We've been contacted on Facebook by a guy who needs to have a slot car repaired for his grandson.

If anybody from the Southend area has any suggestions please let me know, or if anybody is kind enough to have a look at it themselves I can put you in touch.

Thank you.

A little necessary silliness to lighten the current sombre mood as the state funeral approaches. Next Monday 19th is also 'International talk like a pirate day'. LINK

So shiver me timbers and hoist the mainsail. Why are they called pirates? Because they arrrgh!

Any Legends racers out there in the UK replacing these stock tires for racing rubber?  

            

I know Inaslot have them new carded but I'm after a few, stock unused with unblemished logos if anyone has some to spare. 

Please P.M me with price thanks.

Do you fancy seeing your cars running on our classic rally stages? You have seen images of our stages on our Facebook group pages. Imagine the challenge of preparing cars to run on these stages.
We are contemplating running a proxy rally next year to the basic tried and tested format but with several new ideas never, to our knowledge, included before. We will be using IT in ways that should increase entrant involvement irrespective of where they live in the world.
The event will be far longer than previous proxy rallies and we will be able to accept entries from anywhere in the world. An entry fee will be charged but only enough to cover costs, including return postage.
Announcements regarding awards and event sponsorship will be made in due course.
Entrants will have ongoing involvement with the set up and running of their cars so regular liaison with club members will be available. Our active club members will not enter their own cars so there will be no question of home advantage.
At present we are only contemplating running this event so are not after firm entries. We are just trying to ascertain if such an event would be of interest so are only after expressions of interest at present. If there is sufficient interest full details will be published at least two months before event commencement to allow plenty of time for car preparation and postage.

Is there some way to import an image file into Ultimate Racer 3.0, for the purpose of using it as an overlay to build scale tracks?  
It makes sense there would be, but I don't see it.

We, 3 guys from Germany and Austria, founded the EH0DRA to make H0 Drag Racing more known in Europe. 
We also organize for intrested people a participation in various Proxy Races around the globe. UK being one of the, US being the next with a total of 14 cars just from Europe. 

We just created a Website: EH0DRA

You can also find us on Facebook and YouTube. 

Come in, find out, enjoy the stay, ask questions, give feedback, you are more than welcome!!

   

Nico

I found this for sale, its not mine.  Seems to good to ignore.  Also has a Mario set.
Somebody buy it, it'll stop me obsessing over it.  I don't even like formula one...

https://www.gumtree.com/p/hobbies-collec...1433257233

We don't usually encourage political posts here, and I hope this won't be seen as one.

But I just wanted to say that, in spite of the fact that I'm not a royalist, or a monarchist in any way, I think Queen Elizabeth did her best for our country, and I think she will be sorely missed.

Race Report From Andy
 
This was the last round of our BTCC class as the last chance for drivers to those final points on the score board for this class.  As you would expect the night did not disappoint with lots of very quick and close racing and a fair amount of trading of paint.  With a few spoilers, wheels and other parts of cars coming off from cars it was almost as if there were actual touring cars racing around the track. 
Mark was having issues with getting his cars to handle right during the heats, and kept coming off in the corners, and as a result this meant that he was not performing to his usual high standard. 

There was a coming together between Elliot and Andy down the back straight where Elliot’s BMW 1 Series ended up de-slotting in front of Andy’s causing Andy to go into the back of him damaging the rear wing on Andy’s Civic, but nothing a bit of superglue wouldn’t fix after the round.  James was going well with his vast selection of cars that he brings with him apart from one race where he had to stop and replace his rear wheel that was coming off.  Richard was going well for a newcomer to the track still learning where to push around the track and where to take it easy; he was improving with each race. 

At the end of the heat races Ken Elliot and Andy were tied in points having all had good races I their heats the only way to separate them was to go in who had the fastest lap over all their heat races as a result Andy was put into the main final with Elliot and Ken in the B Final.  With all the heat races done it was onto the finals, due to the amount of racers turning up it was decided to just use the blue, red and yellow lanes to allow more marshals around the track

C final: Richard in red and Mark in yellow.  Mark was hoping to put his issues from the heats behind him and try and progress to up the ladder to the main final having sorted out the issues with his car.  Off the line Mark got off to a good start pulling out a good lead over Richard.  Richard was going well and managed a few laps before coming off the track allowing marks lead to grow to just over a lap.  Mark was going steady throughout the race with his more stable car and maintained a good lead from lights to flag with Richard putting in a respectable performance and coming in behind Mark

B Final: Mark in blue, Ken in red and Elliot in yellow.  Elliot had an experimental approach to putting stickers on his car placing them on his rear wing to try and ‘stabilise’ his car.  Off the line Elliot took the lead with Ken and Mark having a good battle behind him. Elliot managed to pull out a good lead during the race leaving Mark and Ken to battle it out for second.  This was a good battle that went on throughout the race with Mark taking a small lead and Ken trying to catch up, but when ever Ken got caught up he struggled to pass and ended up coming off the track.  That was until the last few laps where ken managed to put together a couple of good flying laps to get passed Mark and managed to stay there until the end of the race. So Elliot was in first Ken came in second and Mark was third.

Main final: Elliot blue, James red and Andy in yellow.  This final was a bit calmer than the B final.  Elliot and James got off to a flying start leaving Andy far behind.  Although Elliot had his ‘flexible aero’ on his car again is wasn’t quite enough to keep up with James who, as usual, was on top form pulling out a good lead which is where he stayed for the whole race.  Elliot was going well in second but just couldn’t catch up with James and Andy was having issues with staying on the track in third so didn’t trouble Elliot during the race. It ended up with James in first, Elliot in second and Andy in third.