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With the build-up to the first HO drag race of the Winter Series in full flow (see here), a quick update on plans for the 1/32 Rally-Sprint...

• The event will run from Wednesday 20 January through to Sunday 28 February 2021.
  
• Full coverage will take place here on SlotRacer Online.
  
• The race will be made up of 10-12 stages - mostly 'tarmac' Scalextric Sport track - with cars timed individually over a set number of laps.
  
• The aim is for your car to score the lowest aggregate time over all the stages.
  
• Starting in Brighton, there will be stages in Worthing, Goring and out as far as Barnham, before returning to Brighton for the finale.
  
• Like the HO drag races, you send cars to the start and they are raced by the event hosts – in this case, five different WHO racers – on rally-style ’special stages’ in their homes. For the Barnham stage, a hill climb will be laid on top of part of the South Downs Slot Car Club track.
  
• There are three separate classes – two of them essentially 'box stock' and based on Scalextric rally cars, plus one ‘open’ class running to national Slot Rally UK rules.
  
• Full details will be published next weekend, so you can get cracking preparing some cars!
  
• The entry process will also open next weekend, with a 'sign-up' thread here on SlotRacer Online.
  

Hopefully, we can build on the success of the HO proxy drag racing, have plenty of fun  and have another socially-distant racing format on standby, should we need it again in the future.