Digest 41

Slot car fun, in week forty one.

Featuring a Gerry Marshall Lotus, a reinforced Porsche, a Spa conquering Nissan, five new Acuras, an unnamed car that’s no mystery, and a McLaren that didn’t get very far. Plus we have a couple of fond farewells, a bunch of fantastic photos, and the latest events and videos.

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• Scalextric Lotus Esprit S1 Scalextric have shipped out the new livery for their Lotus Esprit S1 this week. The livery recreates the car driven by Gerry Marshall at Silverstone in 1981, which he he went on to buy himself in 1983. Marshall’s remarkable career spanned five decades, and he is probably best remembered for his flamboyant style, and his drives for Dealer Team Vauxhall during the 1970s.

• Pendle Slot Racing New arrivals this week at Pendle Slot Racing include…
  • Fly Ferrari 512S No.5 Making of Le Mans with SM Figure
  • Scalextric Lotus Esprit S1 No.11 Silverstone 1981 – Gerry Marshall
  • Slot.it Opel Calibra V6 No.44 DTM/ITC 1996
  • Policar Ferrari 412P No.25 Le Mans 1967
  • Slot.it Maserati MC GT3 No.3 Paul Ricard 2015
  • Fly Renault 5 Turbo No.32 Rally Tour de Corse 1984
  • Fly Porsche 911 No.3 Bathurst 1970
  • Fly Lancia 037 No.7 Rally D’Antibes 1983
  • RevoSlot Chevrolet Corvette C5-R Le Mans 2003 No.50
  • RevoSlot Chevrolet Corvette C5-R Le Mans 2000 No.64
  • RevoSlot Chevrolet Corvette C5-R Daytona 2000 No.3

• Scaleauto Acura NSX Scaleauto have released five new liveries for the Acura NSX GT3. Or should that be one new livery in five different colour schemes? Either way they are shipping out now.

• Scaleauto Williams FW17 As always, Scaleauto aren’t actually naming the two new liveries for their generic Formula 90-97 cars. But it doesn’t take a genius to realise that the cars represent the Williams FW17, driven by Damon Hill and David Coulthard in the 1995 F1 season.

Future Releases

• Fly Porsche 911S Rafa Fly has posted photos of a new Porsche 911 that is more than just a new livery. This one comes with all the additions to recreate Sobiesław Zasada’s fourth placed car in the 1968 London-Sydney Marathon.

• Slot.it Nissan Skyline GT-R Slot.it have posted prototype photos of a new Nissan Skyline GT-R livery. The original car took a dominant victory in the 1991 Spa 24 Hours, winning by 21 laps in the hands of Bert Anders Olofsson, Naoki Hattori, and David Brabham. Arriving in Q2-Q3 2024.

• Slot.it McLaren M8D Slot.it have released new photos of the next livery for the McLaren M8D. The model represents the Can-Am car driven by Ed Felter at Laguna Seca in 1973. The extravagantly liveried car wasn’t driven for very long though, retiring after an accident on lap 2. Expected Q4 2023, available to pre-order.

Events

• NSCC Leeds Northern Swapmeet – 8th-Oct-23
  Stallholders include…
  • Pendle Slot Racing, Sean Fothersgill
  • Scale models, Mark and Julie Scale
  • Roger Barker
  • Phil Smith
  • Weevils Slot Cars
  • SLN Holland (Michel Brok)
  • Amato Slot Car Design, Angelo Amato
  • Steve Langford
  • Steve Axford
  • Donna Axford
  • Dave Harkin
  • Phil Underwood
  • Cliff Millward
  • Dave Norton
  • Chris McGinn
  • Shaun Newham
  • Richard August
  • NSCC
• Worthing Digital Saturday – 14th-Oct-23
• Bury St Edmunds Club Night 5-10pm – 14th-Oct-23
• National Digital Championship – Rockingham – 21st-Oct-23
• National GT3 – North Staffs – 29th-Oct-23
• Worthing HO Wednesday – 1st-Nov-23
• Bury St Edmunds club night 5-10pm – 4th-Nov-23
• Worthing Digital Saturday – 18th-Nov-23
• Orpington Swapmeet – 19th-Nov-23
• Bury St Edmunds club night 5-10pm – 25th-Nov-23

That’s All!

• SlotCar Today Albert Boet has announced that Slotcar Today is to close. “Yes, it’s true, I’m retiring, it’s my turn and age is unforgiving, which means saying: That’s all!” Many thanks to Albert and the whole SlotCar Today team for keeping us updated with slot car news for the last decade and more.

• Model Car Racing Another slot car staple which we must bid farewell to is Model Car Racing. Robert Schleicher’s excellent publication is coming to an end, with the latest issue also being the last. The digital version of the final magazine is available for $4.95 from the Model Car Racing website, and there is also a free sample issue which contains around a third of the articles. As a special one-off, there is also a limited run of printed copies available from Electric Dreams. Many thanks to Robert for all his work in the hobby over many years.

Videos

Photos

MRRC Cheetah

Photo by Doug Johnson

Muscle Cars

Photo by Trajectoire 132

Scalextric Jaguar E-Type

Photo by Mamoru Teranishi

Carrera Mercedes AMG GT3 Evo

Photo by Jurgen Kellner