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I visited the Bicester Scramble on 7th January. It was a cold winter Sunday yet the Bicester Heritage campus was absolutely filled with beautiful classic cars and a good few thousand admiring members of the public. This has to be the Glastonbury equivalent for folk who love classic cars, with the E-types, the Austin-Healey 3-litres and Cobras as the rock stars.

Then, on to the event which Paul Wooding and the Mission Motorsport team were hosting… the miniature Goodwood race track which Paul designed and has built with support from Scalextric and Slot Track Scenics. This was open to the public for the first time. The Scalextric digital system performed flawlessly over the 17 metre two lane Goodwood miniature race track. The event attracted huge interest from all generations alike, everyone endeavouring to achieve a record Goodwood lap time. Paul is a superb master-of-ceremony for these 1/32 race events. And with the team from Mission Motorsport as race marshals the public experience was truly polished and professional. It was great to see such high levels of interest in digital slot car racing. And it was even more inspiring to see all of this happening within a large public event that celebrates our collective global motorsport heritage.

The event closed to the public at 2pm and then there was some time for additional racing fun - this time our marshals were the drivers. And for extra fun - we added some additional cars (i.e. more than the normal Scalextric limit of six). With eight cars on the track we clocked laps using PC Lap Counter.

The final part of the day was assisting in the slick operation where the Mission Motorsport team carefully disassembled the racetrack and loaded the twelve or so track sections into two massive flight cases. Everything is ready for the next public event.

A truly fun start to 2024 and I owe a huge thank you to Paul and the Mission Motorsport team for inviting me along.

Thank you!

Clive