Round #4 of the Slot.it Porsche 911 GT1 Series was the shortest to date with four competitors; Roy, Stephen, Ary and Shawn raced for approximately 30 minutes. Shawn climbed to the top of the podium after completing 219.22 laps. Stephen and Ary were head-to-head until the last second, finishing only 2 feet apart; Stephen completed 215.21…
2013 Slot.it Porsche 911 GT1 Series – Race #3 Results
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Saturday, September 7 2013. This racing series gets faster every round! Five of the seven cars in the race were turning 3.9 seconds laps, and there quite a few of them. After a computer malfunction around half-way of the first heat the race had to be restarted and gladly no other timing system issues…
2013 Slot.it Porsche 911 GT1 Series – Race #2 Results
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The second round of the Slot.it Porsche 911 GT1 Series was raced under a festive atmosphere; we were also celebrating Ary’s birthday that day. After a few canapés and cold beer, racers took to the track: Russell unveiled his custom livery, a homage to James Dean’s “Little Bastard”; Brian, on his first race in this…
2013 Slot.it Porsche 911 GT1 Series – Race #1 Results
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The majestic curves of Austin Slot Car Club’s modified figure eight track were host to the first round of the Slot.it Porsche 911 GT1 EVO Series this past Saturday, July 13th. The silky wooden track, known to favor milder, inline and sidewinder powered, slot cars was now welcoming high torque sidewinder models. Early tests of…
2013 Slot.it Group-C Enduro Results
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Our club members had a great time during the Slot.it Group C Enduro this past Saturday, March 23rd 2013. The three-hour race was broken into nine 20 minutes heats with the intermediate heats being raced in the dark. Each team had three drivers and could only use one car, fitted with working lights, for the duration of the…
Upgrading / tuning a Scalextric GT McLaren MP4-12C for non-magnet wood track racing
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For the 4th quarter of 2013, our club voted to race modified Scalextric GT cars. The most basic outlines of the series stipulate that the chassis and body of the car must remain stock, but just about everything else can be replaced.
In this article I will show what I did to setup my Scalextric McLaren MP4-12C GT3 for the series. The car turned very decent lap times on our track, just slightly slower than a prepared Slot.it car … and that is really good for a Scaley, I’m looking forward for the races.
Slot.it Car Tuning Tutorial
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Welcome to our how-to section! This and several other slot car tutorials, tips and technical articles can be found on our forums. Please use the following link to add comments or discuss this material: https://austinslotcarclub.com/forums/topic/slot-it-car-tuning-tutorial/. The objective of this tutorial is to show how to prepare a Slot.it car for racing, specifically for the Austin Slot Car Club…
2012 Slot.It Challenge – Modern GT: Round #2
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October 20th, 2012 Here are race #2 results of the Slot.it Challenge Series, Modern GT class. On the leader board: Shawn and Marty are tied in points but Shawn secures first place having completed eight more laps than Marty. Stephen holds third place and Austin, youngest driver in the series, is forth, just ahead of…