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I know Dave frequents here from time to time but I found his latest video very interesting.
I agree with many of his sentiments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1n816J1JM0

As someone who only played mildly with H0 cars in the 80's and came into the hobby in around 2013 I can't delve through years of memories and i didn't experience the "golden age" myself so getting his insight helps me focus on how best to increase the uptake of the hobby.

I have recently been allowed to go into our club as I please and guess what? Nearly every day I have free and my son has friend(s) over he wants to go slot racing.
When I got the run through on how the track worked I asked how to reduce the voltage and he stared at me for a minute and said "they have to learn to drive so we never do that"... needless to say I figured it out and I started them at 9 volts, then upped it to 10 and finally the 11 we normally race.

The had a blast. I expected to stay there 1 maybe 2 hours. We were there a full 5....!

It might have helped that we had done a tour of the Hockenheimring beforehand though. :-)