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

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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. tions are fans of model car racing) and/or that bimonthly by Model Car Racing Publications, Inc., 6525 Gunpark Drive, Suite 370-142, Boulder, CO 80301-3346. © Copyright 20134, Model participate in slaloms or rallies. Add up the at- Car Racing Publications, Inc. Why So Secret? tendance at all of the professional and amateur Individual issue price $6.95. No current issues or back issues are road races in America and Canada and you will available from the publisher but a list of dealers who carry the magazine I considered spending $200,000 on a survey of probably have about three to five-million road is on the website at www.modelcarracingmag.com. All sales and subscriptions are not returnable. automotive racing enthusiasts to see how many racing fans---and only one in five knows they knew that model car racing is currently a pop- SUBSCRIPTION RATE: United States: 1 year (6 issues) $35.00. We can can road race on a tabletop. So 80-percent of only accept Canadian or foreign subscriptions for the digital version of the ular hobby, but decided instead to buy a 2012 the people who would become avid model car magazine, which is $19.95 for six issues. We cannot accept subscription Alfa Romeo 8C if I ever did have that amount of racers do not know the hobby exists. Appalling. orders for the paper version of the magazine from countries other than expendable funds. What I do have is anecdotal the United States. evidence that less than 20-percent of the fans of Some Special Friends EXPEDITED SHIPPING SERVICE: Not available. full-size car racing know about model car rac- POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Model Car Racing Publications, ing. That’s about a hundred million folks but, if Inc., 6525 Gunpark Drive, Suite 370-142, Boulder, CO 80301-3346. You can do something about getting more folks Periodicals Postage is paid at Boulder, Colorado and at additional mailing only one-percent of them would actually take active in model car racing. If you race with a lo- offices. up our hobby, that would bring in ten-times cal club, contact local hobby shops or full-size Model Car Racing assumes that all letters, new product information, the current number of enthusiasts. The benefits race car parts stores and put up notices that you photographs of any kind, and other unsolicited materials are contributed to you, personally, would be an even broader gratis whether mailed or sent electronically. Model Car Racing assumes are holding a tabletop model car race. Do not, no responsibility for the return of unsolicited material. Solicited articles range of cars, lower costs, even more realism please, just ask a newcomer to watch your club and photographs are paid for within 45 days after publication, at which and a host of other benefits that derive from the race---we loose too many potential enthusiasts time Model Car Racing obtains full publication rights. Unsolicited materials can be returned if adequate postage is included. manufacturers selling enough cars and sets. The who are not impressed by your club members’

6 Model Car Racing Listen to real race car sound from the Le Mans Flyslot 1/32 scale Porsche on the Flyslot “Alpha” Laguna Seca track. http://youtu.be/q82ycLE4eV8 With Real Racing Sound 2010 “Flying Lizard” Porsche 997/911 GT3 RSR By Bill Wright

The Flyslot replica of the Flying Lizard Porsche 911 that is fitted with sound has an identical body and chassis to the conventional model. The sound chip, battery and speaker just fit into the available space in front of the motor. The speaker is the largest that will fit. BEWARE, however, about removing the body from the chassis because it is all too easy to pull the wires from the battery pack (which is attached to the underside of the interior). The toothpick in the photo is supporting the body at about the maximum distance the body can be moved from the chassis without tearing-out the wires to the battery. The Flyslot Porsche with sound includes a USB cable to allow the battery to be recharged from most computers. We could not perform a definitive test on the length of the charge but it lasted for at least 15-minutes---long enough for most model car races.

The Flyslot Porsche 997 GT3 RSR with racing sound was featured in the May/June 2014 issue but the model arrived too late to photograph the chassis or include a video. There is now a video link with sound on the www.modelcarracingmag.com home page or you can gather video with your smart phone from the QR icon on this page so you can see and hear the car. It sounds a lot better in person than through the low- tech sound of YouTube.

When you start the car, the headlights come on (there are no tail lights), the motor revs and then the car accelerates away, shifting gears as it goes. Let off on the throttle to apply the brake and you can hear the blipping sound of the full-size car’s engine downshifting.

As we reported in the last issue, the sound is programmed for acceleration (including longer time intervals between the gear changes There’s a hole in the chassis to accept the plug on the USB cable so the battery can be recharged as the acceleration increases), cruising and stopping (the sound of without removing the body. blipping throttle plus flashing lights). The sound is a realistic recreation of a modern turbocharged GT car (like the prototype for the Flyslot Flyslot “Alpha” 2007 Porsche (997) 911 GT3 RSR With & Without Porsche). Fortunately, the gears in the Flyslot model are relatively quiet Sound: so the “real car” whine is the predominant sound. With sound Without Sound Weight 90 grams (3 1/4 oz.) 66 grams (2 3/8 oz.) We expected the car to be more expensive, especially when compared to model railroad locomotives with sound, but the retail price is Weight on Front 35 grams (1 1/4 oz.) 25 grams (7/8 oz.) currently about $80. The Flyslot model is heavier than the car without Weight on Rear Tires 55 grams (2 oz.) 41 grams (1 1/2 oz.) sound but sound adds less than an ounce and the car is still lighter than We expected the car be heavier but the Flyslot engineers have found a very light the Carrera cars. There is also a blue number 77 Porsche with sound. rechargeable lithium battery pack that is not much larger or heavier) than a matchbook. Model Car Racing 7 Tracks on a Tabletop: For 2-Lane Twisted Pines Track On A 5 X 9 Foot Ping-Pong Tabletop For Scalextric Classic, Sport, SCX, Ninco Or Carrera With (Optional) Digital Lane-Changing

These plans are much-modified versions of Pete Shepherd’s Cuckoo Pines 4 ½ x 13- The start-finish line on these plans is located on the longest straight and the turns foot two-lane Carrera Raceway on pages 51-54 of this issue but with the center straights are numbered from there. Turn T1 is the largest-radius that would fit in the space twisted to provide an overpass for more elevation change. These plans also fit nicely on but there is quick medium-size ess bend through turns T2 and T3. The Figure 8 one 5 x 9-foot ping-pong tabletop but they can be expanded in length by adding four configuration will help equalize the lengths of each lane because the outer lane at the sets of straight track sections at the points marked “L” on plans. There’s an index, by left becomes the inner lane on the right of the plan. size, of all the previously published track plans from Model Car Racing magazine and the four books by Robert Schleicher on our website www.modelcarracingmag.com. If you are using Scalextric Sport, Classic or SCX track it should be mounted on 1/8- inch plywood as shown in the May/June 2006 number 27 issue for the portion of the track through the turns T5 and T6. The Carrera and Ninco track joints and the track itself is stiff enough to not need a plywood backing. If you are not using Carrera Digital you will not need lane-changers so the four straights that connect turn T6 could be replaced with a pair of the Carrera 20587 “Crossing” sections to elevate the track. Digital Racing Systems

There is room on the plans for Scalextric, SCX and Ninco track for three of the double lane-change track sections at “X” on the plan. The Carrera plan indicates two locations for the Digital 132 single-lane changers but these would be better replaced with the number 30347 double lane-changers.

List Of Scalextric Classic, Sport, SCX Or Ninco Track Required For 2-Lane Twisted Pines Track On A 5 X 9-Foot Ping-Pong Tabletop: Key Quantity Description H 0 1/2 Standard Curve S 8 Standard Curve O 20 Outer Curve OO 4 Outer-Outer Curve F 0 “Short” Straight E 1 1/4-Straight D 2 1/2-Straight B 10 Full-Straight List Of Carrera Track Required 2-Lane Twisted Pines Track On A A 2 Connector Track 5 X 9-Foot Ping-Pong Tabletop: L Track can be expanded in length by adding matched pairs of straight track sections here. Key Quantity Description H 2 20577 1/2 Inner Curve R1 T Turns on the model versions of the track S 8 20571 Inner Curve R1 O 9 20572 Middle Curve R2 X If you are assembling the track with Scalextric Digital, 1 1/2 straights at this OO 3 20573 Outer Curve R3 point can be replaced with the C7036 double-crossover straight lane-changer plus a OOO 0 pr. 20578 Outer-Outer Curve R4 half straight. E 2 20612 1/4-Straight If you are using Ninco N-Digital, the 40207 double Lane-changers can be substituted D 1 20611 1/3-Straight for any standard straight. B 6 20509 Full-Straight A 2 20583 Connector Track (analog) To build the plan with Ninco track you will need about 10-percent more space and you may need some additional short straights to get everything to line up properly. L Track can be expanded in length by adding matched pairs of straight track sections here. 18 Model Car Racing T Turns on the model versions of the track HO Race Tracks for Your Home: HO AFX 4-Lane Buddh, India F1 Track For A 4 X 8-Foot Tabletop

By Robert Schleicher The Plan For The HO 4-Lane Buddh International India Formula 1 Circuit To Fit A 4 X 8-Foot Area. This Buddh International India Formula 1 Circuit is based on the full-size raceway on pages 15-17 of this issue. This plan mimics the Quantity: Description: shape of the full-size race track, particularly the tight turns 1 and 3 0 3-inch Straight that bookend the broad turn 2. The portion of the full-size track from turn 5 through turn 16 has, however, been much simplified, but the 8 6-inch Straight ess bends through Turns T5 and T7 and T 11 and T13 are there, with 0 9-inch Straight an increasing-radius turn through T10 and T11. All of the straights 18 15-inch Straight are 15-inch unless marked. 12 6-inch 45-degree Curve The majority of the HO plans in the magazine squeeze as much track as 4 9-inch 45-degree Curve possible into that 4 x 8-foot area. Any of them would be more enjoyable to race on with the straights longer than the typical six-feet or so. It can 7 9-inch 90-degree Curve be difficult to design a plan for, say, 4 x 16-feet that can be shrunk to fit 11 12-inch 45-degree Curve a 4 x 8-foot area. So we present them all uptight and hope that you’ll 6 15-inch 45-degree Curve expand them to 4 x 10 or 4 x 24-feet to get those wondrous 20-foot straight-aways. Most of the plans are marked with “L” letters indicating 2 18-inch 45-degree Curve just where to insert the additional sets of straight track sections to expand the track to any length.

Model Car Racing 19 Digital Racing: Carrera Digital 132 Curved Lane-Changers

By Robert Schleicher

Carrera has added four single lane-changers to their Digital 132 track selection. The track sections can be fitted to some smaller tracks to provide more passing action or they can be used recreate the “racing line” where the full-size cars duck into the inside of the curve.

These Carrera Digital 132 lane-changers can provide a place to install a lane-changer in a track that does not have room for the double-straight-long Carrera straight lane changers.

The Carrera Digital 132 single curved lane changers are available in four sets: right and left and inner-to-outer or outer-to-inner lane-change choices. On a very compact track you might find a place for a set of these because they include the most commonly used standard straight and standard curve. Most tracks have at least one part of the track where a standard-length straight is followed by a standard curve---any of those sets of track can be replaced with the Carrera single curved lane-changer sets. You will, of course, need buy a pair so the cars can change into either lane---if you are only using two you will need to select an outer-to-inner and inner-to-outer pair. If you work with part numbers, always buy a mismatched pair (i.e. 30362 and 30363 or 30362 and 30365). If there is a double lane changer anywhere on track, you can use just one of these curved lane-changers or any combination because that double lane changer will allow you at least one other place to move from either lane to the other lane.

20 Model Car Racing Carrera offers four configurations of Digital 132 curved lane-changers. Each requires the space of a standard straight and a standard curve. This is the number 30362 left, inside-to-outside set.

An example of how the Carrera Digital 132 single curved (30364 right, inside-to-outside and 30365 right, outside-to-inside) lane-changers and be assembled into 120-degree curve that provides a “racing line” so the car that enters on the inner lane can exit on the outer lane and the car that enters on the outer lane can exit on the inner lane. With this set of lane changers the cars would be racing in a clockwise direction. The Carrera Digital 132 number 30363 left, outside-to-inside curved lane-changer set.

An example of how the Carrera Digital 132 single curved (30362 left, in-to-out) and 30363 (left, out- to-in) lane-changers and be assembled into 120-degree curve that provides a “racing line” so the car that enters on the inner lane can exit on outer lane and the car that enters on our lane can exit on the inner. The cars would be traveling counterclockwise on this track.

The Carrera Digital 132 number 30364 right, inside-to-outside single curved lane changer.

The curved lane changers can be located anywhere on the track to replace any set of tracks where a standard straight is followed by a standard curve. Here, the 30362 left, inside-to-outside and 30365 The Carrera Digital 132 number 30365 right, outside-to-inside single curved lane changer. right, outside-to-inside are placed end-to-end lane-changers are assembled to create an ess curve.

Model Car Racing 21 Le Mans: Slot.it 1974 Matra MS670B

By Bill Wright

Matra is virtually unknown in America but, in the seventies, the The Slot.it model has the well-developed sidewinder chassis with a Matra racers were the French equivalent of Ford’s GT40. Matras won separate motor and rear axle pod. The pod has six mounting screws LeMans three years in a row; 1972, 1973 and 1974 as well as the World so the screws can be tightened or loosened to provide an infinite Manufacturers Championship in 1973 and 1974. Like the GT40s, the degree of flex or spring for optimum cornering and acceleration as three winners MS670 racers were cars built to the same design but described in the” Six Screw Hop-Up” article in the July/August 2013 with modifications each year to provide marginal speed increases. number 69 issue (which is also at www.modelcarracingmag.com And, Henri Pescarlo (who would later build his own LeMans cars under “Sample Issues”). The sidewinder chassis and relatively narrow and, most recently, manage the Peugeot LeMans efforts) drove all three winners, teaming with Graham Hill in 1972, then Gerard tires should make the model a match for the other “vintage” era Slot. Larruse in 1973 and 1974. it models like their Ford GT40, McLaren M8D and Chaparral 2E. The tires are quite small, but they were small on these Matras, so they The Matra sports-racing cars were the result of a joint effort between are probably very close to correct 1/32 scale. The rear wheels on the mass-producer Simca and race car builder Matra. The MATRA is an full-size 1974 Matra MS670B were a simple conical design and Slot. acronym for Mechanique Aviation et Traction which was founded by it has simulated that look with a bare aluminum wheel with a painted Marcel Chassagny in 1941 during the German occupation of France. black center---the front wheels have inserts that also match the style The LeMans winners were powered with 3-liter V-12 engines of those on the full-size car. mounted inline behind the driver. The MS670 retained the basic shape More Information: for 1971-74 but there were extensive detail modifications on the cars. In 1972 Matra campaigned both short and long-tailed versions. Only Matra website: http://www.matrasport.dk/Cars/Sportsprototypes/ the sides of the car above the rear wheels were extended on the long- M670.html tailed 1972 MS670, with the area between them left open back to the transaxle. On the later long-tailed MS670B most of that open area MATRA AU MANS, Francois Hurel, published by Editions du Palmere, was covered with a deck (like that on the Slot.it model). The short- 192-pages most in color. All in French, but there are full dimensions, all tailed version won LeMans in 1972, the long tails in 1973 and 1974. the race results and both drawings and cutaways of all the racing Matra sports cars that appeared at LeMans. Slot.it is producing replicas of the 1974 Matra MS670B. The first model is decorated to match the number 8 car driven by Bob Wollek, Jean-Paul MATRA, LA SAGA 1965-1982, by Jose’ Rosinski, E.T.A.I. publisher. Jaussaud and Jose Dolhem at LeMans in 1974. Slot.it has also released 1997. ISBN: 2-7268-8301-X. In French but all the data and photos of the winning number 7 car later as part of their historic LeMans Winners all the cars Collection. Model Car Racing 27 How Fast Out-Of-The-Box? How Fast Magnet-Free?

The Slot.it 1974 Matra MS670B has essentially the same sidewinder The Slot.it 1974 Matra MS670B has essentially the same sidewinder chassis as the Slot.it Alfa Romeo 33/3 so the two cars should have nearly chassis as the Slot.it 1967 Ford GT40 so the two cars should have nearly identical performance. We Race Track Tested the Slot.it Alfa 33/3 in the identical performance. We performed a full Race Track Test on the Slot. November/December 2008 number 42 issue. The lap times and other it 1967 Ford GT40 magnet-free with the downforce magnet removed test results for all of the track tests in the first 72 issues are available on and silicone rear tires in the July/August 2011 number 58 issue. the website www.modelcarracingmag.com under “Model Resources”, then click on the link “Race Car Test Results”. Lap Time, 36-foot Scalextric Indy F1 Course 5.24 sec. Lap Time, 36-foot Carrera Indy F1 Course 4.58 sec. Lap Time, 36-foot Scalextric Indy F1 Course 4.59 sec. Lap Time, 36-foot Carrera Indy F1 Course 3.90 sec.

The De Tomaso Pantera (this is the Scaleauto model from the May/June 2014 number 75 issue) and Ferrari 365GTB/4 Daytona (an out-of-production Fly model in the May/June 2004 issue) also competed with the Matras at LeMans in 1974.

Gerard Larrousse and Henri Pescarolo driving the number 7 Matra MS670B to win LeMans in 1974---LAT Photo.

28 Model Car Racing Spec Sheet: Slot.it 1974 Matra MS670B

The Prototype 1/32 Scale Model Slot.it Model inline mid engine NA sidewinder rear Length 4,300 mm 134. 3 mm (5.25 in.) 133.4 mm ( 5.25 in.) Width 2,050 mm 64.1 mm (2.57 in.) 60.4 mm (2.38 in.) Height NA NA 35.4 mm (1.39 in.) Wheelbase 2,558 mm 80.9 mm (3.18 in.) 77.9 mm (3.07 in.) The Slot.it Matra is part of their “vintage” series of cars (including the Ford GT40, McLaren M8D and Chaparral 2E) and, like the other cars in the Track, Front 1,525 mm 47.7 mm (1,88 in.)v 44.9 mm (1.77 in.) series, is fitted with a sidewinder motor pod. Track, Rear 1,500 mm 46.9 mm (1.85 in.) 48.1 mm (1.89 in.) Tires, Front 13-inch wheels NA 7.8 x 17.1 mm Tires, Rear 15-inch wheels NA 8.7 x 20.6 mm Engine 3,000 cc V-12 NA SP Can Horsepower 450 bhp at 10,500 rpm NA NA Weight 630 kg. NA 63 grams ( 2 1/4 oz.) Weight on Front Tires 25 grams (7/8 oz.) Weight on Rear Tires 38 grams (1 3/8 oz.) Magnetic Downforce (on Carrera) 90 grams ( 3 1/4 oz.) Magnetic Downforce (on Scalextric) 115 grams (4 oz.) Ground Clearance (on Carrera) 0.3 mm (.015 in.) Ground Clearance (on Scalextric) 0.2 mm( .010 in.) Pickup Lead (pivot to rear axle) 93.0 mm (3.66 in.)

There’s a full driver figure but the full-size Matra is so low that the model’s Gear Ratio 3.27:1 (11/36) interior interfered with the motor pod so the driver has a very short waist and the floor of the cockpit is not as low as that on the full-size car. Source: MATRA AU MANS, Francois Hurel

Slot.it has recreated the 1974 MS670B Matra. The first model is decorated to recreate the number 8 car driven by Bob Wollek, Jean-Paul Jaussaud and Jose Dolhem that lost its engine in the eighth hour.

Model Car Racing 29 30 Model Car Racing Nick Mason, Steve O’Rourke and Richard Down drove this Sauber BMW M1 at LeMans in 1982. The car retired with mechanical difficulties. --- LAT Photo

Model Car Racing 31 Start Here: Matching Pickup Braid To The Brand Of Track (This is a full-contact sport)

Each brand of track has a slightly different size of slot width and depth as well metal pickup strip size and the distance between the inner edges of the rails (spacing on the chart): (l. to r. ) Scalextric Sport, Scalextric Classic (or SCX Original), Ninco, SCX Universal, Carrera and the Parma Test Block. Slot Depth Rail Height Slot Width Spacing By Bill Wright Scalextric Sport .270 Flush .098 .098 Ninco .259 .005 .111 .215 To be certain that your cars are getting proper electrical contact with SCX Original .258 .005 to .015 .113 .113 the track rails, the braid must be adjusted to match the brand of track. (& Scalextric Classic) Carrera, Scalextric Classic, SCX original and SCX Universal track SCX Universal (grey) .322 Flush .157 .204 all have the metal pickup rails isolated from the slot by thin strips of Carrera .267 Flush .140 .278 plastic that form the vertical walls of the slot. Scalextric Sport and Parma Test Block .405 None .158 None Ninco use the metal rails themselves to form the vertical walls on each side of the slot. The pickup braid on the car must be adjusted to match the position of the pickup rails so the braid is not lifted by the edges of The braid adjustment for Carrera track viewed from the side. the plastic track but remains in contact with the metal rails as shown The tailing individual wire tips should be bent down at about a in the photographs. 30-degree angle so the tips the wires, rather than sides of the wires, rub on the metal pickup rails. There will be more information in the next issue about adjusting the guide shoe and the chassis so the pickup blade rides as deep in the slot as possible.

Bad Braid Position! The pickup guide shoe in Good Braid Position! The ends of braid must rub Good Braid Position! For best electrical contact on Bad Braid Position! The braid that is adjusted these photos is the Ninco 80112 Prorace guide the rails and, on Scalextric Sport or Ninco track , Carrera or SCX track, the trailing wire tips of the to be close to the pickup blade may not make with suspension (a coil spring around post). Most the sides of braid can actually be adjusted to rub braid should be spread apart just enough to not proper contact on Carrera (or SCX Universal) track other brands have a similar design but without on the sides of the guide shoe blade as shown. touch the tops of the vertical plastic sides of the because the plastic edges of the slot can raise the longer post and coil spring. Here the pickup slot. I have also found it best to shape the ends the braid enough so the wire tips do not touch the braid is adjusted flared out to the sides but, on into a vee when viewed from the rear so the inner metal pickup rails. this Scalextric Sport track, the outer edges may edges of the braid contact the rails first. only rub on the plastic.

Model Car Racing 45 Pit Board #76 Does The Brand Of Track Affect The Cars’ Speeds?

I like to run magnet cars. I recently purchased a Ninco digital track set. I Still enjoying the mag almost 77 issues on. Hope you still enjoy putting it noticed some of my magnet cars do not run well on this track. Some will together as much as I do the reading. not move at all. Should I go to weaker magnets? They ran well on Scalextric track. Cheers, Bob Bennett, Canberra Regards, Sanford Friedman When a manufacturer is specific about power supply we do have to honor their request. A regulated power supply with adjustable voltage (like the You can expect cars with relatively strong downforce magnets to run slower Professor Motor www.professormotor.com PMTR1400 15 Amp 6-20V on the straights but, sometimes, faster through the corners on Ninco track Power Supply that is adjustable from 6 to 20 volts DC) is one of the best because the Ninco track’s rails are raised a few thousandths of an inch more investments you can make for model car racing but, since the power is than Scalextric, putting the rails closer to the downforce magnets, which adjustable both up and down, there’s a chance you could apply too much can double the downforce. So, yes, if you want the same magnet-stuck rather than too little. Since virtually any model race car made in the last 50 speed on Ninco track that you have on Scalextric track you will have to years will run on most tracks there’s always a danger that some of the older use either weaker magnets, or raise them, or fit larger tires (to move the cars with motors that require high amperage could (and often do) burn-out magnets further from the pickup rails). a modern controller. The newer controllers with printed circuit boards are usually sensitive to power flow and it would be all too easy to burn-out the 1/43 Scale Racing As A Hobby controller circuit. Thanks for including coverage of 1/43 scale track and plans in the March/ Many digital racing fans have discovered that it is much more enjoyable April 2014 number 74 issue. Although I have space to collect 1/32 scale to drive the digital cars on less than 12 volts. Scalextric’s Digital C7042 slot cars, 1/43 has become the operating track scale choice for me. With Advanced 6-Car Power base offers reduced power (as will the forthcoming Kyosho expanding to include adjustable chassis in 1/43 scale permitting use RCS system). A regulated power supply is, perhaps, one of the best of existing 1/43 static model and aftermarket bodies, chassis builders like investments you can make for digital racing because you can turn the Tecno Slot, as well as the items by Carrera and SCX, 1/43 scale might gain a power down for better individual car control. bigger role in the hobby. The Unfair Advantage Sincerely, Art Bailey I appreciated your editorial in the January/February 2014 number 73 Today, 1/43 scale is in about the position that 1/32 scale was 15 years ago, issue, “The Unfair Advantage”. The “have and have not” philosophy is with a limited number of suppliers but high quality products. There are aggravating to me, especially when it comes to a hobby that is supposed 1/43 scale “hobby” chassis, tires, gears, wheels, motors and bodies available to be FUN. Of course most of us want to build and/or race cars that are but you have to search for them. The model car racing industry does not competitive, but to the exclusion of good sportsmanship and friendship? I keep or collect sales statistics, but our talks with dealers indicate that HO is think not. probably the best-selling size, followed by 1/32 with 1/43 selling much less. If you include the “license” sets like Ninja Turtles, then 1/43 is the best- For me the best thing about this hobby--besides the joy of building these selling size but those items are not race car sets but toys. If the interest in little cars --is that I’ve been able to learn from some of the best in the 1/43 scale racing grows we will include more articles. If you want to build world... folks who took a lot of pleasure in sharing their ‘secrets’. Some your cars or replace motors, gears and axles, here are three sources: of my cars are fairly decent (although I am a mediocre racer at best). • American Slot Car World: www.cjent1racing.com/ Sometimes I still build a real turkey! But I am thankful for the tips I’ve received, and I have also had the opportunity to pass on a few of these tips • Techno-Slot: www.tecno-slot.com/en/1/index.htm (none original) to others. • Proto Slot Kit: www.proto-slot-kit.com/ Best regards, Mark Huber Lower Digital Power Model Car Racing, as a hobby and as a magazine, is about racing. Racing certainly implies competition but not, necessarily, the concept of a winner The article on the Ninco WiCo in the September/October 2013 number and a loser. I do not like some of the implications of the term “personal 71 issue (which is also on www.modelcarracingmag.com under “Sample best” but it does describe the one constant in racing---you can only do Issues”, Ed) closes with a cautionary note advising not to use anything the best you can do (as both a race car mechanic and a driver). And, you certainly have the choice of gathering a bit more fun at the expense of a other than the Ninco 3 amp power supply. I assume this simply repeats lot more tension if you decide to enjoy the race rather than attacking it. the advice of the manufacturer. It would not be correct though to say that only the Ninco 3 amp (digital as it turns out) transformer can be New To The Hobby? safely used with WiCo. There’s more information on page 45 of this issue. There are some I have taken the advice that it is possible to quite safely use a regulated basic tune-up tips that are needed for every model race car on our power supply source with WiCo without damaging it. The advantage website www.modelcarracingmag.com under the “New to the hobby?” link. There are 13 tips including: How To Get Started in Model Car of this is that it is possible to control the voltage supplied to the Racing, Two Driving Techniques, Perfect Pickup Braid, Mounting, terminal unit. Significantly it is thereby possible to reduce the voltage Cleaning Track Rails, Cleaning Track, Avoiding Disaster: Oil & Grease, to the point where cars are controllable under each of the “beginner” Controllers, Race Program Set Up: Color Coding & Racing classes, and even the “expert” settings on the terminal. This increases the unit’s Reliable Wires, Chassis Set Up, Carrera Guide Shoe Mods. There’s lots functionality and addresses the major concern about the system raised more you can do, including changing to silicone rear tires with better in your page 51 article. grip, loosening the body-to-chassis screws and more. Model Car Racing 49 Club Directory Most model car racers prefer to race at home on their own tracks with a few friends. There or different bodies. We try to NOT list the clubs that primarily race cars with hand-made metal are hundreds of model car racing clubs in the world but some of them are groups who race chassis and clear plastic bodies---those clubs are listed on various internet sites or you can find very highly modified cars on tracks routed from wood or PVC. The model racing cars you most of them through the Old Weird Harold site at http://www.oldweirdherald.com. see on the pages of this magazine are all designed to be raced on plastic tracks (although There are hundreds of dealers in the country that have operating tracks in the store. We they can be raced on most wood or PVC tracks) from Scalextric, Sport, Carrera, NINCO, cannot list them all, but you can contact the ones in your area from the list of dealers that SCX, Riggen or Artin or the older Strombecker, Revell or Monogram tracks 1/32 scale carry Model Car Racing magazine www.modelcarracingmag.com. tracks or Tomy AFX or Mattel/Tyco HO tracks. If your group races out-of-the-box 1/32 scale or HO scale cars, with only occasionally The clubs that are listed here are groups whose main interest is to race out-of-the box cars events for modified cars) send us the information at www.modelcarracingmag.com and and mostly on plastic tracks (although the club may also race on one or two hand-routed we’ll try to include your club in the next issue. wood or PVC tracks). The group may have a modified class where extra magnets are allowed

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HO Clubs: The majority of HO racing on a club level in the US is home sectional tracks, There are some excellent clubs across the US racing basically stock hardshell T-Jet cars for the using hard bodies and largely stock equipment. The majority are Thunderjet focused, although most part on sectional home tracks. This is only a partial listing. If you have an active group many do run the Life-Like, Auto World, Playing Mantis, G-Plus and Mattel/Tyco cars, these racing hard-bodied T-Jet-style cars, let us know. mass produced magnet cars tend to be utilized by small round robin groups by invitation or as groups of friends.

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50 Model Car Racing Your Tracks: Pete Shepherd’s 4 ½ X 13-Foot Carrera 76 Cuckoo Pines Raceway Pete Shepherd’s Cuckoo Pines 4 ½ x 13-foot two-lane Carrera track is painted to match the traction provided by the surfaces of 1/32 scale wood tracks. The track is detailed and landscaped to recreate what a West Coast SCCA track might have looked like in the sixties. The track, like Dave Wisdom’s 12 x 18-foot wood Forest Hall Circuit in the March/ April 2014 number 74 issue (also on www.modelcarracingmag.com under “Sample Issues”) has been the host to a number of Proxy races including the first round of the 2013 Grand Prix de Montana Proxy Slot Car series for cars that competed between the years 1966 and 1968.

By Pete Shepherd The painted surface has improved the grip considerably.

The Cuckoo Pines track is detailed to represent a The painted surface also matches that on several of wood typical 1960’s California SCCA type track. I mainly run tracks that are part of our racing group so the same tires production sports and GT cars based on 50’s and 60’s work equally well on both wood and plastic tracks. SCCA cars. Most of the cars are built by me and I try to use appropriate powered motors for each car, for example I use a Scalextric 12-volt transformer for each lane and the Sprites and Spitfire use BWA 14k motors but the each lane has home made power taps to four places on the TR4 and MGB use 18k motors, so the smaller cars will track rails to keep the power equal all around the track. be somewhat slower. I run a few races on the track with The scenery was completed by myself with some help from friends, mainly cars like the ones in the pictures but also my wife. The rocks are formed with plaster bandages and Trans-Am, 50’s GP cars and a few more. I’ve also run a few then painted. I’ve used laminate flooring underlay to form proxy races on the track and would like to do more. the base for the flat scenery because it is easy to pierce (for The track is Carrera and is painted with aerosol acrylic figures with pins in their feet) and it is virtually the same primer undercoat and then latex paint applied with a roller. thickness as the track so it also acts as a track border.

List Of Carrera Track Required For Pete Shepherd’s 2-Lane Carrera Cuckoo Pines Raceway On A 4 ½ X 13-Foot Tabletop

Key Quantity Description

H 2 20577 1/2 Inner Curve R1

S 12 20571 Inner Curve R1

O 3 20572 Middle Curve R2

OO 3 20573 Outer Curve R3

OOO I pr. (2) 20578 Outer-Outer Curve R4

E 3 20612 1/4-Straight

D 3 20611 1/3-Straight

B 19 20509 Full-Straight

A 1 20583 Connector Track (analog)

Model Car Racing 51 Pete uses two of Carrera 20517 crossovers (Carrera calls them The photos include a counterclockwise quick lap around the track The control tower and pits are scratchbuilt from sheet styrene, “Lane Changers”) to help equalize the lane lengths. However, starting at the pit and control tower area. assembled by one of the club members. for club racing, conventional straight track sections are inserted because each driver spends an equal amount of racing time on each lane.

Most of the figures are Monogram with a few Eldon and Strombecker The pits buildings were copied from Monogram’s kits. The pit area The press tower is scratchbuilt from 1/8-inch square styrene strips and all have their bases cut off and dress making pins inserted to is superdetailed with tire marks made by dry-brushing dark grey with .020-inch styrene sheet for the walls and signs. plug them into the scenery. latex paint.

Rejected 1/32 scale tires are cut in half and painted white to recreate the buried tires that lined many of the corners on many race tracks in America. The tar-patched concrete is simulated with black paint.

52 Model Car Racing The scrutineering building is an old Scalextric model with additional strip styrene railings and roof.

The Morgan 4/4 is a Slot Classics cast-resin body and the Triumph TR3 a Lindberg static model body (both with scratchbuilt chassis) and the yellow Lotus 7 is a modified Scalextric Caterham model.

Model Car Racing 53 Pete’s favorite racing class is for production sports and GT cars based on 50’s and 60’s SCCA cars. Most of the cars utilize static model bodies with scratchbuilt brass chassis or Pendle chassis (like the PCS1 used for the Ferrari 166MM on pages 8-14). The cars are powered by motors that best simulate their performance; for example the Sprites and Spitfire use BWA (www.darthobbies.com) 14k motors but the TR4 and MGB use 18k motors.

54 Model Car Racing New Stuff

The Racer “Silverline” Datsun 240Z

is now available painted and detailed to match the car that John Morton drove to win the 1971 SCCA D Production class and team mate Dan Parkinson’s car. The 1/30 scale models Slot.it’s LeMans-Winning 1974 Matra are hand-made with cast-resin bodies and etched detail MD670B parts with Slot.it motors and wheels. SL18A - BRE Datsun 240Z #46 Slot.it will ship their replica of the number 7 Matra MS670B that won LeMans in 1974, driven by SCCA C Production 1971 winner - J. Morton Henri Pescarolo and Gerard Larruse, in November---there’s a photograph of the full-size car on page 28 with photos of the Slot.itmodel of the number 8 Matra. The LeMans winning car had a green front SL18B - BRE Datsun 240Z #3 splitter, green side panels and wing supports (the number 8 car’s were red). SCCA C Production 1971 - D. Parkinson

Cast-Resin Body Kit: 1970 Matra MS120J

Penelope Pitlane (www.penelopepitlane.co.uk/) is now shipping a cast-resin body kit to recreate the 1970 Matra MS120J that P. Beltoise drove to two podium finishes and Pescarlo drove to another podium finish in 1970. Matra finished sixth overall in the 1970 Formula 1 World Championship. The wedge-shaped body provided most of the downforce with more being effected by the tabs on the nose and the rear wing. The kit includes a lightweight precision-molded resin body, rear wing, driver’s arms/shoulders and head, vac-formed screen, white metal mirrors, front upper wishbones, roll over hoop and air filter, sponsors decals and 40 black numbers. This kit is designed to accept Penelope Pitlane’s SM1s chassis, SRWS front wheels and SRWL rear wheels. You will also need Scalextric 70’s F1 tires or Ortman 37 slick/37c ribbed for the front and rear 36c slick/36a ribbed tires. The Ortmanns are available from R S Slotracing (www.rsslotracing.com/).

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