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Digital “Racing Line” Lane-Changing 76 July/August 2014 $6.95 Easy-Build 3D-Printed Ferrari Ferrari’s First Le Mans Winner Laguna Seca Raceway on a Tabletop The Sound of Racing Listen to real race car sound from the Flyslot http://youtu.be/q82ycLE4eV8 1/32 scale Porsche on the Laguna Seca track. USA $6.95 Three Full Race Car Track Tests: - 2012 Aston Martin V12 Vantage - 1999 BMW V12 LMR LeMans www.modelcarracingmag.com - 1982 Ferrari 512 BB/LM Le Mans Luigi Chinetti (and Lord Selsdon) drove this Ferrari 166MM to win LeMans in 1949. ---Ferrett Fotographics 76 20 Digital Racing Carrera Digital 132 single curved lane changers by Robert Schleicher 76 22 LeMans Slot.it 1986 Porsche 962C KH CONTENTS by Albin Burroughs 24 Club Racing ON THE COVER: The Slot.it 1/32 scale Matra MS670B is a replica of the Builder’s Class, Part 2, Proxy Racing number 8 car that failed to finish at LeMans in 1974. – LAT Photo by Robert Schleicher 1/32 Scale Model Car Racing: 7 Home Racing: Onboard Race car sound from Flyslot by Robert Schleicher 27 LeMans Slot.it 1974 Matra MS670B by Bill Wright 8 Race Car Shop LeMans TDR Innovations 3D Printed 1949 Ferrari 166MM with Slot Classics or PCS-1 Chassis by Robert Schleicher 15 Real (Vintage) Race Track Plans 30 LeMans 2-Lane Buddh International India Formula 1 Circuit Racer “Sideways” 1982 Sauber BMW M1 Turbo Scalextric Sport, Classic, SCX, Ninco, Carrera (with by Albin Burroughs optional lane-changing) on a 9 x 17-foot tabletop. by Robert Schleicher 18 Real Race Tracks on a Tabletop 2-Lane Twisted Pines Raceway for Scalextric Sport, Classic, SCX, Ninco or Carrera (with optional lane- changing) on a 5 x 9-foot ping-pong tabletop. by Robert Schleicher 4 Model Car Racing 34 LeMans Racer “Sideways” 1980 Ferrari 512BB/LM by Albin Burroughs 36 Home Racing: Build Laguna Seca Raceway On a 5 x 9-foot Ping-Pong Tabletop Plus 3 x 3- and 3 x 6-foot Portable Tables With Carrera, Scalextric, Ninco or SCX Track And Digital Options by Robert Schleicher 51 Your Track Pete Shepherd’s 45 Start Here Cuckoo Pines 4 ½ x 13-foot two-lane Carrera Matching Pickup Braid To The Brand Of Track by Robert Schleicher 57 Vintage Racing: Rick Thigpen’s Strombecker 1960 Porsche RS60 HO Model Car Racing: 19 Track Plans 4-Lane Buddh International India Formula 1 Circuit in 4 x 8-Feet by Robert Schleicher Departments: 46 LeMans 6 Editorial: Bring A Friend TRACK TEST: 49 Pit Board Supertuned Racers, Part 108: 50 Club Directory Magnet-Free: 55 New Stuff NSR 2012 Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 On Your Tablet: by Marc Purdham Model Car Racing is now available for iPad or Kindle. Just click on the 47 LeMans Apple iTunes icon and search for Model Car Racing to order individual TRACK TEST: issues, subscriptions or a limited number of back issues. There’s more Supertuned Racers, Part 109: information on page 56 of this issue. Magnet-Free: Where To Buy Model Car Racing Products: Slotwings 1982 Ferrari 512BB/LM Dealers: A listing of the addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, by Marc Purdham and websites of all the dealers that carry Model Car Racing magazine appears on our website at www.modelcarracingmag.com Manufacturers: A listing of the addresses and websites of firms that manufacture model car racing products appears on our website at www.modelcarracingmag.com: MORE INFORMATION: There is an Index of all of the past issues, a Digest of the results of the first 257 cars in our Race Track Test series, Pros and Cons of plastic 48 LeMans track by brand, the Pros and Cons of the four digital systems, Pros and TRACK TEST: Cons of 1/43 scale and an index of the 157 previously published track Supertuned Racers, Part 110: plans, by size, on our website at www.modelcarracingmag.com. Magnet-Free: READY-TO-RUN CARS YOU CAN RACE AT HOME Arrow Slot 1999 BMW V12 LMR by Marc Purdham Model Car Racing 5 Bring a Friend You have, no doubt, heard about secret so- irony of this secret is that there are more 1/32 driving skills but overwhelmed by them. If you cieties, usually sinister-sounding groups like the home racing tracks today than when the slot car are going race with a newcomer, try to keep just Knights Templar or Phi Beta Kappa. Mysteries racing hobby was at its peak in the late sixties. behind them and drive at their pace---you want touch something in all of us. You may not be them to understand that they really can drive aware of it, but you are a member of one of those Who Knows They Don’t Know? these cars at what they believe is a racing speed. secret societies. This secret society is a group, Throwing a newcomer in at the deep end is self- most of whose members would whisper a quiet The manufacturers’ organizations believe that defeating. Show them just how much fun racing yes if asked if they had ever heard of something 1/32, HO , 1/24 and 1/43 scale model car racing can be---the winning can come later.... called slot car racing. is about a $200 million hobby world wide with about $60 million in sales in Germany, $60 mil- Last Christmas Apple stores sold a slotless game lion in England, about $60 million in Italy and October 4 and 5, 2014. The National Hobby called Ankidrive. We had a full review in the Spain and $10 million in other countries. That show, the iHobby Expo is now at the Renaissance January/February 2014 number 73 issue. Briefly, leaves about $10 million in sales in America. I Schaumburg Convention Center, 1551 N. Thoreau Ankidrive is a war game with two to four cars simply cannot believe that there are six-times Dr., Schaumburg, Illinois 60173 about 20-minutes where the last car standing is the winner. How- more people interested in model car racing in northwest of O’Hare Airport. The iHobby Expo (www. ever, because it was an Apple-related product England or Germany or Italy and Spain as there ihobbyexpo.com/Public.html) has become the largest gathering in the United States for the model the national news media paid attention. NPR, are in America. Sure, NASCAR is the biggest car racing importers and manufacturers. Usually, for example, referred to Ankidrive as “Super- thing in American racing but NASCAR does not Scalextric, NINCO, SCX, AFX and Auto World have attract a lot of folks into our hobby. The manu- ficially, this is a little bit like the slot cars that demo tracks as well as displays of their latest some of us may have had as children except that facturers have done a lot of work “plowing” the products. this doesn’t run on slots, …” I hear similar com- field of NASCAR fans for new consumers and, ments from race commentators and fans when I generally, arrived at the conclusion that it is just visit a model car racing track in the pits at one of not worth it. A good guess would be that only the full-size car races. about five-percent of model car racing fans con- Volume 13, Number 4 (issue number 76) sider NASCAR their favorite form of racing. July/August 2014 Unfortunately, only about one adult in five re- Publisher: Technical Editor: alizes that model car racing exists. References The folks that are most likely to want to race Robert Schleicher Chris Walker to the hobby in the general press nearly always model cars are those who are fans of full-size car Editor: Track Test Editor: refer to slot car racing and those memories of road racing. Road racing certainly does not have Robert Schleicher Marc Purdham giant eight-lane tracks. Even fewer folks know to be their number one interest, but they should that the model car racing hobby you see on these recognize that a Jaguar is not only a wild cat and Layout & Design: Agency Graphics, Ltd. pages existed in the sixties and into the seventies that LeMans is not a French lemon. Contributing Editors: or that the hobby was resurrected about fifteen Mark Gussin Jeremy Dunning Jason Boye years ago. Since you know about this you are, by So the majority of folks that currently partici- Dan Wilson Alan Schwartz Dan Esposito implication a member of this secret society. pate actively in model car racing in any scale are Brad Bowman Bernard Sampson Pat Dennis usually fans of some kind of road racing. That Editors Emeritus: Actually, slot car racing is a ‘fringe” segment is very good news indeed because those fans Rocky Russo Bill Sipple Albin Adams of model car racing. By my definition, slot cars include people that love IndyCar, the TUDOR Jose Rodriguez Jim Russell United SportsCar Championship (formerly the are the 1/24 scale machines that are raced on Bob Braverman Ron Klein the massive eight-lane tracks at commercial IMSA and American LeMans Series), SCCA, raceway centers. That hobby was actually a late- MotoGP, that flock to the Circuit of the Ameri- Circulation & Dealer Contact: sixties spin-off of the hobby you see on these cas in Austin, that crowd onto the Monterey email address: [email protected] pages. However, the reality of the seventies was Peninsula in California for the Rolex Monterey Model Car Racing Publications, Inc. 6525 Gunpark Drive, Suite 370-142 that a major portion of population knew about Motorsports Reunion and other vintage races, Boulder, CO 80301-3346 1/24 scale slot car racing but only a relatively few that support magazines like Vintage Motorsports website: www.modelcarracingmag.com people realized that there were slightly smaller and Classic Motorsports (it should come as no machines that actually looked like real cars that surprise that the editors both of these publica- Model Car Racing (USPS 020-443, ISSN 1538-9170) is published you could race at home.

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