'Why haven't I seen this before'...that was my first reaction

'What a brilliant idea'...was my next reaction

...ebay was my next visit 



This should be brilliant for repairs also, no doubt would also work on resin and 3D bodyshells (I have a few test mules).

Hello all, my local slot-car shop is listing NSR Aston Martin as "Special Buy" at 49GB Pounds.
My only connection with Time Tunnel Models is as a full-price paying customer.

I don't know if this is a bargain but it seems to me that it is.

https://www.timetunnelmodels.com/live/ca...69543.html  

Leo  #supportlocalhobbyshops

Entries invited for round 3 of this years National GT3 Series on Sunday June 19rd.

Last round for championship entry (as 4 of 6 rounds count to championship and Rham is the 4th last round).

Club Address:
Unit 1 Wansell Road, Corby, Northants, NN17 5LX.
what3words: admire.alien.fence

Format:
Saturday 18/6/22:

14.00 - 17.00: Free Practice

Sunday 19/6/22 - open at 08.00

08.10 - 09.40: 3 min timed practice runs to non Sat attendees and non locals

09.40 - 09.55: 3 min timed practice runs practice to Sat attendees and locals

est times

10.00 - 10.30: 3 lap qualifying in championship order to decide heat groups

10.40 - 14.30 : 4 minute heats on each lane cumulative distance sets:

14.45 - 16.00: non championship followed by championship single step up ladder finals.

Please put your name on this thread, if you intend to enter this event.

If you have not already registered for the national series registrations this round will be your last chance (cost £8.00), however you can run as a guest whom will have separate step up finals.

Race fee is £7.00, although you do get tea and coffee for that!


If you are so inclined, out club night is on a Friday, 19.30 onwards. You will be able to run your GT3 cars if you care to join us

Britain's oldest slot car club is Oaklands Park in Birmingham.

After many years at the Harry Mitchell Centre in Smethwick, the club was forced to relocate in 2012 and can now be found in an upstairs room at 

Steel Spinnings Ltd, 94-96 Steward Street, Birmingham B18 7AF

We run every Friday night with doors open from approx 7:30pm with qualifying due to start at 8:00. The race night rota covers a wide spectrum of slot racing from hard body through to BSCRA. 

The track is a 100-foot 4-lane routed wooden track with computerised race control system.

A warm welcome awaits anyone who wishes to have a go but please be aware that the premises is a working factory and restrictions are in place to protect the business.

We also have a facebook page 'Oaklands Park Model Car Club' which is updated regularly.

Hi, I asked a friend to 3D print me a Jaguar XJ6 body. When he gave it to me, I find it is 1/24th scale and no good to me.

It is his first attempt at a slot car body and it is very rough and ready.

If it is of any use to anyone, you can have it for the cost of the postage. (UK ONLY)

Gerry

   

Slot.it CA49b Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 - KCMG #18 - Winner Fuji 2018 - Yukinori Taniguchi & Alexandre Imperatori. RRP £64.95. Available now

Slot.it have given us some wonderful glimpses on their Facbook page of their KCMG-liveried Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 - to whet our appetites before a full studio photoshoot and the imminent arrival of the model. This is the second livery on the 2018-spec Nissan, following the Team RJN Spa 24 hour car which was previewed on SlotRacer here.

   

These pictures are perfect timing for this weekend's Bathurst 12 Hours, where the KCMG car starred in 2019 - eventually finishing seventh, but a contender for the win throughout the race. However, this livery is from 2018, when KCMG ran a full season in the Blancpain GT Series Asia, the Hong Kong-based team's first campaign with Nissan.

   

KCMG - or KC Motorgroup - first caught my eye at Le Mans, running LMP2 Morgans and Orecas, winning the class in 2015. Founded in 2007 by former racing driver Paul Ip, the team struck me as a group of enthusiasts who had a lot of fun - racing in various series around the world and having their sights set on the big events. They were serious too - achieving impressive results, bringing on young drivers and were one of the first privateer teams to have a polished social media presence and fans around the globe. Scalextric recreated their 2016 Le Mans GTE Am Porsche 911 RSR as a set-only car in the 2018 ARC Pro Platinum set - KCMG had really arrived!

   

The two Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 Blancpain entries raced in Thailand, Malaysia, Japan and China, with a mid-season non-championship race in Macau too. Long-standing KCMG driver Alex Imperatori - Swiss, but resident in the Far East - teamed up with Japanese amateur racer and former-wrestler Yuke Taniguchi for the first Japanese double-header at Suzuka, where they had sixth and fourteenth place finishes. The two KCMG cars had scored strongly in the first six rounds, but it was at Fuji they had their best weekend of the year...



The #23 car of Edoardo Liberati and Florian Strauss took Nissan's first Blancpain pole and Liberati led the opening stages of the race...

   

A great opening stint for the amateur Taniguchi in the #18 saw him move from sixth on the grid to third place against professional drivers. Success penalties at the pit stop for the leading two cars put Imperatori in a perfect position to take the lead and pull away, setting the fastest lap of the race. The #23 KCMG Nissan finished third, making it a double podium for the Hong Kong team.

   

After the race, Yuke Taniguchi said: “I passed three pros at the start but thought they would be right behind me pretty soon so just focused on my own pace and race. But I felt pretty comfortable staying ahead of them for most of the stint and I really enjoyed it! I’ve done a lot of laps around Fuji and was here very recently for an endurance race so know the circuit well. I guess that helped today!”

The 2018 Blancpain series in their home region proved a perfect springboard to take the pair of Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3s to some of the most important GT3 races in 2019 - Bathurst, Spa and the Nürburgring being just some of the highlights. One of the cars usually featured Imperatori and Liberati in the driver line-up, with Oliver Jarvis joining them at the Spa 24 hours and for Bathurst. Switching to the Porsche 911 GT3R for 2020, the team continue to run near the front at the headline international GT3 events. And who knows, Scalextric might release another KCMG Porsche - the chrome and blue from 2021 would certainly be a stunning choice. I wouldn't turn my nose up at another KCMG Nissan either...

The Slot.it KCMG Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 has arrived with the UK distributor and should be with retailers very soon. I hope to have more images from Slot.it next week, but here's an earlier prototype for starters...

   

   
Slot.it CA44d Mercedes 190E DTM - #3 Roland Asch - Winner 1990 Kyalami Yellow Pages 200. RRP £64.95. Available 14 May 2022

This is definitely a car for Anthony's Belgium Kyalami layout. Marking the two visits DTM made to Johannesburg in 1990 and 1991, the #3 Camel-sponsored car created a bit of technological history in the process. And it is a cracking livery on the Slot.it Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evo II...

       

Twenty-five DTM touring cars were due to be shipped to South Africa in November 1990, but the Mercedes 'M7’ test car was missing. Reinhard A. Schulz, the boss of AMG South Africa and one of the people behind the Yellow Pages 200, managed to talk Camel into sponsoring the car and have it air-freighted to Johannesburg. The car looked the same as the other DTM Mercedes, but this one was the first to be fitted with ABS - a new technology in 1990. It took three days for the car to be wrapped in Camel colours - another technique that was new and unusual at the time...

       

Asch put the Camel Mercedes on pole position. Asch explains, “At Kyalami, we initially kept it a secret that the car had been equipped with ABS. When other drivers asked me about a button on the steering wheel that served to activate or to switch off the ABS, I said something about adjusting the brake balance!”

       

In the first race, Mercedes team mate Klaus Ludwig came out on top, ahead of Asch in second and Jörg van Ommen in another 190E third. In front of a capacity crowd of 42,000, Asch then turned the tables, winning the second race, ahead of Armin Hahne in the Zakspeed BMW and then Ludwig. As a result, Asch - runner-up in the 1988 and 1993 DTM - secured the much-publicised overall win from Ludwig and Hahne, scoring the first-ever victory for a car with a competition version of the ABS anti-lock braking system...

   

The post-race publicity announced that feat, but Asch remembers "Klaus Ludwig was really surprised when I overtook him with ease under braking!”

If you want to watch some of the race - with local commentary in English and Afrikaans - then both races are available on YouTube, this being the second of the two...



There is no ABS on the Slot.it car, it having a familiar Slot.it DTM layout under the body...

       

A big thank you to Jo and the team at Galileo engineering for sending through these fabulous pictures of the new car, which should be with most retailers over the next week.

   

I was hoping to attend, but a busy Friday meant I had to give it a miss :/

Race report from Andy, Thanks again.  

There was a good turnout for this fastest class of car that we race; with near enough unlimited modifications aloud drivers pushed their cars to the limit to set blistering lap times. With having 4 weeks off since the last race everyone came along with something to prove.  There was a good turnout of 14 drivers and it was good to see Elijah and Evie turn up and mix it with the ‘senior’ regulars.   The heats proved to be frantic as drivers got used to the fast cars; Jason did well with a borrowed Toyota GT One although he did try to make his car fly after a slightly over enthusiastic start in one of his final heat races.  It was good to see so many youngsters racing against each other through the heats gaining knowledge and skills.  It was a shame that a few of the younger drivers had to leave after the heats as they were all doing so well.
After the positions had been worked out had been worked out for the driver that left it was Elijah in 14th Evie in 13th Jason in 12th Bobbie in 11th and Jake in 10th.  For the remaining drivers it was onto the finals.  

 C final was Paul in green, Tony in blue and Tom in red.  Tony and Paul got off to a good start with Tony’s Porsche quicker on the straights but Paul managing to catch up in the twisty parts. Tom was struggling with a bit of pace at the back and in trying to push to catch up he had a couple of offs.  In the end Paul finished ahead of Tony and Tom came in 3rd.   

B final, Terry in green, Paul in blue, Andy in red and Dave in yellow.  This was tight off the line with everyone getting a good start and there was not much to choose between the racers for the first lap, Terry Andy and Dave started to pull away from Paul but an issue with Andy’s car meant that a minor correction to the brades had to be made and put Andy at the back of the grid. Things were still close at the front with a good battle going on between Dave and Terry.  Paul was putting in contestant lap times to maintain his position and Andy was pushing to try and make up the time that he had lost. At the line it was Terry in 1st Dave 2nd Paul 3rd and Andy 4th

Main Final. James in green, Ken in blue, Terry red and Heather in yellow.  As always this was a good clean race with little for the marshals to do, other than admire the fastest drivers pushing hard.  There were good battles between Heather and Ken for 2nd and 3rd at the start of the race with Terry fighting hard to stay on the tail, James was his usual fast self at the front making his consistent fast laps look effortless, and at times he looked like he was watching the other drivers!! At the end of the race James finished 1st with ½ a lap lead over Heather Ken was in 3rd and Terry came in 4th.

There's been some great GT racing so far this year - IMSA, WEC, Asian & European Le Mans, Fanatec GT Europe and British GT have all delivered exciting races. Coming up over the next couple of months are the classics, starting this weekend with the Bathurst 12 hours and continuing with 24 hour races at the Nürburgring (28-29 May), Le Mans (11-12 June) and Spa (30-31 July).

There's plenty of coverage available from Bathurst over the next few days on the official YouTube Channel and on the website: https://www.bathurst12hour.com.au/

Starting the race in the dark Sunday morning (Saturday evening, European time) and then watching dawn break over Mount Panorama is utterly magical - and comes highly recommended.

   

Just announced by Fly and Gaugemaster is a new collection of cars that raced at the Le Mans 24 hours. The first four cars are expected this summer, with another eight cars to be added to the collection. Only 200 will be made of each and the RRP is £62.95.

Gaugemaster have gone with liveries of the ‘also-rans’ - something I like. Starting the Le Mans 24 hours is worthy of being memorialised in a slot car release. Here are those first four - two Porsches from 1970 and two Ferraris from 1962.

FLYELM01 Porsche 911 No.63 Le Mans 1970 Rey Racing.
This car was driven by the Swiss pairing of owner Jacques Rey and Bernard Cheneviére in the GT2.5 class. The car crashed out after 13 hours. There are plenty of Porsche 911s that feature in the race footage in Steve McQueen’s film - might be a good excuse to watch it again.

FLYELM02 Porsche 911 No.59 Le Mans 1970 J.Egreteaud
Another privately entered Porsche in the GT2.5 class - this time French. Owner Jean Égreteaud shared the car with Jean Mésange, retiring in the eighth hour with engine problems. Another one to look out for when watching Le Mans.

FLYELM03 Ferrari 250 GTO No.23 Le Mans 1962 F.Tavano
A French privately-entered car, owner Fernand Tavano and co-driver André Simon lasted until the sixteenth hour, when the differential on their GTO failed and they retired from the race.

FLYELM04 Ferrari 250 GTO No.58 Le Mans 1962
This is probably the most prominent of this group of cars - a standard GTO that was entered by Count Volpi alongside a second ‘breadvan’ version. The #58 car had a strong pairing of Nino Vaccarella - at his second Le Mans - and Grand Prix driver Giorgio Scarlatti. All the GTOs fought hard for the GT class win and an overall podium, but both Volpi-entered Ferraris failed to finish, the Vaccarella-Scarlatti car retiring after 15 hours with engine failure. 

I’ll dig out some more over the next few days.