As many of you probably do, I prefer to race slot cars of my favorite real race cars. However, complications often arise, making problems for some series. These are my thoughts for racing series, listing in order of preference:
Thunderslot-rules as before
ScaleRacing/BRM Trans Am–I love the vintage Trans Am cars and the new ScaleRacing/BRM cars would seem to be raceable and comparable in a basic stock configuration. Compared to a series with 3D chassis, different tires, gears, motors, I do not think they would be that much more expensive.
LeMans 1970 with 3D chassis–a lot of possibilities there
McLaren M8 D/E–A spec class which should mean close competition with minimal set up issues. Only one make but a variety of liveries. I have the Led Zeppelin car but have never run it. I love the Can Am cars and this would seem to be a good solution for the problems with a wider variety of cars where we might end up with a particular slot car being faster than all the others, making it a spec series anyway.
Revo Slot–I would be interested in running this series if we could relax the rules on rear tires so we don’t have to change them out every race.
Scalextric Trans Am–I would love to race this series (Chaparral Camaro for me), but it sounds like there is a problem with narrower Mustang bodies that would be difficult to work around. Too bad.
Group C–This series seems to be a given every year
Rally–I am not sure what series I would prefer here–perhaps the Fly 908/3 or Targa Florio. I would prefer something like that to Renault, Peugeot, Honda, etc.
Scale Auto–I will probably not run my BMW Art Car again and may not want to buy another new car for this series