Last week I 3D printed a Sunbeam Tiger and vividly remember the classic race over here in the Isle of Man and today google found me a video of the events.

I watched the race past the TT grandstand from the corner at the top of St. Ninians where the cars turned right and headed towards Willaston...

...was it really 30 years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



...tomorrow I'll test drive my 1/32 scale version...looking forward to it 

Where's the best place to get high density styrofoam board in the UK? like this pink stuff(Anthony's pic) or grey, not bothered what colour.

   

I thought b & Q might have it but they haven't at mine.

Cheers

Tony

Hello,

I have moved on from my much-loved Ninco track and so am offering the Ninco to SCX/Scalextric Classic/Plexytrack adapters that I have.  I have owned these from new and used them twice for temporary layouts. Consequently they are in great condition. If you are not familiar with these, the Ninco end is wider than the Scalextric end and the rails taper accordingly to match the different track widths.
I am offering them for 35 GB Pounds plus shipping. Will include three Ninco straights that are in pre-loved condition as the shipping will probably cover that as well.
Items are in the UK, payment via PayPal.

Leo

   

   

   

   

BRM A112 Abarth Olio Fiat #007 Nagano 2015
https://youtu.be/NE0rB17ML1Y

   

CA18F Slot.it Ford GT40 #19 12 Hours of Sebring 1967 - Nino Vaccarella / Umberto Maglioli. RRP £64.95. Available now.

Slot.it's first release of 2022 is this superb Ford GT40 modelled on the Scuderia Brescia Corse Ford - winner of the sports car class at the 1967 12 Hours of Sebring. Like all Slot.it models, the Ford is a beautiful scale model and offers excellent performance on track. Of all the GT40 slot cars produced in the past 25 years, the Slot.it version gets top marks from me in terms of looks and handling...

       

The stance is immense and the detail more than enough...

       

So what of the car this new model is based on? All eyes were on the new Ford MkIV at Sebring in 1967 - it was the debut of the all-American challenger...

       

And with no works Ferraris - despite their 1-2-3 at Daytona - there was only Chaparral to prevent a Ford victory, either with the new MkIV of McLaren and Andretti or the MkIIB of Foyt and Ruby. This classic 1960s film (albeit with a modern-day ESPN introduction) sums up the race into the Florida night...



Nothing much in the film of the Italian Ford, but the Scuderia Brescia Corse GT40 battled with other 5-litre Fords for sports car honours. Vaccarella and Maglioli used all their experience to bring the car home in fifth - just behind the two Porsche prototypes - winning their class and Brescia Corse having the honour of finishing as top Italian team...

       

Although not well known today, the privateer Scuderia Brescia Corse were a prominent team in the late 60s and early 70s. Their cars could be seen everywhere - Le Mans, Reims, Paris, Monza, Pergusa, Zwelteg, Vienna, Innsbruck and the Targa Florio - as well as the European and Italian hillclimb championship events. Founded in 1964 by industrialist Alfredo Belponer (pictured below, in front of the 1967 Le Mans cars), Scuderia Brescia Corse was a typical Italian social and motoring 'club' of the time - a group of young, wealthy men who wanted to go racing. The first board of the Scuderia elected Belponer as President, Ugo Gussalli Beretta - the heir of the Beretta firearms company - as Vice President and co-opted Carlo Abarth as someone who knew something about the motor industry.

       

From 1965, Belponer bought some of the best racing cars available and lent them to the dozens of drivers of the Scuderia. Every weekend saw Brescia Corse cars entering hillclimb, circuit and long distance races in Italy and abroad. Scuderia Brescia Corse was soon a well-respected name in the racing world - the only privateer team to enter all the events of the 1967 World Sportscar Championship. The class win at Sebring was followed by an overall win for Vaccarella in the Ford at round 11 - the Coppa Citta di Enna at Pergusa. Despite these notable successes - and dozens of Italian championships - the high point of Brescia Corse was 1972, when Arturo Merzario and Toine Hezemans joined the team. Merzario took five overall victories in eight races with the Abarth Osella 2000 SP, winning the European Sportscar Championship for Abarth and Brescia Corse. Sadly, the story comes to an end in the aftermath of the '73-4 fuel crisis - Belponer pulled the plug on the team and retired to the Tuscany coast.

Yet again, Maurizio and the Slot.it team have opened a window on some fascinating motorsport history with a great choice of livery. However, many potential purchasers will be looking at what's under the body...

       

The GT40 is one of the mainstays of Slot.it's Classic range of cars. As you can see from the wonderful Slot.it historical archive, the GT40 was the third model in this range, after the Alfa Romeo 33/3 and the Chaparral 2E. The standard layout is the powerful and super-smooth MX16 23k rpm S-Can motor in a 0.5mm offset sidewinder pod, making the Slot.it Classic cars really easy to drive. The original GT40 / MkII chassis has been updated, with the Brescia Corse car featuring the EVO6 version, which has an adjusted guide position to improve handling. The car is fitted with a relatively weak magnet and has the new motor cable with connectors for easy, non-solder conversion to digital - if using a compatible Slot.it chip.

Although not the out-and-out quickest Classic car available, the Slot.it GT40 is a very enjoyable and competitive car to drive on club and home tracks. Its solid performance and exceeding good looks will make this a popular release. A big thanks to Jo at Galileo engineering for sending us the high-detail images and release information.

   

I’ve moved my Arc Pro to ‘within’ the pit lane now that I’m using the Magic Arc app. 

I’ve got the setting on to count a lap if a car goes into the pits. 

But - the laps are not being counted. 

What could I be doing wrong?

   

GT-391 Lotus 19 - 1962 Daytona winner, driven by Dan Gurney. Price for kit £39. Available here.

I have to say that I'm rather excited by this new kit from George Turner Models. I'm a big fan of 1960s sports prototypes and especially of the Lotus cars. George did a great job with modelling the Lotus 30 and 40, although I wasn't completely blown away by the little Lotus 23. The new Lotus 19 is the best of the lot in my eyes - the real-life original is one of my favourite cars of all time and the first livery oozes with motorsport history...

       

The Lotus 19 was built in 1960 to rival Cooper’s successful Monaco sports racer. As with the Cooper, Colin Chapman’s sportscar was essentially a two-seater version of their current Grand Prix car, the Lotus 18. The Formula One car was Chapman’s first rear-engined single seater, an attempt to play catch-up with Cooper's long-standing approach to car construction. The Lotus 19's fibreglass body was rather similar to the Cooper Monaco too and Chapman rather cheekily named his car 'Monte Carlo' – the official reason was to honor Stirling Moss for his win at the 1960 Monte Carlo Grand Prix.

       

The prototype was tested extensively by Moss and he drove the Lotus 19 to its first victory - a 75 mile sports car race at Karlskoga in Sweden. Twelve more Lotus 19s were built in quick succession, three of which went to the British Racing Partnership to race in Europe and the remainder went to America. In total, seventeen Lotus 19s were built between 1960 and 1963 - the final chassis being the only 19B. Here's a short video that accompanied the auction of chassis 953 - the fourth Lotus 19 to be produced...



 It was across the Atlantic that the Lotus 19 would achieve most of its success, especially when fitted with larger Buick, Ford or Chevrolet engines. At home, where the favoured 2½-litre Climax FPF power unit was in strong demand for Formula One use, the cars were a much rarer sight. The second Lotus 19 - chassis 951 - was bought by the Arciero Brothers for Dan Gurney to drive. In Motor Sport magazine's supplement 'Great Racing Cars', Gurney chose the Lotus 19 from all the amazing machinery he drove during his career. It's worth quoting his recollections in full...

Quote:If you ask me to choose my favourite of all the cars I raced, I have to pick Frank Arciero’s Lotus 19. The Lotus 19 represented a great leap forward. It was not a good car from the reliability standpoint, but we drove it on tracks like Daytona, which imposed a lot of extra stress, and it never failed us.

The Lotus 19 was the proverbial giant-killer. With a little 2.5-litre Coventry-Climax four-cylinder engine with big Weber carburettors, it could take on the V8 Chevys and Buicks that were being raced at the time – and any of the more fancied Jaguars and Ferraris. It was just plain easier to drive and faster.

       

Quote:It was a truly remarkable car that emanated from Colin Chapman’s mind. When I first saw it, I was shaken by how beautiful it looked. When I drove it not long after that, it was beautiful in that regard also. You’re talking about a moment in time where something like that could occur and it did. I’ve driven other Lotuses and quite a few different cars, but the Lotus 19 lived up to its billing.

Based on my own ability to predict what Chapman was going to produce, I talked Frank Arciero into buying that car before ever seeing it. The Lotus 18 Formula 1 car was Chapman’s first rear-engined F1 chassis. It was a fast car and, from what Chapman told me, the Lotus 19 was going to be even better.

       

Quote:So my faith in Chapman’s creative abilities enabled me to sell Frank on buying this new rear-engined sports-racer. Being Italian and a fan of Ferraris and Maseratis, Frank was sceptical about buying a rear-engined English car, but I was able to convince him.

In my first race with Frank’s Lotus 19 at Riverside in October, 1960, I qualified on pole and drove it in a dozen races over the next two years. I won at Nassau in 1960 and ’61 and at Daytona, Mosport and Laguna Seca in ’62.

It was a great car.

The race at Daytona in 1962 - the 3-hour Daytona Continental - was a remarkable one   for Gurney and Lotus. There's no better way of telling the story than this fantastic 1960s film with a modern-day introduction...



That's the car available as George's first Lotus 19 model...

       

The kit includes body, chassis (with an S-Can sidewinder mount), detailing parts, driver figure, full interior and decals for the '62 Daytona car. It's a narrow car at just 51mm so the S-Can is angled to fit and allow the full interior - an in-line arrangement would have scuppered that. Running gear and wheel inserts (available from George for an extra £3.50) are required to turn the kit into a working slot car. Plus some model-building and painting skills, of course.

George has already created two great sportscar lines with the late 50s and late 60s models. I do hope the Lotus 19 and 23 are just the start of an early 60s range.

   

Pictures are of the sample model built and decorated by George Turner.

My Bathurst track I built 6 yrs ago. It is to a scale of 330:1. The support frame is constructed from pine
pallets scrounged for the rear of local shops. The topside is 12mm mdf tortured into shape by various
methods. The slot is 3mm x 8.5mm deep borded by tin plated copper braid. It has two lanes of 17 meters
in length ,Scorpius lane changers and a compulsory cross over. Scorpius Race Management System handles
lap timing and race set ups. A variable power supply handles the juice and we usually run on 10.5 volts.

My Suzuka track is three lane digital/analogue. Lane length is 25 mtrs. I have almost finished the build
with some scenery work to do and tidy up some crash barriers  and other small jobs. A good lap time
is around 7.5 sec. Any members wishing to try their skill PM me I am home every day. The link to my video of the Suzuka track is https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ko1KpioUknM

Hi guys and gals, I am smokey 42 and my man cave is in Bundaberg Queensland Australia. I 
have been interested in slot cars for about six years and have built a few tracks in that time. I became interested when I read about a digital system (Scorpius) . Electronics is definately not my strong suit but I decided to have a crack anyhow. That story is too long for this space. I will post some images for viewing.

It's been roughly 11 years since I built a track. I had to sell my last one in a hurry as I'd moved and had no where to put it so it sold for $85 on ebay 


I'm toying with ideas and limited space (approx 2 x 4 m),  ideally would be hybrid analogue/digital but not 100%. I had working pit lanes on both my previous wood tracks and still have my fly pit wall etc. on paper pit lane would be the lowest point and slowly rise and drop back down under bridge back to pit lane. I had to cut the top short due to space and room to move around it