We return to the Barn tonight for our August HO Nascar race. Since August 2015, we have raced - more often than not -  on a version of the WHO Tricky Triangle, inspired by the Pocono tri-oval. This summer is no exception, returning to a layout with three quite different corners...

   

Sadly, WHO racer Steve Puttick will not be joining us tonight. His family informed us this week that Steve died suddenly at the end of June. Steve has been a part of the WHO family at the Barn since the start of last year, a popular member of the 'kitchen end' marshalling crew and a pretty handy racer. We will miss him.

I just stumbled onto this on Ebash. It was $9.50 USD buy now ($7 for shipping). I was curious enough that I did not hesitate.

It does not have the detail of a Fein kit. But, it's also cheaper than one round of coffees with my friends. I can afford to beat it to death, and laugh about it.

I like it. A good excuse to paint and build another car.

   

I took five Fly Audi Quattros out of their boxes today: all had split pinions.  Half of these have never been run so it must be a manufacturing/materials issue. 

Anyway...

Has anyone else had this issue and what did they use as a replacement, assuming there might be something better than throwing more Fly pinions at them?


(Photo for illustration, not actual Fly Quattro pinion)

An random invitation went out for a pop-up race. Seven friends answered the call. After a round of pizza, a race broke out.

Up first were USSRC class cars. Quite a mixed field. Drivers could race 3-cars each. Some of us are on a low budget and only have one car.

   
   
   

Then came the "Big Boat" class. Scratch built full size cars with 14K 'Jack Rabbit" motors.

   
   
   

70's GP cars are a fast class with stock Scalex slim line motors.

   
   
   

Group 5 were up next.

   
   

As a bonus. The host built three 1/24 NASCAR IROC cars. Super looking cars. Everyone was quite happy to beat them... I mean race them around the track. Close fender to fender racing is always a blast. 

   
   

Thank you very kindly for looking,
Ken

                                                                                                                   Here from the museum in Houston is a extremely rare set sold at "AUX Galierics Lafayette in Paris " Jouets-48  in 1905. Its not a slot car set but it is still part of our hobby's early history. The box folds out to become the base for the set. Its all wood with paper glued to it. The 2 tin cars are each around 4 inches long. While the set is French the 2 cars were made by Georg Fischer in Germany. He start making penny toys in 1903. The cars roll down the wooden track and at the bottom they knock down the wood pins . Under the pins are various numbers so you can score. I believe these may have been gambling sets made for adults. Sort of like the 1947 bar game set I have from Italy. Anyway this is now the earliest toy automotive tracked set we have in the museum. The set when set up is 42 inches long (quite big ).

Hello, 

I picked up some diecast at a flea market and these 2 cars were mixed in.  I believe that they are both Aurora cars but identifying the models eludes me.  I think the Tourquise car is a Aurora TJet '63 Ford Falcon but I cannot find any intat color scheme.  The other car is perhaps a corvette?  I've attached a few photos to see if anyone can help me.  

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

As part of my investigation of SENSORED brushless motors for digital slot car racing I bought a couple of Slot.it MB01 brushless motors. They of course are unsensored.


   

That said they are beautifully engineered and deserving of further consideration for sensored digital slot-car applications.

As may be apparent from other threads on slotracer.online, my preference is for SENSORED brushless motors… so the question … 

Can a Slot.it MB01 be modified to make it a sensored motor?

I plan to explore several potential options, the first being a diametrically polarised ring magnet attached to the drive axis, with three Hall sensor ICs at 120 degrees attached to the motor mount. Let’s see if this can be done?

If it can … this opens up some opportunities to drive a ‘sensorised’ MB01 motor from an oxygen O201c wireless decoder. The necessary electronic driver module has already been designed … so fingers crossed a SENSORISED MB01 and O2 wireless decoder combination can be made to function correctly … let’s see.

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I’ll let the pic do the talking….  

  
   

   

Twenty-four racers took part in the first of two summer WHO Digital Nascar & Legends evenings at the Barn. We welcomed James T for his first taste of digital, with Simon M joining us for his first full evening of the WHO digital experience. We raced on a slightly tweaked version of the track Simon designed for our evening in February and proved a great layout for novices and experienced drivers alike...

   

As always, six teams were put together with a mix of young racers, top seeds and less experienced drivers. Six teams of four would race three 20-minute segments, swapping cars each time - the winners swapping with the sixth place team etc.

Segment One saw Ryan, Rob, Pete and Simon M tie with Ollie, Terry, Kev and Duncan with 87 laps, but it was Ryan's team that took the initiative in the middle segment. A huge 91 lap run with the red car gave them a five lap advantage over Ollie's quartet and seven laps ahead of Jerome, Andy, Stephen Mc and Kevin G. Those were the only team with a chance of the win going into the final 20 minutes...

   

The concluding segment was a close-run thing. The winners of the 20-minutes were Oliver, Simon C, Mike Mc and Rob A, equal on 90 lap with Ollie's team. However, Ryan, Rob B, Pete and Simon M rolled in just a lap behind, wrapping up the race by four laps...

   

Congrats to the winners, especially as they had one of our two new drivers! And well done to all the teams on yet another excellent Nascar team race...

         

         

         

Next was the Legends pairs race...

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