NEXT SCHOR RACE...

SCHOR RACERS & SLOTHEADS

Just like the weather, the scheduling of slot races is not an exact science.  We are still racing this month, but due to circumstances beyond anyone's control we won't be at Eric's.  Instead will be back at Eddie's in Rancho Cucamonga - which means everybody gets a "Second Shot" at racing on the big Riverside track!

Saturday November 21st 

SCHOR RACE #7
RIVERSIDE RACEWAY 

NEO, MODIFIED, SUPER STOCK, HARDBODY

Rancho Cucamonga, CA 

SCHOR 2014 Racing Season continues...

Saturday July 26, 2014
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SCHOR RACE #5

at Morgan's 

HO SLOT CAR SPEED SHOP

 Racing on...The  fast and smooth

BP1 ENGLEMAN TRACK 

All four SCHOR race classes: 
Hardbody, Super Stock, Modified, and NEO

TRACK OPENS at 7:30 AM - Racing Starts around Noon...

Email: hoparts@cox.net for more info

HOPRA NATIONALS 2014 HO RACE RESULTS

Click to ENLARGE

 Here are the preliminary results from 2014 HOPRA Nationals.

Go here for HOPRA 2015 Nats Results

2014 HOPRA National Championships

This is the annual gathering of all the "Big Dogs" in HO Slot Racing.  If you want to find out how fast you are (or need to be) this is the place to go!

Click here for NATS RACE RESULTS...

HO SLOT CAR SPEED SHOP: Hard-body Racing...

HARDBODY HO RACE 
F1 / INDY-CARS

THIS TUESDAY: April 22, 2014

 at Morgan's

Slot Car Speed Shop

Shop opens at 5 PM,  Racing starts around 6:30 PM

(Hard-Bodies = Mega G, Tyco 440-X2, 

Super G+,Tomy SRT, Lifelikes)

IROC Support Race after Hardbody event

 

For more info contact:

 hoparts@cox.net 

First Video from the HO SLOT CAR SPEED SHOP

A few minutes of video from the SCHOR 2014 Super Stock Main Event at the all new HO Slot Car Speed Shop in San Diego.  Finalist are Ben "The Viper" Vasquez, Eddie "The Snake" Torres, "Fast Phil" Walleck, and Gary "Too Fast" Morgan.

The new HO SLOT CAR SPEED SHOP in San Diego

Morgan's HO Slot Car Speed Shop

aka: Kensington Speedway - Again!

HO Racing is finally back in San Diego!  There hasn't been a place to race HO slot cars with a high quaility track in for 17 years, but it has now return with this cozy little shop.  Gary Morgan last had the "Kensington Speedway" back in 1997.  Now fast-forward to 2014 and he's opened his "HO SLOT CAR SPEED SHOP" on the east end of Mission Valley not far from Qualcomm stadium.  It features a super-fast, custom, Cronin built "BP-1 Engleman" track with TrakMate timing.   The new Speed Shop is all about fast, fun, high-quaility HO racing.  Morgan builds custom slot cars, offers advise, and carries lots of high performance HO cars and HO racing parts.  But what the Speed Shop is really all about is racing, racing, and more HO racing. 

For more info about the
Slot Car Speed Shop 
Contact Gary at: 

hoparts@cox.net

The BIG SHOT 2 SHOOT-OUT is coming...

As the Summer begins to wind down... it will soon be time to start thinking once again about HO Slot Racing.  The last SCHOR race was at Ben and Benito's in June, but soon we'll be able to get back to some real serious racing next month (only 2 weeks away) at Mike Low's BIG SHOT 2 SHOOTOUT.   This will be his 2nd annual race at Buena Park Raceway in Buena Park, CA. 

Yep, Mike is back at it - and he pulls out all the stops for his Big Shot races.  They'll be race plaques  (see photo) for podium finishers, and he's even bringing in a brand new 90 foot custom Brad Bowman track (see below) for us to race on.  This years Big Shot Shootout will happen over 2 days, Friday and Saturday September 6th and 7th.   This year, Friday will be for PRACTICE ONLY.  That means that ALL OF THE RACES WILL TAKE PLACE ON SATURDAY.  Also, this year Mike is only having 4 race classes:  

SCHOR Super Stock

SCHOR Pro Modified

Fray T-jets 

Gravity Cars 

You might even win a Podium Plaque

Start gettin' ready, cause It's gonna be a good time that 
you won't want to miss.  

BIG SHOT H.O. SHOOTOUT is almost here...

That's right all you slot heads.  The big H.O. race will be next weekend on Friday August 31st and Saturday September 1st at Buena Park Raceway in Buena Park, CA.   There are suppose to be a lot of hot shot HO racers coming to this event from all directions  Below is more detailed information on the event.



Friday, August 31st, anticipated schedule

Noon - Track opens for practice

6:30pm - Landshark HO - Brass/Gravity race
(“gravity lift” test in effect)

8:00pm - RJ-Jet - T-Jet race (Fray rules)

Saturday, September 1st, anticipated schedule

8:00am - Track opens, practice (Pro Hardbody)

9:30am - Slot Car Speed Shop - Pro Hardbody race (SCHOR rules)

11:30am - AFX/Racemasters - Mega G iroc race (cars courtesy of AFX/Racemasters)

1:30pm - “Super Raffle” part 1, practice (Superstock)

2:30pm - Scale Auto/BSRT - Superstock race (SCHOR rules)

5:00pm - “Super Raffle” part 2, practice (Neo and Modified)

6:00pm - Slottech - Neo race (SCHOR rules)

8:00pm - Noose Custom Paint - Modified race (SCHOR rules)

Entry fee, for each day, to the raceway is $10 for the first race and $7 each additional race.

Plaques to the top three in each class.

Best appearing plaques for Scale Auto/BSRT -Superstock,

Noose Custom Paint -Modified, and Slottech -Neo races.

TQ plaques for Modified, and Neo races.

Please use correct armature and magnets for each class.

Armatures will be metered and magnets gaussed.

Cars will be impounded after they have been “teched”

Landshark HO -Brass/Gravity, RJ-Jet -T-Jet, Slot Car Speed Shop -Pro Hardbody, AFX/Racemasters -Mega G iroc, and Scale Auto/BSRT -Superstock races will be random draw round robin heats with top five, going into a main.

Noose Custom Paint -Modified, and Slottech - Neo races will have qualifying to set the single ladder heats, and top three times will qualify for the “A” main.

No “track calls” except for cars falling on the ground, and stuck underneath the crossover.



Buena Park Raceway is located at:

6161 Lincoln Avenue, Buena Park, CA

http://bpraceway.com/

 

SCHOR Race Results: Race #5 at Dan's 7/21/12

Dan wins 3 races:

Pro Hardbody, Pro Super Stock, & Modified

Lenny (Kravitz) Pincus gets his first win in

Rookie Hardbody

Eddie (The Snake) dominates in NEO

 

Dan is now building really nice custom HO tracks. He built this one for new SCHOR racer Shawn and we used it for  Race #5.   It's fast, smooth, and everything you could ask for.



Dan wins Pro-Hardbody



Dan wins Pro Super Stock



Dan wins Modified

Eddie wins NEO

The BIG SHOT H.O. SHOOTOUT RACE is coming...

Yep, that's right all you Slot Racers!  SCHOR Racer Mike Low is putting on the Biggest, Baddest HO Slot Car Race that we've seen around these here parts in a long time.   It's the "BIG SHOT H.O. SHOOTOUT" and it's gonna be held at the world famous Buena Park Raceway (BPR) this coming Labor Day weekend - August 31st and September 1st.  There will be a total of 7 race classes ranging from Brass Cars and T-jets (on Friday night) to a Mega-G IROC, and four more races run under SCHOR rules: Hardbody, Super Stock, Modified and NEO on Saturday.   There will also be trophies awarded for the podium positions in all classes.  So clean up your gear and "get ready to rumble"!

Katz Spa Ring - First Race of 2012 in So Cal...

HO racing in 2012 will start off the year in style with the first big So Cal race being held this January 21st on the world famous Katz Spa Ring (KSR). Most people know the story (click here if you don't) of this amazing HO Slot car track, but very few outside of the San Francisco Bay Area have ever had a chance to race on it. The KSR is now located in Southern California at slot track builder Brad Bowman's place in Escondido. This video footage is from the first So Cal gathering that Brad held this past August. As you can see the KSR an is awesome and unique track with great rhythm and is a blast to drive.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE KSR VIDEOS

Race Results: Results: SCHOR 2011 Race #9

Eddie "Break's his Duck" at takes NEO on

The Riverside

Morgan is dominant in Modified

Ben smokes the field in Super Stock

Dan is the fastest man in Pro Hardbody

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The weather was perfect, the track was fast, and in spite of missing a lot of the regular SCHOR racers, the turn-out at Eddie's was still large and produced a day of great racing.  We held a total of 6 events, and even had an amateur race in Super Stock.  

The day started with Amateur (Rookie) Hardbody and that race was dominated by little Ryan Schartau a new young racer who's so short he has to stand on a milk crate to see the whole track.  Ryan drove his hardbody car like a pro and dominted the field for a wire to wire win in his first SCHOR race.    

Next up was Pro Hardbody:  Dan Cronin carried over his winning ways from last month's race to end up way out in front in the combined scoring for the two pro hardbody semis.

We moved on to Amateur Super Stock where Darrin Angelo just ran off from the rest of the field to clitch his first big win in SCHOR.

There were 14 entries in Pro Super Stock and it proved to be a serious fight just getting though the semis into the main.  Then the main turned out to be a hard fought battle between Morris, Dan, and All-Pro SCHOR racer. Ben "The Viper" Vasquez.  When the dust settle, once again it was Ben who emerged victorious.

We had a healthy and very fast field of 12 entries in Modified, where Gary Morgan showed everybody that he could not be caught with his G3R/T+ Hybrid car.  Ben was second running a fast Slottech, and Rick "Mr. T-Jet" Jocham was a solid 3rd with his Wizzard Storm.

11 entries in NEO meant there would be hard fought battles and durabilty struggles just to get through the semis and on to the main event.  When all of the dust settled at the end. There standing on the top step of the NEO podium for the First Time in his SCHOR career was no other than Eddie "The Snake" Torres!! Yes, Ed finally as the Europeans say: "Broke his Duck" in NEO and won it all.  Ben pushed him hard ending up second, and Rick had some smokin' early laps driving a fast Cronin prepared T1 to third.

The Results:      

CLICK FOR COMPLETE RACE RESULTS

RACE REMINDER: SCHOR 2011 RACE #9 is next up...

The weather in So Cal is showing signs of cooling off, but it usually gets hot at least one more time (Santa Ana winds) before we resign ourselves to real shoes and long sleeves. And things are already heating back up in the HO Slot racing scene in So Cal because it's October and that means FAST & FURIOUS RACING ON THE RIVERSIDE BUCKTRAX. Yep, we'll be back at it again at Eddie's a little more than a week from now. As many racers know, the Riverside is the fastest HO Slot track that we have in So Cal (maybe in the world), producing times in the Neo class that are as low as 1.4 seconds per lap over a 65 foot Road Course  (not a Drag Strip).


Vintage NEO Racing on Riverside "1994"

This is the place to let it all hang out!. The races are fun and fast in all classes and Eddie always lays out the "HO red carpet" (okay, the soft gray track mats) welcoming slot racers from far and wide. If you're lookin' for braggin' rights, then these are the kind of classic HO races you want to win. So break out your good stuff and let's get crackin'.

Saturday October 15th 

SCHOR 2011 - Race #9

Eddie Torre's RIVERSIDE RACEWAY 

(6'X18' Ultra-Fast Custom Bucktrax)

NEO, MODIFIED, SUPER STOCK, HARDBODY

11665 Treviso Way Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701 (909) 944-7509

HO Slot Racing on the Hammer: Pro Hard bodies...

Here's a quick peek at a little action on Mike Low's new "HAMMER" 
This track is fast and fun to drive

Saturday September 17, 2011 is HAMMER TIME!

This is the very first race on "The Hammer", so in addition to our regular SCHOR race program that will feature Hardbody, Super Stock and Modified cars.  Mike will be holding a very special 

"Race Of Champions"

 And the winner of this ROC gets to take home the above trophy.  

Fall Season Warm up Race at Dan's

Here in So Cal, it appears that we've gone from a racing drought to a deluge of races in just a few months.  SCHOR will be starting back up this September in Los Angeles, and Dan Cronin is getting the racing going big-time at the CSR in Escondido.  Dan will be hosting a serious race on his all new Scorpion "Stinger" track this coming August 27th.  There will be fast and furious racing in 5 classes including  Tyco 10 volt, Tyco Modified along with 3 SCHOR classes: Hardbody, Super Stock, and Modified.

"The Stinger"

Track will open at 8 am, Racing starts around Noon.

Saturday August 27th
FALL SEASON - WARM UP RACE
Dan Cronin's CSR Raceway
(4x14 Custom - Scorpion "Stinger")
  MODIFIED, SUPER STOCK, HARDBODY, TYCO 10V & MOD

327 Brotherton Square  Escondido, CA 92025 (760) 580-7533


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The KSR: Our HO Racing dream has come true!

It started out as So Cal gossip, then it became a rumor, and it is now a fact that our HO Slot Car Racing dream has come true!

The World Famous KATZ-SPA-RING is now up and running in Southern California.  At 33 feet long by 10 feet wide it is one of the largest HO Slot car tracks ever built.  And considering the high level of craftmanship, realism, and detail, it is most likely the GREATEST HO SLOT CAR TRACK IN THE WORLD.   Lucky us, cause this wonder of a slot track is now located only 30 miles north of San Diego in the town of Escondido, CA.

"Click photo to enlarge"

Yep, Brad Bowman and some fellow HO racers put in a ton of hard work to move this amazing track 500 miles, reassemble it, and bring it back to life! 

And now the for the VERY BEST NEWS:  Brad is hosting the first race on the KSR at it's new home this coming Saturday August 6, 2011.

Some of you may not know the cool and amazing, yet sad story behind the Katz-Spa-Ring. If you don't you may want to check out this video below. (The original copy of this video was taken off You Tube due to some kind of legal B.S..  But this copy is from Japan, so I guess they can't sue em over there!)

RACING THIS SATURDAY

"Run what you brung", but nothing faster than a Super Stock.
Track opens at 10 AM - Mickey's IROC races start around 2 PM

AUGUST 6, 2011

BRAD BOWMAN'S

KATZ-SPA-RING

1028 Gamble Lane, Escondido, CA
"click for map"



"Click photo to enlarge"



NEXT SCHOR RACE: is June 18th in Fullerton, CA

That's right Slot Heads, we'll be back at it in June.  SCHOR 2011 RACE #6 will be at Eric Roos' place in Fullerton on Saturday June 18th.  The super fast and super smooth Velocity Dome Bucktrax will be all ready to Rock and Roll.  We'll be racing Rookie Hardbody, Pro Hardbody, Super Stock, Modified, and NEO classes. So start workin' and get those cars ready for some classic super fast and furious SCHOR  slot racing

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