Tournaments
We Race Diecast by Christopher Kidder-Mostrom
While Dave at WeRaceDiecast prepares himself for the mayhem that is about to head his way in the form of TMNT Party Wagons (mayhem he brought upon himself, by inviting the entire field from Indiana Diecast Racing to come for a visit!), he’s filled his production schedule hiatus with a couple of events on the There and Back track, a two-straightaway-oneturn track that consists of mostly two-wide fat track (Crash racers). There is a short bit of divided track at the beginning, as the starting gate is the 6-lane set we’ve all come to know and love from the 6-2-1. After rushing down that first incline, then zipping along toward the banked corner, the cars finish by hurdling down a second straight that is interrupted halfway down its length by a jump over a 5-inch void. If a car makes it past that point, then it’s a quick run to the finish line. First of the three events of the last three weeks was the Bugatti Divo Showdown. Four custom painted Matchbox Bugatti Divos competed to see which color would come out on top. Customizer Wayne Heede of Wheel Swappers Garage did the custom work on these beautiful supercars. No drivers were assigned for this race, and all of the cars were the work of one builder, so which car you might have been rooting for really came down to color. Take your pick: Red, Green, Yellow, and Purple. Red got out to an early lead on the first lap. All four cars took the jump well, and the purple car put on a good show of trying to catch red for most of the race. Scoring for the event was the 14 | Diecast Racing Report
common 5, 3, 2, 1 system, so red was on top after one lap with five points. After rotating starting positions, lap two came out with green in the front. Yellow drift-blocked red and purple for much of the race, leading one to believe that they might all fail to make the jump, but they cleared it, and yellow barely beat red to the line to take second. After two laps, red and green were tied at 7 points. Purple and yellow were tied at 4. In the most closely contested lap thus far, the third lap was led by yellow through the turn and up to the jump. Shortly after landing, however, purple burst forward and stole the race from the golden one’s grasp. Red and purple had 9 points after three, green had 8 points, and yellow sat at 7 points, being the only car yet to win a lap. When it really matters, the racers do what must be done. Purple led through the turn, but red was hot on his tail. Purple watched red pass him by with about two feet of track left. Yellow successfully driftblocked green for most of the race, and released the block just in time to finish third while leaving green lagging behind. Red came in first overall, and purple was the first loser. In the end, though, the cars were very evenly matched, which makes sense because they were all modified by the same
person and were all the same model of car. The next event was a 2v2 race, which essentially was a grudge match between two castings with two of each casting making up the field. This match-up was the Magic 8 Ball Rodger Dodger up against the red Rodger Dodger 2.0. For this writer, it was hard to be emotionally vested in this race, as it became quite difficult to ascertain which of two identical cars was doing better or worse, or which car was which, for that matter. The four cars made six laps down the track, and unlike the relatively clean racing seen in the Bugatti race, the Rodger Dodgers did a good deal of flipping, crashing, and had some glorious altercations at the jump. So, while it was difficult to track which cars one might be rooting for, just sitting back and enjoying some absurd carnage was easily done. In the end, the 2.0s came out on top by 4 points: 34 to 30. In the third offering from WeRaceDiecast, the ten cars of the Hot Wheels Factory 500 series were given a run on the track to see which 500 HP car was the fastest. Mayfied41, Thomas Filipiak, Artemis Lancaster, Sammie Moondust, and The Caddy Man made up the first
