Scalextric C4252 Porsche 911 GT3R #9 Pfaff Motorsport - Winner GTD 12 Hours of Sebring 2021. RRP £49.99. Scheduled summer 2022.

Pictures of the new Scalextric Porsche on the Margate test track have recently been posted on social media. The Scalextric team kindly sent us a pre-production sample to have a look at and share pictures and vital statistics with SlotRacer Online readers. This car is pretty much what will arrive with retailer this summer - a final signed sample before it goes into production in Shenzhen.

       

Scalextric have decided to model the 2019 GT3R shape as opposed to the GTE 2019 RSR. Their previous Porsche GT body was the 2013-17 RSR, which did limit the liveries available somewhat. The GT3 shape allows Scalextric choose from a vast number of fabulous cars that race in numerous GT series around the world. Of course from this year, IMSA have ditched LMGT in favour of two GT3 classes, with the World Endurance Championship (and therefore Le Mans) following in 2024. GT3 is the future.

       

This first livery models the Canadian Pfaff Motorsport Porsche that won the GTD class at the 12 Hours of Sebring last year. It's an fabulous livery that really stands out on the IMSA grid. Driven by Porsche factory driver Laurens Vanthoor, Canadian Zacharie Robichon and engineer-turned-racer Lars Kern, the 'Plaid Porsche' won, having qualified last after brake issues. Lars Kern summed up the elation in the team...

Quote:It's unbelievable to win the 12 Hours of Sebring. This is one of the biggest sports car races in the world. The team deserves exactly that – they were working so hard last year and we didn't race much. Everybody did a perfect job. We saved the best guy for the end, and Larry (Laurens) finished the job.

Back to the Scalextric model - and there's no doubt this is a beautiful-looking car with very sharp decoration...

       

The differences from the previous Scalextric Porsche GTE are clear and it sits very nicely alongside another recent GT car from the IMSA series...

       

There's no doubt collectors and Porsche fans are going to want this car on their shelves. But what about home and club racers? Here's some vital statistics...

Length: 145mm
Wheelbase: 77.1mm
Guide pivot to rear axle: 90.6mm
Rear track: 62.0mm
Height: 37.7mm
Weight: 80.0g
Body weight: 29.6g including rear valance
Rear wheel diameter: 17.1mm

Plus a look underneath and inside the car...

       

Apart from the neat Porsche logo and the reinforced DPR hatch, it's a pretty standard Scalextric GT layout. Except that the lower portion of the rear is a separate piece. This isn't unheard of on slot cars and does allow much more detail and a more authentic shape than a one-piece mould. However, racers will need to do some work on this to get some decent body float - a little bit of surgery and gluing the separate part to the body should do the job. Slightly more work than normal, but not insurmountable.

The magnet comes out easily and there is plenty of room for ballast. I set up the car non-mag with a pair of urethane tyres, a gram or so of blue tack beside the motor, plus a C8515 digital plug - and gave it a run out before our Worthing Digital evening this week...

       

No timing, but the car was nice and smooth to drive on a big 100-foot Scalextric digital layout. From some quite fast-paced laps, I though the car has everything needed for a good Scalextric GT racer. The front wheels are just touching the track, so the usual work re-profiling the braids, truing wheels, tyres and adding a little weight front and mid-ships would certainly improve things - plus that work on the body layout to get some float. It turned out a few WHO/digital racers have the Pfaff Motorsport Porsche on pre-order, so we'll definitely see at least one on our GT championship grid later this year.

Coming-up... I'll be giving the Plaid Porsche a full timed shakedown on my home track in both non-magnet and standard set-up. Keep an eye out for the report next week!

1/32 size Wire Wheel suitable for Ninco Classic slot cars

https://www.printables.com/model/176018

This model makes use of multi-part modeling and disabling the “clip multi-part objects” option in PrusaSlicer to force each spoke to be printed across the perimeters of the other parts of the wheel for secure adhesion at both ends.

While the spokes and knock-offs are not the exact same as OEM Ninco Classic wheels, the rim and rib sizes are the same, so will take a tire made to fit those wheels. The hub will probably need to be carefully reamed, or a THWACK mallet can be used to knock the axle into the wheel. Careful not to ream it too big, or it will be wobbly!

The spokes are designed with a .4x.4mm cross section, which is two layers using a standard .4mm nozzle and standard .2mm layer thickness. I cannot speak to how well this will print using other nozzle sizes or layer thicknesses.

My prints pictured are proof of concept. It's likely that they can be made better with better quality filament and some settings tweaking, especially for flow and speed while printing the spokes.

I did not include STL files because of the nature of these models and the required settings in the slicer to make them print properly.

As a result of my recent move, and the resetting up of my study, with related changes in shelving, I re-organised my collection. and while is by no means all of it, it is all the ones I really 'like'  

Following on from that I know I LOVE looking at other collectors set of cars and collections. I thought I would share what I have out and hope that you will join in and share your collections for all of us to oogle at.

Here we go -


       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

   

What is still in the basement  


       

Hello all,
Has anyone tried one of the Jadlam Lucky Dip purchases and can feedback on their experience?
The "not working, not damaged" category at 20.99 pounds is tempting.

Leo

https://www.jadlamracingmodels.com/scale...-detail-4/

The 3D makers here will have seen this, people who post 'stl?!?' as a reply to a 3D printed part, really gets on my ***

Is that a question or a remark, do you want to know if the stl file is available or just asking is that what you used?  It comes across as 'give me the file!'

What happened to good manners, how about 'is that stl available to buy' or 'that's great, where did you get the stl?'

stl?!? ..no, try asking rather than demanding 

...and relax 

   

WHO/Digital Nascar Team Race & Legends Pairs Race

Wednesday 20 April 2022

Regulations can be found here: https://www.whoracing.org.uk/who_digital.html

Doors open at 6.30pm - please don’t arrive earlier (unless you’re part of the set-up crew, of course).

As always, we ask that all racers aged 12 or younger bring a responsible adult with them.

Race fees: FREE! Both races in April are free. There will be a charity box for any donations.

Digital Wednesday format: From 6.30pm the track is open for practice, plus a digital driving school aimed at new racers and those who need a refresher course. At 7pm, we allocate racers to teams for the Nascar team race - using our Nascar club cars. We’ll run 3 x 20 minute ‘segments’, with teams swapping cars. The aim is to get the most laps in the 60 minutes. Following that - at around 8.30pm - we have our Pioneer Legends pairs race, using racers’ cars. If you don’t have a car, there’s a good chance you’ll be offered a ride as half of a ‘pair’, but there’s no guarantee. Two qualifying heats, a semi and a final bring us to the end of the evening by 9.45pm.

Covid precautions: With Covid cases still high on the south coast, we hope you can take a lateral flow test sometime on the day of the event and urge you not to attend if you have any symptoms that might be Covid. This is to keep vulnerable members of the extended WHO family safe. Inside the Barn, wearing a face mask, practising good hand-hygiene and giving each other space are non-negotiable requirements. We will ensure as good ventilation as possible - and will also have hand sanitiser and spare masks available if you forget your own. Any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Event coverage: Catch-up with the results, report, photos, stats and video here at SlotRacer Online through Thursday and Friday. Everything is published here first

1/24th Club Cars
              
We have 2 sets of clubcars at the 'Fort' covering 1/32 & 1/24 classes, the 1/24 are Parma Flexi2 chassis with 16d motors and a sports bodyshell (I cant for the life of me remember which one), they are painted to match the lane colours, and the spare car is silver.
They suit our track very well and are one of the quickest class of car.

Round 1 was 17th Feb and saw 9 racers take to the track for 4x 3 minute races, the total of all races to count. from the outset if was Mike, Bernie, Ian & Ken posting the high numbers, Ken had a poor race in green lane which dropped him back a little, Bernie just kept his nose in front through the series of races to claim the win, from Mike, Ian and then Ken.
The times were quite poor due to the track needing a good clean, that will be done before round 2.
   

Round 2 followed on 14th April, by now the track had been cleaned and freshly spray-gooped, it felt fast, sadly only 6 members made it up the club but we had some VERY close racing I think everyone enjoyed the grip & stability that was shown by the cars, even if one lane was a little down on power, the racing was frantic, the increase in speed making overtaking a fine art, the results are the total of all 4 races and at the end of the evening the results were Bernie from Graeme, and Ian just getting the better of Ken for 3rd.
   

Specials

We have a number of 'Special' evenings throughout the year at the 'Fort, fun being the order of the day, one such class is caravans, a homemade trailer caravan towed behind one of your slotcars via a homemade 'hitch'.
There have been a few different trains of thought on what makes a good car/caravan combo, we have seen lego caravans (which tend to fall apart when crashed), an ingenious one by Jason where the pivot for the hitch was on the bonnet of the towcar at the front, it was quite stable and didn't 'whip' like others but because of that it couldn't negotiate our tight corner.
Anyway 31st March saw Rd1 of this years 'Specials',  the caravans made another appearance, the new build of Les looking very quick in practice, on closer examination the towcar turned out to be a Genesis!! how about that Richard Mack, probably NOT what you had in mind for your chassis
Once again the laughter was louder than the cars and at the end of the evening Bernie had JUST beaten Les for the win, with Mike & Graeme rounding out the top 4.
I reckon Les needs to keep the caravan attached, it was rapid, wheras Anthony needs to find some way of keeping his caravan attached to it's wheels, I think it lost at least one wheel every race which rather slowed it down.

   

Les's 2nd place caravan
   

Just visiting my daughter's for the weekend to paint shed, decking etc, and popped into the local model shop on Rushden High Street, Osbornes, for a peruse of their Scalextric stock (new Corvettes looks good!). 

I asked about any oddities they might have under the counter, and he went off and brought back a display version of the Lewis Hamilton Vodaphone McLaren F1 car that Scalextric brought out when he first joined the team. So no motor, but otherwise a replica of the slot car. With the unused cardboard display plinth.

I have no ties with the shop, but they have no website and I thought I'd mention it incase anyone here would be interested in it.

   
Policar CAR06c Ferrari 412P Maranello Concessionaires #23 Le Mans 24h 1967 - Richard Attwood and Piers Courage. RRP £64.95. Available now

Like the real cars, the Policar Ferrari 330 P4 and 412P models are things of beauty and fabulous to drive on the track. For many, the 330 P3 and P4 (and customer 412P) are the most attractive racing cars of all time. No 1966 P3s survive, most were used to create the 1967 P4 and 412P cars - of which eight were built and six survive...



The 412P was Ferrari's customer sports prototype for 1967 - an upgraded 330 P3 underneath, with the '67-style P4 bodywork on top. There were some differences from the works 330 P4 cars - most noticeably retaining Weber carburettors, rather than fuel injection - and they were never meant to be a threat to the factory cars on pace. Four 412P chassis were created - two from P3s and two brand new. The car delivered to UK Ferrari franchise Maranello Concessionaires was chassis #0854 - the second of the new chassis. Handed over to the British team at the Le Mans test weekend in April, the car first competed at the Spa 1000Kms - Dickie Attwood and Lucien Bianchi finishing third overall in the characteristic Maranello Concessionaires livery of Ferrari red with sky blue stripe...

       

Spa was merely a warm-up for the Le Mans 24 hours over the weekend of the 10 & 11 June. Attwood was partnered by fellow-Brit Piers Courage. Qualifying seventeenth, the Maranello Concessionaires car ran just outside the top ten through to just before dawn on the Sunday. The Ferrari's oil pump broke and the car was retired when the team's full allocation of oil was used up...

       

The final race in Maranello Concessionaires colours was at Brands Hatch - the final round of the world sportscar manufacturers' championship. Attwood was joined by David Piper - who'd soon be the owner of 412P #0854 - and they finished seventh, helping Ferrari to a slim two-point victory over Porsche in the championship. With the FIA changing the rules for sports prototypes, the 412P was no longer eligible for the world championship. Maranello Concessionaires sold their car to David Piper, who painted it green and raced it in Europe and South Africa with four outright wins. By the end of the season, the car had become an open-top Barchetta - thanks to a big shunt at Kyalami requiring major bodywork alterations. Piper retired the car from competition after more South African and European races in 1969.

The Maranello Concessionaires car has passed through a select group of private owners in Britain and the USA, now residing with movie producer and Le Mans racing team owner James Glickenhaus...



Glickenhaus has carefully restored the car to the original closed-top Berlinetta shape and painted it with the #9 Maranello Concessionaires livery carried at the 1967 BOAC 500 at Brands Hatch. It is considered the most original of the four 412P cars - all of which survive to this day and are worth in the region of US$50 million each.

       

The Policar model is rather more affordable, but there is no expense spared at Reggio Emilia to create a car that is as authentic as possible. New moulds provide small, but important differences between the works 330 P4 and the Maranello Concessionaires 412P - as can be seen in the images above. The new car also has an updated spare wheel and comes with aluminium rear hubs as spares in the box...

       

Underneath the beautiful bodyshell is the standard Slot.it/Policar Classic Sports layout, with a 23k rpm V12/4 S-Can motor in a 0.5mm offset sidewinder pod. You can also see the new CH85b screw guide and the SP45 connectors to allow a suitable Slot.it digital chip to be fitted without soldering.

       

Thanks to Jo and the team at Galileo Engineering for the spectacular images and update about the changes to the body. The CAR06c model is available now. Don't hang around if you want one!