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Manx Slot Car Club - Slot Rally 2026 race reports & results - Kevan - 13th-Mar-26

Slot Rally - 12th March 2026 - 

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It seems ages since we last had a Rally night, yes we’ve had a Targa Florio which uses the Rally stages but it’s not the same.
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The room was packed last night, eleven of us.  Sadly Paul didn’t stay which meant ten of us and 39 cars.
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It was Jack’s first time on the Rally stages, I thought he did very well for his first time as Rally is a completely different thing to circuit racing… he said he enjoyed it which is great to hear.
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There’s a short video of action on TT Grandstand stage (Jack) and Little Druidale stage (Brian).
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Standard Class

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Modified Class

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Prostock Class

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Open Class

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Comparisons chart

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Next week is F1 (including Grand Prix, Prewing F1 and Classic F1) followed by Saloons (including Small Saloons and Group 5 Saloons).

RE: Manx Slot Car Club - Slot Rally 2026 race reports & results - Kevan - 13th-Mar-26



RE: Manx Slot Car Club - Slot Rally 2026 race reports & results - Kevan - 18th-Apr-26

Rally report and results - 16th  April 2026 -

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A good turnout of eight club members plus three visitors during the evening.
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We split into two groups of four, both groups selected at random: .
After the weeks earlier discovery concerning the Oldsmobile Toronado being eligible for Slot Rally as it had raced in the 1968 Baja 1000, Mike proceeded to knock chunks out of the scenery going under the bridge on Little Druidale as predicted, the Toronado looks good but definitely not suited to tight twisty Rally stages which won’t be doing the bodywork any favours.
The Clan Crusader made a welcome return tonight, I didn’t get to see it in action, it was up against Andy’s Mercedes 300SLR in Open Small Classic.
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Team Rothmans aka Chris, had a nice display of cars, the Ninco Porsche 934 was back, performing as well as ever.  One of tonight's debut entries, an Avant Mitsubishi Galant in Modern 4WD, looking at the stage times (as I didn’t see it in action) seems to have struggled on Little Druidale stage.  The best performer though was his Avant Opel Manta 400 in Prostock 80’s class, one of Chris’s long time best cars.
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Andy has been developing an Avant Toyota Yaris WRC and is rapid on the big circuit, looking at the stage times it’s definitely suited to the constantly winding Carpark Chaos layout.
His best performer though was a GT40 built for a proxy much later in the year and probably surprised himself by how well it went tonight.
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Gav decided three cars was enough tonight and probably explains why his group finished much sooner than the other group.
His BBR Ferrari 430 was comfortably his best runner, it always goes well, as does Mike’s when he uses his. I did catch his other Ferrari, an Avant 308 GTB going what looked very nicely on one of its runs, again always a great performer for him.
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Jamie regularly turns up with something newly acquired, his SlotIt Mercedes 190 tonight went particularly well on Mike’s Carpark Chaos stage and was one of three cars in Prostock 2WD to finish with 215 seconds overall with the Merc just ahead for a class win.  That was one of three class wins as his Triumph TR7 and Metro 6R4 topped their classes too.
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Paul had to borrow some cars tonight, a SCX Seat Cordoba off Kev and a Metro 6R4 and NSR Clio off Brian.  The Standard 4WD Cordoba isn’t very quick with its stock motor but a very reliable car to drive.
His best result was with his SlotIt Ford GT40, very smooth and set up with an inline motor.
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Brian who admits he ‘didn’t turn up’ for the last Slot Rally a few weeks ago, definitely turned up tonight, in particular looking forward to competing with Geoff’s Scaleauto Peugeot 208 and was disappointed that Geoff couldn’t get down tonight.  The Peugeot was very squeaky but went well.
The Renault Megane also went well and along with his NSR Porsche 997 they performed quite closely.
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Kev debuted a Fly BMW M3 E30, one of four cars in Prostock 80’s and performed better than expected finishing ahead of the chasing three cars.
He also chose one of his recently returned (from an aborted proxy) Ninco Jag XK120’s in Prostock Small Classic, the bottom of the chassis was just skimming the brow of the bridge on Little Druidale making an annoying scraping noise but managed a good time.
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There's two results sheets, one separates the cars into their own classes, the second one is purely a 'comparison chart'.  The class results are the actual results.

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Car comparison chart

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Next week is Saloon (including Small Saloons and Group 5 Saloons) followed by Sports (including Small Sports and Group 5 Sports)

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RE: Manx Slot Car Club - Slot Rally 2026 race reports & results - Kevan - 27th-Jun-26

Slot Rally - 25th June 2026 -
…followed by SRF F1 Sidecar racing
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We were going to try something new tonight, a full Slot Rally event on all three stages, then a weekly round robin of Sidecar racing on BallaYorkley if we were organised enough.
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Six club members, two groups of three drivers and 24 Rally cars spread over many classes.
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The two groups of drivers were:
There was a good spread of class types:
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It was good to see some of Dave’s Rally cars again, especially the Lancia HF.  His OSC Peugeot 205 is a good competitive choice for Modified Class.
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No less than three Metro 6R4’s tonight.  Brian’s we see regularly but Jamie’s same make MSC 6R4 actually bettered his times on two stages.  Paul was driving a Scalextric version with slight upgrades.
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Kev brought a Standard Class Ninco Peugeot 307 out of retirement and was happy with it.
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Andy’s closest class competitor was Brian’s Renault Megane in Open 2WD that was only a couple of seconds behind Andy’s Ferrari F40 on Little Druidale.
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CAR COMPARISON CHART:

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Some Rally action on Little Druidale is covered in one video.
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Then it was time to get the Sidecars out and whilst the GoPro was out it was set up overlooking the far end of the track to get two points of view.
…there’s video of the Sidecar races on BallaYorkley with two camera views for the first two races.
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SRF F1 Sidecars raced this week by (in heat order):

A big improvement of three laps this week for Jamie, his outfit drives very smoothly. 
A headscratcher for Brian, seven laps short of last week's result, his Sidecar looked very unpredictable.
Paul got to race his outfit for the second time, a great run in Yellow lane but struggled in Red and Blue lanes.
Dave was racing a new outfit and running it in tonight and thinks the motor is a little down on performance but did manage three very consistent scores..
Andy & Kev were both quick again, a 23 lapper seems to be the limit.  There’s not much between these two Sidecars other than a bit of luck either way.
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I noticed that Jamie is using Scaleauto nylon spur gears, available in 33/4/5/6/7mm at 18.5mm diameter and should be more than up to the job as they are also used on some of the club cars that have seen years of racing.  This could be why his Sidecar is so quiet when running.

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Although it was busy getting everything organised, we managed it without finishing too late.
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Next week at the Manx Scalextric & Slot Car Club…


RE: Manx Slot Car Club - Slot Rally 2026 race reports & results - Kevan - 27th-Jun-26



RE: Manx Slot Car Club - Slot Rally 2026 race reports & results - Kevan - 27th-Jun-26



RE: Manx Slot Car Club - Slot Rally 2026 race reports & results - Kevan - 1st-Aug-26

Slot Rally - 30th July 2026 - …followed by SRF F1 Sidecar racing
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Slot Rally

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A great turnout tonight as there were eight club members so we had two groups of four drivers and 32 Rally cars spread over many classes.
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The two groups of drivers were:

There was a good spread of class types:
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Geoff turned up having left his preferred Rally cars at home but still managed to put a team together with the big Scaley Aston Martin breaking cover (not to mention the bridge on Little Druidale)...
His best performer by a large margin was the Scaleauto Peugeot 208 in Prostock 2WD Class.
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Brian H is always good for an unusual car, his Scaley Mini Countryman in Standard 2WD Class was a nice smooth runner from what I saw and it turned out to be his best car tonight, finishing a little over three seconds ahead of his Powerslot VW Polo in the same class.
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Ed decided to race his Mini tonight, a nice runner it is too and it’s always good to see one on the Rally stages.  It was a few seconds ahead of his proxy Jag XK120 overall.
His best car tonight by a large margin was his Racer Porsche 935 in Prostock Classic Class.
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Brian L likes his MSC Metro 6R4, very smooth everywhere and seemed to relish Little Druidale stage.
His best car tonight was between his two Peugeots, the 206 WRC in Open Class slightly outperforming his 208 T16 Prostock 4WD Class car.
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Paul has long favoured both of his little Ninco Porsche 356’s, he’s rallied them for years.
His best car tonight was his Scaley/SlotIt Honda Civic in Prostock 2WD but it was close as his Modified 80’s Class Scaley Metro 6R4 was only one second behind.
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Chris also has his favourites, the Avant Manta especially is always good to watch in action, they’re a fairly big car so plenty of tail-out action in sharp bends.
His best car tonight was his Revo Toyota Supra, it seems to go better every time he runs it, very smooth and quiet (which is unlike most Revos).
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Mike raced a Standard 2WD Class Ninco Renault Clio, they were really popular a few years ago but one of my favourites is Mike’s BBR Ferrari 430 which seems to glide round the road.
His best car tonight was of course his NSR Porsche 997 GT3, again a car that’s seen years of action on our Rally stages, was tonight upstaged by Geoff’s Peugeot 208 in Prostock 2WD but only less than three seconds overall.
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Kev had a new car in action tonight, a SRC Porsche 914GT in Prostock Classic Class and it went very well and managed to split his two BMW’s overall.
His best car tonight was his Open Class Subaru Impreza WRC, it doesn’t see much Rally action as Kev says it feels like cheating when he uses it.
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Classes In order of most popular: 
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Car comparisons below...

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SRF F1 Sidecars

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Two more Sidecars were seen circulating Ballayorkley tonight…
George got to do a few laps with his red outfit, it was nice and smooth… until the passenger wheel fell off and the axle spacers fell in the slot.  He was quite happy to sit down at the bench and get working on it.  He said ‘it’s got a squeak’ to which we replied ‘it’s going to be quick then!’
Kev had his ‘plastic track spec’ outfit circulating for the first time in grey primer.  It’s a different driving experience as it’s a much shorter ‘wheelbase’, the guide is much further back and over to the passenger side making it a bit more lively, a bit like driving a Mini which is short and wide… but it’s still fairly quick.  
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Then it was time to get the Sidecars out...
SRF F1 Sidecars raced this week by (in heat order):
Geoff got off to a flying start in Yellow lane, comfortably winning Heat #1 by the majority of a lap ahead of Kev & Chris.  He also comfortably won his next race in Red lane ahead of Chris & Paul.
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That first heat turned out to be Chris’s best score of his three races whilst in Blue lane but did improve his race position with a couple of 2nd places in Red & Yellow lanes.
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Kev made up for his first race result with two 23 lappers in Blue & Yellow lanes whilst racing Brian & Paul, then Brian & Geoff.
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Paul, racing a ‘plastic spec’ chassis had his best result in his first race whilst in Red lane, up against Brian & Kev.
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Brian had the three most consistent race results of all, three 20 lappers, the best of these in Blue lane in the last race of the night against Chris & Paul.
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Ed kindly stayed to help marshal the racing and has assured us his Sidecar will be seen soon…

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Again another busy evening with lots of organising but we managed it without finishing too late.
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Next week at the Manx Scalextric & Slot Car Club…


RE: Manx Slot Car Club - Slot Rally 2026 race reports & results - Kevan - 1st-Aug-26

SRF Sidecar race video...