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There were a few greyed-out images in the 2019 Scalextric catalogue, but those have been fleshed-out in full colour over the past couple of weeks.

First up we have the first two Ford Thunderbird liveries, following on from the all-white version of the car...

   

C4035 Blue/White/Red is out now!

   

C4067 Red & White is listed as due Winter 2019-20. Both cars will come in the 'super-resistant' style cardboard box at the lower £34.99 price point. Here's a pre-production sample shown at the AutoFest show in October...

   

Next are the Jaguar I-Pace electric SUVs that - in the real world - run as a support race at the Formula-E events...

   

These two will be in the C1401 I-Pace Challenge set, due Winter 2019-20 and priced at £109.99. As with all the basic set cars, these come as super-resistant versions with black windows and no lights.

   

   

C4042 Red #3 is listed as due Winter 2019-20.

   


C4064 is the 'Group 44 Heritage' livery, also listed as due Winter 2019-20. Both these individual cars are full price (RRP £40.99), high-detail with working headlights and rear lights. All the I-Pace cars are DPR for easy conversion to digital.

Also included in the winter releases are two striking cars to add to the BTCC and GT3 stables...

   

   

The C4016 VW Passat CC in a 2018 Team Hard livery is another fab addition to the Scalextric BTCC line-up.

   

The C4044 Mercedes AMG GT3 is a model of the P1 Motorsports entry from the 2018 Daytona 24 hours. This is available now!

The full 2019 range is listed on the Scalextric website here: www.scalextric.com/uk-en/shop/new-for-2019

First for me - this was previewed at this years UK SLot Festival - but I did not hear much raving about it.

Looks absolutely superb.

The site is all German Audio with English Sub Titles

   

LINKY:

Harrel RS 


   

   

Has its own online course planner - which allows you to order what is needed.

   


Contact the Harrel team for more details - Link Above.

Are these the greatest slot car ever made??? Very very possibly.

Before you all go off half-cocked - they are detailed - fantastically, and hugely expensive.

Have a look at their site and see the cars.

   

   


Velasor Slot cars

Lets not debate price or speed, after all they are models of cars in the early 20th century.  Just admire their beauty.

I am located in the US, willing to ship if any customer wants to assist with shipping costs. I have a ton of scalextric digital track, cars everything you need.  Ping me, I am selling everything.  Moving and don't have anywhere to put it.  Over 18 digital cars with chips, hundred+ pieces of track...borders, controllers etc.  Most everything is in good working condition. I can send pictures of anything you want to see. All reasonable offers will be entertained. I probably have spent over $2000 for what I have new. Thanks!

Whilst doing our regular shop in the local supermarket, we were confronted with a large pile of jeans. I get through working trousers at a frightening rate so it seemed a good idea to have a look.

Got two pairs. They cost 7,90€ each (£7.00 today). The denim seems OK and they are well put together, even have a length of leg that means I don't have to buy them with a 55 inch waist! Made in Bangladesh, transported half way round the world with all the expenses and damage to the environment that entails and they cost 7,90€. This is insane.

What really grinds my gears is my own moral bankruptcy and happiness to break my own sense of what's right and wrong to buy the damned things

THORL continues in September with Autumn Awesome. Pinewood Raceway is the Venue, atop their 1/24th track, on 29th September 2019

A change in race format sees a day of racing with a full morning using the AFX Mega G/+ platform, followed by a handout Wizzard session. If time allows, another handout session may even follow!

The Morning session will consist of a full timed practice session followed by heats and finals. 
Handout sessions will be Segmented style racing across all lanes.

For those wishing to try HO, we have all the kit and equipment required. All the info and rules are on the THORL.co.uk website.

andy w

Saturday was the 81st running of the Brighton National Speed Trials, which is claimed to be the oldest running motor race anywhere in the world. The event dates back to July 1905, when Edwardian entrepreneur Sir Harry Preston persuaded Brighton town council to tarmac the seafront road east from the Palace Pier to Black Rock specifically for motor racing. This stretch was renamed Madeira Drive in 1909 and hosted the Speed Trials ten times before the 1939-45 war and almost every year since.

It is a fabulous day of car and bike racing down the current quarter mile stretch (it was originally a kilometre and then a half mile until 1993), with competitors running individually against the clock from a standing start. The car racing is organised by the Brighton & Hove Motor Club and the bikes by the Vintage Motor Cycle club. By far the most popular class, in terms of entries, is the Handicap Event for road-going cars driven by club members, boy racers and gentlemen drivers who require only a National B licence to compete.

In the past I have watched the trials from the road above Madeira Drive, which is free and a great view. From time to time, I've paid good money for a paddock pass to get up close to the cars and bikes and watch from the terraces next to the track just after the start line. This year I volunteered to help out as a paddock marshall - and I have to say it was a hugely enjoyable day.

   

This picture was taken at 6.45am, about twenty minutes after sunrise on the south coast. I'd already been working for an hour and a half, putting out the numbers for the paddock bays. The road wasn't officially closed until 7am, so we had to step around parked cars that would start being towed away just as the competitors were arriving. That was my next job, helping racers find their paddock spaces and getting unloaded without completely blocking the road. It looked like chaos, but it happened...

         

Eight o'clock was when most of the track, fire and paddock marshalls arrived. The two of us who'd arrived early to put out the numbers were given the task of corralling the fifty Handicap class drivers and cars - the first batch of twenty-five would be first out for their practice run at 8.45am, with the second batch following close behind. Most of the Handicap competitors had arrived early and were ready to run in a wide variety of classic cars, modern supercars, track day cars and one guy in his wife's Chelsea tractor...

         

Yes that's a Maserati Monza 4000 and a Porsche GT2 RS

We did a pretty efficient job with practice. One driver didn't have a legal helmet, so we sorted out a loan from a generous competitor in another class. Otherwise, we sent them all out and welcomed them all back. And then had a break while all the other cars and bikes completed their practice runs...

         

Practice did overrun by about half an hour. The 'sweepers' were called into action a couple of times to deal with fluid on the start line and there was plenty of smoke - most of it tyres, plus a clutch or two. We had a busy half hour rounding up the Handicap class drivers and get them back to their cars ready for their only scheduled timed run of the day, which we'd squeeze in before lunch. The schedule was very clear in all the paperwork that was sent out, but very few bothered to read it, of course... Thankfully most of the drivers drifted back, but most assumed their run would be after lunch. In the end, we had four drivers still missing at 11.50 when we lined up the two batches of Handicap cars in the queue for the start line. Our job was then to meet and calm down the four panicked drivers when they realised their class was running before lunch... And then add them to the line.

As the first batch returned there were some beaming smiles and a few sheepish looks. But everyone came back in one piece. Half an hour later and the second batch were back all safe and sound. The way the Handicap competition works is that each driver is given a handicap (from zero to 7.25 seconds this year) that is taken off their time for the quarter mile. The red Porsche GT2 was quickest down the track of 'our' fifty cars, but with a handicap of zero, didn't make the top five. The winner was a Caterham 7 R500 which had a rather generous handicap of 4 seconds - but he made it count.

For the six quickest Handicap class cars (irrespective of the handicap), that wasn't the final action of the day. Originally planned for straight after lunch - but then delayed to after the first timed run for the other car and bike classes - the top six would have a shoot-out. We lined them up at 3.30pm in reverse order - a Bentley Bentayga SUV, a VW Golf, a Subaru Impreza, an Audi R8 V10, a Ford RS200 Evo and the Porsche GT2 RS. We legged it down to the start line to see how our guys got on.

         

In short, the Bentley, Golf and Audi all messed up their starts. Dan in the Impreza made a superb start and then had a slight hiccup as he shifted up to third gear. The RS200 completely nailed the entire run, getting a 10.89 and putting massive pressure on the Porsche who bogged down early on, but then blitzed the rest of the run. The Porsche's time was 11.28, but with the handicaps applied, it was the Impreza that jumped from third to first, the Golf second and then the RS200 and the Porsche third and fourth. Mildly confusing, but great fun!


Having seen the six cars back and offered congratulations and commiserations (and being offered a Lotus Elise to race next year...) it was time to go off shift and head home, just a little bit knackered, slightly deaf, but very happy. The other classes continued for another couple of hours with their second timed runs and top six run-offs for the cars and the bikes. All the results can be found here: https://www.tsl-timing.com/event/193681

And if you want to watch some of the action - from inside and outside the cars - search Brighton Speed Trials 2019 on YouTube. Here's one of our guys in action...

From Pendle Slot Racing:
The UK Winter Fest & Slot Car Market at The Jurys Inn Hotel, Sunday November 10th 10am - 4pm.
Please Note this event replaces the Coventry Motor Museum Festive Slot event.
The event will run on a similar theme to the previous Coventry events with a large swapmeet area full of stalls selling all types of slotcar goodies, there will also be a variety of slot car tracks to play on.
Further details of stall holders & tracks will be available closer to the date.
For anyone wishing to travel to the event and stay over, rooms are available to book by contacting The Jurys Inn direct. 

Hi all,

Thanks for looking