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It's time again, come join us for a fun filled day. Contest Theme: 45 years of Camaro, Common kit 48 Ford Coupe.
PULASKI TECHNICAL COLLEGE
Little Rock-South - 13000 Interstate 30
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
See website for directions to South Campus - WWW.PULASKITECH.EDU
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2012
DOORS OPEN AT 7:00 A.M.
SHOWTIME 9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.
REGISTRATION ENDS AT NOON
MODEL REGISTRATION FEE - $5.00 first model; $2.00 each additional; $20.00 max
FREE ADMISSION TO THE PUBLIC/FREE MODEL ENTRY FOR JUNIORS
CONTEST THEME: 45 YEARS OF THE CAMARO
SUB THEME: 100 SERIES FIGHTERS - F-100 - F-107
COMMON KIT - Kit #85-4253 - 1948 Ford Custom Coupe 3n1 Special Edition
MILITARY COMMON KIT - Tamiya 35312 - M8 US Howitzer Motor Carriage; and
Tamiya 35313 - M5A1 US Light Tank
COMMON KIT - REVELL OR MONOGRAM 1/48 SCALE F-106
1:1 CAR SHOW - PARKING LOT
(CALL JACOB STANDLEY - 501-812-2259)
SCOUT - CHAMPIONSHIP PINEWOOD DERBY
DASH PLAQUES AND COMMEMRATIVE HAT PINS FOR FIRST 100 ENTRIES
RAFFLES AND DOOR PRIZES
FINISH LINE CAFÉ OPEN UNTIL 2:00 P.M.
REVELL MAKE 'N TAKE
(1ST 75 KIDS (ages 6-13) GET TO MAKE A MODELTO TAKE HOME)
KIDS COLORING BOOK CONTEST
Vendor TABLES (8FT) available - $10.00 each table
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
CONTACT DAVE BRANSON - 501-772-1483; KEN LESLIE - 501-681-9980
MODEL SHOW SPONSORS
RAIL AND SPRUE HOBBIES
CAR COLOR CENTER
ARKANSAS COLLISION REPAIR ASSOCIATION (ACRA)
PULASKI TECH BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY CENTER
Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/1003430.aspx
Button gets 2012 season off to a flier
Albert Park, Melbourne
Statements of intent do not come much more emphatic than the one Jenson Button made with a dominant victory in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
Crushingly superior in a straight fight with McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton, Button got off to the perfect start in a season that promises to be very different from Sebastian Vettel's one-sided championship win last year.
There were fears after McLaren's one-two in qualifying that they would run away in the race - and they proved to be half right.
Button left Hamilton behind and never looked like losing the race. It was a win as comfortable as any of the six in seven races he took at the start of 2009 to lay the foundations for his championship year with the Brawn team.
Jenson Button has won three of the last four Australian grands prix. Photo: Getty
Button admitted to BBC Sport after the race not only that he always gets "nervous-excited" before grands prix, but that he was more nervous before this one than perhaps any other.
One assumes it was founded in the knowledge that after starting his first two seasons at McLaren with cars that were off the pace of the Red Bull, he now had a real chance of getting his year off to the best possible start.
Contrary to appearances, that nervousness led to a slight error at the start. After a superb initial getaway, Button went for second gear too early, which delayed his charge to the first corner.
Luckily for Button, Hamilton had also had a bad start, and with the inside line, the corner - and, as it turned out, the victory - were his.
Ironically, the win bore more than a slight resemblance to many of Vettel's in 2011.
Button went off like a frightened rabbit in the first two laps, the aim being to be far enough ahead at the start of lap three - when the drivers are first allowed to use the DRS overtaking aid - to ensure he was out of reach of his pursuers.
Rather than ease off, though, Button just kept going, a succession of fastest laps moving him more than three seconds clear within six laps, after which it stabilised.
So dominant was Button that even had Hamilton converted his lead at the start into one at the end of the first lap, it is difficult to imagine that the result would have been any different.
Hamilton cut a subdued figure after the race, giving short, quietly-spoken answers to questions. He admitted he "didn't generally have great pace" and, after producing a stunning lap in qualifying to take pole, was clearly not expecting Button's demoralising
performance.
Hamilton's mood will not have been helped by losing out on second place to Vettel, largely through bad luck.
After leaving the two cars out slightly too long before their first pit stops, McLaren did exactly the right thing in stopping them one after the other for their second.
It was Hamilton's bad luck that he was delayed by the introduction of the safety car on the very next lap, allowing Vettel to sneak ahead.
Vettel said after the race that he would have "had a crack" at Hamilton even without that stroke of good fortune.
But the two cars were evenly matched and if Hamilton, whose car was faster on the straight, was not able to pass Vettel it seems unlikely that Vettel would have been able to overtake the McLaren.
The manner of Button's victory - Vettel described him as "unbeatable" - led to inevitable questions about whether McLaren will now dominate this season in the way Red Bull did last.
But as Hamilton said, it is "too early to tell" if McLaren are comfortably ahead of Red Bull.
"In qualifying we're quite quick and competitive," he said, "but they were massively quick in the race. I think they're still a force to be reckoned with."
Vettel, meanwhile, proved once again how ridiculous it ever was to suggest he could not race - his move around the outside of Nico Rosberg at Turn Nine on lap two was hugely impressive.
Behind the top two teams, an intriguing race has set the season up nicely.
Romain Grosjean made some errors befitting his semi-novice status as he squandered his excellent third place on the grid, but his Lotus team look like they could have the pace to challenge close to the front if they have a clean weekend.
Mercedes' race pace was a disappointment after their impressive form in qualifying - which extreme was the true representation of their competitive position remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, Fernando Alonso dragged his Ferrari up to fifth place with a typically resilient and impressive performance, although the car's lap times once the race settled down suggested the team still have a lot of work to do.
The mixed-up grid, caused by typical early seasons problems for Red Bull, Alonso and Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen in qualifying, led to some superb battles throughout a race that seemed to confirm the impression of pre-season testing that the grid has closed up this year.
"We all think this is a special year in F1 with six world champions and so many competitive teams," Button said. "F1 is in a special place and it's a great sport to be a part of."
Malaysia next weekend will provide further evidence of what lies ahead. Button and Hamilton, for very different reasons, will be anxious to get on with it.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2012/03/albert_park_melbourne_statemen.html
Malaysia debrief with Williams' Mark Gillan
Williams enjoyed another encouraging outing in Malaysia. Although Pastor Maldonado failed to finish following an engine problem, Bruno Senna scored the team's first points of the season in Sepang. Chief operations engineer Mark Gillan reviews the challenging wet-dry race and looks ahead to China
Source: http://www.formula1.com/news/interviews/2012/3/13174.html
Lewis wants to see US night race
Barcelona day one - Vettel sets the pace for Red Bull
Defending world champion Sebastian Vettel topped the timesheets for Red Bull as this week's four-day test got underway at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya on Tuesday. Vettel's best, a 1m 23.265s, was over a tenth of a second faster than the quickest lap from second-placed runner Nico Hulkenberg in the Force India.
The opening day of the second official pre-season test saw 11 teams in action, with only HRT missing. McLaren's Lewis Hamilton was third fastest, ahead of Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.
Source: http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/2/13035.html
2011 Season Review: McLaren and Ferrari
2011 was a season of immense frustration for two of Formula One’s most iconic teams. For Ferrari it was the season that came and went with little success and for McLaren it was season in which a new team leader was established. Lewis Hamilton Hamilton confessed at the end of last season that he had [...]
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Formula1Fancast/~3/VAioxUUKH3g/2011-season-review-mclaren-and-ferrari
Supporting the the LHS??? $29 for the new Revell Camaro??? Really??
Just came from the local hobby shop and I saw they had the new Revell 2010 Camaro..... FOR 29 BUCKS!!! I know that we're supposed to support local hobby shops but come on guys that's a bit ridiculous. I know everyone hates Walmart but if they were still in the model selling business here in Houston, I wouldn't hesitate to pick up that same kit at a more "reasonable" price. As it were, I put the kit back on the shelf, they won't miss my $29 because they are a full line hobby shop and R/C is their moneymaker. But seriously, why should I treat buying models any differently from anything else that I buy? If store "A" has it at a cheaper price than store "B", then why should I buy at store "B"? And that should apply to anything a consumer would shop for but I know that everyone had some sort of hate/dislike towards Walmart and I never really understood the supposed mentality of it putting the mom n' pop hobby shops out of business. Really? Walmart was gunnin' for small hobby shops by having better prices?? Come on, you'll have to do better than that in order to get me to spend $29 on a domestic 25th scale plastic model kit. Whether I can afford the kit or not is besides the point ( I can) I want to support the hobby and hobby shops as much as I can but this is stretching it a bit isn't it??
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Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/1000213.aspx
Bernie Ecclestone - No plans to put the brakes on
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The way I feel at the moment, why stop? I do it because I enjoy it. And yesterday is gone. I don't care what happened yesterday. What else would I do? People retire to die. I don't get any individual pleasure because we don't win races or titles in this job. I'm like most business people. You look back at the end of the year and you see what you've achieved by working out how much money the company has made. That's it.
Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/10/bernie_ecclestone_no_plans_to.php
