DIGITAL: RACE SIX FORMULA 1 CARS ON TWO LANES 79 November/December 2014 $6.95 Race Control With an App On Your Tablet High Speed Banked Turns on a Tabletop Track Tech Tips: Trackside Race-Prep Formula 1 Racing On A Tabletop: - 2013 Ferrari F138 www.modelcarracingmag.com - 1970 Lotus 72C Carroll Shelby taking the checkered flag at LeMans in 1959 in the Aston Martin DBR1. – LAT Photo.• 79 79 CONTENTS 18 Historic Racing ON THE COVER: The Scalextric 1/32 scale replica of Jochen Rindt’s LeMans 1959 In 1/32 Scale Lotus 72C Ford is at the 1970 Dutch Grand Prix. ---LAT Photographic 21 Tech Tips 1/32 SCALE MODEL CAR RACING: Assemble a PCS1 or Slot Classics Chassis 7 & 30 Formula 1 by Robert Schleicher Carrera 2013 Ferrari F138 by Bill Wright 9 Formula 1 Scalextric 1970 Lotus 72C by Albin Burroughs 12 Real Race Track Plans 2-Lane Unicorn Banked Raceway Plan for Scalextric Sport, Classic, SCX, Ninco or Carrera (with optional lane- changing) on a 9 x 15-foot tabletop. 25 Your Track by Robert Schleicher Jim Stokes’ 12 x 24-foot Four-Lane Scalextric 15 Race Tracks on a Tabletop Stokes Speedway 2-Lane Unicorn Banked Raceway Plan for Scalextric Sport, Classic, SCX, Ninco or Carrera (with optional lane- 29 Your Cars changing) on a 5 x 9-foot ping-pong tabletop Chris Walker’s Lindberg 1962 BRM P257 by Robert Schleicher On A Brass Chassis 16 Race Car Shop LeMans TDR Innovations 3D Printed 1959 Aston Martin 32 LeMans DBR1/300 with Slot Classics or PCS-1 Chassis ScaleAuto Home Set 1980 Porsche 935J by Robert Schleicher by Albin Burroughs 4 Model Car Racing 35 LeMans HO MODEL CAR RACING: Ninco 1958 Porsche 356 by Albin Burroughs 47 Track Plans 4-Lane Unicorn Banked Raceway for 4 x 8-Feet by Robert Schleicher 56 NASCAR Auto World 1969-1972 Dodge & Plymouth Grand National (the pre-NASCAR ) Stockers by Robert Schleicher 38 Tech Tips Slot.it 3D-Printed Chassis for Carrera DTM Cars DEPARTMENTS: by Bill Wright 6 Editorial: Racing With An App 46 Pit Board 48 Club Directory 52 New Stuff On Your Tablet: Model Car Racing is now available for iPad or Kindle. Just click on the Apple iTunes icon and search for Model Car Racing to order individual issues, subscriptions or a limited number of back issues. There’s more information on page 58 of this issue. Where To Buy Model Car Racing Products: Dealers: A listing of the addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, 42 Digital Racing and websites of all the dealers that carry Model Car Racing magazine Scalextric Digital Chip Installation in Carrera F1 cars appears on our website at www.modelcarracingmag.com by Robert Schleicher Manufacturers: A listing of the addresses and websites of firms that 45 Tech Tips manufacture model car racing products appears on our website at www.modelcarracingmag.com: Test ‘N Tune Tips by Robert Schleicher More Information: There is an Index of all of the past issues, a Digest of the results of the 49 Formula 1 first 269 cars in our Race Track Test series, Pros and Cons of plastic Ninco “Formula” Cars track by brand, the Pros and Cons of the four digital systems, Pros and by Bill Wright Cons of 1/43 scale and an index of the 157 previously published track plans, by size, on our website at www.modelcarracingmag.com. Model Car Racing 5 Racing With An App ����������������� Model car racing is far more than just a sport. $189.99---there’s a photo on page 52) or as an next issue. The Real FX Racing system does not Yes, you can race around a track with the sheer add-on to any Scalextric analog track (for $74.99) need a computer, the cars are radio controlled. joy of completing a lap without spinning-off. Or, with tethered analog controllers, 2. ACS Air with The 2.4 GHz wireless pistol grip controllers pro- better, you can use a lap timer and perfect your wireless analog controllers ($114.99), 3. the ACS vide the "artificially intelligent” resource, with a driving technique so your “personal best” is bet- Pro ($179.99) with wireless Digital controllers. lever for speed and a knob to steer the cars left or ter every week. Or, you can join with a group of The Scalextric ACS Pro, however, will not have right within the width of the track. friends (or a local club) and actually race, head- the option of running analog. Since these ACS to-head just like they do at Indy or LeMans or programs are apps, the can be very clever. Most Slot car racing (model car racing to me) has al- Daytona. of the three ACS systems offer eight different race ways offered the option of a “game” (again even modes; from qualifying to pursuit, lap counting, in analog form) that can include lap timing, lap Now, you can enjoy more of the options of full- lap timing, top speed for each car, fuel load, tire counting, pit stops and fuel loads that replicate size car racing even with analog. Computer pro- wear, in–race damage, weather conditions, KERs virtually all the action of full-size car racing. grams that will count laps, display lap times and (kinetic Energy Recovery Systems—for more These two new systems do that as well and they even provide fuel stops and tire change times power like the current Formula 1 cars), handicap do have a smooth and slot-free road surface that have been available for any analog system for systems, car response mapping, throttle response, is quite realistic---but the cars are fantasy toys so about ten years. These are some of the firms that inventory of your racing cars, track planning the realism ends at the road. offer such systems and they are all compatible and more. There’s more on the Scalextric website with any brand of plastic track and with tracks www.hornbyamerica.com/. you cut into MDF board with a router: Volume 14, Number 1 (issue number 79) Carrera has the 30369 Download box to connect January/February 2015 TrakMate: their App to the current Carrera Digital 132 sys- Publisher: Technical Editor: infoserve.net/oss/slotcar/SlotMaster tem that has most (but not all) of the options Robert Schleicher Chris Walker or slotmaster.com that Scalextric ACS offers. SCX and Ninco will have similar systems in 2015. Editor: Track Test Editor: Lap Timer 2000: Robert Schleicher Marc Purdham www.gregorybraun.com/LapTimer.html Slotless Racing With An App & Artificial Intelligence Layout & Design: Aaron Tipton PC Lapcounter: pclapcounter.be This Christmas two firms are advertising slotless Contributing Editors: model car racing. They appear to be similar and Mark Gussin Jeremy Dunning Jason Boye RCS: rcs64.com both do use a magnet-sensing race track surface Dan Wilson Alan Schwartz Dan Esposito to guide the cars around the track (similar to the Brad Bowman Bernard Sampson Pat Dennis These programs are designed to plug-into a PC slots in a slot car track, but with a wider range Editors Emeritus: or laptop so no app is necessary. Most provide of control). You “steer” the cars only across the Rocky Russo Bill Sipple Albin Adams some form of programmed (but optional) pit width of the track (much like moving a slot car Jose Rodriguez Jim Russell stops for refueling. Most of them require that track’s digital lane-changer, but you can “change Bob Braverman Ron Klein your car spend a predetermined number of sec- lanes” any place on the track). The cars in both onds in the pit to “refuel”. There is usually a pen- systems have onboard rechargeable batteries Circulation & Dealer Contact: alty for leaving the pit early that can range from and receive some of their commands through email: [email protected] just not having enough fuel to require another 2.4 GHz radio control. Model Car Racing Publications, Inc. pit stop. TrackMate and others even have the op- 6525 Gunpark Drive, Suite 370-142 tion of tire pressures, requiring some program- The Ankidrive (www.anki.com) system was sold Boulder, CO 80301-3346 mable extra time to increase the air pressure in by Apple in 2013 but now it is available in most website: www.modelcarracingmag.com one or more tires. of the big box stores and it is featured in a na- tional TV ad campaign. 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