Ashland Massachusetts, December 18, 2021 – 12 competitors attended the Outlaw’s December festivities.  Pitsop kicked off the part winning the best appearing aware with his #72 Grand National.  There were rumors the body was painted by one Outlaw member and the chassis was built by another, but Pitstop made good with the car as we will see later.  The December body swap tradition continued with a great selection of bodies being exchanged.  Dave shared some words of wisdom and then we got down to racing 

Hobbystock – Stock everything except rims and tires, you need to have a smooth car and driving style to excel in this class.  Racing was very close showing how good people have gotten at building and driving these cars.  Positions 4^th through 7^th all had 66 laps!  When all was said and done Dave “Skinny Tire” Lockwood edged out Flash the Podium man by a lap for the win.  John Schoenfeld has been climbing up leaderboard lately and got the final podium spot.  Great race guys!

Position	Driver	Red	Blue	Yellow	White	Total
1	Dave Lockwood	18	18	18	18	72.42
2	Flash	17	19	18	17	71.15
3	John Schoenfeld	17	17	16	18	68.47
4	Cody Pare	17	17	16	16	66.39
5	Pitstop	15	18	16	17	66.25
6	Peter Lentros	17	16	16	17	66.14
7	Joe Rinn	17	17	16	16	66.05
8	Brue Olson	15	17	17	16	65.55
9	Paul Ryer	14	17	17	17	65.10
10	Terry Ayer	15	16	16	16	63.50
11	Hal Pierce	16	15	16	16	63.22
12	Don Hall	14	17	16	16	63.12

Grand National – Everybody seems to really enjoy this Outlaw’s created class.  These cars look fantastic and re a blast to drive on the swoopy Champion.  Once again lap totals were close throughout the field showing that most people have a pretty good handle on the class.  Just like old school NASCAR, fast cars on skinny tires.  This time Flash and Dave swapped spots with Flash on the top step and Dave second.  Seemingly coming out of nowhere, Pitstop drove his Catalina to third (I think it was the paintjob that made the car fast).  11 laps covered the field showing how tight the racing was 

Position	Driver	Red	Blue	Yellow	White	Total
1	Flash	22	22	22	23	89.37
2	Dave Lockwood	22	22	20	23	87.27
3	Pitstop	21	21	21	22	85.31
4	Paul Ryer	20	20	21	23	84.22
5	Don Hall	21	20	21	21	83.50
6	Terry Ayer	20	22	19	22	83.09
7	Hal Pierce	20	20	21	19	80.51
8	Brue Olson	19	21	19	21	80.34
9	Joe Rinn	19	20	20	20	79.49
10	Cody Pare	21	20	18	19	78.41
11	Peter Lentros	18	20	19	21	78.38
12	John Schoenfeld	18	19	19	20	76.36

E-Fray – Newly adopted this season, E-Fray is becoming popular with the club.  Finding the right slip-on tires and smooth driving are a big part of getting a car to handle well for the entire 3-minute heat.  The aptly named Bear is a challenging track to do well on, I know I’m still searching for the key to speed there.  Once again, the Dave and Flash show dominated the top steps on the podium.  This time Dave came out on top with Flash second.  Donny Hall, decided to drive one of well built machines and took the third spot on the podium.    Winning lap total was 104 with most of the field in the 90’s.  We’ll need to do some work to close the gap.

Position	Driver	Red	Blue	Yellow	White	Total
1	Dave Lockwood	26	25	26	27	104.55
2	Flash	24	25	27	25	101.36
3	Don Hall	24	26	23	27	100.29
4	Peter Lentros	25	25	24	24	98.19
5	Brue Olson	23	25	24	25	97.21
6	John Schoenfeld	22	24	25	24	95.22
7	Paul Ryer	21	24	25	24	94.20
8	Terry Ayer	21	24	23	24	92.40
9	Hal Pierce	23	23	23	23	92.30
10	Cody Pare	22	22	23	24	91.07
11	Joe Rinn	22	23	21	23	89.13
12	Pitstop	22	21	22	19	84.35

As always, A fantastic day of racing with the Outlaws.  Many thanks to all who made it possible and especially Peter Lentros. See you next January 29^th at LenJet.  We will be racing Hobbystock on the Champion, E-Fray with NASCAR bodies on the Boomerang and IROC on the Tub.

The race report as faithfully submitted this day,

January 22, 2022

Douglas C. Neidermeyer

Sergeant At Arms