hi guys        
got a few old scally junior F1 cars off fleabay 
thought i would have a bash at refurbishing them 
namely a Lotus C67 , Porsche C86 and a BRM C72 ( so far )
all have cleaned up well 
motors although not the strongest all run well enough after a little TLC 
the tyres as would be expected on such old cars need replacing especially the rears if i wanted any kind of grip 
any suggestions for tyres ? 
   
but my main issue is the front wheel steering assemblies 
the wheels are extremely loose on the axles and wobble around like crazy 
is there a fix ? or is it just age ? would new assemblies be the answer ?
i have found lots of info on these cars and have used this info to get them to where they are now 
but have found little with regard to the steering assemblies 
any help / info would be gratefully received 

Kev

Hi All,
In the manual section of the forum we have this video which shows a guy has made his own race timer system.
I've looked up his Youtube channel and this was 7 years ago but he has changed it a little and posted another video in May this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT6fMLpc6YQ&t=43s

2nd video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjtWaz3RGQw&t=63s

On his last video you can't leave a message and he has no information regarding buying the system.
I'm assuming he's not selling them but he's not long posted the last video so I'm hoping it might be possible.

Does anyone know this guy and if so please reach out as I'm sure he's on to something good here.

My track when finished is a analogue sport track and I'm not going to change to digital and something like this is exactly what I'd like to set up.
I'm not great with programming and pc stuff like that hence why I think this is perfect to plug in and go.

Hopefully I've posted this in the right section and someone knows him.

I've asked Jason as he loaded the video originally and he doesn't know him.

Lets find him and support his idea.

Cheers

Tony

   

Second only to Le Mans in terms of heritage and prestige, the 74th running of the Spa 24 Hours takes place over the weekend of 30-31 July 2022. Full coverage is via the GTWorld YouTube Channel and the Spa 24 Hours website. Here's the official trailer...



For a long time, the 24 Hours of Spa was the classic touring car race - Scalextric have certainly exploited a rich vein of wonderful Group 1 and Group A cars in recent years. Since 2001, the race has been for GT machinery and is now the pinnacle of international GT3 racing, attracting the very top teams and best GT drivers from around the world to tackle the legendary Spa-Francorchamps circuit and the infamous Ardennes weather.

Subject to last-minute changes, there are nine manufacturers, 66 cars and 235 drivers taking part - making it easily the biggest GT3 grid in 2022 and the second largest in Spa 24 Hour history. MotoGP megastar Valentino Rossi will be making his debut at the race in the #46 WRT Audi R8 LMS Evo II and is likely to draw huge crowds to the circuit, which has seen grandstands and facilities updated as part of an 80-million Euro redevelopment.

There have also been changes to the track run-off at Eau Rouge and Raidillon since last year - but the track layout remains exactly the same through possibly the most spectacular and famous part of any circuit in the world...



The action at Spa starts this weekend, with the traditional warm-up event - courtesy of the British GT Championship. You can watch the 2-hour race on Sunday morning via the GTWorld YouTube Channel or the British GT Championship website.

Spa town centre hosts a ceremonial parade on Wednesday afternoon and evening, before the teams have a full day and evening of practice and qualifying on Thursday. Superpole follows on Friday evening and the race begins at 4.45 local time (3.45 BST) on Saturday afternoon.

There's live coverage of qualifying, Superpole and the race. Expect plenty of fan videos of Wednesday's parade too.

The website has news, live timing and data, plus there'll be loads of images and stories on the 24 Hours of Spa Facebook page.

It looks like everything is set for another memorable 24 Hours of Spa.

Has anyone used an Arduino with similar code to Race Coordinator to run on Ultimate Racer?   I found a GitHub code that will allow the Arduino to act as a PS gamepad.  I was hoping to import that library easily and use the Rec Coordinator code as well.  Any help?

Thanks

   

Anyone who follows SRC on social media will have noticed that the company has become super-excited about the new Le Mans Hypercar era. So much so, that they've pledged to produce a number of the LMH cars as 'Hyperslotcars' - notably the Peugeot 9X8, Toyota GR010 and Glickenhaus SCG007, all of which have already made their racing debuts in the World Endurance Championship. Also mentioned was the LMDh Porsche 963, although no CAD images have materialised as yet.

The Hypercar and LMDh regulations might not be familiar to many slot car racers - and might just seem another tweak to already uninspiring machinery, especially when compared to whatever your golden era of sportscar racing might be. Any Le Mans Prototype from the past decade certainly lacks the character, panache and beauty of a Ferrari 330 P4, a Porsche 917k or even the cars of the Group C years. And the front of the grid has been pretty barren the past few seasons.

However, there's a very good chance that these new rules will usher in a new golden age of international sportscar racing - in terms of competition and design. Firstly, an agreement between the organisers of Le Mans (the ACO), the FIA and North America's IMSA means these cars can compete in the two most important sportscar series from 2023 - IMSA as the GTP class and the WEC as Hypercar - including the iconic endurance races at Le Mans, Daytona and Sebring. Secondly, the regulations deliver affordability and a Balance of Performance formula. Rather like the worldwide GT3 regulations administered for the FIA by SRO Motorsports, manufacturers are being offered a global stage, a defined development budget and the promise that no one manufacturer can dominate the class.

After a shaky start, it looks like the scheme is working. And if this is a bright new future for global prototype racing, you'd expect slot car companies to be in the mix. SRC have jumped to the front of the queue and announced their intention to build on the success of their Toyota TS050 LMP1 model and create a strong range of endurance sports prototype models, alongside their wonderful slot rally cars. Lets take a look at what they've hinted at so far...



The Peugeot 9X8 would seem to be the perfect slot car - it doesn't have any pesky rear wing to get broken! This is a big issue for races and classes that require any wing breakages to be replaced. Will a future Hyperslotcar grid be an Peugeot-only line-up? Race organisers have a problem to solve... The actual car made its race debut at the WEC Monza 6 Hours two weeks ago - essentially a test session in racing conditions. The 9X8 seemed to have the pace to be a contender - and Peugeot don't do anything by halves. They are back to win. The 9X8 is powered by a V6 petrol engine paired with a hybrid system and all-wheel drive.



The Toyota GR010 is a more traditional-looking Le Mans Prototype, introduced last year and winning both the 2021 and 2022 Le Mans 24 Hour races. Built to the new Le Mans Hypercar regulations, the GR010 differs from the previous LMP1 class TS050 by having a lower-cost carbon-fibre and aluminium honeycomb monocoque chassis, plus a V6 engine and hybrid system limited to 670bhp as opposed to 1000bhp in the LMP1 car. Aerodynamically, the LMH regulations limit the amount of downforce, freeing up the design parameters. The minimum weight is now 1030kg, a big increase from 878kg for the hybrid LMP1 cars.

Most importantly for slot car manufacturers, the maximum width in the Hypercar class has gone out from 1,900mm (59.375mm in 1:32 scale) to 2,000mm (62.5mm in 1:32 scale). That means SRC Hyperslotcars can have nearer the ideal-for-racing 64mm rear track and still be scale models - avoiding that controversial stretched/squished look.



The Glickenhaus SCG 007 has played a vital role in proving the new regulations work for teams on a budget. A relatively tiny operation owned by Hollywood film producer and racing car enthusiast James Glickenhaus, Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus put together this great-looking LMH car in the three years between the announcement of the Hypercar class and the debut of the 007 at Portimão. The SCG has been a fan-favourite throughout the 2021 and 2022 seasons - a real underdog story that delivered a fairytale podium finish at Le Mans last month, plus another third-place finish at Sebring in March.

The nose of the Glickenhaus almost looks like it has a slot car guide underneath - and the team created a new blue and white livery for the recent Monza 6 Hours, so there's scope for a run of different slot car models of the 007.

The dearth of liveries is likely to be an issue with some of these LMH cars - unless the manufacturers change their schemes from time to time, as Glickenhaus did at Monza. Peugeot updated the liveries each season on their 908 LMP1 cars, but Toyota liveries have looked almost identical for the past 6-7 years.

If a slot car manufacturer wants lots of liveries, then the LMDh cars might be the ideal place to go. These will be racing in the IMSA and WEC series from 2023 and will be manufacturer-designed body kits and engines, bolted to a chassis supplied by either Multimatic, Oreca, Dallara or Ligier - plus a standardised hybrid system. With the global Balance of Performance scheme covering both the LMDh and LMH cars, this option is the most cost-effective - and most manufacturers will delegate the running of their LMDh cars to an established private team, with the possibility of further cars being made available to customer teams.



The Porsche 963 was unveiled at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last month. It utilises the Multimatic chassis and a Porsche V8 based on the engine in the 918 Spyder road car. Porsche will team up with Penske Motorsport to run the 963 - harking back to the all-conquering ALMS Porsche Spyder LMP2 of the late 2000s. Porsche Penske Motorsport is the official works team, but contracts for customer cars have already been signed with JDC-Miller Motorsports and JOTA. The cars cost $2.9 million, but do come with full factory support. For 2023, that's three teams and six different Porsches for slot car manufacturers to model.

Those are the four Hypercars mentioned so far by SRC - but there are others to consider...

   

Policar CAR09a Ferrari 126C2 Long Beach 1982 - Didier Pironi. RRP tbc. Scheduled Winter 2022.

There's a change of plan for the first livery on the much anticipated Policar 126C2 - Pironi's Long Beach car gets the 'a' moniker as the special box for the Gilles Villeneuve Zolder release is taking longer than expected to manufacture. Policar have released a couple of prototype images to keep the excitement simmering away and pre-orders coming in...

   

It certainly looks a wonderful addition to the Classic F1 range, Policar travelling to the 1980s for the first time. The model features the same superb detailing and near-perfect scale representation that have become a benchmark for Policar's 1970 F1 models. And the 126C2 shares the same slim-can motor and super-smooth gearbox which make the Policar single-seaters so enjoyable to drive.

The choice of the Ferrari 126C2 is significant for an Italian slot car manufacturer. The C2 was the dominant car of 1982 - a triumph after Ferrari's turbo teething problems - but it was also the car in which Maranello's favourite son died. The US Grand Prix West at Long Beach was the third race of the 1982 season. Ferrari fitted the unique double rear wing - each element as wide as the regulations allowed, but overall far too wide. Whether a genuine advantage was expected or not, this was a challenge to the FIA in the on-going FISA-FOCA wars - political shenanigans that rather demeaned the sport at the time. The wing was essentially a tit-for-tat response to Williams' 'water-cooled brakes' trick. Tyrrell duly protested the double wing and the stewards duly disqualified the Ferraris, after what was a pretty classic early-80s Grand Prix...

The lovely people who own the rights for F1 have blocked us embedding any video content of the 1982 US GP West here, but you can still watch highlights of the race direct on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1xu7Dw45dRk

   

And there's plenty of footage in that video of the Ferraris. Although Pironi dropped out on lap six, Villeneuve fought back from a spin to claim third place - before being disqualified. Long Beach would be the only appearance of the double wing. The front and rear wing layout of the 126C2 would change during the year - starting in South Africa and Brazil with standard wings at each end, then experimenting with the front aerofoils for the European season - Pironi with and Villeneuve without as the two Ferraris finished 1-2 at Imola...

   

Pironi won at San Marino - and it was clear the 126C2 was now the car of 1982. The only question was whether Villeneuve or Pironi would be world champion. That pressure was certainly in the background when one of the most awful incidents of Formula One history unfolded in qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix. That scene at Zolder remains a traumatic memory for 1980s F1 fans - and for many, it took some of the magic away from the sport. Although the Villeneuve's 126C2 disintegrated, none of the blame for his death was laid at Ferrari's door. That Pironi suffered a similar accident at Hockenheim - one that ended his racing career - was just part of the risk of Grand Prix racing. Thankfully, racing cars have become stronger and safer since then.

Pironi held a comfortable lead in the drivers' championship - and would still finish second to Keke Rosberg by only five points, despite missing the last five races. Ferrari had drafted Patrick Tambay to drive Villeneuve's car - and Mario Andretti drove the #28 for the last two Grand Prix. In the hands of four drivers, the 126C2 won the manufacturers' title for Ferrari - although that was little consolation for the Tifosi.

By producing the Ferrari 126C2, Policar will be able to take us through that difficult journey of the 1982 season, celebrate the life of Gilles Villeneuve and offer models of race winning cars driven by Pironi and Tambay, plus Andretti's pole position car at Monza. There's also some nice variety of wings to make different releases more interesting. The Long Beach cars are unique, but Policar do supply a standard wing in the box for those more interested in racing the car.


The first livery - the Didier Pironi Long Beach car - is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of 2022 and will be available for pre-order at Pendle Slot Racing and other Slot.it and Policar dealers very soon.

This build was inspired by the story on Maxi-Models in the Digest #26. I had the Thunderslot McLaren body so I picked up a chassis and motor pod and raided the parts bin.
   


                   

Hi guy's,

I want to add lights to my Audi R8 I'm building, I have found these from a GT Porsche.
   
Will these work and is the wire simple for someone who doesn't like electrics? if so I'll buy them.
Cheers
Tony

   

Just got a used one of these Powerslot Mitsubishis but it came with worn out low profile ribbed Scalextric? road tyres. Can anyone recommend a readily available offroad style replacement as per those in the pic' please?

Although definitely Powerslot it does appear to have an SCX style chassis and hopefully therefore, Scalextric/SCX wheels.

Thanks for any help.

FOR SALE...


2 X PIONEER LEGENDS RACE CARS.

USED, EXCELLENT CONDITION.  VERY FEW LAPS, GREAT FUN TO DRIVE.   I HAVE  REFITTED THE MAGNET IN EACH CAR, BUT THEY ARE MUCH MORE FUN WITHOUT MAGNETS.   SCALEXTRIC DIGITAL PLUG EQUIPPED. 

PURCHASED FOR A CLUB CLASS THAT ULTIMATELY NEVER HAPPENED. 
THESE TWO ARE PIONEER "PAINT DEFECTS."   I CAN NOT SEE ANYTHING THAT IS IMPERFECT.   BASICALLY NO BOX, BUT ABSOLUTELY PERFECT SLOT CARS. 

GREAT FUN TO RACE AS A PAIR, OR IDEAL FOR CLUB RACING,  LIKE WORTHING DIGITAL. 

£50 THE PAIR, OR £25 EACH, PLUS £4.00 SIGNED FOR ROYAL MAIL SIGNED FOR POSTAGE. 
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