The inaugural Hard-Body event is being held on the National Slot Car Centre track in Corby over the weekend of the 22nd and 23rd August 2026.
Featuring Formula 1 (Post 1950 Cars but in all likelihood mostly modern style F1s) and Post 1995 Sports Cars, to include GT1s, LMP1 & 2 and Hypercars.

Details are now listed on the BSCRA website and will be appearing on Slot Forum, Facebook pages etc over the coming weeks.

Entry will be £10 per class in advance and £15 per class on the day. Under 16s (15 or under) £5 per class. (£7.50 on the day)

Registration will be via a link to a payment and booking page connected to the British Slot Car Racing Association.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join some of the country's top racers on the 8-lane, 50 metre Mega=Monsta Track.

For more info please check the rules and programme attached (also on the website BSCRA.org.uk)

Ant Hawkes - Event Coordinator

From the master of authenticity...Slot.it manage to balance looks and performance (in my book).  

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One of the club members has commissioned a Rally track to be taken to local shows to get even more members than we have luckily accumulated recently.

An ex-club member is doing the track for us (he left to go back to RC cars/trucks/speed builds)

I was asked to draw up a two lane crossover bridge 1.1m long by 200mm wide and thought about it overnight with an idea to cut the slot seemingly simple enough...
...it was in reality.

It will be split into sections and 3D printed by the ex-club member who has a much larger printer than me.

   

This is quite fortuitous as I'd intended doing a single lane hump section for our Rally stage but think it'll be much easier and quicker to make it from a long sheet of 3mm thick expanded foam formed into a humpy shape.

   

Either way, a nice little project

   

It's the Nuremberg Toy Fair and 2026 product announcements are coming thick and fast.

It still says 2025 on the page - and there's no video yet - but Carrera's new offerings can be found here: https://carrera-toys.com/en-uk/pages/lan...-novelties

New sets, new cars (including the Audi F1) and lots of new liveries (including more Nascars).

   

We're back at the Barn for the first HO Nascar race of the year - the day after the club's sixteenth birthday. It's the start of a new era for our Nascar class. Gone are the Super-G+ and Life Like chassis,  these races are now a straight fight between two currently-produced HO platforms - AFX Mega-G+ and Bulldog BDR (with the standard bar magnet).

   

The first battleground is a large 65-foot rectangle, with one end featuring the widest AFX radius corner (15 & 18"), funnelling down to a tighter 9 & 12" radius at Turns 1 and 2. It should be a fun evening of HO oval racing!

As always, doors open at 6.15pm for practice, heats begin just before 7 and we aim to finish all the finals by 9.30. Entry is £3 for adults and £2 for under-16s. We ask that racers aged 13 and under bring a responsible adult with them. Club cars and controllers are available for not extra cost.

            [attachment=4584Here, from the slot car museum are 2 rare 1/32nd scale Lotus 11 race cars. They were made around 1963 in Japan by Sanwa. They used a 3 1/2 volt Kako motor. The cars were crude by even the standards of the period. The chassis ,wheels, and their mounts were extremely primitive. Yet they have a beauty that is unique. The drivers sit high and proudly in their seats and the headlights look as though they could brighten the night into day. They have defied time by surviving . Tokyo Plamo bought out Sanwa in 1964 and these slot cars stopped production.

First time I have seen this live feed at a National Event.

Live feed from Round 1 2026 Liantrisant
https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=wy...bergavenny

   

Back in 2020 I wrote a ten-part series on the Jadlam blog about tuning a Scalextric car. My aim was to work through the steps for improving a standard Scalextric model by only using the parts that came in the box. I picked the new at the time Mustang GT4, because I thought there might be quite a lot of potential for improvement... And I wasn't wrong!

Jadlams have recently built a brand new website and the blog has gone. So I've dug out the images and text to post on the forum. I've had some good feedback over the years about the blog posts and I want to share the series with a new crop of Scalextric racers at my club, Worthing HO Racing.

There is a post introducing and linking to the blog posts on the SlotRacer forum here. I'll edit that once the posts are up on this thread.

These are the ten posts in the series...

• Scalextric Tuning 1: Parts of a Slot Car
  
• Scalextric Tuning 2: Tweaking a New Car
  
• Scalextric Tuning 3: Maintenance & Repairs
  
• Scalextric Tuning 4: Magnatraction
  
• Scalextric Tuning 5: Fixing Oversteer
  
• Scalextric Tuning 6: Fixing Understeer
  
• Scalextric Tuning 7: Body Float
  
• Scalextric Tuning 8: Using Upgrade Parts
  
• Scalextric Tuning 9: Removing the Magnet
  
• Scalextric Tuning 10: Developing a Race Car
  

I don't have the full text for a couple of the posts, so those will get re-written.

Pendles now has stock of the new BRM Porsche 911's.

Am I excited? Naa.