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There’s a Scalextric PCR chassis for the BMW (and the Sierra). They are £4.99 at Pendles, although I picked up a couple for £3 at a pre-covid swapmeet. Most of us here will have enough parts lying around to build a nice car for a wood track.

PCR was a racers’ solution. Brian has chronicled other rather wayward Scalextric attempts to please racers here: https://slotracer.online/chronicle/scale...-tuned.php. What PCR - and the subsequent licensed Slot.it 3DP chassis - did was to piggyback on a tried-and-tested performance platform. The 3DP cottage industry has continued and expanded that format. These Scalextric/Slot.it/3DP hybrids win races - so job done with negligible outlay from either Scalextric or Slot.it. The PCR chassis have never flown off the shelves, suggesting the demand for a racer-spec Scalextric car is extremely limited. That’s a reminder that club racers represent a tiny proportion of the potential Scalextric marketplace - although we do like to think we’re really important.

I take my hat off to those tuning a Scalextric car to run on wood track.  A car designed for collectors’ display cases and magnet racing on Scalextric home tracks will need a lot of work. However, it can be enormous fun - tweaking Scalextric models is what drives our successful digital club… albeit not racing on wood.