MARC 2013 – 2014 Race #6 – Modelville Hobby Speed Crazed Morons Hit The Track! Ashland, Massachusetts, February 8, 2014 – The first race of the second half of MARC season found us at the LenJet Raceway (MVH). The track selection for this event was the Purple Mile for MARC Spec Stock and the Viper for Compression Molded Polymer Modified (CMPM) – the… Read More
MARC 2013 – 2014 Race #5 – Mighty Atlas Raceway Ferrari GTO and Slot Car Racing New Milford Connecticut, January 11, 2014 – A special treat awaited the 12 racers who braved the snow covered back roads of eastern Connecticut in route to Bill Bonsma’s Mighty Atlas Raceway – a Ferrari 250 GTO. Yes, an honest to god, original Ferrari GTO. Bill is in… Read More
MARC 2013 – 2014 Race #4 – South Shore Speedway Santa brought us new track! Hingham, Massachusetts, December 14, 2013 – Christmas came early to the South Shore Speedway with delivery of new track sections from the newly invigorated MaxTrax’s proprietor Paul “The Zoomin Human” Kniffen. It was almost the Christmas that didn’t happen when the South Shore track design team miscalculated and came up… Read More
MARC 2013 – 2014 Race #3 – Catfish International Speedway MARC Spec Stock and CMPM HO cars on the new Brystal Catfish Your scribe: Rob Hayes Cambridge, Massachusetts, Nov. 9, 2013 – The Miniature Auto Racing Club circus returned to Catfish International just seven months after our March 2013 inaugural on the new, 84-foot Brystal Catfish course. With each new class run, there are new… Read More
MARC 2013 – 2014 Season Race #2 – Nantasket Beach Speedway The man of the event, Jonathan Reimels sandwiched between Chris Takacs and Donny Hall Jonathan Reimels Dominates Event Nantasket Beach, Hull, MA, October 12, 2013 – Eighteen drivers showed up to race in this event with Jonathan Reimels winning both G-Jet F1 and Super Stock in the Pro events while Peter Lentros and Benny Leyro… Read More
MARC 2013 – 2014 Season Race #1 – Thompson Raceway Park MARC season opener and were going to the country… Thompson, Connecticut, September 14, 2013 – In what is starting to become a tradition, we once again start the MARC season at Durf Hyson’s Thompson Raceway Park. The track was in great shape and the scenery is just about complete (is scenery ever totally complete?) making… Read More
MARC 2012 – 2013 Season Race #10 – Modelville Hobby MARC Season Finale at Modelville Hobby Ashland, MA, May 11, 2013 – Ever get that feeling of Déjà vu? That’s a glitch in the Matrix… Oh wait, different story. It’s because we are back in Ashland finishing up a very competitive season of racing. John “The Doctor” Pileggi had both classes wrapped up for the… Read More
MARC 2012 – 2013 Season Race #9 – Modelville Hobby Pileggi And Lentros Double At Lenjet Ashland, Massachusetts, April 12, 2013 – John Pileggi won the Pro MARC Lexan Spec Stock Class and the Pro Super Stock Class while Peter Lentros did the same in the Amateur classes. The Spec Stock Class was run on the Buck white Scorpion track. The seldom used track worked perfectly… Read More
MARC 2012 – 2013 Season Race #8 – Catfish International Speedway MARC 2012 – 2013 Season, Race #8 — The New Catfish International Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 23, 2013 – After three months of preparation, long hours of working in an N95 mask, to tired classic rock, the door to the Catfish Basement swung back, and… the friends entered. Set out before them, the new Brystal Catfish… Read More
MARC 2012 – 2013 Season Race #7 – The Danger Zone Pete, Re-Pete, Tom and Benny all walk away winners Yonkers, NY, March 9, 2013 – The Friday before the race at Benny Leyro’s The Danger Zone, the northeast was once again under siege from the weather with snow and high winds battering both the coastal and interior regions of the northeast. However, as predicted, the… Read More