[BAracer]

Found myself in the area at the weekend, and was given a day pass to attend on Sunday.

It was the first time I have been to the Festival. Initial impression was that there wasn't much there, which the layout, spread around a number of detached rooms, didn't help. But in reality, I got the opportunity to see a number of new releases in the flesh from Scalextric, Slot.it, Scaleauto and MR Slotcars. I had a chat with Ernie from MR Slotcars and with Dennis from Greg's World Wide Chat. I spotted Maurizio from Slot.it and Marco from Electric Dreams! Tried to barter with the Roger Barker Organisation, but they didn't accept my not too cheeky offer on some SCX off-road track that I have been watching them try to sell for the past year...never mind. I did buy a cracking little Maserati off the very friendly Pete Shepherd/Racing Replicas, so felt that overall, the visit had been worth it.