Wacky Races

Over the winter I built a race set, I was going to surprise the GZG ECC Folks with it.  Alas not this year...

...So the kids and I have been racing over it.  The track

Its some modular plastic thing I got cheap from Ebay.  I was going to use it for MoonGrunt but realized it looked like a track

The Racers: these are Antenociti GOT cars, a pain to build but fun to paint.  I have four racers.  They are lined up at the start gate, a repurposed street sign from 4Ground.

One of the 'pit stops' this one has three missile pick-ups, a force field pick-up plus the activator for one auto-turret.

The second 'pit stop' has Nitro refueling!

The Third has extra fuel plus a force field pick-up

And the final one, oil slick pick-ups, a force field pick-up plus the activator for an auto-turret

The red arrow section are "rapid movement" sections and the lap-counters in the center.  This race is the first to finish six laps.
Divers:  Black: Mini-Me Minor; White: Mini-Me Major; Green: Me

The race is on, red and white race to pit-stop 1

Black surges past, using the rapid to gain advantage

Black goes straight for Nitro

White turns on the turret and goes for the chasm jump

The engine roars and White leaps

Majestically soaring across the chasm

To land on the other side

only to try to blow away his brother in the black car...

Black pits to pick up more stuff, Green sneaks by

White is first to finish a lap

As Black crosses the line White and Green are busy grabbing stuff

Green drops a force-field in the slow lane, last turn Green dropped one at the end of the rapid, this is going to be messy

Black goes for more missiles

Its neck-and-neck at the end of the second lap

White pulls in for gas and shoots down the force field, Green and Black use it to sneak past

Black decides to add to the track by dropping oil

White avoids the oil then drops a force field right in front of Green.  At this point the kids have formed a pact to beat me... ...Challenge accepted

Gulp, no way through.  Engine to max and the only option is to ram the shield

Kerrump, and Green loses a turn

The kids zoom off

while Green gets stuck

Green ends up a whole lap behind

Time to get revenge, on goes an auto turret

Kids pick up ordinance and plot

Missiles out, shield goes up in flames

Green is next on the list, Green barely dodged it

And  Green is off, dropping oil

Turret on, oil dropped and Green races for the line

Some slick driving later Green dodges the shields, pulled a fast one in the rapid and jumped the chasm.  Kids were not happy...  ...so Black fired, once

And once more, just because

Green dodges, zooms and almost catches back up with White

Fifth lap, Green avoids pit stops and regains a lap

Green catches Black

And it neck-and-neck at the chasm jump

Green wins the initiative and roars off

Black pulls ahead and is inches from finishing his 6th lap (we have to cross the line), Black also drops a shield

We are all so close, the winner will be the one who wins the initiative roll!

Winner, winner, chicken Dinner! -> Green wins the initiative

Green powers through the line and starts pulling doughnuts

Screech!

Yahoo!

Eeeeeeeeeeeek

And done...

And here's us doing it for real, we rented an ATV on a trip out to Sedona.  It was soooo much fun.