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| CARNAGE Returns to Ferndale’s Portuguese Hall for their 2nd Fray Ferndale. Petaluma. So-Cal. New Jersey. Read the typical name of a Fray team and their home base is obvious. So just where is that regional hotbed of thunderjet activity called . . . Carnage? During their first appearance at the 2000 Fray, this team of enthusiasts from Boise, Spokane, and Sacramento quickly rejected the BoSpoMento moniker and became CARNAGE. Joe Giegel and Mark Owyang met online via the ho-slotcars mailing list in 1996, then met in person during Mark’s 1997 visit to Spokane from Sacramento. During that visit, they got in some HO slide-guide action at the local 1/24 track, as well as running both tjets and magnet cars on Joe’s home track. In 1999, Joe and Mark ran in their first Fray as part of the Sacramento team before Carnage was formed for Fray 2000. Mark St.Clair, Sam Shearman, Aaron Shearman, and Stan Fuller are members of the active Boise chapter of the National Slot Car Racing Club (NCSRC). Club events focus on various classes of Tomy and Tyco powered magnet cars, and includes the annual 12 Hours of Boise, held every January. Mark is returning this year for his second Fray, as are father and son Sam and Aaron. Hot off his team’s 12 Hours of Boise victory, this will be Stan’s first Fray. Twelve hours of magnet car racing is a good way to build stamina for the Fray’s February marathon of tjet competition! Carnage finished sixth out of 13 teams at last year’s Fray, a half point out of fifth place. Aaron Sherman finished 17th in the individual finals. CARNAGE is determined to improve upon that record this year. Don’t expect to find them in the weeds at the end of the first turn! Joe Giegel First slotcars: Aurora AFX, ~1972 Slotcar memories: Having my older brother's and sister's friends laugh at me for still playing with toys. Two hours later I couldn't pry them away from my MM spaghetti track on two 4'x8' sheets of plywood! Then and now: Kept everything I had (except I somehow lost a TO GT40 and Cougar - drat!) but left it mostly packed away. Got my EE from University of Dayton, married my wonderful and very understanding wife Lisa, worked for 9 years in Fort Wayne, IN on stuff I'd have to shoot you if I told you about. Picked up my wife, two dogs, and everything else and moved out to Spokane, WA 5 years ago. Got back into slots ~4 years ago when I found the DL. Met the boys from Boise, Moscow, Sacramento, Salem, and Ferndale and the rest is history. Recent races: Salem, last 3 years. Ferndale, last 2 years. Boise - too many to count! Claim to fame: Instigated the use of the term ‘carnage!’ at last year's Fray. Boy do I love hearing that exclamation ring through the Portuguese hall when there is a melee in the first turn! Fray note: I'm on the injured reserve list this year, sidelined by a couple of back surgeries in the first couple weeks of January. Man, I'll miss everyone! GO CARNAGE!!! Mark Owyang First slotcars: Tjets, sometime around 1966 Slotcar memories: Making dremel mods on everything including a seafoam green charger; frying a Super II at a Saratoga, CA HOPRA race in the early ‘70’s; breaking cutting disks and breathing brass dust while building full-pan AFX’s before putting the hobby aside in the early days of the traction magnet era. Then and now: Rejoined hobby in 1995; wife and kids couldn't care less about slotcars -- except for the garage space it consumes. Off-season slotwork: Enjoys building modified tjets during the Fray's off-season. Fray note: This year I hope to advance through more than just one elimination heat! Looking forward to meeting many online friends in person. Mark St.Clair First slotcars: Christmas 1963 tjets. Last childhood cars: Tycopro Iso Grifo, AFX Camaro and Roadrunner Childhood slotwork: Radiused wheelwells on tjet Batmobile. Then and now: Took 27 years off to attend school, find employment, get married and have children. Introduced to modern magnet car racing by Sam Shearman and Stan Fuller in 1998. Returned favor by introducing them to tjets. Recent slotwork: ‘69 Camaro customization from"top-up" to "top-down" configuration. Fray thoughts: Looking to improve my Fray performance over last year's mid-pack placing. Sam and Aaron Shearman “Shearmanators” First slotcars: 1/24 in 1991; HO magnet cars in 1992; tjets in 1999. Tracks built: HO magnet car track in 1993 following 24hr race in California; tjet track in 1999 following Fray in Ferndale. Races attended: Three NSCRC 24 hour races; two 24-hrs of LeMans in England; one1 Fray in Ferndale; one "Hear the Thunder" in Salem; six 12hrs of Boise; one Idaho State Championship; and many local and area races. Fray 2001: We'll be there, do our best, and plan to have a ball! What a GREAT hobby!!!! Stan Fuller “Slot Car Stan” <http://www.Gofastest.com/stan> First slotcars: Christmas 1963, figure-8 track on 4x8 plywood. Wore cars out by noon. Slotcar memories: Racing slots every Saturday morning as a kid at the local Hobby House, I got hooked early in life. Then and now: Drove Stock Cars at local _-mile oval. Now I take my HO 4-lane banked oval and rent track time to the kids at the same _-mile oval. Kids love it! Recent races: Salem "Hear the Thunder" tjet race, October 2000. Six Time entrant at annual 12 Hours of Boise" magnet car race; captain of winning team, Jan. 2001. Attended 1997 N.S.C.R.C 24-hour race in San Francisco. Fray thoughts: Help take Carnage to the top in this year’s 2001 Race!!! | ||||||||
| Team Carnage: top-bottom, Joe Giegel, Mark Owyang, Mark St.Clair, Stan Fuller. Not pictured: Sam Shearman, Aaron Shearman | ||||||||
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