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There is no new tooling in the Modern Touring & GT categories this year, but there are nice new liveries on some of Scalextric’s recent offerings...

       

BTCC fans will be mildly disappointed, as usual. There are two 2022 liveries - Josh Cook’s black and gold Honda Civic FK8 is paired with Scalextric brand ambassador Jake Hill’s Rokit-sponsored BMW 330i. There are a lot of black cars on the BTCC grid these days, but these are stunners. The perennial question is why Scalextric doesn't produce a whole BTCC grid - or at least a much larger range of cars? As the Scalextric team often points out, the market for BTCC cars is solely in the UK, which doesn’t make them good sellers. A new model every couple of years, plus a handful of liveries is probably all we can expect, despite the excellent social media buzz created by the drivers and the teams for Scalextric.

GT racing is a global phenomenon with an ever-growing fan base. With some big changes coming to the sport over the next few years, Scalextric have held back on new tooling and concentrated on a bunch of great liveries...

       

The Ford Mustang GT4 is back with a great Multimatic Motorsport livery, the car driven by Marco Signoretti on his way to a title-winning season in the 2021 Sports Car Championship Canada. There’s also an eye-catching livery on the updated Mercedes AMG GT3 Evo - GT Cup fan-favourite Grahame Tilley swapping his legendary Nissan GT-R for this front-running red Merc, which he shared with Will Tregurtha.

       

There are two new liveries on the new-for-2022 Porsche 911 GT3R - both featuring light blue and black, although the finishes are quite different. The shiny Redline Racing car has red and green highlights and was raced to fifth place by James Dorkin and Alex Malykhin at the 2022 British GT round at Spa-Francorchamps, the car borrowed from German team Allied Racing. The second Porsche was a regular entry in the 2022 British GT Championship - the Team Parker Racing 911 was raced by Nick Jones and Scott Malvern, who scored four top-ten finishes during the season. This second car features a gloss and matt finish. Both these should get some good coverage from the British GT social media team today. Scalextric are working on licensing agreements with overseas teams to get a wider range of liveries on the GT cars, but it’s often a hard process - hence the mostly UK-based liveries this year.

   

However, the last of the new GT liveries is from the other side of the globe - an Aston Martin Vantage GT3 that was raced by Ronan Murphy and John Penny in the 2022 Golden Homes North Island Endurance Series. Okay, it’s rather an obscure New Zealand championship, but the livery is as close as you’ll get to the works AMR LMGTE Vantage. It’ll certainly glow in the dark on any Scalextric race track!