Not sure if this can be considered Round 4 of the 2025 50/50 Series since we only ran IROC cars, but we did have five participating drivers in the mix today, which is enough to consider it an “official” race day.
We also had two new visitors to Stewart Raceway, who were impressive drivers, adapting to slot car racing like veterans. George’s sister, Vic, and her friend, Dave were incredible. Amazingly, six races were run on the day: three dash and three full rotation races, all IROC.
We started out with a couple of Dash races pitting Vic and Dave racing against each other, George and I marshaling.
| Place | Name | Laps | Points | Total Time |
| 1 | Vic Peterson | 49 | 30 | NA |
| 2 | Hillbilly Dave | 48 | 30 | NA |
Obviously, pretty close racing for their first experiences on the SR3 “Fast Esses” road course. George’s sis, Vic Peterson, won the first race, and Dave won the second race with only one lap deciding the overall winner.
Once the new drivers had a few laps under their belts, we did another Dash race with the same cars but with George and Eric in the mix.
| Track: SR3 Road Course Fast Esses (Chicane) | |||||||
| Date: Feb-22-2025 10:26 | |||||||
| Class: Jag Augoran (i) 15v | |||||||
| Descr: | |||||||
| Name | Lane | Avg Lap |
Fast Lap |
Median Lap |
Laps | Points | Place |
| Eric Lane | Orange | 9.455 | 7.122 | 8.320 | 40 | 16 | 1 |
| George Peters | Blue | 9.483 | 6.407 | 8.022 | 40 | 14 | 2 |
| Vic Peterson | White | 9.898 | 7.177 | 9.049 | 40 | 11 | 3 |
| Hillbilly Dave | Green | 11.056 | 6.713 | 8.520 | 36 | 7 | 4 |
Vic Peterson had a good run in this last Dash race, finishing 3rd and on the same lap as the winner, Eric Lane. Dave cut some fast laps with the second-quickest and third-fastest medium lap times. It appears that slot car racing prowess runs in the Peters/Peterson family.
Rotation IROC Race 1 (Jag Augoran (IROC) 15v)
Eric “Fast Lane” Lane dominated the first full rotation race of the day with two segment wins and nearly leading the race the whole way. He gave up the lead to George briefly after Segment 5, but came back in and placed 2nd in his final segment, on the same lap as segment winner, Kevin Webster.
Vic Peterson clicked off a speedy lap of 6.465 in the Blue lane during her final rotation. For first time visitors to Stewart Raceway, she and Dave were very impressive against us veteran drivers with way more track time. Details
| Place | Name | Laps | Points | Total Time |
| 1 | Eric Lane | 100 | 58 | 806.759 |
| 2 | Steve Stewart | 100 | 53 | 749.451 |
| 3 | George Peters | 98 | 51 | 804.177 |
| 4 | Kevin Webster | 96 | 50 | 751.482 |
| 5 | Hillbilly Dave | 93 | 42 | 826.877 |
| 6 | Vic Peterson | 91 | 28 | 814.706 |
Rotation IROC Race 2 MegaG+ 1.7 Eric Lane (Scooby Doo) Vans (IROC)
New driver, Hillbilly Dave had great run in Race 2 with a 2nd place finish in his first segment and only three laps down after 100 laps. Dave’s median lap time dropped from a high of 10.587 down to 8.950 in his last segment. He liked the Scooby Doo vans. Details
| Place | Name | Laps | Points | Total Time |
| 1 | Steve Stewart | 100 | 61 | 969.59 |
| 2 | Jerry Pearson | 98 | 50 | 999.462 |
| 3 | Kevin Webster | 95 | 49 | 991.044 |
| 4 | George Peters | 97 | 48 | 978.185 |
| 5 | Eric Lane | 97 | 45 | 1014.672 |
| 6 | Hillbilly Dave | 97 | 44 | 1071.895 |
| 7 | Vic Peterson | 84 | 32 | 1023.523 |
Rotation IROC Race 3 Viper V-SPEC F1/Indy 1.7 (IROC) Lexan Eric Lane Set
Always a fast and furious race, the experts didn’t cut anybody any slack in this one and battled fiercely for a podium spot. Jerry completed all 100 laps and very nearly won the overall with some very impressive driving. Details
We should have handicapped the experts in all these races to give our guest drivers a better shot at podium spots, but the Race Director muffed that up as they went head-to-head with much more experienced drivers. Still, both Vic and Dave adapted to the different cars and race formats remarkably well and seemed to enjoy the racing very much.
Vic finished the day with an average placing of 4.3 and a fastest lap of 5.917, while Dave finished the day with an average placing of 4.0 and a fastest lap of 5.043.
| Place | Name | Laps | Points | Total Time |
| 1 | Steve Stewart | 100 | 64 | 600.129 |
| 2 | Jerry Pearson | 100 | 58 | 630.46 |
| 3 | George Peters | 99 | 52 | 617.886 |
| 4 | Kevin Webster | 88 | 44 | 618.477 |
| 5 | Eric Lane | 85 | 43 | 610.108 |
| 6 | Hillbilly Dave | 85 | 40 | 670.558 |
| 7 | Vic Peterson | 80 | 28 | 630.807 |
Our hapless Race Director–again–failed to get any video of the day’s action. Somehow, the open-source software crashed and nothing of any substance was recorded.
I sure hope Vic and Dave join us again soon. They both took to slot car racing and marshaling very quickly and got faster and faster as the day went on.
Thanks to all who showed up, supported the event and brought goodies to share. Vic’s oat cakes were delicious, and Kathy’s spread of bagels were, too.
If anybody has any pics/videos, please share them with me and I’ll update the post. We didn’t even take a podium shot!
Okay, shut up and drive!
