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Pros & Cons of All The Digital Systems 85 January/February 2016 $6.95 New Hi-Performance Chassis Pods 50 New Cars Williams 2015 Formula 1 Car Snap-Together The Indy F1 Track Tech Tips: • Which Tire? • How To Apply Decals • Choose The Best Chassis • Build Your Own Race Track www.modelcarracingmag.com Flip to Page 7 to compare with the real car! Editorial ������������������������� That’s My Car and simple. That concept has its roots in the real enance ---the car, in effect, has both a background world with IROC racing (it stood for International and a story---and you can drive it. There’s another Most of us have been fortunate enough or indus- Race of Champions) where the drivers run what are hobby option, of course, and that is building the trious enough or are products of the lucky gene supposed to be identical cars. Model car racers do car you race rather than just buying it---that's what pool to have heard the question “Is that your car?” it, especially some of the clubs; every driver gets, you’ll need to do if you really want a Pontiac Trans- The implication, of course, being that it is a thing say, three minutes with each car in each lane and Am Firebird. The hobby also derives from doing of beauty and are you the enviable one that owns the driver with the highest number of laps is the what is necessary to that model to make it quicker it? Or, you may just be the one asking the question winner. Simple. You only need two cars. than any in its class… but that’s another story… in the subliminal hope that some of the glory will float your way because you are in the right spot at The blue car/red car concept can also be applied ½½ iHobby Expo 2016 the right time. to most of the cars that race on the massive com- Edison, New Jersey mercial tracks. The cars do not resemble anything March 12 and 13, 2016 The advertising agencies for full-size cars would in the real world so color and intricate paint and like you to believe that the car the agency is tout- markings become the identifying factors. Again, The National Hobby show, the iHobby Expo, is now ing is one of those cars that nearly everybody wants racing is the ultimate goal, not attempting to actu- at the New Jersey Expo Center, in Edison New Jer- and all would envy you if you bought one. But the ally race replicas of anything in particular. sey, about 20-minutes from the Newark Airport. general public, even the general auto enthusiast The iHobby Expo (www.hmashow.com/Public. public or even the race car fan public, has widely- So, What Makes Model html) is the largest gathering in the United States varying tastes in automobiles so your odds of hav- Car Racing A Hobby? for the model car racing importers and manufac- ing the car that everyone wants are slim. There turers. 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We are not describing ‘red” cars and “blue” cars, Dan Wilson Alan Schwartz Dan Esposito here, but exact replicas, down to the smallest spon- Brad Bowman Bernard Sampson Pat Dennis Sophisticated Racing sor logo. It is fascinating to see just how many Editors Emeritus: different paint schemes were applied, for one ex- Model car racing can be as simple as playing with Rocky Russo Bill Sipple Albin Adams ample, to the Porsche 956 and 962 cars that raced a Christmas present figure 8 set or as complex as Jose Rodriguez Jim Russell at LeMans. Slot.it has done dozens and they are not your recreation of LeMans (the actual track but as Bob Braverman Ron Klein through yet. For most of us, it is the model that a model in HO or 1/32 scale) and 20 of the 40 cars excites; discovering that real the car was significant Circulation & Dealer Contact: that raced there in 1967---it has been done---you is merely icing on the cake. email: [email protected] can do it. 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