News in Brief

Diecast 64 Postpones August Races

As of July 30, an announcement on the Diecast 64 Hot Wheels Racing group page on Facebook, the monthly races for August have been postponed until September. All five stock and modified races in September will be the same ones originally scheduled for August, including the specialty category of Six Wheelers (semi-truck rigs). More information about the development will be available in the July race report on the D64E YouTube channel. That video had not posted by deadline for this story, but it is expected imminently. The RaceHotWheels.com website (home of Diecast 64) has already been updated to reflect the new deadlines for races.

DRR Added As Sponsor of Truck Series

The Sub4ra channel on YouTube is the home of the Adult Diecast Racing Cup, and track/league owner Rhyno has recently announced a new Truck Series that will be similar to the current car series. Diecast Racing Report has joined Peg Hunt Pit Stop and JLH Krafts as the sponsors for the series. JLH Krafts secured the naming rights for the series, which will be called the JLH Krafts Truck Racing Series.

Deadline for teams to enter the first race of the series is August 4. “We are thrilled to be a part of such a marquee event as the JLH Krafts Truck Racing Series,” states DRR editor Kit Kidder-Mostrom. “We’re entering a small two-truck team into the series, too.” Full coverage of each race of the series will appear in this magazine’s upcoming “Race Round-Up” section in future issues.

Stock And Mod Rally Race Canceled

Due to ongoing computer issues, David Moyes (pronounced “Moyz, not “Moy-ehz”) of Charles’ 64 th Scale Fun has had to pull the plug on the upcoming Stock and Mod Rally Race that appeared on this magazine’s calendar for the last few issues.

Sadly, the entire league/channel, which was named for Moyes’ son, will be mothballed for the foreseeable future. There is no word on when the channel will return to activity.

DRR Launches Top Modder Series August 15th

We are proud to announce a new feature of the magazine which will occur quarterly (August, November, February, and May) on these pages. The series is called “8 Modders”.

In essence it works like this: we sent eight identical cars to eight of the top modifiers in the United States. They are modifying those cars right now. Before our next issue, they will have returned those cars to us for a photo shoot, and for a race on DRR’s official track, Box Canyon Loop at Psychedelic Speedway.

The August 15 th issue will feature breakdowns of the methods used to create the cars that we are featuring. You will be able to see into the techniques that work for top racers and customizers. Perhaps you’ll get some ideas, or just discover how that one person you saw race that one time does things.