This Tucker Torpedo was sourced from eee bay for $10. When it arrived the reason for the low price was apparent! It evidently suffered from smallpox (pinholes galore) as a youngster and led a hard life up to maturity (warped). I gave it care and massage to the best of my ability. The chassis is plywood. The decals are from Slot Car Fever. A Carrera chip was installed and 'exhaust' LEDs were fabricated and attached to the chassis. CB Design 'steelies' provide the glide! What an ugly car but it's cool!

   

HobbyClassic Project HCP-229 Audi Sport Quattro S1 - Walter Röhrl - 1st Pikes Peak 1987. EUR145.00 clean / EUR150 dirty.

Not many slot car releases have got me this excited in a long time. The latest HobbyClassic Project is a 250-unit run of Walter Röhrl's record-breaking Audi Sport Quattro S1 with all the hillclimb trimmings. Produced in resin, the first 200 are in a 'clean' finish, the final 50 in an after-race 'dirty' version.

       

The Quattro S1 was a beast, but after Group B was banned in international rallying, manufacturers were looking at ways to exploit the vast development costs that had been pumped into the projects. Pikes Peak had been a happy hunting ground for Audi the previous two years, but this definitive evolution of the S1 was the ultimate Audi hillclimb monster. Tuned to 600 bhp, the Quattro was the first car to complete the course - then mostly gravel - in under 11 minutes...



Röhrl's time of 10minutes 47.850 seconds would stand for only 12 months, Ari Vatanen shaving half a second off the time in his modified Peugeot 405 T16, a run immortalised in Jean Louis Mourey's mercurial short film Climb Dance.

The dirt on the 'after-race' version is subtle and does look very nicely done for 5 Euros extra...

       

And everything comes packed very carefully, like all HobbyClassic products...

   


Mechanically, the chassis is fitted with an inline S-Can motor and all-wheel-drive. Because I think I'd definitely want to build a hillclimb track and run this thing.

And the price... It's not complete madness, especially for a short-run resin car. If you want one, the clean version is available from HobbyClassic here and the dirty version here.

 Good Morning,
I thought I would add this slight variation on the car builds, to include some photo shoots of the cars and tracks.

   

         

Some prospective Road Runners cars trying out the Hillclimb section of the "Harlequin Pass"

Also some photos of the "Spen Brook" which is down at the moment for maintenance.

           

     

SO ENTRANTS ARE WELCOME TO POST PHOTOS OF YOUR CAR BUILDS HERE, AND THE HOSTS CAN POST THEIR TRACK PICS AS WELL

A new exciting Slot Car Championship is happening in the North Wales and Borders areas. 

The championship is open to all racers, but the host circuits are in the North Wales and areas, we have a total of five host tracks / clubs. 

Starting off in Denbigh ( North Wales Slot Car Club ) on the 12th April 25 

Round Two in Stoke ( North Staffs Slot Car Club ). On the 27th April 25 

Round three is at Wallasey ( Wirral Slot Racing Slot Car Club ) on the 7th June 25 

Round four is at Blaenau Ffestiniog ( Small World Slot Car Club) on the 28th September  25 

Round five is Whitchurch ( TRUSPEED Slot Car Club ) on the 19th October. 

Championship points are won by events and your best three results count, reasoning if you cannot race at all events you still have a competitive chance by racing three of the rounds. 

Please see face book page for rules and eligible cars or the attachment. Further details please PM me. 
Regards 
Paul Cooper

Next Great North Slot Race event.

Saturday 28th June at Teesside SCC which will be Saloon and Sports/GT

Sunday 29th June at Pontefract SCC, F1 and Sports/GT

I do realise that the 29th clashes with a Wales and West race but it is the best I can do to fit these events in.

More details in due course but please put these dates in your diary.

Gerry

   

Facebook Link
https://www.facebook.com/groups/467177127629949

SCOREBOARD




So here we are again with what hopefully will be a thrilling proxy to follow.
This will once again be our leading page with the SCOREBOARD once I have discussed the format with Jason.
And also I will put together the information supplied from the Registration forms regarding each car's technical spec.

The Entrants list
   

Entrant Cars Technical Information ( Scrutineer's Report and Tech spec)

Key Date -Arrival Deadline - Friday 28th March
Cars must have been delivered by the deadline date, qualifying in order to determine the Groups running order will take place over the weekend 29th & 30th March.

The Race format
we will run the series this time as 8 planned Rounds with most of the clubs we used for the Goodwood Revival Proxy. In the event of a tie in one or more of the Construction Group classes (GT1, GT2 & LMP/GrC) I will analyse the "fastest lap data " from the Rounds to hopefully make a deciding judgement.
The cars will be run as 3 Construction Groups  in order of size (based on the registration details supplied):
Group 1 (Modified Standard cars) we have 9 cars entered.
Group 2 (Revoslot Cars) we have 11 cars entered.
Group 3 (Pro Cars) we have 18 cars entered.


For each Round, after running each group of cars the placings will be determined by the host for all the cars, and the 3 winning cars from the Classes GT1, GT2 and LMP/GRC displayed on the podium.

The points will be allocated to each construction Group separately based on the number of cars entered in each category (as listed above)
e.g for Group 1 the leading car will get 9 points, 2nd car 8 points etc (regardless of Class)
So that the Championship winning cars in each case of "Class within the Construction Group" will have the most points.

We will also have the "Spirit of the Proxy award " as judged by the hosting Clubs.
Cars selected for the award will again need to have been self decorated & had complied 100% with the rules.

Hosting Clubs -  Schedule
   





Sponsors
Pendle Slot Racing    www.pendleslotracing.co.uk
George Turner Models www.georgeturnermodels.com
Truspeed Controllers www.truspeed.co.uk
Amato Slot Car Design

WSR invite you to take part in a round of the Policar classic F1series.
5th April 2025
The coach house
Vale park
Woodland Drive
Wallasey
CH45 1ND
Doors open 9am for practice
Racing from around 11am
Finish approx 4.30pm
Entry fee £15 including a hot lunch,snacks , tea and coffee all day.
Give me a post to be added to the drivers list.

Cheers Peter Wright

Those of you with 143 Go cars, could you please measure your car's distance between the axles?  I am looking for a 143 Go car that gets close to 51mm from axle center (front) to axle center(rear).  I want to put my own body on the chassis.  I don't have a hobby shop nearby that I can go measure the cars they have on sale. So, I will be buying off the internet.

Here’s an AABodies Lotus 19 in a spurious guise! I have two more body shells. These are so tiny. I used one of those open can ‘red’ motors in sidewinder configuration. It has LED tail lights and a Slottechnik digital chip. The wheels are from Pendleslot. The chassis is 1/16” marine ply. It has a magnet on it. It runs very nice! Did I say how tiny it is?