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Track Planner

Published by JasonB on Jan 10, 2026 in 3D, Digest, Plans, Tracks, Updates

• Track Planner Track Planner is a brand new, intuitively simple, and accurate way to design, plan, and visualise a routed or custom built slot car track. In fact it’s so simple that you could be producing custom, pro-quality designs in just a matter of minutes! It is also totally free.

Track Plans

Published by JasonB on Dec 22, 2024 in Features, Plans, Tracks

Our Track Plans section is just the thing if you’re thinking about building a new layout, or even if you just want to check out some ideas. Whether you’re looking for a comprehensive layout plan with all the parts and measurements listed, or just looking to kick start the creative process, we might well have what you need.

There are over 170 circuit designs from every major manufacturer, and more will be added regularly to build up another one of our invaluable reference sections.

We’ve got designs for Scalextric, Carrera, Ninco, Tomy AFX, Policar, ScaleAuto, Airfix, and Wrenn. We’ve also got designs for custom built layouts, for those who want to rout their own track. In fact we’ve got track plans for almost every size and scale of layout you might want.

So why not head across and have a look?

Track Plans

Grand Prix

Published by JasonB on Aug 4, 2024 in Features, Media

Through a fatefully fortuitous set of circumstances, Slotracer.Online has come into possession of a vast treasure trove of original and unpublished contact strips from the film “Grand Prix”, John Frankenheimer’s classic, and stylish 1966 Formula One film. This collection of almost 10,000 shots came from Jim Russell, a former racing driver who worked on the film. How he came by them is anybody’s guess, but they have now been saved from certain destruction by our very own Norfolk correspondent, Mr Brian Rogers.

It was such a fabulous collection that we obviously couldn’t just keep it to ourselves. These may have been simple contact strips, but with a little tender loving care, this unique array of work had to be made public. So with a fanfare and a drum roll, we proudly present a selection of our favourite shots from behind the scenes of this iconic film.

GRAND PRIX

Obviously this isn’t directly related to slot cars, but it is certainly part of motorsport and film history, and it was just too good an opportunity to miss. With a cast list including James Garner, Francoise Hardy, Graham Hill, Juan Manuel Fangio, Jim Clark, and many, many more the film was an epic period piece, but what a period.

Arguably the finest era of Formula One, captured in stunning detail with some of the best racing sequences ever.

If you’ve never seen the film before, please make sure you do. And if you have, we hope you enjoy this little look at some of the publicity shots and behind the scenes photos. Highly recommended.

GRAND PRIX

BRM, the Inside Story

Published by JasonB on May 5, 2023 in Features, Updates

We have a new and fairly substantial motor racing history section which we’ve added to the site. It could be encapsulated by just three letters, BRM, but in truth the full story would make a decent sized  book.

The inspiration for our new section came from a British Racing Motors team mechanic, Dennis ‘Sheriff’ Perkins who worked for the team for well over a decade from the mid 1950s onwards, and who took photos throughout his time with the team.

Of course Perkins wasn’t a professional photographer, he was first and foremost a BRM mechanic. In fact he was so good at his job that he was elected to membership of the BRDC, being proposed by Graham Hill and seconded by Jackie Stewart.

But he took photos of some important motor racing events, and he took his photos from a different angle to the press, or the spectators. He snapped his pics from behind the scenes, from the oil stained pit boxes, from the workshops, or even from the team transporter which he drove across the continent in his slippers.

Through his photos we will tell the story of British Racing Motors, from the disastrous and all too obvious failings in the early days, through to being world champions and one of the most consistently successful teams in Formula One at their peak, before they were brought back down to earth with a bump, as the team declined.

BRM had always set out to match and beat the best in Formula One. To do that, they absolutely insisted that they should build their own engines as well as the chassis. They wanted to take Ferrari’s approach, and when it worked, it really worked, but when it didn’t, it really didn’t.

Nowadays of course, we can expect a netflix documentary for every F1 race, no matter how insignificant. But in those days there were a very limited cohort of press reporters and photographers. So this little treasure trove of photos from the pit lanes and paddocks of the 1950s and 1960s are important.

We’ve tried our best to tell the stories of not just BRM, but of the individual races for which we have photos, many of which have their own fascinating tales to tell.

We’ve tried to tell the story of the BRM drivers and the BRM cars. We’ve used a wide variety of sources for all of the information, including contemporary reports.

We’ve also included slot track plans for every circuit, and a comprehensive list of BRM slot cars.

So there you go, that’s a rough outline of what we’ve got for you, hope you enjoy having a look and a read.

Many thanks to John Perkins, son of Dennis, for his kind permission to use these photos. Many thanks also to Dennis ‘Sheriff’ Perkins himself, not just for his sterling work with BRM, but also for recording his time with the team.

BRM, the Inside Story