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Tyrrell - ‘70S Williams www.modelcarracingmag.com - ‘50S Talbot-Lago Masten Gregory and Jochen Rindt in their Ferrari 275LM, entered by the North American Racing Team (NART), on its way to win LeMans overall in 1965. ---LAT Photo 78 78 CONTENTS 24 Formula 1 Scalextric 1972 Tyrrell 003/004 by Albin Burroughs ON THE COVER: Carrera’s 1/32 scale replica of Sebastian Vettel’s 2013 For- 27 Formula 1 mula 1 World Championship Red Bull RB9 on the full-size 2013 Bahrain Grand Scalextric 1973 Lotus 72E Prix circuit. — LAT Photographic by Albin Burroughs 1/32 SCALE MODEL CAR RACING: 7 Formula 1 Carrera 2013 Red Bull RB9 by Bill Wright 10 Formula 1 Scalextric 1971 Tyrrell 003 by Albin Burroughs 32 LeMans Flyslot 1965 Ferrari 275LM 12 Historic Racing by Bill Wright 70s-80s’ Formula 1 In 1/32 Scale 36 LeMans 13 Digital Real Race Track Plans Carrera 1965 Porsche 904GTS 4-Lane Bangkok’s Rajamangala Stadium Track for by Bill Wright Scalextric Sport, Classic, SCX, Ninco, Carrera (with op- tional lane-changing) on a 9 x 15-foot tabletop. by Robert Schleicher 16 Race Tracks on a Tabletop 2-Lane Bangkok’s Rajamangala Stadium Track Plan for Scalextric Sport, Classic, SCX, Ninco or Carrera (with option- al lane-changing) on a 5 x 13 1/2-foot ping-pong tabletop. by Robert Schleicher 17 Start Here 38 Formula 1 Replace Magnets With Weight Flyslot 1983 Williams FE08C by Robert Schleicher by Albin Burroughs 18 Digital Racing 40 LeMans Scalextric Easyfit Digital Chip Installation Scalextric 2013 Lotus Exige Cup-R by Robert Schleicher by Bill Wright 20 Track Test DIGEST: 42 LeMans Summary of Full Race Track Test Reports on Supertuned Racers, Part 114: 9 Model Racing Cars Magnet-Free: Policar 1972 Ferrari 312PB by Marc Purdham by Marc Purdham 4 Model Car Racing 44 Formula 1 Supertuned Racers, Part 115: Magnet-Free: Cartrix 1950 Talbot-Lago T26C HO Model Car Racing: by Marc Purdham 36 IndyCar Racing 47 Formula 1 Auto World 2013 Dallara IndyCars TRACK TEST: by Robert Schleicher Supertuned Racers, Part 116: Magnet-Free: Cartrix 1959 Lotus 16 49 Track Plans by Marc Purdham 4-Lane Bangkok’s Rajamangala Stadium Track in 5 x 13 1/2-Feet by Robert Schleicher Departments: 6 Editorial: The Risk of Model Car Racing 22 Index, issues number 73 through 78 46 Pit Board 48 Club Directory 54 New Stuff 50 Your Track On Your Tablet: Vintage Racing Model Car Racing is now available for iPad or Kindle. 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Flyslot 1972 Chevron B21 by Albin Burroughs Model Car Racing 5 Track Tests The Risk of Model Car Racing with Scalextric Classic (the older rougher-surface track to the car and the driver already knows the track in- with loops over the pegs to hold the sections together) timately. There is, then, a reasonable chance that that Honestly, the only risk a model car racer takes is the or the similar-surface SCX Original track, or the much fastest lap is about the best that car could do on that danger of damaging his or her ego. There is the off rougher-surfaced Ninco track, the smoother-surface particular day. chance that a car might fly off track and hit you in some Scalextric track (once called “Sport” with a different vulnerable part but that is something I have only heard So, given the same driver, the same preparation and size briefly called “Start”), SCX Universal (the newer of as a rumor. What you risk when you race is the pub- the same track, you can expect that the performance grey track that is also standard with SCX Digital), Car- lic display that someone else is quicker than you or can figures in issue number 1 in 2002 will be comparable to rera and, of course, the same race track configuration build a better car or both. those in this issue. You can compare older cars to newer routed into a MDF board surface. We would, then, run ones. When a significant change takes place in a model There is only one way---only one---to learn to drive a tests on all of six of these tracks. It was just not practi- (like Policar producing the Ferrari 312PB models that model car race car near the limits of that car’s perfor- cal so we compromised by using just two tracks; one were once offered by Slot.it on pages 42-43), we tested mance. Practice. One of the many aspects of model car assembled from Scalextric Classic (and SCX Original) the newer car to see how it compares. racing that is common to racing full-size cars is that that would give results that were somewhat similar to need to learn how to drive each particular car on that what you expect from Ninco and a second track assem- Our goal is to provide the information and raw data you particular track and on that particular day to produce bled with Carrera track whose smoother surface that need to either improve the performance of lower-speed quickest possible lap times. The concept of “possible “ was more like Scalextric Sport or SCX Universal. The cars or to slightly reduce the performance of quicker is critical, here, because there may be others that can smooth surface would be similar to that of a track rout- cars. These tests will give you the raw data you need to drive that same car on that same track with lower lap ed from MDF board but the paint used on the wood help decide what you and your racing friends want as the times. A realistic goal, then, is to learn how to drive that tracks provides a significantly different coefficient of Performance Standard for any given class of racing. You car as quickly as your own reflexes, eye-hand coordi- friction so, really, we can only get close to how these can then use your own Performance Standard for each nation and depth perception will allow. It is true that cars run on a painted wood track. racing class to either tune up or tune down the cars so all some folks just happened to fall into a lucky gene pool the cars that represent a given class of real-world racing Nearly all of 1/32 scale model race cars are fitted with to possess better physical and mental abilities. But ya are as equal as their real-world counterparts. downforce magnets. Some prefer race cars with mag- gotta live with what ya got. nets in place so it is important to test them out-of-the- Volume 13, Number 6 (issue number 78) Pure Performance box. The pickup strips on Scalextric and SCX track November/December 2014 have about three times the magnetic attraction of the Most of the cars that we buy are purchased so we can pickup strips on Carrera track so most cars are slightly Publisher: Technical Editor: actually race them. Given that, you have to be curious quicker around a lap of the Scalextric Classic Indy F1 Robert Schleicher Chris Walker about how fast a particular car might be. Hence, we try track than on the Carrera Indy F1 track . to include information in most of the articles about Editor: Track Test Editor: new model race cars that provide some idea of how fast For the two race track tests, we use a “pure” 12-volt Robert Schleicher Marc Purdham the car can be. Full Race Car Track Tests have been a DC power supply from Radio Shack. The power sup- Layout & Design: Agency Graphics, Ltd. regular feature of Model Car Racing magazine since the ply is more critical than you might think; you will not first issue in 2002. We were curious then about how fast achieve the same results with any of the power supplies Contributing Editors: a car might be and we are still just as curious. furnished by the model car makers, because some of- Mark Gussin Jeremy Dunning Jason Boye fer more power and others offer less, which is precisely Dan Wilson Alan Schwartz Dan Esposito You can modify the slowest out-of-the box car (with the why we settled on a “generic” power supply. Brad Bowman Bernard Sampson Pat Dennis super-strength magnets and the $100 motors ) to com- pletely outrun the best production car.