1/32 Scale Slot Car Standards

Race Control Race Control 15 years ago

Calling All Drivers,

I found a set of 1/32 scale car standards as authored by the Classic Slot Car Racing Association of the UK.

I would suggest we use these standards as guidelines for establishing our new racing classes.

Any thoughts or feedback?

Thanks,

Jim J.

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Autorama Autorama

Interesting to see that they allow any type of motor for all classes.

I think we could use some of the Sport Cars class 3 standards on our Mille Miglia class:

• Motor orientation: Inline only.
• Front wheels and tyres: Minimum diameter 19mm, minimum width 5mm.
• Rear wheels and tyres: Minimum diameter 21mm, maximum width 7.5mm.
• Minimum ground clearance 2mm.
• Maximum overall width: 57mm.

Sports Cars class 5 standards could be used on the Classic GT series:

• Motor orientation: free.
• Front wheels and tyres: Minimum diameter 16mm, minimum width 6mm.
• Rear wheels and tyres: Minimum diameter 19mm, maximum width 12mm.
• Minimum ground clearance 1.5mm.
• Maximum overall width: 64mm.

Now, they are classifying GT cars as: "A closed, hard top car with 2 or 2+2 seats and bodywork covering the wheels. Cars in this class would normally be based on road going, hard top, 2 or 2+2 seat production cars.". Are we only allowing closed cars for our Classic GT Series?

Bellator Bellator Admin

I like the definitions of the classes and the rules are generally pretty simple.

A couple of things:

  1. I think we still want to limit the RPM of the motor. For example: Say you're building a narrow chassis car that takes a FF-050 motor. There are FF-050 motors available that range from 10k to 39k RPM. To keep speeds closer to a scale representation and field more even on available power we probably want to limit that to 14k.
  2. Just to be clear: we will run RTR and Scratch built together. Not as separate classes.

BTW: That timeline document is pretty interesting.

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