophyCanada/ And http://homeracingworld.us/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19605

Tom
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Thanks for the info Tom. I will let my group know you have events going on in Calgary and elsewhere. Although we compete most of us don't take our racing too seriously. I doubt we would be anywhere near competitive with more race orientated groups.

Cheers,

Michael
Hi everyone,

Our latest race session has been recorded and input onto Youtube. You can find the playlist for our Green Bastard track here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZT84_hcFQ5i5v4ycwaAt-jv-w1Y5goKL

For some reason our Race Final failed to record properly... ugg.

We also had quite a bit of controversy in our Consi Race. Oh well... life is good.

Thanks for watching.

Michael
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Very cool!
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Hi everyone,

We had our latest race earlier today. Here is the footage for the Sepang Malaysian Grand Prix:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZT84_hcFQ5iaY1_cIxKV8DBYbqxyPSLz

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Thanks for watching!

Michael

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Very Cool Michael
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Hi everyone,

Here is our Season Finale for 2019 - The Haktona 200. The track is a combination of the Pocono and Daytona circuits. In the spirit of Nascar we ran the track counter-clockwise. We race a combination of GT3, DTM, and LMS cars all made by Carrera.

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For some reason my go pro kept overheating. I wish I knew that before I purchased it... As such it broke our races into shorter segments.

For our final races we also had the participants walk over to the kitchen to do a shot of Cherry Whiskey, Sambuca, and Apple Juice (for my son). This idea was taken from the HO Indy Slot Car League.

The room is very loud especially when we race. We get pretty excited when we come off track but we all mean well.

It was a great season with lots of laugh. Congrats to Lance for winning the Season. Kieran was in 2nd. Darren was third. Thanks for watching!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZT84_hcFQ5ig_siuGqdt5mLwDtwUCdEA

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Hi everyone,

Here is a link to the races captured on the first race for the 2020 season, The Loch Ness Monster Circuit. This season we decided to all run DTM cars to help balance the car performance. We run mostly stock Carrera Digital 1:32 setups with Paul Gage tires allowed.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgGckeeDQ6mRPzvU8nH44UA/playlists

We captured Heat Race A, B, C, and also the Final Race. Congrats to Henning on his first win. Henning will absolutely need to get a DTM car now.

It seemed we were plagued with non-stop technical issues; track building, pit stop problems, and a few smart race glitches. As such this wasn't exactly our best camera work (sorry).

I am positive our next event will be much smoother.

Thanks for watching. Feel free to subscribe to our channel if you feel inclined.

Cheers,

Michael

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Hi everyone,

Here is the playlist for our latest race. The track was modeled after the Circuit Assen DTM track in the Netherlands.

I have finally been able to get a video editor working on my old laptop. We have been able to add some title screens and stat pages.

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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZT84_hcFQ5iTkhFQQ4u53F-Gsd_oEVkt

Statistics for the various races:

Q1: https://www.smartrace.de/en/results/?share_id=505

Q2: https://www.smartrace.de/en/results/?share_id=506

Q3: https://www.smartrace.de/en/results/?share_id=507

Q4: https://www.smartrace.de/en/results/?share_id=508

Heat B: https://www.smartrace.de/en/results/?share_id=509

Heat A: https://www.smartrace.de/en/results/?share_id=510

Lower Bracket Final: https://www.smartrace.de/en/results/?share_id=511

Upper Bracket Final: https://www.smartrace.de/en/results/?share_id=512

Thanks for watching!

Michael

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A user wanted a pic of our Nurburgring track so here it is..

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Cheers,

Michael

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Hi everyone,

Our last league race was in February 2019 so it has felt like an eternity...
Race III of Season II takes us to the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. This track was designed by our last race winner, Darren H.

This video contains a full compilation of the race events for the day.

As we had a small turnout we did not use qualifying and instead everyone drove 5 heat races against one or two opponents. Each race was an 8 min timed event. We then did a tally of total laps for a bowling style elimination bracket. We had quite a few glitches with the Carerra software. In the end we found it was a malfunctioning wireless controller (dongle). Thankfully we were able to sort this out for our next event which will hopefully have more participants.

Participants:
Trent B 6th
Kieran B 3rd
Dwayne W 5th
Henning M 4th
Lance H 1st
Michael B 2nd

Trent had to leave early and Dwayne decided not to race in the elimination.

In the end I faced Lance for the final showdown. Lance went off the track continuously for the first part of the race. Slowly with lap times almost five tenths quicker he caught up and took the race with +7 laps.

Most of the races have the statistics from the SmartRace program we used for data.

Thanks for watching!

Track and Cars: Carrera Digital 1:32 scale / DTM series / BMW, Mercedes -AMG, and Audi
Race Software: SmartRace Spreadsheet: Microsoft Excel
RASCR (Regina Area Slot Car Racers)
Footage shot with Go Pro Hero 7
Editing Software: VSDC free video editor

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Hi I would like to join your club and to some racing
I have a track myself at home
Looking forward for an answer
Thanks
Hi everyone,

After a long hiatus we are finally back to racing.

This time using Carrera Digital 132 Ford GTY cars. All cars were turned identically with stock tires.

Lots of fun had by all even though we had no end of issues with our bluetooth and wireless connections.

SmartRace also gave us some grief that we hopefully can sort out before next race.

As the last two years have been quite the **** show the Track was named the Regina DP with a Twist.

Thanks for watching!!


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Hi eveyone,

Here is our latest event called the Rocketfish 11. We ran heat races with every driver racing on each controller (1-4) twice. The player with the most laps got into the finals. Next we ran two heat races based on laps to determine two more finalists. Finally we ran a consi-race with the second place finishers. Then we ran the final race.

I used Bandicam to record the SmartRace program while we were racing to see real time laps.

SmartRace gave us problems a few times. We couldn't shut the weather off for some reason and a few times it bogged things down where we had to re-start a race.. oh well.

If there are any suggestions you have for our videos please free to comment.

Thanks for watching.

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