Slot Shop News Article

Wednesday Night Slot Car Racing Event 5 Feb 17th

03 Mar 2010
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Race Night 7 UPDATED!!!

Mini Challenge Ninco and Scalextric Mini's take it to the track non magnet/no weight box stock. Scalex Mini's may have the guide spring removed. Testing has shown this to be extremely close. The Scalex cars have more straight line and the Ninco's have great mid corner speed and huge brakes. Light weight Scalextric Mini's may have either a deep guide, Indy Grips, or a 10 cent coin added. Ninco Mini's may have the gearing altered using parts from slot shop.  5.0 Second cut off applies to this class.

Touring Cars Grp A, C & N  9 volts All Historic Touring/TransAm RTR or complete Slot kit cars available from Slot Shop. Generally standard tyres to keep the pace down... Check to see if your car is eligible. Cars may be weighted in this class, but please be aware of the 5 second cut off!

5.0 Second cut off applies to this class.

Slot.it Class  As per the rules for the Slot Shop/Armchair Racer Challenge TBA

SLOT.IT -NON MAGNET Class:
Any Post 1980 Slot.it model car with full interiors as sold (no lexan interior)
Slot.it motor configuration - Angle winder/ Side winder / Inline
Slot.it motor - Any Slot.it motor
Any Slot.it tyre - tyres may be trued - Slot.it logo must be visable from the outside

Weight is allowed to be added. The maximum total car weight including any magnet down force from the motor = 100 grams. All cars must be weighed prior to race on our Magnet Marshal.
At the completion of the race the top 3 cars will be re-weighed to ensure that they do not exceed the 100 gram maximum weight limit.
If a car exceeds the weight limit of 100 grams that car will be excluded from the results.

Racing will be held at 10volts DC.

1/32 Scale Slot Car Racing Started at Slot Shop (originally on every second Saturday night) back in mid 2004 with the same race (Race Night 1) every two weeks.

As the guys and girls collections expanded everyone requested more classes, which is why we now have 8 consecutive race nights with generally 3 classes per night.The racing season is generally every week from mid January to mid December.

All our classes are non magnet, this allows different brands of the same class of slot car to compete on more equal terms, offers a much more realistic scale speed and minimises car damage... To the extent that some of us are racing cars over 4 years old.

To make the non magnet driving experience easier we generally lower the track voltage to 10 volts instead of the usual 12- 13.8 volts used for magnet traction slot cars.

Some racers prefer to only have a few slot cars to compete on selected race nights, but more often than not end up racing most race nights.