Fancy passing your Scalextric driving test? Youngesters will be given this chance at this year’s Donnington Park Slot Car Festival, on the 23rd May. The initiative will test various slot car track negotiating skills and is overseen by the Police Road Safety Team.
The event also has many other slot car treats in stall, including a vast array of traders, a Scalextric Q&A session, a slot car auction, all kinds of Scalextric track layouts you can try for fun as well as competition events for the more serious slot car junkies. The Donnington Grand Prix Challenge race is a seriously furriowed brow event, with pre-registered entrants offering top flight skills in slot car racing.
Slot car tuning workshops are also on offer, helping you learn how to pimp your Scalextric cars, as well as scenery making and track creation schools. For more information on the event, head to click here
Following the triumph of his fantastic mega Scalextric track build for the slot car episode of his BBC Toy Stories series last year, James May has returned to the Brooklands circuit in support of their latest fundraising scheme.
To secure the future of its great collection of motoring history, the Brooklands Museum hopes to raise in excess of £250,000 by selling 2,000 single sqaure yard sections of its legendary track.
That’s at least £125 per square yard. A hefty price for some old tarmac, which represents a similar level of value-for-money as the driveway my dad had done by some strange-hatted men in a horse wagon back in the 80s.
Still, if it means some overly rich, overly wined motorsport enthusiasts are going to basically give away sums of money that us humble slot car fans can only dream of to fund the upkeep of such a great motoring museum, then who can argue?
Really enjoying this slot car racing video at the moment. It’s only brief, but the track is pretty impressive and some of the drifting is fantastic. Well done to these dudes.
