Another refugee from SFI. Looking good Jason, everything working fine.
   

hello

All good here - cannot access from work but can at home :)

hello

All good here - cannot access from work but can at home :)

   

Fantastic event , very close racing

Well here I am
Brand new forum breathing life into our community
Many Thanks Jason

In for a penny in for a pound

Cheers
Bob :)

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Bob Chapman
Picton Ontario
Canada

Hi! JasonB here, one of the founder members of this forum. I've been an admin on SlotForum for a while, but have found that increasingly hard work, because of the forum owners. So I, along with several others have decided to set up this new forum, which is owned, and run by and for slot car enthusiasts. Hope you enjoy it.

My favourite motorsport is classic rally, and my slot track reflects that. I like to have a slippery track, and I like my cars to wag their tails all over the place. It's just not rallying if the cars aren't sideways.

I also love designing tracks, and you'll find plenty of my layouts in the plans section of the main website, as well as scattered around here in the forum.

Plans 

This year's Formula 1 season is almost upon us, with the Australian GP just a few days away. 

Could this be the year that Lewis Hamilton beats Juan Manuel Fangio's record of five driver's titles? Or will Sebastian Vettel become the third driver on five? Fingers crossed that McLaren can continue their strong testing form, but Williams look like they're struggling.

Here's a quick reminder of all the dates, venues, teams and drivers.

Date	Venue	Country
March 17	Melbourne	Australia
March 31	Sakhir	Bahrain
April 14	Shanghai	China
April 28	Baku	Azerbaijan
May 12	Barcelona	Spain
May 26	Monaco	Monaco
June 9	Montreal	Canada
June 23	Le Castellet	France
June 30	Spielberg	Austria
July 14	Silverstone	Great Britain
July 28	Hockenheim	Germany
August 4	Budapest	Hungary
September 1	Spa-Francorchamps	Belgium
September 8	Monza	Italy
September 22	Singapore	Singapore
September 29	Sochi	Russia
October 13	Suzuka	Japan
October 27	Mexico City	Mexico
November 3	Austin	USA
November 17	Sao Paulo	Brazil
December 1	Yas Marina	Abu Dhabi

Cars	Teams	Drivers
	MERCEDES	Lewis Hamilton	Valtteri Bottas
	FERRARI	Sebastian Vettel	Charles Leclerc
	RED BULL	Max Verstappen	Pierre Gasly
	RENAULT	Daniel Ricciardo	Nico Hulkenberg
	HAAS	Romain Grosjean	Kevin Magnussen
	MCLAREN	Carlos Sainz	Lando Norris
	RACING POINT	Sergio Perez	Lance Stroll
	ALFA ROMEO	Kimi Raikkonen	Antonio Giovinazzi
	TORO ROSSO	Daniil Kvyat	Alex Albon
	WILLIAMS	George Russell	Robert Kubica

Australian GP Bahrain GP Chinese GP Azerbaijan GP

Quote:Motorbike racing is to return to the Oliver's Mount road circuit 17 months after 12 people were injured in two crashes.

   
Oliver's Mount has been one of my favourite tracks, ever since I watched Timo Mäkinen tearing round the track on the 1975 R.A.C rally, on his way to his third successive win in the event. So it's great to see that it will be used again, after a couple of nasty accidents in 2017 put the track's future in doubt.

For anybody who doesn't know Oliver's Mount, it is a picturesque track which is reputedly England's only natural road racing circuit. You can see from the picture below that the track is based around a narrow ridge of elevated land, surrounded by thin strips of wooded slopes. It is characterised by it's steep elevation changes, and impossibly tight hairpins.

   

Built in 1946 the 2.41 mi (3.88 km) circuit has fantastic views over the seaside town of Scarborough, on the east coast of Yorkshire, and stands just a few hundred yards away from the North Sea.

   

The track has always been well known primarily for motor cycle racing. But it held Formula 3 races in 1955, and 1956, it held stages of the R.A.C. Rally in 1975, 78, and 83, three stages of the Roger Albert Clark classic rally, and also many hillclimbs over the years.

       

So, I'm very happy that the future of this wonderful, eccentric, and unique circuit looks very positive.
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