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Self explanatory title, why do they put lights in slot cars?  They are an added complication and expense and are rarely used in the 1:1 version. There may be a justification for it with Le Mans type cars but BTCC cars never race in the dark, the lights may be used when it is raining but slot car tracks don't really have that situation. Headlights are only flashed now and then to upset the driver in front, but we can't do this with a slot car so why bother to fit them at all? The only thing that would be of use is fitted brake-lights but I don't know any manufacturer who does this. Apart from which slot car lights go out when you lift off the throttle - at the very point when a real car would need them as it enters a bend. The whole thing is a complete nonsense.