After looking back and thinking I should have recorded what I did on the last track builds, I'll do it this time.


https://youtu.be/5GyEffj8hX0

With the overall shakedown of the Rallye Monte Carlo, today the 2026 WRC season kicked off.

35 Years ago, François Delecour made his debut in a works Ford Sierra Cosworth 4x4 at this Monegasque event.
To everyone’s surprise, he was leading at the end of the rally.
Unfortunately, he dropped back to third place overall after a ball joint in the rear suspension broke during the last special stage.
He was inconsolable, but for the future he had proven to be a formidable opponent.

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Just before last Christmas, Scalextric launched Delecour's legendary Q8-sponsored works Cosworth 4x4.
An excellent choice and well proportioned to scale 1:32.
It has four-wheel drive, just like the real car. Scalextric used an O-ring to drive the front wheels.
The rear wheels are driven by an inline motor.
The Scalextric Sierra's tyres have plenty of grip, allowing you to try and drift through the corners as sideways as Delecour.

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A few years ago I bought some classic resin slush moulded bodies from ebay, they were all around £5- £8 each at auction. And I guess as they were not particularly popular subjects, the sales did not not last that long as the seller could not have made much out of them. So I made the most of purchasing as many as I could afford at the time and I have not seen them offered on ebay since.

The two below I found particularly interesting, I am sure the slush mouldings must have been copies of earlier resin body kits made by someone in the past, but I have never seen them since.

Anyway over Christmas I decided to build these two, as they were more or less the same colour in real life  so I used the same body paint.

Simca Gordini 8 
This car raced in a few National GP Sports car races and the Millie Miglia 1947
          

Peugeot 302 Darl'mat
"Darl'mat" I believe produced race tuned versions of Peugeot models at the time for the Le mans race.
This was quite successful on the Le mans Race of 1937
          

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This morning an unexpected box of Proxy cars arrived from the USA, as I opened it my mind was racing,  "perhaps Brumos had sent my Le Mans car back due to some mechnical  failure or because it failed the rules ??" or perhaps one of our US based entrants had sent me his cars really early for the next UK proxy in April ???

No, it was actually the cars finally arriving from the USA Shelby Proxy last year 
The cars were both my own 2 and one for Oxo Cube which were posted together on the 23rd September 2025.

On route they had been accidentally sent by USPS to Bogatoh in Columbia, who then sent them onto Frankfurt in Germany and then onto ......?
So the tracking info died in Germany, and I had to give Oxo Cube the sad news that it looked like they had disappeared into the slot car black hole some time in November.

As usual at the time USPS could not give me any help once out of the country, and similarly nor could Royal Mail unless the cars appeared in the UK.

So I did not persue them any more and just kept my fingers crossed .

Then today they arrived 

   

After looking at the Scalextric releases for 2026 I fell to musing how much the slot scene has changed over the years.
I bought my first new Scalextric car in late 1975/early 1976, it was a C50 JPS Lotus 72 complete with the now outlawed cigarette branding and it cost me the princely sum of £5. For the time it was a very nice car, I still have it today and it continues to run well with it's original motor, albeit with replacement tyres. 

The 1975 catalogue listed a total of just 9 cars, none of which were new moulds that year. 1976 was a bit better with 4 new moulds and a total of 11 cars available. The only real competition in the UK were Airfix with a similar sized range of cars but most of these were made from moulds produced in the 60s and were not readily available in most toy shops. It was just about possible to obtain some of the Exin Spanish Scalextric cars but most people didn't even know they existed. Ninco, Fly, Slot.It etc would not arrive for at least another 20 years so the choice was somewhat limited to say the least.

Fast forward to 2026 and Scalextric has at least 50 cars slated for release this year, yes they cost in the region of £50 but I have checked the comparative value of a fiver in 1975 compared to today and £50 is not that far out. A peruse of Pendle's stock lists provides the staggering sum of nearly 1000 1/32 slot cars available for just the major brands of Scalextric, Carrera and Slot.It plus another 1000 for the multitude of smaller brands.

Regardless of what us boomers tell you, not everything was better 'back in  the day'!  Today’s enthusiast has never had it so good, enjoy it while it lasts.

   

The Slot Rally GB Championship is back following two very successful years after its re-launch. Last season saw the series concentrate on the south and west of the UK, which carries over to 2026...

• Sunday 15 February - Oxford Scalextric Club, Ramsden Memorial Hall, Ramsden, OX7 3AU
  
• Sunday 24 May - Farnborough Park Scalextric Club, St. Peter’s School, 60 Church Avenue, Farnborough, GU14 7AP
  
• Sunday 7 June - St Albans Slot Car Club, Margaret Wix Primary School, High Oaks, St Albans AL3 6EL
  
• Saturday 18 July - Worthing HO Racing, English Martyrs Catholic Church Hall, Goring Way, Goring-By-Sea, BN12 4UE
  
• Sunday 27 September - Abergavenny Slot Rally Club, Abergavenny Community Centre, Merthyr Road, Abergavenny NP7 5BY
  

The championship consists of five rounds, the best four to count for drivers registered for championship points - the registration fee is £5 per driver for the season. Event entry is £5 per car for up to four cars and a maximum of two in any class.

The events will run to national slot rally rules, 2026 championship rules and regs can be found below. All SRGB 2025  cars will remain eligible for 2026 with no modifications needed. Any rule changes largely relate to clarification regarding new products.

There will be a Targa Florio class for 2026, running as a fourth main class. This has replaced the Avant Slot Challenge, but these cars remain eligible in the main 80/90s class.

Our next swapmeet is coming up fast.

8th March sees slotcars flying into Wivelsfield village hall, West Sussex, once more.

Tables are available at £20 each with space for a backing table.

Limited edition car will be available on the day

Come along and see what bargains can be found, 

Our shop will also be open which is just a mile up the road

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Expect plenty of snow and ice for the first WHO Slot Rally club night of the year - which takes place on the eve of the real Monte Carlo Rally.

Doors open at 6.30pm for sign-on and allocation to groups for the evening. The Johnny's Workshop stage will be available for a shakedown - to make sure your cars and controllers are functioning as you want them.

The competitive stages for this one are:

1. Friston Forest - SCX and Scalextric Classic, featuring SCX ice effect track.
2. Jupp's Farm 2026 (short version) - Ninco with some patches of ice and extra rough terrain
3. Titnore Lane - Ninco tarmac with plenty of ice track and elevations
4. Ford Ice Rink - routed foamboard


All four stages are fitted with a UK club 3-pin 2 amp socket and standard club wiring (brake wired -ve and L terminal wired +ve). Power is 12V DC, apart from the Ice Rink, which runs at 10V.

As always, the aim is to get through all four stages in the quickest possible time.

Our WHO Slot Rally events are for 1:32 scale analogue rally cars running to our local interpretation of Slot Rally GB regulations - see here. The important highlights are that cars must be fitted with an inline motor and must feature a driver and co-driver sitting side-by-side.

Each driver can enter one car per class - Classic, 80s-90s and Modern Rally. Club cars and controllers are available on each stage. We will be noting the best times for standard SCX and Scalextric cars (magnets must be removed, weight can be added and tyres and braid may be replaced - otherwise no modifications).

Entry is £3 per person for the whole evening, £2 for under-16s.

   

This year's Scalextric catalogue unveiling is scheduled for 2pm on Wednesday.

I haven't had a preview this year, so I'll share the excitement and surprise of Scalextric fans around the globe. I do hope to share images of some Q1 and Q2 releases (ie the actual cars, not 3D renders) from Thursday onwards.

So what are we going to get this year? Almost certainly something for everyone across the various categories - TV & Movie, Street, Touring, Rally, GT & Prototypes, Single Seaters and Super-Resistant. We'll see what sets are planned to introduce Scalextric to new racers next Christmas. As always at this time of year various rumours have been circulating... Will there be any innovative new technology this year? Will prices stay the same, creep up or even go down? And is the Scalextric Club returning? 

All will be revealed on Wednesday - apart from a few cars that are kept under wraps for a nice surprise later in the year 

The Nuremberg Toy Fair - Spielwarenmesse - takes place from 27 to 31 January, so expect brands such as Slot.it and Carrera to announce their 2026 releases around then.