I have arranged with Teesside SCC to hold an extra event in this seasons Great North Slot Race.

Will be held on Saturday 1st August 2026.

Three classes
F1 Sprint race over 1 minute heats
Saloon 2 minute heats
Sports / GT 3 minute heats.

Usual rules, see attachment.

Please let me know if you are interested.

Gerry

   

So here we are to launch the Registration Process for the "Racing the 60's Slot Car Proxy"

REGISTRATION FORM
https://forms.gle/pbTzhPabky6CcMPw9

TECHNICAL RULES

PROXY DATES (2026-2027)
Registration Deadline Date 1st December 2026
Cars Delivered by the 1st March 2027
Proxy Qualifying Date 3rd April 2027

ENTRY COST
£20 for 1 entry car.
£30 for 2 entry Cars
£35 for 3 entry Cars

ROUNDS
Minimum 6 and Max 10 (Will depend on the number of entries confirmed by the 1st September )
The Events will be raced seperately
Racing Format is Championship Style with 2 or more car racing.
Points awarded for each Event seperately
Winning car for each Event and for associated runner up class.

"Spirit of the Proxy" award (best presented car overall)

GENERAL COMMENTS
I don't expect to be running another proxy of the era period again, so it's now or never.
I am hopeful we will see some great models presented, I have tried to tailor this proxy around those who had preferred a modelling or "Master build class" to be included (like the earlier International proxies of the past). Again this is probably going to be a one off because of proxy era.
The cars will need some careful racing, so I would ask hosts to set their tracks at 10volts max.

I am looking for 15" radius banking for Tomy AFX track, they make 9" and 12" but that limits me to 4 lane banking and I am looking for 6 lane banking. I have thought that it might be possible to get sections 3D printed, but this is out of my league, anyone out there have this capacity?

I have also thought of making it out of plywood steamed to a curve with the slots and pick up rails routed into the plywood, again this seems a little daunting but I do have local boat builders that could help and then fit 3 inch track pieces to the ends to connect standard track to.

Best wishes Chris.

Back in the early 80s I attended the GP’s at Kyalami. As I have been a tifosi forever, the Ferrari CK, C2 and C4 have always been a favourite of mine having seen them in the flesh.

I obviously bought the PoliCar C 2 , Kostas CK and GTM C2 and was looking for a C4,


I saw a Nonnoslot on the bay and bought it - not bad but wanted more 
   

The Kostas, Policar and GTM  C2:

               
   


Then David Mitcham and John Warren created a resin C4 and I thought HA!! ?

I ordered the C4 body and Policar 126 C2 whit kit, from which I would take all the detailing parts and mechanics.

This is the build process( it has generated interest on Johns resin build page on FB, so will add the fotos of the build for those that are interested.

           

This is the start of the build - more will be added as I go

Hi. Racer from the 60's. Trying to identify this controller, my favorite from those days. Does anyone know, and would anyone like to make an offer to buy it?

Pit box

I posted my converted tool box in the general interest forum recently, as interested in what other people are using for conveying their cars. I have also been looking at the various pit boxes used by my local club members to see what they use and the good and bad points of each plus trawling the Net for ideas of what to buy. Conclusion I came too is that if I want to replace the current box then either spend £100+ on a dedicated Pit box or spend time converting a fishing tackle box.

And now for something completely different….

A design taking ideas from various pit boxes I have seen and creating a pit box as shown below. This was printed using a Bambu P1P in sections less than 250mm cubed limit of the P1P. The MK1 design swallowed 3+ reels of filament and came in at @3.5Kg empty. Size is 350mm wide, 194 deep and 330mm high. Construction is a 4 poster bed frame of Aluminium angle to which is bolted, the boxes, and shelving. This was built up as shown to see what can be done, what is viable in print time and how thick/thin sections need to be plus some design ideas i.e. rotary catches.

   

   

Some key take aways from this is it is too heavy, the fixed internal car trays are too restrictive on access, and the internal storage is greater than my needs.

Solution is the MK2 design where the width and height are reduced, (depth is greater) and the storage reduced. This can still take up to 12 off 1/32 scale cars or 9 off 1/24 and any combination of either. The cars now sit on removable drawers, controller goes in the top drawer not a side box, and the lids/flaps are now clamshell doors 60mm deep. The doors hold cleaning tape, electrical spray, tool drivers and some drawers for spares and lane marking tape rolls. Doors held closed by a sliding catch. This has shaved off 1.5kg so now 2Kg empty, so costing less, its quicker to print and more manageable to carry. Weight saving was achieved by volume reduction, combining the sub 250mm panels into panels going up to 300mm which then looses mating walls and fixings, and otherwise reduce wall section thickness compared to the MK1. The side boxes have been deleted, as well as the ally right angle sections which has reduced the screw fixings from 20 down to 10 off M5 Hex bolts & embedded nuts, and made the assembly quicker.

   

   

   

To achieve the MK2 design I needed a bigger footprint printer so purchased a Sovol SV08 in the Easter sale for £382, this has a 350mm cubed footprint and for the 3dp geeks is based on the Voron 2.4 design. The Voron design comes from an open source group dedicated to developing high speed printers and Sovol have licenced a design from them. The SV08 is around 15-25% faster than my Bambu P1P (which is no slouch) which benefits printing larger parts.

Total print time using Egloo PLA + Rapid for the MK2 is @35 hours equivalent to printing 7 bodyshells so not a major issue and potential to reduce this further with a larger bore nozzle and wall thickness optimisation. Cost wise on the MK2 for filament, hardware, and printing is @£40.

Onto the MK3...

Cheers
John

I have bemoaned the lack of slot track design software for a while now. 

With the disappearance of Ultimate Racer, Scalextric Track Designer, SlotMan, Tracker 2000 and Track Power, it has felt like the ultimate goal of a modern, relatively inexpensive, cross platform planner had waltzed off ever further into the distance. 

All of which made it a great pleasure to be contacted by the developer of Race Track Lab, a free, web based, cross platform, slot track designer.

Since it is browser based, there is no need to download or install, you simply register, and start designing. It also means that you can access Race Track Lab from any device; desktop, laptop, tablet, and/or phone, all you need is a web browser.

The system provides real-scale measurements, multi-lane layouts, inventory management and a community circuit library. It supports Scalextric (SCX), Ninco, Carrera, Policar, and Scaleauto tracks, with Scalextric (UK), 1/43, and HO to come.

           


Having briefly tested it my first impression is that it is very good. It feels exactly like where we should be with a track designer, and that is a huge compliment, as it's a first time in over a decade I've said that. It seems well designed, intuitive, and simple to use.

If you're anything like me, you probably have your favourite old track designer stashed away somewhere, and it probably does everything you need it to do. But if I were new to the hobby, I would be very tempted to go for Race Track Lab.

https://racetracklab.com/

Just finished build 2 of 5.  Car responds very well to mods. Stock it came in at 84g with a 35/65 weight bias Fr and 51/49 lr. 

Dropped in a massive brushless system and other parts and it's down to 71.8g  40/60 weight bias from and 50/50 lr. First build set a track record pretty easy with a old tune on the esc for a another car. 


Stock I wasn't really impressed with it. Power and speed was definitely lacking. Found the car to handle pretty well due to the better than normal weight bias but still found that if it did get squirrely it would snap pretty hard when it corrected. Now its pretty fast. Excessive amounts of torque and handles great.

Just when we thought we had everything covered, a new exciting product appears and should put smiles on all our faces for quite a while...



...F1 Sidecar



Here's the first public test, some of us had never driven a 3 wheeler before:







...orders have been placed and a new class is eagerly waiting to get started

After trying different layouts I have finally landed on this one, for the time being anyway. Always looking for a different drive experience.

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Track length of just short of 6 meters in an area of 1.7m x 1.2m. Average lap time of just over 3 seconds.