Happy Easter to everyone!

Ken

Race Coordinator Arduino mega pins for 4 lane track 
I am after the pin numbers for external start lights, lead led, and fuel led 
I have pins 4,5,6,7 for lap count

 Good Morning,

   

well its time to think about registration for the next Proxy series.

The deadline for Registration is the 1st August 2025
Payment deadline is 1st September 2025

The cars to be received before the 26th September 2025.
Please do not send during the last 2 weeks of July as I am on holiday



Proposed start of the proxy 1st Round is 1st September.

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Good luck with your builds 

   

The second round of our 2025 WHO GT Championship was also our Easter holiday team race. That tradition goes back to 2014 and has featured Micro Scalextric, AFX LMP and now digital team races. In addition to the race winners medals, there were five Easter eggs up for grabs too.

   

We finally got to race on the track Simon had designed for the January Nascar & Legends night - and it looked fabulous on paper and even better set up at the Barn...

   

Fast and technical, practice suggested this was a track to favour the inline cars. There was plenty of testing going on and important car choices made. Slimline decided against running the Ford GTE this time and ran with the Dadson Bentley Continental - the team will run four different cars over the season. Ryan was back at the helm of Smooth Ops and decided to go with his pink and silver Mercedes rather than Simon's Bentley. For MOZZIE, Matthew was deputising for Dean and they had an Aston Martin Vantage GT3. The other three teams would race the same machinery from Round One. And - as far as possible - we kept the driver line-ups from last time...

   

The official action began at 7pm with the 2-minute Super-Pole session. The team members taking part would start the race. As always, it was a frantic session, with some drivers nailing a great lap and others not. In the end, these were the times...

   
 
A fine return for Ryan and suggested the Mercedes has perked up since last season. With Ollie just eighteen hundredths of a second behind, we were all looking forward to a exciting opening stint to the race...

   

Race Control rolled the weather dice and we'd set the 575 lap race up with three random weather elements - RCS64 would decide what those were...

hi all
is there a forum for the slot car club at Bootle?
I was a member of the Liverpool Model car club wayback and am wondering if any remnants of the club exist ?

It was great to have all eight members in attendance last night. Nothing like maximizing the mayhem. 

After enjoying our usual slot car delicacy, pizza. The racing got started.

It was good to race an older class that's been collecting dust as of late. Up first were the scratch built 1.5L 60's GP class. They use 14k slim line slow motors, aluminum wheels, urethane tires, any gears, etc.

It was very respectful even though it was open wheel racing. Slow motors meant very little fishtailing. It was easy to stay in your lane.

   
   

Pre-war cars are a regular class for us. It's a points system to the end of the year. The winner wins... bragging rights. It's a bracket class. Go under 8-seconds and that lap is disqualified. Keeps it very interesting. Especially if/when the leader breaks out. Almost impossible to make up a lap without breaking out again. 

   
   

RevoSlot GT class were up next. Box stock cars with urethane tires. Also on a points system. These cars are super fun to race.

   
   

The last class to race were the Modern F1 cars (unlimited). NSR and Scaleauto were a popular choice. These are wide and fast. Hard not to fishtail. We had a few cars fly at least 10-inches or so high above the track surface last night. These are nasty when the tires rub between cars. Especially at high speeds. Luckily, no damage last night.

   
   

We will be racing again in a few weeks. Thank you very kindly for looking.
Ken

   

A beautiful spring day greeted our April WHO Mod & WHO Tuners race, the first of the second batch of HO event on the 2025 calendar. 

   

We returned to Simon's track design from April 2015 and marked the ten year anniversary of the first Viper to race at the Barn - a winning debut in the hands of Mike Dadson. Vipers now dominate the WHO Mod grid at WHO - this time, 17 of the 18 Mod cars were Viper chassis.

   

Twenty-one racers lined up for the qualifying heats, three running hard-bodied cars  in Tuners and the rest lexan-clad Mods. Kevin stepped up from a Mega-G+ to make his Mod debut and James was giving his Bulldog a first run in Tuners.

   

The track was incredibly fast, but had its challenging elements across all four lanes. The hairpin was catching people out from the start and the Tuners had to really slow for that and the 'wiggle' on the back straight. As drivers began to push, they found other corners required respect - most of the marshals being kept on their toes. Gareth's 27.3 in Heat 1 set the early pace, with Isaac the first driver to dip under 4-seconds for a single lap. It was Heat 8 before Keith beat Gareth's score, his 27.45 on red the best of the first pair of heat. However, it was Andy who led the way at the half way point...

   

There were a fair few cars issues being managed through the evening, but two drivers - Daniel and John - also had controller problems to deal with. John's trusty BRP required running repairs for the first time in 12 years, but was working again by his final heat...

   

Keith and Andy each banged in another 27+ lap to make it a two-way battle for pole. Meanwhile, Oliver and Gareth had their eyes on that third A final spot - the others leaving themselves too much to do in their fourth heat. Gareth and Keith were first to go in Heat 19. Gareth's run in yellow did not improve his total, but Keith absolutely smashed blue lane - setting our first 38 lap score of the night. There was a little controversy as Gareth and Keith's cars came together right at the end - was it before or after the deadstrip? Thankfully we had enough people watching the scoreboards for Race Control to make the right decision.

Keith's score meant Andy needed a 27.8 in white. Going in the penultimate heat, he had a great run, but fell a tantalising 0.2 of a lap short. Keith had pole position and Oliver had third. Oliver's run in Heat 22 didn't improve his score, but he already had a lap an a half advantage over Gareth...

   
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It's worth looking at the best laps - they are so close all the way down from Keith in first to Tracy in 14th. Those Vipers - all with different set-ups - have very similar pace over a lap. The difference - as always - is how many laps they did!

   

The report from the finals is to follow...