London Internation Slot Car Show
Sunday 21 November 2021
Crofton Halls, Orpington BR6 8PR
10.30 to 2.30pm
Admission £2 - under-16s are free

Orpington is back! I'm sure Phil and the team are looking forward to welcoming old and new faces to the best slot car show inside the M25.

Confirmed stall holders (so far) include...

• The Slot Outlet
  
• Graham Perris
  
• Roger Barker
  
• Paul Blows
  
• Phil Smith - scaleslotcars.com
  
• Kevin Bennet
  
• Viking Slot Car Club
  
• Pete Shepard
  
• NSCC
  
• Mike Flight
  
• Darren McHarg
  
• John Gavin
  
• John Couser
  
• Geoff Spencer
  
• Robert Campling
  
• Martyn Hey
  
• Joel Thura
  
• Steve Cannon, aka triplex
  
• Clive Mills
  
• Alan McDonald
  

For a flavour of the event, you can read this post from 2020: https://slotracer.online/community/showt...p?tid=1199

Orpington railway station is next door to the venue and there is parking both at Crofton Halls and the large station car park. There's a café in the venue providing drinks and fresh food throughout the day.

Next year's dates are:

• 10 April 2022
  
• 20 November 2022
  

If you're tempted to become a stallholder, standard tables are 6' x 2.5' (1.8m x .75m) and cost £25 each - plus there are usually a few 4' collectors tables available at £10. Stall holder entry is from 8.30am. More details from Phil at: https://www.philsmith.co.uk/

Hi everybody, I'm new into this forum I've been lurking in the background reading lots of info in here for about a year now but I finally registered today.

I have a huge collection of WRC cars but I also like to collect GT cars, Classic F1 cars and old school endurance racers.

I've never tried racing at a club but I'm hoping to get down to one or 2 next year and start racing.

There are two slot swap meets in November, one at Gaydon and one in Orpington.

Both are about the same distance for me to travel, so any thoughts on which might be better? I will not be looking to spend lots of money and my interest areas are older Scalextric (Up to digital era) and MRRC.

Suggestions and advice would be much appreciated as I will not be able to attend both shows.

Baz

Is there anyone out there who could print me some little bits from a file I have found. 

They are small motor spacers, but I wouldn't mind a few... 

Cheers

   

I have a sense of déjà vu... it's only a week ago that I was looking at the new Racer Sideways McLaren 720S GT3 - and now I'm reporting the announcement of an NSR model. Of course, Carrera had a 720S GT3 in their 2019 catalogue - although it looks like Scalextric (who have a long-term licensing arrangement with McLaren) have passed on the GT3 racing version. Choice is always a good thing, but three McLarens might be enough.

NSR have published some very polished graphics of the 3D rendering, but it's the shots of the printed prototype that interest me...

       

The shape and stance of the 720S GT3 does lend itself to a low, wide and sleek slot racing GT car - you wouldn't expect NSR to make a Bentley Continental. The Carrera model - with is pretty much to scale - has a wheelbase of 84mm, a rear track of 63mm and a height of 38mm. So it won't take much of a stretch and a squash to get that width out to NSR's favoured 64mm and a couple of mms off the height...

       

A 3D-printed prototype is never the finished article - but some of those lines do look quite chunky, especially compared with the Sideways model. I hope those front wheel arches are being sorted out and I'm really not sure about the windscreen and roof line. But as I said, a prototype is only one step towards the end product. And it's the performance on the track that really matters - I expect the 720S to be right up there with the benchmark AMG GT3. There are plenty of liveries available too, starting - I suspect - with the orange presentation car...

   

NSR expect the first model to be available in February 2022 - so watch out for more news in the next few weeks.

 Having very much enjoyed running the "Brighton to John O'Groats Roadrace", "Extreme Slotting" and currently "Lights on! Le Mans Cars" Proxy series during this year, I have been encouraged to repeat these again in 2022. Additionally I canvassed opinion about doing a single seater/open wheel (GP/F1/Indy) Proxy series along the same lines as the others with both classic and modern class format, and I am encouraged to think there is enough interest in this topic too. Perhaps this one giving most issues in regard to how these classes should be organised.

My main aim with these Proxy events has been to make them accessible to all slot car enthusiasts, not making them too specialized, but generating opportunities for enthusiasts having Standard RTR cars, or those who enjoy modifying slot cars, along with amateur scratch builders to feel involved in a relatively light hearted competition. 
Also initially I was given the motivation for organising these events from a few individuals with sizable home track set ups who was interested to see them used in a competitive competition which they could become involved in. More recently I have also become aware of clubs whose members also wanting to give up some of their time  in order to participate in this form of slot car competition (as with the current Lights on! Le mans Cars Proxy)

So my aim next year is to offer much the same kind of Proxy format, but hopefully still with Individuals and club hosting stages, as I think this gives a good mixture of different track types and challenges which add a high degree of unpredictability to the Proxy series.

Obviously circumstances have changed and generally speaking it seems that with work pressures and club commitments, it is not possible to run these series with the higher number of participants and number of cars to prepare as during the earlier part of this year. So next year I will restrict the number of cars per entry and the total number of cars per class for each Proxy event.

The term"Triple Crown" has been used in may Sports of course, and in Motorsport in various forms. In regard to F1 drivers it is regarded as an unofficial term to describe drivers who competed at Indianapolis 500, Monaco GP, and Le Mans. Only Graham Hill has the honour of winning all 3 events, although there are others (more recently Alfonso) who have entered them. However in our slot car version our 3 disciplines will be described as below.

The intention is to run 3 proxy series under the "Triple Crown" umbrella next year;
Spring - American Trophy-Road Race Championship
Summer- Single seater/open wheels Championship
Autumn - Le Mans Cars Championship

And I will be posting on this thread the format and rules for each Series as we progress. 
The "Extreme Slotting" Proxy will be run around mid year but will be kept separate from the "Triple Crown" concept due to its different format.

National GT3 2022 6hr Team Endurance Race
23rd January 2022

Please add your name and repost.

1. Ashley Blake - SMSRC
2. Richard August - SMSRC
3. Martin Reynolds - Pendle
4. Craig Whittle - SMSRC
5. Mark Warburton - SMSRC
6. Glyn Taylor - SMSRC

This thread will list the GT3 arrivals as they come. 
Good luck to everyone on their car builds!

1) UK - OXO cube - #23
2) CAN - AB - Barc 1 - #20
3) CAN - BC - Westons Garage #55
4) USA -Hawaii - Aloha #4
5) USA - Hawaii - Lance #24
6) USA - NY - Ragtopman #88
7) USA - MI - Redlynr #5
8) UK - Sussex - BARacer #68
9) UK - Sussex - Woodcote #116
10) USA - CA - Steeveew #188
11) Japan - Okayama - SRHawaii #12
12) ASTL - Pepsi62 - #62
13) USA - NC - Modernslots #13
14) ASTL - Jimmyslots #79
15) ASTL - Camber #200

Hi there,
Another Aussie joining the forum. I'm from the Blue Mountains so have shop with commercial tracks about 30 minutes away. I have a Carrera digital setup with HRMSS at home. I prefer the Group C / LMP style cars. I'm also into 3D printing (I got here via a FB post on the new grandstand).

Cheers 

Pete

Sadly I am unable to attend our scheduled racing due to being a 'COVID close contact' which means full isolation and three negative swab results before all further racing for myself can return, such there will be no race results for 3rd Nov. '21 and 10th Nov. '21. 

Scheduled racing return to Shenanigans Raceway should be 17th Nov. '21



I give up... stupid computers