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The car carried the “press” introduc- tion paint scheme but with a number 91. — BMW AG Photo 84 Model Car Racing 3 84 CONTENTS ON THE COVER: The NSR 1/32 scale replica of the BMW Z4 GT3 at the 17 Tech Tips 2010 ADAC round at the Nurburgring in 2010. ---BMW AG Photo Adjusting Independent Front Wheels by Robert Schleicher 1/32 SCALE MODEL CAR RACING: 18 Home Racing 7 TRACK TEST Build A Wood Race Track LeMans Part 3: Cutting The Slots & Painting NSR 2010 BMW Z4 GT3 by Robert Schleicher by Marc Purdham 19 Tech Tips 10 Digital Racing Routing The Slots Live Pit Action by Robert Schleicher by Robert Schleicher 21 Tech Tips 11 Real Race Track Plans Fixing Routing Mistakes 2-Lane Mugello Circuit for Scalextric Sport, Classic, by Robert Schleicher SCX, Ninco, Carrera (with optional lane-changing) on a 13 x 23-foot tabletop with LIVE ACTION PIT STOPS. 23 Tech Tips by Robert Schleicher Painting The Track by Robert Schleicher 14 Race Tracks on a Tabletop 2-Lane Mugello Circuit for Scalextric Sport, Classic, 25 Vintage Racing SCX, Ninco or Carrera on a 4 x 8-foot tabletop Studio 65 1952 Ferrari 212 by Robert Schleicher by Robert Schleicher 27 Formula 1 Scalextric 1969 Brabham BT26A-3 by Albin Burroughs 15 TRACK TEST Supertuned Racers, Part 124: Magnet-Free Front “Steering” Shoot-Out Solid vs. Independent-Rotating vs. One-Way Ball Bearings Avant Slot 1975 Mirage G8 29 Historic Racing by Marc Purdham 1969 Formula 1 Grid in 1/32 Scale 4 Model Car Racing 32 Your Track Gary Knabe’s 3-lane 12 x 18-foot wood Riverside Raceway 36 Track Test DIGEST: Summary of 16 Full Race Track Test Reports on 7 Model Racing Cars by Marc Purdham 1/24 SCALE MODEL CAR RACING: 24 Vintage Racing Monogram 1/24 Scale Kurtis Midgets by Robert Schleicher HO MODEL CAR RACING: 38 Home Racing 40 Home Racing Scalextric Super Karts 4-Lanes with Auto World Track by Bill Wright 47 Track Plans 42 Tech Tips 4-Lane Mugello Circuit for 4 x 8-Feet Inline, Sidewinder or Anglewinder? by Robert Schleicher by Robert Schleicher DEPARTMENTS: 44 TRACK TEST 6 Editorial: The Zen of Model Car Racing Supertuned Racers, Part 125: 48 Club Directory Magnet-Free 49 Pit Board LeMans 50 Index, issues number 79 through 84 Slot.it 4-Wheel Drive 2013 Audi R18 e-tron quattro 52 New Stuff by Marc Purdham On Your Tablet: 44 TRACK TEST Model Car Racing is now available for iPad or Kindle. Just click on the Supertuned Racers, Part 125: Apple iTunes icon and search for Model Car Racing to order individual Magnet-Free issues, subscriptions or a limited number of back issues. There’s more LeMans information on page 58 of this issue. 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Model Car Racing 5 Editorial ������������������������� The Zen Of Model Four Dimensions Cluggage, taught it as well for both race car drivers and Car Racing for ski racers in her The Centered Skier book in 1977. We do what we can to present these model cars as That “out of body experience” comes with the game (Much, much more they truly are; exact replicas of real racing cars. You when you are racing model cars because you really are than just racing) can compare the trackside views of cars like the one in two places at once, outside the car watching and “in- on the cover and on page 7 and you will have a tough side” using that hand controller to drive car at the limits We call this model car racing to make it clear that these time determining which one is the model and which of it’s tire adhesion. are cars that are designed to be raced. You already know one is the 1/1 car. Turn to page 10, however, and it that but there are at least a million folks out there who is obvious that car is a model because you are view- iHobby Expo have not yet discovered that you can race model cars on ing it the way you would see it if you were holding March 12 and 13, 2016. a tabletop track. You may not, however, understand as that model in your hand. The overhead shots make much as you think you do about how much of the full- it clear that these are models---the trackside views The National Hobby show, the iHobby Expo, is now size cars racing experience that these 1/32, 1/76, 1/43 can be mistaken for the real thing (which is pre- at the New Jersey Expo Center, in Edison New Jer- and 1/24 scale model racing cars have recreated. cisely what the folks that made the models and our sey, about 20-minutes from the Newark Airport. The Do My Eyes Deceive Me? photographers intended). But we can only offer two iHobby Expo (www.hmashow.com/Public.html) is the dimensional views. We have created a few videos to largest gathering in the United States for the model car Yes, what you see is much less than what you perceive add the dimension of action with GT, Trans-Am, racing importers and manufacturers. Usually, Scalex- with these cars. There is more to this than just watching Formula 1 and LeMans LMP1 cars racing around tric, Slot.it, AFX and Auto World have demo tracks as a red or a silver block zipping around the back of a flat the Laguna Seca track. There are two videos on the well as displays of their latest products. black snake. All of the cars that are being produced to- www.modelcarracingmag.com home page, a camera day are exact replicas of some specific full-size car (all- car’s view (as Modern GT cars at Laguna Seca) and be-it with a few imaginary paint schemes). You are not the view of a slot car driver (Real Race Car Sound) just racing a car, you are racing Fernando Alonso’s 2014 examples. Ferrari or Stirling Moss’ 1958 Mille Miglia-winning A camera car’s view of modern GT cars racing at La- Mercedes or, or, or. And the other cars are just as real as Volume 14, Number 6 guna Seca: http://youtu.be/FdR8q3w6LKA (issue number 84) yours so the action itself---the race---is as real as sitting November/December 2015 in a Ferrari at Daytona. But you throw away a lot of that To see your imagination at work in two dimensions excitement by just standing up there and driving your plus action you can also rent or download the 2012 Publisher: Technical Editor: red or silver block. version of the movie Anna Karenina. The incredible Robert Schleicher Chris Walker It Only Looks Real If scenes in the movie where the toy train morphs into a Editor: Track Test Editor: real train are repeated every time you race a model car Robert Schleicher Marc Purdham You Take A Real Look on a tabletop track. For more insight about how your Layout & Design: Aaron Tipton - [email protected] Our model car racing tracks are generally assembled imagination works take a good look at the illustrations or built on a tabletop that is about 30-inches from the in one of Rob Gonsalves books like Imagine A Day and Contributing Editors: floor. Some of us assemble tracks on the floor. With -ei Imagine A Night. We are doing what he illustrates by Mark Gussin Jeremy Dunning Jason Boye ther elevation, however, you are seeing the race from making these model cars real. Dan Wilson Alan Schwartz Dan Esposito Brad Bowman Bernard Sampson Pat Dennis the perspective of a helicopter pilot. Yes, television con- For us, this works in 3D---you can hold your imagi- verge now includes a lot of those sky high shots but the nation in your hands, rotate it to see at the same per- Editors Emeritus: real excitement is down there trackside. We forget that spective you view the full-size car, and feel that the Rocky Russo Bill Sipple Albin Adams these cars are replicas of full-size cars that we usually model does, indeed, weigh about what you’d expect Jose Rodriguez Jim Russell only see from down beside the track.