Slot car racing - tiny vehicles and compact tracks
that provide driving and engineering thrills
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Do you want a compact hobby that you can take to the professional level? Then slotcar racing is the right
choice for you.
Slotcars are tiny toy racing cars; you'll typically find the largest slot cars in sizes from
1/24th-scale to 1/32nd-scale.
And if you're looking for something smaller-- much smaller-- you're in luck. There's
a wide market for HO scale slot cars.
You can find HO scale racing cars in 1/64th-scale, 1/76th scale, and even
1/87th scale! Now those are some extremely miniature vehicles, but they still run amazingly well. HO slot cars are
great toys for children to enjoy in the home, too.
So, how does slotcar racing work? Each slot car has a groove at the bottom; it uses this groove to fit into a
slot car race track. When the car is placed into the track, it comes into contact with part of an electric circuit,
thereby enabling it to receive power from the hand controller and move. All slot car tracks have at least two slots,
so that you can either run a single car on the track for fun and practice or challenge your friends to a race.
The slotcars can only be raced on a track, but this doesn't mean that you're limited to only one slot car raceway.
You can get a variety of slot car race tracks and arrange them creatively so as to enhance the diversity of
challenges and adventures you encounter in your RC cars hobby. If you enjoy building and rebuilding tracks, slotcar
racing will entertain you with adventures in engineering as well as driving!
Historically, slot car race tracks began as rubber and metal creations from companies like VIP and Scalextric.
But since then, the predominant slot car track design has changed. You'll find that most slot car tracks today are
either routed tracks or plastic tracks. Routed tracks are more common in professional slotcar racing compeitions;
they're made of a single piece of polymer material or plywood-- or a very small number of such pieces. Slot car
racing on such tracks gets rid of the bumpiness of the more segmented raceways.
Today, you'll also find plastic slot car tracks. These are typically less expensive and easier for beginners to
the slotcar hobby. The segmentation might make for a bumpier drive, but it also allows a much greater variety of
track arrangements-- since you can put each segment in a different position, provided that the track makes a closed
loop. You can use the same set of tracks to design ever new racecourses on which you can test your vehicles in
slotcar racing.
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