[BAracer]

#37

It started with the results of the Worldwide Slot Car Chat On Zoom Secret Santa. And it turned out everyone had bought each other a pit box. Obviously someone had bought Greg a beautifully 3D printed one with random holes in it, whilst ChrisW's was a beautiful brass one with springy articulated bits all over it and lumps of rock to get the balance just right. 

The main feature of the chat was a presentation by Garth, in three parts, of his wonderful home slot track. The theme is "slot track as theatre" and it all makes sense when you sit in the leather drivers' armchairs which takes your eyeline down to track level to give you a fully immersive racing experience like every inner child slot racer, apart from one, has done at some point in their slot lives. Lots of pictures of the tracks development and the story behind each iteration, which I'm sure included the phrases "This is it finished. This is it a week later after I changed it again" and a great tip on how to win races on your home track "I change the layout between race series and don't tell anyone".  When you have a 250' track, it's easy to hide the odd new hairpin round the back).

We then saw the results of the WSCCOZ restoration project on Russ' old tin Scalextric cars!!! Was that a little tear in his eye as it took him back to a time when he was young and he used to put his head down at track level to watch them race by, and how his brother crashed the cars straight into him which prompted the need for the re-build in the first place?

And then it came to me...do you think Dennis can do a same miraculous level of restoration as he did on Russ's cars on Garth's computer?