Slot Car Racing
Race #4 of the 2021 World Championship Slot Car Proxy took place last weekend. Held on Audi1’s ‘The River Run’ track in Massachusetts, you can expect to find results posted on the SlotRacer forum soon…
The event thread is here.
There will be slot car racing at Car Fest North next weekend. Retailer Weevils Slot Cars will have a pop-up shop and a Scalextric layout to entertain the crowds at Bolsworth Estate in Cheshire. Expect a perfect family day out with the best music, the fastest and loudest cars, and the brightest stars…
Find out more here.
Slot Cars
News from Carrera has been difficult to come by in the UK this year. However, Pendles have just taken delivery of a bumper crop of 2021 models. You can feast your eyes and open your wallets…
Pendle’s Carrera section is here.
Revolslot have a pair of cracking new liveries on their way. These two Porsche 911 GT1s raced at the 1999 Spa round of the British GT Championship. You can find out more about the cars, race and the Revoslot models in the SlotRacer News section…
Read the preview here.
Hub posted some pictures of the new Chrono models of the Grifone Delta S4s on the forum this week. These racing versions look superb on Hubs wonderful ‘Dutch Trio’ rally track…
See more here.
We featured Scalextric’s lovely Escort Mk1 last month. There’s now an in-depth interview with owner and driver Andy Pipe over on the Jadlam blog.
You can read the article here.
Publications
Want to know all about Adrian Norman’s ‘Scalextric – The Ultimate Guide 9th Edition’? Brian reviews the first volume on the SlotRacer forum and weighs up whether you should buy it or not…
To find the answer, read more here.
Photography
Did you know we had a unique collection of photographs on the SlotRacer website? They are amazing behind-the-scenes images from the shooting of John Frankenheimer’s cinematic masterpiece ‘Grand Prix’…
You’ll want to find out more here.
Motorsport
Without doubt, the highlight of the this weekend’s motorsport action was the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. There was Qualifying on Friday, a Sprint Race on Saturday and the main event on Sunday. So much to talk about and to discuss – but if you haven’t seen it yet, we won’t spoil it… If you’re ready, Autosport has plenty of post-race fall-out here.
The Monza 6 Hours was the final WEC race before the 2021 Le Mans 24 hours next month. Toyota had some wobbles, which will give hope to their LMP1 rivals – and maybe even some LMP2 cars – in the run-up to the big race. The WEC have a 3-minute highlights package from Monza on YouTube here.
History was made in this weekend’s Rally Estonia – a dominant performance gave the WRC its youngest ever rally winner. You can catch up with the highlights, results and the full story as it unfolded on the WRC website here.
There’s a very special race coming up next weekend – the 2021 24 Hours of Spa. Part of the GT World Challenge Europe Series, the entire race will be streamed live on YouTube. You can find out more on the event website here.
